ZUMA MUST FALL

ZUMA MUST FALL

The latest controversy is the ever falling rand that resulted from President Jacob Zuma's indecision. His ridiculous   move to change three finance ministers in one week upset the masses, so much so, that they took to the streets  of Cape Town and Johannesburg protesting. Protesters gathered in front of Parliament and in the Company Gardens  Cape Town and at the Union buildings to show their support for the #ZumaMustFall movement with 151 000 signatories trending on twitter.  Thousand upon thousand with placards in hand demanded the removal of Jacob Zuma and chanting  Zuma Must Fall. 

The masses protesting against President Zuma

The 73 year old president cost the South African economy close to R2 176 230 000 000, which I'm certain he can't even enunciate. The South African foreign debt jumped to  38.2% and is at its  highest since 1980's. Yet, President Jacob Zuma was willing to spend additional Billions of Rands on nuclear reactors from which he would financially benefit before his term as president ends. And spend several billions more on bailout for South African Airways [SAA] run by his girlfriend Dudu Myeni for new jets, not to mention the 4 billion on his luxurious  personal and jet.  

This is what Zuma's 4 Billion Rand Private Jet looks like.

Although he already spent R 250 Million  on Nkandla, his private residence. To crown it all, when Nhlanhla Nene refused to give financial guarantees and declined to grant Zuma’s staff exemptions for using expensive hotels and flying first class, Jacob Zuma fired his ass and replaced him with his "yes man" David van Rooyen. In the last State of the Nation address, Zuma promised 1 million jobs. He over promised and under delivered by more than half, failing the poor and  the working class and South Africans as a whole. This Zuma styled unity and democracy, is certainly not the kind of unity and democracy envisioned by the late Walter Sisulu, Oliver Tambo and our beloved Madiba, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela.

President Jacob Zuma has been playing Russian Roulette with the South African economy during his term of office causing irreparable harm, yet the ANC condemned the #ZUMAMUSTFALL marches, saying they go against the spirit of reconciliation even though the Day of Reconciliation commenced with inter party animosity. Instead of dropping Zuma like a hot potato as they should, the ANC executive supported Zuma despite the party losing  more public support than at anytime during their history. From this it is quite evident that Zuma will remain as president until the next elections and the ANC will do their utmost to milk black sympathy by constantly reminding its voters about the apartheid struggle. 

A huge flag tied to table mountain below the cable car - saying ZUMA MUST FALL

The ANC spokesperson Kodwa, accused former Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille of using Reconciliation Day to engage in partisan politics and trivialise the significance of nation building. But the DA's underlying message remained "no reconciliation with corruption".  Zwelinzima Vavi, former Cosatu General-Secretary warned that South Africa could become the next Zimbabwe if President Jacob Zuma isn't stopped from usurping the coffers. Julius Malema, EFF leader whose been picketing "pay back the money" predicted  that President Zuma won't not make it to next year's State of the Nation Address, even though he swore allegence to JZ. 

Students protesting outside the Union Buildings Pretoria.

THREE FINANCE MINSTERS IN ONE WEEK

R4 billion jet crashed South African economy

Something as ridiculous as going through Pravin Gordhan can only happen in South Africa. Yep, never mind the consequences to poor South Africans and the business sector, especially importers because the ZAR just got flushed down the toilet for the n~th time since the "ousting of apartheid." Over the past four years the the Rand has lost so much value that it's starting to resemble the free fall of the Zimbabwean Dollar under  Robert Mugabe's presidency.

South Africa as a whole is still reeling from this ridiculous move made by President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, who reshuffled his cabinet for the second time in five days. After appointing  unknown lawmaker David van Rooyen and axing Nhlanhla Nene on Wednesday the rand tumbled to a historic low and bond yields jumped to the highest point they have ever been in seven years. This appointment gave the global community a sense of insecurity making them feel their investment in South Africa is turning sour hence they disinvested as fast as the river Nile flows during a flash flood. Forced by the market reaction and that of South Africans from all sectors including fellow politicians within the ANC. Jacob Zuma reconsidered the folly of his decision and hastily reappointed Pravin Gordhan as Finance Minister. As a consequence the rand  immediately improved after a week of market turmoil which triggered the  #zumamustfall campaign, as well as a planned march with a petition to remove the president from power.

