They never tire of telling us that we live in a democracy.
This means that that dreaded mass known as “the people” are permitted – with however much groaning and reluctance – to present themselves every four years to choose their representatives. These representatives then betake themselves to the parliament, where they form some manner of government, which proceeds to rule us in highly democratic ways. This is is literally the best thing ever, except for the fact that ‘the people’, in their profound stupidity, cannot always be relied upon to vote for the right parties. Sometimes they vote for the wrong ones, and in these cases democratic solutions must be found to rein in the rabble’s undemocratic exercise of democracy.
The people of Thüringen have proven themselves particularly inconvenient to democracy, in that they have exercised their democratic rights to vote overwhelmingly for the evil, fascist and antidemocratic party known as Alternative für Deutschland. What makes the AfD so evil and fascist is never quite explained, but we hear all the time that it is very bad so the point must be beyond question. The people of Thüringen transgressed against democracy so powerfully, that they gave the AfD 32 seats of their 88-seat state Parliament – far more than they granted to any of the upstanding, democratic parties. These parties include such paragons of democratic virtue as Die Linke (the Left Party), which somehow manages to be both officially democratic and also the direct successor to the DDR-era Socialist Unity Party (it got a mere 12 seats); the Linke-offshoot party known as the Bündnis Sahra Wageknecht (it got 15 seats); the Christian Democrats (they got 23 seats); and the Social Democrats (they got six seats, lol).
Now, a naïve person might think that the AfD, being the party most favoured by the people of Thüringen, should enjoy certain parliamentary prerogatives. Existing procedures, for example, grant the strongest party the right to propose candidates for the office of Parliamentary President. The President is the person who presides over the meetings of the parliament; he is like a glorified committee chair and his powers are not all that great. The very idea that the AfD might have the right to suggest its own candidates for President, however, strikes enormous fear into the hearts of the ‘democratic’ parties, who are determined to save Thüringian democracy by all the antidemocratic means at their disposal. If necessary, we must destroy democracy itself, to save the Thüringian parliament from the spectre of a democratically elected AfD President.
This brings us to the absolute unprecedented clown show that unfolded yesterday at the Thüringian parliament in Erfurt. It was set to be a day of boring, routine procedure, when the newly elected parliament would constitute itself and elect a President. Thüringen is anomalous, in that this state – alone of all the federal states of Germany – has a specific law mandating adherence to parliamentary procedures. New parliaments cannot just change these procedures on the fly; they have to be officially constituted as a legislative body first. These legally mandated procedures require that an acting “Senior President” preside over the first meeting of the new parliament. This Senior President is simply the oldest member of the dominant party – in this case an affable rotund AfD politician named Jürgen Treutler.
According to custom, the Senior President opens the first meeting with a speech. Then he appoints provisional secretaries, determines that there is a parliamentary quorum and presides over the election of the Parliamentary President who will replace him. When this President is elected, the state parliament has been officially constituted, and it can act in its parliamentary capacity – for example, by changing the procedural rules that have governed it down to this point.
All of this should have happened yesterday, but it did not, because our brave, upstanding democratic parties were determined to take a stand for democracy by anti-democratically denying the AfD its parliamentary prerogatives. Specifically, they wanted to force an early change of parliamentary rules, to specify that all parties – and not just the AfD – may propose candidates for President. Thus Treutler had hardly begun his customary speech when the heckling and shouting from the ranks of the CDU began. They insisted that Treutler recognise a quorum and take up proposals to chance the nomination procedure. Treutler insisted that he had to follow the legally mandated procedure and that this was out of order. The hecklers in the CDU kept shouting; Treutler and the other AfD members kept pointing out that the new parliament had to be constituted before it could change its own legally binding procedures. The democratic parties did not care about this, because they had just discovered a few days ago that the Thüringian law mandating parliamentary procedures is unconstitutional, although it dates from 1994 and nobody had thought to question its constitutionality before. At one particularly embarrassing point, Andreas Bühl, from the CDU, shouted at Treutler that “what you’re doing here amounts to a seizure of power!” The word he used – “Machtergreifung” – alludes directly to the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, because nothing smells quite so powerfully of Nazism as rigorously adhering to stuffy decades-old rules that are, again, legally mandated and that no court has yet overturned.
Ultimately, in the depths of his fascism, Treutler adjourned the parliament so that the CDU might consult the state constitutional court on the procedural legalities in question. The court is expected to decide any moment now. I can imagine few things that are more distinctly fascistic than this, and I shudder to think how our democracy will ever survive it.
