Syria

The way I see it, President Obama now finds himself between a rock and a bear poop pile. One is hard, the other really stinks.

Abandoned by the UK, the  British people remember Bushes Iraq fiasco and want no part of another war, this time in Syria, there is some  sort of supported by France, possibly Turkey.

Americans find themselves alone trying to help the gas attacked people of this beleaguered country, the dictator run Syria.

At the same time there is no clear understanding  as to who  the so called rebels are...clearly another unresolvable mess of the North African and Middle east region.

Scam

Canadian get rich scam..

I happen to know of an incredible scam someone managed to execute just a few years ago. This fellow, just refer to him as Norm (real name) managed to accumulate somewhere between 1.2 and 2 million Canadian Dollars which he promptly used to buy a luxury home and several businesses and business properties. The initial investment was relatively small, just a few thousand dollars. In the end he was fined by the Provincial government for not properly registering a company or the company name he operated with. The fine was a lousy $500, that’s all. When I made a follow up phone call to see how this scam ended up I was told by the provincial officer that the file was closed, the fine was paid and that was the end of it. The officer then remarked that they are too busy to do anything more, being heavily involved to investigate fraud in the construction business was the excuse to do nothing more.

 

There were hundreds of what I would call insured parties but the fraud amounts were anywhere from $50 to $ 1,200 per situation. There was no way for the parties to know of each other and therefore the possibility of a class action lawsuit was minimal. If not for a couple of USA postal inspectors showing up one day at my door I never would have bothered to get involved.
 

I have been thinking of selling the story for $1000 or so but have done nothing about it. I have full details, it so happens that for a time I rented office space to the perpetrator  and after the activity found evidence in the leftover trash.

 

Alte Witwe Nigeria Scam...von Spanien diesmal...

WELL ITS A PITY IF YOU CHOSE TO BELIEVE WHAT YOUR FRIEND TOLD YOU,BECAUSE YOU ARE ALREADY BEING DOUBTFUL IN THE FIRST PLACE,ANYWAY I THINK I WOULD HAVE TO END THE CONVERSATION REGARDING THIS TRANSACTION OF MY LATE CLIENT,GOOD DAY.

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From: snitch@hotmail.com
To: barr.aldino.abad.chamber@outlook.com
Subject: Re: RESPONSE    from me:

Sir, Aldino Abad

 

I have just been told by a friend who knows a thing or two about the internet that this whole bank/seniora/gift thing is in his words a scam and nothing but rubbish, ( he has English background, we in north America refer to rubbish as garbage actually.

I find this hard to believe, creating a story involving an old widow? Pretty sick actually if you ask me. It is suggested further that this is supposedly a typical Nigerian Scam and apparently this sort of thing has been going on for some time. What I can not figure out is why? What’s the point? With all that supposed money being kicked around is there anyone/ recipient who will actually furnish funds for this kind of thing? Hard to believe.

I digress, guess there is no funeral then, no money to be distributed, nothing but a rather primitive story for no clear purpose.
 

 

From: Barr. Aldino Abad

Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 4:45 AM

 

UPDATE REQUESTED AS REGARDS YOUR PHOTO PASSPORT AND LEGITIMATE SIGNATURE I REQUESTED FOR IN REGARDS TO THE ACCOUNT OPENING IN YOUR FULL NAME AS THAT IS WHAT IS DELAYING US OVER HERE MR FRED,AS I WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS CAUSING THE DELAY ON YOUR OWN PART TOO.WRITE ME BACK IMMEDIATELY ON RECEIPT OF THIS MAIL,GOOD DAY AS I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING FROM YOU SOONEST.

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Just more nazi stuff....for what it's worth...

As U.S. Marks 80th Anniversaries, Family’s Story
of Good and Evil is RetoldSon of German-Jewish Family Uncovers Diaries
from pre-War Nazi Germany

Eighty years ago, those who were part of America’s “Greatest Generation” were beginning to define events that would prove to be some of the country’s finest moments. In stark contrast, Germany was entering its darkest period. 
The two countries powered ahead on a collision course that would lead to vastly different fortunes for its people, notes Torkel S Wächter, the son of German-Jewish parents who uncovered fascinating family documents written during the ascendancy of Nazism in Europe.
On his website, www.onthisday80yearsago.com, he replays history in diary fashion with posts appearing on the anniversary of events 80 years ago in Germany. It’s an artistic/literary project called “simulated real time,” a way of commemorating history so that it’s not forgotten, he says. 
“These anniversaries make for an excellent study in contrast in history for the two countries,” Wächter says; he cites the following examples:

