frohe fest-tage

und nun, frohe weihnachten...

9,800 tonnen gold....tons of gold...

A brief but interesting item on the news here yesterday....apparently, Germany just paid off the last of the world war 1 debts, an amount set by the then allies who were at war with the Reich from 1914 til 1918. War broke out in 1914, lasted until 1918 and the settlement conditions were imposed on the new German Republic ( so called Weimar Republic) in 1922.

The amount set by the so called victors, mostly France and Britain amounted to trillions of Gold marks or dollars...the equivalent of 9,800 tons of gold. After over 90 years, apparently Germany just paid off the last part of this horrendous assessment.

I just wanted to get this written down, it is important to comment on it and I will translate this into German as well.

It must be remembered that four years after the end of WW1, the so called victors imposed this on Germany. Also, this war was not won or lost, there was an armistice but it also was the end of the so called golden years for Germany, lasting from 1871 when Germany was created until 1918, the end of WW I and the turmoil that followed.

I usually like to supply a picture with my notes, this shows a charge by Prussian soldiers...the Prussians beat the French ( Napoleon 3rd.) and Germany was created out of hundreds of bits and pieces of German speaking duchies and communities, miniature bits and pieces of what once was supposed to have been the holy roman empire of German nations.....which was never holy or roman, or for that matter much of an empire.
French provinces or territories, Elsass and Lothringen became part of the newly created German Reich.. (Bismarck pieced this together).

..The largest original component was the Kingdom of Prussia..


...an ounce of gold in today's market sells for between 1200 and 1300 Dollars...I believe an ounce is equal to 35 grammes...1000 grammes per kilogram or 1,000- Kilogrammes per ton (2,000 pounds per ton or is it 2240#)...you do the math...it's horrendous.


The picture shows a charge by Prussia..note the cannonballs...

iraq

...the war in Iraq is over...because Mr.Obama said so.

Combat forces are going home. Only 50,000 advisers and trainers for the Iraq army will remain for a while. This is by no means the end. Very quickly you will see Iran moving their forces into position, they conducted several wars with the former regime and are the most likely to get involved in controlling this country in the future.

The Americans have left a horrible mess behind. Most of the US Dollars spent to repair part of the infrastructure are probably totally wasted. The mysterious other side, the enemy, the insurgence...will, along with super fanatic religious leaders eventually come to the surface. You can't rule this country by blowing up whatever police structure you put in place be it foreign imposed or domestic.

Iraq‏
Barack Obama

September 1, 2010 12:21:43 AM

Fred

Tonight marks the end of the American combat mission in Iraq.As a candidate for this office, I pledged to end this war responsibly. And, as President, that is what I am doing.Since I became Commander-in-Chief, we've brought home nearly 100,000 U.S. troops. We've closed or turned over to Iraq hundreds of our bases.As Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, our commitment to a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq continues.

Under Operation New Dawn, a transitional force of U.S. troops will remain to advise and assist Iraqi forces, protect our civilians on the ground, and pursue targeted counter terrorism efforts.By the end of next year, consistent with our agreement with the Iraqi government, these men and women, too, will come home.Ending this war is not only in Iraq's interest -- it is in our own. Our nation has paid a huge price to put Iraq's future in the hands of its people.

We have sent our men and women in uniform to make enormous sacrifices. We have spent vast resources abroad in the face of several years of recession at home.We have met our responsibility through the courage and resolve of our women and men in uniform.

In seven years, they confronted a mission as challenging and as complex as any our military has ever been asked to face.Nearly 1.5 million Americans put their lives on the line. Many returned for multiple tours of duty, far from their loved ones who bore a heroic burden of their own. And most painfully, more than 4,400 Americans have given their lives, fighting for people they never knew, for values that have defined our people for more than two centuries.What their country asked of them was not small. And what they sacrificed was not easy.For that, each and every American owes them our heartfelt thanks.Our promise to them -- to each woman or man who has donned our colors -- is that our country will serve them as faithfully as they have served us. We have already made the largest increase in funding for veterans in decades.

So long as I am President, I will do whatever it takes to fulfill that sacred trust.Tonight, we mark a milestone in our nation's history. Even at a time of great uncertainty for so many Americans, this day and our brave troops remind us that our future is in our own hands and that our best days lie ahead.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

Barney...