President Zuma  is panicking beyond comprehension because his whim was in fact political suicide leaving him more vulnerable than ever for bringing South Africa on the bring of a recession. His political wrangling arose over a planned nuclear deal and questionable spending at the struggling national airline carrier. And there is speculation that Zuma axed Nene because of his refusal to approve the purchase of new Airbus jets  from airline chairwoman, Dudu Myeni, who was known to be a close ally of President Zuma.

However, the South African Rand firmed by as little as one Rand closing of R15.88 which is nowhere near to what it was before 2011. I distinctly remember a time when the 1 ZAR was worth 2 USD but since we've had 5 presidents. It appears that tribalism is beyond good governance seeing  that  JZ was elected into office not because he was the best man for the job but that it was the Msholozi clan's turn to lead the people of South Africa even though he had no formal education as a child.

NAZI AND ZION EQUALS NAZION

ISRAEL MIMICS GERMANY  

"Never Again"! These were the echos on the lips of virtually every Holocaust survivor who managed to or was fortunate enough to escape Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (Monowitz) and Treblinka. But it seems this slogan specifically, emphatically and exclusively applies to the Jewish race and totally excludes Gentiles. As a whole, they are not interested to see that the Holocaust never happens again, as long as it never happens to them.  Meaning, "Never Again" is a Jewish vow declaring that they will never again allow themselves to be exterminated like cockroaches ever again. But in the same breath, Israeli/Jewish arrogance  during the past 70 years  flagrantly demonstrates that they  "reserve the right" to perpetrate the same Nazi crimes of Auschwitz and Treblinka or similar against other nations they deem "lesser" than themselves. 

Auschwitz station

This loudly screams "Better" "Superiority" "Aryan Race" "Chosen People" etc... The "exterminated" taking on the role of the exterminator, by placing Israeli humanity above that of others. Not affording "inferior nations" the same courtesy  afforded them by the Allied Forces of WW2. They call themselves the chosen nation. And yes indeed they are chosen, chosen by God to be persecuted because of their disobedience, their wrongs and their corruptions.  

NAZION Flag

Yet they persist in their arrogance and corruption, usurping, destroying, injuring, maiming, mutilating, killing, orphaning, widowing, brutalizing,  butchery and colonizing the defenceless
Palestinians who have but mere sticks and stones against the Israeli automatic machine guns, rocket launchers, tanks, missiles planes, drones, gunships, cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs and other chemical forms of ethnic cleansing.   Funny thing is, after  millions of Palestinians have been displaced, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been exiled and exterminated, Israelis call these extreme measures self defence. However, Israeli soldiers are blowing the whistle on Israel brutality and the killing of children.

Their heavy handed military defence strategy  pitted against desperate young Palestinian men and woman who choose death over subjugation and blow themselves up along with a few Israeli casualties. But Israelis see this as terrorism, yet history bears testimony to the fact that one persons terrorist is another persons freedom fighter. There is no equality  in their reasoning, no eye for an eye and no tooth  for a tooth. Equitability means that the punishment must fit the crime. But Israel takes the lives of hundreds of Palestinian civilians  for a single life lost by a Israeli citizen. Demolishes entire neighbourhoods with bulldozers, indiscriminately drop bombs on civilians, cut off their water supply, sequester the olive groves, confiscate Palestinians owned lands and build settlements on them. 

Murdering women whom they say will give birth to suicide bombers. Starving innocent children whom they say will become suicide bombers and  cause of their destruction. Much like Pharaoh who slayed all the babes at the birth of Moses and like Herod who slayed all the babes at the time of the birth  of Jesus.  Jews have plucked a page out of Pharaoh  and Herod's book.  How unjust are these Jews. How much more ruthless are these Jews! How much more vicious are these Jews! How much more unfeeling are these Jews! How much more spiteful are these Jews! How much more malicious are these Jews! How much more cruel are these Jews! How much more vindictive are these Jews! How much more wicked are these Jews! How much more criminal are these Jews! How much more evil are these Jews!  How much more vengeful are these Jews!  How much more heartless are these Israeli Jews? The Israeli government provides incentives for Jews from all over the world to imigrate to Israel offering them land for free, putting more Jews in harms way to justify killing Palestinians  who oppose this indiscriminately.

