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Guttenberg and the subservient mentality

Lutz Kinkel



One not too distant future scientists scandal Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg will investigate false doctorate. And they will find many typical ingredients. For example, like piling up a subject very quickly became the media tsunami. Or how the accused reacted. Only deny everything ("The allegations are absurd"), then add piece by the Irrefutable ("I have made mistakes," "I've made serious mistakes"). The reactions of the environment are out of a textbook. Chancellor Angela Merkel's attempt to draw between himself and the problem is a firewall, classified by the plagiarism scandal as irrelevant to the work of government. Or the trivialization, which was operated from the Union at all costs ("Do we have to do anything more important?"). Classic is the compression of the scandal to a head on which a victim must be brought, in which case the return and withdrawing fraudulently doctorate. New

however, the audacity of the accused tried to reinterpret the affair as a continuation of their own heroic story. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, it contrived to present themselves in the Bundestag as a model. His claim: would handle all the scientists so self-critical of himself as he did, the academic world would be better. It says the man, his university, glued his supervisor and science has no such leaders before. He has stolen from vanity and careerism other authors. The issue a special permit had to write a PhD at the earliest possible date in the letter head can and then fraudulently award was for many years. That is breathtaking.

Westerwelle would be gone
One was in the corridors of the Reichstag on Wednesday disputed question: What would have happened if not for Karl-Theodor Guttenberg, but Guido Westerwelle stole his doctoral work together would have? No doubt: The tsunami had rolled over him, he would have had to resign. This thought experiment has on two findings of this scandal out. First, it does not matter what wrongdoing is present, but who committed them. Secondly popularity protects consequences. Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg meets in the population, as formulated by Hans Leyendecker of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", a positive bias, an almost religious mercy that forgives everything. When Guido Westerwelle situation is sometimes reversed. Even the smallest gesture can encourage people in their feeling that ministers would be better not Westerwelle.

know Chancellor Merkel to the popularity of Guttenberg, and they also know that they risk their own popularity set, if it had Guttenberg had forced to resign. So she let him give. The damage that it will grow from medium to long term is to not judge, but its outlines are already visible. If a fraud is allowed to stay Ministers can with conservative values such as honor, honesty and decency no longer promote credible. And if a fraud is allowed to stay ministers will also ask other a soft sentence, if they have a scandal at his heels. For those of Merkel often touted educational Republic is the case Guttenberg a catastrophe and every pirate product in China will be laughing up his sleeve. And not to forget: If Guttenberg to such actions such as cobbling together a thesis is capable of what he has hired - and what will he do? Merkel has embarked on a player.

The elites of the country
Guttenberg himself may have won the game with the population. In the political space he has lost it. Each sentence in which he, the words "test", "sources" or "inquiry" used, called in parliament on Wednesday produced only laughter. As the troops will respond if Guttenberg future again jagged fired a subordinate? The fact that the students giggle at the Bundeswehr University in Munich and Hamburg, where ministers copy and paste occurs there, is easy to imagine. Security Authority and to develop a PhD is a long, painstaking process. Lost is all 'fast. The return of the title is not enough to make good the damage. Had he not been on the track - Guttenberg would still call doctor.

The social morality, a urkonservatives theme has something to do with it, behave like the elites of the country. Whether they evade taxes such as the former Deutsche Post CEO Klaus Zumwinkel, if they stir up resentment as the former SPD-Senator Thilo Sarrazin, whether they can gild its mandate by the industry as the former CDU general secretary Laurenz Meyer. Or whether they reveal values for her career as the acting Minister of Defence, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, CSU.

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In his statement, Mr. Guttenberg himself that he had stated on Friday that he would temporarily take the new song. On Friday he wants to do without, however, had declared that he temporarily flying on the track until the few errors were then cleared with the University of Bayreuth and then he would take the title again.

