German Of The Day: Deutsche Bank

July 7, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habeas Corpus, Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Audi, Cheating, Corruption, Crime, Deutsche Bank, Dieselgate, German, Germans, Germany, Language, North Korea, Volkswagen Leave a comment

That means German Bank.

And it’s getting hard to find a financial scandal that this bank is not involved in. When it comes to corruption and criminal activity, it’s the Volkswagen among the banks, you could say. Or the Audi, if you prefer.

Today’s criminal activity: U.S. authorities have tried to seize millions of dollars associated with several companies that deal with North Korea, including the country’s military, from eight large international banks, according to court filings made public on Thursday. Deutsche Bank is among them.

Some of the transactions were processed for Dandong Zhicheng Metallic Material Co and four affiliated “front” companies that prosecutors said tried to evade sanctions through transactions that would benefit North Korean entities, “including the North Korea military and North Korea weapons programs,” according to the filings.

Amerikanische Staatsanwälte haben die Deutsche Bank und sieben weitere Banken im Visier. Der Grund: Sie sollen Geschäfte mit nordkoreanischen Tarnfirmen gemacht haben.

G20 Freak Out Dance Party Blockupation Installation Protest Fest Now Officially Happen-In In Hamburg

July 6, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Helplessness, High Art, Home Cooking, Humor, Hypocrisy Tags: G20 Summit 2017, German, Germans, Germany, Hamburg, Protest 1 Comment

And art show music festival fireworks extravaganza sit-in, too.

And tear gas and water canon training area Treff (get-together). And zombie apocalypse.

Be there or be square.

Lieber tanz ich als G20.

Angela’s Addiction

July 4, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Dependency, Energy, EU, Gas, Germany, Government Control, Imports, Media, Nord Stream 2, Russia Leave a comment

It’s one of those nasty little family secrets nobody wants to talk about (there are lots of those here in Germany).

Or, in this case, nobody is allowed to talk about it because the world’s largest publicly funded (force-funded) news broadcasters are run by the German government.

Addiction can be successfully combated, however. Or so I’ve been told. Although in this particular case it would take a whole lot more than twelve steps to get through.

Already Europe’s biggest gas user, Germany gets about 40 percent of what it consumes from Russia, the world’s largest exporter. That dependence is only going to increase by 2025 to more than 50 percent, especially with output from the Netherlands, Germany’s western neighbor, set to drop in coming years.

Deutschland und die EU streiten darüber, wer mit Russland über den Bau der Pipeline Nord Stream 2 verhandelt. Viele Länder setzen auf die Kommission – auch in der Hoffnung, das Vorhaben so zu beerdigen.

Israel

July 3, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hypocrisy Tags: German, Germans, Germany, Pacifism, Profit, Weapons Exports Leave a comment

Beautiful German weapon sale of the week.

Because somebody has to admire them.

Berlin has approved the sale of three more high-tech submarines to Israel, boosting the size of the country’s nuclear-capable submarine fleet to nine.

People* Now Slashing Ambulance Tires In Germany

July 2, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Asylum Seekers, German, Germans, Germany, Islam, Loyalty, Migrants, Mosques, Muslims, Political correctness, Refugees, Religion 2 Comments

While the ambulance crew is trying to save somebody’s life, I mean. People (* see secret code for people here) can be that way.

I was giving this some thought the other day and I think this type of stuff all comes down to loyalty. I know, that’s an awful word to say and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth (like tradition, country, family) but, in the end, people are generally loyal to something “higher up” and behave accordingly. The type of loyalty these particular people have has nothing to do with loyalty to a country or to the laws of a country, however, and certainly not to the country or laws of Germany. You can tell this by the way they dress and the way they shave. This loyalty has to with something higher up in the religious sense. And please note here: This is all the more evident once you realize that the “good people” in this group refuse to bring the “bad people” in this group in line. They too are loyal to that same thing in the end. It is dilemma. That’s the nice word for it, however.

PS: Some people in Berlin who have tried to open a “liberal mosque” have gotten over 100 death threats from other people. People will be people, people.

Facebook’s Behind It

June 29, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Helplessness, Hideology, History, Hypocrisy Tags: Antisemitism, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German, Germans, Germany, History, Language, Media, Social Media 1 Comment

Never having been a country with anti-Jewish sentiment issues before, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, aka Schlafmütze (sleepyhead), just did a little research and was shocked to discover that those awful American social media companies are the reason for the increased anti-Jewish sentiment in Germany today.