• United States: Eighty years ago, the country was beginning a relationship with one of the most beloved presidents in U.S. history, Franklin D. Roosevelt. On May 7, the 32nd commander-in-chief outlined his economic plan, the New Deal, in one of his famous fireside chats.
• Germany: In stark contrast, just three days later in Germany, literature deemed “un-German” was destroyed in the infamous Nazi book burning. Earlier in 1933, Adolf Hitler had attained power, and on April 1, Jewish businesses were boycotted.
• Post-war legacy: While WWII was the beginning of the end for the Nazi party, the war marked the end of America’s Great Depression. For the past 80 years, the United States has remained the preeminent world superpower. In contrast, the reconstruction of Germany after the war was a long process; 7.5 million – 11 percent – of Germans had been killed; the country’s cities were largely destroyed; and agricultural production had declined by two-thirds. A psychological shame has hovered over Germans since the discovery of genocidal death camps.

“I used to hate Germany; while growing up, my father never discussed his German upbringing, even though he was obsessed with the country,” says Wächter, who was raised in Sweden. “We were never allowed to talk about it because the pain from the past was still alive in him.”
After his father died, Wächter finally opened the boxes he’d left behind. They were filled with diaries, letters, articles and other documents. From these, he wrote “The Investigation,” which highlights questions about personal responsibility and evil during pre-war Nazi Germany.
These are lessons, he says, from which we can all learn today.
“It’s much more difficult to hate something that you come to understand,” he says. “I no longer hate Germany. I’ve realized that my father actually loved the country – he had a great upbringing there, and Jews in Germany had been a success story. But because of what occurred under Hitler, he felt such betrayal and pain, he could never bring himself to talk about it.”

About Torkel S Wächter

Torkel S Wächter is the descendant of German-Jewish civil servants who suffered under the Nazi regime. His book, “The Investigation,” outlines the experience as recorded by his paternal grandfather and father. He studied economic history, development theory and languages at the universities of Lund, Melbourne and Barcelona, as well as Jewish studies at Paideia, the European Institute for Jewish Studies, and architectural restoration at the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm. After a stint as a fashion model in Paris and Barcelona, Wächter trained as a diver in the Royal Swedish Navy and then went on to an aviation career. During the 1990s Wächter served as a first officer with Schandinavian Airlines. In 1997 Wächter published his first novel, “Samson,” and in 1999 he published the first Swedish e-book. Wächter lives in Stockholm and Barcelona with his architect wife; together they have four children.
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QUATSCH...oder?

Was hat all  mein gequassel mit Pirmasens zu tun? Nicht  viel.

It's just that I'm sick and tired of this annual squeeze effort to extract billions from the Germans and at the same time give another generation this ridiculous guilt complex once instilled in me when I grew up.

Proposal for a German annual holiday to commemorate the allies mass murder after and at the end of WW2

Die Revisionisten sind im allgemeinen der Ansicht, daß die alliierten Regierungen, insbesondere die Sowjets, beschlossen, ihre aus der Kriegszeit stammende „Schwarze Propaganda" über deutsche Greuel in der Nachkriegszeit weiterzuführen. Und zwar aus drei Gründen:

1. Die Alliierten sahen sich gezwungen, weiterhin die großen Opfer der Kämpfe von zwei Weltkriegen zu rechtfertigen.
2. Die Alliierten wollten die Aufmerksamkeit von ihren eigenen, überaus brutalen Verbrechen gegen die Menschheit ablenken und sie rechtfertigen. Allein schon die sowjetischen Greuel hatten den Tod von unermeßlich vielen Millionen Zivilisten in der Sowjetunion und in allen Ländern Ost- und Mitteleuropas gefordert.
   Das amerikanische und britische Flächenbombardement deutscher und japanischer Städte hatte den Tod von über einer Million Zivilisten verschuldet, die bei lebendigem Leibe verbrannten oder verschüttet wurden.
3. Die Alliierten brauchten eine Rechtfertigung für ihr Nachkriegsvorgehen, nämlich die völlige Demontage der deutschen Industrie, eine Politik der Aushungerung, die den Tod von vielen Millionen deutscher Zivilisten zur Folge hatte, den Diebstahl deutscher Patente im Wert von Billionen Dollar, und den Raub großer Teile Deutschlands, die von Polen und der UdSSR annektiert wurden. Diese Gebiete waren nicht umstrittenes Grenzland, sondern machten 20 % des gesamten deutschen Territoriums aus. Die zwölf Millionen Deutsche, die in diesen Gebieten lebten, wurden ihres Eigentums beraubt und brutal vertrieben. Das war die grauenvollste ethnische Säuberung der Weltgeschichte. Über zwei Millionen Deutsche kamen dabei ums Leben.

And now ....translation into English....sort of....this is my attempt, I am not a linguist or translator.