In the video from the election campaign in Kelkheim he also states that there were serious mistakes, and he in the seven years of work on the thesis track of the sources have lost. But that's his opinion, all no plagiarism. The truth about his work can be found in the interim report of his plagiarism on GuttenPlag Wiki of 21 February 30th by 17 clock But even this level at which at 271 pages, which were equivalent to 68.96 percent of its work, plagiarism found. But even this figure is already outdated and looks at present like this:

pages where plagiarism were found (black). The Table of Contents (pages 1-14) and Annexes, page 408 (blue) were not included in calculating the percentage. Pages with imitations of various sources are shown in red

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Who speaks for so many plagiarism locations of errors are lying. These are not errors but deliberate acts. The type of plagiarism in other shows to many observers that it is not plagiarism by him is himself, but that the totality of the work rather comes from a ghostwriter. But the time spent talking to the need for such work would be:


The Law and Economics Faculty of the University of Bayreuth had the work in 2006 as the dissertation. At that time, Guttenberg was not ministers, but in the Bundestag, already chairman of the CDU / CSU Group in the Foreign Affairs Committee, and for that he was amongst a number of honorary posts more than half a dozen other leading features in his party and in national and international political bodies. You have almost the 25th Hour of the day believe if you look at the stress of the KTG students will paint so well.


This is supported but also that Guttenberg is of the otherwise so self-centered man in his work and in his first public evaluation of his work so strange about talking stilted to the person of the authors:


Unlike books or speeches by top executives , top politicians and other celebrities are on this lower level of academic nevertheless sought orders allowed, no ghostwriter. And here is exactly the case Guttenberg might really explosive.

So far so do not understand why an intelligent, confident man like Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg should have refrained deliberately, about an honorable columnist of the "Neue Zürcher Zeitung", or a renowned professor with a text review of the FAZ is not named and quote reference? Especially in the last and most usually considered a foreword of such a study. As with dozens of other places where KTG apparently used since as foreign sales and springs, the would-be doctor no teeth had fallen out of the crown, if he had correctly quoted and therefore unassailable.

But why are these hardly understandable omission happened? His possible "errors" Guttenberg says something nebulous. "There was, however, disappointed at no time aware of or the authority of others made do not identify" the one who usually only too happy to say "I", the process moves at once to the level of "It". Strange, that has already alarmed Chancellor of such information satisfactory and even "offensive" called.

For who is this "it"?

time you'll get the affair Guttenberg no quotes affair, to which it or its (less expectant) defender want to minimize the matter. Even in the digital age Guttenberg disappear for long quotations is no coincidence both punctuation (arrival and transfers) and also to the normal scientific or journalistic and documentary work attached Directory. It is because the sequential numbering of footnotes adapt differently to the old typewriter days when someone calls, can, they should not demonstrate in later, spontaneous, last minute inserted text parts are lost.

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The amount and type of "error", the small but apparently deliberate changes of details in the non-designated foreign texts and the stylistic Fractures of the whole would be better explained, if written down here, for example, parts of speeches and lectures, the assistants, lecturers and temporary workers for the busy politician or zusammengeklaubt simplicity of foreign texts have input would have found in the dissertation. This much may yet explain the unexplained or make it understandable that a go-getting Turbo politician on the academic side show might lose track of "his" material - and also pushed in a mixture of ignorance of the power and intoxicating, ambitious demands on himself.


is now the Baron a PhD going on. What remains of the fraud is to admit he does not want. But that's not all. It is also the abuse of a research department of the Bundestag. Previously known only that he has asked Councilor Ulrich Tammler him a paper on "The question of a reference to God in the U.S. Constitution and the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court for the separation of church and state" to deliver. Now the focus has established the Guttenberg has used another work that William Weege by the Scientific Service of the Bundestag is entitled "The U.S. role in the European integration process by the end of the East-West conflict" written. Guttenberg has modified the work is minimal and not the source reported. This is theft of property of the Bundestag.

