The tag 'CDU' is associated with 17 posts.

German Joins Inner-Most Mormon Circle

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ February 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Deutsche WelleFol­low­ing the recent death of the Mormon’s spir­i­tual leader, a Ger­man pilot has joined the high­est lead­er­ship of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by becom­ing one of two coun­selors to the new Mor­mon head.
Dieter Uchtdorf’s appear­ance doesn’t imme­di­ately hint at any­thing unusual. This 64-year old, who worked as chief pilot for Germany’s [...]

German arms dealer extends scope of favor charges

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ November 29, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

OTTAWA (REUTERS) — An arms dealer wanted on fraud charges in Ger­many Thurs­day sought to draw the gov­ern­ment into a polit­i­cal storm over cash pay­ments to a for­mer prime min­is­ter, say­ing a request to Prime Min­is­ter Stephen Harper to help him avoid extra­di­tion was “well received.”
German-Canadian busi­ness­man Karl­heinz Schreiber told a par­lia­men­tary com­mit­tee that former [...]

Strategies of Attrition (II)

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ September 28, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

GermanForeignPolicy.com
[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (III).]
BEIJING/LHASA/BERLIN(Own report) — Ger­man politi­cians have announced an esca­la­tion of the chancellor’s Tibet offen­sive. Accord­ing to com­ments made by the Prime Min­is­ter of Hesse, Roland Koch (CDU), Angela Merkel’s meet­ing with the Dalai Lama is only the begin­ning of large scale inter­fer­ence into China’s internal [...]

Strategies of Attrition (I)

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ September 25, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

GermanForeignPolicy.com[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (II) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (III).]
BEIJING/LHASA/BERLIN(Own report) — The Ger­man chan­cel­lor is rein­forc­ing Berlin’s spe­cial rela­tion­ships to Chi­nese sep­a­ratists, in spite of Beijing’s mas­sive protests. The Dalai Lama had talks in the Ger­man Chan­cellery, for the first time, Sun­day, Sept. 23. He is the leader of a self-proclaimed Tibetan exile [...]

The Ordering of a Superstate

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ August 29, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

GermanForeignPolicy.com
BERLIN/MAGDEBURG(Own report) — The medieval, Europe-wide Ger­man Reich is a valid model for the union of Euro­pean coun­tries today. So says the Berlin State Min­is­ter for Cul­ture, Bernd Neu­mann. Accord­ing to him, the mem­ory of the Holy Roman Empire of the Ger­man Nation reveals “an inner his­tor­i­cal con­sis­tency” with the found­ing and steady expan­sion of [...]

How Bush’s Berlin Ambassador Pick Profited from Protective Tariffs against German Companies

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ August 2, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

by Georg Mas­colo and Juer­gen Dahlkam­pDer Spiegel
Washington’s choice for future US ambas­sador to Ger­many has all the mak­ings of a polit­i­cal bomb­shell. For years, a com­pany owned by the mul­ti­mil­lion­aire and newly-appointed diplo­mat William Timken, Jr. has been prof­it­ing from anti­com­pet­i­tive tar­iffs — at the direct expense of Ger­man com­pa­nies.
As Washington’s new ambas­sador to Germany, [...]

FTR #411 The Bayer Facts: I.G. Farben and the Politics of Murder

Posted by FTR ⋅ June 17, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

His­tory of I.G. Far­ben and Bayer, Germany’s top chem­i­cal and phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal firms, respon­si­ble for Hitler’s war pro­duc­tion and drugs that have done great dam­age to humanity.

FTR #314 Update on European Union and the European Monetary Union

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 2, 2001 ⋅ Post a comment

The EU and Euro­pean Mon­e­tary Unit in the con­text of impe­r­ial pan-Germanism.

FTR #278 Connecting the Dots Part 2

Posted by FTR ⋅ April 16, 2001 ⋅ Post a comment

In the plan­ning for the Bor­mann group, a Nazi offi­cial stressed that the Ger­man indus­tri­al­ists must con­tinue to fund the Party, underground.

FTR #276 Update on the CDU Funding Scandal

Posted by FTR ⋅ April 9, 2001 ⋅ Post a comment

T-Mobile’s advance into U.S. mobile mar­ket fig­ures promi­nently in Ger­man cor­po­rate con­trol over Amer­i­can media.

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