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    They distract people with the orchestrated 'anti-right-wing' demonstrations all over the country. Actually it is done to harm the (supposedly Nazi) AFD who are over 20% in Germany now and thus the strongest party. They also want to ban this party altogether legally although this will be difficult to attain, years ago the Highest Court in Germany could not even ban the NPD which is more or less a clear Nazi party.
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    🇩🇪 Middle class joins farmers to protest in Germany

    Hundreds of tractors came to Lübeck on Tuesday for a demonstration during a visit by Finance Minister Christian Lindner, who held a civic dialogue in the city. Apart from tractors, trucks and cars also participated in the protest.

    According to participants, it was not only farmers who protested, “but the entire middle class.” Lindner was met with loud whistles and shouts from disgruntled citizens.

    The chairman of the regional farmers' association told Lindner during the dialogue that incoming Ukrainian grain is displacing domestic products, “with which our yards are overflowing."

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    They distract people with the orchestrated 'anti-right-wing' demonstrations all over the country. Actually it is done to harm the (supposedly Nazi) AFD who are over 20% in Germany now and thus the strongest party. They also want to ban this party altogether legally although this will be difficult to attain, years ago the Highest Court in Germany could not even ban the NPD which is more or less a clear Nazi party.
    To follow this up, Thomas Roeper even makes the additional point that the farmers themselves were framed as 'right-wing' before these orchestrated protests to weaken them and to keep the public (all the sheeple) from showing them solidarity. A great article that describes the entire history of this campaign (translated):

    https://www-anti--spiegel-ru.transla..._x_tr_pto=wapp

    Why the campaign “against the right” is, firstly, orchestrated and, secondly, mendacious


    It was clear from the start that the media campaign against the AfD launched by correctiv was a set-up. There is now plenty of evidence for this. How hypocritical the campaign is is now becoming obvious.

    from Anti-Spiegel
    February 7, 2024 7:13 p.m

    I am currently being asked for interviews in Russia by various media outlets because developments in Germany are also of interest to people in Russia. A question that I am asked again and again is how the German public thinks about this or that. And I always have to explain to the Russians that “the German public” actually doesn’t exist (anymore), because the Germans are so divided that there is hardly any topic in Germany that has a more or less uniform public opinion.

    The media and political campaign against the AfD has shown this again. This has now lasted about four weeks and, according to surveys, has had practically no effect. German media are celebrating that the AfD has fallen by two or three percent in polls and is now at around 18 percent, but one thing is always overlooked.

    I'm talking about Sarah Wagenknecht's new party, which is now also appearing in the polls. Wagenknecht is certainly recruiting some of her voters from those who only wanted to vote for the AfD with a stomach ache and now think they have found another opportunity to vote against the policies of the established parties. Wagenknecht's party, which also opposes the established parties, is now polling at five to seven percent.

    If you add this to the AfD, the proportion of voters who want to vote against the policies of the established bloc parties CDU/CSU, SPD, FDP and Greens has actually increased rather than fallen.

    It was predictable that the massive campaign would have little impact on the AfD's poll numbers. Those who want to vote for the AfD (and probably also for Wagenknecht) are no longer consumers of mainstream media and are therefore hardly reachable for such campaigns. I call this the “Aiwanger effect” because the campaign against the head of the Bavarian Free Voters shortly before the election in Bavaria had no effect because the media campaigns have now become too obvious to be noticed by those who are turned away from the established bloc parties could still achieve something.
    The orchestrated campaign

    The supposedly scandalous meeting , which the propaganda network, financed and controlled by the mainstream media and the government , reported correctly on January 10th, took place at the end of November. If such scandalous things really happened there as the media would have us believe, the first question arises: Why did correctiv wait until the beginning of January to publish it when all the information was already available at the end of November?

    Instead, the publication coincided with the start of the farmer protests feared by the government and announced in December. The media reports about the anti-AfD demonstrations have pushed the reports about the farmers' protests out of the headlines. This was practical and entirely in line with the government's intentions. And it was certainly not a coincidence, as we will see shortly.

    The Aiwanger story and many other examples in recent years show that shortly before elections, the media always put alleged “scandals” in the headlines that are intended to discredit the oh-so-evil “right-wing” parties in order to worsen their election results. I classify the correctiv campaign in this category because it is about weakening the AfD before the upcoming European elections. We should stock up on lots of popcorn, because I'm sure the media will uncover many more "scandals" - again, of course, purely by chance, just before the elections.

    The alleged secret meeting in Potsdam was actually quite banal. Corectiv originally said that the meeting was about “deportations,” a word that immediately brings back memories of the Holocaust and the deportations of Jews for Germans. However, the fact that it was supposed to be about “deportations” was a lie and part of the intended propaganda, because the media readily quoted the word. Corrective later changed this quietly and secretly , now the term is “expulsion”.
    “Invent stories”

    Jean Peters, one of correctiv's lead “investigative journalists” in the “research” into the alleged secret meeting, is not a journalist. He is an activist and a declared opponent of the AfD who has also physically attacked leading AfD politicians . He wrote about himself on his website :

    “I develop actions and invent stories with which I intervene in political and economic events. Particularly important: use the right media strategy to attract attention, stimulate social discussion and thus contribute to change.”

