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Mardi Gras Political Floats in Germany an Absolute Riot

Spiegel via Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis, 21/02/2012 (traduire en Français  )

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The carnival processions in Cologne, Düsseldorf and Mainz are famous for their satirical floats as Germany's Catholic regions celebrate the country's version of Mardi Gras. This one in Düsseldorf purports to illustrate the close political relationship between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel.

This one in Düsseldorf shows Merkel on a tandem bike with her ailing coalition partner, the Free Democratic Party, which is looking worse for wear after seeing its voter support collapse since it entered government in 2009.

Members of the Occupy anti-bank protest movement joined the Cologne parade to drum up support for their campaign -- with support from guerrilla leader Che Guevara, seen on a placard sporting a clown's nose.

Here's the butterfly of the Arab Spring about to be gobbled up by the toad of "Islamization."

And here's ballerina Angela Merkel shielding Europe from the euro crisis with her ample tutu. The term "Rettungsschirm" on her tutu is the German expression for "bailout package".

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