Unfortunately, Munich chief prosecutor Mr Hummer's Owl of Minerva never really spread its wings.

GWF Hegel

That is a pity, considering that studying law requires the input of some precious years of your life in which you could, if you fancy so, get laid by a good deal of super-sexy gals, smoke weed and/or sniff a line, or listen to Wang Dang Sweet Poontang till your crotch gets numb. You could do all three as well. Mr. Hummer chose a different way.

Anyhow, let's see how this blessed lawyer in the service of the corruptest province in Germany deals with such nefarious things like for example Free Speech in conjunction with the attempt of the notorious German Jobcenter to get my daughter out of school and into a low-paying fucker job and in particular how his Nobleness deals with fucking and obnoxious bloggers who, can you believe the pretense, happen to indulge in the luxury of having an own opinion.

Posting this following is ABSOLUTELY PROHIBITED in Bavaria, corrupt province of Germany.

Sonntag, 23. März 2014

Jean-Marc Vincent offers "precisely fitting" integration into the Low-Wage country

Parents who want to provide their children a better education from the outset both in elementary school and later at a high school, have to submit an application with the Higher SS and Police Leaders.

Heinrich Himmler

"Einige Gedanken über die Behandlung der Fremdvölkischen im Osten" von Heinrich Himmler, 15. Mai 1940

Quelle: Kühnl, Reinhard 

"Der deutsche Faschismus in Quellen und Dokumenten."

Köln, 1978

Bildquelle: Daily Mail

The blog post covers how a 60 year old (!) Jobcenter (which is the German government agency charged with purveying workers remunerated at, according to a latest IMF study, 30% below the wage rate of continuously employed workers) dude hits on my 18-year old daughter without ever having seen her and without knowing anything about her questioning her passing the school successfully. Goes on in his discriminatory rant and proposes private tutoring and tops it off by proffering his "Help to sign up with the German Jobs Portal".

I called him a "slimy staff" and the dude did not like this and sued for defamation. Defamation law suits are rampant in Germany and they infringe on free speech. That's how ridiculously screwed up laws are in Germany. The historical parallels are obvious.

Not so for His Legal Emperor from Munich Mr. Hummer who took offence about the Himmler picture, is absolutely pissed about the swastika and sent me this letter:

Im Übrigen verbieten sich Vergleiche zwischen der Tat des Angeklagten einerseits und Presse-bzw Fernsehinhalten andererseits, da letztere regelmässig der staatsbürgerlichen Aufklärung, der Berichterstattung über Vörgänge des Zeitgeschehens oder der Geschichte dienen und daher gem. § 86 Abs. 3 i.V.m. § 86 a Abs. 3 STGB vom Straftatbestand ausgenommen sind. Dass das Handeln des Angeklagten hingegen nicht unter diese Ausnahmebestimmung fällt, hat das Berufungsgericht ausführlich und ohne Rechtsfehler dargelegt (UA S. 7).

Translated it says:

Apart from that, comparisons between the acts of the accused on the one hand and press and TV-coverage on the other hand are out of the question, because the latter regularly serve as political information, report on events of current affairs or history and therefore are according to § 86 no. 3 in conjunction with § 86 a no. 3 Penal Code exempted from the offense. The actions of the defendant, however, do not fall under that exception as the Court of Appeal has set out in detail and without any error of law (UA p.7).

You might as well translate "verbieten sich Vergleiche" with Comparisons are forbidden by itself or Comparisons are inherently forbidden or in colloquial parlance: Don't even think about comparing this, because free speech, well, fuck it!

• Chief prosecutor Hummer of the Munich court, do I interpret you correctly that falsifying historical events of the Nazi era is covered and protected by § 86 a section 3 STGB? Excuse me, come again.
• IOW, you Noble Protector of the Law Mr Hummer from the court of Munich in Bavaria deem it as contravening the law to point out historical falsifications on TV, aired on German TV on prime time on April 3, 2015 which can be read here and at SPIEGEL magazine? A Hitler-Hollywood-Melange the SPIEGEL calls "Hitler for stupid people".
• and you have the audacity to brush exactly these valid facts aside in my appeals?
• You show the temerity to FORBID an individual person to even question any publication/airing of Nazi-time documentaries by state media, which in Germany is being financed by a mandatory (!) fee, as to their latent glorification of that particular time in history?
• Your Exalted Enlightenment of Judicial Omniscience Mr. Hummer, have you perhaps heard of Article 5 German Basic Law? The last time I checked, it said something about Free Speech. Have you heard of it?
• Do you see anything vaguely critical, let alone explaining their opposition to the Nazi doctrine in all those articles in the German media and plastered with images from that time? Oh come on, Hitler sells.
• These never ending documentaries on German TV about the Nazi time, sometimes three days in a week? Get to grips with it, Mañjuśrī of German Law, the Germans love to see this shit and besides, these repetitions ad nauseam show the utter void of any ideas among the German TV makers and in addition it is cheap.

