Reaction To Volker Pispers History Of USA Part 4 of 5 

an important feature of political satire is the processing of truth with humor. and Volker Pispers is a top dog in satire.

Yes, it is true. I had to google the incident with the wedding. It was in 2002, 48 were killed and 175 injured. Unbelievably sad. It’s frustrating that some lives are apparently more worth than others.

How much we have already gotten used to the US American "dictate of history" can be seen from the fact that you describe Volker Pispers as "brave". In a functioning, stable democracy it should actually be perfectly normal for there to be different views or opinions on certain processes. However, if Mr. Pispers were to publish his analyzes in an American newspaper, he would probably have to expect a visit from Homeland Security... That's the terrible thing: That the attacks of September 11, 2001, which were undoubtedly terrible and inhumane, were used to destabilize the Middle East for decades and at the same time to turn the USA into a quasi-media dictatorship in which those who thought differently were declared enemies of the state... Edit: It has been known for decades that the USA defends the patents of US companies tooth and nail, but regularly ignores those of companies based abroad. There are certainly British companies whose patents have been confiscated by US courts...

Facts, facts, facts. In german we have a saying. Truth hurts. Thank you for doing this Video and now go on to the final part. Looking forward to it.

I am so glad, that Volker finally gets the attention that he deserves! Thank you, mate!!🎉🙏🏼👍🏼

As a German citizen I can tell you. At that time it was the biggest news on TV. It was even debated in the Bundestag. How it cold be that American law could dictate the price of medicines in Germany. All Germans where really angry about that. It showed us that we are definitely not viewed as equal partners.

What I noticed about Volker (have never seen him as a German myself, before watching reactions to him) that his main topic may be the the USA (and other foreign politics) but he always manages to bring it home, for the German audience. Really a genius - not only to keep the audience engaged but for the facts he knows and shares and the hypocrisy we all share in our own countries.

Nice to see you continue this. Let's answer the questions. 5:20 Franz Muentefering was the leader of the SPD shortly after the attacks and he was minister for traffic and infrastructure. As far as I remember, he was a very surface level person and when pressed on several subjects, did not know a lot about them. Trying often to get a quote out, that gets headlines. Those fired back from time to time. The one Pispers quoted, was one of them. These pseudo-intellectual, surface level things. 11:10 Yeah that pretty much happened like that. 13:15 also yep. Volker pretty much quotes a story, that has happened that way and was in the newspapers in germany for a bit. Good video. Hope to see some more soon =)

Absolutely unbelievable, and I've checked everything, it's all true, including the $200 dollars part. It's estimated that there were around 4800 civilian casualties in Afghanistan alone. At the time of South Africa's inquiry, the company holding the patent was a German firm. However, they have apparently received clearance since then, and multiple companies are now manufacturing this medication.

This should be played around the world on national TV. It’s making me sick to my stomach and THIS is the stuff that makes the whole world miserable. Its the greed of the few that is the problem humanity faces and humanitiy wont make it if stuff like his persists. Everyone must be held accountable in this regards.

Yes, the Bayer patent story is true. In 2001, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services forced the company to drastically reduce prices. The story about the researcher who caused people to die of anthrax in the USA is also true. Just wasn't an accident. Bruce Ivins sent letters, triggering one of the most complex cases in the United States. He ultimately committed suicide.

Unfortunately, all the told stories are facts.....

I learned more about world politics from this monologue than all my time in school.

Cool, I watched all of your other Volker videos yesterday. I like your commentary.

It is kind of sad that Volker Pispers retired in 2016, he was always a funny voice of reason that was leaving people entertained, informed and sometimes shocked. I would like to see an updated version of "Bis neulich" (his long running program) for current events and situations. Thanks for reacting to this...

Volker was a beacon of intelligence. Sad he does not do a program anymore. It would bei so important exspecially while the AFD is on the rise in Germany and there is war in Europa. I miss his sharp and sarcastic analyses

The pharmaceutical company Bayer has branches in the USA. It's easy to put pressure on them and say that if you want to continue doing business here, you have to accept the price we're offering you.

