Open Thread – Saturday, 12 November 2022

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  1. Steve trickler says:

    I was .7 Out.

    The larger shallower quake has hit as Dutch forecast.

    Now we watch the spread.

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    USGS.

    M 7.3 – Tonga region
    V
    DYFI
    IV
    ShakeMap
    GREEN
    PAGER
    Time
    2022-11-11 18:48:45 (UTC+08:00)
    Location
    19.318°S 172.100°W
    Depth
    24.8 km


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  2. Steve trickler says:

    It’s a great screensaver.

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    Earthquake 3D livestream via Dutchsinse:

    DutchsinseOfficial Live Earthquakes — past 48hrs up to current


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  3. mh says:

    If anyone is still thinking Ron is the regime pick …

    Brent Baker 🇺🇦
    @BrentHBaker
    ·
    Lets the smears begin. Final episode of @TheGoodFight on @ParamountPlus has client claiming @GovRonDeSantis sexually assaulted him. “He invited me onto his staff. Little did I know what he meant by staff….and forced me into oral sex.” Have DeSantis DNA “stain.” #thegoodfight


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  4. mh says:

    Close finish coming up Aus v NZL in rugby league WC semi final.

    From Elland Rd, Leeds.
    Shy Ted’s old stomping ground.


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  5. mh says:

    You can view here if you want to see how wild the psyops are becoming:

    Ian Miles Cheong
    @stillgray
    A character on the Paramount Plus series “The Good Fight” explicitly names Gov. Ron DeSantis as having sexually assaulted him. What in the world?

    https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1590855268803694593?s=20&t=8tspTL7UZxO4NPFF-GoXBg


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  6. Shy Ted says:

    Elland Road was a scary place back in the day, the Revie era of the 70’s. Skinheads, bovver boys and other gangs. Safety meant wearing a white, blue and yellow scarf. We lived next door to the keeper, Gary Sprake for a few years. Bit of a lad with the ladies which brought him undone, wife was a total hotty which baffled us as kids. That and the occasional critical error in goal. Normally we’d have seats right behind a pylon and catching the action was a challenge. For one big match we could only get standing in the Gelderd End where the gangs were. Never been so frightened in all my life. At the end we had to walk through street brawls between rival supporters and the working class lads didn’t hold back with their Doc Martens. Beautiful football though. There’s an excellent film, usually on SBS called “The Damned United” about the 42 days Brian Cough managed them and the casting of the players was astonishingly accurate, even finding an actor with a long neck and sloping shoulders to play Jack Charlton. Some years later I worked at Leeds General Infirmary and the big, burly coppers with hobnail boots would bring in the injured supporters before booking them and releasing them to do it all again next week. Black eyes, broken bones, the occasional stab wound but dozens and dozens of them. “Great day out” they would say.


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  7. Shy Ted says:

    She’s a science journalist and can’t quite work it out
    Not worth reading but if you do a quick “ctrl f” vacc you’ll find 14 mentions. Read around the matches and what do you see?


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  8. PerryJ says:

    Second-largest Democratic donor’s wealth evaporates overnight in crypto meltdown

    The cryptocurrency entrepreneur who donated the second most to Democrats this election cycle just had 94% of his net worth erased as his company collapsed.


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  9. PerryJ says:

    You can view here if you want to see how wild the psyops are becoming:

    The question asked: Is something like that is legally actionable?
    DeSantis was named in that episode.


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  10. kaysee kaysee says:

    Lotto is a game of chance. We know the odds are 1 in millions but yet people play in the hope that they will be the one.

    Now we learn it is really systemic racism. Nothing to do with the choices that people make.

    Lottery accused of ‘systemic racism’ after massive Powerball payout

    A CNN piece on Wednesday spoke with critics knocking the lottery system as a form of systemic racism that targets poor Black and Brown communities across America.

    The largest Powerball jackpot lottery ticket ever was recently sold in Altadena, California, with one lucky resident winning a historic $2.04 billion. The odds were 1 in 292.2 million.

