Why is nobody paying attention to this?

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I had never even heard it, had any of you? And yet it is since 2007 that Germany had announced the establishment of a purely German space program, separate from the European space agency, and intended to go to the Moon. Now Peter Hintze, the German federal director of aerospace, has announced that Germany plans a mission to the Moon within ten years. One of the many ways in which the world media are corrupt is that they never pay any attention to news like this. There is a meme that Europe is lazy and declining, and that the future is in the Far East. Any news that contradict the meme simply are not publicized. And when German spacemen will in fact be walking on the Moon, everyone will be surprised, not knowing that the program had been widely announced.

(the news was reported by today's Italian Catholic newspaper L'Avvenire)

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Please, I am merely replying to your comments.

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I did not read the newspaper. I did not call you a liar or even suggest it nor did I suggest you are a fantasist. I never even thought it. Your quotes are here
1)Now Peter Hintze, the German federal director of aerospace, has announced that Germany plans a mission to the Moon within ten years.
2)And even so, either you or the Italian Catholic newspaper where I read it must be
wrong, because according to L'Avvenire the program carried on without breaks and what was announced now was simply the decision as to the time and kind of its final goal. And frankly, I suspect it might be you who misunderstood something. To start on an expensive long-term project, then to stop because you are terrified by the expense, and then to start again, is the kind of stupid, time- and money-wasting, demoralizing behaviour I associate with the British rather than with the German public administration.

I merely suggested that the newspaper was wrong not I. I have given evidence that Germany announced the project and canceled it. I have given evidence that the current climate suggests support for and proposals for a new project rather than a firm commitment to a program. You can of course choose not to accept the evidence and believe the newspaper but it is still the newspaper I called mistaken not you.

And as a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages I do take offence at that - I have kept my comments calm and on topic. I have responded to individual points and kept it relevant. If you can show where I have not I will retract the statement.