If memory serves me right, You Eminent Wielder of the Excalibur of Perfect Jurisprudence, if you guys at the Bavarian court do not like a blogger, you simply confiscate his computer for 25 months, right?

There is one thing though, Supreme Purveyor of Kanoon, I have lived 15 years in one of the corruptest countries in S. Asia, but what you guys offer here in Germany is beyond description.

Mr. Hummer, it's been a privilege communicating with you.

Mr. Hummer, have you heard by any chance of the European Court?

Unfortunately, Munich chief prosecutor Mr Hummer's Owl of Minerva never really spread its wings. http://t.co/FaOSZnSMG4 @JuraBlogs

— ErebusSagace (@ErebusSagace) August 6, 2015

What's wrong with a little falsification of Nazi history? - listen to Munich chief prosecutor Mr. Hummer

The Rise of Evil - (falsification of NS history fine with Munich court)

What's wrong with a little falsification of Nazi history? Hear out Munich chief prosecutor, His Bavarian Judicial Excellency the Count of Mr. Hummer, and learn your lesson when and how far you may go in Bavaria/Germany in terms of free speech and when to stop dead in your tracks, you nasty little blogger.

Critical blogger, if you do not have the explicit permission by His Noble Judicial Excellency Mr. Hummer from the court of Bavaria, just Fuck Off and Shut Up! Or else ...

Remember one thing though: Fascists are always the others.

You nasty little blogger with your pathetic opinion. Munich chief prosecutor Hummer has a final statement for you. http://t.co/yJbDLvFeoe

— ErebusSagace (@ErebusSagace) August 6, 2015

> The Lowdown

Simon Wren-Lewis 16 months ago on the plight of Greece.

Simon Wren-Lewis 16 months ago on the plight of Greece. A month ago, the Ugly German decided it is not good enough. We need to completely wreck a country and set an example that Germany needs no tanks anymore. A pliable press, a generous dose of Schadenfreude, coupled with a self-serving disregard of its own recent history of bailouts, Germany yet again does what it's good at: antagonize a whole continent.

Simon Wren-Lewis

Friday, 7 March 2014

The sharp but effectual remedy

This is about the Eurozone, and it needs to be rather long to be provocative. You do not need any prior knowledge to understand the message.

Mario Draghi, head of the ECB, declared the Eurozone as an “island of stability” yesterday as he announced no change in policy. He was referring to the impact of the Ukrainian crisis, but I think it serves for macroeconomic policy as a whole. Inflation is well below target, and there is a negative output gap of nearly 4% according to the OECD. Unemployment remains at 12%. There is a recovery from recession, but as Reza Moghadam from the IMF points out, it is weak and fragile.

So the Eurozone is stable, stuck in a bad place. As the IMF again warns, this place looks a lot like Japan in the 1990s. I have my misgivings (technical discussion here) about the ‘two equilibria’ idea that Gavin Davis among others have used, but where it might apply is when a central bank’s inflation target is either unclear or one-sided, and that is much more true for the ECB than for the Fed or the Bank of England. What is clear is that the ECB should not wait until there is deflation before doing more than sitting on its hands.

Yet complacency is not confined to the ECB. We had a second Eurozone recession because fiscal austerity has been acute in some member countries, and it has not been offset elsewhere. (For the numbers, see here.) If you think that is because the Eurozone is a monetary union and not a fiscal union, ask yourself this. If overall fiscal policy was being determined in Brussels rather than by individual national governments, would it be so very different today? I suspect we would be seeing similar overall austerity as the ‘Eurozone government’ obsessed with reducing debt. Given their relative competitivepositions, that would mean ‘stability’ in parts of the Eurozone and severe recessions elsewhere, much as we have now.