    Researchers told CNN that despite the extremely low chance of winning, state lotteries still aggressively market the lottery and sell tickets to low-income communities at higher rates, thus misleading Americans to believe it will help them quickly generate wealth.


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  11. kaysee kaysee says:

    Kari Lake

    Arizona & America:

    Rest assured that I have the brightest & best attorneys in the Nation, right here on the ground in Arizona.

    Every ballot has eyes on it.

    GOP Ballots (Election Day) ballots start dropping tonight.

    Keep your Champagne cold, our votes are about to start.

    Kari Lake Joins Tucker Carlson to Talk About the State of Her Race


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  12. kaysee kaysee says:

    But I think MAGA Republicans and MAGA Americans love Ron too, therefore I don’t think Trump is handling this cleverly at all.

    Democrats and GOP establishment must be enjoying the way Trump has been behaving and reacting this month.

    Over the past year, the call has gone from just Trump as the MAGA star to Trump and Ron as MAGA stars. Trump does not want to share the podium with anyone. He wants all the glory and credit for himself.

    If he had enough self-confidence and a regular ego, he would see that he started the movement for change and that his supporters regard him as their hero. Instead, he is feeling threatened by DeSantis and thus treating him as a rival instead of an ally.

    Some hard-core Trump supporters are insisting that DeSantis is a Rino because he is being supported by the likes of Bush and other Rinos. What is the truth? Is DeSantis a Rino plant being used to break-up MAGA and destroy Trump? Or are they both being used – pitted one against the other – to get rid of MAGA and conservatives?

    Instead of picking the battles that are important to fight, Trump has chosen the divisive path of making an enemy of DeSantis and thus the conservatives who are his supporters.

    What a pity! They could have worked together to ensure a MAGA win. DeSantis is young. Trump is old. The two of them, along with MAGA advisers, could have devised a victory plan.

    From what I have picked up elsewhere, it could be that Trump with his errors over the past two years has been seen as toxic and it maybe that GOP/Rinos have been courting DeSantis. This would make Ron dependent on the Rinos which would be a bad outcome.

    Trump and his ego causing a big mess.

    Trump irks conservatives, could be damaging his political career by attacking DeSantis


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  13. kaysee kaysee says:

    “All passengers and crew required negative COVID tests before joining the ship, and passengers over the age of 12 and crew needed to be fully vaccinated.”

    Fat lot of good that did except damage their immune systems.

    The humans were fully “vaxxed”.
    The ship was fully “cleaned”.

    The crew complied so that they could keep their jobs.
    The passengers complied so that they could take the holiday they wanted.

    Any yet, here is the ship docking in Sydney with hundreds of Covid-infected allowed into the city and asked not to take public transport to their destination.

    Why will these sheeple comply? Will it affect their future cruising if they pass on the infection to others?

    Ruby Princess. Majestic Princess.
    Fully Jabbed world cruisers.


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  14. mh says:

    Ron DeSanctimonious says Trump.

    sanctimonious

    giving the impression that you feel you are better and more moral than other people

    ***

    DeSantis legislating against Floridian children having their genitals cut off is a little too much for Donald.

    Trump’s idea of fighting the ‘woke mob’ is to say he prefers Merry Christmas to Happy Holidays.


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  15. kaysee kaysee says:

    Ron DeSanctimonious says Trump.

    Not just Ron. He is spreading a wider net.

    Trump now attacking Glenn Youngkin ..

    Unquiet flows the Don

    I’m not sure what President Trump is thinking with his latest salvo, this one against Glenn Younkin. Youngkin is of course another recently elected and appealing Republican governor.

    This is what I’m thinking. It’s more or less the same thing I was thinking when he held his rally and watched ensuing events at his leisure on January 6. He doesn’t have any family, friends, or worthy advisers whom he listens to. I can’t believe anyone in that category would counsel him to stay on the destructive (and self-destructive) path that he is on.


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  16. kaysee kaysee says:

    Not worth reading but if you do a quick “ctrl f” vacc you’ll find 14 mentions. Read around the matches and what do you see?