Interesting to see your reaction, and interesting to see the Volker Pisper renaissance lately. I really enjoyed your video, of course the accent is delightful ;-) But it's especially to see how someone with an outside perspective reacts to these monologues. Long ramble incoming, because I come from a family with a big shared interest in political satire and Kabarett: I'm German (with a Norwegian family background, so maybe with an inch more distance to German culture as a whole, mid 30s now), and just old enough to have regularly watched the original airings of Volker Pisper's "shows" (for lack of a better term) on TV during my teen years. He was coming from traditional "political Kabarett" as an art form, which usually was quite minimalistic in style, and meant to be candid and brave, going waaay back, even before Weimar Republic times, iirc. My parents and I used to determine the quality of a Kabarett artist like this: "the better they are, the more painfully your laughter will die in your throat". Artists in that tradition usually didn't have a lot of props and didn't move around much for performance or effect, their sarcastic monologue in itself was the point. The exceptions: If they were impersonating certain characters while revealing uncomfortable truths along the way (could be famous politicians, usually domestic ones because this also usually heavily relied on regional accents and party politics - Mathias Richling was quite famous for impressions of late 90s/early 00s German politicians - but also generic members of the society from a specific political spectrum, as was often practised by Georg Schramm, who was a regular cast in "Die Anstalt" before also retiring several years back, he had a "disappointed elderly social democrat who can't quite shake his idealism despite history biting him in the butt" persona, a "former military and staunchly conservative with simplistic worldviews" persona and so on - he was subtle, but brilliant). I see Volker Pispers as maybe a precursor of the shows (yes, that term really works here) more common on German TV nowadays - on one hand, we have "Die Anstalt", heavily focused on the educational aspect, using statistics and graphs and props to really drive home the facts, and on the other, we have Jan Böhmermann, who is a peculiar mix of actual comedian - complete with his love of the spotlight and zany stunts - and investigative journalist, unapologetically "woke" (can you tell I don't like that term and the atmosphere of the so-called culture wars, despite being openly left-wing myself?) and very candid, who will not shy away from actively stirring the pot with his team himself. Volker Pispers retired quite early and went back to a life away from stage, allegedly saying that he'd "said everything he had to say". I could get a sense of him repeating himself in the later years, of course his words never stopped being true, so I think he just made an astute analysis. With his level of insight and foresight, his decision just seemed logical to me, but I do miss him on the stage. We do have some people in Germany who still toe the line between Kabarett and comedy and try to appeal to the former conservative majority slowly drifting to the populist right, exacerbated by the culture wars rhethoric. I'd sort Dieter Nuhr and most of his guests into that category, even though I know people who still like him (but are slowly running out of excuses for his repetetive "pub regulars" vocabulary, "Stammtischparolen", as we say in Germany, meaning repetitive populist positions so simplistic that even people who are old and boring enough to visit the same pub with the same people every week can grapple them while drunk). I'm personally not up in arms about him yet, but Jan Böhmermann (the zany investigative one) recently produced a parody of Nuhr's shows on his own channel and that was so unbelievably cringe (while actually being quite on point!) I wanted to throw up. Possibly in a good way. And then there's someone like Hagen Rether, pretty openly to the left of the political spectrum - I have to admit, I haven't seen him since the pandemic - who is a pianist and songwriter (also a tradition in oldschool German Kabarett), and scores very high marks on the "how much does it hurt when my laughter dies on its way out?" scale imho. Weird mix of extremely dark sense of humour and almost esoteric, drawn-out, hard-to-watch performances, but when he hits, he hits hard, quite similar to Volker Pispers in that. He actually once performed with the symbol of the German unemployment agency printed in black on a white circle on a red armband (yup, he really went there!) during times of high unemployment, and he refused to accept certain awards for ethical reasons, things like that. Lastly, I mused a lot about what British sarcasm and German sarcasm have in common, or where the differences lie. Neither laugh at their own jokes like US Americans seem to do. But correct me if I'm wrong: I got a feeling that British people use humour, especially sarcastic humour, in the actual original Latin meaning of the word: as "moisture"(or should we rather say, uh, "lubricant"?) to make a bitter pill go down more easily. German sarcasm isn't meant to make anything easier, it would rather be used in a destructive way, ranging from mild to nuclear, including self-destruction. Ah well... Telling, isn't it? 😬 Anyways, if you want brutal, on-the-nose, dry - yeah, German Kabarett is your thing. I hope it never dies completely, at least not in spirit. What I miss about German humour is a dash of weirdness and absurdity to fluctuating levels of darkness that British Islands people (and folks in the Nordic countries, for that matter) do quite brilliantly. Germans can either do superficial and lighthearted, or they can do savagely sarcastic. There's only little room for other flavours... Can't have it all, I guess. Thanks for reading my novel 😆 Looking forward to part 5!