But not only has the federal claims against him and many others are affected, and David Klein asks the right questions:


Actually, I will lose no word on the matter because the facts (and now also the minister himself) speak for themselves and also gives the only bad karma for my work. But you ask yourself, what would happen if suddenly all the "forgotten" authors assert their claim for injunctive relief - § § 12, 13, 63 Copyright Act can be read even once. Or what happens to § 132a of the Criminal Code, if the awarding of doctorates was unlawful and § 48 of the Administrative Procedure Act comes into play.


Oh yes. Our judicial system and a Baron, who is also a big shot in politics, multi-millionaire friend of the Springer press, and federal ministers. No, because there is no hope. Each display is set against him mercilessly. Hunted in Germany by the judiciary only the weak. It's just a class justice. Guttenberg feels confident and wants to hide himself in front of the Bundestag again cowardly:


Berlin (dts News Agency) - According to CSU Group CEO Stefan Müller issues would be expected to answer "by the present parliamentary secretaries. Guttenberg, but would likely participate in the parliamentary debate on the allegations against him.


But since there is already a change. For the Baron run slowly but surely it's supporters. While CDU Secretary-General Hermann Gröhe and the Union Group Chairman Volker Kauder the affair Guttenberg with the excuses and lies in Kelkheim want to quit, wants to bring Bundestag President Norbert Lammert, the matter before the Elders of the Bundestag and is already talking of "sloppiness".

course, Angela Merkel, the Springer press and the Colourful still stand behind Guttenberg, but the other hope for the future of the CDU, Ursula von der Leyen begins already with its cautious disengagement:


Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) sees her Cabinet colleague, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (CSU) in view of the discussion on his doctoral work in a "difficult situation".

Berlin (dts News Agency) - A final assessment did not give von der Leyen. "As he makes the allegations and makes a clean sweep, will decide on which picture do the people of him as a politician."


How does he do to show the video at the top. He tries to durchzulügen. As Federal Minister of Economics has Guttenberg is work out the "Act to Amend the Banking Law" by the British law firm Linklaters completely . Let When Kundusaffäre he lied to Parliament and the public and released at the end of the Inspector General Wolfgang Schneiderhan and the Secretary of State Peter Wichert as pawns in order to protect his own person.

lousy still was his behavior towards Brigadier General Henning Hars, who had asked the minister of war in a letter to the reasons for the dismissal of Hans Schneider and was treated for it in retirement. The troops should not just ask or think, but die for the glory of the Baron without complaint and make a nice stage for his performances.

calls even in the FAZ Berthold Köhler already managed to withdraw Guttenberg:


Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, is of two letters apart, back to his usual: the forward defense. After a week in the storm of criticism as the "Franconian Weather fir," as he calls himself, seen as it was spring, and teetering in the woods, most recently in the forest of Kelkheim. To forestall the threat of withdrawing his Ph.D., he has, which asked for a Baron d'etat, the University of Bayreuth, him to recognize the title.

was in this affair - a dissertation is to be made without outside help - no other accused available to the poor preliminary work, in retirement could be sent or suspended. To save his office has Guttenberg This time his own doctor dismissed.

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The Chancellor wants to go away for obvious reasons, the latter, at least outwardly. The damage within the universe of civic values, drawn by the operation to rescue the gestural stumbled standard bearer for themselves, but also Mrs Merkel miss them.

The action, it is possible for and everything is on the light, late consequences. Guttenberg had themselves the values that he cherishes, and also, the union proved a better service if he is not only the University of Bayreuth had written a letter, but also the Chancellor.


Yes, he would have even have to write this letter when he decency, dignity or even have morals. But it lacks not just in these traits, he lacks the courage above all. He cowardly tries to dodge any responsibility, while at the same time like other takes the responsibility. This must not let him pass, even if he is a beacon of hope or perhaps even the only hope of the Union.

Baron Guttenberg will always make mistakes, then the other must be straight. Eventually, such a mistake will mean many deaths. For his mistakes are not a defect, disability. He could not write doctoral work, he did not make key laws to be drawn up in his house, rather than give in a lobbying firm in order and also to pay more. He could not work up until the Kundusaffäre but had to immediately and completely false tear open the door because he was not interested in the facts. Short and bad. The Guttenberg can not.