    That's exactly what correctiv obviously did with the "scandal" surrounding the "secret meeting": a story was invented to "intervene in political events" and there was also the "appropriate media strategy" like that the subsequent media campaign showed.

    Boris Reitschuster noticed the entry on Jean Peters's page and wrote about it. Just a day later, Jean Peters changed the text on his page and deleted the treacherous statement. The passage then read :

    “I now work as an investigative journalist at Correctiv, the largest public interest media company in Germany.
    Before that, I developed actions with which I intervened in political and economic events. It was about developing strategies to attract attention and thereby stimulate social discussion and thus contribute to change.”

    There is no longer anything about “inventing stories,” which he was previously so proud of. Not even that he did that before.
    The media and politicians were obviously informed weeks in advance

    There is even more evidence that the correctiv story was a long-planned denunciation campaign. In Berlin, on January 17th, around a week after the publication of correctiv, there was a staged reading in the Berliner Ensemble, in which actors re-enacted the alleged scandalous meeting. They read their texts from the paper. But as the Berliner Zeitung reported , the theater was already informed about the upcoming anti-AfD campaign in December:

    “The artistic director of the Vienna Volkstheater, Kay Voges, knew about the Correctiv research since the end of December. A spokeswoman for the Volkstheater told the Berliner Zeitung upon request.”

    And if the theater was already informed about correctiv two weeks before its publication, then the mainstream media, which is in the management of correctiv, was even more so. They had plenty of time to prepare their articles and start the planned campaign against the AfD from January 10th. The same applies to the government, which finances corrective measures. There, too, people were certainly informed in advance and were ready to feign the necessary indignation and call for mass demonstrations against the “evil right”.

    What is striking is that the media and politicians are attacking the entire AfD party, even though there were no leading AfD politicians at the “secret meeting”, just people from the back rows. If such a meeting was actually intended to rub off on the entire party, then the media campaign would also have had to be directed against the CDU, of which some backbenchers were also present. But the CDU was not the focus of the media and the demos.
    The perfect timing

    And here we come back to the remarkable date of the publication of correctiv. In December, the farmers announced their protests from January 8th. In the run-up to the protests, the media began linking the farmers with right-wing extremists. The media campaign against the alleged right-wing extremists and enemies of democracy in the farmers' protests began almost a week earlier.

    The farmers' protests began on January 8th , accompanied by the media campaign about alleged right-wing extremists and enemies of democracy at the protests. And just two days later, correctiv's publication, which we now know was long planned and agreed upon, firstly pushed the farmers' protests into the media and, secondly, certainly unsettled many participants, because against the background of the "demonstrations against the right", fewer people certainly wanted to do so take part in the farmers’ demonstrations, which are described as “right-wing”.

    The management of the theater in Berlin knew about the planned campaign against the AfD “since the end of December”, which means that by the end of December it had probably already been decided when the correctiv campaign would start. The fact that January 10th was chosen should not be a coincidence, because on December 18th Agriculture Minister Özdemir made his appearance at farmers' protests, where he was booed terribly and where Joachim Rukwied, the head of the farmers' association, insulted him. At the event, Rukwied announced that the protests would escalate in January, because what the traffic light was planning, Rukwied said at the demo, was a declaration of war and he added :

    “We accept this declaration of war. This is just the start here today.”

    Now I'm speculating of course, but I would bet a lot that following this event it was decided to run the correctiv story immediately after the start of the farmers' protests in order to take the wind out of their sails.

    Although this is all very obvious, the media and politicians would call this a “conspiracy theory”. However, with so many coincidences, you have to be a convinced believer in coincidence if you don't suspect something.
    Is the SPD right-wing extremist?

    Another example shows how hypocritical the campaign is. After the “secret meeting”, the AfD was accused of wanting to deport migrants en masse. But what's wrong with that? Finally, in October 2023, a month before the “secret meeting”, Chancellor Scholz said :

    “We finally have to deport those who have no right to stay in Germany on a large scale.
    There are too many coming.
    We have to deport more and faster.”

    And SPD chairman Lars Klingbeil has just called for the “deportation offensive” launched by Scholz to be implemented quickly. He called on the federal states to consistently apply the deportation rules that were tightened by the federal government in January:

    “The federal states now have the options – and they must use them”

    I can't see any major differences to the demands of the AfD.

    But after the “secret meeting”, the AfD is also accused of wanting to revoke German citizenship from migrants who have already been naturalized, which is supposedly very bad. Participants in the “secret meeting” did not deny this either, although they qualified that they were talking about Islamists and criminals who were unwilling to integrate and whose German citizenship should be revoked, for example for Islamist crimes.

    However, this is also a demand of the SPD. German media reported on it in mid-November. For example, in the Tagesspiegel it sounded like this :

    “If someone who has received a German passport later turns out to be an anti-Semite, it should be possible to have their German passport subsequently revoked. This is what the SPD is demanding for the new citizenship law.”

    This shows how constructed the campaign against the AfD is. If the media and politicians were serious about what they say about the AfD, they would also have to call on people to protest against the SPD, which officially makes the same demands as the participants in the alleged “secret meeting”.

    So what is the scandal about the “secret meeting”? The only scandal is how the German media and politicians from the bloc parties behave.
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