It’s not a slowdown…

July 6, 2023 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Hysteria Tags: Climate, Consumers, Cost, Courts, Economy, Energy, Gas, German, Germany, Greens, Language, Laws, Politicians, Renewables, SPD, Tricks Leave a comment

It’s more like a Vollbremsung. That’s German for full braking or emergency stop.

Germany’s highest court just cancelled the Green’s latest rush-rush trick, I mean plan to save the planet at German taxpayers’ expense.

Germany’s Green Slowdown – While voters may still broadly support net zero goals, they’re not necessarily on board with the escalating costs of the transition.

… Today, it’s the Greens’ proposed ban on new gas boilers in homes that’s causing trouble. Against a backdrop of sliding poll ratings, the party’s partners in the coalition forced a dilution of the plan last month in a package that also included a massive road-building program.

In another blow to the policy — dubbed Habeck’s Heating Hammer by the opposition — Germany’s constitutional court has made a highly unusual intervention in the legislative process and ordered the government to give parliament more time to scrutinize the plan.

Let’s Make A Deal

May 17, 2023 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Clans, Courts, Crime, Deals, German, Germans, Germany, Justice, Mafia, Remmo Clan, Rule of Law Leave a comment

A deal you can’t refuse.

Five Germans handed jail sentence for Green Vault jewel heist. But these slaps on the wrist aren’t the story.

A part of the loot had been handed over to to a lawyer’s office. In return, the clan members received lighter sentences. The deal had previously been arranged through the defense, a capitulation to the clan criminals before the rule of law.

And the “six German men” handed jail sentences? They weren’t of the Michael and Johannes type. They were of the Lebanese Remmo Clan variety. You know, Corleone style.

Repeat An Election?

September 29, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Higher Education, Hurt Feelings Tags: Audits, Berlin, Courts, Democracy, Elections, Fairness, Germany, Glitches, Honesty, Justice, Rule of Law, Voting Leave a comment

What do they mean by repeating an election? I thought that once you get the results you want it’s a done deal. Repeating an election due to election day glitches simply isn’t possible. Not in my country it isn’t.

Judge: Berlin will likely need to repeat its 2021 election – The president of the Berlin Constitutional Court says Germany’s capital will likely need to repeat its 2021 state and district elections due to severe election day glitches.

Long lines formed outside many polling stations in Berlin that day as voters struggled with extra ballot papers. Some polling stations ran out of ballot papers during the day and others received ones for the wrong district, leading to a large number of invalidated ballots. Another issue was the election was supposed to end at 6 p.m., but voters waiting in line at that time were allowed to cast their ballots.

German Of The Day: Knast

May 2, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Bankruptcy, Boris Becker, Courts, German, Germans, Language, Prison Leave a comment

That means prison.

The imprisonment in London of the tennis legend Boris Becker for bankruptcy offences has triggered an outpouring of shock and disappointment in his native Germany, where he was once hailed as a national hero.

One former fan spoke for many when he said: “He made mistakes for which he’s rightly being punished. But maybe he’ll get up again one day, just like Becker, the tennis player, so often did.”

The Traffic Was Murder On The Way To The Home Office This Morning

December 14, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Health, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings, Hypochondria, Hysteria Tags: Commuting, Courts, COVID-19, German, Germans, Germany, Home Office, Law, Lawyers, Lockdowns, Rulings, Work Leave a comment

And I had an accident in the bathroom. So, I think I’ll sue ya.

Walking from your bed to your desk could count as a commute, according to a German court ruling – The walk from your bed to your desk could now count as a commute, according to a recent ruling from a German court.

The court ruled that a man should be covered by his company’s insurance after he suffered a fall on the way to his home office.

It Can’t Happen Here

October 15, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helections, Helplessness, Hurt Feelings Tags: Berlin, Courts, Election Fraud, Elections, German, Germans, Germany, Irregularities, Rule of Law Leave a comment

Election fraud. We’re not in the Banana Republic of Amerika, after all.

