Terror Granny Elisabeth R – United Patriots Movement Germany
Members of a far-right group headed by a 75-year-old woman face charges of high treason for allegedly planning to kidnap the health minister and overthrow the government.
The plot, which sounds as outlandish as a separate, widely reported scheme uncovered in December allegedly headed by the aristocrat Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss, has led to charges being brought by Germany’s federal prosecutor against a retired teacher, named only as Elisabeth R, and four men. All were arrested last year after obtaining two AK-47 assault rifles and four Glock handguns.
German news magazine Der Spiegel and others published stories on Tuesday evening saying that the government in Berlin had decided to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
This follows a long-running debate on the issue among NATO allies, and comes after Poland formally asked Berlin for permission to send some of its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine earlier on Tuesday.
Spiegel magazine reported that the decision would involve sending at least one company of Leopard 2A6 tanks. The 2A6 version is the second-newest available and the most recent available in larger numbers.
Spiegel attributed its information to government sources but did not identify them. Broadcaster ntv issued a similar report, and the dpa news agency later said its “coalition sources” had said the same. But the government did not immediately comment publicly on the reports.
The Ukraine tank debacle is just the latest example of Berlin’s moral bankruptcy
ODESA, Ukraine — Germany has outraged its allies by refusing to send tanks to Ukraine and blocking other countries from sending their own German-made tanks as well. The incident is actually unsurprising. Over the past year, Berlin’s global image has been pulverized as the corruption and moral bankruptcy of the German elite have been repeatedly exposed.
This is a good article outlining the perfidy of the German Ruling class.
Germany has basically been the GDR in nicer clothes, up to it’s eyeballs in Russian gas at the expense of it’s neighbors.
To my view Germany’s antics virtually confirm that “Our Side” destroyed the NordStream pipelines to keep “our NATO ally” in line.
It also implies that the alleged post Nazi era anti-war culture is a conveniently elastic principle when it comes to arm sales.
Meanwhile Olaf the Tank Nazi is getting his way…
Poland requests German approval to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine
Poland has sent an official request to Germany asking for permission to send tanks to Ukraine, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak said Tuesday.
The German economy ministry has received the request “for consent to transfer Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine,” Błaszczak wrote on Twitter.
A spokeswoman for the German economy ministry confirmed, saying: “The necessary coordination and procedures in the German government have been initiated; these are ongoing and are being conducted with due urgency.”
Treason charges have been brought against five people who allegedly planned to overthrow the German government, the federal prosecutor’s office said Monday.
The individuals, all of whom have ties to Germany’s far-right Reichsbürger scene, as well as other neo-Nazi gangs, aimed to trigger “civil war-like conditions in Germany by means of violence” in order to topple the government, the prosecutor said. The defendants are also accused of planning to kidnap German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach.
As a new defense minister steps up, the Bundeswehr is no stronger than it was a year ago
Germany has a new defense minister. The funny thing is that nobody really knows who he is, what he stands for, and whether he’s capable of doing his job.
Boris Pistorius will take over the ministry from Christine Lambrecht, whose one-year tenure was about as embarrassing and gaffe-prone as the Bundeswehr itself. There are too many blemishes on her record to examine in a single post — we would be here all day. But one of the more notable misfires was her tone-deaf New Year’s Eve video, where she reminded viewers that a war was going on in Europe as a fireworks display went off behind her. For many in the German defense establishment, Lambrecht’s departure can be summed up in two words: good riddance.
The United States must send battle tanks to Ukraine first before Germany could approve donations of Leopard 2 tanks, Berlin’s economy minister said on Tuesday.
Robert Habeck blamed Germany’s history for a reluctance to sign off on its allies delivering the domestic-made tanks to Kyiv.
“I would argue that we will do that,” he told Bloomberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
“If America will decide that they will bring battle tanks to Ukraine, that will make it easier for Germany.
The green elites are sabotaging Europe’s most powerful economy.
Good news at last? Europe has managed to replenish its gas reserves. In the first week of the new year, all over Europe, daily gas-storage rates were higher than they were at the same time in 2022. In Austria, for example, the gas-storage rate was over 80 per cent, compared with 33 per cent in 2022. In Germany, it was even higher: 91 per cent compared with 54 per cent last year. This comes as a relief. Especially given that just a few months ago, there was a very real possibility of crippling gas shortages.
German police warned they would not allow their officers to be targeted with violence amid growing tensions with climate protesters in the condemned village of Lützerath on Monday.
The village is set to be swallowed up by the local coal mine, run by Germany’s energy giant RWE. But organizations such as the Last Generation and Fridays for Future oppose the plan. Hundreds of protesters are now squatting in the area, with scuffles with police breaking out over the weekend. Police were reportedly pelted with stones, attacked with paint, and police vehicles were damaged.
Germany: Activists make plans to save village from miners
Activists seeking to stop the expansion of a coal mine in west Germany were making plans on Sunday on how best to save the village of Lützerath. The village is scheduled for demolition to allow lignite to be extracted from beneath it.
The village, 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Cologne, has become a center for climate protest in Germany, with activists saying the planned clearance of the village for mining goes against the country’s pledges under the Paris Agreement.
Police from the western city of Aachen estimated that up to 1,500 activists are currently in the village.
Police detain 32-year-old in town near Dortmund after tipoff from foreign agency believed to be the FBI
German police have arrested an Iranian man suspected of planning a chemical attack motivated by Islamic extremism.
The 32-year-old was seized at his flat shortly before midnight on Saturday in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, close to Dortmund in western Germany. The arrest followed a tip-off from a foreign intelligence agency that the man had obtained toxins, including cyanide and ricin, with which he planned to carry out a terror attack, authorities said on Sunday.
Another man, believed to be the man’s brother, was also detained. He was known to police but not for his links to terrorism, and it is as yet unclear whether he was involved in the plot.
Following Germany’s latest refusal to pay war reparations to Poland, Polish officials are calling on the US and the UN for support. The government also aims to have its demands “clarified” to Germans.
“Germany’s response is astonishing to us in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as for the Polish state. The German government cannot answer a question that was never posed. Neither negotiations nor conciliatory discussions took place.” That’s what Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk had to say about Germany’s newest refusal to pay Poland reparations for World War II. Mularczyk made the statement on Wednesday in Warsaw.
He urged lawmakers to seriously consider why New Year’s Eve ‘celebrations’ have become increasingly violent over the years, in the same places with the same participants.
Following an outbreak of riots across multiple cities on New Year’s Eve which saw, among other things, cars set alight as well as police and firefighters attacked, a top politician from Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party blamed the government’s failure to integrate the exceptionally large number of migrants and asylum seekers who have come to the country in recent years.
Over the last decade, Germans have greeted New Year’s Eve with more and more trepidation. On what is meant to be a day of celebration, in Germany it shines a light on something much uglier: the country’s failed migration and integration policies.
This year, violence against police and firefighters, especially in Berlin and other cities, broke out. Unfortunately, the German government is attempting to deflect from the uncomfortable truth that non-integrated migrants and asylum seekers tend to be at the centre of these incidents. This was exemplified by the reporting of one of the largest public broadcasters and the German Police Union who claimed that it is “difficult to talk about perpetrators because these are group dynamic processes as a consequence of the pandemic” — carefully avoiding any mention of the demographic groups involved.
