Germany Would Be So Much Poorer Without Berlin

August 23, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Berlin, Debt, Economy, Germans, Germany, Government Waste, Greens, SPD, Spending, The Left Party Leave a comment

Not. Not according to this latest study.

Normally, the per capita economic output (GDP) in capital cities in Europe is higher than in the rest of the given country. There is one big exception, however. Germany would be wealthier without Berlin.

“Poor but sexy” is out. Now Berlin is just poor. Actually, it’s been that way for ages but nobody seems inclined to do anything about it. See the current red-redder-green city government.

Jeder Deutsche wäre ohne Berlin knapp 80 Euro reicher. Every German would be about 80 euros richer without it.

German Of The Day: Islamistisch Motiviert

August 20, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Health, Helplessness, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Angela Merkel, Asylum Seekers, Berlin, German, Germans, Germany, Islamist Terror, Islamists, Language, Migrants, Psychiatric Care, Psychiatry, Refugees, Religion, Terror, Terrorists Leave a comment

We’ve actually got two today: Islamistisch motiviert and Psychiatrie.

Islamistisch motiviert means Islamist motivated and Psychiatrie means psychiatry. You know, Islamist motivated like the attack with the car in Berlin yesterday? And psychiatry as in admitted to psychiatric care like the Islamist who carried it out?

A pattern is developing here. Islamists who regularly do this type of thing in Germany are admitted to psychiatric care while the people who let them in are allowed to continue holding office as if they were sane.

“A religiously motivated background cannot be excluded.”

If Foxes Aren’t Stealing Your Shoes…

August 10, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness Tags: Berlin, Boars, Foxes, Germany, Laptops, Nudists, Pigs, Shoes, Silly Season, Sommerloch 2 Comments

I was still digesting the shoe fetishist fox. Now wild boars are ripping off people’s laptops.

While they’re nude bathing. Even during the corona hysteria era the Sommerloch must go on (journalists need a vacation now and then too).

A nudist bather who chased a wild boar near a Berlin lake after it stole his laptop was applauded by onlookers after a successful pursuit.

“Would Establish A Relentless Critic?”

August 9, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Humility, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Ambassador, Berlin, Donald Trump, Douglas Macgregor, German, Germans, Germany Leave a comment

Who could ask for more?

Advocacy groups come out against Trump pick for ambassador to Germany.

If Macgregor is confirmed, it “would establish as America’s representative, in what many regard as the most important capital in Europe, a relentless critic, presumably handicapped from the start as an effective envoy.”

CNN first unsurfaced comments earlier this week, including remarks that criticized Germany for giving “millions of unwanted Muslim invaders” welfare benefits and said Germany’s efforts to grapple with its role in the Holocaust was a “sick mentality.”

Trumps Wunsch-Botschafter stänkerte gegen Deutschland.

German Of The Day: Steuerhinterzieherin

August 5, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Berlin, Communism, Corruption, German, Germans, Germany, Greens, Hypocrisy, Language, Left Party, Politicians, Property, Rents, Socialism, Socialists, SPD, Tax evasion, Taxation 1 Comment

That means tax evader – of the female persuasion.

The title of the article: The Super-Lefty as Tax Evader.

Katrin Lompscher (Left Party), the Senator for City Development in Berlin’s red-redder-green (SPD, Left Party, Greens) city government – and the mother of the city’s infamous, breathtakingly failed and unconstitutional Mietendeckel or rent cap – has been forced to resign due to tax irregularities. They weren’t paid regularly enough, in other words – she earned too much on the side and declared too little. It’s folks like her – and there are a whole lot of them here in this city – who put the Social in Social Democracy. Sorry. I meant, who put the Left in the Left.

Zu viel Kohle nebenher kassiert und nicht versteuert – das klingt nach turbokapitalem Protzvillen-Raffke.

