Hegemony with prospect of decay

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The Union parties, it seems, are in a comfortable location

In the general election, the Union parties have increased the distance to the SPD. The so-called left camp has proven to be phantom, so it does not constitute competition at the start of a new government. As a chancellor Angela Merkel sits firmly in the saddle, while she needs a party as a helper, but that will find it. For new elections, SPD and grune came badly. An Angie state in the long run?

The bill does. The image of a stable force of the CDU / CSU in the party spectrum is due to optical exchanges and also by the fact that the fractures in the housing of the Union parties are not taken into view.

In case of a closer look is recognizable: Even with this election, the CDU / CSU has not gathered the majority of the Wahler behind – and certainly not the majoritat of the voter voting. The legitimacy for the Chancellor is anything but upcoming, even if the opinion-making media bring this to the people. The AFD has not only committed to the Christian terrain, but strategically, it is a competition on the edge of the Union parties, revealing is the development in the Easter-rich parties landscape.

At the moment only the CDU / CSU still has the character of a "Folk party", The SPD will not recover him, with the greats, he was brought into play only short-term and illusionar. Still, the Union parties are able to eliminate expectations of economic owners, medium-sized staff and workers election policy with themselves.

On the consequent thing of politicians who determine the course of the CDU / CSU, for the structural requirements of the financial-"Market" and the coarse company is not to doubt, there are there "No alternatives". However, this is not clear that the Union policy makes all sorts of constraints in detail on Wunsche from that population mass that depends on dependent work. You can do that "Social democratization" call the Union, if thought of: on the "System transceiver" Had the "reformer" SPD even lasted, at least if it did not correspond to the requirements of the capital side.

The question is how long the ruling Union parties can convey the feelings, with them divergent economic and social interests are well accommodated, so to speak "saved". In German industry, the differences between world market-oriented actors and such middle-class companies rely on the internal market. For the middle classes growth decline. The skilled worker fears before the relocation in precare investments. There is still hope that the German Local Chancellor will keep all under control, ensuring the economic preferred position of the Federal Republic and to arrange social compensation in this country halfway.

But how long stop? Germany does not have a paradise insertion in an otherwise storm ocean of the European economy. Deferred problems have the unpleasant property not necessarily. And Angela Merkel, smart as she is, has already been explored, she will no longer perceive her job. It is probably that the People’s Party Phase of the CDU / CSU runs out during the next few years. What comes in the field of the parties does not have to be more pleasing than a present that is already unpleasant enough. An indication that misunderstood as a request for passivation.

Ubisoft shooter "Haze" puts on Cinematic Gameplay – and knew as a killer game about killer games

"Dunst", "true", "mileness", so in about something "Haze" can be translated. Or it means a cannabis variety. Both power in connection with the online for the PlayStation 3 eponymous ego shooter quite sense. After all, this is about psychopharmaca, sensory reductions – and by the way on the BlackWater scandal.

The cynical pramisse looks like this: State armies are no longer cost-effective in the world of "Haze". As a result, the Soldner and Rustungsverfirma "Mantel Global Industries" has established itself as an international – and apparently monopolistic – whose troops are booked by national governments for war assignments. "Consequently, the UN, NATO and many national armies were dissolved, and all activities for peacekeeping on coat surrendering private army."

Depending on the framework (and the game itself), how then military conflicts between two coat customer states are released and why had the whole thing "consequently" to the resolution of UN and NATO. The same naivitat, which reduces these institutions to their explicit military power, is also at the factory when the plot coat is a crude world vulnerwater.

Today, 2048, Robt a Burger War, in any Latin American country, and the coat troops are sent to skill. As a player, you get into the role of Shane Carpenter, a young coat-Soldner under the command of boss cynics and upper-utilitarist Sergeant Morgan Duvall. In this first half of the game – Father you change the pages, fights with the rebels against coat – you will be bombarded by the defendant coolness of his eventually the cliche-marines from "Aliens" modeled Soldermameraden and their empty political and ethically asking phrases: this is called Duvall several times to rationality, because "Emotion and Affections Are Just Chemical Reactions". Right at the beginning of the game, eyewitnesses, as he has a Soldner, the moral concerns about their approach aubert, of the helicopter – followed by a sermon over utilitarianism, and why he must be the only basic pramisse in the war: "IF YOU HAVE THE Choice to Save One of Two Comrades, You Save The One With The Bigger Gun!"

(An-) driven are the jacket troops from a substance called "nectar", a "food intelligence", the "visionary, target accuracy, speed and strong" of the Soldner. The soldiers are the work bees of coat, and the "nectar" is their jelly royale – not for nothing the black coat helmet carries a yellow strip as a visor, the uniforms bright yellow honeycomb on the shoulder – overhead, the honeycomb form is already found in the game menu and recycles clever to the name of the game concept determining the drug.

