Free Talk Live - germany

Bitcoin: world's fastest growing currency migrates off the internet

TooNs — Thu, 02 May 2013 05:23:08 +0000

In Kreuzberg, Berlin, virtual currency Bitcoin has expanded off the internet to become a favoured medium of exchange in real shops and bars. Joerg Platzer, the owner of bar Room 77 is helping to establish what he believes to be the world's first Bitcoin local economy.

Erotic Zoos Prompt Germany To Reinstate Bestiality Laws

Jking8767 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:35:33 +0000

The Daily Telegraph reports that bestiality laws have been off the books in Germany since 1969, but Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner has agreed to support a law that would make it illegal for people to "use (animals) for their own sexual activities or sexual acts of third parties." The proposed law would also ban the "pimping" of animals to others.

Homeschoolers Flee Persecution in Germany and Sweden

phonon — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:46:13 +0000

Two leaders in the European home education movement, a father from Sweden and a German mother, drew tears from the audience as they told a packed conference room about life in exile and the heart-rending decision to flee abroad. While each of their stories was unique, both parents were forced to escape from their homelands due to relentless government persecution when they refused to stop homeschooling.

Dear American Progressives, Please Vote For Ron Paul!

free_german — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:28:49 +0000

A German tells American progressives to vote for Ron Paul

German Considers 'Fat Tax' and 'Daily Weigh-Ins of School Children'

Pilot_MKN — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 22:16:10 +0000

Marco Wanderwitz, a conservative member of parliament for the German state of Saxony, said it is unfair and unsustainable for the taxpayer to carry the entire cost of treating obesity-related illnesses in the public health system.

The German teachers association recently called for school kids to be weighed each day, The Daily Telegraph said. The fat kids could then be reported to social services, who could send them to health clinics.

German faces jail for Adolf Hitler cell phone ring tone

Deslock Darkstar — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:46:33 +0000

"A German man is facing up to six months in prison for having a speech by Adolf Hitler as mobile phone ring tone" --- Ok, so obviously the guy in question could choose a better ringtone (Rammstein, perhaps?), but is it a good idea to use the tactics of totalitarianism to stamp out the history of totalitarianism? Just sayin'.....

"New" Germany seizes, scrubs [private] Stasi museum. Apologetics?

Agent Dale Cooper — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:36:18 +0000

1 in 20 East Germans were informants. "The Lives of Others" is a sad and unsettling movie about what results when Soviet statism is executed with German efficiency: The Stasi. Funny how much of East German communist assets like this museum were homesteaded, and now the "kindler, gentler" western state wants to seize it all over again. Never again!