I know Volker Pispers and his biting programs for several decades, after all, we come from the same city. I think it's good that you show and comment on them here again. If he would not always perform it with satire and a little humor one would have to beat the hands in front of my face and weep endless tears because he is so right...

There's another interesting patent story about the company Bayer. After WW1 (1, mind you) the US government declared, unilaterally, that the patent for Aspirin held by Bayer, was now a US patent as part of the war reparations because of Bayer's involvement in producing both explosives as well as mustard gas. That Germany was just the first, but not the most proliferous user of mustard gas was conveniently ignored. That "honor" goes to the French who killed more than 30000 soldiers with mustard gas. Thanks to the prevailing winds on the French battlefields blowing relatively consistently from southwest to northeast. With the German lines being almost always to the north and east of the allied lines. So after the war Bayer was dusallowed to sell Aspirin under their own name (yepp, it was developed by them) for measly short time of nearly 70 years. Then in 1995 Bayer was given the opportunity to *buy back it's own patent* from the US companies that had inherited it from their predecessors. For the measly sum of 4 billion dollars. Just st so that Bayer was allowed to sell its own product under its own product name in the USA again. Funny, isn't it, that the patent protection would have run out in the next five years anyway, unless the US American owner company would have renewed it. But Bayer wanted to make certain, so they bought back their own patent. Funny, isn't it? 😮🤯🤔

Comparing Volker with comedians and other satirists? That simply doesn't work. The essence of satire lies in humorously narrating reality, spiced with one's own opinions and perspectives. Comedy, on the other hand, is just some fantasy someone came up with. So, let me compare Volker to other forms of satire and also to cabaret. In Germany, there are several formats that work with satire. These include Extra3, Die Anstalt, ZDF Magazin Royal, Hagen Rether, Die Carolin Kebekus Show, and many others. The difference often lies not in the quality but in the style of presentation and the topics covered. For example, 'ZDF Magazin Royal' mainly deals with human rights, the significant gaping problems we face due to not properly implementing our constitution, and so on. On the other hand, 'Carolin Kebekus' more frequently focuses on topics like gender equality, feminism, and related subjects. 'Die Anstalt,' also points directly at the sore spots. However, it does so in a very comprehensive and detailed manner (similar to a Pispers show). 'Extra3' mainly deals with domestic politics and addresses shortcomings. As for 'Hagen Rether'... well, if there's anyone who can inherit Volker's throne, it would probably be Hagen. Even though he leans more towards cabaret, as his performances always include a musical component.

What I enjoy most about Volker Pispers' style is that he has the perfect timing. He knows when a scene needs a pause for the audience to process the words he said. Much in contrast to some of the current politically active influencers who cut their clips so narrow that you have no time to think, you can not even find a good moment to pause the video without cutting the next sentence due to the input delay.

Yes, but Volker miss the fact that the US also finance the "freedom fighters in "Chechnya". Btw...the US do in Germany what ever they want to do.

I love his directness.

Volker is the grandmaster of german cabaret

Political Cabaret is a recognised form of art here in germany and is subject to our right to the freedom of expression. We also have freedom of speech with some asterixes^^ (denial of the holocaust, nazi propaganda and insults can be fined/punished). Our freedom of expression is much more broad which means I can say some really outragous stuff if I express it through a reckognised form of art. A great (and funny) example for the limits of freedom of expression was Jan Böhmermanns Poem about Erdogan.

Does RU-vid actually censor words like 'terrorist' or 'suicide' or why is it that you cut these words out?

Basically all he says is based in reality, everything happened with a portion of comedy from Volker. He sadly stopped doing it a few years back because of harassment...

