REAR VIEWS

SCHIESSBEFEHL FÜR DIE GSG STAATSRÄSON

March 2024: Jewish critics of Israeli government policies, who stand up for human rights for Palestinian civilians, are repeatedly accused by German media and politicians to be ‘antisemite’.

GET RID OF HIM NOW!

January 2024: Opinion polls in Israel suggest that 80% want the Netanyahu government out after the war

UNWORT DES JAHRES – AUF DAS WORDING KOMMT ES AN

Januar 2024: Rechtsextreme, darunter Mitglieder der AFD und Werteunion, diskutieren in einem Potsdamer Hotel im November 2023 die millionenfache “Remigration” (= zwangsweise Deportation) aus Deutschland.

KREATIVE GESETZGEBUNG

Weihnachten 2023: Die Ampel-Regierung muss wegen des Verfassungsgerichtsurteils Milliarden im Haushalt einsparen und schlägt vor Kerosin für Inlandsflüge zu besteuern.

GREEN ILLUSIONS

June 2023: The government in Germany, including the Green Party, feed the illusion climate change could be prevented without imposing stricter rules on emissions, while proposing a bill on heating systems in private households without a communication and transformation strategy.

SKILLS SHORTAGE ALL OVER – FACHKRÄFTEMANGEL ALLERORTEN

December 2022: While politicians, industry, and media keep moaning about the rising skills shortage, the German national football team drops out of the Qatar World Cup in the first round for the second time after 2018.

RAINBOW WORLD CUP

November 2022: FIFA-boss Infantino tries to brush off persistent questions about Qatar’s human rights record by telling the world press he felt like minority groups, while the ambitious German team and its Federal Secretary for Sports get involved in a dispute with FIFA about wearing rainbow armbands.
The scene taken from the World Cup 2018 in Russia reminds of the Saudi journalist Jamal Kashogi, who is believed to have been murdered inside the Saudi Arabia embassy in Istanbul, Turkey.

Juego de Palabras

Noviembre 2022: COP27 en Egipto