    The anti-vaxxers were responsible for causing the fully jabbed to end up with Long covid?


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  17. Shy Ted says:

    There’s been talk in the US for sometime that their Powerball is fixed and the majority of wins go to insiders, political allies and the like, basically money laundering. As they’ve had a hiccup in recent ones I bet it’ll be exposed before too long.
    Talentless insiders getting gigs? Surely not!


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  18. Shy Ted says:

    Good to see the non-MSM haven’t forgotten Paul P
    Cops
    Crisis actors
    Whodunnit


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  19. Eyrie says:

    Get a grip people. You are backing the Dems in destroying the only presidential candidate they are worried about.
    De Santis is just another professional pollie with baggage and backers.


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  20. mh says:

    Ron now favourite

    Sportsbet – US Presidential Election 2024

    Ron DeSantis 3.10


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  21. kaysee kaysee says:

    Get a grip people. You are backing the Dems in destroying the only presidential candidate they are worried about.
    De Santis is just another professional pollie with baggage and backers.

    How’s that?

    I don’t see this as backing the Dems or anyone. We are sharing the information that is available. We are asking questions. We are looking for the truth.

    I would like the best Conservative candidate to be selected for 2024 and to win. At present, Trump is behaving like a child. If he has a problem of some kind with DeSantis, deal with it like an adult. More important, like a leader.

    How does he do that?

    Meet DeSantis privately and sort it out. Not through missives via the public arena. So far, DeSantis has not taken bait and I hope he doesn’t.

    Better still, ignore DeSantis and focus on the problems that Americans are facing: economy and inflation, wokeism, election fraud ….. There’s plenty there.


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  22. Steve trickler says:

    Ron the colluder with RINO’s Desantis. This all out attack on Trump is clearly establishment coordinated. Obvious as the red bum on a Rhesus macaque.


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  23. Steve trickler says:

    Doc Coleman:

    Universal Darkness is Coming Our Way – Fast
    10TH NOVEMBER 2022

    Before he was demonised and lied about for telling the truth about covid-19, the Sunday Express described Vernon Coleman as: ‘Outspoken and alert’.

    1) Google is the new winner of the Hypocrisy Gold Medal for 2022 – overtaking Bono, His Royal Hypocrite, and the Duke and Duchess of California. Google (proud owner of YouTube) is running huge ads announcing ‘Digital attacks are being used to censor critical information online.’ The sly hypocrites have created something called ‘Project Shield’ which they claim is to ‘defend journalists and organisations and more from these attacks’. Have you ever heard of such brass nerve? Google and YouTube are the world’s worst enemies of freedom, free speech and information. YouTube has for years been supressing the truth and censoring and banning truth tellers. Google is, in my view, the most evil and hypocritical company on the planet.

    2) There is no punishment for breaking your word these days. Thanks to the foul behaviour of our politician, civil servants, broadcasters and journalists, old-fashioned virtues such as honesty, decency and honour have become outdated concepts in every area of life. It is rare to find any institution or company which treats its companies with respect or dignity. Sunak is breaking promises like a Greek smashing plates after a good dinner. The evil and treacherous BBC reneged on its promise to give over 75s free TV licences and no one turns a hair. The electors actually expect politicians like Sunak and organisations like the BBC to lie to them.

    3)Along the same theme, have you noticed how many companies are using inflation and the recession as an excuse to put up prices by quite unreasonable amounts? So, for example, food companies make their products smaller and raise the prices not necessarily because their costs have risen but because they are taking advantage of the situation to make bigger profits. In the old days, the mainstream media would have exposed these frauds. Today, the mainstream media is part of the fraud.

    4) People who generously insist that the country should welcome more immigrants are not, by and large, the people who are going to pay for a larger population – because they are not taxpayers. And if they are then some are probably running sweat shops hoping to employ immigrants as cheap labour. Nothing is as it seems these days.