Because Germany has spent the past decade transforming itself into an open-air insane asylum, all of this has naturally led to renewed calls for banning the AfD. The CDU politician Marco Wanderwitz, who has become especially deranged on all matters relating to the AfD since he lost an election to an AfD candidate some years ago, said that: “The AfD’s actions in the Thüringian state parliament followed its usual script of contempt for parliamentary democracy and its institutions.” The acting Interior Minister of Thüringen Georg Maier tweeted that yesterday’s “events… have shown that the AfD is aggressively combating parliamentarism [and] I think that this fulfils the conditions for a ban”. Had the Senior President Treutler violated existing law and procedures by granting the out-of-order requests of CDU representatives, he would have doubtless avoided these accusations, because democracy is not at all adherence to democratic laws and procedures, but unquestioning deference to a cadre of self-anointed “democratic” elite who get to do whatever the hell they want, regardless of what votes have been cast and what any laws or procedures say.
The Spiegel journalist Ann-Katrin Müller – a truly horrible woman – explained all of this to her audience of democracy enthusiasts this morning. Yesterday, she writes, “the far-Right AfD… pulled out all the stops”. Its rigorous adherence to rules that others devised years ago and a law that predates the existence of the AfD by 11 years was nothing but a ploy “to sow seeds of doubt about [parliamentary democracy] and ridicule its institutions to further its authoritarian aims”. Adjourning the session to allow the CDU to consult the constitutional court was likewise a devious fascistic strategy:
If the court rules in favour of the AfD, that’s a victory for the AfD. If the court rules against it, it will also be a victory for the AfD in the medium term. The party can once again claim that the courts are not independent, that there is a ‘cartel’ of parties and institutions working against the AfD, and that there is also a ‘political-media establishment’ that supports the whole thing.
Perhaps Ann-Katrin Müller, the courts and the “democratic parties” should not behave in unreasonable and transparently anti-democratic ways and say ridiculous anti-democratic things if they don’t want the AfD to point out that they are unreasonable and transparently anti-democratic. Perhaps they could deny the AfD the opportunity to score points on this front by behaving better and saying smarter things. Just throwing out ideas, here.
There is one final, farcical point to note: if our reigning paragons of all that is proper, upstanding and democratic wanted to strip the AfD of the right to propose presidential candidates, they could’ve just changed the procedures or the law mandating them in the last legislative period. This is precisely what the ridiculous taxpayer-funded legal bloggers of the “Thüringen Project” (I wrote about them here) suggested they do back in April. The Greens in the Thüringian Landtag even proposed such a change all the way back in December 2023. The CDU, however, refused to take up the matter, either because “it was of the opinion that it would be the strongest party” after the 2024 elections (according to Green Party representative Madeleine Henfling), or because it “did not see any urgent need for action at the time” (according to CDU Parliamentary Secretary Andreas “Machtergreifung” Bühl). Let us dispense with much bullshit and say plainly what everybody knows to be true: Henfling is right. The CDU elected to keep the present rules in 2023 because its leaders thought they would come out on top in September and they wanted the exclusive right to nominate a Parliamentary President from their own ranks. They overestimated their popularity and now they have decided that the very rule from which they hoped to benefit is unconstitutional and should be denied to the AfD. It is the same with the preeminent legal minds of the “Thüringen Project”, who have likewise discovered just this week the unconstitutionality of the Thüringian procedural law, after spending all of 2024 pleading that the procedures it mandated should be revised to the disadvantage of the AfD (thereby implicitly accepting its constitutionality).
I fully expect the Constitutional Court to rule against the AfD in the coming hours. This whole thing was a carefully staged drama for the benefit of an anxious, ageing and easily manipulated public. The truth is that DeMocRAcY, the popular will and parliamentary procedures do not matter at all if establishment parties decide to ignore them, the press lies to the public about them and the judiciary goes along with it all.
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Ivor Cummins’ voice may sound computer generated, but I can assure you it isn’t. I suggest the writer of this piece contacts him directly and instigates a discussion, to which I believe Ivor would be fully open to.
Sadly whoever Robert Kogan is he has just binned all credibility – not because what he says strictly speaking might be correct regarding the use of the word ‘owns’ but factually speaking the WHO is IMHO such a corrupt organisation it is ‘owned’ in the sense of the gangland phrase “don’t forget, we own you”.
The UK is not ‘owned’ by corrupt hidden external political, commercial and industrial interests. But the webs of corruption in Whitehall and Westminster means the UK is ‘owned’ in the gangland sense.
And it is interesting that whenever I have tried to get information from WHO about their accounts I have been blanked.
Robert Kogan it seems has not.
I wonder why?
What is the smallest number of politicians and officials one has to ‘own’ to have influence over what happens in a country?
Politicians are easy [not all of course] with what is relative small change for the wealthy to make political donations or offer other incentives.
How much does it cost to buy a senior civil servant or two – and of course I am not suggesting they are for sale but one or two are likely to be open to financial or other incentives.
