Official Holiday In Berlin – “What Are We Celebrating On May 8?”

May 8, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Higher Education, History, Humility Tags: Anniversaries, Berlin, German, Germans, Germany, History, Holidays, World War II Leave a comment

Officially, it’s the 75th anniversary of the city’s “liberation” (Befreiung) as World War II ended. They couldn’t call it “Boy Did We Ever Get Our Ass Kicked Day,” I suppose.

Or maybe you could say it’s a day to commemorate the biggest daylight savings time reset ever. It’s when all the clocks in Germany were set to “zero hour.”

May 8, 1945, was ‘zero hour’ for Germany in multiple ways – Adolf Hitler was merely ash among the rubble when World War II ended in Europe. The desolate aftermath was dubbed “zero hour” by Germans — a more prescient term than they realized, for it also paved the way to rebirth.

Feiertag in Berlin – Was feiern wir am 8. Mai?

Semblance Of Normal Life Beginning In Germany

May 7, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Health, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hysteria Tags: Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Normal, Normalcy, Restrictions Leave a comment

I mean, it’s beginning to look like the semblance of normal life that was normal life here in Germany before cornavirus hit. That kind of normal.

It may only be a semblance but that’s about all you can hope for here, people.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel set out plans Wednesday for the gradual reopening of the country after weeks-long restrictions imposed to stem the spread of the coronavirus.

Limits on social contact will remain in place until June 5, she said, but Germans can now meet with members of one other household as well as their own. People must still remain 1.5 meters apart and cover their mouths and noses in public.

Shops can reopen but with additional hygiene measures, Merkel said, speaking at a news conference following a video meeting with the prime ministers of Germany’s 16 states.

„Wir können uns ein Stück Mut leisten, aber wir müssen vorsichtig bleiben.“

German Of The Day: Antikörper

May 6, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hi-tech, Higher Education, Home Cooking Tags: Antibodies, Blockers, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Drugs, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Medicine, Research, Treatment Leave a comment

That means antibodies. You know, like antibodies that block coronavirus from spreading further?

German scientists have detected an antibody that blocks the coronavirus from entering cells, providing a much-needed shield for severely ill patients. While not a cure or vaccine, it is still a significant development.

“This is clearly a breakthrough that shows that we are on the right track for the development of a drug against Covid-19,” said virologist Professor Luka Cicin-Sain.

“In repeated experiments, we were able to show that this result is sustainable.”

Deutsche Forscher finden Corona-Blocker.

I Got Your Quantitative Easing For You Right Here, Pal

May 5, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Horror, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Bonds, Bundesbank, Central Banks, Courts, Dept, ECB, EU, Euro, European Union, Eurozone, German, Germans, Germany, Law, Quantitative Easing, Rule of Law, Rulings, Spending, Waste Leave a comment

Imagine that. A nation state (member state) ought to have a say in how its money is spent. What a radical new concept.

Germany’s top court has ruled that the European Central Bank’s mass bond-buying to stabilise the eurozone partly violates the German constitution.

The ruling relates to government debt worth €2.1 trillion (£2tn; $2.3tn) bought by the ECB since 2015, but not purchases in the coronavirus crisis.

The Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe says there is not enough German political oversight in the purchases…

The plaintiffs are a group of German academics, including a former leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Bernd Lucke. They argue that the purchases violate the EU ban on one eurozone member subsidising the debts of another.

It is now up to the ECB to explain how its mass bond-buying programme is “proportionate”. The Bundesbank could pull out if it is not satisfied, in three months’ time – which would be a big blow to the eurozone.

Attack On Journalists Already Long Forgotten

May 4, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hypocrisy Tags: Attacks, Berlin, Crime, Extremists, Free speech, Gangs, German, Germans, Germany, Journalists, Language, Leftists, News, Violence Leave a comment

No self-righteous outrage here. The attackers who did the attacking were the wrong kind of attackers to attack.

They were leftist extremists and not right-wing extremists – as one is expected to expect here. And that’s harmless or cute or something. Germans in general and German media in particular are “blind in the left eye,” as the saying goes. This isn’t supposed to happen. So it doesn’t.

Authorities confirmed on Saturday that they are investigating the political motives behind an attack on the camera team of popular German satirical news show the heute-show [Today Show].

While filming on May Day, several members of the crew were attacked while filming in Berlin. Four members of the team sustained injuries severe enough to be sent to hospital. Five men and one woman were arrested.

We’ve Always Been Socially Distant

May 3, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Bans, Berlin, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Demonstrators, May Day, May Day Demonstrations, May Day Riots, Protestors, Riots Leave a comment

Wanting social chaos, anarchy and revolution the way we do. But this year we were particularly good, sort of, by showing an extra portion of social distancing. Not.

Don’t you just hate it when rioters get “unreasonable” like that?

Hundreds take part in social-distanced May Day protest in Berlin – Protesters defied a ban on gatherings of more than 20 people to mark May Day.

„Natürlich sind mehrere hundert bis mehrere tausend Menschen auf den Straßen unvernünftig gewesen. Das muss man sagen.”

Maribel

May 2, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hotness Tags: GNTM 2020, Maribel Leave a comment

Beautiful German of the week.

Because somebody has to admire them.

Berlin Tegel Airport Closing June 1, 2020

May 1, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, History, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Airports, BER, Berlin Schönefeld, Berlin Tegel, Berlin-Brandenburg Airport, Cold War, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, West Berlin Leave a comment

And Berlin Brandenburg Airport opens October 31, 2020. Let’s do the math.

So, Berlin is down to just one world-class horrible airport for like five months? Until the next world-class horrible one comes along, I mean? Sheesh. Although with all this Corona going on maybe nobody will even notice.

Personally, I will miss Tegel. Maybe because it was so small and in the middle of town like that. You could walk around the entire main terminal in five minutes. Adieu, Tegel. It was in what used to be called the French Sector, after all.

This comes as the airport has seen a huge drop in passenger numbers, with passengers currently amounting to 1% of normal amounts. The company running the airport is allegedly losing one million Euros per day, so closing the airport will save costs.

Well, That Was Like Pulling Zähne

April 30, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habeas Corpus, Hard Facts, Hate, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hostility, Hurt Feelings Tags: German, Germans, Germany, Hezbollah, Iran, Islamist Terror, Language, Terror, Terrorists 1 Comment

As in teeth. Better late than never, I guess.

German government bans Hezbollah — Interior Ministry – Authorities have designated Hezbollah a terrorist organization and banned its activity on German soil. Police are currently conducting raids on four associations linked to the Islamist group…

Banning Hezbollah could strain relations between Germany and Iran. However, Iran is dependent on good relations with Germany and the European Union, exemplified most recently by the use of Instex, an EU-Iran trading mechanism designed to skirt US-imposed sanctions and export medical supplies to the pandemic-hit country. 

“Police measures are underway in several federal states concurrently. In times of crisis, the rule of law is able to act.”

Germans Now Testing On Human Subjects

April 29, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Health, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Home Cooking, Hysteria Tags: BioNTech, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Pfizer, Vaccinations, Vaccine Leave a comment

Despite hearing every five minutes in the German media that a coronavirus vaccine won’t be availble anytime even remotely soon so forget about it already, a German pharmaceutical company has begun testing a potential vaccine on human beings THEMSELVES.

If things go really bad they might receive regulatory approval really soon and begin trials in the United States too.

“We are leaving no stone unturned as we explore every option to help provide society with a treatment or cure.”

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”