I guess you could call this the high-water mark of Greenness.
Germany becomes the biggest EU country to legalise recreational cannabis – Germany on Monday became the biggest EU country to legalise recreational cannabis, despite fierce objections from opposition politicians and medical associations.
“From our point of view, the law as it is written is a disaster,” Katja Seidel, a therapist at a cannabis addiction centre for young people in Berlin, told AFP.
That means, well, I’m not really sure what that means.
I think it means Planet Earth has to go on a diet. Is that how they’re saving it now?
‘People mustn’t feel meat is being taken away’: German hospitals serve planetary health diet.
That’s right. People mustn’t think meat is being taken away just because we’ve taken away the meat. Our meals still meat the minimum daily requirements of… what? Of what we require our patients not to eat.
Having the snout full means to be fed up with it, to be sick to death of it.
And the German Greens are filling up everybody’s snouts these days.
Germans Fed Up With Greens as Founding Member Resigns – The aggressive policies of the German Greens have alienated not only many voters in Germany but also their own supporters, including one of the founders of the party who has accused them of pursuing a warmongering foreign policy…
Annalena Baerbock, the young, inexperienced minister of foreign affairs, has promised to introduce a ‘feminist foreign policy,’ but she seems helpless in the face of the momentous challenges posed by the Russian-Ukraine war. The Greens have converted from a ‘pacifist’ party into the most belligerent party of all.
Germany? In happiness?
I don’t understand. Isn’t falling behind in happiness the whole point of being German? So falling behind in the annual World Happiness ranking this year should make everybody here happy, right? I just don’t get it. Germans are einfach kompliziert (simply complicated).
Why Germany has fallen behind on happiness – Like the US, Germany has fallen behind in the annual World Happiness ranking. Especially young people don’t appear to be doing as well as they did before.
While Finland again tops the ranking in the annual “World Happiness Report, “Germany has fallen behind.
In Germany, people are not unhappier than in previous years, but people elsewhere have surpassed them. That puts Germany at 24th — and only 47th among people under the age of 30. A similar trend is seen in the United States, which overall ranks 23rd. That’s the first time the US has fallen out of the top 20 due to significant unhappiness among younger people.
Why should Germany’s?
They are all brilliant systems and they all work the same way: You pay into it your entire working life while your government pumps in ever more money to prop it up and thus burden future generations with massive growing debt (interest rates rock). This Ponzi scheme only works if parents have way more children (at least three on average). It stopped working a long, long time ago, in other words.
Germany struggles to fix its pension system – German society is aging fast and the working-age population is shrinking. There are new plans to make the pension system fit for the future, but critics have said they won’t work.
Intangible sense. Or the intangible lack of sense, I should say.
Let’s approach this differently: What isn’t on the UNESCO cultural heritage list? It would certainly make for a shorter list that would be much easier to handle.
Berlin techno added to UNESCO cultural heritage list – UNESCO has just added six new entries to the list of intangible cultural heritage in Germany, including Berlin’s techno scene. The intangible cultural heritage designation is meant to preserve cultural traditions.
For the other half.
And for some odd reason the younger Germans are much less enthusiastic about the idea than older Germans.
Around half of German citizens are in favour of reintroducing compulsory military service, according to a survey by opinion research institute Forsa.
In the poll commissioned by German news magazine Stern, 52% of respondents were in favour of compulsory military service, the magazine said on Tuesday.
Some 43% were against it and 5% expressed no opinion. According to the data, the strongest supporters of compulsory military service were found in the over-60 age group, with 59% in favour. In contrast, 59% of 18 to 29-year-olds were against compulsory military service.
Is what this guy deserves. But “life in prison” doesn’t mean “life in prison” in Germany.
It means fifteen (15) years.
A US man is sentenced to life in prison for murder and rape in attack on 2 American women in Germany – An American man was convicted of murder and other charges on Monday for brutally attacking two American women near Germany’s famed Neuschwanstein castle last summer and pushing them into a ravine, fatally injuring one of them. He was sentenced to life in prison…
Presiding judge Christoph Schwiebacher determined that the defendant bears particularly severe guilt, meaning that he LIKELY won’t be eligible for release after 15 years as is usually the case in Germany… “a release after 15 years would not be justifiable” but he’ll get released anyway.
About the German allies who are angry and upset with Germany.
Russia-Ukraine war live: Drones cut power to Crimea as Germany says allies ‘not angry or upset’ over leaks – Germany says leaked intercepted call explained as ‘individual mistake’ to Washington and London.
… Meanwhile, the German defence minister has said the country’s allies are “not angry or upset” after details of high-level military discussions were leaked to Russian media.
Boris Pistorius described the incident, which included German military officers saying British forces were “on the ground” in Ukraine helping launch missiles at Russia, as an “individual mistake”.
“They are not angry or upset with Germany because they know that we have rules and that things like this can happen,” the German defence minister said.
That means leaked. Like in secrets.
Russia publishes German army meeting on Ukraine – Germany is investigating the apparent interception by Russia of army officers discussing supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles – and possible targets.
Audio of the video-conference meeting was posted to social media by the head of Russia’s state-run RT channel.
The officers discuss how the missiles could hit the Kerch Bridge, which links Russia to the illegally annexed Crimea.
Russian politicians said the audio proved that its “sworn enemy” was planning attacks.
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