The seven-league boots with which he is gehoppelt With strong American support of the German policy are up to him just too big and to avert further damage to Germany and other nations, it is now time to resign. Since he can not him, someone will have to resign. Ms Merkel and Mr Seehofer are required. It might work an!

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Singapore: Good Life under a dictator

Singapore has achieved the American dream, but not in the American way. It is a prosperous, clean city, with imposing skyscrapers and glittering shopping centers. The multinational corporations of the world are welcome here; you can buy any brand name you've ever heard of. The highways are lined with tropical flowers and crowded with BMWs. And at the head of this thriving free-market state is a clever, socialist dictator.
Just forty years ago Singapore was a war-battered British port on an island off the southern tip of Malaysia. It had a rapidly growing, poor, uneducated population living mostly in slums and houseboats. Singapore struggled along until 1965, when it became an independent nation with Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in firm control.
In the next twenty years Singapore's economy grew eightfold. Average income per capita rose more than fourfold. The percentage of families living in poverty dropped to 0.3% (in the U.S. it is near 20%). Singaporeans' average life expectancy is now 71 years. No one is homeless. Population has stabilized. Virtually everyone has a job. The place runs like a Swiss watch.
Lee Kuan Yew would appreciate that analogy. Switzerland is his model. Singapore Airlines aims to outdo Swissair. Singapore likes to list its statistics alongside Switzerland's (its divorce rate is one-third that of Switzerland, its per capita calorie supply is equal, its movie attendance rate is six times higher). Lee's chief economic goal is to reach the per capita GNP of Switzerland, which will happen in one more economic doubling -- about 10 years, if past growth rates continue.
To produce his economic miracle, Lee Kuan Yew has interfered with every aspect of Singaporean life. To control population growth he set up free family planning clinics. Then he mounted education campaigns ("Plan your family small") and decreed that women having third-or-more babies would get shorter maternity leave, higher hospital charges, and less income tax relief. There is a $5000 reward for mothers who agree to be sterilized after their second child. Sterilized parents get top priority for public housing, and their children get into desirable schools.
Singaporeans now accept that two is the right number of children. When I asked one woman how she felt about that, she told me she'd like to have three or four. "But," she said brightly, "I understand why I shouldn't have that many. We are a small, crowded island." In fact the birth rate has fallen so low among highly-educated women, that Lee now offers incentives to "educated mothers" to have three children or more.
Singapore requires all workers to save 25% of their salaries. Their employers match that amount (after the recession of 1985, the employers' share was cut to 10%). The workers can claim the money only after the age of 55. This enormous forced savings rate is one of the secrets of Singapore's incredible economic growth. The money goes into a Central Provident Fund, with which the government builds roads, schools, hospitals, and especially housing.
All over the city identical 16-story housing blocks rise, each with its recreation center, swimming pool, shopping center, community center, and school. The apartments are well-built and spacious. Now that there are enough of them, the government lets people tap their savings before age 55 to buy their own flats. At present 74% of families own their homes; the goal is 100%.
Anti-social behavior is not permitted in Singapore. The fine for littering is $250. Jaywalking, spitting, and smoking in government offices are also fined $250. Gambling, except for the state lottery, is illegal. The punishment for drug trafficking is death.
Recently Lee Kuan Yew declared war on smoking. During a recent Smoke-Free Week there were signs everywhere, "Stub it Out, Singapore!" In the shopping centers electronic billboards grimly toted up the city's smoking deaths, about 10 per day. Smiling teenagers roamed the streets with baskets of apples and collared anyone with a cigarette, offering to trade an apple for a pack. The percentage of smokers in the population has gone down from 23% to 13%.
I tried to find Singaporeans who are unhappy with their paternalistic government. In a week of searching, I found none. People think the regulations make sense. No one seems to fear the government; most feel they can bring complaints to it. One economics professor thought the 25% forced savings policy was too high. I asked him if he intended to write the newspapers or make a speech about it. He was shocked. He would never disrupt the social harmony, he said. He was assembling the facts he needed; then he would go make a reasoned argument directly to the ministry.
Singapore just doesn't fit the world's categories. It's a dictatorship with free speech, no fear, and no corruption. It's an economy that uses capitalist means to attain socialist ends. Singapore University scholars call it a "meritocratic, elitist, Confucianist, bureaucratic state".
Whatever you call it, by all appearances and measures it works astoundingly well -- so far, anyway. Everyone wonders, of course, what will happen after Lee Kuan Yew. Some Singaporeans are nervous about their dependence on the rest of the world for water, food, and energy. Perhaps a greater worry, though no one in Singapore seems to be thinking about it, is what will motivate the nation, what kinds of goal will there be, what challenges will Singapore put its well-organized energy to, after everyone becomes as rich as the Swiss.

