Insights about living and working in Germany

Kemi Badenoch and the rightwingers. Making sense of the bizzare phenomenon of black people supporting and being supported by racists and fascists.

Sat, 23 Jul 2022 10:30:11 GMT

Kemi Badenoch, a black woman contestant in the ongoing search for Boris Johnson's replacement was recently endorsed by Britain First, a fascist party in Britain. What is this about?

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Abortion laws in Germany expose how progressive the US Roe vs Wade laws really were

Sat, 02 Jul 2022 10:29:36 GMT

Thoughts and reflections about abortion laws in Germany and how progressive the US really was prior to their supreme court striking down the laws legalizing abortions.

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German pacifists and the Ukraine question

Wed, 04 May 2022 18:59:04 GMT

Is it fair to demand for peace from the attacked?

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Is it possible to be friends with people you disagree with politically?

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:50:38 GMT

The Britannica defines friendship as a "state of enduring affection, esteem, intimacy, and trust between two people."Is it possible to be friends with people you disagree with politically? Some people would say yes, but I have my reservations.In this episode, I share my thoughts and reflections on why I think that this is not possible.

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Why Whoopi Goldberg was right. The holocaust was not just about race.

Sat, 05 Feb 2022 18:29:22 GMT

Whoopi Goldberg was this week suspended from 'The View', an American TV show because she said that the Holocaust was not about race. This issue is complicated, and it is disappointing to see the superficial outrage and the subsequent suspension of Whoopi Goldberg.

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Why Gil Olfarim’s lie about being ordered to remove his Star of David chain is a tragedy not just to his fellow Jews but to all victims of discrimination

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 16:13:07 GMT

Gil Olfarim's gift to anti-semites.

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The most remarkable things about the just concluded German elections

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 11:12:39 GMT

Thoughts and reflections on Germany's elections.

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Crazy ways elections in Germany and Kenya differ

Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:00:17 GMT

German elections are not just unemotional but are a master class on how to do elections right.When looked at from the prism of my birth country Kenya, one can only describe them as peculiar.

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Why do right wingers from Europe and America love going to Africa?

Sun, 25 Jul 2021 10:47:48 GMT

The Querdenker, the German equivalent of Qanon have been encouraging their followers to move to Africa. One of their leading lights, Bodo Schiffmann is at the forefront of encouraging the move to Tanzania. From Africa, they plan to fight to free Germans from Angela Merkel's "Corona dictatorship." What is this about?

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The cancel culture myth; the incredible story of Jens Lehman, Denis Aogo, Boris Palmer and their racist rhetorik

Sun, 09 May 2021 10:41:29 GMT

A former German national football keeper Jens Lehman, a former professional and national football player Denis Aogo and the current Greens party mayor of the city of Tübingen Boris Palmer and their supporters probably believe that they are victims of cancel culture. But are they really?

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Why the videos published by German superstar actors Heike Makatsch, Jan Joseph Liefers and co. scared me

Sat, 24 Apr 2021 15:32:14 GMT

This week, German superstar actors like Heike Makatsch, Jan Joseph Liefers, Ulrike Folkerts and 50 of their colleagues published videos mocking the current Covid regulations passed by Angela Merkel’s government. The applause from the far-right party AFD and supporters of fascist hateful movements like Querdenker was prompt and boisterous.

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Examining the hypocrisy of COVID ravaged Britain redlisting Kenya and the toxic colonial hangovers

Sun, 11 Apr 2021 17:22:03 GMT

Thoughts and reflections on the toxic parasitic relationship between Britain and Kenya.

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Relationship status: Catholic Church + Germans = Complicated

Sat, 27 Mar 2021 21:18:09 GMT

Merkel's disastrous week and the complicated relationship between Germans and the catholic church.

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Thoughts on Merkel's enduring popularity and her party's disastrous performance, Magufuli, a Covid skeptics death

Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:06:32 GMT

This week, the Tanzanian president Dr. Magufuli Pombe, a major Covid-19 skeptic died. As someone who grew up in Kenya, I feel a special connection to Tanzania. My reflections of a man celebrated by many and despised by not so few.Also included are my thoughts on the disastrous performance of Angela Merkel’s CDU party in the elections in Baden-württemberg and Rheinland Pfalz and Merkel's enduring popularity in Germany.

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