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2. MORE RECENT: "Her catastrophic handling of her mutinous spy chief Hans-Georg #Maaßen — first promoting him, then reversing that decision — suggests she has lost a sense of perspective." #Merkel #EndTimes
3. "Days later, her own party, the conservative #CDU, turned against her. In a secret ballot on Wednesday, the #CDU’s lawmakers ousted #Merkel’s longtime ally Volker #Kauder and picked the lesser-known Ralph #Brinkhaus to lead the party’s parliamentary group." #EndTimes
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Theresa May, Facing Hard Deadline, Struggles to Navigate Treacherous #Brexit Politics as U.K. ⁦@Conservatives⁩ gather with party torn over what to do about it. Our report via ⁦@WSJwsj.com/articles/there…
Six months before #Brexit, nobody knows how it will happen. “We’re in a bit of a dangerous position,” said Nick Timothy, May's former chief of staff. “It feels like absolutely anything is possible, from staying in after all to departure without a deal..." wsj.com/articles/there…
A no-deal #Brexit deal means serious immediate economic disruption with ports clogging with trucks awaiting customs clearance. The UK is unprepared, but #EU countries too are uniformly unready for a no-deal exit, a recent “stress test” of the members found wsj.com/articles/there…
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#brexit, #language, #mathematics, #pseudoscience, #rhetoric, #style

Brand-new and remarkable: #today, in a speech before #industry-representatives, chancellor Angela #Merkel used an old-fashioned, and,I think, INAPPROPRIATE,mathematical term to describe the #Brexit discussions..
.. in the #UK.

On 20180925, 9:50 CET, (cf. bdi.eu/der-bdi/termin…), chancellor Merkel said the following: "Wesentlich hängt es natürlich auch davon ab, was Großbritannien denn wirklich möchte. Auch da ist ja die Diskussion nicht so ganz eineindeutig [sic],
und, das muss ich..
.. allerdings sagen: Man kann nicht zum Binnenmarkt gehören, wenn man in EINEM Teil nur zum Binnenmarkt gehören will, aber in drei ANDEREN Teilen nicht zum Binnenmarkt gehört, und da müssen wir verschiedene, äh, vernünftige Wege [ rest drowned out by applause ]."
..
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Mal wieder was politisches.

Ich mache mir ernsthaft Sorgen um die Zukunft Deutschlands.

Wir haben eine #CDU die nach der Pfeife der Regionalpartei #CSU tanzt.
#Seehofer argumentiert und politisiert auf dem Niveau einer AFD um Stimmen zu bekommen und merkt dabei nicht,
dass er somit die #AFD legitimiert und CSU-Stimmen an die AFD verkauft. Oder er plant dies sogar.

Auf der anderen Seiten haben wir eine #SPD unter #Nahles die dermassen darauf fixiert ist ihren Rest an politischer Macht zu behalten, dass sie nur noch Lakai ist.
Am Beispiel #Maassen ist das wunderbar zu sehen.

Ein Verfassungsschützer im Bett mit den Rechtsradikalen der AFD. Aber anstatt ihn rauszuwerfen werden ihm neue Ämter zugeschanzt.

Und die #GroKo versteht nicht einmal, wieso das schlecht aufgenommen wird.
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German Chancellor Angela #Merkel: "I explicitly want to commend the work done by @MichelBarnier and his team [...] all member states are being involved in the process in an excellent manner, which results in a high level of unity." #SalzburgSummit #EUCO
#Merkel: "It has become clear today that we need substantial progress until October, and that we then aim to finalise everything in November." #SalzburgSummit #EUCO
#Merkel: "On the basis of #Chequers, there are a multitude of commonalities, esp on internal security, international cooperation, and many other issues." #SalzburgSummit #EUCO
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"O faites que jamais ne revienne
Le temps du sang et de la haine
Car il y a des gens que j'aime,
A Göttingen, à Göttingen.
Et lorsque sonnerait l'alarme,
S'il fallait reprendre les armes,
Mon coeur verserait une larme
Pour Göttingen, pour Göttingen" (Barbara) #alarme #nazisme RT+
#LastRT "#Nazisme! Maintenant! Maintenant! Maintenant!" (traduction) Il faut quoi pour réagir?
#LastRT Angela #Merkel est 1 chancelière affaiblie et en fin de parcours. La sociale démocratie allemande est moribonde, n'encadre plus la société ouvrière comme jadis. Chaque fait divers rajoute 1 dose de poison. Avec la proportionnelle, tout peut aller TRES vite...#nazisme #AfD
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2. "Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.

Humanitarianism is commendable, but not when you’re demanding that others share the burdens and expense.

A very liberal immigration policy is wise, but helter-skelter migration isn’t."
#Merkel
3. "Knowing how to set broad but clear limits is one of the essentials of conservative governance. Merkel’s failure is that she ceased to be conservative."
#NYT on #Merkel
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Im folgenden ein Thread über die Geschehnisse rund um #Chemnitz, von #c2708, über #Maaßen bis #c0709. Vielleicht hilft er ja Journalisten und Politikern ihre Worte zu überdenken.

