Category Archives: Hard Facts

“Below-average wind speeds” are to blame

January 29, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

Not the lame-ass technology itself.

Alright, move on, nothing to see here, disperse…

Germany’s stretch of weak wind output set to drag on into 2026 – Europe’s largest wind power producer – Germany – remains in the grips of a years-long bout of sub-par wind electricity production due to below-average wind speeds at turbine level.

Total German wind-powered electricity output fell by around 4% in 2025 from the year before, and followed a less than 1% annual expansion in 2024, despite steady annual increases to Germany’s total wind generation capacity for over a decade.

How does Germany deport people?

January 28, 2026 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

By not deporting them.

A few thousand, tops. While an average of 250,000 flow in each and every year.

It’s a joke. But fewer and fewer Germans are laughing.

How does Germany deport people? – Germany does not have masked ICE officers or an equivalent agency, but both Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his predecessor have done all they can to accelerate deportations. Here’s how the process works…

German of the day: Kopfgeld

January 27, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: , , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means “head money,” as in bounty.

Bounty offered over Berlin power grid attack – German authorities have offered a €1 million bounty for tips related to this month’s massive Berlin blackout.

German authorities have issued a €1 million ($1.1 million) reward for information leading to the arrest of those responsible for an attack on electricity infrastructure in Berlin.

The arson attack on January 3 targeted high-voltage cables. It left some 45,000 households in south-western Berlin without electricity and heating during sub-zero temperatures earlier this month. It took more than four days to reconnect all residents back to the grid, making it the longest power outage in the city since the Second World War.

Berlin needs more cops…

January 26, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

Who can actually speak German.

Many police applicants in Berlin fail due to insufficient German language skills – The Berlin police cannot find enough suitable applicants. This was stated by Police President Barbara Slowik Meisel on Monday in the Interior Committee of the House of Representatives.

“We have a very significant problem with German language skills, regardless of nationality,” said Slowik Meisel. “I don’t want to bash schools, but there is a problem with the level of education that young people are leaving school with.” Many applicants fail the computer tests, and 80 percent of the time this is due to their German language skills.

The German Bomb is bombing again

January 23, 2026 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , Leave a comment

They ought to consider putting together a real army first.

The German bomb: Much ado about very little – Discussions about a “German bomb” are like Dracula. No sooner has one killed the Transylvanian vampire than he rises again from his coffin. Since the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, when candidate Donald Trump seemed to indicate that the U.S. might no longer be willing to protect its allies, some German observers have argued that an eventual loss of the U.S. “nuclear umbrella” would make a national nuclear arsenal indispensable…

Alas, the debate about German nuclear weapons is back again. Fueled by transatlantic disagreements, most recently over Greenland, the idea of Germany acquiring its own nukes appears to have again gained salience. Proponents argue that thinking about a German bomb must no longer be a political taboo, since it is the logical consequence of a ruthless realpolitik assessment of the situation. But is it?

I’d rather watch baseball anyway

January 20, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

Run with that boycott!

‘Last Resort’—German Politician Suggests World Cup Boycott Over Greenland Issue – A member of the German parliament has raised the possibility of a boycott of the 2026 World Cup.

A German politician has suggested that the German national team could boycott the 2026 World Cup, held in the United States, Canada and Mexico, “as a last resort in order to get [President Donald] Trump to see sense on the Greenland issue.”

Jürgen Hardt, who works as a spokesperson on foreign policy for the Christian Democratic Union party, made the claim on his own to BILD. He was not publicly backed by Sports Minister Christiane Schenderline, also from the CDU, who said that the German Football Federation (DFB) and FIFA, as “the responsible associations,” should field inquiries.

The Climate Crisis strikes again

January 19, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

This time it’s ice floes on the Elbe. In the winter!

Bizarre natural spectacle: icebergs on the Elbe River – Just outside Hamburg, meter-high icebergs pile up near Geesthacht. A fleet of icebreakers stationed there battles a massive ice barrier at the weir, breaking up the ice cover into smaller icebergs.