He´s allways talking the Truth that why i love him 4 so long...

everything Pispers says is real

Hey Mert, thanks so much for reacting to Volker's programme. My dad worked in the secret service in Germany in the late 90's and 2000's here in south Germany. He knew a lot of stuff that was going on with America, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Back then I was simply too young to realize what was going on. In the 90's I can remember seeing TV reports of burning oil fields in Iraq. But I was way too young to understand what was going on. But yeah, the Americans are kind of untouchable. My ex girlfriend also was obsessed with America, she always called it "easy living", much better than Germany. I've got one other question because I really like your Scottish accent as well as I can hear it when Amy MacDonald is having an interview, you just cannot "not hear" her accent :D So in Assassin's Creed Valhalla there's a character called "Brigit" and she's also from England but in order to keep the confusion alive there are no subtitles. Can you confirm that this is ancient Scottish or is this a Welsh accent? I just don't know. Here's a short video: ru-vid.comwPr_-MRBMJs I'd love to read your reply. Thanks so much in advance and greetings from Germany :)

It's so satisfying to watch this masterpiece from Volker with you again @Who Is Mert? That's what real art means. Once in the world, it may need some times, but finally mindful people all over the world will recognize. And then it's culture. Same as works from Brecht or Shakespeare. (Sorry for my denglish)

"Peacebomber" is such a good word to describe the ridiculousness of all of this hard to comprehened the sheer disregard of human life from the "higher ups" in politics or lobbying companies. it's so sickening

I am from Germany: Volker is really one of the best and straight forward speaking persons I ever saw. I love his and this way to wake up people.

Yes, the story is true. The good thing with Volker Pispers is, EVERY story is true.

Pispers is clear with back informations. He don't talk about things which are not true.

11:39 O yeah. It was back in that time part of conversation even with my friends. In this time US became very unpopular for the Germans Youth exspecialy. Later on with Obamas Drone-War. Anti-Imprerialismus became a common word in our conversations. Germans of my Generation, early 40s by now, are not very Pro-US. Now with the UA war that changed, but our Trust isn´t limitless. The rise of Trump makes us sus of US-Politics in general as well.

I'm really enjoying your series on Volker Pispers so far! You are one of the few people who understand most of the points, compared to many other reaction videos. You mentioned bravery a few times now, but I think it was and maybe still is part of the German satire culture to be that direct and brutally factual. But I fully agree with you, Volker is one of the best in this.

Volker Pispers never was satirical or comedian, he just said the truth, what is possible in germany.... and it was funny and serious at the the same time. I miss him.

Volker Pispers = my personal Fav of all Time. All bis Performances were brillant. So damn sad he retired. I saw him live aswell a couple of times. That was so good. Nice reaction Vid by the way. Greetings from Germany

two of the best in satire in my opinion are Volker Pisper and George Carline

12:44 Yes, the wedding story is real, amongst so many others like that. The wedding was in 2002. There were 40 people dead (including children), 70 people were injuried. The US attack lastet for 2 hours. "While US troops at Bagram airbase near Kabul issued a statement regretting the deaths of civilians, the terse statement from the US central military leadership contained no expression of regret." TAZ, 3.7.2002...... Imagine this at US soil....and even today they praise themselves as the people who free countries and bring freedom. Edit: The USA paid $ 200 for every dead person and $ 75 for every injuried person in 2002.

I have never listened to Volker, but now I`m somewhat sad I didn`t. He`s incredible.

it is hard to not get sick watching this. Not because of Volker but just cause of the sick stuff going on with the world powers.

Well, his comments about Putin aged pretty well I'd say. A bit too well actually.

Here in Germany (I live in Berlin) Volker Pispers is (unfortunately) mostly known and worshipped by the more intellectual people ...good we have him though !!!!

For years, Pispers has packaged the truth in satire and no one has wanted it to be true. Now comes the bill for the ignorance and laziness. And it will be much worse than what he thought. Thank you and greetings from the open lunatic asylum Germany.

That sentiment about the (non-)bravery of suicide bombers compared to bomber pilots was also uttered by Bill Maher on his TV show on ABC back in 2001... and it cost him his job.

Everything Volker Pispers says is real story. He may be skipping a lot of the details because of the sheer volume and complexity of the stuff, but I never really heard any lies or invented stories from him. There is not even any need to fact check for some of us. Most of it is established knowledge to those who are sufficiently interested in geopolitics and what's happening in the world. I can just recommend to people to keep informing themselves at media outlets from all kinds of diverse sources. Even top quality news outlets are biased in most countries. Some newspapers even for example have paragraphs in their journalists employment contracts to unconditionally support the trans-atlantic treaty (including NATO endeavours in Ukraine), like for example germanies biggest boulevard newspaper 'Bild Zeitung'.

