Are their voters all the same to German politicians?

by Professor Dr Eberhard Hamer, Mittelstandsinstitut Niedersachsen e.V.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has unleashed a fundamental debate with her ill-considered confession that the interests of her own voters are irrelevant to her: Cui bono? For whom is policy made? Who should benefit from economic returns and public finances? Whose are the interests that should ultimately count?

A deep social, political and economic rift is opening up between theory and practice, between ideal and reality, between aspiration and what can be attained; and this is indeed calling into question the foundations of our economic and political existence.
  The Western “community of values” claims to fight for democracy in the struggle against dictatorship, for the sovereignty of the individual citizen, for his or her prerogative before the state and for an electorally guaranteed policy in the interest of sovereign citizens.
  Practically, however, imperative international demands issued by the Anglo-American world power and Anglo-American big business dominate; it is ultimately a matter of their interests, and democracy is only formally simulated.
  Examples:

The Greens (of all genders) want “ecology instead of economy”, deliberately reduce our economy for the sake of fine particles and CO₂, and yet they think nothing of the fact that American global corporations, by destroying primeval forests in the Amazon, are causing four times more environmental damage than the maximum of what Germany would be able to avoid (2 % of global CO₂ pollutants in Germany and 8.5 %CO₂ damage in the primeval forest). Is this still environmental policy in the German voters’ interest?
The green ministers of agriculture are swamping farmers’ agricultural production with more and more regulations, but are not bothered by the fact that international corporations (Monsanto et al.) are systematically and totally changing the world with their genetically contaminated seeds. Agriculture for the farmers or for the corporations?
Even before Putin attacked Ukraine, the USA ordered a world sanctions war against Russia, and all the old parties enthusiastically agreed that our government – without having any alternatives for it – cancelled not only a quarter of our raw material imports, but also the purchase of cheap gas from Russia. These sanctions have driven up oil and gas prices¹ and thus destroyed the German prosperity basis of cheap energy, without harming Russia, as this had higher revenues than before with half the gas supplies and double the prices. Ultimately, Germany is the main loser.
The self-inflicted gas crisis and increase in prices put the gas suppliers of the international corporations in financial difficulties. Instead of solving this through insolvency according to the usual practice in a market economy, the Green government wants to use 34 billion to rescue gas importers, thus replicating Merkel’s bailout of bankrupt banks at the German expense in 2008. To pay for these gifts to the corporations, a gas levy is to be imposed on all citizens (over 3000 euros per household). Since this brought general protests, a “relief” of this burden to the amount of 300 euros (for a burden of more than 3000 euros) for the socially weak and for pensioners is now to appease the anger of the population. No government has ever harmed its own voters as much as the current one. Ms Baerbock gave the explanation: she does not care what the voters think and want.

Whose interests does this “representative of the people” represent?
  Gaetano Mosca already pointed out in 1939² that in all forms of government, all political elites would evolve into a functionary oligarchy. The clique of functionaries would close ranks among themselves – even democratic cliques of functionaries would develop an aloof life of their own, at the expense of the population, and form a functionary feudalism. In contrast to dictatorships, democracies would only have the advantage of peacefully replacing the ruling elite (through elections). The next majority, however, would form the same sort of functionary oligarchy. There would be a camaraderie among the established parties to fight new parties together in order not to have to share their power and sinecures.
  In this sense, Mosca also denied that political elites have “the good of the people” and their interests in mind. They are only concerned with obtaining majorities for their own re-election, and besides, also with their own interests or the interests of more powerful people on whom they depend.
  We have long suspected that our leading politicians are not acting in the interests of their own people, but in that of foreign powers and interests, given the above-mentioned cases of harming their own citizens for the good of foreign interests.
  Ms Baerbock, however, in her stupidity, has confirmed this presumption. This government does not act in the interest of its voters, not even despite taking an oath “for the good of the German people”, but in the interest of our colonial power, international high finance (Merz, Lindner) or an ecological ideology out of touch with reality.
  As our prosperity now collapses as a result of such economy-destroying policies, we will all – high achievers as well as recipients of transfer payments – become poorer as a result. The political elite, on the other hand, has secured impunity (immunity) for its actions and will disappear into the bushes with maximum pensions (as the public broadcasting corruption shows), thus remaining unaffected by its own destructive policies.
  This is what red-green “social justice” looks like!  •

¹ This was the Americans’ intention, so they would be able to sell their fracking oil and gas to the world in the first place.
² See his book “The Ruling Class”.

Neutrality: Open Letter to the Austrian Federal Government

Supporters so far: 48 437 (as of 23 October)

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Austrian Federal Government,

The events of the last few weeks have brought us, the signatories of this letter, to the realisation and decision that it is high time to convey to you, as representatives of the Republic of Austria and the people who live in Austria, our attitude and conviction and to call upon you to act in accordance with the wishes of your sovereign.
  War is always pointless. The dying of young people for the ambitions and power games of political actors is terrible, unbearable and unacceptable.
  For us as ordinary citizens it is impossible to know and question all aspects, backgrounds and facts, we all only see the terrible effects of the war between Russia and its neighbour Ukraine. But as responsible citizens we also see that this war is undoubtedly also being misused for strategic political interests.
  The Western defence alliance NATO, under the leadership of the American government and with active support from the European states, has started an economic conflict by imposing sanctions that goes far beyond the limits of the war in Ukraine. By politicians and the media, we have been given the impression that the world is united in its opposition to Russia. We were assured that the imposition of sanctions would weaken the Russian economy to such an extent that the war would have to be stopped by the Russian leadership. We citizens have been led to believe that there was no alternative to the imposition of sanctions.
  Now, after several months since the imposition of these sanctions, we think it is abundantly clear that none of this corresponds to reality. Outside Europe, the majority of states do not support the sanctions imposed by Western countries; on the contrary, a new power constellation is emerging in Eurasia, Africa and parts of South America that is in open opposition to the Western industrialised countries. Russia’s economy seems to be far from suffering the damage from the sanctions that the inventors planned and communicated. There is no sign whatsoever that the sanctions can stop the senseless deaths of young people in eastern Ukraine.
  On the contrary, we as citizens can also clearly experience every day that we are the actual sufferers of the economic sanctions and that our national economy and thus the entire social fabric of our society are suffering the most severe damage and that we are now facing the most severe economic crisis of the last 80 years due to the consequences of the sanctions. Now, as if this development were not bad enough, we as concerned citizens also have to recognize that the NATO states are in a veritable spiral of escalation also in military terms. As we can see, the alert of more than 300,000 troops of the NATO armies is being raised, the Western states are sending ever heavier weapons to the war zone, conflicts with Russia are already beginning to arise in other zones of Europe, and the speed of the rhetorical and factual escalation frightens us.
  As a small country, we Austrians are not in a position to influence the actions of the NATO states. But we can become active ourselves and in the interest of our homeland.
  After the horrors of the last world war, the generation of our fathers, mothers and grandparents committed themselves to perpetual neutrality for very good reasons.
  Neutrality has entered the DNA of our nation for good and sensible reasons, an overwhelming majority of the population supports the retention of Austria’s neutrality for good and true reasons. And therefore we, the signatories of this letter, see ourselves urgently called upon to go public and call upon the Austrian Federal Government:

Let us, as the Republic of Austria, immediately return to strict neutrality towards all parties to the conflict in the Ukraine war.
As part and consequence of this neutrality, let us strengthen controlled humanitarian aid for the civilian population in the regions affected by the war.
Let us make Vienna available as a venue for an international peace conference in keeping with decades of tradition and invite all parties to the conflict and their political leadership to Vienna.

In order to prove our credibility as honest mediators – and to avert further damage to our national economy – we must immediately withdraw from supporting the unilaterally imposed sanctions by the Western defence alliance Nato! Austria has no place in Nato, the Austrian population does not want membership in this military alliance, and consequently there is also no reason whatsoever for Austria to support Nato’s sanctions against Russia!
  We further call on the Austrian Federal Government not to continue to support the sanctions within the European Union, to speak out against them, not to participate in them under any circumstances and to take an initiative that aims at peace, ceasefire and coexistence among all peoples and states of the world!
  The signatories of this letter expressly state:
  This is not a party-political initiative or movement.
  We do not support any political parties or individual politicians with this appeal. We are OPEN to support from all camps of the political spectrum, from all parts of civil society and the media landscape. This letter was written exclusively out of concern for the lives and well-being of the people who live in this country of Austria. We stand for peace and freedom. However, not at the price of destroying our own existence.

With the greatest respect

The signatories:

By signing this letter, I freely support the demands of this letter.

Gerald Markel, Entrepreneur
Wolfgang Sendlhofer, Entrepreneur
Max Pucher, President of Union Sovereignty
Professor DDr Martin Haditsch, Specialist in Microbiology
Andreas Gass, President EMUs
Bernhard Costa, Vice President EMUs
Dr Wolfgang Schmidauer, Lawyer
DI Dr Jürgen Meinhart, Entrepreneur
Beatrice Hubner, Co-founder of the “Löwenmamas” (Lion Mamas)

Signing media:

TKP, Peter F. Mayer
Report24, Florian Machl
RTV, Nicolas Schott
Sovereign Media

Source: https://souveraenitaet.org/neutralitaet/

(Translation Current Concerns)