“This is how the weather will be in Germany until 2100?”
I’d be happy if they could just get the weather report for tomorrow right once in awhile.
“In the future, climate change will hold ready for Germany more sun and severe storms in the summer and intense rainfall in mild winters.”
„Ein einzelnes zu kühles Jahr sagt nichts über Trends aus.“
She’s tired. She’s tired of being admired.
Just after walking the German Pirate Party plank due to exhaustion, ex-Pirate political manager Marina Weisband dropped the boom on her mobbing male marauders by outing them as being just as chauvanistic and sexist as male types everywhere else are, political or otherwise. Why who would have thought that? You sweet little…
Sie habe sich nie als “Star der Piraten” gesehen, sondern als “von den Medien gehypte Person.”
None of this was meant to be satirical, I believe, but I had to read it three times to be sure, sort of.
Here are few of the more hilarious tidbits:
The Occupy movement got off to a great start last fall, but living in a tent camp seemed less attractive during the Northern European winter.
“People have to see that the hibernation period is over.”
The loose-knit group still needs to figure out what it actually stands for.
A Roma family also moved in recently.
“This will be big. The issue is democracy. There are events planned around the world. We need a truck.”
As an economist and Marxist, she has ideas.
The activists are brainstorming what else they can do to make a big splash. “Maybe some sort of choreography. Can we do that?”
It will give all the people who took to the streets in 2011 to protest against financial capitalism and the political establishment, occupying public squares from Madrid to Athens to Frankfurt, the chance to show that they are still furious and prepared to stage a rebellion.
Some want to eliminate capitalism altogether, while others just want to make it more human.
Castro is still “a great visionary,” she said.
Now that even business owners, managers and bankers are becoming disenchanted with capitalism, the chorus of voices opposed to the “system” is louder and more diverse than ever before.
Will they find new answers, possibly even a new political idea?
“We don’t believe in a humane form of capitalism.”
The activists feel that the Greeks are being put under too much pressure because of their government’s austerity plans, and so they decide to dance the sirtaki.
He is about to meet with people who, like him, still feel something of the original euphoria.
Those who expect more after only a few months haven’t understood the Occupy principle. They need more time.
Car 54 couldn’t make it. Man oh man. I want to see this puppy in action sooo bad.
It’s the Berlin Police Department’s brand-new water canon monster WaWe (as in Wasserwerfer) 10, specifically designed to stop those pesky May Day riots in a jiffy, without undue harm to the protesters (and hopefully washing them thoroughly in the process, as well).
But as fate would have it, this year’s anniversary festivities look like they’re going to be pretty lame after all. Kids these days. Who knows, though. Maybe something will ignite that smoldering fuse of indignation in an hour or two once the sun starts setting and WaWe 10 will get its chance to roll out into action after all, all magestic and Robocop-like. And wet. Sexy, isn’t she?
Does anybody out there know if there’s a riot-cam thingy I could link to just in case this party ever does get started?
Die für den Nahbereich gedachte “Wasserwand” soll Protestler nur nass machen und zum Gehen bewegen, ohne zu verletzen.
Damn. It seems just like yesterday that Berlin’s first May Day March Freak Show Riot began. And it ain’t ended yet, 25 long years later. It’s just become more, well, ritualized, profesionalized and – you guessed it – commercialized.
But tradition is tradition. So please remember, all you hotheads out there (despite all the commercialization), just what this day really means, what it’s all about: Violence for violence sake.
YOU are here for a reason, people. So get out there and make me proud.
„Die Berliner haben dieses Ritual satt.”
In a ghoulish plan to intensify their already ironclad grip of an anemic Europe, depraved German industrialists have now begun luring unsuspecting southern European engineers to Germany by offering them well-paid jobs which will allow them (the depraved Germans) to drain their brains at leasure.
To make matters worse, if that were possible, another grisly gimmick has also been introduced in which so-called “blue cards” (green had already been taken) are being offered to skilled non-EU workers, as well. Although ostinsibly intended to “make the immigration process” easier, this “blue card” babble is clearly just another cynical euphemism for more German brain draining activity.
The gruesome brain-sucking capitalist bastards.
In December, a planeload of 100 Spanish engineers flew to nearby Stuttgart for a weekend of job interviews. Within a month, about a third of them had been hired. And some German companies have been making connections over the Internet, simply plucking Spanish, Portuguese, Greek and Italian professionals from sites like LinkedIn.
Is that a German word, or what?
And it looks like it’s a word that’s going to cost Germany millions in fines for not being willing to go along with the guidelines concerning it as determined by the EU.
I mean, we all know that Vorratsdatenspeicherung is a touchy subject and all. Some countries do their Vorratsdatenspeicherung this way, other countries do their Vorratsdatenspeicherung that way. But any way you cut the Vorratsdatenspeicherung cake, Vorratsdatenspeicherung is Vorratsdatenspeicherung and I, for one, find it irresponsible of Germany to just ignore the EU’s Vorratsdatenspeicherung guidelines like that, just because they’re Germany, I mean. All Europeans are in the same Vorratsdatenspeicherung boat, after all.
Who do they think they are, anyway?
You should be ashamed of yourself, Germany. Put that in your Vorratsdatenspeicherung pipe and smoke it.
“Was wir auf den ersten Blick sagen können ist, dass Deutschland anscheinend keinen Fortschritt bei der Umsetzung der EU-Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung gemacht hat und weiterhin EU-Recht verletzt.”
PS: Vorratsdatenspeicherung means data retention (the EU wants to retain data for six months, Germany doesn’t).
Those damned Americans again. The shocking news just came out over here that some 6.8 migrating birds die each and every year over there due to all those awful and yucky radio towers they feel compelled to put up all over the place all the time (for conservative talk radio shows, we must assume).
When will they ever learn?
And when will anybody over here ever learn to start publishing the numbers for all those birds that get killed each and every year due to German wind turbines? Hey, you know the deal. One standard for North American radio towers, another for green energy sources.
Wenn die ständig leuchtenden Lampen an den 4500 Türmen, die höher als 150 Meter sind, durch blinkende ersetzt würden, könne die Zahl der daran sterbenden Vögel um 45 Prozent sinken.
German tourists may gladly zip off to some of the most dangerous places on earth you can imagine, but not even they are crazy enough to be heading down to Greece any time soon.
“The Germans aren’t coming here this year but there’s no reason for them to be afraid,” one Greek guy said. “Honest,” he should have added.
“We don’t have a problem with the German people, only their government,” another guy added, who forgot to say “Really.”
“That’s just the way Germans are: if there’s trouble in some country, then Germans just don’t go there on their holidays.”
I don’t know, man. Adding critical commentary to Mein Kampf? It’s pretty full of critical commentary already if you ask me.
And as a schoolbook? Not good. With kids the way they are these days, if you have to start including commentaries in the text of Mein Kampf to debunk Hitler’s “arguments,” you’re only going to give them ideas.
“Das Ziel ist die Entmystifizierung des Buches.”
Observing Hermann 