And somewhere I wrote about Barney...the barn dog. He got old and he is gone. A fine dog but after 14 years his time had come.

45..yalta

The big three at the Yalta conference. Picture taken by US Army photographer. It shows the mass murderer Stalin as well as Mass Murderer Churchill.
The American President Roosevelt was quite frail at this time and only had months to live. His V.P. sidekick Harry Truman was apparently unaware of the fact that the atomic bomb was just about ready to be deployed....he,Truman used it twice over Japan to bring WW ll to an end.

Rejects

Please, do not leave me any advertising or garbage comments not related to my blog efforts as I will pitch all this crap.Thank You!

Bitte, keine ads oder ramsch der mit meinem blog nichts zu tun hat, wird eifach weg geworfen.Vielen Dank!

Frau Merkel....

Please, read my blog:

worldconcerns.blogspot.com (this is a link which takes you there)

Part of a speech to the American congress and commentary by Frau Merkel , Chancellor of Germany, was describing or praising the Americans as "unsere Befreier", I strongly reject this label. I like Americans in general and have taken up residence there but to actually refer to the war and postwar administrations and their leaders as our liberators is a bit too much for me.

Frau Merkel spricht von Amerika als "unsere Befreier"...selbst fuer mich ist das nun eben doch etwas zu viel. Sie haette das doch besser nicht gesagt. Grober Unsinn, ich werde versuchen mein geschreibsel in Deutsch hier mal wieder zu bringen, mittlerweile bitte lesen sie das in meinem blog in english. Danke.

Deutschland...1. 2. 3. Reich erklaert...

The First Reich
(962?) 800-1806) was the Holy Roman Empire, which included modern day Germany, Austria, the Czech lands, Northern Italy, and various other territories. Already in the Middle Ages it consisted of several almost independent states, often at war with one another. After the Reformation the authority of the Emperor was further weakened. It was often said that it was "neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire."

Charles the Great was crowned christmas 800 in Rome.
Charlemagne or Kaiser Karl as the Germans preferred to call him started this Empire but after his death it slowly fell apart as one unit or country. Charles the Great; Son of Pepin, King of the Franks,768-814.








....und dann liebe Kinder...1000 Jahre vergingen, die Pest und der 30 Jaehrige Krieg.....and about 1000 years later, after the 30 year war and death throug pest of about 2/3 of the people in the german lands....



1860s Napoleon Bonaparte defeated Prussia and Prussia was reduced to less than half it's size...

later.....

...1870, France under Napoleon the third, lost the war against Prussia
leading to the formation of the Grossdeutsche Reich, which included Elsass and Lothringen of France as well as large areas in the east and components of land formerly closer to Danmark ( Schleswig Holstein).


The Second Reich

was Imperial Germany (1871-1918), as unified by Bismarck.
Napoleon Bonaparte just about destroyed the former Germany called Prussia. Napoleon the 3rd. much later lost yet another war against Prussia in 1870 and along with it the regions of Alsace and Lorraine. The French considered this unfinished business and after WW1 promptly reclaimed these lands. ( Metz,Strassbourg Etc.)..















The Third Reich

was Nazi Germany (1933-45).
The Third Reich was the region pieced together by Adolf Hitlers Dictatorship Regime,it also included Austria. The period ended in total destruction of Germany mostly by the Americans through carpet bombardment of the entire country far beyond military targets,( so called allied forces, British and their former colonial support, Canada Australia New Zealand etc).
Massive financial and material support by the USA rebuilt the Russian forces under dictator Stalin of the communist USSR. The end of the war resulted in mass starvation of the German population from 1945 to 1948, the country was split into American,British,French and Russian Zones exploited by these so called allies.

Chile-Afghanistan

Erdbeben in Chile...a natural disaster estimated at being 800 times as powerful as the quake in Haiti.

Germany wasted 150 Million Euros for traffic lighs and street lighting for Kabul...and by the looks of it this normally important infrastructur component does not work and most likely will never work. The locals are simply not interested or capable to make this work.
Afghanistan is ruled by greedy warlords and criminals any effort to change this is, has been and will be a total waste of out efforts and taxes.

