One explanation for the resignation occasion of the former Federal President Horst Koehler: Koehler is so calibrated to the original clearly defensive-pacifist orientation and interpretation of the Basic Law, that he the new military policy of the Federal Armed Forces in EU and other alliances represented can not. Simple comparisons with the Empire by the boorish Trittin ("gunboat policy") and the allegation of lack of loyalty to the constitution can be folded him already. Even the success of the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan, he does not seem to be convinced. Köhler veer either good for the future, nor is he convinced of what he does, so his resignation - in any case may act that way. It shows a certain similarity to the resignation cook. The conservatism emerges slowly from the political stage. This leaves Merkel, who covered Köhler not the back, as the tat still chancellor Schröder.
One should ask whether the Basic Law will not further clarify or modifziert and foreign missions in questionable Constitutionality are not allowed. The balancing act between the original pacifist claim of the Federal Republic and the new challenges that see EU-German military strategists globally seems huge and endure only for pure Executor of the position of Head of State, which hold back completely from politics.
A Jürgen Rüttgers or a similar figure will probably be tired next to the selected Bundespäsidenten.
PS: The army must go already because of the way alone to hunt pirates, because pirates are valid under international law as "enemies of humanity" .
to the demands of this "purity tests" (purity test) include commitment for low taxes and less debt; to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan until victory; against health reform; against legalization of homosexual marriage, [against] abortion and [against] an amnesty for illegal immigrants; for the right to carry arms.
In the future days, Which We seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression--everywhere in the world.
The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way--everywhere in the world.
The third is freedom from want--which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants--everywhere in the world.
The fourth is freedom from fear--which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor--anywhere in the world.
That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny Which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
" - Franklin D. Roosevelt, excerpted from the State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941
FDP is critical of globalization and wants to attack the financial markets.
This historic turn of events seems to me then but sometimes worth a text. The following is the statement by the press officer of the FDP office:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
the German parliament today, the law has decided to take over warranties as part of a European stabilization mechanism. This is a special purpose vehicle be established that will ward off by granting loans of up to 440 billion euros a threat of insolvency of the Member States. To fund this purpose entity receives guarantees of the Euro member states. The maximum guarantee volume for Germany's share is 123 billion euros. This stabilization of the euro was necessary to prevent harm to the European currency. You can find following some arguments, especially to a possible financial market tax:
About the package agreed today to stabilize the euro also expected the FDP parliamentary group meaningful progress in the regulation of financial markets. The demands of the resolution of the German Parliament two weeks ago, must be negotiated at a European level, with emphasis. be the Stability and Growth Pact, which was softened in the past by red-green exacerbated the financial market is regulated and must be stronger. Indispensable participation of all those in the costs of the crisis, which have speculated at the expense of taxpayers and profits made. The relationship between risk and responsibility especially in financial transactions must be restored and visible. On the proposed bank tax addition, the cause of the crisis be involved in its management. The FDP therefore supports the introduction of a financial market tax. The
Fractions of FDP and Union now demanded this week that the federal government to work for a European / global financial market control to market actors more involved in the cost of the financial crisis. Come around for the Christian-liberal coalition, both a tax on financial transactions and a tax on fees and profits - as it brings the so-called financial activity control - into question.
The financial transaction tax is not very accurate and there are better tools to achieve the cost-sharing of the financial market players. A European / global agreement will not oppose the FDP, however. An examination of that at international level therefore acceptable. So far, the United States and Canada had always said not to support an initiative. However, should an international agreement, so can the financial transactions tax achieve a cost-sharing of the financial market players. An international tax on financial transactions would be no capital flight. The audit commissioned by the EU Commission has just as this international approach. A purely national implementation of the financial transaction tax rejects the FDP parliamentary party continues on. This would have an exodus of capital flows in unregulated financial centers and the result would be a mere symbolic politics without steering effect.