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“drastic reductions to municipality budgets have led to a scaling back of several activities (eg, mosquito spraying programmes), which, in combination with other factors, has allowed the re-emergence of locally transmitted malaria for the first time in 40 years”

“a 21% rise in stillbirths between 2008 and 2011 …. attributed to reduced access to prenatal health services for pregnant women.”

These are statements not about some poor African nation, but about Greece, from a recent paper in the Lancet. (HT Francesco Saraceno. Quotes above and below exclude footnotes giving references.) The title of the paper is  ‘Greece's health crisis: from austerity to denialism’. By denialism they mean the following:

“Greek citizens ... are subject to one of the most radical programmes of welfare-state retrenchment in recent times, which in turn affects population health. Yet despite this clear evidence, there has been little agreement about the causal role of austerity. There is a

broad consensus that the social sector in Greece was in grave need of reform, with widespread corruption, misuse of patronage, and inefficiencies, and many commentators have noted that the crisis presented an opportunity to introduce long-overdue changes. Greek Government officials, and several sympathetic commentators, have argued that the introduction of the wide ranging changes and deep public-spending cuts have not damaged health and, indeed, might lead to long-term improvements. However, the scientific literature presents a different picture. In view of this detailed body of evidence for the harmful effects of austerity on health, the failure of public recognition of the issue by successive Greek Governments and international agencies is remarkable.”

This paper focuses on Greece, but here I talked more generally about the work of one of the co-authors, David Stuckler, who finds a general association between austerity and deteriorating public health.

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Between 1846 and 1851 about a million died of starvation and epidemic disease in the Irish potato famine. The general consensus today is that although this famine began as an extraordinary natural catastrophe, its impact was made much worse by the actions (or lack of action) of the British government, headed by the Whig Lord John Russell. As Jim Donnelly describes here, there seem to be three ideologies that held the “British political élite and the middle classes in their grip, and largely determined the decisions not to adopt the possible relief measures.” These were “the economic doctrines of laissez-faire, the Protestant evangelical belief in divine Providence, and the deep-dyed ethnic prejudice against the Catholic Irish.” The system of agriculture in Ireland was perceived in Britain to be riddled with inefficiency and abuse. The British civil servant Charles Trevelyan, chiefly responsible for administering Irish relief policy, wrote that the famine was “the sharp but effectual remedy by which the cure is likely to be effected.”

There is a debate about the humanity and personal responsibility of Charles Trevelyan. Yet his actions were hardly idiosyncratic. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, the Earl of Clarendon wrote a letter to Prime Minister Russell on April 26th, 1849, expressing his feelings about lack of aid from the British House of Commons: "I do not think there is another legislature in Europe that would disregard such suffering as now exists in the west of Ireland, or coldly persist in a policy of extermination." Henry Farrell notes that the Economist magazine strongly supported the laissez-faire line pursued by Trevelyan and Russell. Were the governing elite collectively evil, as they provided armed guards for the shipping of huge quantities of grain away from the same areas affected by the blight? We could just say people act in their own interests, but as Dani Rodrik argues, this underestimates the power of ideas and ideologies.

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Of course the Irish famine is different in degree and form to the difficulties being faced by many in some Eurozone economies. But the similarities should worry us. There is the widespread view that the inefficiencies and corruption that exist in these economies are a key factor in explaining the difficulties these countries are in. Worse still is the idea that severe austerity is necessary to ensure ‘structural reform’ takes place to reduce these inefficiencies. There is also a common belief today that various economic processes cannot be interfered with and contracts have to be upheld, which are not very different from beliefs held by the British government in the 1840s. When the ‘effectual remedy’ leads directly to suffering, the evidence that it does so is ignored, as the Lancet paper argues is happening in Greece today.

If you think that the problems in Greece and elsewhere are clearly self-inflicted, rather than the result of an act of God like potato blight, consider this. The Greek government borrowed way too much and concealed that fact, but this was hidden from the Greek people as much as anyone else. Just because politicians are elected, does that make the people as a whole responsible for everything they do? Are they more responsible than those who lent the government this money, or in the case of other Eurozone countries lent money to banks that were subsequently bailed out with no public discussion? 