Support Chile...they deserve our assistance, they are a good and decent people wothy of our support.

Americans; Superhero or Criminals..

Please don't get me wrong...it's not that I dislike the Chancellor... Mrs. Merkel; or the fact that she is a female...nothing like that whatsoever I assure you.

What truly bothers me is the ignorance of historical facts and the total sucking up to the Americans.
And again...I am not anti American, not at all but why is it wrong to disagree with the crimes committed by the US administration...like Truman, or Bush II or those associated with the rulers of the USA who clearly committed crimes against humanity.

I have lived in North america for over 50 years. I own a nice home in Florida. That should not mean that when the German Chancellor talks about the USA and uses vocabulary like unsere Befreier, translate our liberators...that I have to buy this crap and agree with it.

The war with Germany was just about over, the country, Germany more than 85% destroyed when Churchill decided on one more act of total revenge. Dresden. This beautiful city was filled with fleeing women and children, who were heading west from the Russian and Polish regions, there was no significant military value in or about Dresden, when it was decided to totally destroy this place and kill, burn to death somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2 million innocent civilians and refugees.

You have to be an idiot to consider this stupid act as anything anywhere describing liberation.; it was nothing short of mass murder..please Frau Merkel...study the history..And while you're at it look at Nagasaki and Hiroshima..and the Truman revenge connection.

DEUTSCH: re obiges...

Ich wollte unbedingt meine Gedanken schnell loswerden...schon seit geraumer Weile hat es mich veraergert dass Frau Merkel mit ihrer Rede im Amerikanischen Kongress von unsere Befreier ( die Amerikaner) quasselte...Befreier von wem?...Hitler? den Russen?> irgendwie hat mich ihr Gequatsche boese gemacht...

Nochmal allerhand probleme mit dem konfuser..nichts neu,adware,spyware kram kommt da heraus...das hier ist ein test um wieder mal zu

sehen ob das Ding ueberhaupt noch irgendwie funktioniert..

This is a test...I may elect to scrap this at a later date..much truoble with my computers at the moment, pity really but can't be helped.Installed all sorts of useful virus control software but some junk somehow manages to get into the system.

2010

Schon eine Weile her..nicht viel zu sagen. Seit geraumer Weile habe ich nun DW-TV am Fernseher die Deutsche Welle.

Jedenfalls ist es interessant die News mal von einer anderen Seite her zu sehen anstatt Fox, CNN, ABC, CBS, CBC..oder anderen Nord Amerikanischen Stationen.

Uebrigens das Bild zeigt eine Schaufenstermodepuppe...also nicht aufregen...alles nur Plastik... kein Porn hier..werde das mal malen..

Aehnlichen Kram , Art kann man schon auf meinem blog fredsart.blogspot.com/ finden. ( link)..

Amerika....Krieg

Dass....Krieg gegen einen armseligen Rest von Widerständlern, gegen eine Handvoll zerlumpte Al-Kaida-Sandalenträger geführt wird, die sich die meiste Zeit gar nicht in Afghanistan aufhalten sondern in Waziristan, dem Nordwestzipfel Pakistans, das werden sie nicht sagen.

Den Widerstand der Afghanen und Paschtunen, den haben die Amis erst selbst mit ihren unverhältnismäßigen Bombardierungen seit Ende 2001, mit ihrer marodierend im Land herumziehenden Söldner-Soldateska geschaffen. Im Irak haben es die verluderten US- und UK-Militärs mit Folter, Vergewaltigung und dem willkürlichen Abknallen wehrloser Einheimischer weit getrieben. Mehr als eine Million tote Iraker hat der Irakkrieg schon gefordert und noch immer werden jede Woche Dutzende von Irakern von Bombenfallen zerrissen, an Straßensperren niedergeschossen oder offiziell von ihrer Marionettenregierung im Dienst der US-Ölkonzerne hingerichtet.

und nun...Afghanistan...usw...

...click on highlighted text to link to source or author...