 I am not familiar with the expression or term Schwarze Propaganda, it may well be an underground term not commonly used or something more recent rather than a terminology used when Russia was in the form of the then Soviet Union and  part of the allied defence propaganda machine...so be it. The term may be a leftover descriptor a  wartime activity.

This is about  the annual ritual of the  holocaust remembrance and a view of ethnic cleansing by the so called liberators ( a term the German chancellor likes to use to describe the former WWII allies.. when she visits the USA..).There clearly should be a holiday or remembrance day for all those German and ethnic German men, women and children who were needlessly murdered by the allied war machine, consisting of The USA, Soviet Union and Britain along with the UK and their aids..(.Canada , Australia  and others belonging to this colonial club).leftovers of the empire.

The revisionists are of the opinion in general that the allied governments, especially the Soviets, decided to continue their "black propaganda" descendant from the wartime over German horrors in the postwar era. Mostly for three reasons:
 
1:The allied forces found themselves forced to still justify the their victims of the fights of two world wars. It should be remembered here that in the first world war the USA entered almost at the end of the war and their losses were actually smaller than those of Australia.

2:The allied forces wanted to deflect the attention of their own, extremely brutal crimes against mankind and wanted to justify it. The Soviets suffered substantial losses during the second world war and found it appropriate to cause the death of  million civilians in Germany as well as  countries of east and Central Europe. 
The American and British surface bombardment of German and Japanese cities had been to blame for the death of over one million civilians, that burned and or buried alive..Hamburg, Dresden..

3:The  allied forces needed a justification for their after war  politics of the starvation, that led to the death of  millions of  German civilians, the theft of German patents for their postwar action, namely the total dismantling of the German industry, in the value of trillions dollars, and the robbery of large parts of Germany, that were annexed from Poland and the USSR. These areas were not controversial border area but amounted to 20 percent of the entire German territory. The twelve million Germans, who lived in these areas, were robbed of their property and  expelled brutally.What happened between 1945 and 1948 amounts to  the most harrowing ethnic cleaning in the worlds history. Over two million Germans died on that occasion alone. 

Eckhart Tolle

..mehr kommt noch.../ more to come....

Born 1948...somewhere in Germany
parents divorced when he was 12
Dad left for Spain
Eckart went to live with o near his dad in Spain, did not attend school
Went to the UK at 19...teaching German and Spanish, went to University
eventually ended up living on park benches finding his own way and something akin to eastern philosophy,
ended up in Vancouver Canada, wrote 2 bestseller books dealing with living in the now as he calls it...

just a pretty picture of a lady from the Russian Federation..

Noch ein Gedicht

Ein Gedicht von Lasse, Lars Dahn

Einstmals geriet ein Teddybär
Zufällig in die Wäsche,
Er wurde schneeweißrabenschwarz
Und das war seine Schwäche.

Nun sieht es aus
Als gäb's ihn nicht
Und dass er nur bestände
Aus Ohren, Auge, Nase wohl
Und Arme, Bein' und Hände...

Whitewash oder wahrheit?

 

Die Konzentrationslager

Die KZ waren G e f ä n g n i s s e. Sie waren den geschlossenen Gefängnisanstalten und Strafanstalten mit ihren begrenzten Raumverhältnissen und beengenden Mauern weit vorzuziehen. Trotzdem blieben sie als Gefängnisse ihrem Wesen, ihrer Natur und Bestimmung nach unangenehme, von der Außenwelt streng abgeschlossene Zwangsaufenthalte, in denen mit Strenge und Zwang Zucht und Ordnung unter den widerstrebenden und widerwilligen, meist asozialen Häftlingen aufrechterhalten werden mußte.

Weit mehr als 80 Prozent der KZ-Insassen waren kriminelle Häftlinge oft übelster Art; es ist unvernünftig und widersinnig, von Gefängnisinsassen ein Loblied Über ihre Aufenthaltsorte zu erwarten.

Gefängnisse, mögen sie noch so geordnet sein, sind immer unbeliebt und verhaßt, sie sind immer ein hart und schmerzhaft empfundener Entzug des köstlichsten menschlichen Gutes: der Freiheit; je asozialer die Häftlinge, um so härter und ärger mußte der Druck und Zwang der Zucht sein.

Die Wahrheit über die deutschen Konzentrationslager

In fast allen Ländern der Erde gab es und gibt es Konzentrationslager. Wir Deutsche verstehen nicht, warum man gerade nur uns deswegen so unerbittlich anklagt und verfolgt. Dabei waren und sind heute noch die KZ der anderen in vielen Belangen - vor allem hinsichtlich Einrichtung und Behandlung, der Ordnung und Disziplin -mit deutschen Lagern gar nicht zu vergleichen. Ich bin der Meinung, daß der Strafvollzug im KZ jenem in geschlossenen Strafanstalten und Gefängnissen weitaus vorzuziehen ist. jedenfalls hat kein Volk der Erde, das selbst KZ hatte oder gar heute noch hat, die Legitimation, sich zum Richter über das deutsche Volk aufzuwerfen.