    5) I wonder how many people know that old aged pensioners don’t all receive the same pension – even if they have paid in the requisite amount in national insurance contributions. Pensioners who retired before 2016 receive far less money than pensioners who retired after 2016. This is clearly a fairly secret way to kill off the elderly. A 76-year-old has to pay the same council tax and the same heating costs as a 66-year-old. Giving the 76-year-old a significantly lower pension is simply a crude way to ensure that more of the really elderly freeze or starve to death.

    6)It is becoming common these days for idiots to invest in the much promoted metaverse. I can hardly believe they’re doing it but these sad and truly pathetic souls pay out huge amounts of money to buy bits of imaginary real estate in an imaginary world. These are presumably the same lunatics who buy crypto-currency or non-fungible tokens. I’d like them all to know that I can let them have Dutch tulip bulbs at the bargain price of £1 million apiece.

    7)The BBC is cutting the broadcasting hours of local radio stations. I assume they are doing this because they have discovered that occasionally a nugget of truth might slip through on a local radio station. If the BBC genuinely cared two hoots for local radio they would simply sack a few overpaid executives and presenters. Getting rid of Gary the crisp salesman, who is I believe a football commentator, would probably save enough money to keep all those local stations open. (I suspect he’d probably work for £20 a week for the BBC –just so that he remained famous.)

    8)If more people had pointed out that doctors and journalists refuse to debate the alleged covid pandemic, and the danger of the covid-19 jabs, the whole damned fraud would now be over. The war we’ve been fighting was always a propaganda war and right from the start (best part of three years ago) I tried to shame the opposition, and awaken the public, by pointing out how truth-tellers had been silenced and the truth suppressed. But the general view appears to have been: ‘What’s the point in demanding a debate, they won’t give you one.’ But that’s the whole point. We could have won this war a year ago if more people had pushed hard for the public debate they were never going to give us – and shamed the conspirators and their servants.

    9)I’ve just published my 317th video. Well over 100 are still missing in action – removed by truth crushing employees at YouTube and then hacked out of BrandNewTube. (My guess would be by government operatives. When my videos on BNT disappeared I had around 75,000 subscribers and well over five million views.) My videos are now available on http://www.vernoncoleman.org. For the first months of 2020, Antoinette and I researched, wrote and recorded a video every day of the week. We literally did nothing else (well, we ate and slept occasionally but we took no holiday and no days off) because we recognised from the start that this was a war we had to win. When daily videos become too much and were seriously affecting our health, we cut back a little. We have also researched and written hundreds of articles for our websites. Our reward has been that my reputation and our income have been destroyed. I’d like to record for whatever future might await us all that my wife Antoinette has, despite needing to take daily medication for two serious health problems, devoted most of her energies to this war for the best part of three years. If people were given honours for public service above and beyond the expected then Antoinette would be at the top of the list.

    10) The Royal Horticultural Society wants us all to share our gardens with wasps and slugs and other lovely creatures. All part of the re-wilding madness promoted by the conspirators. Those who doubt the insidious, dry rot nature of wokeness should note that long-term, previously boring organisations such as the Society of Authors, Marylebone Cricket Club and the National Trust now are to have become lefty-lefty-woke. Incidentally, the chairman of the MCC is still chairman of the MCC after a disparaging remark about members emptying their colostomy bags. If he had been rude about women, Jews or homosexuals he’d been practising picking up the soap with his toes. But it’s apparently fine to be nasty about people who are ill or elderly or both. The MCC chairman, who is called Bruce Carnegie-Brown, offered to a resign but, unbelievably, the committee refused to accept it. A decent committee would have expelled him from the club. The entire committee should resign in shame. But they won’t. What sort of slug makes a derogatory comment about people with colostomies? Or elderly folk? I thought about resigning from the MCC but decided to stay in and campaign for change, decency and fairness within the Club.

    11) If William Joyce (aka Lord Haw Haw) hadn’t been hung I think he would working for the BBC. Come to think of it, maybe he is still alive and working there.

    12) The Tories promised to plant 30 million trees a year. It may as well have been 300 million trees a day. It doesn’t matter because it was merely a political promise. So far they’ve planted seven trees and five have died. By 2035 they’ll have to plant 120 million a minute to catch up.

