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Tuesday, 4 July 2017

Tuesday

Its a cloudy morning, but still quite warm, yesterday the sun broke through in the late afternoon and it was a very pleasant evening. There is a breeze which is keeping it coolish.Our neighbour across the road passed away last night, he had another fall and knocked himself out, B is back home, the hospice asked her to stay for the night, she wants to spend the day on her own, so we are respecting that, I will go over and see her tomorrow. It is sad, however I can only feel it is a blessing.........DB had a bit of a funny turn yesterday, he said he felt he was getting palpitations and a dizzy, he did his eye exercises and the dizziness went off.German-American Discourse on Politics and Culture

August 19, 2017

Gerhard Schröder's shameful second life as Putin surrogate

What happens to political leaders who leave office at a relatively young age? Jimmy Carter writes books, works for world peace, and builds houses for the poor. Bill Clinton built a foundation that prevents disease and has saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Africa. George Bush has found a new calling painting portraits of war veterans. And Gerhard Schröder promotes the interests of an authoritarian kleptocracy that seeks to undermine Western democracies:

Schröder has spent much of the past decade working for the Russian energy industry, serving as a board member of several consortia in which Russian-government-controlled energy company Gazprom is either the majority or sole shareholder. His astonishing career in the Russian energy