Category Archives: Helplessness

When German public servants call in “sick”

August 12, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

They don’t mess around.

“Wenn schon denn schon.” If you’re going to do it, do it right.

Off sick for up to ten years: What lies behind Germany’s teacher shortage – At the start of the new school year, many German schools face an acute staffing crisis, with teachers missing in several subjects and lengthy sick leave further tightening an already tense situation.

Germany’s schools are facing a structural staffing crisis. More teachers have been hired and the federal states are trying to counter this by creating additional posts, recruiting lateral entrants and offering financial incentives.

But, everybody will be in church!

August 11, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Not.

Opening on Sunday, the taboo for stores in Germany that the government wants to break.

The coalition of conservatives and social democrats is debating ending a century-old tradition by giving certain establishments greater flexibility on business hours. Half the population supports it.

“No path forward”

August 9, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

To the past.

Wind farms were yesterday.

Trump administration to pay German firm $1.2bn to halt US wind projects – German energy company RWE has said it will abandon its offshore wind projects in the US after reaching a $1.2bn (£892m) payout deal with President Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior (DoI).

RWE said that it will now reinvest the sum into conventional gas projects, including $900m (£669m) in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project in Louisiana.

“After careful consideration, it was determined there is no path forward to permit these projects in the US for the foreseeable future,” the company said in a statement.

German of the day: Neuer Gefahrenqualität

August 6, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Home Cooking Tags: , , , Leave a comment

That means “a new level of risk.”

Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) considers the incident involving an explosive-laden drone at Leipzig/Halle Airport to be an attack carried out by highly professional perpetrators. He does not rule out the possibility that “foreign powers” were behind it. It was a “hybrid attack scenario,” Dobrindt said at a press conference in Leipzig.

Such threats must be prepared and carried out with a high degree of professionalism. This requires a high level of technical expertise and experience in handling explosives. Furthermore, it can be assumed that the explosives used were military-grade. “None of this points to an amateurish approach. We are talking here about a professional hybrid threat scenario that we must continue to address,” Dobrindt said.

Climate skepticism in Germany now “a mass phenomenon”

August 3, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hysteria Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

This must be addressed immediately!

Germany: As temperatures rise, so does climate skepticism – Some 98% of active climate scientists say climate change is happening, and is man-made. Nonetheless, a new study shows the number of climate-change skeptics in Germany has increased. Why is that?

Climate skeptics are no longer a small but noisy minority. They are now “a mass phenomenon,” according to researchers at Flensburg University.

In a study published in the scientific journal Global Environmental Change, authors Katharina Gies and Emanuel Deutschmann reported that between 2022 and 2023 there was a big jump in skeptical attitudes to climate change among the majority of the 3,074 people surveyed. Some 59% said they had more doubts about climate change in 2023 than they had had in the previous year.

German of the day: Arbeitslosigkeit

August 1, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means unemployment.

Germany news: Unemployment tops 3 million as industry slumps – Over three million people are currently unemployed in Germany, with 1.1 million drawing unemployment checks, authorities say.

Germany’s employment agency recorded a jump of 71,000 in monthly unemployment numbers, pushing the total to over 3 million.

EU’s biggest economy reports 6.4% overall unemployment rate.

Maybe this turnaround of the previous turnaround…

July 30, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

Will finally turn things around.

Germany Is Reducing Its Subsidization of Renewables – Germany, with some of the highest electricity rates in the world, is reducing its subsidies on some renewable energy programs to better control costs and limit price increases.

Germany plans to scale back renewable-energy subsidies as the country overhauls its funding system, seeking to reduce energy transition costs and address growing pressure on the electricity grid.

German of the day: Blutung

July 29, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means hemorrhage.

Germany news: Industry hemorrhaging 15,000 jobs a month – Industry boss Tanja Gönner says the situation is critical but offers opportunity.

The head of the Federation of German Industries (BDI) says the country has become less competitive and called on politicians and business leaders to usher in a course correction.