Some people say these Zionist Jews learnt this from the Nazi Germans? I don't think so... They are in fact much worse than the Nazis. Considering that they had first hand experience of what such atrocities does to the human body, mind and soul. Let alone perpetrate them in the 21st century were civilized and thinking people look on and do absolutely nothing. Their inaction makes them just as guilty in fact it makes them accomplices. Possession is 9/10ths of the law but global lawmakers and onlookers deny the Palestinians their rights by supporting the Israel regime and by setting up sanctions against the Palestinian people.  These human rights  violations exercised by the occupation authorities is worst than apartheid ever was in South Africa. Idiotic policies using electric detection fencing, CCTV cameras and barbed wire to separate the Palestinian  residents from their Olive Trees.

GERMANY AND ISRAEL SIMILARITIES

The Berlin Wall / West Bank Wall

The Nazi Germans had the Berlin Wall.  The Israeli's have the West Bank wall. East Germany built their wall to keeps its population inside and the war outside. Israels built their wall to keep the war inside and the press and foreign powers outside

Palestinians  herded and controlled like farm animals

German Arms Manufacture

Germany's   arms manufacturer  Friedrich Krupp AG made arms, ammunition, tanks, rifles  for both WW1 and WW2 and thereafter merged with Thyssen AG to form ThyssenKrupp AG the become the largest business in Europe. The famous Browning Hi-Power, the Walther PPK, the Luger P08 pistol, the Mauser C96 and the Sauer 38H are just a few arms in their huge arms compliment. They also manufactured machine guns, sub machine guns, anti-tank weapons and flame throwers etc, for the German Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht.

Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Israeli Arms Manufacture

Israel Military Industries (IMI) renamed Israel Weapon Industries, predominantly manufactures arms, ammunition and military technologies for its Israeli Defence Force. The Galil is their compact assault rifle, the Negev is their premier light machine gun, the  Jericho 941 is a semi-automatic pistol, the Desert Eagle is their famous handgun, the Tavor their  bullpup assault rifle and their Uzi is probably the most popular submachine gun (weapon of mass destruction) in the world. But they also produce the Delilah missile, the IMI 120 mm gun, explosive reactive armour , rocket-propelled grenades, anti-tank guided missiles and so much more. The Israel's military is the best-equipped and best-trained in the middle east using brute force to subdue the Palestinians.

Nazi Movement

Some Nazi Pary members :- Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, Rudolf Hess,   Heinrich Himmler, Wilhelm Keitel, Hermann Göring, Reinhard Heydrich, Karl Dönitz, Laszlo Csatary, Oskar Groening, Gerhard Sommer, Helmut Oberlander, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Hans Fritzsche, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen, Josef Mengele, Eduard Wirths,   Adolf Eichmann,   Rudolf Höss,  Joseph Goebbels, Vladimir Katriuk, Alfred Stark, Johann Robert Riss , Algimantas Dailidė, 

Zionist Movement

Some Israeli Prime Ministers and Zionist Party members:- Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Olmert, Isaac Herzog, Tzipi Livni, Shelly Yachimovich, Stav Shafir, Itzik Shmuli, Omer Bar-Lev, Yehiel Bar, Ariel Sharon, Ehud Barak,  Revital Swid, Danny Atar, Yoel Hasson, Zouheir Bahloul, Eitan Broshi, Michal Biran, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak  Shamir,  Nachman Shai, Ksenia Svetlova Ayelet Nahmias-Verbin, Yossi Yona, Eyal Ben-ReuvenMenachem Begin,  Golda Meir, Levi Eshkol, David Ben-Gurion, Moshe Sharett, Amir Peretz, Merav Michaeli, Eitan Cabel, Manuel Trajtenberg, Erel Margalit, Mickey Rosenthal,

Nazi Israeli Concentration Camps

German concentration camps at Auschwitz and Treblinka had electric fences  topped with barbed wire   to confine inmates to one place. Ans a  registration number tattooed on their left forearm in order to control there movements. Jews gold teeth, jewelry. wealth  and paintings confiscated.