Dazu kommt noch eins: Nach den übereinstimmenden Berichten früherer KZ-Insassen war die Unterbringung, Verpflegung und Behandlung im allgemeinen ordentlich; wenn und soweit es Klagen gab, richten sich diese hauptsächlich und in der Regel gegen die Häftlingsfunktionäre. Die Greuelmeldungen sind fast ausnahmslos Lügen oder Übertreibungen und unberechtigte Verallgemeinerungen.

The Euro Thing...

Man vergleicht the bailing out of the delinqent countries to an english robin hood situation, apparently the whole thing is revenue neutral...es kostet niemanden etwas, alles ist innerhalb des euro...
In Robin Hood.....man nimmt von den Reichen und gibt es den Armen...die dusseligen Deutschen werden wieder mal geprellt...

Deutsch....eben....

Irgendwann....vor Jahren habe ich dann mal behaupted dass Deutsch zum Grossteil  durch Luther und die Brueder Grimm gefoerdert wurde. Stimmt zum Teil, doch hat der rechtwissende Schreiberling das viel besser beschrieben als ich...Jedenfalls, hier nochmal:

Der Luther, der Goethe und die Brüder Grimm. - Nun - wenn
das alles wäre, dann wäre es weniger als Nichts. Deutsch
ist sehr viel älter. Älter als Französisch oder gar Englisch.
Seit dem Herrn Gensfleisch, der sich nachher Gutenberg nannte,
wird deutsch gedruckt, deutsch geschrieben wurde schon etwas
früher. Sehr viel früher. Bis etwa 1200 war Latein die
Lingua Universalis in Europa. Jeder Bauer sprach Latein. Die
Menschen in den Städten sowieso. Dazu gab es regionale Sprachen.
Fast alle regionalen Sprachen sind ausgestorben. Dialekte
haben überlebt. - Als das Mittelalter zu Ende ging, da war es
auch mit dem Latein am Ende. Nationalstaaten tauchten auf.
England. Spanien. Portugal. Frankreich. Schweden. Russland.
Deutschland tauchte 1871 auf. Dies war dann das 2.Reich. Das
Heilige Römische Reich Teutscher Nation (1.Reich) bestand seit
Karl dem Großen (Krönung 800) tausend Jahre lang und wurde
erst von Napoleon liquidiert. Kaiser Karl sprach kein Deutsch.
Die Verbreitung des Heils war ihm wichtig. Seine Vorstellungen
waren Europäisch.

Von kurzen Unterbrechungen abgesehen (Okupation der Reststaaten
durch Preußen. Nazizeit und Hitlerismus) war Deutschland niemals
ein Nationalstaat. Ist es auch heute nicht. Deutschland ist ein
Staatenbund mit mehreren Freistaaten, Bundesländern und Stadtstaaten.
Es sind hier Zustände, die von Regionalisten in ganz Europa erträumt
werden (Basken, Bretonen, Schotten, Waliser...)!

Genau genommen hat es Deutschland nie gegeben. Ein Traum wirrer
Hirne. Es gibt Schwaben, Rheinhessen, Sauerländer, Bayern, Berliner
und neuerdings wieder Sachsen usw. Diese Leute können sich in deutscher
Sprache verständigen. Die in deutscher Sprache parlierenden Schweizer
sind keine Deutschen, obschon sie Deutsch reden, lesen, schreiben und
verstehen. Das gilt auch für Österreich.

Nein.....noch nicht....

...ja nun...tat schon ein paar Leuten leid....doch nein, ich bin noch da...
ein Doppelgaenger wohl...stel;lt Euch mal sowas vor...

Filed Under: Obituaries

Fred Leis

Passed away on February 5, 2012 at the Kamsack Hospital.  A funeral service was held on Thursday, February 23  from the chapel of Andrychuk Funeral Home.  Interment followed at the Lutheran Cemetery in Runnymede.

 famous writer, Mark Twain....the news of my demise is slightly exaggerated...

Schweinerei und Massenmord..