A slot: "Haze" is not a good game. It is just one of this conval ego shooter, the sinky game dump like in simulationistic aspects (like the tendered assault rifles, with which one can also bring to the finish at a few meters away, every eighth ball to the finish). The player also likes to find themselves in the situation to rush through Duster’s industrial scenarios and sometime in search of the exit on good luck to tune every black flat with his head – until some finally proves to be the longed-for staircase in the next level section.

The Cinematic Gameplay is standing ahead of the structuring instance, builds "Haze" as mostly random (Z.B. The defense of the rebelendorf against coat troops) stating script events. Really already succeeds only in a wonderfully farmed swamp landscape: surrounded by Gluhwurmchen, the – currently unarmed and coat has now been drowned – Hero by Moras and fog, over-creaking webs, and finds himself quickly pursued by solder troops, but never sure if he just experienced a hallucination.

Only the ubiquitous darkness and unrealiveness of the game introduces the movie feel here a leg. The conventional-free weapon arsenal of "Haze" is the quality of the game in the way: After all, we play here in a science fiction setting, and there is only one pistol, two assault rifles, a shotgun, a rocket launcher and the compulsory and Completely UNZUTS – Auber in a self-built script event – sharpener gun. Rectilinous Shooter Level like the abandoned hotel facility, which released the player to his own style, however, make a small part of the game.

The unique selling point of the game is not the originality of the plot, the cinematic atmosphere or the vehicle sections, which in the meantime seem to be missing in no shooter anyway. Not even the idea of the "nectar" and the resulting two quite different gaming styles – as a soil-standing rebel or just as a "nectar" junkie, especially online was allowed to provide the for exciting Deathmatches – to actually shape an outstanding game element. The trick of "Haze" lies in a side effect of the drug: "Nectar" not only influences the fighting of the coat soldiers. He not only carries the risk of overdose. "Nectar" also masks the perception, let the war show less bloody appear, the soldiers forget that they fight against genuine people.

"Nectar" is the flawed and intravenos administered violence, and the coat soldiers the final product of this targeted dulling. In a scene of the game – still in mantle uniform – we see a pair of rolled-up tarpaulins distributed on the ground until suddenly a "nectar disruption" on the display flashes, the perception flickers, and get off the plannes-tailored corpses. The Aalglat environment is at once corners and edges, blood spers to the worn witnesses of past battles, and that – already indispersible – comrades appear before this backdrop even cynical: "An empty hand is just one grip away from holding a weapon" , Duvall justifies the murder of civilians – an unpleasant allusion, considering the transit of the coat model company Blackwater.

Killer games and the dulling theory

It seems as a wool "Haze" the dulling theory as Christian Pfeiffer represented by video game opponents such as Christian Pfeiffer illustrated and discussed, even the side change in the playplot speaks for that. You start as a super-soldier, without perception of violence, "haze" starts as a game, as, yes: killer game, also diegetically. Due to the succinct change in the design, this prior trial becomes obvious, opponents die graphic, they are stobbing pain cries. New missions now let the player save the inhabitants of a small village from marauding coat troops, save people from deholettia opponents. The coat troops are exactly the variety of heroes, which is also torpered in "Gears of War" or "Halo", only that "Haze" now represents their fragility to the discussion now.

To make them opponents and to put their amoralitat to the pillory, a war recognition comes to other genre representatives. That’s – as well as the bees allusion in design details – subtle and clever. Especially the rather one-dimensional shooter genre usually comes out with simple black and white characters, of which the sowers are thoroughly acting amoral – like just cynical action heroes in the cinema.

Now to stimulate themselves on these cynical heroes and make them promptly to opponents, is fragwurrdig: too easy to read "haze" as a pladoyer for a classification of games that the genre in the low-hazardous danger on the one and realistic shocking (Anti) war games on the other side wants to divide. Thus, the designers play the representatives of the highest controversial – dulling thesis in the hands by putting a monument to their believeness. The opposite is the end of the game in which the victorious rebel drivers explores "nectar" use, "to give my people confidence". Game and realitate escape for a positive effect.

Such contrials are realized that computer games as a narrowner medium still stuck in the child shoes. Although there are already the gross masters of their subject, but game designers and specialists like Hideo Kojima or Warren Spector are still exceptions. In addition, such meta concepts are, of course, with the interactivity to be demanded by the medium: at "haze", the corresponding positions are restricted again – on prefabricated script events, without intervention or decision-making of the player. You do not have any possibility to give up "nectar" as a coat-soldner and thus more "realitat", more violence on the screen. The supposed discourse is prefabricated and denies the player participation. For which page "Haze" argues, remains unclear. Of course, only: "haze" is a killer game about killer games.

