German Football Cup 1. Round

I picked out matches with amateur teams in good early form from the former East Germany playing against professional teams, who could struggle at the beginning of the season. Games as follows: Chemnitzer FC to beat Mainz 05 @ 5.50 ***LOST / Optik Rathenau to advance against FC St. Pauli @ 10 ***LOST/ FC Neubrandenburg win or draw against Karlsruher SC @ 8.50 ***LOST/ FC Magdeburg to beat FC Augsburg @ 7.50 ***WON and Dynamo Dresden to beat Schalke 04 @ 6.70***WON. I have put them into singles, doubles, trebles and one accumulator.

Living In A World Of Manipulation

Last January the German automobile club ADAC conducted an opinion poll among the readers of their magazine, asking which is their favourite car - as it turned out the result was manipulated. Recently the German public TV channel ZDF broadcasted a show named " Germany's Best ", where spectators should vote for the most merited Germans - as it turned out the result was manipulated. So, when they cannot even be honest with this light entertainment stuff, shall i believe they are with more serious events as the general elections for instance ? Here the industry steadily cries, there is a shortage of skilled workers. Now it was revealed, there is no shortage, but the industry wants skilled workers from abroad working for less than Germans. Twice weekly i read a survey telling me, that Chancellora Merkel's approval rates have risen another two points, although she was on vacation. Forums are full with so called trolls, who write commentaries on behalf of others. Gold or silver rates ? Forget it. Currently world boxing heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko makes a complete fool of himself by writing columns and giving interviews for that filthy tabloid BILD. And that brings me to a horrible incident - the crash of flight MH 17. For the main stream media, they should all be ashamed of themselves, the culprit was quickly found and of course it had to be Putin. There is no proof or reasoning, why he should benefit from that tragedy, but it does not matter .Meanwile it is more probable, that the aircraft was brought down by a Ukrainian Sukhoi 25 fighter plane after the Ukrainian aircontrol deviated it from its original route - looks like the handwriting from the same people responsible for 9/11. I reckon the Western civilization accounts for approximately 12 % of the world's population, yet it is responsible for 99 % of the bollocks happening on the planet. And now the Governments of these Western nations impose sanctions on Russia to reprimand Putin ! Do they want to expulse Russia from the energy market, so that the Americans can fill the void with their fracking gas or do they want to weaken Russia to attack it later on ? This strategy was already applied against the Iraq. There is absolutely nobody in the West, Putin could trust ( the foto shows NATO madman Fogh Rasmussen ), so he joins forces with China, India, South Africa and Brasil along with other Latin American countries, which are sovereign and do not consider Putin a rogue. I am under no illusion, there are plenty of  lunatics on a war path, who could feel threatened under this new alliance and if they snap we look at another world war. Meanwhile in the USA the number of doomsday preppers is growing. These folks believe the financial system will crash soon with martial law declared afterwards. They turned their homes into castles stuffed with arms and food, because in their opinion people will kill each other over a can of corn. Russia currently conducts big maneuvers and it seems they prepare against unwelcomed visitors. When former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder kept Germany out of the Iraq war, Angela Merkel wasted no time to fly over to George W. Bush to make a kowtow, so it is obvious what to expect from her. In the midst of manipulation left, right and center this video provides good information. However it also contains gruesome images and is not suited for sensitive minds. So the question is : Is it possible , that the unthinkable happens ? Those , who decide have already built huge underground bunkers ... As usual please try to make your own picture about the situation by searching for information outside the mainstream media. Recommende books are "The Committee of 300" and "The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations", which deals with the manipulation of human beings, by Dr. John Coleman.