In Victorian times there was a belief that the debtor must be made to repay their debts whatever the hardship that this entails, and with minimal cost to the creditor. We think we live in more enlightenedtimes today, but at least the individuals in debtor prisons normally signed the contracts they were being held to. In the case of Greece and elsewhere their leaders signed on their population’s behalf.

If you say that the law must be followed, well the British government was also protecting the rule of law when it ensured that those shipments of grain left famine stricken Ireland. Are those shipments of grain so very different from the flows of money now leaving Greece and elsewhere to pay the interest on government debt? Our attitude to famines is a little more enlightened than it was in the 1840s, but perhaps some of that enlightenment is needed elsewhere.

Digitalegesellschaft.de kreiert Kampagneninfrastruktur zur Durchführung von Kampagnen

Digitale Gesellschaft will zwei Grundprobleme lösen:

Wir wollen eine Kampagneninfrastruktur aufbauen und die Durchführung von Kampagnen ermöglichen.

In den vergangenen Jahren gab es eine Vielzahl an Kampagnen, gegen die Vorratsdatenspeicherung, das Zugangserschwerungsgesetz oder für den Erhalt der Privatkopie. Alle Kampagnen standen vor dem Problem, erst einmal Infrastrukturen und ein Unterstützernetzwerk aufzubauen. Dazu fehlten oft Menschen, die Zeit haben, diese Kampagnen zu betreuen – und manche Kampagnen erreichten nur bereits Informierte.

Das wollen wir ändern. Wir wollen auf Erfahrungen aus anderen sozialen Bewegungen wie der Umweltbewegung aufbauen und diese digital weiterdenken. Dazu zählt der Aufbau einer eigenen Kampagneninfrastruktur für digitale Bürgerrechte. Wir wollen Kampagnen planen und durchführen, die auch Menschen außerhalb sehr internetaffiner Communities erreichen. Und wir wollen die Menschen dort abholen, wo sie sind – ob im Internet oder auf dem Parkplatz.

Kampagneninfrastruktur zur Durchführung von Kampagnen - jawoll

Beschwerde bei Münchner Anwaltskammer über Rechtsanwältin Aglaia Muth

RA Aglaia Muth - Mandant verliert? Scheissegal. Ich werde immer bezahlt.

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren,

Ich hatte nach einer Strafanzeige u.a. wegen Veröffentlichung des damals durch alle Medien gehenden Merkel-Nazi Bildes (anlässlich der damaligen Demonstrationen in Athen in 2012 gegen die Sparmassnahmen der EU) eine Pflicht"verteidigerin" nehmen müssen, da ich Hartz IV beziehe.

Nach Akteneinsicht und Gespräch teilte mir die Verteidigerin mit Namen Aglaia Muth aus München mit, sie tendiere in Richtung des Gerichts. Auf meinen Einwand, dieses Bild sei durch alle Medien gegangen, entgegnete sie: 'Ja die Presse hat doch immer wieder Probleme mit der Justiz.' Ich war konsterniert ob einer solchen Aussage.

Es kam zur ersten Verhandlung und weiter zur Berufungsverhandlung. In allen Fällen sass die Verteidigerin einfach da, ohne irgend etwas zu sagen. Erst nachdem der Richter sich an sie wandte, gab sie etwas, und die Betonung liegt auf etwas, von sich.

Zu keinem Moment war diese Frau in irgend einer Art vorbereitet oder engagiert. Alle Eingaben ans Gericht inkl. Revision wurden von mir verfasst.

Ich könnte es plastischer ausdrücken: ich hätte mir einen aufblasbaren Schwimmreifen auf ihren Stuhl setzen können. Der Effekt wäre der gleiche gewesen.

Eine Einsicht in die Anzeigeschrift bekam ich nie und weiss bis heute nicht, wie die Anzeige lautet. Eine Anfrage wurde von ihr nicht beantwortet.

Das Beste aber kommt zum Schluss. Den Beschluss des OLG nach der Revision sendet mir diese "Verteidigerin" zu OHNE Angabe der Stadt und der PLZ! Die Post musste Nachforschungen anstellen und ich bekam den Brief 14 Tage verspätet. Ich verpasste dadurch die Frist beim BVerfG.

Ihre Rechnung beträgt nun ca. € 1.240,-. Durch Zufall hörte ich von jemand anderem, der diese Dame ebenfalls kennt und nur die Hände über dem Kopf zusammenschlug als ihr Name fiel.

