- The ruling, which effectively opens the door to legalizing Sharia-based child marriages in Germany, is one of a growing number of instances in which German courts are — wittingly or unwittingly — promoting the establishment of a parallel Islamic legal system in the country.
"Germany cannot, on the one hand, be against child marriages internationally, and on the other hand, be for such marriages in our own country. The best interests of the child cannot be compromised in this case. (...) This is about the constitutionally established protection of children and minors!" — Winfried Bausback, Bavarian lawmaker who helped draft the law against child marriage.- "We should consider one more thing: judgments are made 'in the name of the people.' This people has clearly expressed through its representatives in the Bundestag that it no longer wants to recognize child marriage." —
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Germany: New Law Banning Child Marriage Declared Unconstitutional
Germany: New Law Banning Child Marriage Declared Unconstitutional
Making A Fortune: 19 Million Public Employees Across America Cost Taxpayers Nearly $1 Trillion
Making A Fortune: 19 Million Public Employees Across America Cost Taxpayers Nearly $1 Trillion:
"For the first time in history, 19 million public employee salaries at every level of government across America have been mapped and posted online
...Our online database is free to use and includes most employees within the federal, state, and local governments.
...The data is full of stunning examples.
Help the reform-minded mayors, school superintendents, legislators and members of Congress by finding the waste, overspending, and bloated government in your very own neighborhood.
Search our interactive map of the top 2 million most highly compensated public employees across America. Just click a pin (your ZIP code) and scroll down to see the results that render in the chart beneath the map. Click here to access the map below.
Last year, we found 1.7 million public employees earned $100,000 or more.
The vast majority – 1.3 million six-figure earners – worked at the state and local levels.
There were 105,000 local and state government employees out-earning every governor of the 50 states at a salary of $190,000 or more..."
"For the first time in history, 19 million public employee salaries at every level of government across America have been mapped and posted online
...Our online database is free to use and includes most employees within the federal, state, and local governments.
...The data is full of stunning examples.
- Tree trimmers in Chicago lopped off $106,000.
- New York City school janitors cleaned off $165,000 while out earning the principals at $135,000.
- Lifeguards in Los Angeles County, California, made up to $365,000.
- In the small school district in Southlake, Texas (8,000 students), the school superintendent earned $420,000.
Help the reform-minded mayors, school superintendents, legislators and members of Congress by finding the waste, overspending, and bloated government in your very own neighborhood.
Search our interactive map of the top 2 million most highly compensated public employees across America. Just click a pin (your ZIP code) and scroll down to see the results that render in the chart beneath the map. Click here to access the map below.
Last year, we found 1.7 million public employees earned $100,000 or more.
The vast majority – 1.3 million six-figure earners – worked at the state and local levels.
There were 105,000 local and state government employees out-earning every governor of the 50 states at a salary of $190,000 or more..."
CAMP: How Is The Democratic Border Security Solution Morally Different From Trump’s Wall? | Daily Wire
CAMP: How Is The Democratic Border Security Solution Morally Different From Trump’s Wall? | Daily Wire:
So, given the erroneous but oft repeated talking point that there is no difference, practically speaking, between a border wall and a border secured by technology and manpower, one must ask a critical question: Why would Democrats decry a wall as immoral while simultaneously calling for measures that would, according to them, accomplish the same objective?
The answer is deceptively simple – optics.
First and foremost, the Democrats must oppose President Trump at every turn,
The answer is deceptively simple – optics.
First and foremost, the Democrats must oppose President Trump at every turn,
The fix is in?-----John Huber, Justice Dept. Sheriff Who Never Quite Rode Into Town | RealClearInvestigations
John Huber, Justice Dept. Sheriff Who Never Quite Rode Into Town | RealClearInvestigations
"John Huber has developed almost mythical status among pro-Trump tweeters since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed him to investigate why the FBI spied on Trump’s aides and whether they protected Hillary Clinton and her foundation over alleged misdeeds.
...Instead, more than a year since his appointment, Huber’s lack of traction on either front is leading many once hopeful supporters to dismiss his investigation as a “sham."