Touching Hot Irons - Anti-Semitism And Racism

The Islamic resistent movement Hamas kept firing rockets on Israeli territory and was also accused of killing three Israelic Juveniles. Israel responded by bombing the Gazah strip with the main aim to destroy their tunnel system. As a result, many demonstrations in Germany took place with participants chanting anti-Semitic slogans, what in turn upset the usual suspects here. Before i write my opinion about it, i want to quote someone with the name " Pro_Europa", who had this to say about Anti-Semitism: " ... Whoever uses the word anti-Semitism, wants to defame, wants to lay a smoke-screen and wants to defend the radikal Zionists and their crimes. It's the strategy of the criminal Zionists to call every critic on their deeds anti-Semitic ... " It is thus important to make a distinction between Jews and jewish Zionists. While the regular Jews are peaceloving people wanting to live out their religion, the Zionist's are nationalistic, atheistic and ready to terrorize in order to achieve their goals. Jewish Zionists included Rothschild, Warburg and Schiff and more contemporary Larry Fink and Lloyd Blankfein among others. It seems, a non-Zionist does not need to apply for the Fed's president's job and some of the worst war mongers and neocons in George W. Bush's administration were Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz. So there is a relative small group of folks equipped with enormous wealth and global power. According to Henry Kissinger "globalisation" is only another word for American hegemony and my point of view is, that they are trying to establish a " One World Government " with the Euro, the EU, Free Trading Zone's and lots and lots of compliant politicians as their tools. I also took a look into the who is who in the Ukraine linked to the West and there we go again ... Petro Poroshenko, Victoria Nuland, John Kerry and Ihor Kolomoyskyi are in the mix and again and again many of the main protagonists in the world theater belong to this exquisite class. I am not going to agitate against anyone, however as a sensible, politically matured citizen i would like to voice my concerns about current proceedings with these people involved, without being hit with the anti-Semitism stick. How will they react, if the financial system crashes or Putin and others tackle the dollar ? It is going to get ugly./ Once i was involved in a discussion, when somebody was accused of being a racist. He went furious about the accusations, but i only thought : " Mellow out, dude, there is a racist, smaller or larger or even only momentarily in each and everyone of us (except Claudia Roth). " I mean, nobody likes to be called an racist, but there is a plethora of races very different from each other and you cannot like them all equally, be it because of their culture or habbits or another reason. I have no affinity to religion and like my beers,  so i stay clear from places , where they prefer it the other way around and perhaps even that makes me a mild racist. But there is no room for error, should i make a shortlist with people i dislike most, that list would mostly contain whites wearing neckties. And now everybody listen to BLACK SABBATH.

Johnny Winter †

Guitar slinger Johnny Winter died July, 16th in Zurich. After devoting most of the seventy years of his  lifetime to the blues and various substances, his frail body eventually cried "enough" briefly before the release of a new album. Johnny played regularly here in Hamburg and watching this cross- eyed albino picking fluid, powerful lines and licks al fresco was certainly something, nobody will ever come close to again. The Guardian wrote the following obituary about him.

" I had the mojo boogie
  It was that mojo boogie
  Gotta be that mojo boogie
                                           It was that mojo boogie, begin to slide on down. "

                                                           Johnny Winter  - Mojo Boogie -                                     

Merkel, Gauck And the World Cup 2014

I had my doubts about the German team, but was proven wrong. With the excception of a few bumpy games, this handsome bunch played good, intelligent football and deservedly won the cup. Their behaviour after the thumping of Brasil needs a special positive mentioning. However i wouldn't be a German, if i had nothing to nag about. They are great football players, but terrible dancers as Thomas Müller demonstrated in this video - a duck on ice has more elegant moves. Just kidding and what really winds me up was the presence of chancellora Merkel and to make matters worse she had Federal President Gauck in her tow. These two constantly act against the interests of the German people, albeit in favour of the EU and the financial elites as Merkel recently for instance made clear by supporting the Transatlantik Trading and Investment Partnership (TTIP). I posted this video earlier to show her attitude towards Germany, but that does not hinder her to grab the limelight in between successful football players to present herself as the " mother of the nation " -  opportunism and hypocrisy taken to a new height and watching millions of Germans wearing black red and gold must be sheer horror for her. Merkels spying activities for the former East German secret police " Stasi " were well documented, hence her nickname IM Erika, however the so called "Rosenholz files" disappeared, but were probably seized by the CIA and contain enough explosive material to blackmail Merkel and other German politicians. Furthermore rumors keep lingering, that Merkel is an illegitimate daughter of former chancellor Helmut Kohl, whose real name is Henoch Kohn. Sounds absurd ? Her biography tells something different, but nowadays manipulating biographies is no big deal ( Ever heard of Barry Soetoro ? He is better known under his alter ego Barack Obama). At least it would explain Merkels affinity for Israel. Not too long ago she explained, that Germany would guarantee Israel's security and since decades, Germany delivers arms to Israels with submarines worth hundreds of millions dollar almost exclusively on the German taxpayers expense. Besides Merkel has meanwhile a closet full with honors and awards fom Israel. With her powerful friends and networking skills, she made shure every noteworthy opponent was taken out of her way to the top ranks, where she is untouchable now. I really would like to see, German national players would get clued up and avoid "selfies"  with her in the future, but that is probably asking for too much.

