https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/197.aspxPolitics, disasters, war and peace.enCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/256136.aspxSun, 27 Sep 2009 19:10:10 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:256136wilderness0https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/256136.aspxhttps://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=197&PostID=256136<p>I read a news article a couple days ago that the boggie-man Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda supposedly threatened Germany if Merkel gets re-elected.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/256135.aspxSun, 27 Sep 2009 19:04:37 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:256135Stranger0https://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/thread/256135.aspxhttps://archive.freecapitalists.org:443/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=197&PostID=256135<p>This has little to do with Austrian economics, but I was just overjoyed and had to share this.</p> <p><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSLR3244020090927">http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSLR3244020090927</a></p> <p>Amidst all the doom and gloom, here&#39;s some hope in Germany: the socialists have been routed, the conservatives are barely holding on, and the Free Democrats have increased their share of power by 50%.</p> <p>This means that, in Germany, the country where socialism was all but invented, the Social-Democrats (the oldest socialist party in the world I believe) have been wiped from power in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the war. It means that people no longer believe in socialism as a cure to the crisis.</p> <p>I know that democracy means it&#39;s only a matter of time before they return, but we may have earned some precious time.</p> <p>And here&#39;s some extra gloating</p> <p style="padding-left:30px;">BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany&#39;s Social Democrat (SPD) chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier conceded defeat in the federal election on Sunday after his party suffered its worst result since World War Two.<span id="midArticle_byline"></span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px;"><span id="midArticle_0"></span></p> <p style="padding-left:30px;">&quot;The voters have decided and the result is a bitter day for German Social Democracy ... there is no way of talking it up -- the result is a bitter defeat,&quot; Steinmeier told party members gathered in Berlin after exit polls showed conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel heading for a new center-right coalition with the liberal Free Democrats.</p> <p style="padding-left:30px;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUKTRE58Q1KU20090927">http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUKTRE58Q1KU20090927</a></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>