This guy exposed it all - a very anglosaxon imperialistic system

Who are you that you are so interested in German behaviour and interested to explain it to outhers. I am a very, very old German but I like Volker for his explainations never heard so clearly. Where can we learn more from politics in such an entertaining easy way?

Franz Müntefering was introduced by the former chancelor Gerhard Schröder as some kind of super hero, that could solve every problem, he had to do with. Spoiler - he could not. But Instead he coverd some party colleagues that had embezzled money. And after he was confronted with his lies, he suddently lost all his memorys on this case.. what a tragic coincidence.

Please also watch his piece about macro economy and the financial crisis. 👍

Well considering its already like, what, 30 years old or so? its nice to finally get some friction.

5:15 Müntefering was an important ally of Schröder in the SPD party in the early 2000 years. He organized the majorities of the SPD members of the Bundestag for the politics of SPD chancellor Schröder. He did it even for Merkel (CDU) after the defeat of Schröder 2005. An éminence grise

@Who Is Mert you're speakin facts..thats, why especially we in Germany see the US critical nowadays

I'm more surprised that with all these crimes of the Americans, they don't get or deserve a 9/11 every year

Unfortunately, Volker isn't going Live anymore. He stopped everything and never came back. There are not many who tell you the truth, even with a bit humour mixed in. Thanks Volker.

Great to see Pispers breaking the language barrier. Greenings from Hamburg

Good reaction. Thanks

Im so sad that every spicy word on RU-vid must be censored in some way to prevent demonization or something. I really want the WILD WEST times of the main platforms back!

Medium: "The Intercept" - " Title: "Our Condolences - How the U.S. Paid for Death and Damage in Afghanistan" Written by: Cora Currier; at 27.02.2015 (years after his speech) "An armored vehicle ran over a six-year-old boy’s legs: $11,000. A jingle truck was “blown up by mistake”: $15,000. A controlled detonation broke eight windows in a mosque: $106. A boy drowned in an anti-tank ditch: $1,916. A 10-ton truck ran over a cucumber crop: $180. A helicopter “shot bullets hitting and killing seven cows”: $2,253. Destruction of 200 grape vines, 30 mulberry trees and one well: $1,317. A wheelbarrow full of broken mirrors: $4,057. A child who died in a combat operation: $2,414. These are among the payments that the United States has made to ordinary Afghans over the course of American military operations in the country, according to databases covering thousands of such transactions obtained by The Intercept under the Freedom of Information Act. Many of the payments are for mundane incidents such as traffic accidents or property damage, while others, in flat bureaucratic language, tell of “death of his wife and 2 minor daughters,” “injuries to son’s head, arms, and legs,” “death of husband,” father, uncle, niece."

He is referring to this I guess: "Haska Meyna wedding party airstrike" 47 Afghans were killed The group was escorting a bride to a wedding ceremony in the groom's village "The members of the commission gave $2,000 for every person killed and $1,000 for those wounded, he said." So he was off by one digit but it's still a horrible event.

It's fascinating to me how Scottish sounds so different from other dialects, yet it's perfectly understandable. Or does he just have a very clear pronounciation? When I listen to people from Africa, some parts of England ( the "Chav" style) or the South of the US talk, I need to put on subtitles.

In my opinion Volker Pispers is a teacher not a comidian

A few years ago (I don't remember exactly when it was!) the USA had a severe fuel shortage and bought back reserves from e.g. Germany. But being the USA, they not only told us the price they sold us the fuel for, but also the price they wanted to buy it back. And everyone kowtows to the USA, though I really don't know where this global servility comes from!

10:00 THE BIG ONE for the UK is ... "Operation Ajax" ... which basically started the entire sh..show. You COULD HAVE "not cheated on the persians" ... and you COULD HAVE "not called the americans" to "fix" the situation ... Oh and the UK hasnt apologised to the iranian people either ... or did you?

Volker Pispers is the red pill of political comedy.

In der damaligen Zeit gilt das als Satire ! 🤝 Heute ist es anders nur geändert hat sich nichts !