Vietnam 3 - The Cu Chi Tunnels

During their struggle against the French colonialists, the Viet Minh excavated a tunnel system, which was vastly expanded after the U.S. invasion and stretched from Saigon to the Cambodian border. Out of these tunnels now the Viet Cong fought a guerrilla warfare against the U.S. troops killing many GIs through sniper fire. To put it into perspective : Down in the tunnels were combatants wearing pyjamas and sandals and were armed with old Russian carbines facing the whole American war machinery with carpet bombing B-52's, helicopters, tanks, bulldozers, Agent Orange and napalm. It took the Americans quite a while to figure out, where the raiders came from and whereabouts they disappeared so quickly. Eventually they discovered the tunnels and tried to flush out the VC with water or gas, what failed by the use of well functioning trap doors. The Americans even founded a laboratory in Maryland to develop various methods to defeat the VC inside their tunnels, but they all failed miserably as well and that was it, when the so called Tunnel Rats entered the picture. These men had a small frame and a slightly crazy mindset. I mean, who in his right mind would travel to such a remote place to creep into a tunnel with a knife and a revolver for head to head combat - mindboggling indeed ! However the VC adapted promptly and secured the entrances with mines, booby traps and bamboo made Punji sticks. At first many unexperienced Rats perished after having entered the tunnels, but later on they were better schooled and some even developed a passion for a tunnel fight, albeit they were not able to defeat the Viet Cong until they pulled out of Vietnam. The Viet Cong were communists and frowned upon unnecessary personal possessions. They had a strong comradeship, but were merciless with those , who collaborated with the enemy and their ability to suffer from the hardships inside the tunnels was remarkable. The tunnels were sometimes multi-leveled with hardly any oxygen, were hot and full with a terrible stench, but nonetheless some Viet Cong spent up to five years inside with very little food. " The Tunnels Of Cu Chi have become for the Vietnamese Communists a symbol of their tenacity and endurance during the war against the Americans from 1965 to 1973." wrote Tom Mangold & John Penycate in their book and it is a thrilling read. YouTube has some interesting videos on the subject too.

Vietnam 2

Vietnam's political system is simple. The Communist Party rules and that's it, albeit meanwhile it is hard to detect any traces leading to their ideology. In Saigon operates a stock exchange and the huge Bitexco Financial Tower dominates the downtown area, where also the rich and beautiful have plenty of opportunities to do their therapy shopping. The traffic system isn't complicated either - the bigger vehicle has the prerogative. At least Saigon is now equipped with more traffic lights, making it a lot less hazardous crossing the street through an endless stream of motorbikes. From Saigon i traveled up north to Nha Trang. Not to long ago this place was a sedate town with a beach, that can easily compete with some of the Caribeans finest. Nowadays it is sporting (almost) more neon lights than Las Vegas and is a playground for Russian all-inclusive tourists. More interesting is the historic jewel of Hoi An en route to Da Nang - a journey to Vietnam wouldn't be complete without visiting it. To escape Nha Trang's intensive heat, i did what the French colonialists already have done and traveled to Dalat in the central highlands. This city is nicely layed out around a lake, but it's main attractions didn't appeal to me and so i moved on after three nights there. A couple of pointers i want to mention here. The Vietnamese seem to be in rude health, what i guess has to do with their cuisine, which is always fresh and healthy, so obesity is almost nonexistent. Why administrations handed out business licenses to Mc Donalds, KFC and Co. is beyond me, but it is good to see only a few people patronize these places. The currency is the dong and 1 euro equals around 28000 dong. Dealing with all these zeros can be a bit confusing at first, but those able to do some basic math get a hang of it quickly.I visited Vietnam three times now and got annoyed only twice and both times cyclo drivers were involved. The first wanted to bring me in a brothel of his his choice instead of my hotel and the second all of a sudden asked me for a ten times higher price we agreed upon. It's never a good idea to show some public rage in Vietnam, however these guys needed an earful to settle the argument. Aside from these two, the people i dealt with were all most wonderful - friendly , helpful and many times displaying a marvellous smile. So what are my conclusions ? Vietnam has undergone a lot of changes in recent years and not always for the right reasons. In fact Uncle Ho would spin in his sarcophage could he see some of them. But nontheless there are no doubts in my mind - Vietnam remains a top travel destination.

