Well, We’ve All Been Wanting To Lose Weight Anyway

March 8, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Health, Heconomy, Helplessness, Home Cooking Tags: EU, Exports, Food, G7, Germany, Inflation, Russia, Shortages, Ukraine, Wheat Leave a comment

Always look on the bright side of Russian invasions – of one of the world’s top wheat exporters.

Germany to host G7 meeting on Ukraine invasion’s impact on food security – Germany will host a virtual meeting of agricultural ministers from G7 countries on Friday to discuss the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on global food security and how to best stabilize food markets, the government said.

“The provision of foodstuffs in Germany and the European Union is safe but greater shortages can be expected in some countries outside the EU – especially where scarcity already reigns today due to issues like drought,” German Agriculture Minister Cem Oezdemir said in statement.

“Price hikes for agricultural products cannot be excluded in industrialized nations either.”

Yacht To Have Docked It Someplace Else

March 3, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Humor, Hurt Feelings Tags: EU, Germany, Hamburg, Oligarchs, Puns, Putin, Russia, Sanctions, Ukraine, Yachts Leave a comment

That oligarch was really cruising for a bruising. Take a bow, Germany. Looks like there will be a sail on megayachts in Hamburg soon…

European authorities seize oligarch’s megayacht in German port – Authorities in Germany have seized Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov’s 500-foot megayacht, the Dilbar, as part of the package of sanctions against the Kremlin and its supporters, Forbes magazine reported.

The ship was taken by authorities in the north German port of Hamburg on Wednesday. The megayacht is estimated to be worth $600 million.

Tough As Nails

February 25, 2022 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Hypocrisy Tags: EU, Germany, Putin, Russia, Sanctions, SWIFT, Ukraine, War Leave a comment

Or as Jell-O, at least. Here’s the latest “Money Makes The World Go Around” going around in Germany (some still refer to it as “the EU”).

Cutting off Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payment system should not be part of the second EU sanctions package against Russia that EU leaders will decide upon at a meeting on Thursday in Brussels, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.

He’s right, of course. Doing that would be one of the only things that would actually hurt Putin & Co. and that would be counterproductive.

Die Swift-Keule kommt nicht zum Einsatz.

The Eurozone Doesn’t Work Now With It’s Current Member States

September 22, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Hurt Feelings Tags: Brussels, Bulgaria, Currency, EU, Euro, Eurozone Leave a comment

I know, the EU’s bureaucratic hive mind says, let’s add another broke country to see how that doesn’t work then either.

Concerns Rise as Bulgaria Prepares to Join the Euro – Bulgaria has significant problems with corruption and money laundering. Nevertheless, the European Union is prepared to accept the country as the next member of the eurozone. Many fear that might be a bad idea.

Humanitarian Aid

May 16, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hostility, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: EU, Gaza, Germany, Hamas, Iran, Israel, NGOs, Rockets, Terror, USA Leave a comment

Just like the Banana Republic of America, Germany and the EU continue to support “humanitarian” NGOs who then funnel this money to Hamas & Co.

And just like the Banana Republic, these same concerned Europeans then condemn Israeli for defending itself with retaliation attacks.

Hamas, if you didn’t know, is just another name for the Iranian mullah regime. The rockets being fired from Gaza are made in Iran. Here too, the Banana Republic and Europe are doing everything in their power to restore the nuclear deal with Iran. This, we are led to believe, will promote peace in the Middle East. You can’t make this stuff up, people.

Deutschland hat den Kern des Krieges nicht erkannt.

Zero The Hero

March 28, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Humility, Hurt Feelings Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, EU, Europe, German, Germans, Germany, Language, Pandemic, Vaccines Leave a comment

Or Hero the Zero, if you prefer.

German of the day: Perfektionismus. That means perfectionism. But what it really means here in Germany these days is something else altogether. The Germans are now perfect at getting everything wrong. The days of German perfectionism are long gone and they are reminded of it daily.

Heroes to zeros: how German perfectionism wrecked its Covid vaccine drive – The same thoroughness that made Angela Merkel’s government a pandemic role model is now holding it back.

This time Angie let Brussels handle the vaccination planning, like a good European. BIG strategic blunder. That blew up in her face big time. But she can never get it right, really. The Germans are damned if they do (as in do it alone), damned if they don’t.

Roll Over And Die With Style

March 24, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Dependency, Energy, EU, Gerhard Schroeder, Germans, Germany, Nord Stream 2, Russia, Vladimir Putin Leave a comment

It’s as easy as climbing stairs.

The Banana Republic’s Secretary of State may pretend like his country will see to it that Nord Stream 2 isn’t completed but it’s just empty posturing that won’t have any consequences and the Germans know it. Just like Vlad Putin and everybody else.

Germany is pushing for the pipeline’s completion, despite sustained U.S. opposition over more than a decade. The United States fears Russia could use Nord Stream 2 as leverage to weaken EU states by increasing dependency on Moscow.

“President (Joe) Biden has been very clear, he believes the pipeline is a bad idea, bad for Europe, bad for the United States, ultimately it is in contradiction to the EU’s own security goals,” Blinken said as he met NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

Self-Sufficient?

March 14, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hideology, Higher Education, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings, Hypocrisy Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, EU, German, Germans, Germany, Nationalism, Pandemic, Vaccines Leave a comment

That’s pure nationalism! And you call yourselves good Europeans. All day long.

Germany seeks to be vaccine self-sufficient by next year – From 2022, Germany should be able to produce enough of its own vaccines to inoculate the whole population in the case of a pandemic, a top official said on Saturday.

Vaccination commissioner Christoph Krupp told newspapers of the Funke Media Group that, by May, a government task force would put forward a concept to achieve the goal of setting up a state-guaranteed system for vaccine production.

Europe, That’s What Went Wrong

March 12, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Angela Merkel, Coronavirus, COVID-19, EU, Europe, German, Germans, Germany, Management, Pandemic, Ursula von der Leyen, Vaccines 1 Comment

Germany’s COVID management: World wonders what’s gone wrong – A year ago, Germany was effusively praised for its coronavirus response. Nobody would think to do that now. If anything, the international view today is a mixture of astonishment and schadenfreude.

As reported earlier… “Germany is the architect of the European failure because Germany and Merkel were behind pushing for the European process that was a failure from the beginning.”

Europe “ought” to work. But it doesn’t. Then the real world bites back.

Nice Europeans

March 8, 2021 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings Tags: Angela Merkel, Coronavirus, COVID-19, EU, German, Germans, Germany, Pandemic, UK, Vaccines Leave a comment

Come in last.

Germany should have led the world at handling the pandemic. But experts slam Merkel’s vaccine response as a disaster.

“Germany is the architect of the European failure because Germany and Merkel were behind pushing for the European process that was a failure from the beginning,” Julian Reichelt, the managing editor of Germany’s largest selling tabloid newspaper Bild, told CNN.

“She wanted to make it all about Europe and her being a great European,” he says.

Observing Hermann

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