Honestly, I'm not looking for this stuff. And oddly enough while you would expect that Germans of several generations would finally rise up and at least talk about these outrages, I must give the credit to others...Canadians, some Americans, a few Brits, a handful of international humanists who simply state that certain facts schould no longer be buried and forgotten. Here...one of many stories brought to my attention recently:

Think You Know World Word II?
The Unknown Brutality & Savagery

In 10 countries, men, women and children are being killed as part of systematic“genocide, ‘politicide’ or mass atrocities,” according to Genocide Watch’s recently updated list.
In Syria, pro-democracy protesters and civilian bystanders are being bombed, shot and starved by their government’s security forces; in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 3 to 5 million civilians, mostly women and girls, have been raped and murdered; and in North Korea, labor camps house 500,000 domestic and political prisoners, and non-party members are starved and undergo forced abortions.
“Many people don’t realize that genocide is occurring every day all over the world,”says Renata Reinhart, author of In the Course of My Life (www.rexvita.com), an account of the little-known Soviet genocide of 2 million Eastern Germans in 1945, committed with the complicity of England and the United States.
“It’s something we should all be deeply concerned about – any of us can become the next victims,” Reinhart says.
One hallmark of genocide is that the perpetrators deny it, says Dr. Gregory Stanton, president of Genocide Watch and the International Association of Genocide Scholars. They use tactics such as questioning and minimizing the statistics; blaming renegade forces; claiming self-defense; and/or claiming deaths were inadvertent and not intentional.
Allowing the killers to deny the massacres ensures future slaughters, Stanton says.
“Studies by genocide scholars prove that the single best predictor of future genocide is denial of a past genocide coupled with impunity for its perpetrators,” he says.“Genocide deniers are three times more likely to commit genocide again than other governments.”
In the case of the 1945 ethnic cleansing of Eastern Germany, Russian soldiers were given license to launch a “Revenge without Mercy” on the civilian populations of East Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania and other parts of Eastern Europe, Reinhart says.
“It’s documented; it’s just been ignored, concealed and forgotten,” she says, noting Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a captain in the Red Army who witnessed the atrocities and recounted them in his poem, “Prussian Nights.” A survivor of the slaughter, Margot Serowy, tells her story in paintings at MargotSoweryFineArt.com.
Anticipating Germany’s defeat in World War II, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin considered the territories he would eventually claim and decided they should be cleared of all Germans, Reinhart says. Soldiers in the Red Army were encouraged to burn, loot, pillage, rape and kill to drive the Germans out of those areas beginning in January 1945.
“England’s prime minister, Winston Churchill, was informed of the plan and referred to it– approvingly – in 1944 as ‘these population transferences,’ ’’ Reinhart says. “Churchill personally ordered the massive bombing and destruction of East Prussia’s capital Konigsberg for no justifiable strategic reason and a few months later, the British bombed and leveled Dresden, killing 30.000 to 40.000 civilians. These attacks helped pave the way for Stalin’s genocide.”
The“revenge” soldiers, she added, were supplied with food, trucks, Jeeps and other vehicles by the United States.
“Because the victims were German, it was all right to rape children and murder women. No one tried to stop it,” Reinhart says. “And, apparently, it’s all right to kill men, women and children in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Burma – the rest of the countries on the Genocide Watch list.
“We need to hold the perpetrators accountable. That’s the first step to stopping these atrocities.”

Renata Reinhart is the pen name of the author, a scholar of World War II history who spent years researching the Red Army’s march across Eastern Europe in 1945. While the book is fictionalized as a memoir, the historical elements are accurate and based on numerous documented sources.
If you would like to run the above article, please feel free to do so. Please let me know if you’d be interested in receiving a copy of the book, In the Course of My Life, for possible review.
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Tel: 727-443-7115, Extension 207www.newsandexperts.com

The Beginning of the End… During WWII, after Hitler lost the battle of Stalingrad in late 1942 early 1943, and after the Germans subsequently lost the battle of Kursk in 1943, the Russians knew they could start to anticipate eventual and inevitable victory. It would still take two years of grinding struggling and fighting, but the Russians could be confident Germany would never win what had become a war of attrition. With that in mind, Stalin started to formulate his thoughts on how he wanted the territories the Russians would eventually control to be governed and administered. Continue reading the synopsis below...

Already at an early stage, Stalin had reached a conviction; Russia should take complete possession of Germany’s ancient eastern provinces: specifically East Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania and possibly other parts as well. He did not want merely to control or occupy these lands; he wanted them cleared of Germans in totality. He wanted absolute and complete certainty that Germans would never live there again. He wanted outright and unconditional ethnic cleansing, which would involve a total of some 15-million Germans throughout all of Eastern Europe. By 1944, Stalin had decided on this course of action. Complete planning and preparations were under way. At least one of the western allies had been informed ethnic cleansing was intended. Churchill was quoted in 1944, making reference to “these population transferences” – his euphemism – of which he voiced approval at the time. The Plan was very simple. East Prussia and Silesia would be attacked and overrun with such numerically superior forces that no functional or conceivable German defense would be possible. Once the territories had been taken, the population would be chased off mercilessly by any means necessary. Stalin knew exactly how he was going to do it. From the earliest point of his thinking about Germany’s eastern provinces, the common soldiers had been goaded and incited with the promise, and subsequently instructed, to “Take Revenge without Mercy.” That became the rallying cry for the Red Army all through 1944 and it was repeated ad nauseum in all military propaganda, the army newspapers, on radio, even on posters, flyers and large signs. Soviet propagandists and political officers attached to the army spelled out in careful detail to the soldiers exactly what “Revenge without Mercy” meant: ethnic cleansing, these provinces were to be cleared of Germans regardless of the means necessary to attain this objective.