“Social media often propagates the spread of hate messages and antisemitic provocation,” Steinmeier said, noting that the trend is growing across Europe. Except in Germany, of course, because trend isn’t really the right word for it here. Thanks to social media, he reiterated.

“German wedding traditions you’ll want to adopt”

June 28, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Helplessness, Hideology, Hypocrisy Tags: Angela Merkel, German, Germans, Germany, Law, Marriage, Politicians, Politics, Principles, Same-sex Marriage, Tradition, Weddings 1 Comment

1. Men marry women (or vice versa).

2. Then they raise a family together.

The other traditions aren’t all that interesting, I find.

In an absolutely, positively and purely political move she has perfected over the years (to take the wind out of her opponent’s sails in the coming election by suddenly doing 180 degrees and making their stand her own)… German Chancellor Angela Merkel has opened the door to a free vote in parliament on legalising same-sex marriage, after signalling a shift in her party’s position on it. Mrs Merkel surprised the German media by saying she favoured a “decision of conscience” on gay marriage. Her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) have previously opposed it – unlike the rival Social Democrats (SPD), Free Democrats (FDP) and Greens.

German politicians, like politicians everywhere, are always talking to you about their principles. This is a prime example of what they mean by that.

All The Secret Code That’s Fit To Print

June 26, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Helplessness, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Asylum Seekers, Fake News, German, Germans, Germany, Journalism, Lying Press, Media, Migrants, Newspapers, Refugees Leave a comment

Forget about the lying press. Now some German media have taken it to a new level and publish their news reports using a secret code. Everybody here knows the code, however, so it’s not much of a secret. But still.

Here’s an example: 250 “people” obstruct a police operation in Duisburg. The cops in Duisburg wanted to check the papers of some guy involved in a traffic violation. The situation escalated, however, ending up with a gang of 250 “people” assembling and interfering with this police action.

Let me decode that for you: Germans don’t assemble in groups like that to interfere with cops investigating some traffic violation. Ergo, other people who now live in Germany do. Not one word can be found in that article indicating that, of course, but your everyday Germans on the street have become such experienced code breakers that they know the deal as soon as they read the headline. Nobody’s lying though, see?

Etwa 250 Menschen haben der Polizei zufolge eine Verkehrskontrolle gestört.

World’s Largest Publicly Funded Broadcaster Squeamish About Showing Documentary On Antisemitism

June 25, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, High Art, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Anti-Israel, Antisemitism, ARD, Auserwählt und Ausgegrenzt, BDS, Biased Media, Documentaries, Fake News, Films, German, Germans, Germany, Israel, Jews, Lying Press, Media 4 Comments

Because, well, that would be too unpleasant for the public being made to do the broadcaster’s forced funding to have to face.

Germany’s state-run television channel ARD recently decided not to air a documentary it had itself commissioned concerning the latest outbreak of antisemitism in Europe and the Middle East because the people doing the film apparently did this job much too well (after enough noise was made about this decision the ARD had to broadcast it anyway).

This could trouble viewers in a country where at least 40% of its citizens hold anti-Israel, antisemitic views. Or so the reasoning must be. ARD documentaries propagating negative views about Israel get aired here all the time, however. This having to do with balanced journalism or something. Or so the reasoning must be.

Anti-Zionism is not a legitimate political position, but rather a movement against the Jewish and democratic state. It is Antisemitism 2.0.

PS: Meanwhile… The latest boycott Israel campaign from BDS seems to be making great strides forward here in Berlin. It is unclear at this point whether the ARD will be commissioning a documentary about this campaign or not.

My Guess Is Argentina

June 23, 2017 By Hermann Observer in Habeas Corpus, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Home Cooking, Hustle (Hoax), Hypocrisy Tags: Crime, Dieselgate, Fraud, German, Germans, Germany, Law, Punishment, Swindle, Volkswagen 2 Comments

US authorities have issued international arrest warrants for five former VW managers and developers for their role in the Dieselgate scandal.

Nobody in Germany can seem to find them so, you know, just put two and two together. No, that doesn’t make five. But it comes close.

Under the constitution, German citizens can only be extradited to other European Union countries or to an international court. But leaving Germany could pose the risk of being extradited to the United States from a third country.

“Erwartbare Konsequenz.”

Observing Hermann

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