So it is not a matter of buying UK plc’s or WHO plc’s balance sheet.
It is a matter of getting the right people for the right price/incentives to win the day – sadly not great for the rest of us.
And we are simply unlikely ever to find out if this is going on and if it is the extent of it.
But unfortunately we have a pretty good idea it must be happening to some extent.
I am sure the majority of civil servants are genuine honest people some of whom are so committed they want to ensure DEI is strictly observed to the national detriment.
How much does favourable press coverage from the average journalist cost?
How many are open to incentives?
Are the many freebies showered on journalists from wealthy corporations and the like enough?
A few canapes and glasses of wine and the annual or more frequent invitation to those kinds of events?
After all one would not want to be gratuitously erased from the corporate or other Christmas card list.
Of course, I am sure the vast majority of journalists are ethical and would never stoop to such incentives for favourable coverage.
But then again, how is it a lot of news about important stuff is not available from the legacy media and we have to rely on sources like the Daily Sceptic and GB News?
Robert Kogan is mistaken. All his other writing suggests his motives are pure, so do not take my comments above to mean anything else.
I have no reason or evidence to suggest Robert Kogan is anything other than mistaken IMHO.
But I am not happy as you might guess from my foregoing comments.
Slightly off topic but I’m sure the man photographed above can shoulder some responsibility. Part of the COVID enquiry that the BBC have been all over. We have been witness to pure evil.
https://ufile.io/iuhhlg59
See what the WHO admits themselves about funding and the influence it has in Lillian Franck’s 2018 documentary TrustWHO.
An interesting pre-Covid documentary which also includes a section on swine flu and the involvement of Neil Ferguson.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/01/11/bill-gates-backed-climate-solution-gains-traction-but-concerns-linger/
Geo-engineering.
Here is something Billy is funding. This utter Next Tuesday is playing God with the whole of the planet now.
In Billy’s eyes he is god.
I know.
Even if you discard Billy boy’s “philanthropy” who is running these so called government funded NGO’s and what agenda do they have?The article skirts passed Germanies involvement, it invested heavily in bionTech even purchasing manufacturing facilities on its behalf so they could become the world leader in vaccine technology. It is the classic he who pays the piper calls the tune.
And of course no money passes under the table from – ahem – interested parties.
No.
No no no.
Naivety of the Week Award, awarded weekly on a week by week basis goes to:
ROBERT KOGON!
But I agree – the “X algorithm”, under Mr Musk’s “leadership” just as under Jack Dorsey’s, is indeed guilty of some serious sh*t.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/plastic-bottle-cap/
Thought we had left the EU?
No we are still tethered just like bottle caps. When these appeared a few months ago I thought ‘aye, aye,’ more manipulation. Oh yes, my behaviour has been manipulated, I just rip the damned things off.
Hey, stop showing off, hux, some of us don’t have a spare 25 Newtons of requisite force to tear the caps asunder. Actually, come to think of it, you’re directly guilty of excess CO2 production – that force doesn’t come from nowhere, y’ know!
On a serious note, the first time my milk carton had this cap, I thought I had moved it out of the way. A few sploshes of spilt milk and a couple of curses later, I found that the blasted cap had spun itself around under the effect of gravity to the bottom and thus diverted the flow of milk onto my kitchen top. That IS a waste.
Yes, zero tolerance now – caps get ripped off, first thing. Including that annoying dangly bit which also gets in the way.
Gotta love saving the planet.
Thanks M A k.
The multinationals producing or procuring these bottles won’t bother with creating a special line of bottles just for the UK market.
Similar annoyance you might be unaware of: Old Holborn tobacco sold in the UK comes with paper sticker with a banknote-style pattern printed on it which is otherwise empty. This paper sticker must be removed or destroyed before a pack can be opened. It serves no function in the UK but for sale in Germany, a tax stamp must (Steuerzeichen) must be on these packs. Presumably, it’s cheaper for the manufacturer when there’s just one kind of packaging, hence, people in the UK get bothered with the emtpy stickers because authorities in Germany demand such stickers.
Off-T
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-chemical-analysis-natural-years-today.html
This is definitely one for Chris Morrison.
Ridiculous article.
In the donors list provided, Kill Gates + Gavi is the largest financier.
This article is as nescient as saying that the Corona scamdemic was uninfluenced by Pharma + Kill Gates.
If Pharma controls ‘health’ in most countries which it does, is it not rational to believe that if the US Criminal State gives x $ p.a. that they are doing what their Pharma masters want?
Jesus Christ guy.
I’m afraid the only thing the author has demonstrated is that he doesn’t understand how the world works.
Obviously, he who puts the money wants to call the shots. Only in the fantasy world of a foolish kind is it otherwise.
