>>[reordered]
>>>I also feel very Dresden-challenged after reading this... something about sandbags, measurement... I understand most of (the pieces of most of) the words, yet when I try for the whole, the balloon pops and I get nothing. So... curiosity itches.
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>>Lutz already translated the background picture of PEGIDA and its strong [numerical] connection to Dresden.
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>>>>Sandsack-Schonungsmassnahme,
>>describes the scenario of a newly converted islamic Thomas meeting some of the anti-islamic, right-wing and probably somewhat violence-prone parts of PEGIDA as part-intentional to give the heavy bag time to recuperate
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>>>> solange nicht zu viele auf einmal kommen...
>>but only if not too many of those hooligans turn up at once
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>>>>Aber die Ballung/der Schwerpunkt bei Euch
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>>harks on the fact that those demonstrations ONLY in Dresden have headcounts worthy to report and are held repeatedly. There were quite a few attempts to establish such demonstrations in other cities, which mostly fizzled or were met with anti-(anti-islamic) protesters having more supporters.
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>>Even stipulated that former east-german areas see demonstrations from '89 expirience different compared to those from former west, in Leipzig (the other former pure east city of size) there was a (in numbers 1 as of now) large turnout , but balanced/off-set by anti-(anti-islamic) protesters of greater head count, if the reports and countings are to be trusted.
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>>>> ist auch für nicht-dresdener Deutsche erklärungsbedürftig
>> This discrepance is really puzzling, not only for foreign press, but germans living not in Dresden, even if they are not in any political machine but interested in such penomena.
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>Wow... this is a testimony to today's media, which don't report this kind of thing simply because it's not covered by Reuters or AP or BBC or they don't pay for that much of a service, and the owners have fired all their foreign correspondents and have only google-translators on staff. So as long as there weren't at least 50 dead, it didn't happen...
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>IOW, I've completely forgotten how complicated can politics be in any european country.

The germans are not half that homogeneous as the common picture shows. Our government may have 25% of the votes possible ...