Saturday, May 03, 2025

Herr Rubio

  


 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4vz9jed5lo 



"Germany's Foreign Office has defended a decision to classify the  

Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party  

as right-wing extremist, 

 after sharp criticism from the White House."  

"The intelligence agency that made the classification found AfD's "prevailing understanding of people based on ethnicity and descent" goes against Germany's "free democratic order". 

"The AfD "aims to exclude certain population groups from equal participation in society" 

"We have learnt from our history that right-wing extremism needs to be stopped," the statement concluded - a reference to Hitler's Nazi party and the Holocaust."  




"Friedrich Merz as chancellor. He will be leading a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD).

Lars Klingbeil, the SPD leader who is expected to become vice-chancellor and finance minister, said that while no hasty decision would be made,.

 the government would consider banning the (Nazi/Musk) AfD." 


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"The new classification gives authorities greater powers to monitor the AfD using tactics like phone interception and undercover agents" 


Good.

 


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The Holocaust  

(/ˈhɒləkɔːst/ ⓘ),[1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה),  

was the genocide of European Jews during World War II..

 Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.  

The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps,  

chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. 

 Separate Nazi persecutions

killed a similar or larger number 

of non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs)"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Nazi_Germany

"Victims of Nazi Germany were people targeted by the government of Nazi Germany based on their ethnicity, 

religion, political beliefs, 

disability or sexual orientation.  

The institutionalized practice by the Nazis of singling out and persecuting people resulted in the Holocaust,  

which began with legalized social discrimination against specific groups

 involuntary hospitalization,  

euthanasia, and forced sterilization.

 of persons considered physically or mentally unfit for society.  

The vast majority of the Nazi regime's victims were Jews, Sinti-Roma peoples, and Slavs but  

victims also encompassed people identified as social outsiders  

in the Nazi worldview, such as homosexuals, and political enemies.  

Nazi persecution escalated during World War II and included: non-judicial incarceration,  

confiscation of property, 

forced labor, 

sexual slavery, 

death through overwork, 

human experimentation,

 undernourishment,  

and execution through a variety of methods. 

For specified groups like the Jews, genocide was the Nazis' primary goal." 


Taking into account all of the victims of persecution, the Nazis systematically murdered an estimated six million Jews 

and an additional 11 million people during the war.  

Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition, including Soviet civilian deaths, would produce a total of  

17 million victims


ancestry who identified as a Jehovah's Witness.


"Non-Jewish victims of Nazism included Slavs 

(e.g. Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Ukrainians and Serbs), 

the Romani (gypsies), LGBT people; 

mentally or physically disabled people;

 Soviet POWs, Roman Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Spanish Republicans, 

 Freemasons, people of color (especially the Afro-German Mischlinge, called "Rhineland bastards" by Hitler and the Nazi regime), 

 and other minorities not considered Aryan (Herrenvolk, or part of the "master race")

 leftists, communists, trade unionists, social democrats, socialists, anarchists, and other dissidents." 

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Trump news at a glance: Rubio now holds four titles after Waltz out as national security chief

Marco Rubio becomes the first person since Henry Kissinger to hold the national security adviser and secretary of state positions at the same time –  



"Nine people were killed when a strike hit a home in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza; 

 another six people died in a separate strike targeting a family home  

in the northern city of Beit Lahiya; six more died in a strike on a community kitchen 

 in Gaza City, and an overnight attack on the Khan Younis refugee camp killed at least 11 people 

 including three babies up to a year old" 

Israel resumed its bombing campaign in Gaza on 18 March, ending a fragile ceasefire. Since then, .

at least 2,326 people have been killed, bringing the death toll since the war broke out to 

 52,418" 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/03/israeli-airstrikes-gaza-death-toll-bureij-beit-lahiya-khan-younis


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