Lament...armes Pirmasens..usw

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  April 21

  Fred Leis

  • So, I left Pirmasens, my hometown, in 1956.
  •  ....see previous blog article ....I sent a copy of my lament to a few people...but did not expect any comments...people are busy...
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  Susanne Krekeler

  • Sehr geehrter Herr Leis,
    vielen Dank für Ihre Nachricht.
    Seit Ihrem letzten Besuch in Pirmasens hat sich doch Einiges in Pirmasens getan.
    Die Konversion (Abzug der US Streitkräfte und wie von Ihnen zutreffend geschildert, Niedergang der Schuhindustrie) haben die Stadt vor große Probleme gestellt.
    Die Stadt musste einen Bevölkerungsrückgang von 60.000 auf 40.000 Einwohner verkraften.
    Als positive Entwicklungen darf ich Ihnen beispielhaft die Entwicklung der Husterhöhe (Fachhochschule, Prüf- und Forschungsinstitut, Ansiedlung von Unternehmen, die rd. 2300 neue, technisch qualifizierte Arbeitsplätze geschaffen haben z.B. Convar) nennen.
    Auch im Bereich Infrastruktur konnten 63 neue Straßen durch das vor 10 Jahren eingeführte System der wiederkehrenden Beiträge ausgebaut und erneuert werden.
    Die ehemalige Schuhfabrik Rheinberger beheimatet heute ein Wissenschaftsmuseum, das Dynamikum und zahlreiche Dienstleister. Der Strecktalpark wurde als Naherholungszentrum angelegt. Der Umbau der alten Post zum modernen Museums- und Kulturzentrum wird bald abgeschlossen sein.
    Der Bau einer Einkaufsgalerie im Bereich der Fußgängerzone/Bahnhofstraße ist zur Zeit in Planung.
    Die hohe Schuldenlast, bedingt durch die von Bund und Land auferlegten sozialen Leistungspflichten (Kosten der Unterkunft) soll in den kommenden 15 Jahren durch Einsparungen im Rahmen des sog. "Entschuldungsfonds" im Bereich der Liquiditätskredite abgebaut werden.
    Der "Pakt für Pirmasens" wurde ins Leben gerufen, um insbesondere sozial benachteiligte Kinder und Jugendliche durch Spenden finanzierte Fördermaßnahmen zu unterstützen.
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  Fred Leis

  • Dear Susanne Krekeler: I  want to thank you for your kind and informative note, a response to a general Zettelkasten-pruduction which I apparently, unsolicited sent to you. I will, if that's okay with you post your wonderful and beautifully constructed letter on my Pirmasens blog.I am pleased and happy to learn that things are improving in Pirmasens and I'm glad to learn that there are people like you who care.Best Regards, Fred Leis ( Manfred Leis) einst von Pirmasens
    
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  Susanne Krekeler

  • Hallo Herr Leis,
    meine Nachricht können Sie natürlich gerne für Ihren Blog verwenden.
    Schöne Grüße
    
    Susanne Krekeler

Manfred, alter Pirmasenser...draussen

Metropole...

Pirmasens, Metropole der deutschen Schuhindustrie und internationale Messestadt, liegt im Südwesten von Rheinland-Pfalz am Eingang zum Naturpark Pfälzer Wald, dem größten zusammenhängenden Waldgebiet der Bundesrepublik: Pirmasens ist Sitz der Deutschen Schuhfachschule, des Prüf- und Forschungsinstitutes für die Schuhherstellung und Ausbildungszentrum für Fachleute des Fremdenverkehrs. Verkehrsanbindungen: A 8 aus Richtung Saarbrücken, A 62 aus Richtung Trier/Koblenz, B 10 aus Richtung Karlsruhe,
B 270 aus Richtung Kaiserslautern. Verkehrslandesplatz Pirmasens-Zweibrücken.

Pirmasens.... blog takeover...