Time is the most precious commodity in the world. This is how Israel usurps
Palestinians lives by making them stand at checkpoints for hours.

Israeli Concentration Camps

Israeli Concentration camps is the West Bank  are fenced-in with High concrete wall and electric fences topped with barbed wire to control  the movements of the inmates.  Identity documents and checkpoints are litter Palestine territories   in order to control there movements. Palestinians lands confiscated.

Anyone who cannot see the similarities between the Nazi and Israeli atrocities or is unwilling to speak out against the Israeli / Palestinian onslaught is either blind or an Israeli accomplice.  

GLOBAL VILLAGE IDIOT

GLOBAL IDIOT CONTROVERSY

There is a saying that goes something like this, "It is far better to sit there staring googly eyed at others and not say anything and let people think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and prove that you are a fool"  (Like Netanyahu’s ‘pathetic’, and  ‘creepy’ 44 seconds of silence at the United Nations). Never before in the history of the world has this saying even been more appropriate, totally befitting to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Of all the fool hardy and idiotic pronouncements that he could ever have made, today he tried to justify the  Israeli,  violence and racist incitements, ethnic cleaning and extermination policies against the Palestinians, by saying that the Jewish Holocaust was inspired by Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini of Jerusalem, incited by whispers into Fuehrer Adolf Hitler ear.

Haj Amin al-Husseini meeting with Adolf Hitler in 1941

It is true that mufti allied himself to Chancellor Adolf Hitler in 1941, though  several years after the holocaust was already underway. But Netanyahu's hatred of Palestinians and his ludicrous distortion of truth is purely his way of strengthening the "Israeli narrative", by associating the Palestinian leadership with the Nazis, giving him justification for punishing the Palestinians for the crimes committed by the Nazi Germany against Jews of Europe. Like Hitler he is 'Playing God' without permission.

Not only is he crazy, stupid and idiotic. His assertions are also totally absurd. By this, he has emphatically proven himself to be  the village idiot, in an era when the world has become a global village. This makes him the global village idiot, trying to  sell his "supposed version of history" against one that is cast in stone. Looney antics has earned Benji-yahu global ridicule and condemnation by Israeli historians and politicians, fellow Israelis and Jews across the globe and by academics on an international level. Professor Dina Porat chief historian at Israel's memorial to the Holocaust  "harshly criticized "  Netanyahu's skewed speech. Even President Obama says that Netanyahu is basically a perpetual idiot. Chancellor Angela Merkel totally rejects Binjamin Netanyahu version of history, stating very clearly that the Germans take full responsibility of what happened during the Holocaust.

Netenhayu's googly eyed stare - The Global Village idiot

Netanyahu interpretation of history which he obviously read in his taurat, shows blatant signs of opportunism which also defines his irresponsible behaviour that has made him single handedly accountable for the escalation of violence against Palestinians.  By exculpating the Germans through incriminating a Muslim Mufti, he is hoping to win favour with European Islamophobes to bolster his position in the middle east. This is so wrong on so many levels, bordering on evil. A petition with 76,000 signatures for his arrest for war crimes in Gaza is rapidly gaining momentum. 

Netanyahu's heavy handed tactics  even went as far a toughened penalties for stone throwers. His minimum penalty, announced "significant fines" for Palestinian children, as well as for their parents. This  Jewish hatred for Palestinians  is sickening, even echoed  the Taraut, saying :- 

As the Philistine (Palestinian) moved closer to attack him, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet him. Reaching into his bag and taking out a stone, he slung it and struck the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell facedown on the ground. So David triumphed over the Philistine (Palestinian) with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.