RealClearInvestigations has learned from potential witnesses, their lawyers and others close to the investigations, that Huber has not impaneled a federal grand jury to subpoena witnesses or hear evidence.
...While some witnesses and their attorneys complain he’s not doing his job, some critics who once had high hopes for Huber now suspect he was never expected to.
They say Huber’s appointment was always political, that the Justice Department had no interest in exposing its own corruption and named this longtime department official to mollify Republicans who clamored for the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate FBI and Justice activities under the Obama administration.
...Toensing represents a whistleblower in the so-called Uranium One scandal, who she says still has not been contacted by Huber.
Her client, Doug Campbell, an FBI informant who claims to have evidence that Clinton helped Russians secure U.S.-based uranium rights in a quid pro quo for large donations to her family’s foundation and speaking fees for former President Bill Clinton from the Russian company at the heart of the deal..."
"John Huber has developed almost mythical status among pro-Trump tweeters since former Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed him to investigate why the FBI spied on Trump’s aides and whether they protected Hillary Clinton and her foundation over alleged misdeeds.
...Instead, more than a year since his appointment, Huber’s lack of traction on either front is leading many once hopeful supporters to dismiss his investigation as a “sham."
RealClearInvestigations has learned from potential witnesses, their lawyers and others close to the investigations, that Huber has not impaneled a federal grand jury to subpoena witnesses or hear evidence....While some witnesses and their attorneys complain he’s not doing his job, some critics who once had high hopes for Huber now suspect he was never expected to.
They say Huber’s appointment was always political, that the Justice Department had no interest in exposing its own corruption and named this longtime department official to mollify Republicans who clamored for the appointment of a second special counsel to investigate FBI and Justice activities under the Obama administration.
...Toensing represents a whistleblower in the so-called Uranium One scandal, who she says still has not been contacted by Huber.
Her client, Doug Campbell, an FBI informant who claims to have evidence that Clinton helped Russians secure U.S.-based uranium rights in a quid pro quo for large donations to her family’s foundation and speaking fees for former President Bill Clinton from the Russian company at the heart of the deal..."
Hypocrites!-----IT’S ALL IN WHAT YOU NAME IT
Instapundit Blog Archive
"IT’S ALL IN WHAT YOU NAME IT:
We know walls are for Nazis, racists and deplorables, right?
So Wilhem DiBlasio, NYC’s Commissar decides a “privacy fence” is in order.
"IT’S ALL IN WHAT YOU NAME IT:
We know walls are for Nazis, racists and deplorables, right?
So Wilhem DiBlasio, NYC’s Commissar decides a “privacy fence” is in order.
See, this is Trump’s biggest failing.
He should never have used the word “wall.”
He should have followed Cher’s lead and called it a “virtue ring.”
There, I fixed it.
Posted by Charles Glasser"
He should never have used the word “wall.”
He should have followed Cher’s lead and called it a “virtue ring.”
There, I fixed it.
Posted by Charles Glasser"
NUTS! An American General Gave The Germans A Massive Metaphorical Middle Finger On This Day In 1944 | The Daily Caller
NUTS! An American General Gave The Germans A Massive Metaphorical Middle Finger On This Day In 1944 | The Daily Caller
"...December 22, marks the 74-year anniversary of American Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe’s legendary reply to the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge.
"...December 22, marks the 74-year anniversary of American Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe’s legendary reply to the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge.
During the Battle of the Bulge, German forces had surrounded the Americans holding Bastogne and the area around the town.
German forces approached the men of the 101st Airborne Divison to demand their honorable surrender or face annihilation.
In the absence of General Maxwell Taylor, McAuliffe was in charge of the 101st.
The German message was delivered to him around noon, and read in part:
This time the U.S.A.forces in and near Bastogne have been encircled by strongGerman armored units. More German armored units have crossedthe river Ourthe near Ortheuville, have taken Marche andreached St. Hubert by passing through Hompre-Sibret-Tillet.Libramont is in German hands.There is only one possibility to save the encircled
U.S.A troops from total annihilation: that is the honorable
surrender of the encircled town. In order to think it overa term of two hours will be granted beginning with thepresentation of this note.If this proposal should be rejected one GermanArtillery Corps and six heavy A. A. Battalions are readyto annihilate the U.S.A. troops in and near Bastogne. The order for firing will be given immediately after this two hours’ term.