Targeted Cost sharing of the financial market players, according to the IMF more achievable with the financial activity tax. Just the result of financial activities that take high risks in purchasing to high profits and also to achieve high bonuses, should then be recorded even more from such a financial market taxation, as long-term investments, such as for retirement.
landmarks of a financial market contribution had to be to be contained by the introduction of harmful speculation that the ailing financial sector in Europe weakened any further, small savers do not overloaded and the measures and control mechanisms are globally defined, so that financial state actors Measures can not evade. These requirements, for example, by the Christian-liberal coalition had already decided, bank levy.
Brief explanation: The financial transactions tax to each individual trading of almost all financial products - load - from equities to foreign exchange speculation papers. The financial control activity, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had proposed in April, will be levied on the profits of financial companies, as well as payments to managers' bonuses.
On some difficulties with attacks and threats from the Islam deal with it.
to the difficulties of our society Affronts and attacks from the world of Islam, name Tilch Islamism or Fundementalismus to address lie in the fact that
a) the racism allegation fears (Muslims including Islamists are sometimes presented already successfully as an alleged "race", which also by sociological recent very extensive uses of the term "racism" English from the. "racism" becomes possible. In particular in Germany strong liberal tolerance ideas are modeled after the U.S. and in the wake of the pursuit of the "Jewish race" in the German past. In more Catholic-statist countries like France it is less willing to accept fundamentalist manifestations of Islam, as evidenced by the dispute the face veil across countries . Where one believes in the ability of a particular state and its Western-liberal way of life for all citizens to enforce. In the United States and England to the state educational trust to do well socially and pays homage to the laissez-faire.
b) At the same time, one can assume that religion generally enjoys a relatively high level of respect in the Christian population of Germany (Preamble of the non-secular constitution refers to God ), which also benefit from political extremists in Islam, which is a partisan of the addition monotheistic religious beliefs. Tackling extremists who religious legitimacy, the company does much more difficult than against "godless". A cult like Scientology to be reinterpreted as an economic enterprise so that the tracking zeal are no limits. Islamists and radicals, as it can blend into the crowd of Muslims and the minority protection benefit, because these groups are of course right as well as other minorities must enjoy. Traditional German tolerant towards Islam were always right, the German Empire allied with Islamic actors such as the Ottoman Empire or the Mufti of Jerusalem.
c) From the state religion of Islam, from the perspective of the Orthodox faction among Muslims a holistic political-religious-social-legal Doctrine is inferred also concerned to intervene in "foreign" religion matters. Db that moderate Muslims see themselves with the radicals alone. The non-interference is also a consequence of the lack of understanding of Islamic cultures. The media reporting is designed to not just help to distinguish the Islamists from other Muslims to understand their goals and to grasp.
d) In addition, there occurs the flagging vitality of the non-Muslim communities, who fear an explosive religious violence.
e) It can also be an underestimation of the capacity of Muslim communities in Germany and from the Muslims and enter the world of Islam, the civilization they predict anything and its actors is therefore a socio-political challenge to the world market and not military seriously, this underestimation of benefit of course radical political Muslims.
f) There are also occurring in one in alternative circles attitude that could be called Winnetou complex. It includes the idealization of all cultures outside the West and the demonization of the Western way of life itself, so that all attacks on it as deserved or even considered desirable. In addition, left-wing radicals and extremists and share links to the Islamists as allies, according to the motto: the Enemy of my enemy is my friend (though this may not always friend-enemy thinking are assumed). Neo-Nazis at least sympathize with the Islamists.
All in all, it is not surprising that the attacks of 11 September largely organized by Islamists from Germany could. has since then spread a diffuse Islam-aversion in the society that is completely diffuse, and can lead nowhere.
