According to the Boston Globe:
"Bus crash kills 12 in Germany; Vehicle was taking 49 tourists home to Poland" by Associated Press | September 27, 2010
BERLIN — At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured yesterday when a bus carrying Polish tourists crashed on the highway southeast of Berlin, police said....
Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, and health minister, Ewa Kopacz, arrived in Berlin to view the crash site and visit the injured, who were being treated in several Berlin hospitals.
Chancellor Angela Merkel called Tusk before his arrival to express her sympathy and vow that German doctors and officials would do their utmost to help heal the wounded.
“This accident affects not only our Polish friends, but us as well,’’ German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said in a statement. “Our deepest sympathy and our thoughts are with the friends and family of the victims in their dark hour.’’
Arne Feuring, president of police in Frankfurt, said authorities believe the bus, carrying 49 Poles on their way home from a vacation in Spain, crashed into a car that was merging onto the highway and then slammed into a pylon of an overpass....
An investigation into the accident has been launched....
Haven't seen a word since.
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I guess they wouldn't want to spoil the party:
"Self-confident Germans mark 20 years of unity" by Associated Press | October 4, 2010
BERLIN — Germany’s president celebrated the country’s newfound national pride but also stressed that more needs to be done to integrate Muslim and other immigrants as he marked the 20th anniversary of reunification yesterday.
Germany’s post-World War II division ended with reunification on Oct. 3, 1990, less than 11 months after communist East Germany opened the Berlin Wall amid pressure from massive demonstrations.
Yeah, the ONE TIME in HISTORY an EMPIRE willingly withdrew and gave up power peacefully.
Any hope for you, Amerika?
President Christian Wulff paid tribute to East Germans who protested against the regime, saying that “their courage impressed the world.’’
He said their chants of “we are one people’’ as communism crumbled awoke “a national feeling that was long buried, for understandable historical reasons’’ after the Nazi era.
I knew the paper would get around to that angle.
“Now, a new self-confidence has grown in all of Germany, an uninhibited patriotism, an open commitment to our country, which is aware of its great responsibility for the past,’’ Wulff said in a speech in the western city of Bremen, which hosted this year’s main anniversary event.
Uh-oh.
Germans have become more comfortable with displays of patriotism in recent years — illustrated notably by their enthusiastic flag-waving during the 2006 football World Cup, which Germany hosted.
All depends on who is doing it when it comes to the AmeriKan media.
But Wulff — addressing an audience that included Chancellor Angela Merkel, the first leader of reunited Germany to grow up in the communist east — made clear there is still more to be done.
Referring to a recent debate over difficulties in integrating immigrants, he said the country “must be open to those who come to us from all parts of the world — Germany needs them.’’
Last month, Thilo Sarrazin, a board member at Germany’s central bank, quit his post amid controversy over a book he wrote claiming that German society was being made dumber by Muslim immigrants.
You know, those guys and their veiled women are to blame for every ill in the world!
Anybody but WAR-PROFITEERING BANKSTERS!
The book has become a bestseller....
I don't think that is helping them get any smarter.
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