“Once the invisible glue that bound the Union…
German policy is now being dictated by less idealistic priorities rooted firmly by national interests.”
Author Archives: Hermann Observer
When weathermen go bad
Weather he’s guilty or not…
Popular German weatherman Joerg Kachelmann was arrested in Frankfurt after his long-standing girlfriend claimed that he had forced sexual relations with her after an argument, something he denies vehemently.
But other than that, Kachelmann reports that it’s going to remain generally warm and even a bit humid in the next few days, especially for him, with a mild chance of rain and thunder showers, which he’ll miss, should they happen, him being in jail and all.
“Without wishing to prejudice legal proceedings, we regard it as unthinkable that the accusations could be correct.”
Time to get nervous again
Gee, I wonder how anti-Atom Germany is going to react to this one (not).
Clean nuclear technology? Not with our ideology.
Bill Gates is sinking “several billion dollars” into a project with Toshiba to develop small-scale efficient nuclear reactors that burn spent uranium.
Mastermind?
Oh never mind. Caught him too.
Damn. The guy behind that poor man’s Ocean’s 11 Berlin poker heist, the mastermind guy himself, got busted too.
Who would of thought that possible? That it would have taken this long to get him, I mean.
Wo sind die 242 000 Euro Beute?
More Internet Angst
Germany is still not the “digital society” some of you might assume it must be.
An organization called Initiative D21 just broke down Germany’s predominantly technophobic Internet angst population into several angst making groups:
The “digital outsiders”, 35% of the population, are actually frightened by computers and refuse to touch them.
The “occasional users” with 30% will actually use Internet technology from time to time but don’t ask them to work with it regularly or deal with things like Excel (I feel their pain about Excel, I must say).
The “digital pros” with 12% gladly work with Excel and even do PowerPoint, although I wouldn’t know why they would want to.
“Trend users” go further and even build websites and spend why too much time online – on the couch.
Then there’s the “digital avant-garde”, 3% of the population, the real sick puppy techno Internet freak types.
Personally, I don’t know what’s more worrisome; the first or the last group.
Die Deutschen sind immer noch Internet-Muffel
Jennifer K.
Pakistan ist eben anders
Pakistan is just different, you know. Than Germany, I mean.
I was at a the hairdresser, an elderly man who doesn’t resort to electric clippers. All he has is a creaky pair of scissors, a comb and aerosol with water. He did a neat job bit I wasn’t entirely happy.
I said: “I look like Hitler.”
He looked at me in the mirror, gave a satisfied smile and said: “Yes, yes, very nice.”
In the Islamic world, not just in Pakistan but right across from Iran to northern Africa, anti-Semitic sentiment of course plays a role.
The spy(s) who came down with a cold
Actually, it’s their currency that has a cold at the moment.
Germany’s Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told the Bundestag on March 16 that the country may have to consider ordering “intelligence agencies to set up surveillance of who is getting together with whom for which kinds of speculative processes, and where” to protect the euro.
Germans and their torture instruments
Not only are Germans good at exporting expensive weapon systems, they’re also top-notch torture instrument exporters.
Or at least that’s what Amnesty International thinks they are. Of course Amnesty International also thinks that cold spinach is a torture instrument. Having to eat it, I mean. Which I guess it is, come to think of it. But still.
Nur sieben europäische Länder halten sich dem Amnesty Bericht zufolge an ihre Verpflichtung, Exporte derartiger Gegenstände öffentlich zu machen.
Unprepared and unwilling, understand?
Now we know why the Bundeswehr is unprepared for combat. It’s because the Bundeswehr is unprepared for combat (we already knew that they were unwilling).
But at least now it’s official or something. The being unprepared part, I mean. So that way nobody has to feel bad about it or anything, I guess.
Germany’s parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces criticized the country’s support of its soldiers, saying the Bundeswehr lacked the most basic necessities for its missions abroad.