Copyright is alwaise explained by AMARIKAns !

also... what Volker says about Putin and Chechnya applies to China's treatment of the Uyghurs as well.. it was the Bush administration who demanded of China to "take action".. they did so because, like the Chechens, a lot of Uyghurs got involved with militant fundamentalist Islam.. including a large amount of fighters who joined the Afghan/Iraqi insurrections against the US occupation.. it is, of course, a fact that is not spoken of today.. yet it is true nonetheless..

The howl Geopolitic of 30 years before in 40 minutes explaind. Pispers deserves PHD from highest ranking Universities in the world and more than this, the NOBEL PRICE

probably the american intalligancy just threatend to realese the recepie they had.... found... that's how you bully

Müntefering was deleted by manipulate his parachute, with the consequence of his dead... Why, because he was not conform to the power players.. That's the story..

It's a shame that Volker retired so early. I'd love to hear his opinion on Trump, the raise to power by the AfD, the wannabe Arbeiterpartei of the 1930's. Hope, he comes back. We need men like him. Btw: Urban Priol is also (still?) active in Kabarett and being almost as sarcastic and good as Volker was. Get your hands on his DVDs or YT vids, you won't regret it.

He is the greatest. He was telling the things so clear and in your face. No mercy. He is smart! Unfortunately he gave up the stage. He is missing in this crazy time. For me. Greetings vom Germany!

Sidenote: Volker uses here and there "Intellectullen" (pronounciation "Intellectüllen") It's a combination of Intellectuals (Intellektuelle) and case, shell, evelope (Hülle). The you combine the emptiness of a shell with intellectual... ;-) "This young we will never meet again" it's a well known joke / phrase in germany mostly used by boomer, I would say.

You didn't know about the HIV medicine, don't you watch South Park? "Hey guys great news, you can now cure your HIV with a huge injection of highly concentrated ca$h" Randy is Leitung africans know driving through all Africa.

Thanks for your videos! I am not sure when this was shown, but it aired on a German public (state-funded) TV channel. It's kinda ironic you call him brave - there are literally and legally no repercussions if you tell the truth. However, check out this stark contrast: Pispers could say all those things on publicly available free TV and had no problems whatsoever. You, though, here on RU-vid are self-censoring certain words, probably to make it ad-friendly. Makes you think: How free to speak are you actually?

So sad to recognize, that Volker Pispers was a prophet. "Deutsche Intelektüllen" always nodded. But it seems as, if Kabarett could cause a change, it would be forbidden. Anyway: Pensioner Pispers, please talk with your wife and start writing texts for young people, who like to stand on stage instead of you. We all miss your words!

This kind of stuff can activate an analytical intelligence! Cognition, realization... Intellectual brutality.

I love the American country and its people. But you are political and economic criminals and egoists. In the end, you as the American people will take responsibility for the mistakes of your politicians and their greed for money, just like we do in Europe. We've had it good for far too long at the expense of others.And we were all aware of that. Now the train has left. Peace and Greets from Germany...stay brave P.S.: Hope my English is ok.^^

Best example, Lockerbie was not the the biggest casualties by a bomb on a plane( if it was one as 747 has issues with cargo door with has nit made public). It was an air india flight 182 in 1985 with 329 casualties, but no Americans on board!

I'm ashamed for novartis, roche and nestlé. And even the ressource trading companies, that dont contribute anything to my country. Where do I live? Btw it's not the banking that made this country rich, even tough everyone thinks so.

I‘ve only watched 1 min of his performance @16‘ (yes american bashing is not my stuff)where he says 1million tutsis were killed with the help of the „frenchs“. It is simply not true, and this kind of „affirmation“ shows infact the kind of disturbed view he has on the world. Only himself (in his point of view) is a rightfull person…

I am afraid you don't get all the mockery he does. For eg. how he pronounced "Intellectuals" and therefor imply that they are not that intelectuals, but just full of themselfes. Also, this humor is not playing around, some stuff is dark, you will notice that some "applaus" is more a low tone rumble. (still agreeing) Again, he tells facts and just pulls the punch a tiny little bit with jokes. He is brutal and its not just you when the laughter gets stuck in your throat. And there will be times, when you were entertained, but also left with some "heavy" afterthoughts. About this wedding? I am afraid, it is as he says. Exaggerations? One would wish. "i already have issues being a german" Again: in School we were tought to feel guilt for the events on WW2.