Besteht die Möglichkeit, gegen diesen Betrag Einwand zu erheben, denn es ist mir berufsethisch nicht nachvollziehbar, wie man so sein Geld verdienen kann?

Mit besten Grüssen

So thrifty Germans keep financing those lazy Greeks?

So the latest Coup bailout of Greece perpetrated by Germany (et.al.) is just more money down the drain for these lazy, Retsina guzzling Greeks, right? No matter what German paper you read and what fucking boring German TV station you watch, that is the verdict. And the ordinary German loves it and agrees in telephone polls by 90%. Prejudices want to be nurtured and want to be reiterated because that is one way to enjoy your own low-wage work life in Germany. Is there any other peoples in the world that has a word like 'Schadenfreude'?

In 'And the Greek Debt Merry-Go-Round Spins & Spins...' C. Gurdgiev has some numbers that the ordinary German is absolutely not interested in hearing let alone seen written. So here they are:

via Constantin Gurdgiev

Source: FT

• EUR29.7 billion of cash to be loaned to Greece will go to pay down the money borrowed by Greece under the privies EU lending schemes so that a merry-go-round of European policymaking can spin and spin. 
• EUR25 billion will go to the banks to cover damages done by previous merry-go-round schemes. 
• EUR17.2 billion will pay interest on past and current merry-go-round schemes. 
• EUR7.7 billion will go to the banks to cover potential runs by depositors scared of the merry-go-round schemes. 

In total, all but miserly EUR7 billion of new loans to Greece will go one way or the other to sustain unsustainable old loans.

full post here

Indian economist Jayati Ghosh on how Germany treated Greece

The Failed Project of Europe

Jayati Ghosh

There is a stereotypical image of an abusive husband, who batters his wife and then beats her even more mercilessly if she dares to protest. It is self-evident that such violent behaviour reflects a failed relationship, one that is unlikely to be resolved through superficial bandaging of wounds. And it is usually stomach-churningly hard to watch such bullies in action, or even read about them.

Much of the world has been watching the negotiations in Europe over the fate of Greece in the eurozone with the same sickening sense of horror and disbelief, as leaders of Germany and some other countries behave in similar fashion.

The extent of the aggression, the deeply punitive conditionalities being imposed as terms of a still ungenerous bailout and the terrible humiliation and pain being wrought upon the Greek people are hard to explain in purely economic or even political terms. Instead, all this seems to reflect some deep, visceral anger that has been awakened by the sheer effrontery of a government of a small state that dared to consult its people rather than immediately bowing to the desires of the leaders of larger countries and the unelected technocrats who serve them. There was also anger directed at the people themselves, who dared to vote in a referendum against the terms of a bailout package that offered them only more austerity, less hope and continued pain in the foreseeable future, just so that their country can continue to pay the foreign debts that everyone (even the IMF!) knows simply cannot be paid.

The response went beyond completely ignoring the will of the Greek people as expressed in the referendum, to insist on pushing even worse conditions on them for their resistance. There was clearly a need to punish both the Syriza-led government and the Greek voters for daring to protest, by forcing upon them the most appalling and humiliating terms that have been seen in a non-war situation for a European nation, for the increasingly dubious advantage of staying within the eurozone.

Greece will become an economic protectorate, indeed little more than a colony of Germany within the eurozone. It will have no control over its fiscal policies, forced to sell valuable public assets that amount to more than a third of annual national income just to keep trying to pay its creditors. It will have to reverse decisions made in the recent past to preserve some public employment such as of cleaning and sanitation workers and security guards, whom it will now have to fire again, and will have to cut pensions of elderly people who have already seen their pensions fall by 40 per cent. It will have to increase indirect taxes that will hit the poor most.

It will have to accept the constant presence of the external rulers, in the form of an IMF team that will monitor the budget and the activities of the Greek government, who are not any more to be trusted by the European leaders. Since the troika has thus far not been able to push Syriza out of power, they are now seeking the alternative of a much weakened party in government (soon no doubt to become a “government of national unity” with the support of centrist and right wing MPs) under the direct political control of the (mostly unelected) European bosses. And of course the result of all this austerity will be more depression, in an economy that has been spiralling downwards for more than five years, which will further generate terrible social outcomes, including the greater rise of extreme rightwing movements like the Golden Dawn. This will be a really prolonged Greek tragedy, with no clear end in sight.