What did McAuliffe do?
Did he order his men to throw their weapons down and surrender to the Germans, who had them outnumbered and encircled?
Did he cave to the enormous threat from the enemy?
No, he simply replied with one word: NUTS!
His full message read:
His full message read:
December 22, 1944To the German Commander,N U T S !The American Commander
What happened next was unbelievable — and one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of American warfare..."
As Richard Winters so eloquently put it, “We’re paratroopers. We’re supposed to be surrounded.”
Two Female Christian Artists Could Be JAILED For Not Creating Art For Same-Sex Weddings | Daily Wire
Two Female Christian Artists Could Be JAILED For Not Creating Art For Same-Sex Weddings | Daily Wire:
The brief filed by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and other state attorneys general states, “A government simply cannot force a citizen to engage in or endorse expression. ... [Phoenix] must not be allowed to force artists to create customized expressions contrary to their moral, religious, or political beliefs, even if such work is paid for by the one requesting it.”
The brief filed by Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and other state attorneys general states, “A government simply cannot force a citizen to engage in or endorse expression. ... [Phoenix] must not be allowed to force artists to create customized expressions contrary to their moral, religious, or political beliefs, even if such work is paid for by the one requesting it.”
Would Democrats wreck America to win in 2020? - WND
Would Democrats wreck America to win in 2020? - WND:"...Democratic analysts are frightened for their party’s future.
...Democrats predicted a “blue wave” in the 2018 midterms, but won only about 25 seats to barely claim control of the House of Representatives.
More than 40 Republican members of Congress refused to seek reelection; without those GOP dropouts, Republicans almost certainly would have kept Democrats a minority in the House.
Democrats also stole an additional dozen or so seats in Democrat-ruled states such as California, where Republicans who won on election night were later drowned by a late flood of mysterious pro-Democratic “ballots from nowhere” that everybody knows were fraudulent.
(This is why George Soros spent millions electing leftist Secretaries of State to manipulate state ballot recounts.)
Voters increased the GOP Senate majority, showing how little love they have for Democrats.
So what must Democrats do to win in 2020?
“[The] way you get rid of Trump is a crashing economy.
So, please, bring on the recession,” says leftist HBO comic Bill Maher.
“Sorry if that hurts people … [but] a recession is a survivable event; what Trump is doing to this country is not.”..."
History for December 23
History for December 23 - On-This-Day.com
Joseph Smith 1805, Don McNeill 1907, Yousuf Karsh 1908
Frederic Forrest 1936, Susan Lucci 1946, Corey Haim 1971 - Actor
1823 - The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore (" 'Twas the night before Christmas...") was published.
1947 - John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley invented the transistor.
Saturday, December 22, 2018
Shutdown Negotiators Consider Major Restrictions On ICE’s Ability To Detain Illegals | The Daily Caller
Shutdown Negotiators Consider Major Restrictions On ICE’s Ability To Detain Illegals | The Daily Caller:
Former acting ICE Director Thomas Homan told TheDC the proposals were “absolutely ridiculous” and that in effect “every jail in the country would be a sanctuary jail.” Homan continued that local communities put criminal illegal aliens in jail because they are an obvious threat to their community and that such a change in ICE’s ability to operate would endanger public safety.
“If I was a Republican this is not something I’d consider,” Homan declared. The former acting ICE director also continued, “If they want to give us less beds then we’re back to catch and release,” adding, these restrictions “would make matters worse.”
“If I was a Republican this is not something I’d consider,” Homan declared. The former acting ICE director also continued, “If they want to give us less beds then we’re back to catch and release,” adding, these restrictions “would make matters worse.”
McCain associate shared unverified Steele dossier with Buzzfeed, court filing says | Fox News
McCain associate shared unverified Steele dossier with Buzzfeed, court filing says | Fox News:
An associate of the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain shared with Buzzfeed News a copy of the unverified, salacious opposition research dossier alleging that Russians had compromising material on President Trump, according to a bombshell federal court filing Wednesday.