If You’re Against Covid-19 Restrictions In Germany…

August 3, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Berlin, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Demonstrations, Fake News, Free speech, German, Germans, Germany, Masks, Media, Media Bias, Protests, Restrictions, Rights, Rules Leave a comment

You’re a neo-Nazi.

That’s pretty straightforward. It is also deceptive, unbalanced and an incorrect. Some would even go as far as to say it is fake news. But then they would be called neo-Nazis too.

Neben Corona-Leugnern und Impfgegnern waren auch viele Teilnehmer mit eindeutig rechtsgerichteten Fahnen oder T-Shirts in der Menge. – Along with Corona deniers and anti-vaxxers many participants in the crowd were waving what were clearly right-leaning flags or wearing related t-shirts.

Politik diskutiert über Einschränkung der Versammlungsfreiheit – Politicians are discussing the restriction on freedom of assembly.

German Of The Day: Ohne Mundschutz

August 2, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Health, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Berlin, Corona, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Demonstrations, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Masks, Protests, Restrictions, Rules Leave a comment

That means without masks (“mouth protection”).

Uh-oh, the natives are getting restless. Pandemic Is Over! (If You Want It).

Thousands of maskless Germans protest COVID-19 rules in Berlin – Thousands protested Germany’s coronavirus restrictions Saturday in a Berlin demonstration marking what organizers called “the end of the pandemic” — a declaration that comes just as authorities are voicing increasing concerns about an uptick in new infections.

Ohne Mundschutz, ohne Abstand – Tausende demonstrieren gegen Corona-Maßnahmen.

German Of The Day: Geldwäsche

July 16, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Asylum Seekers, Berlin, Clans, Crime, Criminals, Gangs, German, Germans, Germany, Islamists, Language, Migrants, Raids, Refugees, Terror, Terrorism, Terrorists 1 Comment

That means money-laundering.

And Germany in general, Berlin in particular, is a “money-laundering paradise.”

Police in Germany conduct raids on suspected Islamists in Berlin – Berlin police are investigating 12 suspects who are accused of financing terrorism, among other crimes…

Germany’s Police Trade Union welcomed the raids as an example of the result of meticulous investigative work. It is no secret that cash flows from criminal gangs in “our money-laundering paradise” to fund terrorist organizations, the union’s regional deputy head Thomas Spaniel said, according to the German news agency dpa.

Last year, the domestic intelligence agency for the state of Berlin counted 2,170 Islamists in the city, 180 more than the previous year.

German Students Not Use To Countries That Uphold Their Visa Laws

July 12, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Higher Education, Humility, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Angela Merkel, Berlin, Foreign Students, German, Germans, Germany, Immigration, Laws, Online-Only Classes, Rules, Students, Universities, USA, Visas Leave a comment

Looks like it’s Fridays for No-Future for you.

Sie schaffen das!

German students in US urge Berlin to take stand against new visa rules – “We’re counting on your support,” students wrote in an open letter to Angela Merkel’s government. Under new pandemic rules, international students face expulsion from the US if their schools offer online-only classes.

The new visa regulations as part of “an increasingly xenophobic immigration policy.”

German Of The Day: Mohr

July 8, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hostility, Humor, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Berlin, BLM, George Floyd, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Mohrstraße, Political correctness, Racism, Streets, Subway Stations Leave a comment

That means Moor. As in Moor wacky BLM bullshit.

Moors were “the Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, the Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages. The Moors initially were the indigenous Maghrebine Berbers. The name was later also applied to Arabs.”

They were also black. You know, dark-skinned people? Or at least that is what the word Mohr is associated with in German. This, of course, has now led to a great big giant world-shaking problem in Berlin. Yawn.

What’s in a name? Berlin wrestles with past in metro station row – Transit authority to rename slavery-linked Mohrenstrasse after AN ANTISEMITIC RUSSIAN COMPOSER.

Get it? Me neither.

Some historians dispute the street name’s origins and argue the word Mohr is merely old-fashioned rather than derogatory.

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”

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