Bluegrass Guitar

Vietnam

Off to Vietnam tonight. I have been there twice before, traveled extensively from south to north and really like it. The people, their culture and the senery all appeal very much to me with Saigon a city i felt right at home. Albeit that was twelve years ago and i hope Vietnam has retained his old charme and fascination.

Sports In June

Football World Cup 2014 in Brazil : Staggering events are going on in Brazil. You would think, in this football crazy country the people would stand as one behind their team and support them, but far from it. Many demonstrators took their anger to the streets to vent steam against unprecedented megalomania and the ultra corrupt FIFA and chances are, we see more action outside the brand new, mulimillion stadiums, than on the pitches. Four years ago the FIFA pulled out of South Africa with massive profits, while South Africa was left behind with enormous debts and expenses for maintenance of now useless stadiums. Many Brazilians see the same coming in their country, which has many problems in the social sector and even hope now their selecao would exit prematurely from the tournament. Here in Europe they tell us all year, what a great thing the EU is, but during the Cup it's fine to be patriotic and wave the national flag, but that is just another chapter of the madhouse called Europe. I would give a bloody whit, who wins it and should ignore it all together, but the punter in me needs to get a couple of bets on, so here is my bundle. I backed BRAZIL to become champion with NEYMAR as top scorer @ 21. Obviously it is hard to assess the teams, though it seems many of the market leaders have questions to answer with Germany among them. Some of their key players are out of form or dealing with injuries and add to that some distracting incidents during train camp, their preparation doesn't look proper. I backed GERMANY not making it beyond the group stage @ 7.5. Supprise packages could be JAPAN and the USA. I backed both teams to reach the quarter finals @ 8 and 13. Now over to the sport of kings. Two more Classics take place at the weekend in Epsom with the Oaks on Friday and the Derby on Saturday. The problem with both races is, that none of the contenders has run the distance of 12 furlongs yet, so a lot of guesswork is involved to find a jolly, which will stay. For the Oaks i backed TAGHROODA @ 3 ***WON. She is a classy filly, trained by John Gosden, however the ground conditions are more and more against her and i put another flutter on IHTIMAL (IRL)@ 10. She is trained by Saeed bin Suroor and her pedigree suggests she will stay - Go girls ! In the Derby Australia is the talking horse and hot fav, but for me unbackable with odds around evens and i rather side with KINGSTON HILL @ 12 (photo)***2nd from the in-form Roger Varian stable and also have an each-way dabble on RED GALILEO @ 126 !!***5th with Racebets.

EU-Parliament Election Wrap-Up

The outcome of the elections was quite satisfying since many EU sceptic parties finished in double figure percentage numbers. Not so the German AfD, who only received 7 % of the votes, however allegations already emerged, that this low number has to do with election fixing, what wouldn't surprise me a bit. More importantly the plans of the financial elite to install a New World Order came to a halt and for instance the Bilderberger have to go back to the drawing board prior to their Copenhagen meeting. To make matters worse for them, Wladimir Putin tries to establish a counterbalance alliance along with the BRICS nations. He is understandably fed up with the West and if he puts into effect his plans to bill oil and gas in rubel in accordance with China and Iran, this could mean the end of the petrodollar. Irak and Libya once had similar plans and unlike Russia, could be punished for it, because the US dollar would lose massive value and the USA couldn't afford any overseas war activities any longer. Let's hope their arrogant, violence based leadership comes to an end soon.

25.05. The Good, The Bad, The Ugly And The Stupid / EU Parliament Elections

My uncle is a lifelong conservative, voting for the CDU. He is a supporter of the EU, a superstate, where the rich help the poor until all are equally poor. I guess , that position turned him into a lefty. I myself sympathised most of my life with leftist ideas, but i am a staunch opponent of the EU and for that attitude i have been placed in the right corner. At least my decision to vote for the AfD is based on knowledge and gathered information and i am a firm believer, that many if not all nations of the EU would be better off staying sovereign as the Swiss do. The term ugly belongs to some members of the National Party (NPD). They have an important function, because when an hideous, bald headed fellow yells, that he is proud to be a German and is against migration, the good guys obviously have to take the opposite view, although they actually think the same, but don't want to have a common cause with the ostracised and thus are in line with the EU. The final group is the the " Antifa ", the antifascists. They consider themself morally superior, but i would rather descibe them as hands down violence-prone, work-shy idiots dressed in black. They don't understand, that it is a contradiction in itself to be antifascist and being in favor for the EU, because once the EU dictatorship has been established, these folks are the first to get a lot of stick. I am shure EU politicians have plenty of cruelties up their sleeves and they will reveal them after the elections preferably during the football World Championships in June, when nobody pays attention. Many people here, who have taken a double dosage of " Merkelin " are in for a rude awakening.