Afghanistan-Strategie: morgens Bonbons, abends Bomben
Die Welt wartet ungeduldig auf die Bekanntgabe der neuen Strategie der USA für Afghanistan.
Den Afghanen geht es wirtschaftlich so schlecht wie nie. Der Westen gibt viermal mehr Geld für Militär aus als für die zivile Aufbauhilfe. 40.000 zusätzliche Soldaten hat der amerikanische Kommandeur Mc Chrystal gefordert, angeblich „für den Schutz der afghanischen Zivilbevölkerung“.
Wie er die aufständischen Taliban, die sich in Kleidung und Habitus nicht von den afghanischen Zivilisten unterscheiden, in der Zivilbevölkerung herausfinden und bekämpfen will, bleibt sein Geheimnis; oder die Sache der Geheimdienste, für die niemand besser steht als Robert Gates, der US-Kriegsminister mit einschlägig krimineller Geheimdienstvergangenheit.Leichter Jagdbomber JF-17 "Thunder", eine chinesisch-pakistanische Gemeinschaftsproduktion: "gelbe Gefahr" im grünen Kleid des Propheten.

Etwa 150 Stück soll Pakistans Luftwaffe kriegen.

Für den Abwurf von Atombomben ist das Ding hoffentlich ungeeignet.Ob 40.000, 30.000 oder 20.000 GI`s mehr, am Ende wird es in Afghanistan so laufen wie in Vietnam, wo die US-Army tagsüber vor den laufenden Kameras der Weltpresse Bonbons an die Kinder verteilte, um dann abends im Schutz der Dunkelheit Napalm-Bomben auf die armseligen Hütten ihrer Familien abzuwerfen oder giftige Agent Orange-Dioxin-Kampfstoffe flächendeckend zur Entlaubung der Wälder zu versprühen, mit grauenhaften Folgen für Gesundheit und Erbgut der Zivilbevölkerung Heimtücke und Hinterlist beim Ausfragen von unbedarften afghanischen Kindern, notfalls deren Folter oder Vergewaltigung durch afghanische Hilfspolizisten an den "Checkpoints", so, wie es von den "Angloamerikanern" im Irak auch gemacht wurde, um an Informationen über versteckte Waffen zu kommen, das ist die hinter dem PSK-Gerede vom angeblichen "Schutz der Zivilbevölkerung" verborgene "neue" Strategie und Taktik des US-Generals Mc Chrystal, der sich ausnahmsweise mal nicht wie seine beiden Vorgänger mit Vornamen D a v i d oder D a n i e l nennt, was seine wahre Herkunft sofort verraten könnte.Nächste Woche, so die New York Times, wird es nach neun Beratungsrunden im Weißen Haus, Gesprächen mit den Oberkommandierenden der Armee, mit dem Vorsitzenden des Streitkräfteausschusses im Kapitol, Telefonaten mit den noch NATO-Verbündeten Brown in London, Sarkozy in Paris und Merkel in Berlin schließlich soweit sein.

Der Friedensnobelpreisträger Obama wird vor die Kameras und Mikrofone treten und seine großartige neue Strategie verkünden. Es ist die alte Leier nach AIPAC-Art in zwielichtigem Gewand, US-Truppen raus und rein zu gleicher Zeit: Exit+Surge 2.0. Der "Stabschef" des US-Präsidenten – oder soll man wahrheitsgetreuer sagen – der eigentliche Regisseur im Weißen Haus namens Rahm Israel Emanuel hat für die herrschende Mischpoke schon alles geregelt. Armeechef Mullen, Hillary Clinton und der ganze Chor der Sphirren, die für den Militärisch-Industriellen Komplex der USA stehen, werden gleichzeitig in einer ununterbrochenen Serie von Hearings und Pressekonferenzen ihr Verslein von den braven USA vortragen, die am wilden Hindukusch tapfer gegen ihren Willen die Freiheit Westens verteidigen müssen.

