This year’s drought is a real bitch.
Wet Christmas
Category Archives: Hard Facts
Merry Christmas!
Have Yourself a Merry Little Anschlag
German of the day: Anschlag. That means attack.
It’s the Islamist way to say Merry Christmas!
Security hiked at Cologne Cathedral for Christmas amid attack threat – German police said on Saturday they were heightening security at Cologne Cathedral following indications of an attack planned for New Year’s Eve and in the wake of government warnings in recent weeks about the rising threat of Islamist violence.
The police said in a statement they would use tracker dogs to check the cathedral after evening mass and then close it off. On Sunday, Christmas Eve, they would carry out a security check on all visitors, and recommended they get to services early.
When will this drought ever end?
You know, the drought we were all told to worry about a few months back?
I’m telling you. Droughts in the summer, rainstorms in the winter. These climate crisis extremes are a real bitch.
A storm brings strong winds to northern Europe, killing 2 people and disrupting transport.
In Hamburg, the Elbe River flooded streets around the city’s fish market, with water waist-high in places. Authorities said a storm surge in the port city peaked on Friday morning, reaching 3.3 meters (10.8 feet) above mean high tide.
German of the day: “Wer nicht hören will, muss fühlen”
That means those who refuse to listen shall feel the consequences.
The established, traditional political parties in Germany are still refusing to listen to the electorate. Their voters have had it. With the migrant madness, for one thing. And with crazy Green utopia (highest energy prices in Europe and climbing), for another. And if these parties won’t listen, then voters have no other choice but to vote for a party that will.
Alice Weidel’s hard-right politics is winning over Germans.
Our Berlin bureau chief sits down with the increasingly popular co-leader of the Alternative for Germany, the furthest-right of the country’s seven main political parties.
Infuriated?
Damn right.
They should have voted no. It’s just the same old talk the talk, sort of, without walking the walk.
Cease-fire in Gaza: Why Germany abstained in UN votes – Twice now Germany has abstained in a vote in the UN General Assembly that called for a cease-fire in the Middle East. Many countries around the world are infuriated by this.
“We need Germany’s support at the UN,” Israel’s ambassador to Berlin, Ron Prosor, said afterwards. It wasn’t enough, he declared, to abstain “because people are incapable of saying explicitly that Hamas is responsible for this brutal massacre.”
Corruption?
In Germany? At the highest levels of government?
Yawn. Been there, done that. On a near daily basis even. Just look at the Banana Republic of Amerika if you need a role model.
German banker’s diaries add to Olaf Scholz’s political woes – Chancellor is facing questions over his term as Hamburg mayor, when city wrote off bank’s tax bill.
“It is pretty clear that a wealthy banker successfully influenced public decision making in his favour,” said Gerhard Schick, a former Green MP and head of Finanzwende, a financial reform lobby group, adding that policymakers later also tried to derail inquiries into the matter.
“What is at stake here is a very fundamental principle: the rule of law in a democratic society.” Scholz’s vast memory gaps were “implausible”, he added.
Just in the nick of time!
Hang in there, Lithuania.
German cavalry is on its way.
German brigade to be combat ready in Lithuania, on Russian border, in 2027.
A permanent German brigade of about 4,800 soldiers in Lithuania, on the Russian border, will be combat-ready in 2027, defence ministers of both NATO members said on Monday after signing an agreement on German troops’ first permanent foreign deployment since World War Two.
The Berlin Airlift
Only this time the planes would be leaving Berlin. And headed toward Rwanda.
Or was it Wakanda? Anyway, good luck with that. You’re going to need it.
CDU seeks to win back German voters with its own Rwanda asylum plan – Official says party favours sending refugees to third countries such as Rwanda for application processing.
“If we did this and kept it up consequently for four, six, eight weeks, we would see the numbers [claiming asylum] reduce dramatically.”
Germans award literary prize to an author who compares Gaza to Nazi-era ghettos
Ain’t no big deal. Nazi talk has never been doing better in Germany.
The name-calling kind. It’s the latest rage, around the globe even. Join the fun. Everybody’s doing it!
Gessen was originally due to receive the Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Thought on Friday in the city hall of Bremen, in northwest Germany, but the sponsoring organization, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, and the Senate of the city of Bremen withdrew from the ceremony.
Observing Hermann 