So who cast the first stone? Elesewhere in the bible Jesus even said "Whoever is without sin among you, let him be the first to cast a stone".  The David Ben-Gurions, the Yitzhak Rabins, the Yitzhak Shamirs and the Netanyahus of the world obviously cast the first stone. The Jewish hated for Palestinians goes back way before the holocaust or the post WW2 Jewish invasion of Palestine and is so rife  that they will volatile Jerusalem Temple Mount. But violating its people has always taken first preference as can be seen in this forceful castration  exercise below.

David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines (Palestinians) and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king's son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his daughter Michal in marriage.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Today Al-Jazira newscast was inundated with hoo haa over the Turkish prime minister's statement that the “Armenian genocide was an international lie”. This is clearly his personal opinion and its not like he is imposing his will on that of everyone else. Yet, the powers that be, are up in arms over this statement, shouting “the first genocide of the 20th century”.  Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu accused Pope Francis of  conspiring against Turkey when the pontiff  echoed these very same words which were initially uttered by his predecessor John Paul II. Both of whom conveniently forgetting the Roman Catholics Church's hand in the atrocities during the  Spanish Inquisition, the anti-Protestant reformation, the anti-semitism in medieval Europe,  the relationship with Nazi Germany, the medieval witch hunts and the endless sexual abuse controversy, to mention but a few.

The Austrian parliament labelled Turkey's involvement as “the terrible events as genocide”  resulting in the recalling of the Turkish  ambassador to Austria,  which  Ankara said “permanently damaged” the countries’ relations.  Its a really big mystery as to why the western world now suddenly sees the “systematic genocide” by the Ottoman government against the Armenians as a crime, whilst in the midst of war.  WW1 dates from the  July 28, 1914 to 11 November 1918 and the Armenian extermination played out between  1915 and  1917,  smack bang in the middle of WW1. Millions of people of all religions and ethnicities lost their lives in the First World War especially considering that the Otterman empire was the worlds greatest empire, ruling for longer than any other and at war for most of its existence.  It is very obvious when making an omelet one has to break a few eggs, likewise engaging in war guarantees deaths and casualties. This year, 2015 marks the 100th anniversary  of the Armenian extermination  and any first hand account of this event has been buried a long time ago.

In my opinion, denial of God is a far more heinous crime than denial of the Armenian genocide or  even the denial of the Jewish Holocaust. Holocaust deniers aught to be protected by the universal right to free speech as preached by the the US First Amendment right. But  the modern western world's hypocrisy on freedom of speech borders on crazy because it essentially puts the importance of mortal man above the belief in God Almighty. 

For years Atheists and Agnostics have had free reign to blaspheme against God Almighty and ridicule religion to their hearts content, in public, without any repercussions.   Since time immemorial the Jewish Pharisees and Sadducees ridiculed and denied, mocked and “crucified” Jesus Christ without repercussions.  Not to long ago a media cartoons of  prophet Muhammad, raised a few eyebrows but nothing happened to the perpetrators. In fact they released a second bout of offensive cartoons because there was absolutely no possibility of prosecution. But if anybody dared to say the Armenian genocide or the Jewish Holocaust didn't happen they are prosecuted to he fullest extent of the law and face prison time. The United Kingdom, France and the United States,  Germany, France, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland and Israel etc, all have laws against the denial of the Holocaust. Countries like Germany, Austria, Hungary and Romania, all of whom were among the perpetrators of the holocaust, ban symbols associated with Nazism and criminalized publicly  disputing  the official version of Holocaust.

Germany is said to have shot/ killed / gassed 11 million people over a 6 year period from 1939-1945. This equates to 1 million 830 thousand people per year or 152774 people per month, or 5093 people per day, or 213 people her hour , or  9 people per minute.   Can you even imagine any  regime capable of continuously killing 9 people every minute throughout a 24 hour for 72 months. At the same time  manufacturing uniforms, arms and ammunition, tanks and planes,  building bunkers, having parties and fighting the Allied forces on several fronts and flying sorties to the United Kingdom. It is kind of difficult to comprehend. But it did happen,  so whether it is 11 million  or 11 hundred,  genocide is a no-no and wrong on so many levels. But to be forced into believing a historical event without the right to question is a greater wrong, because its mental rape on a global scale.