So, I left Pirmasens, my hometown, in 1956. In fact when I think about it I actually spent one year in Speyer, then came back to the Horebstadt and subsequently left for Canada.
I have  lived in Ontario pretty well ever since, became a Canadian in 1967 ( our Centennial year) eventually obtained the famous American Green card, spent a bit of time in the USA but returned to Canada, Toronto area mostly,ran a business and lived in the same home for about 24 years.

I've been back to Germany on trips and visits but my last look at Pirmasens  was  over 20 years ago shortly after the Mauer went down.
The question is...so what am I doing writing a pirmasens blog, I really have no business doing that nor any connections there I can employ  and therefore in all fairness should be looking for someone to help me take this over and make some sense out of this thing, preferably in german.

In some way Pirmasens is almost a microcosm of what's happening to many areas of the world. The richy get richer or sell out to retire, the poor are left for  the government to look after or fend for themselves and aside from that other new elements take over, some good..some not so great. As far as I can tell Pirmasens has long lost it's base, it's industry, the production of quality footwaer and the machinery to make this stuff as well as the related supply industry. Places like that in Northamerica would become ghost-towns but even that possibility was no answer to the pirmasens dilemma because, after all germany is a relatively small country, densly populated and therefore to some degree the area appears to have become the dumping ground of surplus unutilised population.

Is this a fair assessement or just bullshit? I read a while ago in a mainstream german paper that Pirmasens was the poorest place in Germany..this judgement even included the former east Germany..die Zone, where life and living standards apparently are better than in my old hometown.

In the early 50's down the street from our house ( a Landgraf Ludwig Grenadier home leftover) there was a lage factory  Rheinberger....apparently the largest shoefactory in the world...long gone. The Machinery makers as well sold out to China I hear, most of the industry related to shoes and leather is gone.

My  E mail is leisfred@hotmail.com  if you care to contribute to this blog or take it over for the benefit of Pirmasens and it's inhabitants I would look foward to it.

Brasilien... a bric nation

from my e mail ,
Liebe Freunde,
Like you, I am deeply concerned about the state of our planet.
Wie Sie bin ich zutiefst besorgt über (was) den Zustand  unseres Planeten betrifft.
The Amazon Rainforest, one of the most vital mechanisms in the regulation of our global climate, is a critical area of concern.
Der Amazonas-Regenwald, einer der wichtigsten Mechanismen bei der Regulation unseres globalen Klimas, ist ein kritischer Bereich des Interesses.
With your help, Amazon Watch is working diligently with our indigenous partners to preserve this tremendous natural resource.
Mit Ihrer Hilfe wird Amazon Watch arbeitet fleißig mit unseren einheimischen Partnern, um diese gewaltigen natürlichen Ressourcen zu bewahren.

Yet protecting the rainforest is but one important element in the global movement to create a more sustainable world. Doch den Schutz des Regenwaldes ist aber ein wichtiges Element in der globalen Bewegung, um eine nachhaltigere Welt zu schaffen.

The Spring of Sustainability (March 26th to June 22nd) is a series of presentations by The Shift Network designed to foster greater understanding of global sustainability and inspire large-scale shifts in appropriate, necessary action. Der Frühling der Nachhaltigkeit (März 26 - Juni 22) ist eine Reihe von Präsentationen von der Shift-Netz bestimmt zu einem besseren Verständnis von Nachhaltigkeit und globaler großen Verschiebungen in der INSPIRE geeignet, erforderlich Handeln zu fördern. More than 100 sustainability pioneers will be presenting at this FREE online series of events, and we're proud to be co-sponsors. Mehr als 100 Pioniere der Nachhaltigkeit wird bei diesem kostenlosen Online-Reihe von Veranstaltungen präsentiert, und wir sind stolz darauf, Co-Sponsoren sein.

Get all the details and sign up for free here. Holen Sie sich alle Details und melden Sie sich kostenlos hier.

The Spring of Sustainability is your chance to participate in a virtual event of truly global proportions, with tens of thousands of change-makers with shared passion for a sustainable future. Die Frühjahrstagung der Nachhaltigkeit ist Ihre Chance, in einer virtuellen Veranstaltung von wahrhaft globalem Ausmaß, mit Zehntausenden von Change-Maker mit gemeinsamen Leidenschaft für eine nachhaltige Zukunft zu beteiligen.

If you'd like to... Wenn Sie möchten, um ...