Nun wird der US-Einsatz zeitlich begrenzt, damit die traurige Botschaft nicht so schmerzt. Dass dieser sinnlose Krieg gegen einen armseligen Rest von Widerständlern, gegen eine Handvoll zerlumpte Al-Kaida-Sandalenträger geführt wird, die sich die meiste Zeit gar nicht in Afghanistan aufhalten sondern in Waziristan, dem Nordwestzipfel Pakistans, das werden sie nicht sagen. Den Widerstand der Afghanen und Paschtunen, den haben die Amis erst selbst mit ihren unverhältnismäßigen Bombardierungen seit Ende 2001, mit ihrer marodierend im Land herumziehenden Söldner-Soldateska geschaffen.
Im Irak haben es die verluderten US- und UK-Militärs mit Folter, Vergewaltigung und dem willkürlichen Abknallen wehrloser Einheimischer weit getrieben. Mehr als eine Million tote Iraker hat der Irakkrieg schon gefordert und noch immer werden jede Woche Dutzende von Irakern von Bombenfallen zerrissen, an Straßensperren niedergeschossen oder offiziell von ihrer Marionettenregierung im Dienst der US-Ölkonzerne hingerichtet. Noch schlimmer geht es am Hindukusch zu. Das gegen kritische Reporter abgeschottete Afghanistan erleidet wegen seiner Abgeschiedenheit den Gipfel der Gewalt enthemmter US-Söldner, grauenhafte Drogenkriminalität und absurde Besatzerwillkür. Der US-Militärstützpunkt Bagram besitzt ein geheimes Foltergefängnis, vergleichbar mit Abu Graib, aber noch vollständig "in Betrieb".

Amerikaner...

Democracy, our gift to the world

.... glassbeads, rifels, guns, firewater, horses...reservations ( concentration camps) our gift to the red man...
picture is of Geronimo...

pirmasenser

...um diese Jahreszeit herum geht mir immer der dusselige Kriegskram im Kopf herum..wie meine Heimatstadt Pirmasens ueber 80% ausgebombt war, der letzte Kriegstag in Zeubelried Franken als die Amis kamen unsere Befreier ( Merkel)..,

Geschichten & Anekdoten mein Vater brachte von Russland
und dann die poppie Ritualien hier in Kanada...

comment...

[Pirmasens] New comment on ...about time....‏ see my 6-28-08 blog posting..
another_refugee has left a new comment on your post "...about time...":

Hallo, dieser Blog ist eigentlich genau der Blog den man über Pirmasens erwartet: etwas depressiv von jemanden der nicht mehr dort lebt.
Wühlt auf, macht nachdenklich, auch mich. Auch ich bin mit 15 weg, 1986, aber nicht nach Kanada, sondern nach München. Wie mein Leben wohl verlaufen wäre wenn ich dort geblieben wäre? Mich schaudert bei dem Gedanken.

Es war in einem der umliegenden Dörfer bei den Großeltern, bei einer Dorffeier, Biergartentische im Herbstregennassen Gras.
Die Jungs klopten ihre Bierkrüge auf die Biergartentischbank und sangen mit der blechernen Musik aus dem Hintergrund, nein kreischten: Vee, vill. vee vill rogg you.
Mich nicht. In dem Moment wurde mir klar dass ich da raus muss aus diesem reaktionären Mief, nur, damals war mir noch nicht bewußt dass es sich um einen reaktionären Mief handelt, das war meine Welt.
München, Holland, Berlin. Wie ein großer Kreis um Pirmasens, inzwischen sterben mir die Verwandten weg. Die Älteren, die Jüngeren kenne ich nicht.

Es muss viele geben wie uns, Geflüchtete, die dennoch kreisen um ihre eigene Kindheit, die stattfand, mehr oder weniger an diesem Ort mit der kürzesten Lebenserwartung und der höchsten Privatinsolvenzen.
Vielleicht gibt es diesen Ort auch gar nicht wirklich, vielleicht war es ein Militärexperiment, wie The Cube.
Mich hat noch nie jemand gefragt wie denn die Menschen so sind in Pirmasens, und ich kann es auch nicht mehr für die heutigen Leute die übrig geblieben sind beantworten, damals hätte ich gesagt dumm und böse.

Da war dieses Lähmende. Das zog sich wie ein roter Faden. Die leuchtende Zeit von Pirmasens die kannte ich gar nicht, die Fäule war schon da als ich denken konnte, also so mit 2. Pirmasens stirbt einen besonders qualvollen Tod, und sein Tod sitzt in uns drin, wir Pirmasenser die keine mehr sind.
Wir tragen den Pirmasenser Tod mit unseren Seelen herum. Auch wenn es letztere gar nicht gibt.