An associate of the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain shared with Buzzfeed News a copy of the unverified, salacious opposition research dossier alleging that Russians had compromising material on President Trump, according to a bombshell federal court filing Wednesday.
USAF's Next Budget Request Will Include New F-15X Advanced Eagle Fighter Jets: Report - The Drive
USAF's Next Budget Request Will Include New F-15X Advanced Eagle Fighter Jets: Report - The Drive
"Last July, I broke a story about the existence of Boeing's F-15X Advanced Eagle concept, one that the plane-maker had been in discussions with the USAF about for many months.
That aircraft would be procured to replace America's existing F-15C/D aircraft..
...With an airframe life of a whopping 20,000 hours, and the latest sensors, flight control systems, and avionics, the F-15X would serve for many decades at an operating cost that Boeing claims will trounce that of the existing F-15C/D fleet—the youngest of which is now 32 years old—basically paying for the airframes with savings within about a decade..."
"Last July, I broke a story about the existence of Boeing's F-15X Advanced Eagle concept, one that the plane-maker had been in discussions with the USAF about for many months.That aircraft would be procured to replace America's existing F-15C/D aircraft..
...With an airframe life of a whopping 20,000 hours, and the latest sensors, flight control systems, and avionics, the F-15X would serve for many decades at an operating cost that Boeing claims will trounce that of the existing F-15C/D fleet—the youngest of which is now 32 years old—basically paying for the airframes with savings within about a decade..."
Americans, Learn From The Yellow Jackets: Stop Running And Start Fighting Back
Americans, Learn From The Yellow Jackets: Stop Running And Start Fighting Back"In France, the Yellow Jackets (or “Gilets Jaunes” in French) have rushed into the streets in massive numbers.
They are not protesting cuts in the generous entitlements.
They are not throwing fits because they fear losing one-month paid vacations.
The fight is about the increased fuel taxes—exorbitant taxes on top of the already high cost of fuel.
But it’s more.
...The unrest is also targeting the inflexible, unaccountable EU bureaucracy.
- Belgian Yellow Jackets are protesting the main offices in Maastricht and Brussels.
- Europeans have started to realize that the federalization of the continent is not working out as they had hoped.
- A common currency, a common market has turned into communistic micromanaging.
- The economically stronger countries are expected to carry the costs of the fiscally weaker nations.
- The central planners want open borders, cheap labor, and the resolute silencing of any disagreement to their plans.
- A federalized Europe is not working out.
- A Frenchman cannot run to Portugal, Spain, or Italy to escape the moral and fiscal ruin of his home country.
- French voters have no choice but to fight back for their rights and dignity in their home countries...
Read on.
Dem Rep. Gutierrez Storms Out Of Hearing With DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen | The Daily Caller
Dem Rep. Gutierrez Storms Out Of Hearing With DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen | The Daily Caller:
Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez stormed out of a hearing on Thursday after accusing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen of being a liar.
WATCH:
Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez stormed out of a hearing on Thursday after accusing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen of being a liar.
WATCH:
CHECKMATE – Saudi Crown Prince MbS Sends Replacement Troops To Defend Kurds in Syria… | The Last Refuge
CHECKMATE – Saudi Crown Prince MbS Sends Replacement Troops To Defend Kurds in Syria… | The Last Refuge"...as the President Trump withdraws U.S. forces.
The concern stems from a possibility of Turkey taking hostile action toward our Kurdish allies.
However, a new report from the region highlights Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is sending his forces to replace the U.S. troops.
SAUDI ARABIA – Saudi Arabia and the UAE have sent military forces to areas controlled by the Kurdish YPG group in north-east Syria, Turkey’s Yenisafak newspaper reported..."
5 most politically biased courses of 2018
5 most politically biased courses of 2018"Campus Reform rounded up the five most politically biased college courses in 2018...