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The Bavarian state bank's corruption scandal

The Bavarian state bank’s corruption scandal

26 January 2011
The scandal involving Gerhard Gribkowsky, former head of risk management at the Munich-based Bavarian State Bank (BayernLB), has deepened and is engulfing a wider layer of top managers and politicians. The state parliament’s committee of inquiry and investigating prosecutor—whose mandate was to examine the murky events leading up to BayernLB’s takeover of the Hypo Group Alpe Adria (HGAA)—had previously signalled they were wrapping up their inquiries.

Several weeks ago, Gribkowsky was arrested for concealing the receipt of $50 million, which was deposited in Austrian bank accounts in 2006 and 2007, allegedly en route to a private foundation. The facts revealed so far suggest the money was a payoff for BayernLB’s Formula 1 racing car deal, which Gribkowsky had intricate knowledge of as manager of the state-owned bank. He is now under investigation for allegations related not only to tax evasion, but embezzlement and bribery.

In 2001, the BayernLB, along with Lehman Brothers and JP Morgan Chase, loaned media magnate Leo Kirch $1.6 billion (€1.2 billion) to help buy a controlling interest of SLEC, the media business that held the rights for the popular Formula 1 car racing series. Following Kirch’s bankruptcy, Gribkowsky was assigned the task of finding a buyer for Formula 1—and he eventually sold the shares to the British investment firm, Corporate Venture Capital (CVC). The public prosecutor’s office has charged that no estimate was made of the value of the shares before they were sold off at bargain basement prices. Meanwhile, Gribkowsky was rewarded with a princely commission.

New documents have come to light about a company network overseen by Gribowsky that was responsible for all kinds of shady transactions. As Stern magazine reported, Gribkowsky was extended far-reaching powers by Formula 1 boss, Bernie Ecclestone, after the sale of the BayernLB shares went through, enabling Gribkowsky to channel money through a complex network of companies and into his own pocket.

According to the Stern report, Gribkowsky’s own GG Consulting appeared on the Austrian trade register the same day BayernLB sold its shares to CVC. The first instalment of the alleged commission money landed in the account of GG Consulting nine months later. Exactly $21,196,000, arriving in five separate transfers, was deposited. The money was transferred from a company named First Bridge Holding Ltd, which was headquartered off the southeast African island nation of Mauritius.

On May 3, 2007, Gribkowsky set up a private foundation, named “Sunshine”, in Austria. The second tranche of the $50- million commission later appeared on the account of a subsidiary of Sunshine. This time the money was transferred from a firm in the British Virgin Islands.

Criminal investigators have been looking into these events since 2008. It is suspected the bank intentionally and systematically violated its internal guidelines for risk management in relation to securities transactions from 2005 to 2007. With respect to civil law, the BayernLB’s executive board has waived any claim against the former overseer of its administrative council.