    13) The welfare state was a nice idea but I will tell you something you probably already know: we can’t afford it. We can’t afford it because we are fighting a long-term designer war with Russia and all our money is being spent on bombs and bullets to kill people. Plus, there’s the long covid problem which means that two million lazy bastards are lolling around at home trying to decide whether to watch Netflix, Sky or Amazon while the elderly get the meanest pension in the western world and don’t even get free TV since the BBC broke its promise to the over 75s. (Do it legally, of course, but please don’t pay the BBC licence fee. They’ll only give it all to that Gary Thing, the football person.)

    14) As readers of my book The Shocking History of the EU will know, the EU was set up by and for Nazis and everything that the EU does leads us directly towards the Great Reset – which involves the destruction of health care (among many other things). If you don’t believe that then I am afraid you are in denial.

    15) Kids don’t know what is happening to them. They don’t have any point of reference because they have been brainwashed by climate and covid lefty loonies masquerading as teachers. And, of course, all social media is controlled by a far left wing conspiracy which bans all truths which stand in the way of their plan for a ‘new normal’ (which is jargon for `new abnormal’). Anyone who isn’t a rabid communist, far to the left of Marx and the BBC, is, children are taught, a far right extremist who must be silenced.

    16) Banks now, belatedly, agree with me that house prices are going to fall. But they’re talking about a drop of 15%. I think that is far too optimistic. It’ll be worse than that. And this is going to be global. These days everything is global.

    17) The Scottish Government, desperately looking for something else really stupid to do, has frozen rents and banned landlords from evicting tenants. This is a brilliant idea because it will destroy the private rental sector in Scotland. Property owners in Scotland are now certain to lose money so they’ll sell their properties and the number of houses available to rent will plummet. This is such a good idea (because it leads straight to the Great Reset) that the policy will doubtless be introduced in England and Wales soon. Indeed, I’m surprised the Welsh haven’t already introduced something similar. (In Cornwall, by the way, the County Council is paying up to £5,000 worth of legal fees to help tenants who are threatened with eviction. It’s called the Tenancy Sustainment and Rescue Project. I bet taxpayers are thrilled with it.)

    18) Exciting times in New York too. The nutters there have promised emissions-free electricity by 2040 so they need wind and solar schemes that are not dependent on the wind or sunshine. Sadly, such technologies don’t actually exist, so New York is committed to trusting inventors to find an entirely new way of generating electricity. These people are all utterly insane.

    19) I spend approximately half my life trying to stop software on my word processing devices insisting that the word ‘covid’ be spelt entirely in upper case letters. Despite all the stupid myths that exist, the word ‘covid’ is merely an easily promotable abbreviation of the words `coronavirus disease’. It isn’t an acronym and is not, therefore, entitled to be written in upper case. So, don’t write it in upper case unless you also write FLU, TUMMY ACHE or HEADACHE in capital letters. The aim was, and is, to make the rebranded flu look more important than it is. If you see anyone else writing or printing covid in upper case letters cross it out.

    20) Members of the Government’s official propaganda unit, who are often easily identifiable as controlled opposition, seem to be stepping up the abuse and the lies. Anyone who speaks out about the fake pandemic and the toxic covid-19 jab will be targeted, lied about and demonised. It’s all part of the official plan to demoralise truth-tellers with hatred, sneers and lies. All those nasty comments on videos etc. are written by propagandists who are paid to lie, abuse and sneer. The same few fake names appear time and time again.

    Vernon Coleman’s book called How to stop your doctor killing you is full of tips on how to stop your doctor killing you. (Doctors are now one of the three biggest causes of death – alongside cancer and circulatory disease). How to stop your doctor killing you is available on Amazon as a paperback and an eBook.

