Category Archives: Hard Facts

Driving under the influence…

December 1, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Of LSD?

It’s guys like this who give drunken Polish truck drivers a bad name.

Germany: Trucker leaves trail of destruction after amok ride – A truck driver injured 26 people during a zigzag ride over two highways in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. One person was critically injured and several others severely hurt.

A Polish truck driver who is believed to have been under the influence of alcohol or drugs caused chaos on two highways in western Germany on Saturday, injuring 26 people and damaging scores of vehicles.

One of the eight severely injured people is in critical condition, police said, while the 30-year-old trucker is also being treated at a hospital before he can be interrogated.

The war must almost be over…

November 30, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

If Germans are finally beginning to prepare for it.

‘Would you survive 72 hours?’ Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war – Apps and booklets are offering advice on how to build a bunker, stockpile food and live without electricity in case the worst happens

Germany is developing an app to help people locate the nearest bunker in the event of attack. Sweden is distributing a 32-page pamphlet titled If Crisis or War Comes. Half a million Finns have already downloaded an emergency preparedness guide.

Investing in Africa may be too risky…

November 29, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helections, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

But it’s not as risky as investing in Germany.

German Fortune 500 companies have announced over 60,000 layoffs this year, but the biggest employee cull is still to come – German companies in the Fortune 500 Europe have announced over 60,000 layoffs this year, in a sign of the country’s ongoing economic malaise that has left manufacturers reeling.

Major German employers, including Bosch, Thyssenkrupp, Deutsche Bahn, and Siemens, have this year announced plans to lay off thousands of workers in a bid to combat falling profits following a rocky post-COVID economic landscape.

Tis the season to “reflect growing diversity”

November 27, 2024 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

Berlin’s Christmas markets have been reflecting this for years.

Berlin’s traditional Christmas markets reflect city’s growing diversity – The smells of mulled wine, roasted almonds and hot bratwurst are wafting through the air across the German capital again, as the city’s more than 100 Christmas markets are opening their doors this week. But the annual tradition that Germans have cherished since the Middle Ages — and successfully exported to much of the Western world — has become a pretty diverse affair, at least in Berlin.

Well, if there was ever any doubt…

November 26, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

You must NEVER relax the debt brake, Germany.

Relax Germany’s debt brake, says Angela Merkel – Former chancellor’s memoirs back reform of borrowing cap that she introduced into constitution.

Former chancellor Angela Merkel has called for Germany to relax its “debt brake”, in a sign of the growing political pressure to overhaul a borrowing cap that many economists say is too inflexible. 

Merkel, who served as chancellor between 2005 and 2021 and introduced the debt brake into Germany’s constitution, made the proposal for change in her autobiography Freedom: Memories 1954-2021.

There’s an app for that

November 25, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , 1 Comment

For the bunker nearest you.

Germany draws up list of bunkers amid Russia tensions – App planned for public to find emergency shelter in places including underground train stations and car parks…

A digital directory of bunkers and emergency shelters will be drawn up so people can find them quickly using a planned phone app. People would also be encouraged to create protective shelters in their homes by converting basements and garages, the spokesperson told a press briefing.

She’s denying it

November 21, 2024 By in Hard Facts, History Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

“I never died,” said the dead woman.

“It never happened.”

Ursula Haverbeck, German far-right activist repeatedly convicted for Holocaust denial, dies at 96 – Ursula Haverbeck, a prominent German far-right activist who accumulated a string of convictions for denying the Holocaust, has died. She was 96.

Haverbeck died on Wednesday, her lawyer Wolfram Nahrath told German news agency dpa on Thursday.

Haverbeck repeatedly asserted that Auschwitz was just a work camp. In fact, historians say at least 1.1 million Jews were murdered there by the Nazis.

The hostage collection process has begun!

November 20, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

You’ve got to have chips to play sabotage poker.

Russia arrests German citizen on sabotage charges – The Russian Federal Security Service said a German man was involved in organizing an explosion in Kaliningrad and had returned to Russia “to organize acts of sabotage…”

Russian authorities have repeatedly arrested foreign citizens on hotly disputed charges, including in several incidents that Western governments have denounced as false or trumped-up cases.

Sabotage?

November 19, 2024 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Really?

Germany suspects sabotage behind severed undersea cables – German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has said damage to two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea looks like an act of sabotage and a “hybrid action”, without knowing who is to blame.

A 1,170km (730-mile) telecommunications cable between Finland and Germany was severed in the early hours of Monday, while a 218km internet link between Lithuania and Sweden’s Gotland Island stopped working on Sunday.

The incidents came at a time of heightened tension with Russia and Pistorius said “nobody believes that these cables were cut accidentally”.