Category Archives: Hideology

“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: Schmarotzer

August 4, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Hideology, Hypocrisy Tags: , , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means freeloaders.

Germany’s new drug law is a case study in foreign freeloading – U.S. patients will bear even more of the global bill.

At the very moment President Donald J. Trump is demanding that wealthy nations pay their fair share for American medicines, Berlin moved the other way. Its new cost-containment law squeezes more savings from the American companies that discover these medicines and leaves U.S. patients bearing even more of the global bill.

The German parliament passed the law last month. It more than doubles the mandatory rebate that manufacturers pay on brand-name medicines, from 7% to 15.5%. It locks German list prices in place through 2030. And for the first time, it lets German insurers force patented, brand-name medicines into tender-style price competitions — a tactic Germany had reserved for generic drugs until now. Berlin called it a fix for its strained insurance system. In plain terms, it is a wealthy nation balancing its books on the backs of American patients.

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 Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hard Facts, Hideology 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.

“More investment is needed”

July 28, 2026 By in Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hard Facts, Hideology Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

Duh. More investment (taxpayer subsidies) will always be needed because wind and solar don’t deliver.

Why Germany keeps switching off its solar and wind farms – and three ways to stop the problem…

Europe’s solar and wind farms are actively choosing not to produce energy, as experts warn more investment is needed in storage and flexible technologies.

A pattern seems to be developing here…

July 27, 2026 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

What, or who, could be the problem?

Rise in ramming attacks – The attack is the latest in a series that have left the country grappling with questions about public safety.

Six people were killed and hundreds injured when a car plowed into a Christmas market in Magdeburg in December 2024. Two months later, a car drove into trade union demonstrators in Munich, killing a woman and her two-year-old daughter. Two more people were killed in March 2025 when a car rammed into a crowd in Mannheim…

Banning alcohol will make people better

July 22, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: , , , Leave a comment

At German train stations. And in German trains.

Hey, banning alcohol in the past has always worked, hasn’t it?

German railway to ban consuming alcohol at all its stations, with some exemptions – Germany’s national railway operator said Tuesday that it is banning alcohol consumption at all stations on the network in an effort to improve security and cleanliness for employees and passengers — though there will be exemptions, including for station bars and restaurants.

The German First Amendment

July 20, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: , , , , , Leave a comment

Doesn’t exist*.

Inside the Orwellian world of Germany’s free speech crackdown – Berlin threatens thousands of Germans with jail for criticising their leaders.

Dr Rainer Zitelmann doesn’t even remember posting the meme on social media that nearly landed him in prison.

Berlin police told Dr Zitelmann he had been accused of violating a post-Second World War law that bans the display of Nazi symbols, slogans and imagery – and could now face three years in prison if found guilty.

The 69-year-old found out the offending social media post was a meme about Adolf Hitler. But it was one in which he criticised the Nazi dictator and compared his invasion of Czechoslovakia to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine...

* The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects five fundamental freedoms: freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. It prohibits Congress from making laws that restrict these rights, ensuring individuals can express themselves without government interference.