1. Harvard Law offering class on Trump ‘impeachment and removal’
2. SDSU offers course on removing Trump from office
3. University of Illinois defends new 'Trumpaganda' course
4. UMaine 'bars' prof who set up anti-Kavanaugh DC trip---The University of Southern Maine (USM) received national criticism in October after emails surfaced showing USM employees discussing a “pop-up” course offering tuition-free credit to students willing to travel to Washington, D.C. to protest against then-Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
5. Harvard Law course looks at ways to 'push back against' Trump strategies..."
Read all.
White House Condemns ‘Activism’ Of Judge Who Wants Deportees Back in The U.S. | The Daily Caller
“Today’s ruling is only the latest example of judicial activism that encourages migrants to take dangerous risks; empowers criminal organizations that spread turmoil in our hemisphere; and undermines the laws, borders, Constitution, and sovereignty of the United States,” the Sanders statement continued. “We will continue to fight for the rule of law and against these reckless rulings.”
Winner of CNN's 'Journalist of the Year' Award Admits He Faked Stories
Winner of CNN's 'Journalist of the Year' Award Admits He Faked Stories
"A Der Spiegel journalist who was CNN’s “Journalist of the Year” in 2014 resigned from his job after admitting that he fabricated stories “on a grand scale,” the German publication said.
...“Claas Relotius, a reporter and editor, falsified his articles on a grand scale and even invented characters, deceiving both readers and his colleagues.
This has been uncovered as a result of tips, internal research and, ultimately, a comprehensive confession by the editor himself,” Der Spiegel said.
Relotius had previously worked for other publications in both Germany and Switzerland and even won a CNN Journalist of the Year award in 2014 in the best print category for the story “Murderers as Carers,” published in the Swiss publication Reportagen.
...Relotius admitted to fabricating parts of at least 14 stories, according to Spiegel, which called the incident “a low point” in its 70-year history.
"A Der Spiegel journalist who was CNN’s “Journalist of the Year” in 2014 resigned from his job after admitting that he fabricated stories “on a grand scale,” the German publication said.
...“Claas Relotius, a reporter and editor, falsified his articles on a grand scale and even invented characters, deceiving both readers and his colleagues.This has been uncovered as a result of tips, internal research and, ultimately, a comprehensive confession by the editor himself,” Der Spiegel said.
Relotius had previously worked for other publications in both Germany and Switzerland and even won a CNN Journalist of the Year award in 2014 in the best print category for the story “Murderers as Carers,” published in the Swiss publication Reportagen.
...Relotius admitted to fabricating parts of at least 14 stories, according to Spiegel, which called the incident “a low point” in its 70-year history.
Worth your time-----EDUCATION IN THE THIRD REICH-----The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany: William L. Shirer, Ron Rosenbaum: 9781451651683: Amazon.com: Books
EDUCATION IN THE THIRD REICH
"...On April 30, 1934, Bernhard
Rust, an Obergruppenfuehrer in the S.A., onetime Gauleiter of Hanover, a Nazi
Party member and friend of Hitler since the early Twenties, was named Reich Minister of Science, Education and Popular Culture.
In the bizarre, topsy-turvy world of National Socialism,
Rust was eminently fitted for his task.
Since 1930 he had been an unemployed provincial schoolmaster, having been dismissed in that year by the local republican authorities at Hanover for certain manifestations of instability of mind, though his fanatical Nazism may have been partly responsible for his ouster.
For Dr. Rust preached the Nazi gospel with the zeal of a Goebbels and the fuzziness of a Rosenberg.
Named Prussian Minister of Science, Art and Education in February 1933, he boasted that he had succeeded overnight in “liquidating the school as an institution of intellectual acrobatics.”
To such a mindless man was now entrusted dictatorial control over German science, the public schools, the institutions of higher learning and the youth organizations.
For education in the Third Reich, as Hitler envisaged it, was not to be confined to stuffy classrooms but to be furthered by a Spartan, political and martial training in the successive youth groups and to reach its climax not so much in the universities and engineering colleges, which absorbed but a small minority, but first, at the age of eighteen, in compulsory labor service and then in service, as conscripts, in the armed forces.
Hitler’s contempt for “professors” and the intellectual academic life had peppered the pages of Mein Kampf, in which he had set down some of his ideas on education.