About Drag Queens And Tolerance

Last weekend the Eurovision Song Contest took place and victory was captured by a bearded Austrian drag queen, named Conchita Wurst, who sang a bog awful, schmaltzy James Bondesque opus de horreur. Beforehand some nations demanded her expulsion from the competition and that she has won can in hindsight be viewed as a political statement. Even songbird and fellow Austrian Udo Jürgens was overwhelmed by saying, this is a victory of the oh so tolerant Europe. Now there is a thin line between tolerance and indifference, so ignoring certain streams can spell trouble because unlikeable sorts can take advantage of the situation. Nothing wrong with drag queens though ( the foto shows our very own Olivia Jones ) and through the EU and mainstream media imposed political correctness, we have to like them anyways. Another less extroverted one is the First Lady of the USA ! Say what ? Sodomy in the White House ? That's right, according to the makers of this video, Michelle Obama's real name is Michael La Vaughn Robinson, a former American Football player. With todays available movie editing technology such allegations of course have to be taken cautiously, but if so, what a couple - the drag queen and her not so totally straight husband.

" Think, It Ain't Illegal Yet " ...

... is an old song by George Clinton's ( left ) group Funkadelic and the title is more up to date than ever. In 2015 Sweden wants to implement a " Opinion Police " harassing those, who do not go along with the EU guidelines. Perhaps it is just a test balloon to see, how people would react and when an uproar does not appear, the whole EU population will have to deal with it. I have read an article in the Hamburger Abendblatt, that every EU foreigner working in Germany is entitled to apply child benefits for kids living in his native country, costing German taxpayers 600 million Euros annually and pretty soon every EU foreigner looking for work in Germany has the right to apply for unemployment benefits. Many communities are already shivering, because of the amount of money they would have to pay out. Now i wonder, what will occur, if a German does the same in Spain for instance. The Spainish would probably laugh at him or let the dogs out. Anyway, when someone here voices his opinion, that he his not very happy with the way his taxes are used for, chastisement awaits - facism, folks ! Elsewhere the EU still tries along with the USA and the NATO  to gain control over the Ukraine. Their 5 billion $ investment ( for details please contact George Soros ) wasn' t fruitful and fired backwards, so IWF boss Christine Lagarde showed up, wagging with billions of Euros, the government in Kiew could receive on conditions of course and shortly afterwards the Ukrainian army attacked the Pro-Russian forces ... These forces however know they not only combat against camouflaged blokes from the Ukrainian army, but also against Western  aristocrats, they might despise with a vengeance and thus will not give in for a single inch. As usual, when the US government and the CIA are in the mix the situation becomes messy and a secession between East- and West Ukraine seems to be inevitable.

Weekend Sports

3.5.14 German Bundesleague, Matchday 33. After fifty years of top flight football, the second league is now looming large for the Hamburger SV and deservedly so, because of too many players with a shocking salary-performance ratio. They play at home  against Bayern Munich, who secured the German championships at the end of March and completely lost the plot afterwards as was shown in the CL humiliation against Real Madrid. I still hold one of their players in high regard and that is CLAUDIO PIZARRO. He doensn't play very often these days, but when Pep Guardiola gives him another opportunity against a leaky Hamburg defense i am pretty sure he will deliver. Claudio to score twice @ 6.2 with Tipico ***VOID. Now over to the sport of kings. The first classic races of the flat season take place this weekend at Newmarket. Kingman is the hot fav of the 2000 Guineas Stakes, but i take him on with WAR COMMAND (USA, pictured) , trained by Ballydoyle master Aidan O'Brian. This powerful colt has won the Dewhurst Stakes in great style last year and that form bodes well for Saturdays contest. War Command to win @ odds of 9 with Betfair***UP. On Sunday then the fillies equivalent, the 1000 Guineas Stakes, will be run. The Andre Fabre trained MISS FRANCE (IRE) was the ante-post fav for a long time, but when she ran a stinker last time out with valid excuses, her price drifted out to 10 and i don't need a second invitation to get on.***WON