In the not so distant past several people were imprisoned for denying that  Auschwitz and Treblinka ever happened.  British historian, David Irving  was arrested in Austria  for a 16-year-old violation of that country's "Holocaust denial" statute.  Facing 5 years on jail time.

Former-lawyer Sylvia Stolz, previously convicted for denying the Holocaust once again denied that there was insufficient evidence for the Holocaust in a 2012 speech during  an anti-censorship congress in Switzerland. She has been sentenced to 20 months in prison. 

Dr. Frederick Toben   an Australian citizen and a Holocaust denier was arrested by British police at London's Heathrow airport during a stop on a flight from the United States to Dubai and faces  five years in prison.

Robert Faurisson (born 25 January 1929) is a Franco-British Holocaust denier and former academic several  letters   to French newspapers, especially Le Monde  which deny various aspects of the Holocaust. He was fined €7,500 fine, and given 3 months' probation sentence.

And the list goes on ......

EMISSIONS SCANDAL

VOLKSWAGEN EMISSIONS SCANDAL

Controversy is a state of prolonged public dispute or debate, usually concerning a matter of conflicting opinion or point of view. This definition so aptly fits the Volkswagen emissions debacle that started on the 18th  September 2015. Pertaining to software installed in certain diesel powered vehicles, specifically designed to cheat on emissions tests, after realizing that their new EA 189 diesel engine, could not meet the EPA pollution standards. This was called a "cheats device" and matched to engines fitted to all 2.0L diesel vehicles manufactured between 2009 and 2015. This amounts to some 11 million vehicles, 8 million of which were sold in the European Union. As many as 5-million of the 11 million were VW vehicles and the remainder  shared by Audi, Seat and Skoda brands. All of them spewing out noxious Nitrous Oxide approximately 40 times more than permitted by law.

This emissions debacle is a controversy of global proportion, in fact it is the greatest controversy of both the 20th and 21st centuries, perpetrated by the largest carmaker globally. This reckless behaviour more than emphasizes Volkswagen's total disregard for the Kyoto Protocol and borders on disrespecting all its signatories including the commitment of their motherland Germany towards the GHG Emission Control Process. Not to mention the arrogance and the utter contempt their actions displayed towards the global masses and subjecting them to breathing Nitrous Oxide. Some people at VW took this as a joke, but nobody is laughing (pun intended).

To date, this controversy has been referred to by  several other names, amongst which are "Dieselgate", Volkswagen Diesel Car emissions scandal, EA 189 scandal, Volkswagen emissions testing debacle, Volkswagen emissions violations, Volkswagen's diesel debacle, Volkswagen emissions cheating device scandal, etc...and cost Volkswagen AG their reputation.

Reputation is everything, especially in this current day and age of social media that is able to disseminate news so fast, that any rock solid reputation can be destroyed in a matter of minutes. This is exactly what has happened to Volkswagen who has had a sterling reputation for most of its 78 years of operation, up to and until Volkswagen executives admitted to the fraud perpetrated by a small group of people  within the company. This resulted in the forced resignation of CEO Prof. Dr Martin Winterkorn (former CEO of BMW) and several top executives at the head of the R&D departments.

“I am shocked by the events of the past few days. Above all, I am stunned that misconduct on such a scale was possible in the Volkswagen Group. As CEO I accept responsibility for the irregularities that have been found in diesel engines and have therefore requested the Supervisory Board to agree on terminating my function as CEO of the Volkswagen Group. I am doing this in the interests of the company even though I am not aware of any wrong doing on my part.

Thus far Volkswagen has apologized, taken responsibility for their wrongs and committed to cooperate with authorities as well as demonstrated their proactive approach to fixing this problem by recalling those vehicles affected.  However, its going to take a lot more than a few websites for their loyal customers to self  verify if their vehicles are infected with the "dubious software bug" or not, that is at the core of the "Dieselgate scandal". Like Volkswagen's reputation, the resale value of Volkswagen AG’s cars has also taken a downturn, falling an average of 13% for diesel and 2% on petrol vehicles since the emissions debacle came to light. 

