Category Archives: Home Cooking

“Below-average wind speeds” are to blame

January 29, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , , , , 1 Comment

Not the lame-ass technology itself.

Alright, move on, nothing to see here, disperse…

Germany’s stretch of weak wind output set to drag on into 2026 – Europe’s largest wind power producer – Germany – remains in the grips of a years-long bout of sub-par wind electricity production due to below-average wind speeds at turbine level.

Total German wind-powered electricity output fell by around 4% in 2025 from the year before, and followed a less than 1% annual expansion in 2024, despite steady annual increases to Germany’s total wind generation capacity for over a decade.

How does Germany deport people?

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

By not deporting them.

A few thousand, tops. While an average of 250,000 flow in each and every year.

It’s a joke. But fewer and fewer Germans are laughing.

How does Germany deport people? – Germany does not have masked ICE officers or an equivalent agency, but both Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his predecessor have done all they can to accelerate deportations. Here’s how the process works…

Berlin needs more cops…

January 26, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

Who can actually speak German.

Many police applicants in Berlin fail due to insufficient German language skills – The Berlin police cannot find enough suitable applicants. This was stated by Police President Barbara Slowik Meisel on Monday in the Interior Committee of the House of Representatives.

“We have a very significant problem with German language skills, regardless of nationality,” said Slowik Meisel. “I don’t want to bash schools, but there is a problem with the level of education that young people are leaving school with.” Many applicants fail the computer tests, and 80 percent of the time this is due to their German language skills.

Germany not Bored of Peace yet

January 24, 2026 By in Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , Leave a comment

Get it? Bored instead of Board?

Merz says Germany won’t join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ – German Chancellor Merz said the current form of US President Trump’s “Board of Peace” prevented Germany from joining for “constitutional reasons.” But Merz said he was open to “new formats” of cooperation with the US.

The German Bomb is bombing again

January 23, 2026 By in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , Leave a comment

They ought to consider putting together a real army first.

The German bomb: Much ado about very little – Discussions about a “German bomb” are like Dracula. No sooner has one killed the Transylvanian vampire than he rises again from his coffin. Since the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, when candidate Donald Trump seemed to indicate that the U.S. might no longer be willing to protect its allies, some German observers have argued that an eventual loss of the U.S. “nuclear umbrella” would make a national nuclear arsenal indispensable…

Alas, the debate about German nuclear weapons is back again. Fueled by transatlantic disagreements, most recently over Greenland, the idea of Germany acquiring its own nukes appears to have again gained salience. Proponents argue that thinking about a German bomb must no longer be a political taboo, since it is the logical consequence of a ruthless realpolitik assessment of the situation. But is it?

15,000 German military personnel set to arrive in Greenland

January 16, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , Leave a comment

No, wait a minute. That’s going to be more like 1,500.

Sorry. We’re going to have to settle with 15 (fifteen).

But that’s still way more than the Dirty Dozen.

German military personnel set to arrive in Greenland – Germany said that the European mission in Greenland was there to counter “threats” from Russia and China. The German team is among the groups of European military personnel who are scheduled to arrive in Greenland.

German of the day: Sich auflösen

January 15, 2026 By in Habitudes, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: , , , , , , , , , Leave a comment

That means to disintegrate.

Klingbeil: Transatlantic relations are currently disintegrating – Federal Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Klingbeil has described relations with the US as severely damaged.

At an event held by the German Institute for Economic Research, the SPD leader said that transatlantic relations as we know them are currently disintegrating. Klingbeil referred to the US military intervention against Venezuela, the conflict over Greenland, and the US government’s new national security strategy. The Trump administration is making it clear that it wants to dominate the Western Hemisphere and is increasingly turning away from Europe politically and culturally, Klingbeil said.

American colonialism bad!

January 12, 2026 By in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, History, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: , , , , , , Leave a comment

European, not so much.

Greenland’s colonial past could be Washington’s way in – Greenland’s legacy of Danish colonialism, forced relocations and cultural trauma may now become the opening Donald Trump needs to pull the island away from Europe’s orbit.

When US President Donald Trump first mused about a Greenland takeover, the initial reactions were a blend of disbelief, bemusement and nervous laughter. It felt like yet another outlandish flourish, and marginally more realistic than annexing Canada.

But beneath the jokes sat a truth few confronted: Greenland’s position within Europe is fragile. The island bears deep scars from Danish colonialism, depends heavily on Danish funds and exists in a constitutional limbo: tied to Denmark, yet outside the EU’s political system. Those unresolved tensions leave Greenland politically unanchored, and exposed.