Joana Cotar, December 27, 2021, Axis of Good

AfD Kompakt, December 27, 2021. 

Again, a conservative media of an upper range disappears overnight from the market. The problematics are opaque and the censors silent. This is no good sign for freedom.

Particularly pungent is the anti-semitic undertone of the concealed night and fog action; since one of the best known co-workers of the [YouTube] channel is the Jewish publicist Henryk M. Broder. For a good ten years, he shined on state broadcasting and received inter alia the Bavarian Television Prize.

The AfD delegation stands on the side of free media, for variety, against censorship. The Achse des Guten [achgut.com] must go back on-line.

 

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Rüdiger Lucassen, December 16, 2021, Ukraine and INF Treaty

AfD Kompakt, December 16, 2021.

The Russian-American conflict over the future of the Ukraine threatens the security of Europe and of Germany. The heads of government of all interested states should not repeat the failures of the Cold War. The Federal government needs to credibly commit itself to the position for an up-to-date arms control mechanism so as to break the military escalation spiral. Europe requires a new edition of the INF Treaty which both great powers have negligently renounced. To that purpose, eye-to-eye negotiations on the future status of the Ukraine are the order of the hour.

 

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Peter Boehringer, December 16, 2021, Supplementary Budget

German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/9, pp. 388-390.

Frau President. Honored colleagues.

We were, ja, already accustomed under the Groko to some imputations. Yet it is certainly a noteworthy achievement of the FDP Finance Minister in his first of all weeks in office to break alike two central FDP election campaign promises: First of all, with the compulsory vaccination for care-givers, the maintenance of one of the people’s elementary basic rights and freedoms; and today, the promise of a serious fiscal policy. This sell-out of the liberal silverware you should urgently explain to your deceived voters, Herr Lindner.

The 2021 supplementary budget of over 60 billion euros shall be retroactively concluded in January of next year, which is manifestly absurd. No money is to be borrowed for a year in which the Bund has moreover already made 180 billion euros in debts just because the old Groko allows itself to approve an additional 60 billion euros and simply could no longer expend it in 2021; such like the Ampel also now can plainly no more do.

            Otto Fricke (FDP): No money will be borrowed!

These are nevertheless irresponsible tricks unworthy of a Federal government.

If I hear you clearly, Herr Fricke, that the money will not even be expended, then it is all the more an argument not to borrow it today. If you are no longer able to expend it in 2021 in a public budget, then you are not allowed to borrow it. These are bookkeeping tricks; I am coming to that.

It is, ja, already obviously known how much money in these four years will be required at the pump, and it then preferably begins even in the first days to be correctly debited. To this are posed complex legal questions which are apparently too complex for the Union and even the FDP. This is indicated by the erratic behavior of these delegations since 2020; we have certainly and correctly heard it. The FDP in opposition had designated its present procedure in the government as unconstitutional, namely the formation of reserves financed by excess new indebtedness

            Christian Dürr (FDP): That is false!

– that is not false; those were your words – as well as the alienation of Corona means for other purposes.

            Christian Dürr (FDP): Nein!

I am still coming to you, Herr Dürr. You also will be cited; everything is well.

The Union also is today convinced that its own, fully analogous procedure as a governing party in 2020/2021 was now suddenly illegal “financial acrobatics” – a citation of a CSU colleague. You now want – apparently in a state of memory loss – your own conduct of that time, which today is that of the Ampel, to be subsequently tested by a complaint in Karlsruhe. This could not be invented.

The AfD naturally regards these procedures in any case and as always as illegal – as always therefore because we and only we already in 2020 here in the house had brought in corresponding motions of complaint for control of standards [Normencontrollklageanträge]. You may re-read it for yourself, Herr Brinkhaus, Herr Dobrindt, Herr Haase, and gladly also the media: Drucksachen 19/22926 of September 2020, and 19/26549 of February 2021.

Not a single member of the Union then wanted to support these constitutional complaints. And now you explain, Herr Haase, in the FAZ: “The term ‘breach of the constitution’ is in the air”, or here you plainly call the procedure “unconstitutional”. You have, ja, just said so. Or what you have said: Now "Corona credits” become “climate credits”. Ja, that was the same to you. You have done exactly the same, only with somewhat smaller sums; this here nevertheless is pure real satire.

The formation of debt-financed reserves is naturally in general illegal. Not only sound economic understanding

            Otto Fricke (FDP): Oh!

and fiscal understanding and the AfD say this, but also Kirchhof, the former Vice-president of the Federal Constitutional Court, and the Federal Audit Authority which sees as violated the fiscal constitutional principles of per annum and clarity – precisely those which earlier the FDP somehow also saw thusly.  

Professor Schwarz of the Würzburg Uni in any case explains this blatancy – cite – it may be “unconstitutional” and an “impermissible evasion of the debts brake”. And even the very liberal constitutional lawyer Gröpl wrote in the Handelsblatt: “A breach of the constitution par excellence”. Look it up!

Then we do not want in point of fact to entirely forget the just so very active FDP colleague Dürr. You, Herr Dürr, said here in this place on July 2, 2020, as Finance Minister Scholz wanted to employ exactly this same reserves trick

            Christian Dürr (FDP): Nein!

– cite; the protocol is unequivocal:

It – that budget – violates the Basic Law…I do not understand why careers can only be made in the SPD – and the SPD case of Walter-Borjans was comparable –  when unconstitutional budgets are put forward…

– And you further inquired –

… why the CDU/CSU Bundestag delegation here becomes the assistant’s assistant of a possible breach of the constitution.

Today the FDP Minister Lindner wants to hear nothing more of this. What a difference just eight days in power can make; that is really astonishing. Once more for the Union: Until the autumn of 2021, the Union shared in these unconstitutional procedures of the governing parties, and now you speak demonstratively of a policy of stability, of a breach of the constitution. What a difference just eight days in the opposition comes to; this also is astonishing.