“The whole education by a national state,” he had written, “must aim primarily not at the stuffing with mere knowledge but at building bodies which are physically healthy to the core.”
But, even more important, he had stressed in his book the importance of winning over and then training the youth in the service “of a new national state”—a subject he returned to often after he became the German dictator.
“When an opponent declares, ‘I will not come over to your side,’” he said in a speech on November 6, 1933, “I calmly say, ‘Your child belongs to us already … What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.’”
And on May 1, 1937, he declared, “This new Reich will give its youth to no one, but will itself take youth and give to youth its own education and its own upbringing.”
It was not an idle boast; that was precisely what was happening.
The German schools, from first grade through the universities, were quickly Nazified.
Textbooks were hastily rewritten, curricula were changed, Mein Kampf was made—in the words of Der Deutsche Erzieher, official organ of the educators—“our infallible pedagogical guiding
star” and teachers who failed to see the new light were cast out.
star” and teachers who failed to see the new light were cast out.
Most instructors had been more or less Nazi in sentiment when not outright party members.
To strengthen their ideology they were dispatched to special schools for intensive training in National Socialist principles, emphasis being put on Hitler’s racial doctrines.
Every person in the teaching profession, from kindergarten through the universities, was compelled to join the National Socialist Teachers’ League which, by law, was held “responsible for the execution of the ideological and political co-ordination of all teachers in accordance with the National Socialist doctrine.”
The Civil Service Act of 1937 required teachers to be “the executors of the will of the party-supported State” and to be ready “at any time to defend without reservation the National Socialist State.”
An earlier decree had classified them as civil servants and thus subject to the racial laws.
Jews, of course, were forbidden to teach.
All teachers took an oath to “be loyal and obedient to Adolf Hitler.”
Later, no man could teach who had not first served in the S.A., the Labor Service or the Hitler Youth.
Candidates for instructorships in the universities had to attend for six weeks an observation camp where their views and character were studied by Nazi experts and reported to the Ministry of Education, which issued licenses to teach based on the candidates’ political “reliability.”
Prior to 1933, the German public schools had been under the jurisdiction of the local authorities and the universities under that of the individual states.
Now all were brought under the iron rule of the Reich Minister of Education.
It was he who also appointed the rectors and the deans of the universities, who formerly had been elected by the full professors of the faculty.
He also appointed the leaders of the university students’ union, to which all students had to belong, and of the lecturers union, comprising all instructors.
The N.S. Association of University Lecturers, under the tight leadership of old Nazi hands, was given a decisive role in selecting who was to teach and to see that what they taught was in accordance with Nazi theories.
The result of so much Nazification was catastrophic for German education and for German learning.
History was so falsified in the new textbooks and by the teachers in their lectures that it became
ludicrous.
ludicrous.
The teaching of the “racial sciences,” exalting the Germans as the master race and the Jews as breeders of almost all the evil there was in the world, was even more so.
In the University of Berlin alone, where so many great scholars had taught in the past, the new rector, a storm trooper and by profession a veterinarian, instituted twenty-five new courses in Rassenkunde—racial science—and by the time he had really taken the university apart he had eighty-six courses
connected with his own profession.
connected with his own profession.
The teaching of the natural sciences, in which Germany had been so pre-eminent for generations,
deteriorated rapidly.
Great teachers such as Einstein and Franck in physics, Haber, Willstaetter and Warburg in chemistry, were fired or retired.
deteriorated rapidly.
Great teachers such as Einstein and Franck in physics, Haber, Willstaetter and Warburg in chemistry, were fired or retired.
Those who remained, many of them, were bitten by the Nazi aberrations and attempted to apply them to pure science.
They began to teachwhat they called German physics, German chemistry, German mathematics.
Indeed, in 1937 there appeared a journal called Deutsche
Mathematik, and its first editorial solemnly proclaimed that any idea that
mathematics could be judged nonracially carried “within itself the germs of
destruction of German science.”
Mathematik, and its first editorial solemnly proclaimed that any idea that
mathematics could be judged nonracially carried “within itself the germs of
destruction of German science.”
