Great Expectations

March 30, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

“Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.”

Rebuild and return: Germany expects 800,000 Syrians to leave before 2030 – Most Syrians, “first and foremost for those who abuse our hospitality”, should return home within three years, said the German Chancellor.

Eighty per cent of the one million Syrians living in Germany should return home before the end of the decade, said Friedrich Merz after receiving Ahmad al-Sharaa, the Syrian President in Berlin today.

Standing alongside Al-Sharaa, the German Chancellor expressed his hopes that some 800,000 Syrians, beginning with those who have abused the asylum system or broken the law, would return to their native land over the next three years.

Why Germany’s anti-AfD firewall is crumbling?

March 29, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

Because the party that needs it as life insurance (the SPD) has fallen into the abyss.

You don’t need life insurance anymore when you’re already dead.

Germany’s so-called “firewall” was designed to prevent the resurgence of antidemocratic ideology and has shaped German politics for decades. Now, mounting voter support for the far-right AfD is exposing cracks.

German of the day: Tempolimit

March 27, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means speed limit.

And that ain’t never gonna happen in Germany. Think banning guns in the USA.

‘Tempolimit? Nein, danke!’: why German petrolheads won’t slow down – despite the energy crisis – Driving fast is in ‘the German DNA’, say lovers of the speed-limit free Autobahn, but support in the country for a restriction is growing.

Four and a half to six years?

March 25, 2026 By in Home Cooking, Hard Facts, Hideology Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

For membership in a foreign terrorist organization and related offenses?

Better than nothing.

Berlin court jails 4 men over Hamas weapon stockpiles – A court in Berlin has ruled that four men gathered and stored weapons for use in terror attacks as members of a Hamas-linked cell. Prosecutors listed potential targets in Germany, including US and Israeli sites…

Possible targets included the Israeli embassy in Berlin, the US Ramstein airbase and the area around Berlin’s disused Tempelhof airport.

“A rare rebuke of Trump?”

March 24, 2026 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts Tags: , , Leave a comment

Coming from a German? In Germany?

I’ve never yet heard a German say anything about Donald Trump that wasn’t a rebuke.

German president calls Iran war a disastrous mistake, in rare rebuke of Trump.

This is, by the way, the same German president who went out of his way to celebrate the Iranian revolution – “For a long time, Germany stood firmly by the Iranian regime.”

German of the day: Es gibt solche und solche

March 18, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

That means some are like this, some are like that.

Refugees in Germany, I mean.

Ukrainian Refugee Brutally Murdered by Syrian Boyfriend in Germany – A 19-year-old Ukrainian refugee has been brutally murdered by her 17-year-old Syrian boyfriend in Mannheim, Germany. According to media reports, the case is investigated by German authorities as a murder, with the suspect in custody.

The Left is anti-Israel?

March 17, 2026 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

No way. Who would have thought that?

And I thought I was a slow learner.

German Antisemitism Commissioner Leaves the Left Party Over Anti-Israel Stance, Lack of Support Amid Death Threats – Andreas Büttner, the commissioner for antisemitism in the state of Brandenburg in northeastern Germany, has resigned from the Left Party, citing a rise in antisemitism within the ranks, relentless personal attacks, and a party climate that has become intolerable.

“I struggled with this decision for a long time, as I have felt a deep connection to the party over many years,” Büttner wrote in a letter to the party leadership, as reported by German media.

“But I have reached a point where I must acknowledge that I can no longer remain a member of this party without betraying my own convictions,” he continued.