HebrideanUltraTerfHecate on Nostr: https://thecritic.co.uk/wer-finanziert-sie/ No story sums up this cosy ...
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No story sums up this cosy media-political elite alliance than Correctiv, a journalistic non-profit which last year broke a blockbuster story about the AfD holding a secret conference in Potsdam to discuss how to remigrate non-ethnic Germans. It flashed around the world. Here was what everyone had feared: the AfD really were the second coming of the Nazis. The only problem? It wasn’t true. In a series of court cases, the major points have all been established as false. While Correctiv claims it is funded through donations, it emerged that since 2015 they’ve received 2.5 million Euros in taxpayer funding. Despite their story proving to have more holes than a Swiss cheese, they were given an award for the best journalism of 2024 by Medium Magazine.
These cases are hardly exhaustive; everywhere you look in Germany there is “filz” to be found. If Friedrich Merz — likely to be the next Chancellor — is serious about governing then he will have to tackle it. Much like “the Blob” decried by Dominic Cummings, it will seek to frustrate any real reform he wants to do. If Germany is to sweep away the dead hand of creeping regulations, to end the asylum crisis that makes our streets unsafe, and reject the narrow range of policies that the German elites consider acceptable then he will need to look to figures like Trump or Milei who took on their own bureaucracy. Perhaps Merz should take comfort in the fact that Stihl still make some of the best chainsaws in Germany. Afuera!
No story sums up this cosy media-political elite alliance than Correctiv, a journalistic non-profit which last year broke a blockbuster story about the AfD holding a secret conference in Potsdam to discuss how to remigrate non-ethnic Germans. It flashed around the world. Here was what everyone had feared: the AfD really were the second coming of the Nazis. The only problem? It wasn’t true. In a series of court cases, the major points have all been established as false. While Correctiv claims it is funded through donations, it emerged that since 2015 they’ve received 2.5 million Euros in taxpayer funding. Despite their story proving to have more holes than a Swiss cheese, they were given an award for the best journalism of 2024 by Medium Magazine.
These cases are hardly exhaustive; everywhere you look in Germany there is “filz” to be found. If Friedrich Merz — likely to be the next Chancellor — is serious about governing then he will have to tackle it. Much like “the Blob” decried by Dominic Cummings, it will seek to frustrate any real reform he wants to do. If Germany is to sweep away the dead hand of creeping regulations, to end the asylum crisis that makes our streets unsafe, and reject the narrow range of policies that the German elites consider acceptable then he will need to look to figures like Trump or Milei who took on their own bureaucracy. Perhaps Merz should take comfort in the fact that Stihl still make some of the best chainsaws in Germany. Afuera!