Whether or not Volkswagen will recover from a scandal of this magnitude is largely dependent on the company's leadership who needs to be open and transparent in order to gain back the trust of their loyal customers and that of the general public. This task fell on the newly appointed CEO Matthias Mueller, a former Porsche executive,  who already announced drastic cuts. VW launched an internal investigation led by a team of US lawyers in order to get to the bottom of the scandal. Today Wednesday 7th October 2015, VW is compelled to provide a  road-map to German regulators as to how it intends to make the affected cars legally compliant to EPA emissions guidelines. One thing we can all be certain of, is that Volkswagen has their work cut out for them.

VOLKSWAGEN'S "EXISTENCE-THREATENING" CRISES

Volkswagen's 'existence-threatening' crisis

The World is up in arms over the Volkswagen emissions scandal, forcing VW to withdraw brand new diesel vehicles from sale in Australia with immediate effect. Volkswagen AG announced that they will be temporarily suspending sales of diesel vehicles to the Australian public that may be fitted with EA 189 TDI Diesel Engine and software designed to mask emission levels. VW made this announcement  after they and Audi Australia met with the Federal Government authorities,  the ACCC and the Department of Infrastructure, responsible for  vehicle approvals, on Friday the 2nd October, to discuss the automakers' plans to deal with the issue. VW confirming that 11 million vehicles manufactured from 2009 to 2015, distributed throughout world had been fitted with a "cheat devices", however  the German automaker nor their  subsidiary Audi  provided details of the models. 

EA 189 TDI Diesel Engine

However the models withdrawn from sale included the 2009-2015, VW Beetle 2.0L TDI,   VW Golf 2.0L TDI,   VW Jetta 2.0L TDI,  Audi A3 2.0L TDI, and  VW Passat 2.0L TDI sedan and wagon, Audi A4 sedan and wagon, Audi A5 coupe, Audi Q5 2.0 TDI SUV, VW Tiguan SUV,  the Skoda Yeti SUV and Skoda Superb sedan and wagon fitted with the controversial 2.0-litre EA189 diesel engine. Sales of these vehicles were also suspended in  the US, Canada and Switzerland. France and Italy have each launched inquests into who manipulated the company’s diesel emissions data and who knew about it. Currently there are inquiries in every country world wide, launched by the relevant bodies as to  whether or not consumers were misled by Volkswagen. If found guilty  Volkswagen will face legal action and may  be fined $108,000 AU per car on Australian roads which roughly  approximates 70,000 vehicles, should  be found to have been approved based on false claims. 

Volkswagen, Europe's biggest car manufacturer is under huge pressure to control the biggest public relations nightmare and the biggest business crisis they ever experienced in their 78-year history. It wiped more than a third of its share price, and forced their long-time CEO to resign and it rocked both the auto industry and Germany as a country. The head of their U.S. division was called upon to testify before lawmakers and Germany's KBA watchdog has set a  deadline to Oct. 7 for them to come up with a refit plan. Meanwhile VW  started provided websites for  customers to self verify  whether or not their vehicles are affected.

Volkswagen’s own internal inquest into the deceptive engine software that cost the company a third of their share price, is honing in on  former R&D  Audi engineer Ulrich Hackenberg and former R&D Porsche engineer Wolfgang Hatz. Former being the operative world since both of them were among a number of engineers suspended during the investigation.

Ulrich Hackenberg (left)  and  Wolfgang Hatz (right).

According to  Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobi-Club (ADAC), a German motoring group. They say that Volkswagen is not the only company whose vehicles pollute  and fail tests and claim that diesel vehicles from other popular car manufacturers also emit dangerous levels of pollution. Renault's Espace Energy dCi 160, Nissan's X-Trail 1.6 cDi  and Jeep's Renegade 2.0 are earmarked as the worst polluters and other manufactures vehicles like Volvo, Citroën, Fiat, BMW, Ford, Jaguar and Mazda are reported to emit 10 times more NOx when compared to current European Union (EU) emission standards.

Some of these manufacturers spoke out and raised criticism of the New European Driving Cycle's (NEDC) emissions standards and testing policy, implying that the issue, doesn't fall solely on the car manufacturers but also on testing procedures.