European leaders constantly project the Greek case against other countries in the eurozone that are supposed “success stories” of austerity, economies that took the bitter economic medicine and now apparently have got well again, like Ireland, Spain and even Latvia. This is complete nonsense. None of these countries faced austerity as severe as that which has already been imposed on Greece. The much vaunted “recovery” in these countries amounts to no more than a tiny increase in GDP after years of huge declines. There have been small increases on the completely depressed levels of income that are still much below the per capita incomes of five years ago. Unemployment rates remain very high, and would be even higher if the emigration of the young and of the best and brightest in these societies had not kept labour force numbers low. Material insecurity and greater poverty are still rampant.

These economies are being presented as successes only to promote a finance-driven approach to economic policy, and to camouflage the greater failure of the eurozone and the European Union in general in coming out of stagnation.

The terrible irony in Europe today – and the major concern – is that it is the extreme rightwing parties in Europe (the National Front in France, the UK Independence Party) and parties like Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement in Italy that are the loudest voices about how this is a betrayal of the people’s will and how the EU as it exists is incompatible with democracy. Centre left parties are too bound up in the flawed European project to protest, and more progressive movements like Podemos in Spain are in a state of shock. Indeed, the desire to prevent the rise of such progressive parties has probably played a big role in determining the aggressive stance of the EU.

Why did the Syriza government agree to accept this defeat, behaving, as some observers have described it, like a beaten dog? The not-so-distant experience of Argentina’s devaluation in 2001 suggests that it is very hard to get popular support for the collapse of a currency union (or currency board linked to the dollar in the case of Argentina) because of the feelings of uncertainty it generates in addition to the inevitable massive devaluation. These things typically happen when they are forced upon countries, not voluntarily taken on.

But this drama is clearly not over, and as it becomes clear over the next few months that this so-called deal cannot and does not work, this will inevitably come unstuck. It is only to be hoped that the Greek government is making some preparations to make the eventual exit from the euro less disorderly than it could be.

Whatever happens, the economic and political landscape of the European Union is now changed fundamentally. The humiliation of Greece today will come back to torment European leaders tomorrow. The co-operative ideal of a united Europe is demolished forever, and the reality of the project as a measure in the interests of finance capital, enforced by the German state and fundamentally at odds with any real attempt at people’s participation, is now laid bare.

So there’s now no question about it: this European marriage will not last. At least three reasons make this denouement inevitable. First, a monetary union without some modalities for fiscal transfers cannot last because the requirements placed on deficit countries to adjust are too severe and essentially unachievable; yet the pressure in Europe are pushing towards the opposite of fiscal union. Second, this strategy in any case generates severe deflationary pressure in which the only impulse for expansion must come from outside, that is net export growth, and even that cannot prevent stagnation, which means worse labour market conditions, worse prospects for the young, more inequality and so on. Third, the growing tension between these institutions and popular reaction cannot be completely controlled by finance capital and its agents. The political tensions can be expressed from the left (like Podemos) or the right (like the Front National) but they are definitely growing across Europe and sooner or later they will find some reflection in policies. In the current context that implies not greater integration but disintegration in Europe.

The only questions now are: how long will it take before the breakdown becomes explicit? How much more pain and violence will be forced on people across Europe before that final break? And how long will German government bullying in the interests of finance capital be tolerated by the people of Europe and ultimately by the people of Germany themselves?

via Triple Crisis

Why is nobody listening when Jürgen Sonneck, Jobcenter Munich, tries to explain fucking stupidity?

Jürgen Sonneck, alias C. Paucher, bevorzugt
den dunklen Siff der Anonymität.
Insbesondere auf dem Internet.
Hier ist er links zu sehen.

Meet Jürgen 'Da ya think I'm Sexy' Sonneck, éminence blonde and part-time intellectual AND fifth deputy managing director of the Jobcenter Munich, i.e. that venerable German government institution for the provision of cheap labor.

When he is not running 6.2 km Jürgen is a deep-thinker, but sometimes he just gets into it way over his head. That is when it comes to the proper application AND understanding of the German language.