And lo and behold, the top donors of the WHO are all organisations or countries that are highly invested in vaccines. Germany has BioNTech and does its bidding as has been widely reported here. The UK and the US have some the biggest pharmas and otgs.like the Welcome Trust all gunning for more jabs.
And the list tops out with Gates and Gavi.
And what is the WHO trying to do? Pass a new treaty that is all about coordinating the fight against disease with vaccines. Jesus, what a shock.
I would be more polite about the author if he didn’t take the condescending tone he has to criticise those who can see what is plain to see and which the poor idiot cannot see.
Well said.
What a naïve article.
The WHO like the rest of the global bureaucracy is ‘owned’ and ‘funded’ by big business interests, rich men, NGOs who own and fund it by lobbying (another word for bribery), influence and complicity.
The bureaucrats are willing partners in crime as their primary aim is their survival by ever increasing the things they have to do to justify their existence and get more money and bigger establishments.
Gates doesn’t provide much to the BBC or The Guardian given their total revenues but he certainly gets what he wants from the relatively small amounts he gives them.
Who is Robert Kogon?
WHO is Robert Kogon!
Leaving aside the merits of the article, I have strong doubts about the UK government feeling it needs to worry about my health, let alone some global body that is even less accountable.
I don’t agree with the commenters who deride the author Robert Kogon as “naive”.
I think he has just given us some very useful information about Taxpayers being forced to fund their own destruction by the WHO monstrosity. So while we are all gnashing our teeth at Bill Gates, we ourselves are being forced by our own governments to fund the whole scam.
Taxpayers being forced to pay for their own destruction is not news, Heretic.
The question is why. Why governments feel the need to sell us out. And money passing under the table is as old as the hills. Kogon IS naive. Or he is begging the question. Which is not necessary on DS.
I don’t want to imply that DS is a club. I understand that DS is trying to attract a new audience of people who are perhaps new to the idea of government corruption, whatever its colour! Good luck with that, eh…
Von der Layen is the head of the European commission and the job of the European commission is to produce vote-ready EU draft legislation. She doesn’t lead anything and neither does the European commission. Further, that the EU is largely paid Germany (as is the UN, for that matter) doesn’t mean it’s dominated by Germany.
Here’s a translation of some part of the political manifesto of the AfD:
The Euro (the currency) is broken as designed. The currency union necessarily turned into a sovereign debt union. We demand that the Euro experiment is to be ended. Should the Bundestag (German parliament) not agree with this, then, a referendum about the Euro must be held in Germany.
They’re demanding this because the way the Euro works is that Germany is underwriting to sovereign debt of the whole EU but without any influence over the spending decisions of the other EU governments whose political priorities in this area are very much different from the German ones. Eg, the German constitution demands that government budgets must be balanced, ie, that spending doesn’t exceed income. This rule is – especially by the current green-left government – frequently “creatively” circumvented in practice but that’s nevertheless how things are supposed to work.
When German politicians pour money into international organisation, its usually a fair assumption that their American puppet masters have ordered them to do so.
Please see this new video about Globalists/ WHO/ UN plans to use illegal immigrants as troops (some have already been trained in Turkey) to enforce the next Fake Pandemic Lockdowns, and that masses of Bird Flu vaccines for humans have already been shipped to the UK, while in the US they are already saying Bird Flu has jumped species to humans. It hasn’t, of course, but that will be the scaremongering tactic, apparently.
Breaking: Illegal Migrants that are pouring into our respective countries are in fact UN soldiers. (youtube.com)
This would line up with the WHO treaty getting ratified, which is probably the plan
Exactly.
What a Dumb article ! If this idiot can’t see the writing on the wall he should stop writing !!
“sources. As can be seen in the below graph from Iwunna et al., the remaining 82% came either directly from the member states themselves (55%) or from other UN (DODGY ORGANISATION)agencies besides the WHO, other international organisations like the European Union (ANOTHER DODGY ORGANISATION), international financial institutions like the World Bank (WOULD YOU TRUST THEM?), public-private ‘partnerships’ like GAVI (LESS SAID THE BETTER) – which, as the above graph makes clear, are themselves overwhelmingly dependent precisely on public sources of funding – and NGOs (NO VESTED INTERESTS THERE OF COURSE), which likewise largely depend on public sponsors such as the EU (ANOTHER WORD FOR CORRUPTION) for their funding.”
I rest my case.
The sheer complexity and opacity of the funding seems designed to conceal the truth. I very much doubt this is coincidental. If you catch a glimpse of a rat and smell a rat then there is probably a rat hiding in plain sight!
A little more honesty, transparency and clarity from the WHO would not go amiss!
It’s pretty obvious that the WHO, IHR legislation,UN, GAVI are controlled by Globalists, directly or via Government infestations.