The hallucinations of these Nazi scientists became
unbelievable, even to a layman.
unbelievable, even to a layman.
“German Physics?” asked Professor Philipp Lenard of
Heidelberg University, who was one of the more learned and internationally
respected scientists of the Third Reich.
Heidelberg University, who was one of the more learned and internationally
respected scientists of the Third Reich.
“‘But,’ it will be replied, ‘science is and remains
international.’
international.’
It is false.
In reality, science, like every other
human product, is racial and conditioned by blood.”
human product, is racial and conditioned by blood.”
Professor Rudolphe Tomaschek, director of the Institute of Physics at Dresden, went further.
“Modern Physics,” he wrote, “is an instrument of [world] Jewry for the destruction of Nordic science … True physics is the creation of the German spirit
…In fact, all European science is the fruit of Aryan, or, better, German thought.”
Professor Johannes Stark, head of the German National Institute of Physical Science, thought so too.
…In fact, all European science is the fruit of Aryan, or, better, German thought.”
Professor Johannes Stark, head of the German National Institute of Physical Science, thought so too.
It would be found, he said, that the “founders of research in physics, and the great discoverers from Galileo to Newton to the physical pioneers of our time, were almost exclusively Aryan, predominantly of the Nordic race.”
There was also Professor Wilhelm Mueller, of the Technical College of Aachen, who in a book entitled Jewry and Science saw a world-wide Jewish plot to pollute science and thereby destroy civilization.
To him Einstein, with his theory of relativity, was the archvillain.
The Einstein theory, on which so much of modern physics is based, was to this singular Nazi professor “directed from beginning to end toward the goal of transforming the living—that is, the non-Jewish—world of living essence, born from a mother earth and bound up with blood, and
bewitching it into spectral abstraction in which all individual differences of peoples and nations, and all inner limits of the races, are lost in unreality, and in which only an unsubstantial diversity of geometric dimensions survives which produces all events out of the compulsion of its godless subjection to laws.”
bewitching it into spectral abstraction in which all individual differences of peoples and nations, and all inner limits of the races, are lost in unreality, and in which only an unsubstantial diversity of geometric dimensions survives which produces all events out of the compulsion of its godless subjection to laws.”
The world-wide acclaim given to Einstein on the publication of his theory of relativity, Professor Mueller proclaimed, was really only a rejoicing over “the approach of Jewish world rule which was to force down German manhood irrevocably and eternally to the level of the lifeless slave.”
To Professor Ludwig Bieberback, of the University of Berlin, Einstein was “an alien mountebank.”
Even to Professor Lenard, “the Jew conspicuously lacks understanding for the truth … being in this respect in contrast to the Aryan research scientist with his careful and serious will to truth … Jewish physics is thus a phantom and a phenomenon of degeneration of fundamental German.
And yet from 1905 to 1931 ten German Jews had been awarded Nobel Prizes for their contributions to science.
And yet from 1905 to 1931 ten German Jews had been awarded Nobel Prizes for their contributions to science.
During the Second Reich, the university professors, like the Protestant clergy, had given blind support to the conservative government and its expansionist aims, and the lecture halls had been breeding grounds of virulent nationalism and anti-Semitism.
The Weimar Republic had insisted on complete academic freedom, and one result had been that the vast majority of university teachers, antiliberal, antidemocratic, anti-Semitic as they were, had helped to undermine the democratic regime.
Most professors were fanatical nationalists who wished the return of a conservative, monarchical Germany.
And though to many of them, before 1933, the Nazis were too rowdy and violent to attract their allegiance, their preachments helped prepare the ground for the coming of Nazism.
By 1932 the majority of students appeared to be enthusiastic for Hitler.
It was surprising to some how many members of the university faculties knuckled under to the Nazification of higher learning after 1933.
Though official figures put the number of professors and instructors dismissed during the first five years of the regime at 2,800—about one fourth of the total number—the proportion of those who lost their posts through defying National Socialism was, as Professor Wilhelm Roepke, himself dismissed from the University of Marburg in 1933, said, “exceedingly small.”