Or can it?

Berlin’s Constitutional Court to review election results – After a messy Election Day that saw ballots moved around the German capital during a marathon, the results are to be reviewed — focusing on two districts.

The OSCE has yet to issue its full report on the election. Roughly one in 10 polling centers — 207 out of 2,257 — had election irregularities. That represents over a hundred more stations than Berlin’s interior minister said in an initial report last week.

“That is a number that should scare and frustrate us all,” Michaelis said previously. She has resigned following the failures.

Marchers = Nazis

August 29, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hostility, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy, Hysteria Tags: Coronavirus, Courts, COVID-19, Demonstrations, Germany, Lockdowns, Masks, Media, Protests, Restrictions, Vaccinations Leave a comment

That’s the “correct” way to view those who question placing restrictions on the unvaccinated in Germany.

They have to be Nazis, you see. Otherwise they might be rational human beings with reasonable arguments against these government restrictions. Then one would have to address these arguments. And then the government restrictions wouldn’t make any sense. And we can’t have the government looking like its restrictive policies don’t make any sense now, can we?

Germany: Thousands march in Berlin against COVID rules – Marchers rallied through the streets of the German capital, with thousands of police officers on standby in case of violence. A court had allowed only one rally to go ahead.

There Are Still A Few Grown-Ups Around

April 15, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Courts, Expropriation, Judges, Rent, Rent Control, Rulings Leave a comment

Not many, granted, but there still appear to be a few left. In this case high court judges.

I wish I could say that about the Banana Republic.

Berlin rent cap oveerturned by Germany’s top court – Germany’s constitutional court has decided that the Berlin rent cap violates Germany’s constitution. The cap was one of the most-debated laws in the country.

German Of The Day: Unter einer Decke stecken

January 19, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Angela Merkel, Censorship, Courts, Fake News, Free speech, German, Germany, Government Control, Journalism, Languate, Mainstream Media, Media, Press, State TV Leave a comment

Literally, to be under a blanket together. That is, to be in cahoots with, to collude.

No connection between Germany’s state television (which most Germans refuse to call state television) and the German government here, folks. Move along. Nothing to see.

An independent journalist wanted to know about Angela Merkel’s routine secret meetings (Hintergrundgespräche – “background meetings”) with said state TV journalists and took it to court when Merkel refused to cooperate. The courts sided with the government and said the public did not need to know about these meetings in detail. The courts again. Sound familiar?

Does China Joe meet with CNN & Co. directly back home in the Banana Republic or does he have middlemen?

“Erst Flüchtlings-, dann Coronakrise: Erneut wird der Vorwurf erhoben, vielen Journalisten ginge es um Gesinnung statt um Aufklärung.” – “First the migrant crisis then the corona crisis: The allegation is being made once again that many journalists are more interested in political conviction than in journalistic clarification.

Give Me Your 30,000 Jobs Or I Crush You!

December 23, 2020 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hi-tech, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hysteria Tags: Bureaucracy, Captain Kirk, Courts, Employment, Environmentalists, German, Germans, Germany, Gorn, Greens, Lizards, Star Trek, Tesla, Trees Leave a comment

Tesla’s German gigafactory held up by sand lizard – Court halts work cutting down trees because of conservation fears for the protected species.

This is how Germany works, folks. Or doesn’t work. Take your pick it’s both.

Some commentators have warned that the court decision to stop the forest clearance was a bad omen. Marcel Fratzscher, head of the DIW, a think-tank, said it highlighted the “heavy bureaucratic burden and high regulatory uncertainty, which make it costly and time-consuming for companies to realise investment projects” in Germany.

“German law is too often held hostage by vested interests so that Germany is at risk of becoming less attractive as a location for businesses,” he said.

“Like most Humans,” said Captain Kirk. “I seem to have an instinctive revulsion to reptiles. I must fight to remember that this is an intelligent, highly advanced individual, the captain of a starship like myself.”

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”

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