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  24. mh says:

    #MegynKellyShow #MegynKelly
    The Trump vs. DeSantis War Has Arrived, with Rich Lowry

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJCs08PvLhk


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  25. Steve trickler says:

    Doc Coleman:

    Germany, Konrad Adenauer, the EU and the Nazis
    11TH NOVEMBER 2022

    Before he was demonised and lied about for telling the truth about covid-19, The Independent newspaper described Vernon Coleman as: ‘King of the Media Docs’.

    The German people voted Konrad Adenauer the greatest German of all time. You may think that strange when you read the following extract from my book The Shocking History of the EU.

    Konrad Adenauer (German 1876-1967)
    On 20th September 1949, Konrad Adenauer, the first ‘proper’ post-War German Chancellor, made it clear that he intended to continue with Hitler’s policies. (Technically, Goebbels was Chancellor for one day after Hitler’s death.)

    When he took office, as Germany’s Chancellor, Adenauer announced: ‘We shall continue along the road of the economic policies on which we have already successfully travelled.’

    Adenauer was himself known to be a Nazi supporter and is regarded as an important figure in the history of the European Union. He is usually described as one of the ‘leading founding fathers’ of the EU and his attitude towards the Nazis is, therefore, extremely important.

    You might imagine that Germany’s first post-War Chancellor would take great care not to favour Nazis or to include Nazis in his government. In fact, no one could have done more than Adenauer to ensure that Nazis played an important part in the development of the ‘new’ Germany, and immediately after the end of the War, Adenauer deliberately allowed senior Nazis back into positions of great power. The fact that the EU still regards Adenauer as an important and respected figure tells us everything we need to know about the organisation’s attitude towards Nazism.

    Adenauer’s Chief of Staff (Minister of the Chancellery) from 1953 to 1963 was a man called Hans Globke (qv).

    Globke was a Nazi supporter who was involved in drafting the Nuremberg race laws, which revoked the German citizenship of Jews in 1935. Globke admitted that he knew that Jews were being killed in large numbers. (Globke had applied to be an official member of the Nazi party but had been turned down by Martin Bormann.)

    As the most important man in Adenauer’s post War Government, Globke was responsible for hiring men for senior appointments. (Adenauer, who had previously only been mayor of Cologne, was inexperienced and leant heavily on Globke.)

    And so, thanks to Globke, the new secretary of state at the Ministry of German Affairs was Franz Thedieck, a man who had betrayed opponents of Nazism to the Gestapo. The secretary of state at the Finance Ministry was Alfred Hartmann, who had supervised the confiscation of Jewish property. The Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Economics and so on and on were all in the hands of former Nazis. Many of Adenauer’s appointees were Nazis with the worst records and when this was pointed out to him, the German Chancellor defended the appointments. Nazis were welcomed and protected by Adenauer.

    As soon as Germany regained autonomy, Adenauer’s new Government reversed Allied laws which had been introduced in 1948 in an attempt to introduce a little more democracy into the German civil service. Globke made changes which allowed former civil servants who had been removed from their positions because of their Nazi activities during the War to be returned to their positions (or to higher ones). The Nazis were back in power in Germany. Astonishingly, 184 former Nazi party members immediately returned to the Foreign Affairs Department. No fewer than 153 of these had worked under Ribbentrop. (Adenauer couldn’t put Ribbentrop back into position because he had been executed.)

    The Adenauer years were a bonanza for Nazis. In the early 1960s more than 60 West German ambassadors and foreign officers were former Nazi party members who had helped organise the Final Solution. There were former SS officers everywhere. Adenauer’s personal assistant, a man called Herbert Blankenhorn, was a former Nazi but would in due course become an increasingly influential German diplomat. Almost unbelievably, the former Nazi was West German ambassador to the United Kingdom between 1965 and 1970. Prior to that, Blankenhorn had been West German ambassador to NATO, to France and to Italy.

    It is inconceivable that Adenauer did not know what Globke had done during the War. And it is inconceivable that he did not know that Globke had restored the Nazis to power in Germany. It is however conceivable that he wholeheartedly approved of what had been done in his name.

    Today, Adenauer, a committed supporter of Hitler and the Nazis, is regarded by the European Union as one of its founding fathers.

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