Though small, there were names famous in the German academic world: Karl Jaspers, E. I. Gumbel, Theodor Litt, Karl Barth, Julius Ebbinghaus and dozens of others.
Most of them emigrated, first to Switzerland, Holland and England and eventually to America.
One of them, Professor Theodor Lessing, who had fled to Czechoslovakia, was tracked down by Nazi thugs and murdered in Marienbad on August 31, 1933.
A large majority of professors, however, remained at their posts, and as early as the autumn of 1933 some 960 of them, led by such luminaries as Professor Sauerbruch, the surgeon, Heidegger, the existentialist philosopher, and Pinder, the art historian, took a public vow to support Hitler and the National Socialist regime.
“It was a scene of prostitution,” Professor Roepke later wrote, “that has stained the honorable history of German learning.”
And as Professor Julius Ebbinghaus, looking back over the shambles in 1945, said, “The German universities failed, while there was still time, to oppose publicly with all their power the destruction of knowledge and of the democratic state.
They failed to keep the beacon of freedom and right burning during the night of tyranny.”
The cost of such failure was great.
After six years of Nazification the number of university students dropped by more than one half—from 127,920 to 58,325.
The decline in enrollment at the institutes of technology, from which Germany got its scientists and
engineers, was even greater—from 20,474 to 9,554.
engineers, was even greater—from 20,474 to 9,554.
Academic standards fell dizzily.
By 1937 there was not only a shortage of young men in the sciences and engineering but a decline in their qualifications.
Long before the outbreak of the war the chemical industry, busily helping to further Nazi rearmament, was complaining through its organ, Die Chemische Industrie, that Germany was losing itsmleadership in chemistry.
Not only the national economy but national defense itself was being jeopardized, it complained, and it blamed the shortage of young scientists and their mediocre caliber on the poor quality of
the technical colleges.
the technical colleges.
Nazi Germany’s loss, as it turned out, was the free world’s gain, especially in the race to be the first with the atom bomb…"
And on and on and on til we get to 2008...
Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
(Kindle Locations 6066-6090). RosettaBooks. Kindle Edition.
(Kindle Locations 6066-6090). RosettaBooks. Kindle Edition.
America's Cold Civil War - Imprimis
America's Cold Civil War - Imprimis-- Eugene C. Pulliam
"Six years ago I wrote a book about Barack Obama in which I predicted that modern American liberalism, under pressures both fiscal and philosophical, would either go out of business or be forced to radicalize.
If it chose the latter, I predicted, it could radicalize along two lines: towards socialism or towards an increasingly post-modern form of leadership.
Today it is doing both.
As we saw in Bernie Sanders’ campaign, the youngest generation of liberals is embracing socialism openly—something that would have been unheard of during the Cold War.
At the same time, identity politics is on the ascendant, with its quasi-Nietzschean faith in race, sex, and power as the keys to being and meaning.
In the #MeToo movement, for example—as we saw recently in Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle—the credo is, “Believe the woman.”
In other words, truth will emerge not from an adversarial process weighing evidence and testimony before the bar of reason, but from yielding to the will of the more politically correct.
“Her truth” is stronger than any objective or disinterested truth.
In the Claremont Review of Books, we have described our current political scene as a cold civil war..."
"Six years ago I wrote a book about Barack Obama in which I predicted that modern American liberalism, under pressures both fiscal and philosophical, would either go out of business or be forced to radicalize.
If it chose the latter, I predicted, it could radicalize along two lines: towards socialism or towards an increasingly post-modern form of leadership.Today it is doing both.
As we saw in Bernie Sanders’ campaign, the youngest generation of liberals is embracing socialism openly—something that would have been unheard of during the Cold War.
At the same time, identity politics is on the ascendant, with its quasi-Nietzschean faith in race, sex, and power as the keys to being and meaning.
In the #MeToo movement, for example—as we saw recently in Justice Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle—the credo is, “Believe the woman.”
In other words, truth will emerge not from an adversarial process weighing evidence and testimony before the bar of reason, but from yielding to the will of the more politically correct.
“Her truth” is stronger than any objective or disinterested truth.
In the Claremont Review of Books, we have described our current political scene as a cold civil war..."
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