After the congress with coarse majority approved the torture ban, the house is no longer threatened with a Veto in the woman and seems to be the inevitable; However, the torture ban could not be worth much if that "Graham Amendment" Is accepted

US vice-Prassident Cheney had to prefabricate the prasident himself, who has always been wearing the torture for some time that the torture is not practiced by US belongings, even if this was not so difficult with the narrow torture term. Cheney should try to pierced and tortured by the Republican Senator John McCain, who had been in captivity in the Vietnam’s war, proposed torture ban at least for CIA-belongings. Apparently, however, the sometimes violent discussion of recent times in the US-friendly countries over the CIA activities and the prere outstanding from the US Congress, Prasident Bush accepted the torture ban now.

However, the regulation is not law with the agreement. And the torture ban could again be partially occupied by an additional addition adopted by the Senate, which cement the legal nobody country in Guantanamo and US religious "enemy camphor" Mistrade, protect was (legalization of Guantanamo).

With the overwhelming majority, the torture ban had been adopted some time ago in the American Senate. McCain from which the initiative comes from, in addition to the moral rearance, above all, it also went to free the USA again a stucco from the negative image in which it has been spated since the Abu Ghraib scandal. Although the Pentagon had already adopted a new Code for Militaranhorigen, after which the torture is prohibited. But here many loophole remained open.

However, the Senator wanted to see the ban clearly and unmisturly formulated for all agents of the US government and fed a corresponding addition to the Department of Defense Appropriations ACT 2006. After this, it is forbidden to treat people who are in American detention in the US and abroad, to treat inhumane, degrading or cruel. And the rules carried out in the Army Field Manual are based on all auspices to avoid ambigeability in the future. The most important PAS:

No Individual In The Custody Or United The Physical Control of the United States Government, Regardless of Nationality Or Physical Location, Shalle Be Subject to Cruel, Inhuman, OR Degrading Treatment Or Punishment.

After the senators amed the addition with a rough majority, the Bush government threatened with a Veto of the Budget Act of the Pentagon and sent Cheney to encourage an exception at least for intelligence attendants (US government wants an exception of the threatening torture for the CIA).

McCain but remained steadfast. Then the discussion came across transport of traversed, CIA fishing and torture, which further undermined the reputation and credience of the United States undermined US Foreign Minister on their European trip to make some more verbal constituents (for EU ministers everything is alright now). Apparently, the deputies of the Reprused Antenna House, although here as well as in the Senate the Republicans have the majority, have considered that an aggressive policy, which in contrast to the "bose" Terrorists for freedom, law and democracy wants to enter, not with the same means can proceed as the terrorists and tyrants.

However, the Bush Government seemed to continue to continue the path that has been taken out once that in war against terrorism human rights and international agreements no longer need to be adhered to. The appeal policy of the sowing house, the coverage of the Pentagon for mistreatment in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and elsewhere and above all the attempt to explicitly exclude the CIA from the torture ban testify. But the House of Representatives did not play anymore and supported the torture ban with a majority of 308 against 122 votes.

Although the addition to the Budget Act has not been binding, the domestic blockade now seems to have led to rethinking in the sowing house – or one has already developed a strategy with the Republican deputies to create a strategy despite the McCain additional loophole. However, only 107 Republican deputies had voted on it and 121 against it. Even a day later, Bush met with the Senators McCain and John Warner. After the conversation, Bush contacted the public and merged that he was very pleased to have achieved a convention over the torture ban. Together, you want to defend the USA, but also make sure the USA "The American values in the fight against the terrorists and the victory over them" beware. You have made it clear that "this government does not torture and that we obey the international torture agreement in Germany and abroad". And of course, it was done as if the US government has always seen this and practiced this, and as a commodity the agreement by one "close cooperation" come about. John McCain also celebrated its success and contained every critical remark:

And I Would Like To So Repeat, We’ve Sent a Message To The World That The United States Is Not Like The Terrorists. WE HAVE No Grief for Them, But What We Are a Nation That Upholds Values and Standards of Behavior and Treatment of All People, No Matter How Evil Or Bad They Are. And I Think That This Will Help US Enormously In Winning The War For The Hearts And Minds Of People Throughout The World In The War On Terror.

John McCain

But the question will be whether this spade recognition will actually lead to the hoped-forverted transfers of people around the world without any work-up of the past, so that the credging of the Bush government and their war were rescued against the terror. But it was possible, however, it was still fast enough to reare at least the composite governments and thus accomplish that the enrollment prere remains low, at least no new scandal is coming up.

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