Posted by another_refugee to Pirmasens at 10/20/2009

time moves on...ramblings..

Long gone are the days when I could pick which Porsche I should drive that day...the red one or the white one...
or how much fun I could have with the horses.... at my own horse farm,
or take a walk along the ocean shore at Fort Lauderdale by the Sea and return to my own luxury suite by the ocean or the Oceanside pool. But times change...and yet if we refuse to learn from and understand yesterday it will be hard to anticipate what tomorrow will have in store.








Times change, the economy is down once again and we are looking at an extremely risky depression we somehow ended up in, without the necessary smarts or fortitude to work our way out of it. One can only hope that the new administration in Washington put things back on a positive path.

Which reminds me as to how some events change the world....forever....
Way back when...somebody on a German submarine ( WW1) decided to torpedo a British Passenger ship...the Lusitania...Germany was at war with Britain and France and it was known that English ships were transporting weaponry from the USA. The passenger ship captains were told as well to ram the relatively small German U boats if they stumble upon them. It was generally assumed that unarmed passenger ships would not present a target to be attacked by the Germans. Bad mistake. Someone did sink the Lusitania with a torpedo to the bow..the ship went down with loss of life including many Americans who were on a cruise between the USA and the UK.









It is widely believed that this act dragged the USA ( by 1917) into the war, obviously on the side of France and Britain...and it is quite possible that President Woodrow Wilson, a fine and intelligent gentleman had little choice but to get involved.

Armistice, totally unfair and ridiculous treatment of Germany after 1918, installation of an allied created government ( Weimar Republic) made it possible for this idiot Hitler to eventually gain power...the rest is history. Total defeat of the Germans, rise of communism, iron curtain and attempts by the US to contain communism followed.
Today...the USA is involved in two wars...if one can call it war, with an unseen enemy with reasoning for their action difficult to sort out. And where do we go from here?

...a few words from the writings of:

Brent Herbert:
As for ministers, you are preachers, and so I thought I would drop off a few sermon ideas. If you were preaching to some capitalist you might want to go with the ever useful all purpose sermon, 'repent ye, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.' Other good ideas for sermons would be that psalm, the one that reads, 'we dwell in a strong city, its walls are strong and tall. Open wide the gates and let a righteous people enter.' Or how about, 'My God trains me for battle. I leap over walls.' The possibilities are endless.

Someone might say, 'oh, sure, we stall for time. But what's the point. Why bother. Hopeless, I tell you, hopeless.' My response is that events may very well force those capitalists to create a giant centralized monopoly and then we can worry about democratizing the thing later. And even if that does not happen, well in the words of that anti-drug campaign, you just say no. Let us assume that the proletarians of the country decided, democratically, that they wanted the place democratized, but a handful of capitalists said, 'NO', well then you just say 'NO" to the capitalist. What's so hopeless about that?
...back to my views...:
Question....what's my point? Well,there is no point really...times change indeed and who knows what the near or distant future will bring us or what we all get ourselves into.
At the moment...CNN and the other Yankee networks cover Obama's views and efforts to close the Military facilities in Cuba..of course Chaney ( former Vice) has other opinions and therefore vigorously defends some of the Bush 2 decision of which he was the likely architect.

April 2009

Mittlerweile, meine letzte blog posting on worldconcerns.blogpost.com/ is in reference to what happened 1945, at about the end of April and around the end of WWII for Germany and it's European allies...the so called central powers?
You may want to look it up.

For now...I say hallo and until I can think of something useful to contribute, adios...

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read Brent Herbert....

I rarely if ever promote any ones stuff...but here is a fellow well worth reading.His ideas are down to earth and his subjects many. Much research appears to have been done by him on the subjects of the USA and Americans effect on the rest of the world, wars etc. He deals a bit with the Scriptures as well, ideas on evolution, science and what impressed me most of all, his attitude as to what one could consider decent, acceptable and or vulgar. I agree with most of it.

I particularly like his detailed comments along with accurate data facts about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.



..the picture shows where children find landmines and unexploded ordnance...