Category Archives: Hard Facts
Give Me Your 30,000 Jobs Or I Crush You!
Tesla’s German gigafactory held up by sand lizard – Court halts work cutting down trees because of conservation fears for the protected species.
This is how Germany works, folks. Or doesn’t work. Take your pick it’s both.
Some commentators have warned that the court decision to stop the forest clearance was a bad omen. Marcel Fratzscher, head of the DIW, a think-tank, said it highlighted the “heavy bureaucratic burden and high regulatory uncertainty, which make it costly and time-consuming for companies to realise investment projects” in Germany.
“German law is too often held hostage by vested interests so that Germany is at risk of becoming less attractive as a location for businesses,” he said.
“Like most Humans,” said Captain Kirk. “I seem to have an instinctive revulsion to reptiles. I must fight to remember that this is an intelligent, highly advanced individual, the captain of a starship like myself.”
German Of The Day: “Da war die Welt noch in Ordnung”
That means “when the world was still in order.”
You know, when people at least felt they could believe what they read in the media? That’s been quite a long time ago.
ON THIS DAY in 1944, Germans race on.
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
How heartwarming or something.
Germany brings home ‘Islamic State’ brides, children from Syrian camps – Humanitarian reasons have been cited for flying home several ‘IS’ brides and children from internment in Syria. At the height of the civil war, the women allegedly traveled to join the Islamist militia…
Leonora went to Raqqa, then a IS stronghold, and became the third wife of Martin L., a German in IS’ notorious intelligence network. For a time she held a Yazidi woman and two children as slaves in her apartment until selling them.
All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go
“Only the green light from the European Union is needed for Germany’s largest single vaccination site to spring into action.”
With a stress on spring. As in maybe by next Spring.
Germany’s largest Covid jab site ready for business – Spaces to queue up are already marked out on the way to the 64 miniature doctors’ offices where thousands of people per day will be vaccinated against Covid-19 in Hamburg.
Only the green light from the European Union is needed for Germany’s largest single vaccination site to spring into action, the brand-new equipment sitting ready in the vast congress centre of the northern port city.
The Polls Have Never Been Wrong Before
So don’t hesitate to believe these results.
And if you’re interested, I’ve got some wonderful Florida swampland I can get you for a real steal. But seriously folks, the wording below is very important. “Germany’s leadership has never been higher in many countries…” The country of Germany was clearly not among those polled.
Merkel Set to Leave Office With Germany on Top of the World – As German Chancellor Angela Merkel prepares to leave office after nearly two decades in power, approval of Germany’s leadership has never been higher in many countries.
Across the 29 countries and areas that Gallup has surveyed so far in 2020, a median 62% approves of Germany’s leadership, up slightly from a median of 59% for this same group in 2019. Approval ratings are at, or top, previous record highs in 18 of the 29 countries.
Hard Lockdown, Lockdown Light, Christmas Lockdown…
Did Germans flock to the stores and through the crowds yesterday to get their Christmas shopping done before the big Christmas lockdown?
And to get their COVID19 infection while they were at it? Of course they did. They had to. But they know that their government is only locking them down for their own good so they are thankful that they were allowed to Christmas shop for as long as they did.
Germans flocked to the shops to get their Christmas shopping done. Now it’s forced them into lockdown for the holiday.
“The people are fed up with the situation.”
Not fed up enough, it seems. Happy Holidays!
This Surreally Happened
Art for Art’s sake. You know Art, don’t you? From the cleaning crew?
We need surrealism to deal with surreality, people. Or maybe we don’t. Hard to say for sure.
A Surrealist Yves Tanguy Painting Was Tossed in Trash at a German Airport – The painting, worth an estimated $340,000, was left behind by a traveler at Düsseldorf Airport and scrapped by a cleaning crew.
Loser Of The Year
That’s how a major German news magazine labeled these two (in German, Loser is also used for the plural form).
In his memoirs, Biden bluntly describes his disappointment with the German chancellor, who in his opinion was far too lax with Putin. In the book “Promise Me, Dad,” he mocks Merkel’s “passive voice” while at the same time praising his own speech as his having been his best ever. A meeting on the margins of the event with Merkel and the Ukrainian president apparently wasn’t particularly harmonious, either. “Merkel seemed frustrated with me,” Biden wrote of the meeting.
How The Grinch Just Stole Christmas
In Germany. And no, it’s not the COVID-19 Grinch who did it. It was that other one with her evil elves below.
Germany set for nationwide hard lockdown from Wednesday: report – Germany is set to close most shops from Wednesday as it tightens lockdown curbs, according to a draft government proposal. Chancellor Angela Merkel is to meet with federal and state leaders on Sunday morning.
“Maybe Christmas doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more.”
Observing Hermann 