Aufgrund der aufgeheizten Stimmung in Deutschland ist TEILEN ausdrücklich erwünscht!
In der Nacht vom 25.08. stirbt ein 35-jähriger Deutscher am Rande eines Stadtfestes in #Chemnitz durch Messerstiche. Zwei weitere Verletzte überleben. Gegen die mutmaßl. Täter, einen 22-jährigen Iraker und einen 23-jährigen Syrer, wird Haftbefehl erlassen.
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Oh this is just... Wait for it.. "Childish". 😂😋 (Thanks I'm here all day)
Nothing like a baby for a #baby.. Is this going to be a new #tradition?
I wonder what the #merkel baby would look like? #babyhitler #shhhhh (they're not ready) @POTUS
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There's a lot of confusion out there, in particular internationally, about the impact of the the #Merkel-#Seehofer deal. A few points. (thread)
This is not a major about-face on Merkel's part. In substance, she has given away very little. Her top priority was always to avoid unilateral action and she has achieved that, hence the support of the EU Commission yesterday. (2)
The idea for the zones, which have extraterritorial status, making it easier to quickly turn back refugees, is something Merkel initially proposed in 2015 when it was shot down by the SPD. (3)
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How embarrassing for #Merkel that EU divisions over #migration policies - where some European governments or government ministers prefer to go it alone rather than to find a common EU position - is being played out - in neon-lit glaring headlines - in her own administration 1
#Merkel has always pushed for EU-wide migration solutions (though she took a rather large unilateral decision herself back in 2015 when she opened the doors to over a million asylum-seekers, in defiance of EU regulations) 2
Those regulations stipulate that irregular migrants must be processed in the first EU country they arrive in- but #Merkel argued that no-one was looking after or documenting them (remember the chaos in Greece and Hungary?) 3
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1/ "#Asylstreit" - ein Thread
2/ Auch wir haben uns in den vergangenen Tagen und Wochen daran beteiligt, auf die offensichtliche Rechtswidrigkeit von #Seehofer|s und #Söder|s Plänen hinzuweisen (cc: @Verfassungsblog), Dublin III gegen die vollständige Abschaffung jeglicher Garantien und das #Grundgesetz
@Verfassungsblog 3/ …gegen die Organe des bürgerlichen Staates selbst zu verteidigen.
Das ist angesichts der rapiden, regressiven Erosion "rechtsstaatlicher Prinzipien" nicht per se falsch, aber im Ergebnis irgendwann mit #Merkel auf der selben Seite der Barrikade zu stehen, ist auch nichts…
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Article reinforces the new aim of part of government around vd Leyen, #Merkel to raise #German defence budget to 1.5% GDP by 2025. NATO "target" of 2% will likely not be doable with Social Democrats (and there is very much the question of how all that cash would be spent anyway).
A raise to 1.5 % GDP would be a very substantial move, moving the German defence budget to about 60 billion USD (51 billion Euros) and comfortably take it past both France and UK in absolute numbers (two nuclear weapons states with respective expenses).
I already see opinions popping up to the effect of "its not enough". I'm sorry, but with all due respect and seeing the reports I have seen, these assessments are not based in reality. Even a raise to 1.5% will be challenging to absorb into an actually useful force structure.
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Que retenir finalement du #G7Charlevoix que #Trump quitte ce matin en avance après à peine 24h de présence?Qu'il avance sur la remise en cause d'1 ordre mondial libéral régulé par les #EtatsUnis depuis 1945 et qu'il se moque toujours des salamalecs.#thread washingtonpost.com/world/national…
2) En effet, on a vu de nouveau le président #Macron et le PM canadien #Trudeau revenir à la stratégie #compol des démonstrations d'affection et de dialogue amical, mises en scène pour l'opinion publique, afin de fléchir 1 #Trump qui les accueille poliment SANS s'engager sur rien
3) #Trump plaisante avec (sur?) #Trudeau, complimente-à l'excès- le président #Macron sur leur relation très spéciale, il est comme 1 poisson dans l'eau avec ses jeux de dupes face caméra, qui ne l'impliquent pas...
washingtonpost.com/video/politics…
reuters.com/article/us-g7-…
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1. #QAnon responds to an anon's rant at @RealAlexJones by reminding us that, when it comes to divisiveness, it's

"Time to move on.
Big week ahead!
#Q"
2. #QAnon's response to the anon refers to the criticism of Alex Jones "making us all look crazy." But, in the spirit of it being "time to move on", #Q posts a link to the Alex's representation as a "performance artist." insider.foxnews.com/2017/04/17/ale…
3. To #QAnon's point, clearly, Alex Jones is a performance artist. A lot us are. Nothing wrong with that!
#Q

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Theresa May is talking to #Merkel today, tomorrow she'll be at #MSC2018. I had a look at #Brexit coverage in Germany this week in preparation.
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Boris Johnson's speech wasn't very well received in Germany. @welt called it: Boris Johnson's dishonest message of love on Valentine's Day /2
Also not excited: @handelsblatt

"He fabulated too much about organic carrots and waterslide testers to be perceived as a serious politican." Ouch. /3

handelsblatt.com/20961870.html
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A few thoughts on last night's #TVDuell between #Merkel and @MartinSchulz: #Thread

#BTW17
Most Germans found #TVDuell boring and criticized lack of any controversy or contest of ideas between the two candidates.
#TVDuell seriously felt like the beginning of coalition talks between @CDU and @spdde. Germans hate that!
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