Jürgen would like to fill you in about the intricacies of the German defamation law, that section 185 STGB thingy and since Germans are strict law-and-order dudes, besides being punctual and slightly obnoxious, he is hell-bent on giving you some hints on how to avoid embarrassing lingual potholes or of running smack into a verbal road block.

Jürgen Sonneck would like to inform you that according that Banana-Republic-typical-German-Defamation-Law you can DEFAME A WORD! Seriously, you can DEFAME A SUBSTANTIVE!

Let Jürgen Sonneck explain:

"SLIGHTLY STUPID QUESTION"

is a defamation, it is slander!

So be warned when you are in Germany and do not run afoul and defame an 'Illocutionary Act'.

The Greek Deal From Germany - Reading Between the Lines and Arnulf Baring

They will say that we are subsidizing scroungers, lounging in cafés on the Mediterranean beaches. Monetary union, in the end, will result in a gigantic blackmailing operation. When we Germans demand monetary discipline, other countries will blame their financial woes on that same discipline, and by extension, on us. More, they will perceive us as a kind of economic policeman. We risk once again becoming the most hated in Europe. 

Arnulf Baring

via JESSY'S  CAFÉ AMÉRICAIN

The Greek Deal From Germany - Reading Between the Lines - Darkness Over the Earth

Perhaps the Greeks made a mistake, and relied too much on rationality, on a belief in a Eurozone in which good sense and reason would prevail.   As it was, the Germans were willing to ruthlessly crush the Greek banking system, while the ECB and IMF stood idly by, fomenting a financial panic and humanitarian disaster in order to displace a sovereign government and put an entire nation 'in its place.'   We certainly have seen this kind of example made before.

This was an exercise in raw power.  It was a financial blitzkrieg, an act of economic warfare and reckless destruction on a people that ought to be condemned by the free world.  But this kind of ruthless abuse of financial systems seems to be the accepted thing now amongst the developed economies.  And we might view Greece as a sort of an experiment in a new form of warfare and ruthlessness, as were Guernica, Warsaw, and Lidice.

It is a shame if the Greeks have not prepared for Grexit, although there are still clearly options despite the naysayers who see only difficulties in everything.   Freedom is rarely the easier way.

The lesson that the countries of the Eurozone cannot trust Germany to act with wisdom and goodwill was known, but now we also see that restraint is also not in their repetoire.  If one can read between the lines, it would be a pity if the rest of the European countries do not start planning now for their own active exit from such an failed concept as the European Monetary Union.

And it would be a tragedy if the rest of the world does not now see plainly where a single currency for the world would also take them, where it is already taking them.   Modern theories about its benign utility to do only good aside, money is raw power.  And one must be exceptionally careful of granting that power to create and distribute and manage money into the hands of vain and corruptible people without stringent  transparency, checks and balances, and provisions for justice and individual freedom.

Are the lights going out all over Europe?   Not yet, but there is a darkness casting its shadow over the earth.   I fear that Greece is only the beginning of a new phase in the degradation of the human condition by the power of insatiable greed, and spiritual wickedness in high places.

"The earth, entire peoples and individual persons are being brutally punished. And behind all this pain, death and destruction there is the stench of what Basil of Caesarea called 'the dung of the devil'.  An unfettered pursuit of money rules.  The service of the common good is left behind. 

Once capital becomes an idol and guides people’s decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and, as we clearly see, it even puts at risk our common home."

Francis I

Don Schäubleone

Don Schäubleone - #ThisIsACoup

Greece and the too big-to-bail banks syndrome

via Lars P. Syll

Still will not disperse the prejudices of Ze Germans. But, hey, when you have a word like 'Schadenfreude', it needs implementation.

Ici Londres: Greece: #ThisIsACoup

New Flag of Greece - #ThisIsACoup

New Flag of Greece - #ThisIsACoup

© WilliamBanzai7

Buba Jens Weidmann gives advice to central banks ... and Apple (perhaps)

“Central banks, although they have the means, have no mandate, in my view, to safeguard the solvency of banks and governments,” Mr. Weidmann said

“Technological greats such as Apple, although they have the means, have no mandate, in my view, to safeguard that people can enjoy great products.”

Jobcenter München Mitarbeiter Jean-Marc Vincent, ein solch Comportement einer unbekannten jungen Dame gegenüber ist für einen Franzosen nicht schicklich.

