Can’t Reach The Current Planned Level Of Carbon Emission Reduction?

September 17, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings, Hype, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Carbon Emissions, Climate Change, CO2, Economy, EU, European Commission, German, Germans, Germany, Government spending, Government Waste, Industry, Regulation Leave a comment

I know. Let’s introduce an even higher and more unrealistic new level of carbon emission reduction we can’t reach!

Then everybody’s happy. Except those folks who still have to live in the real world.

German industry sceptical of EU’s new 2030 climate goals – The European Commission will present today (17 September) detailed proposals to reduce carbon emissions in the EU by 55% below 1990 levels by 2030. While German industry officially welcomes the new ambitions, it is also clearly sceptical.

The increase of the current target for 2030 by a further 15% would mean a roughly fivefold increase in the efforts of the 27 EU member states, BDI President Dieter Kempf emphasised at the beginning of his speech.

And according to BDI calculations, Germany alone would have to invest €2.3 trillion to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. “You can work out who of the other 26 countries can afford to do this. The level of ambition not only differs greatly within the EU, but also globally,” said Kempf.

Corona Deaths In Germany Completely Out Of Control

September 14, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hype, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Deaths, German, Germans, Germany, Hysteria, Pandemic, Panic, Statistics Leave a comment

I mean the numbers.

What’s a panic monger to do? How can a media mind manipulator control the numbers when the numbers at your disposal are only 1 or 2 or 0? All you can do is not report this unfortunate fact and emphasise the number of infections instead – infections that stubbornly refuse to lead to death, but still.

Immer weniger Corona-Tote in Deutschland – Fewer and fewer Corona deaths in Germany.

Trump Derangement Syndrome Vs. Coronavirus Anxiety Syndrome

September 13, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hostility, Hypochondria, Hysteria Tags: Angst, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Fear, German, Germans, Germany, Hypochondria, Polls, Surveys, Syndromes Leave a comment

Which syndrome has Germans more disturbed?

Like, duh. TDS wins hands down.

Germans fear Donald Trump more than coronavirus – Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump tops the list of things Germans fear the most, a new survey found.

Trump ranks number one this year on Germans’ list of fears at 53%. The US president has topped the R+V fear scale as early as 2018.

V-Shaped

September 10, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Corona, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Government spending, Prostitution, Recovery, Restrictions, Spending Leave a comment

You know, V. Like V are having the worst economic downturn since World War II.

But whether the German stimulus measures “have bucked the Corona crisis” or not remains to be seen.

It can’t be too much of a crisis anymore though. Not if all the brothels are being allowed to open again. Come what may.

Several states in northern Germany are set to lift or ease pandemic restrictions on prostitution, with North Rhine-Westphalia now allowing sex workers to resume their business. The decision comes in the wake of several court cases filed by sex workers, who argued the restrictions unfairly discriminated against them.

What Can We Ban Today?

September 1, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Bans, Freedom, German, Germans, Germany, Laws, Motorcycles, Regulations, Restrictions, Verbote Leave a comment

It’s been twenty-four hours at least. Our fingers are getting itchy.

I know, riding your motorcycle on Sundays!

Noise in Germany keeps a strict schedule. Every night after 10 p.m. and on Sundays, Germans are required by a medley of federal, state and local laws to keep schtum. That means no spin cycles, no vacuuming, no power tools and no mowing the lawn.

As the world went into lockdown this spring, a drop in noise levels was recorded across the globe. But in most of Germany, it wasn’t much quieter than an average Sunday, when socializing is done sotto voce and the peal of church bells is about as loud as it gets.

“Many villagers have stopped using their gardens on sunny weekends.”

Of All The Words Of Mice And Men

August 31, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hostility, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Angela Merkel, Asylum Seekers, Borders, EU, Europe, Eurozone, German, Germans, Germany, Migrants, Refugees Leave a comment

And German chancellors, the saddest are “We can do this!”

Just kidding. They’re actually “What the hell were you thinking?”

And if you believe those numbers up there (another state-run agency), you can’t be helped either.

“We can do this!” — Merkel’s famous words five years on – It’s five years to the day since German Chancellor Angela Merkel uttered her famous quote about taking in refugees. Today the numbers show that integration has made progress, though skepticism persists.

German Of The Day: Bußgeld

August 28, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hostility, Hurt Feelings, Hypochondria, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Bans, Berlin, Control, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Fines, German, Germans, Germany, Government, Laws, Regulations, State Control 3 Comments

That means fine. As in money. As in Corona money.

Most of Germany imposes $59 fine for mask-wearing breaches – German Chancellor Angela Merkel says most of her country’s states have agreed to impose a minimum fine of 50 euros ($59) for breaching mask-wearing rules as coronavirus infections rise again

Hmmm. In theory, Germany is a federal Government and this should be left up to state governments to decide but the times, as we can see, they are a changin’.

In decentralized Germany, imposing and loosening virus-related restrictions is a matter for the 16 state governments, so a patchwork of rules has emerged in recent months. Some areas have imposed no punishment for people who don’t wear masks as required in public transport, shops and elsewhere while others have imposed high fines.

Berlin Cancels Protest By Protestors Who “Question Democracy”

August 27, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Health, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Berlin, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Democracy, Demonstrations, Face Masks, Free speech, German, Germans, Germany, Masks, Protests Leave a comment

By, well, cancelling Democracy itself.

Berlin bans large weekend protests against coronavirus restrictions, citing health grounds – The city government of Berlin has called off several planned weekend protests, the largest of which on Saturday expected to draw 20,000 people or more. The organizers plan to challenge the move in court.

Anyone who does not conform to the red-redder-green party line is immediately labeled a right-wing extremist. Works every time.

German Of The Day: Nichtstun

August 26, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hustle (Hoax), Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Academics, German, Germans, Germany, Grants, Hamburg, Handouts, Language, Professors, Scholarships, Students, Studies, Universities Leave a comment

That means doing nothing. And nothing is what German students want.

Is genius made from bootstraps or handouts? A university in Germany may answer that question by giving out free money for being lazy. The University of Fine Arts in Hamburg said it’s going to give three people $1,900 “idleness grants.”

I doubt if any new discoveries will be made here. Academics know this already: “Doing nothing isn’t very easy.” But, hey. Somebody has to do it.

The “grant for doing nothing” will be for “active inactivity” as the project studies lack of ambition for research for an exhibition next year on sustainability called The School of Inconsequentiality: Towards A Better Life.

“This scholarship program is not a joke but an experiment with serious intentions — how can you turn a society that is structured around achievements and accomplishments on its head?”

No Way Back

August 24, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Budgets, Common Debt, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Debt, EU, Government spending, Government Waste, Joint Debt, Recovery, SPD, Spending Leave a comment

No way out. No doubt about it.

Spending other people’s money is so exciting. Joint debt is the bestest kind of debt there is. It’s free. Somebody else will pay it back. In this case, the Germans. Germans who haven’t even been born yet, but still.

Germany’s Scholz (SPD) sees ‘no way back’ from EU joint debt – German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said Sunday (23 August) that the European Union’s recovery package financed by joint borrowing was a long-term measure rather than a short-term coronavirus crisis fix, contradicting Chancellor Angela Merkel.

“The Recovery Fund is a real step forward for Germany and for Europe, one we won’t go back on,” Scholz, who is also the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) candidate to succeed Merkel in 2021 elections, told the Funke newspaper group.

Observing Hermann

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