Enercon, a german wind turbine manufacturer and leading developer has been spied out by the Echelon system in order to get the technology for the US. Today GE holds essential Enercon patents for the US. US America has a law, which allows to seize anything they consider a national strategic asset. Interests that are more valuable for the US than WTO or UN rules or international law, more valuable than any treaty signed even with allies. So technology theft among allies, spying on the chancellors private phone calls etc. ... get used to it. That's the new normal. Volkers audience does not hear the facts he's playing with for the first time. People going to a political cabaret are usually well educated and informed. So it's easy for him to pick from all the memories his audience already has about events, news, scandals and public facts. He's only talking and combining public facts. The Enercon story isn't public in the sense that there is hard evidence, except one knows the story from inside Enercon. So, what Volker also does, he often speaks the mind of his audience .... or better, he knows their reaction. When people applaud him them probably for daring to speak his/their mind. It works because the public picture of america as projected by the german news or politicians differs so much from what people already have witnessed. So many things don't feel right for the people when it's about US foreign policy but the political, military and economic affiliation with the US makes us move along with it and forget about all the details. Some people may have went there to feel their heart beat again like they were not already 'established'. Have the US committed war crimes? Or genocide? Will they ever deal with it? Maybe like the germans did? The black, brown and native community in the US probably will say queue up and wait in the line ...

Likewise the Christian Kurds in northern Syria. First they fought alongside the Americans against Alkaiad. One day the Americans said we're going now. Now the Kurds are sitting there alone again, surrounded by hostile Muslims.

If you have never seen anything like Pispers, then clearly you have never heard George Carlin. He, too, did little more than state facts, and "comedy" does not really describe what he did, but his performances are still considered standup.

We germans are direct. And Volker even more.

Me I don’t mind to be called American or English , to me it’s family , anyway Germans lost the war so we owned literally by England US & whatever ❤️👀 I mean u can’t be stationed here for 40 to 50 years & than go & disappear like this is it , if u know what I mean , Germany is literally the 51st state of the USA , that’s it , at least that’s what it should be

In Germany his programm is political satire, not sure if you have that in the US as well. With Volker you have found the pinnacle of that time, the others died before (Scheibenwischer).

12:04 The Americans keep meddling in German Companies of every branch thinkable not only in pharmaceuticals. Car companies, Aerospace, chemical companies - anywhere that we pose a threat to their economy, they try to undermine - and now Russia (Cyber...) and especially China (Anything...) have seen how easy it is to manipulate the Europeans they are meddling here too.

Müntefering was the Chief of the social democracy party.

Damn, the translation is really bad. Sadly, the translator completely lacked a comparable sense of humour in english (or their grip on the language wasn't strong enough), so they didn't find any fitting equivalents.

I don't know how familiar you are with his work. He started to play cabaret when Kohl was elected chancellor. His goal was to do some good, educate the people about politics, and maybe convince them to vote people into office who want to do some good for everyone. When Merkel became chancellor, he said to his audience, I know you, now. You just want to suffer, but I will not be part anymore. He played the last shows and then retired. His own audience broke him. In an interview, he said, he saw his audience laughing at every dumb thing the elected leaders they voted for did. He saw them stop laughing and become quiet, like in parts of this video. He always said to them, you have the power to change all that, but when they left the show they voted against their own interests again and again. I can't blame him, when I see people voting for a party because they want to be "on the winning side" or how some misfits were able to convince enough people in the UK to leave EU and destroy the future for the youth. Nigel Farage is ashamed that he has so much money but can't spend it properly, I heard yesterday ... lol.

Yes, he was talking about the war on Iraq. I ask why couldn't he transfer his cognition in minute 3:30 on world war 2? What was Churchill's goal that time?

Talking about how he deliveres his stories straight. I remember watching one of his videos like once every few years. And the older i got the more i noticed that he wasn't telling jokes or stories he was yelling at the audience. He told then again and again how bad and idiotic the german parties are and all that happend was the audience (and by the looks most likely the people voting for the wors party) laughing it off, having a blast and then going home and vote for that party again. Thats what made him legendary he did not act for the laughts he fought against the stupidity of the people

You did comment the way Volker is speaking and performing, to understand why he is doing that, you should know that he was teacher before becoming a cabaret artist. That's why he's not moving so much and probably why he has such a big knowledge too.

Franz Müntefering : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_M%C3%BCntefering