{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Context XXI","provider_url":"http:\/\/contextxxi.org","title":"Tragicomedy in the Bavarian Alps\n","author_name":"Lizas Welt","width":"1200","height":"800","url":"https:\/\/contextxxi.org\/tragicomedy-in-the-bavarian-alps.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/contextxxi.org\/tragicomedy-in-the-bavarian-alps.html'\u003ETragicomedy in the Bavarian Alps\n\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003EIt is well known that anti-American jokes are in fashion nowadays here in Germany. Whoever, for example, pokes the usual fun at George W. Bush can be more or less sure to have the laughs on his side. And then those \u201cAmis\u201d have such absurd laws: in America, for example, one can sue the tobacco industry for damages if one gets lung cancer from smoking too much. The [average] German just shakes his head, because that he finds crazy. When, however, what goes on in his own country is far \u003Ca href=\"..\/tragicomedy-in-the-bavarian-alps.html\" class=' pts_suite'\u003E(...)\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}