“I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.” 

Arthur Rimbaud

Une saison en enfer

Jean-Marc,

Nachdem ich nun Einsicht in die Anzeige vom Jobcenter Mai 2014 und formuliert durch den 6,2 km-Vollprofi-Läufer und nebenberuflichen 5. auf der Stelle tretenden GF Jürgen Sonneck bekam, musste ich erst einmal das T-Zeichen machen und einen Time out nehmen, um mich nach der Lektüre zu sammeln. 

Der Grund: mein Baguette war erschlafft und ausserdem war mir das Monokel von der Nase gerutscht, als ich konsterniert dein biologisches Alter dechiffrierte und vor allem deine Herkunft. Ja und dann stiess ich noch zu allem Überfluss auf 'Social Competence Development', was auch nicht gerade deine Anmut bei mir steigerte. Leider war man in der Nymphenburger nicht adäquat ausgestattet, mir einen Chartreuse Verde zu servieren. Nique sa race, den hätt ich bitter nötig gehabt.

Mit über 60 Jahren rüstiger, so hoffe ich doch, Lebenserfahrung - also einer Lebensphase, in der so mancher schon selbständig einkaufen geht - in den Knochen zeigst du erhabene Klasse und engagierst den gerade flügge gewordenen Jürgen Sonneck als deinen Katib, der geflissentlich eine Anzeige wegen Beleidigung pour toi, der du doch schon über 60 Lenze hast spriessen sehen, aufsetzt und dies, naiv wie er ist, auch noch als Karriereboost misinterpretiert. C'est drôle, aber wie schon ein bekannter Barde sang: The world's a stage and each must play a part.

Völlig perplex machte mich dann aber deine Herkunft; ja und diese Herkunft dann in Konjunktion mit deinem Alter. Parbleu! So was kann einem ganz schön seine geliebten und immer wieder bestätigten Vorurteile durcheinander scheppern, denn ich bin so der antiquierten Meinung und ich sage dies ohne sykophantische Avancen, Franzosen und Italiener sind echte Männer, immer stilvoll gekleidet und surtout charmant zu Frauen. Dies im Gegensatz zu diesen deutschen Hornochsen.

Dann allerdings von dir als Franzose einem Comportement von befremdender Provenienz gegenüber einer jungen und völlig unbekannten Frau, und in diesem Falle zufälligerweise meiner Tochter, beiwohnen zu müssen, das jeglichen zivilisierten Stil vermissen lässt, ist ernüchternd. Ich komme nicht umhin, an einen meiner absoluten Lieblingschansonniers zu denken: Tu t'laisses aller.

Mon dieu, welch ein connard muss man sein, einem fremden Menschen seine Zweifel an dessen schulischem Erfolg mitzuteilen, ohne ihn jemals gesehen zu haben. Bei welcher abgefuckten deutschen rassistischen Behörde mit Paralleljustiz - Bitte um Nachsicht für diesen Pleonasmus - zählt es zum bon ton völlig unbekannten Jugendlichen Nachhilfeunterricht andingen zu wollen in degoutantem habitus? Oh putain! Und welche Jugendliche möchte in onkelhafter Manier die Hilfe eines 60-jährigen zur Anmeldung bei einem Job-Portal der kriminellen Lohndumping Agentur des deutschen Staates erfahren? Tais-toi wäre meine Empfehlung.

Hier mein brandheisser Tip, Jean-Marc: Get a fucking life and get a fucking education! Pardon my Swahili.

Die weiteren Blog Posts werden sich mit Urteilen zur 'Schmähkritik', so das bislang völlig lächerliche Verdikt von Richterin Bassler aus München, wo man der Meinung ist, freie Meinungsäusserung mit allen Mitteln und dem § 185 würdig einer veritablen Bananenrepublik unterdrücken zu müssen, befassen sowie dem Himmler Foto. 

Das ist der Streisand Effect, Jean-Marc. Aber vielleicht ist es auch der Charles Carreon Effect?Wieviele Bundesländer gibt es ausser Bayern, Jean-Marc?

Der Titel des folgenden Posts wird lauten:

Ist Jobcenter München Mitarbeiter Jean-Marc Vincents eigentlicher Nachname 'Vichy'?

Als Coda das Motto des Lebens, Jean-Marc:

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire