EAST GERMAN SECRET POLICE BIRTHED THE BAADER-MEINHOF GANG

Two German historians accidentally found out that Stasi, the notorious East German version of the KGB and the Gestapo, kick-started massive student protests in West Germany, ultimately midwifing the birth of the Red Army Fraction, a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof gang.

In a May 21, 2009 interview with the weekly magazine Der Spiegel, Helmut Müller-Enbergs said that he and his colleague Cornelia Jabs “nearly fell off their chairs” when they made the discovery.

Here is what happened.

In June 1967, the Shah of Iran is on a state visit to West Germany. He is to attend a performance of Mozart’s The Magic Flute at the Deutsche Oper in West Berlin. On June 2, 1967, student activists are out in force, protesting the Shah’s visit. During the protests, a West German policeman by the name of Karl-Heinz Kurras “happens” to shoot a 26 year-old newlywed and first-time protester, Benno Ohnesorg, in the back of the head. Ohnesorg dies, leaving behind a pregnant widow. There is outrage. Kurras is suspended and the incident investigated. The verdict is accidental killing and Kurras is released. More outrage. On that very night, members of the West German SDS (Socialist German Student Organization) assemble on the West Berlin Kurfürstendamm square and call for armed resistance against the state. “Violence s the only answer to violence,” froths a young woman named Gudrun Ensslin.

Per the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the very next day, signs reading The Police – Your Enemy and Murderer, appear throughout Frankfurt. Thousands of students spill into the streets.

Three years later, Gudrun Ensslin and a few like-minded friends found the Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Fraction), a.k.a. the Baader-Meinhof Gang, and the rest is, well, history.

Except that…

• Karl-Heinz Kurras had been a member of Stasi since 1955. He even joined the East German Communist Party, the SED, in 1964.
• Stasi, like the KGB and the Gestapo, was vitally interested in creating discord in “enemy” countries to weaken them and their systems of alliances.
• Stasi, like the KGB and the Gestapo, had routinely used “wet affairs” (murder) to accomplish their ends.
• Stasi, like the KGB and the Gestapo, was a fertile breeding ground for terrorist organizations and “protest” movements that were willing to advance the interests of their ideologies.

The documentation that Müller-Enbergs and Jabs studied to date do not prove that Karl-Heinz Kurras had killed Ohnesorg on the order of Stasi, or even that he himself was the murderer. All the documents say is that he had carried out the order, but the order is not specified.

The 82 year-old Kurras, still very much alive in Berlin and enjoying the ample fruits of the German welfare state, is predictably silent on the matter. But he may not enjoy the rest of his retirement much, since the German Organization of the Victims of Stalinism (VOS) has filed a complaint against Kurras. The VOS seeks a new trial, this time for murder, for which there is no statute of limitations under German law.

Which brings me to the question of foreign control of “protest” movements elsewhere in the world, like the amply documented (North) Vietnamese ownership of the U.S. Vietnam-era “antiwar” movement. Ditto for whoever it is who really owns and operates today’s “antiwar” and anti-Jewish movements in the U.S.

But that’s another story that’s yet to be written, and hopefully very soon.

WILD WEST IN AUSTRIA

The Austrian news agency APA reported a brawl in a Viennese Sikh house of worship today. Apparently, attendees belonging to a particular sect took exception to a sermon being delivered and attacked two visiting gurus with knives and a pistol. Both gurus were taken to hospital in critical condition. In all, at least sixteen people were injured in the fight.

The fight had repercussions as far away as the Indian state of Punjab, where followers of the wounded gurus resorted to violence, with threats of more violence and strikes on Monday.

As I always say, faith is a wonderful thing as long as you don’t follow it too religiously.

SO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION IS REGRESSING ON DDT...

Total phaseout by 2020? I am not really surprised, such is the power - and inhumanity - of today's green lobby. Anybody here think that the likes of Kohn-Bendit or Gore care one whit about African children?

So here goes a cruel bumper sticker...


May 6 should henceforth be declared a day of mourning.

MOMENTARY HEART STOPPAGE

While surfing the Net today, saw this headline on BBC news, and my heart fluttered palpably:

Speaker quits 'for sake of unity'

But, alas, the article was referring to Michael Martin, the Speaker of Britain's House of Commons.

Could that be the proverbial hint for, ahem, certain other people?

Certainly, where there is reason, there is hope. Therefore, there is no hope....

LEST WE FORGET THE RIGHTEOUS...

The Czech news Website iDNES reports that, on May 16, 2009, an old man named Nicholas Winton blew out a hundred candles on his birthday cake in the Czech Embassy in London. His birthday is actually on May 19, but the Czech Government wanted to honor Winton separately for his part in rescuing imperiled Czech children from the Nazis in 1939.

In 1938, Winton began to work in Prague for the British Committee for Czechoslovak Refugees, an organization that was helping Czechoslovaks who had been driven from the Sudeten region of Czechoslovakia following its annexation by Nazi Germany. After the Munich diktat, he became convinced that the Nazis were planning to annex what was left of the country. Having heard of the Kindertransports that had brought 10,000 Austrian and German Jewish children to safety in Britain, he decided to do the same for Czech children. He was ultimately able to get at least 669 mostly Jewish children to Britain.

The first group left Prague on March 14, 1939, the day before the Nazis marched into rump Czechoslovakia. Over time, Winton had organized seven more transports, the last on August 02, 1939. The next group was to leave Prague on September 01, 1939, but the Nazis held it up due to outbreak of war. None of the 250 children aboard survived the war.

Winton’s remarkable rescue effort remained virtually unknown until 1988 when his wife Greta found his 1939 scrapbook filled with photos and information on 664 of the children. Since then, five more participants had been identified, and there may be even more.

In honor of Sir Nicholas’s heroism – he was knighted in 2002 – the Czech Railways will actually run the last train, with some of the “Winton children” and their descendants aboard. The Winton Train will consist of period cars and will be drawn by a steam locomotive, all found, after some effort, in Hungary. It will leave Prague on September 01, 2009 and reach London on September 04, where Winton will welcome it personally.

Winton’s reaction to all the fuss is somewhat bemused. “I am no hero,” he said, “ It just had to be done.”

The Winton children who, with all their descendants, now number over 5,500, would surely disagree. Doing the right thing the first time, simply because it was the right thing to do, has always seemed complicated; but never more than in this postmodern age when anyone wishing to avoid virtuous behavior can simply construct an alternative reality that includes no ethical challenges and walk away with not a single twinge of conscience.

However, the reality of ethical comportment that is timeless in nature can never be ignored or suppressed; and men like Nicholas Winton are living remainders of that happy fact. May he live another hundred years, in happiness and health.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF CRICHTONITE

This, from our Fractured Reality Annals.

Crichtonite is a recently confirmed rare inert element, classified No. 118 on the periodic table of elements and initially hypothesized as ununoctium (UUh). First reported synthesized in scientific laboratories at Lawrence Livermore and in the Russian city of Dubna, crichtonite was accidentally discovered in useful quantities on May 1, 2009, during experimental oil shale and tar sand processing operations in the continental United States. Initial reports indicate that, when trace amounts of crichtonite are inhaled in the presence of naturally occurring atmospheric gases such as carbon dioxide, they radically enhance critical thinking skills in humans

(Note: The informal name crichtonite is derived from the name of Michael Crichton, the recently deceased American physician and author, infamous for his cynical advocacy of extreme far-right causes such as double-blind experiments and strict adherence to empirical evidence. Ever the elitist cynic, Crichton even advocated controlling the masses through perennial intoxication, as detailed in his recent potboiler State of Beer.)

This unexpected effect of crichtonite on human cognitive processes ignited intense controversy as soon as it was announced. By May 4, numerous influential nongovernmental organizations, led by the Association of Politically Engaged Scientists (APES), called for a permanent ban on crichtonite extraction and any further crichtonite research. Ms. Lyudmila Chistka, the Belarussian-born President of APES, stressed that crichtonite poses such a threat to humanity that “all crichtonite research to now, I mean, must be put under strictest interdict.” When queried further, Ms. Chistka said: “Terrible, just terrible. Some world’s most prominently orthodox thinkers, after brief exposure to crichtonite, traitorously abandon unassailable scientific consensus on significant issues as that global warming tipping point is here now and imperialist essence of American Cross-Your-Heart brassiere. When everybody knows science is totally in! In, I tell you! You just must believe….Cross your heart, indeed,” she pouted, then unexpectedly began to rage and bang the lectern with her $540.00 5-inch spike Gucci: “Cross, get it? Cross! So now we are maybe fundamentalist gun-waving Christians from American overfly country, wanting to oppress women from showing breast, that universal symbol of peace and love? What next, whip women for showing any part of body, like is done by nazilike apartheidistic Jew?”

Ultimately recovering her focus, Ms. Chistka went on to pledge massive worldwide protests in support of the APES initiative and intense lobbying of progressive governments around the world to have even the informal name crichtonite banned and its use punishable as a crime against humanity. Her South African assistant, the Lithuanian-born Joe Puchadlo, added that APES is proposing the name algorite as the official name of the new element, to honor the Nobel Prize laureate Hameln Pfeiffer Algore, the universally acknowledged inventor of the permanent craniorectal insertion.

On May 5, Transnational Researchers for Immediate Climate Control (TRICC) put its considerable weight behind the APES effort. “We are mobilizing the world community to protect the disenfranchised masses,” said TRICC secretary Hlupaki Trouba to deafening applause. “We simply must prevent any of this new element from falling into the wrong hands, especially into the hands of lone wolf American white males who would then use it to subvert progress everywhere. For too long, the much-overrated and devastating Eurocentric notion of critical thinking has been used to oppress the world’s peoples.”

Almost simultaneously, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to declare crichtonite a deadly pollutant. “An outbreak of critical thinking would result in a pandemic worse than the Death-of-Color epidemic that struck Europe in the Middle Ages," declared Caryl Braunerals N’Sdap, the Obamite administration’s chief environmental policy czarina. “Anyone wishing for such a disaster is in dire need of intense progressive reeducation. Fortunately, we have already begun to set up camps just for that purpose, to be run by the new Youth Movement.”

In a related development, the Department of Motherland Security (DMS) has begun drafting an in-depth study on the disastrous effects of improved thinking skills on the administration of the first African-American President. “The damage to Our administration would be massive and irreversible,” said DMS Directrix Johnette de Littlebrain. “Imagine critically thinking white males, with all their guns and reactionary religions, analyzing information from non-approved sources like GetItOn.org and no longer cringing when accused of racism and sexism. It would be like a pack of rabid dogs suddenly slipping the leash inside a childcare center! They might end up demanding that the first truly progressive U.S. administration actually adhere to that ultimate instrument of white male repression, the Constitution. Why, Our administration might even lose the opportunity to make Our Party The One and Only Party, and We might actually be forced to balance the budget. No, crichtonite’s definitely got to go – even its name, even its memory! – or we’ll all soon find ourselves facing the unthinkable.”

Not to be outdone, National Organization for Just Us (NOJUs, pronounced no-Jews) got into the fray. NOJUs spokeswoman Monique Conn-Yew stated: “Our position is that the, you know, the c-element – it is racist to the core. From the perspective of Afrocentric science, which is the only real science there is, the outer electron shell configuration is totally unsatisfactory. Just look at it: three groups of six electrons! We all know what the number three represents to the shreks who specialize in oppressing black folk, don’t we? Remember the, you know, the triple-K organization? Need I say more? Ban the thing immediately or suffer the just rage of the black people!”

Finally, the much-maligned and unjustly silenced NASA scientist, Jimmy Henlein, long kept incommunicado and under virtual house arrest by far-right fundamentalist global warming deniers, was able to escape them long enough to be able to issue a statement calling for massive civil disobedience. “All oil and gas exploration must be brought to a permanent halt to prevent any release of crichtonite,” he said before being recaptured by the global-warming-and-Holocaust denying extremists. "I can just see people going out and scouting for more carbon-based fuels under the pretext of looking for this subversive element. This must never be allowed to happen, or else all our plans to bankrupt and enslave – I mean liberate, liberate – the world will collapse.”

This all gives rise to crucial questions:

• Will the Obamite policy of non-politicized science prevail?
• Or has it already prevailed?
• What is the definition of “non-politicized?”
• Will crichtonite ever see the light of day?

Stand by for further developments!

PAYING THE DONS FOR ENERGY

In Sicily, alternative energy is not only chic but, mirabile dictu, also profitable. No wonder: the island is touted as the land of wind and sun. Unfortunately, it is also the land of the Mafia. According to The Register (a.k.a.: biting the hands that feeds IT), Mafia-busting Italian magistrates:

“…have launched a major investigation into crooked windfarm projects in Sicily, according to reports. It is suggested that large sums in government support have been collected for wind power stations which in many cases produce no electricity…”

According to the Financial Times, Italy has very strong incentives for alternative energy production, guaranteeing producers prices of €180 ($240, £160) per kilowatt-hour. These must be paid even when no electricity is actually being generated. The money firehose continues to deliver if a wind farm produces power but cannot distribute or sell it.

This arrangement is a G-dsend for those with muscle and connections: i.e. organized crime. You get government money to build a Potemkin wind farm, then sit back and collect government largesse. Since you have muscle and connections, you also buy local officials who will keep the Minotaur at bay while you navigate the Labyrinth of Sicilian regulations to get all the requisite permits to build and operate. Then you sell the wind farm to a power corporation for lots more money.

To make a long story short, the situation is now seen as so corrupt that there is a freeze on all new wind farms in Sicily, Calabria and Basilicata, and a major investigation is in progress. Woof.

Which brings us to the Obama administration and all the huge open maws that eagerly await its largesse, like Al Gore and his brood. Gore wants to become the first green billionaire. Since he’s in like Flint with the government, he may make it pretty soon – with our money.

Like in Sicily, few outsiders will be allowed into the arena – only the anointed may get rich. Like in Sicily, we’ll pay for his success.

This, I think, is reason No. 135,999,938 why the Obamites are not to be trusted with our money and why they must not be allowed to pursue their nefarious “green” energy schemes.