In the film, a recent attack by angry Muslims on the artist Lars Vilks is seen, which was just about to present a film in which homosexuals to see Mohammed masks, and elsewhere (which involves an not homosexuals) the religious-political Muslim feelings are not only ignored, but deliberately violated. Here is the liberal arts, which is an intolerable affront to devout Muslims, the reaction of the audience an imposition on the Western society and its Tolernanzverständnis is. Whether zealous as only Islamists and fundamentalists, and attack?
to again fall in birth rate in Germany, declare the national chair of the Junge Union, Philipp Missfelder, and Dorothee Baer, MP:
"The historically low birth rate in Germany is unique alarming. 2009 were 651 000 children are born - as little as never before in the Federal Republic. recorded a decline of 3.6 percent by 2008, when there were 683 000 births. This continues the downward trend of recent years. How serious the birth rate has been falling for decades, the comparison with the year 1964, when it at the peak of the baby boom, with 1.36 million babies were more than twice as many children as they are today. Since then the number of childbearing women decline steadily - in the last four years by half a million.
This low birth rate shows that it is more important than ever to improve conditions for young families on. The parental allowance, the planned introduction of the benefit payments and the need-based development are of good quality and time-flexible care and education offers the hallmarks of the modern family policy of the CDU / CSU government. Right it is to allow parents real choice. Is necessary, move even more to the diverse needs of mothers, fathers and children in the center of family policy. To encourage
young people in their desire for children, must be about the compatibility of family and work easier. This was achieved by the Union-led government a lot. The increasing recognition of the educational performance of young mothers and fathers is a success. This consistent support for families must be continued in view of the alarming demographic trends. "
One could also interpret the data available so that the state family support policy has no effects. Perhaps the birth rate would be even lower without it? The volumes, which are now of marriageable and reproductive age are themselves decimated by the pill. Fewer people may have fewer children. Against the secularization, increasing flexibility, individualization, emancipation, separation and selfishness, un tendencies while state building in this sector (full-day school, committed families barely which can by their children, the welfare state, which makes the protection seem unnecessary in the family.) can start a family with deteriorating economic situation overall is unlikely. Given the increasing public career pressure is on women (and men so that they can not find steady partners more or maintain any solid relationships. Still more state funding for child care are likely to be increasingly hard to come. There is in Germany to invest in the readiness of children it was privately or publicly. As children individually and luxury are a lot of responsibility, to save in times of crisis on the children first. mothers and fathers, the taxpayers and pension contributors will raise from the welfare state exploited it, to them nothing for it pours. The child benefit was only a partial refund of VAT, the families have to pay more than others.
What I see now come in family policy nor acceptance, is to expand the supply of day care and full-day school offers, as the shrinking society can dispense neither the children nor the labor of young mothers.
for tomorrow's International Day of Conscientious Objectors said the youth spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group Florian Schneider, Bern:
In many countries, conscientious objectors are still worse off comply than their peers, for example, an existing draft. In Germany, the practice of discrimination against conscientious objectors fortunately has found an end. This is one reason why the FDP has strictly opposed the plans for a voluntary extension of the civil service, a de facto extension of the alternative service on conscription service also would result. We liberals want to treat all conscripts and conscientious objectors. is the Basic Law clearly stipulates that no one should be forced into armed service. The decision against conscription is associated with a readiness in the context of civil, volunteers or Peace Service to engage in our society: in hospitals, nursing homes, care facilities, kindergartens, youth clubs, sports clubs or travel services. this decision every year tens of thousands of young men in our country. For this they deserve our respect and our recognition.
remains unclear, why should extend to the idea of community service FDP their service is not voluntary. A de facto extension of the civil service is not legal, what is at stake in issues of equal treatment.
Do not forsake me, oh my darlin ' On this, our weddin' day Do not forsake me, oh my darlin' Wait, wait along.
I do not know what fate awaits me I only know I must be brave And I must face a man who hates me Or lie a coward, a craven coward Or lie a coward in my grave.
Oh, to be torn 'twixt love and duty S'posin' I lose my fair-haired beauty Look at that big hand move along Nearin' high noon.
He made a vow while in state prison Vowed it would be my life or his'n I'm not afraid of death but oh What will I do if you leave me?
Do not forsake me, oh my darlin' You made that promise as a bride Do not forsake me, oh my darlin' Although you're grievin', don't think of leavin' Now that I need you by my side.