Gribkowsky’s operation was not exposed by the public prosecutor, but through the efforts of journalists from the Süddeutsche Zeitung. According to the newspaper, after its journalists had confronted him with evidence of dubious transactions, Gribkowsky approached the Munich prosecutor himself, claiming he was being persecuted by the journalists.

Gribkowsky is facing five to ten years in prison. State investigators say events surrounding Gribkowsky could produce the biggest corruption case in the history of the Federal Republic.

The affair casts light on BayernLB’s management, which continued to back Gribkowsky despite his dubious past, including involvement in business failures at the Carinthia (Austria) Hypo Group Alpe Adria (HGAA), which left the bank with billions in losses, and the former BAWAG trade union bank in Vienna.

Gribkowsky’s actions were not simply those of an individual. They were an integral part of the state bank’s risky transactions, which yielded huge sums for big investors and politicians. Banks and financial companies throughout Europe and the US took similar risks. Since the 2008 crash their gambling losses have all but been covered by state treasuries.

The Bavarian parliamentary committee of inquiry has suspended interrogation of witnesses in relation to the HGAA deal. More than 60 witnesses have testified so far, including former directors of BayernLB and leading Christian Social Union (CSU) party members such as the former Bavarian prime ministers Edmund Stoiber and Günther Beckstein, ex-finance minister Kurt Faltlhauser and former CSU party leader Erwin Huber.

HGAA was involved in dubious and highly risky business operations in the Balkans and in eastern Europe. It has long been known that BayernLB’s purchase of HGAA was legally dubious. A private group of investors around the former CEO of HGAA, Tilo Berlin, has made €140 million in profits through the purchase of the ailing bank.

In order to rise to the level of global players in the financial world as quickly as possible—a policy called for by Stoiber—BayernLB also invested heavily in junk securities from the US housing market. This led to BayernLB to the brink of collapse after the bursting of the housing bubble in the US in 2007-08. The losses of the bank were absorbed by the state of Bavaria, which extended €7 billion in equity.

During testimony to the inquiry commission, CSU members on the bank’s administrative council sought to conceal their complicity. Beckstein, Huber and others tried arguing that the Austrian executives, who sold HGAA, had misled the bank’s executive board and administrative council. They also claimed executive board withheld relevant information from the administrative council.

However, several reports from expert witnesses, including from the accounting firm Flick, Gocke and Schaumburg, showed both the executive board and administrative council were informed of the risks and decided to take them nevertheless. Executive board members, one report said, acted “far beyond the limits of commercial discretion in the context of investment decisions concerning the US portfolios” compiled and maintained by the BayernLB’s overseas headquarters in New York.

It continued, “In doing so, they have grossly and culpably violated their obligation to make business decisions only after careful investigation of the grounds for their decisions…There is good reason to believe the proceedings of the members of the administrative council were grossly negligent. ...Further major financial devastation will certainly eventuate.”

Gerd Häusler, current head of the BayernLB, has announced the bank will not seek damages from Beckstein and other administrative council members. This is because their conduct was only “negligent” and not “grossly negligent”, he said, adding that they were also only “common” members of the administrative board. Following the disclosures about Gribkowsky, it is possible charges will be levied against the chairman of the administrative board and his deputy, the former finance minister Faltlhauser, as well as former bank president, Siegfried Nasser.

The state government will ensure that the losses incurred by the BayernLB will be borne solely by the general population as opposed to the major financial investors, who have earned a fortune from the transactions.

Following years of drastic austerity measures, social spending in the state is again being ruthlessly cut. Finance Minister Fahrenschon has slashed 1,800 teaching posts, even though there is already a severe shortage of teachers in Bavaria. Public servants have had to accept a pay freeze, and the ministries of education, culture and social services have seen a significant reduction in their budgets.

Prime Minister Horst Seehofer called the planned cuts of €1.8 billion a “breakthrough”. He leaves no doubt that, should the fiscal situation continue to deteriorate—for example, owing to further funding requirements of BayernLB—his government will introduce even more brutal austerity measures.