But I’m not a young German.
The race was extremely close: “Aura” is the German youth word of the year 2024, with a wafer-thin lead over “Talahon” and a new interpretation of “scissors.”
Talahon: An adherent of an urban subculture of males aged between about 13 and 25, typically but not necessarily of Middle Eastern origin, characterized, among other things, by a passion for German hip hop and wearing counterfeit designer labels.
For what? The Democrats just want him out of the country. An understandable move.
And he won’t know where he is anyway. Just let everybody over here not listen to what he does not have to say.
Biden to travel to Germany this week, Angola in December for visits delayed by Hurricane Milton – President Joe Biden is heading to Germany Thursday and will visit Angola the first week in December, rescheduling visits that were postponed so he could remain in Washington to monitor the federal response to Hurricane Milton as it struck Florida.
Uh-oh. If “Russian disinformation is growing in Germany…”
Then German state media disinformation providers are going to have to crank it up a notch. No prob. We’re on it already.
Russian disinformation is growing in Germany – Russia is flooding Germany with more disinformation than ever, officials warn. Analysts say this tactic is helping pro-Kremlin narratives increasingly seep into the country’s politics.
“We see that this strategy is gradually achieving its goals, and the public debate in Germany is increasingly shifting in a direction that serves the Kremlin’s interests.”
At least she got the continent right.
Thank goodness we always have celebrities like this to set us straight about what’s going on in the world.
‘We knew where the enemies were,’ Goldberg said, after unknowingly mixing up Germany and Russia.
“Even if you are a true Republican, don’t you remember? ‘Tear down this wall.’ Reagan was clear about who our enemy was, and still is.”
I wonder why.
It costs over four thousand euros for a commercial aircraft to leave a German airport. In other European countries it costs as little as 500 euros. Some say this has to do with German regulation and “green kerosene” madness but I’m sure there must be a more… reasonable explanation.
Lufthansa CEO concerned more airlines will cut German routes – After airlines such as Eurowings and Ryanair have cut back their connections in Germany due to excessive fees and costs, Lufthansa CEO Carsten Spohr fears a negative impact on Germany as a place to do business.
Why should Germans worry about that?
Vater Staat (Father State) has everything under control. Wie immer (as usual).
Germans fear rising cost of living – Inflation, migration, expensive housing — these are the things that most people in Germany are worried about, according to the latest study “Germans’ Fears 2024.”
Germany is already more secure than Fort Knox when it comes to espionage as it is.
Although it’s more like the Fort of Hard Knocks, come to think of it.
Germany to beef up security checks amid spying fears – Germany’s government has said the country will tighten security checks for staff in sensitive areas of government and business. The move comes after an increase in suspected espionage cases…
Several cases of alleged spying for Moscow have rocked Germany since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
In one case, a former German intelligence officer was accused of passing information to Russia that showed Berlin had access to details of Moscow’s mercenary operations in Ukraine.
Chinese espionage has also been a growing concern. In April, the most high-profile such case saw an aide to a German far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) member of the European Parliament arrested on suspicion of spying for Beijing.
That means not satisfactory or unsatisfactory.
Year number two. Germany is on a roll.
Germany expects economy to shrink after cutting 2024 forecast – Government predicts rebound in 2025 after 0.2% decline this year.
Germany is facing its first two-year recession since the early 2000s, as the government downgraded its growth forecast for 2024, predicting a contraction of 0.2 per cent.
“The situation is not satisfactory,” Robert Habeck, economy minister, said on Wednesday.
is the apostrophe.”
They’re not used in German to show possession. Until now. Sort of.
Germans decry influence of English as ‘idiot’s apostrophe’ gets official approval – Linguistic body has relaxed rules on use of apostrophe to show possession, not traditionally correct in German.
Once upon a time
Somebody say to me
(This is a dog talkin’ now)
What is your Conceptual Continuity?
Well, I told him right then (Fido said)
It should be easy to see
The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe…
Why should anyone be surprised when the Federal Statistical Office gets its numbers wrong?
And actually, if you stop to think about it, federal statistical offices always get their numbers wrong so maybe they finally got something right.
Germany’s botched data revamp leaves economists ‘flying blind’ – IT hitches force Federal Statistical Office to suspend consumer and services releases.
Germany’s statistical office has suspended some of its most important indicators after botching a data update, leaving citizens and economists in the dark at a time when the country is trying to boost flagging growth.
In a nation once famed for its punctuality and reliability, even its notoriously diligent beancounters have become part of a growing perception that “nothing works any more” as Germans moan about delayed trains, derelict roads and bridges, and widespread staff shortages.
“There used to be certain aspects in life that you could just rely on, and the fact that official statistics are published on time was one of them — not any more.”
Observing Hermann 