Ralph Schoellhammer
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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They have a yearly budget of 6 million and they get 5.9 million from the German government. So they are like 99% of the government comes from the state, but in public, they still count as an NGO. And this has been going on for decades, but nobody looked at it.
And with the United States doing the whole thing with USAID, now even in Germany, in Austria, I think also in the UK, in France, everybody starts to look at these NGOs, and now it becomes clearer and clearer that these non-governmental organizations are actually nothing but governmental organizations.
And what they have become, and this is upsetting many people in Europe, they want to learn about it, this has become a form of a shadow state. Because the idea is, even if the right wins elections, There is a parallel institutional structure that is always left of center. And what that potentially means is that the right might get into office, but they never get into power.
And I think this is now gradually starting to change. And we see it again with Donald Trump, because what's interesting about the new administration in Washington is They have no interest just to be in office, which some could say was the case with Donald Trump in 2016. They actually want to be in power, right? They actually want to do things differently.
We'll see how it's going to work out, but I think that's a huge difference, and that is at least partially spilling over into Europe as well.
Everything is larger in America.
Well, I think there are two things, or maybe even three things that are crucial here. When we look at what you just mentioned, the conspiracy theory part, that is interesting if you look at the timing, because many of the major conspiracy theories from five years ago, at least in parts, have been vindicated.
Whether it was the labric theory when it came to COVID, whether it was the energy transition in Germany, or whether it was the consequences of mass migration in Western Europe. All of these things were vindicated. very often people on the right, but not exclusively, said that energy transition is not going to work, right?
Mass migration will have huge social and cultural consequences, and that COVID might actually came from a lab. Five years ago, you were a conspiracy theorist, and now all of a sudden, you're actually closer to the truth than those who claim the opposite.
And that precisely at that time, you create an institution that says, if people spread or believe in conspiracy theories, report them to us, and we're going to advise you how to treat them.
that is a little bit odd and so the timing is one thing the second part that is crucial i'm still working on a name for it that i can then finally trademark is if i have what i call the the humorous dictator theory and what the theory is is that censorship is always the tool of governments who are insecure
If you look back again, historically, in Prussia under Frederick the Great, you could say almost everything you wanted. There were some limitations, you had to be careful to insult the king, but otherwise you could speak your mind quite openly. Because the government felt so secure and confident in their position that they didn't really feel the need to clamp down on the population.
The less safe and secure governments feel in their position, the more they try to control and clamp down on the people. And if you look at Poles in Germany, if you look at Poles in Austria, in France, I think it's also true in the UK,
They are so much underwater with the people that they are desperately trying to limit their ability to speak freely because they know that 80, 70, 65%, whatever, 90% don't really have anything good to say about the government. It's not so bad, I would say, in Austria. It's a little bit worse in Germany.
But, and again, your next guest will speak in greater detail about this, but what's happening in the UK is truly troublesome. I mean, getting a visit by the police because of a social media post is absurd.
And if you allow me to make one more point on this, because that's also something you see in Germany, there's a completely new category now being developed that is called, you know, I think that the term in the UK is non-criminal hate incidents. And in Germany, it's called incidents... below the threshold of legal viability or legal liability. Sorry, my bad.
What that means is that now the police can investigate you even though you haven't committed a crime. So they're not calling it thought crimes, but that is basically what it is because the police can knock at your door. And in most countries, if the police knocks on your door, that's a form of intimidation. So they don't arrest you. They will just talk to you.
But then again, if the government uses authority to Give you a stern talking to. That is in a democracy, in a republic, if we actually want to use that term as it's supposed to be meant, that's a very disturbing development.
Well, that's a horrible story. I have to tell it real quick. I have to change this. When I started Twitter, I never expected to have any follower at all. And my grandfather was born in 1913. He was not familiar with the Ralph, with the PH. So he always used to write my name like this, like the PH and then the F. And I thought it was very funny. I was very fond of my late grandfather.
So I used it as my Twitter handle. And now I have the problem that I have an absolutely unmemorabilizable Twitter handle. So I have to change this at some point.
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