• Transform fear and frustration into hope and actions you can contribute directly to creating a sustainable world for all beings Verwandeln Sie Angst und Frustration in der Hoffnung und Aktionen können Sie einen direkten Beitrag zur Schaffung einer nachhaltigen Welt für alle Wesen
• Learn fun, inspiring ways you can engage your family, friends, neighbors and coworkers to build a community that puts sustainability first Erfahren Sie Spaß, inspirierende Möglichkeiten, wie Sie Ihre Familie eingreifen kann, Freunden, Nachbarn und Kollegen, eine Gemeinschaft, die Nachhaltigkeit an erster Stelle bauen
• Discover why new systems rooted in justice and sustainability consciousness are the only viable solution for our planet Entdecken Sie, warum neue Systeme in Gerechtigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit Bewusstsein verwurzelt die einzige lebensfähige Lösung für unseren Planeten sind
• Network and collaborate with other passionate people and organizations on sustainable initiatives – and help create a thriving planet Netzwerk und mit anderen engagierten Menschen und Organisationen auf nachhaltige Initiativen zusammenarbeiten - und dazu beitragen, eine blühende Planeten

Then please find out more about how you can join this movement at the Spring of Sustainability. Dann melden Sie mehr darüber, wie Sie diese Bewegung auf der Frühjahrstagung der Nachhaltigkeit zu verbinden.

Remember, the Spring of Sustainability is completely FREE, and it's designed to empower all of us to create a greener, more sustainable future. Register here. Denken Sie daran, der Frühling der Nachhaltigkeit völlig frei, und es ist zu ermächtigen uns alle, eine grünere und nachhaltigere Zukunft zu schaffen. Registrieren Sie sich hier.

Mord...massenmord...

Modern Genocides Rooted in Past Cover-Ups

Author Cites 1945 Slaughter of German Women, Children
In 10 countries, men, women and children are being killed as part of systematic “genocide, ‘politicide’ or mass atrocities,” according to Genocide Watch’s recently updated list.
In Syria, pro-democracy protesters and civilian bystanders are being bombed, shot and starved by their government’s security forces; in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 3 to 5 million civilians, mostly women and girls, have been raped and murdered; and in North Korea, labor camps house 500,000 domestic and political prisoners, and non-party members are starved and undergo forced abortions.
“Many people don’t realize that genocide is occurring every day all over the world,” says Renata Reinhart, author of In the Course of My Life (www.rexvita.com), an account of the little-known Soviet genocide of 2 million Eastern Germans in 1945, committed with the complicity of England and the United States.
“It’s something we should all be deeply concerned about – any of us can become the next victims,” Reinhart says.
One hallmark of genocide is that the perpetrators deny it, says Dr. Gregory Stanton, president of Genocide Watch and the International Association of Genocide Scholars. They use tactics such as questioning and minimizing the statistics; blaming renegade forces; claiming self-defense; and/or claiming deaths were inadvertent and not intentional.
Allowing the killers to deny the massacres ensures future slaughters, Stanton says.
“Studies by genocide scholars prove that the single best predictor of future genocide is denial of a past genocide coupled with impunity for its perpetrators,” he says. “Genocide deniers are three times more likely to commit genocide again than other governments.”
In the case of the 1945 ethnic cleansing of Eastern Germany, Russian soldiers were given license to launch a “Revenge without Mercy” on the civilian populations of East Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania and other parts of Eastern Europe, Reinhart says.
“It’s documented; it’s just been ignored, concealed and forgotten,” she says, noting Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, a captain in the Red Army who witnessed the atrocities and recounted them in his poem, “Prussian Nights.” A survivor of the slaughter, Margot Serowy, tells her story in paintings at MargotSoweryFineArt.com.
Anticipating Germany’s defeat in World War II, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin considered the territories he would eventually claim and decided they should be cleared of all Germans, Reinhart says. Soldiers in the Red Army were encouraged to burn, loot, pillage, rape and kill to drive the Germans out of those areas beginning in January 1945.
“England’s prime minister, Winston Churchill, was informed of the plan and referred to it – approvingly – in 1944 as ‘these population tranferences,’ ’’ Reinhart says. “Churchill personally ordered the massive bombing and destruction of East Prussia’s capital Konigsberg for no justifiable strategic reason and a few months later, the British bombed and leveled Dresden, killing 30.000 to 40.000 civilians. These attacks helped pave the way for Stalin’s genocide.”
The “revenge” soldiers, she added, were supplied with food, trucks, Jeeps and other vehicles by the United States.
“Because the victims were German, it was all right to rape children and murder women. No one tried to stop it,” Reinhart says. “And, apparently, it’s all right to kill men, women and children in Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Burma – the rest of the countries on the Genocide Watch list.
“We need to hold the perpetrators accountable. That’s the first step to stopping these atrocities.”

Renata Reinhart is the pen name of the author, a scholar of World War II history who spent years researching the Red Army’s march across Eastern Europe in 1945. While the book is fictionalized as a memoir, the historical elements are accurate and based on numerous documented sources.
If you would like to run the above article, please feel free to do so. Please let me know if you’d be interested in receiving a copy of the book, In the Course of My Life, for possible review.
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