Who, like Herr Dobrindt, seriously on the previous Tuesday states to the press: “Who replaces financial policy with financial acrobatics, he quickly removes himself beyond the pale of the law”,

            Alexander Dobrindt (CSU/CDU): So is it!

should quite urgently look in the rear view mirror at his own two past fiscal years and in shame keep quiet. This practiced double morality is really still scarcely to be endured.

Nein, dear colleagues of the Union, you do not get away so easily from the constitution-breaking inheritance of the Merkel era.

            Alexander Dobrindt (CSU/CDU): You have not understood it!

You here criticize something which you yourselves since 2020 have done in many budgets. Yet the good news is: We are gladly prepared to place at your disposal our motions of complaint for control of standards.

The 240 billion euros of new indebtedness for 2021 are allowed to be taken up only on account of the ostensible pandemic state of emergency, and self-evidently will also be used for this state of emergency; this is the legally established connectivity [Konnexität] principle. The Groko already disregarded it. Yet the Ampel no longer makes a secret of it. Ostensible Corona emergency credits will as reserves be quite openly stuck in the new climate and transformation funds. A connection with a cause [Verlassungszusammenhang] will no longer even be dissimulated.  

            Christian Dürr (FDP): That also is false!

And the Hessen State Court – already just cited – has just declared as illegal a very similar procedure of the Hessen State government. Herr Rohde, you have cited very selectively.

            Dennis Rohde (SPD): Read it for once! Read not only the heading! That helps!

The verdict of the Hessen State Court is much more comprehensive than what you have just cited.

The Finance Minister today seriously sees his duty as an – cite – “enabler minister”. Herr Lindner, it would be your duty to do all that is able to be done so as to defend the taxpayer against further super expensive encroachments of the red-green planned economy and ideology politics, not to somehow “enable” these.

My last sentence. The FDP, in regards compulsory vaccination and financial probity in the central points prior to the election, has lied. The new motto of the FDP appears to be: Better to govern unconstitutionally and perjured than not to govern.

Many thanks.

 

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Steffen Kotré, December 16, 2021, Nuclear Power Plants

 German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 20/9, pp. 423-424.

Right honorable Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.

Due to the world’s dumbest energy policy, we are meanwhile at five to twelve. The energy suppliers sound the alarm. EON chief Birnbaum prognosticates that an electricity shortfall can lead to shutting down entire cities and that, with the high energy prices, industry will be hunted out of our country. And Amprion, the transmission network operator, to name only one, expresses itself similarly. They all speak of considerable danger for our electricity supply due to the present situation. The electricity grid has now already reached its limit of performance, there are no more reserves.

Timon Gremmels (SPD): It is rather the AfD which has reached its limit                                   of performance!

Please now put an end, ladies and gentlemen, to the lie of a lifetime, that we would in the mid-term get along without coal and nuclear power. Since your answer to the electricity gap – gas power plants and electricity imports – is a fata morgana. Additional gas power plants are not in sight; no one will build them. Where then shall the gas actually come from if the Federal government wants to prevent Nord Stream 2, if our naïve Foreign Minister, with her clumsiness and with her childish megalomania

Timon Gremmels (SPD): For God’s sake!

shoots and acts against Russia and our gas supply?

Timon Gremmels (SPD): Have you something of substance to offer or                                   only insults?

She thereby calls to mind the greats, like perhaps Kaiser Wilhelm II, rather than a modern diplomat, ladies and gentlemen.

Germany needs an energy foreign policy and not an energy prevention policy.

            Marianne Schieder (SPD): And reasonable parliamentarians!

On another point: There will plainly not be able to be electricity imports in times of peak load because precisely then foreign countries themselves also need the electricity. The answer is therefore at hand: Further operation of remunerative nuclear power plants.

Ever more voices express themselves for this; for example, the chief of Volkswagen or the ex-chief of BASF, to name here only a few. The entire world is setting up nearly CO2-free nuclear energy. The Netherlands have certainly perceived their failures and again take up nuclear energy. A great number of nuclear power plants are in planning and in construction worldwide. Even the so-called World Climate Council proceeds thereon that climate goals without nuclear energy are just not to be attained.

Yes, many people have reservations in regards nuclear energy, fear of a total meltdown; yet this fear is unfounded. Modern reactor concepts exclude such catastrophes, ladies and gentlemen.

            Harald Ebner (Greens): Reality is just not your strong point!

In part, a self-sustained chain reaction is generally no longer necessary. Research reactors of this kind are long since under construction, yet unfortunately not in allegedly technology-oriented Germany.

The waste storage problem will be solved with transmutation, remaining material will be re-utilized. Present day radioactive times of 100,000 years diminish: Tomorrow 300 years, the day after perhaps indeed no longer. That is scientific, technological progress, ladies and gentlemen, which you want to prevent.

The left-greens want to diminish the CO2 emission. We want a good value, secure supply of electricity. Na, dann, let us nevertheless come together.

            Julia Verlinden (Greens): Nö, we do not want to work together with you!

With modern, nearly CO2-free nuclear energy both are plainly possible. That would be an intelligent, a reconciling and a fully responsible policy, ladies and gentlemen.

Yet you, those of you who want to prevent nuclear energy – so to say, as an eternal strife – will not be able to prevent the renaissance of safe nuclear energy. What you clearly hinder is our prosperity. You are the world champions in destroying it. We will thus need to subsequently purchase technology in the area of nuclear energy later and again more expensively.

Yet let it be clear to you: We will not be able to do without nuclear energy. You can turn upside down. It is no longer to be stopped.

            Harald Ebner (Greens): You have nothing to do with reality!

 

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