today we are dealing with the danger of war in the Middle East, with the relationship of the AfD to the free word, with the traffic problem of a rhinoceros and with fooling gatekeepers.
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Who still needs an argument for a different CO2 policy, it currently finds in the Middle East. After the air raid on the Saudi Arabian oil industry, the next war is looming in the region. Already, oil prices have risen, they would then continue to rise. It has been a madness for a long time that we are so dependent on states like Iran or Saudi Arabia. It makes us politically docile, it puts nefarious despots in a favorable position.
That is another reason why the Federal Government should agree on an effective climate policy on Friday. Oil consumption must be reduced as a measure against global warming and dependence on a difficult region.
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One of the big topics of the AfD is the question of what else to say. Allegedly not that much anymore. Another topic of the AfD is what one may ask, so what journalists AfD politicians may ask. Not too much. Björn Höcke did not agree with the questions of a ZDF editor about his language and broke off the interview. How does this fit with a party that supposedly loves free speech?
Freedom of expression is a central element for freedom of opinion . Only with the question can maladministration and contradictions be revealed, only with the question can be worked out, what someone thinks or intends. The question is the noblest and harshest instrument of a journalist. If someone wants to determine the questions and the answers, he does not aim for discourse, but for propaganda.
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Rolling sheet metal wall
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On the relationship between humans and rhino : The more rhinos that kill a person, the more eager other people are to see one of the last rhinos.
Saturday morning in the Ngorongoro Crater: Over the radio comes the message that a rhino was spotted. I, a tourist, sit in a Toyota Land Cruiser, the driver accelerates, races over the sand track. In the distance we see twenty, thirty Land Cruiser standing in a row, it has to be there. We stop, and right, there's the rhino back there, trotting towards us. All around, dust clouds rise from other Land Cruisers, who hurry up. Soon, seventy, eighty vehicles are gathered with ecstatic tourists. A jam like on the Ku'damm at peak time, scramble for the best seats.
The rhino bends. The caravan begins to move, also turns off, blocking the way the rhinoceros again. No matter where it goes, there is a tin wall. What does it think? It's one of the moments when you would find the other tourists silly if you were not one of them.
Loser of the day ...
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... is the rumbling goalie. He is one of the recurring social figures of the Federal Republic. Mostly he shows himself in the so-called goalkeeper war, of which there were some, Sepp Maier against Wolfgang Kleff, Toni Schumacher against Uli Stein, Oliver Kahn against Jens Lehmann, now Manuel Neuer against Marc-André ter Stegen . It's always the same, the number two wants to be the number one, does not do it despite good performances and carries their frustration in the public.
Already "the unrest in the team" is summoned as danger. Not so bad. Neuer is no longer the monument he once was, a bit of pressure from the competitor can not hurt. And if it does, ter webs jump in. He is thus loser of the day, this time in a positive sense.
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I wish you a nice start to the day.
Your Dirk Kurbjuweit
