During her New Year’s address. After her infamous Merkel Migrant Meltdown.
She’ll probably be grinning from ear to ear tonight. Go 2020! Geh mit Gott (go with God) but go!
Let’s all have a Happy New Year. Please.
Category Archives: Hard Facts
How To Identify Hackers
They always wear dark leather gloves while hacking.
And they also knock out the wrong news organizations. Hasn’t anybody ever told them about CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post and all the rest?
Germany: ‘Colossal’ cyberattack knocks out Funke news group – Hackers knocked out one of Germany’s biggest news organizations over the Christmas holiday. Such criminal attacks, which often come with ransom demands, have become a lucrative business model.
What? We Could Have Been Worrying About This Weeks Ago!
The Panic Police are simply not what they used to be, folks. There’s just too much to panic about these days, I guess.
The new coronavirus variant discovered in Britain seems to have been present in Germany since November as doctors detected it retrospectively in samples of an older patient who later died, Die Welt daily reported on Monday.
Specialists at the Hannover Medical School (MHH) were able to determine the virus variant B1.1.7 in samples of the patient who had medical preconditions, the newspaper said, citing the regional ministry of health in the state of Lower Saxony.
Corona-Mutation schon seit November in Deutschland.
German Of The Day: Verbindlich
That means binding. You know, as in mandatory?
Although the German government has said “there is no obligation to be inoculated” with the new vaccine against coronavirus now being distrubuted, the head of Germany’s Lufthansa expects that mandatory innoculations will soon be the rule for long haul flights. Then they’ll just work their way up, I mean down, from there.
Vaccinations will be free and available to everyone from mid-2021, when the priority groups are expected to have finished vaccination campaigns. There is no obligation to be inoculated.
As Long As The Other Third Goes First
More accurate polling results just in!
Coronavirus: Two-thirds of Germans willing to receive COVID vaccine – A poll has shown a large majority of people in Germany want to receive the vaccine which is due for rollout on December 27. Nevertheless, more than half of the survey’s participants were concerned about side effects.
Yeah, right. Nice try, though. Try less than one in five willing to receive the vaccination and more than 80 percent concerned about side effects instead.
More than half of the respondents — 57% — said they were concerned about the potential side effects of being inoculated.
Have A Merry 2020 Christmas!
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.
Observing Hermann 