Germany Flushes Itself Down the Toilet

Germany is the economic powerhouse of Europe. Economically speaking, when Germany sneezes, Europe catches cold.

At the moment Germany seems to be coughing and sniffling a lot, yet not much attention is being paid to its sickness internationally. To me it’s an important issue, but maybe it’s being eclipsed by the Danse Macabre in Ukraine and the elaborate kabuki theater of Kamala Harris vs. Donald Trump in the USA.

I was prompted to track down the video below after reading this tweet by Zlatti71:

Germany’s economy is continuing to decline. In southern Germany, where the automotive industry was once the primary driver of growth, the situation has become alarming. Over the past two months, the supplier industry has experienced a drop in order intake by about 10 to 15%, signaling significant challenges for the sector.

Boris Palmer is a German politician who became well-known over many years as the mayor of the city of Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg).

He recently said: “This is a decline like I have never seen before, the heart of Baden-Württemberg as an industrial region. The situation is truly alarming. Tübingen, once a thriving city, is now a case for redevelopment.”

The video shows a segment from a recent edition of the Markus Lanz talk show on the German public broadcaster ZDF. Many thanks to Brunhilde for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling.

The translator sends these background notes on the dramatis personae in the video:

Markus Lanz is the talk show host.

At the start of this segment, the banner at the bottom says, “Michael Roth will not run for the Bundestag in 2025.”

Michael Roth belongs to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing Social Democratic Party (SPD). He has served as a member of the Bundestag since 1998 and was minister of state for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Affairs office from 2013 to 2021 under Angela Merkel. So he had been a bigwig in the SPD. At the beginning he tells the host that he no longer holds any important positions in that party.

Boris Pistorius (who does not appear in the video, but is mentioned) is a Social Democrat who serves as Minister of Defence under Chancellor Scholz.

When Michael Roth says at approximately 2:46 that he’s had enough of dealing with Gerard Schrӧder’s Russia lies, he’s referring to this sort of thing (from Wikipedia): “After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Schröder was criticized for his policies towards Vladimir Putin’s government, his work for Russian state-owned companies, and his lobbying on behalf of Russia. In March 2022, the Public Prosecutor General initiated proceedings related to accusations against Schröder of complicity in crimes against humanity due to his role in Russian state-owned corporations, while the CDU/CSU group demanded that Schröder be included in the European Union sanctions against individuals with ties to the Russian government. An SPD party arbitration committee ruled in March 2023 that he had not violated any party rules and would remain a member of the party.”

The blond guy who starts speaking at about 2:56 is Boris Palmer, who is the mayor of Tübingen. Once a Green, he transitioned from Wunderkind to “problem child” in his party. He’s the guy who praises Gerhard Schröder for having gotten the German economy on the road even though it caused trouble with his party.

At about 4:10 the banner says “Boris Palmer is considered to be the best-known mayor in Germany.”

The woman, Eva Quadbeck, is a journalist, the head of the capital editorial office of the RND editorial network, which is closely tied to the SPD.

Hellequin GB adds this note:

Boris Palmer is no longer with the Greens. He’s now an independent with the Free Voters. Nevertheless, in this discussion on ZDF he is saying that they have a €40 million financial hole, but he just opened up an elaborately heated bicycle bridge, at a cost to the taxpayer of €16 million. That guy is not for real. He’s just like the rest.

For an extensive analysis (in German) of the discussion on Markus Lanz, see this post from Tichys Einblick.

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Horrors, and Rumors of Horrors

This is a difficult post, and not really one I want to write. It’s probably going to make a lot of people angry. Still, there are some things that need to be said. All I ask is that you read it carefully; don’t just skim it and react to certain keywords and phrases.

Last Wednesday a tweet on X about Chimney Rock, North Carolina went viral. Some of the information in it lined up with other well-documented sources, but the meat of it — the part that made it go viral — concerned the alleged actions of the federal government in Chimney Rock.

I don’t want to link to any instances of the post, or quote it verbatim, because I don’t want to assist the spread of disinformation. But here’s the gist of it: according to the unidentified source, the feds came to Chimney Rock after it was wrecked by Hurricane Helene. They called a town meeting, and told the residents that their property was being seized by the government under Eminent Domain. They were not allowed to return and rebuild. Everything was to be bulldozed, including all the dead bodies, which were not being collected. The rumor was that the motive was to mine for lithium under the town.

That’s sensational stuff, and it’s no wonder it went viral. But is it true?

There’s only a single unidentified source for the story, as far as I can tell. Before I get into the recent (Thursday) video documentation from Chimney Rock, let’s look into the lithium aspect of the rumor. According to another source, the coveted lithium is part of the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt. Wikipedia tells us: “Spodumene is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminium inosilicate, LiAl2, and is a commercially important source of lithium.”

The following map shows the region of western North Carolina (credit: OnTheWorldMap) where spodumene is mined:

The narrow green splotch on the right side of the map is a rough sketch of the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt, which runs southwest from Catawba County through Lincolnton and Kings Mountain, crossing the South Carolina line and tapering off near Gaffney. The Belt lies roughly fifty miles east of Chimney Rock, and does not underlie the severely flood-damaged communities in the western mountains. Whatever nefarious doings may be afoot in Chimney Rock, they do not involve lithium.

See this Piedmont Lithium page for more information on the Carolina Tin-Spodumene Belt.

On Thursday a young man named Mark Huneycutt hiked into Chimney Rock for the express purpose of seeing whether any of the wild rumors were true, and to document the damage and recovery efforts underway. He had to travel a long way on foot; the road was completely gone in a number of places, and even an ATV couldn’t get through.

I recommend watching all twenty minutes of this video. The scenes of local residents working together are inspiring — clearing debris, helping each other, and even bulldozing new sections of road where the old one was completely washed away:

I think we can say with confidence that the rumors (really just a single-source rumor) were a hoax. It was a QAnon-type operation, seeded on the web to discredit everyone who is seriously trying to investigate what’s happening in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee.

We’re being hoaxed. We’re being played.

“But Baron,” you say, “how do you know that video is authentic? And how do you know that there isn’t a lithium belt under Chimney Rock that the feds know about, but no one else does?”

You got me there — I don’t know either of those things.

Maybe the video itself is a hoax. All the people who appeared in it could be actors hired by the Deep State. Maybe all the equipment and buildings and roadways were just staged for the purposes of producing a deep fake. Maybe there really are mounds of dead bodies being heaped up by killdozers in Them Thar Hills.

Maybe a single, unsourced tweet is the truth, and all the rest is lies.

Go ahead, take your copy of Occam’s Razor and apply it to all that, and see what conclusions you come to.

As for me, I think it’s a hoax. It was made up and deployed as deliberate disinformation.

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The Poisons in Your Sky

I don’t know much about chemtrails, so I can’t offer an expert opinion on the topic. However, the following documentary from the Netherlands seems quite well-sourced, and offers plenty of food for thought.

Many thanks to Henk for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes and RAIR Foundation for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

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