Did someone finally give the German media Brain Police a wake-up pill?

May 9, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Asylum Seekers, Borders, Climate Change, Europe, Germans, Germany, Immigrants, Immigration, Migrants, Refugees Leave a comment

Or are they finally figuring out where the real danger (and exploitable fear) lies?

A German dilemma: Everybody here knows what everybody here is really worried about but the only ones openly saying it are the evil “Nazi” AfD party. It’s called painting yourself into a corner.

Germans fear migration more than climate change, study finds – Europeans — especially Germans — are increasingly keen on curbing immigration and are less focused on climate change, according to a study by a Danish-based think tank.

In a word, “no”

April 26, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: Autobahn, Cars, CO2, Driving, Envirnoment, Germans, Germany, Greens, Speed, Speed Limits Leave a comment

Or nein, if you prefer.

Another Green daydream comes to its inevitable end. Sheesh. German Greens don’t even know what country they live in.

Germany’s Autobahn — finally time for a speed limit?

The majority of Germans want a motorway speed limit, and environmental groups say it would help cut emissions. But are their arguments strong enough to convince those opposed to slower speeds on the Autobahn?

PS: A limit of 120 MILES per hour (image) might fly, but I doubt it.

But why would you leave Helsinki in the first place?

April 9, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hurt Feelings Tags: Berlin, CO2, Finland, Finns, Flying, German, Germans, Germany, Happiness, Language, Travel 2 Comments

To come to Berlin, I mean.

Finns are the happiest people on Earth, I’m told. Germans, well, aren’t. And Berliners erst recht nicht (certainly not).

Traveling from Berlin to Helsinki — without using a plane. Flying is a major CO2 emitter when traveling. But how feasible are alternative modes of transportation?

Berlin Airlift 2.0

April 3, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: Botswana, Elephants, Environmentalists, Germans, Germany, Greens, Hunters, Trophies 1 Comment

Only now it’s time for some really heavy airlifting.

Botswana offers 20,000 elephants to Germany in diplomatic spat over trophy hunting – Botswana’s president challenged Berlin to take on 20,000 elephants – saying “it’s not a joke” – while opposing Germany’s proposed restrictions on the import of hunting trophies.

President Mokgweetsi Masisi suggested in an interview with German newspaper Bild that Berlin should try living with elephants to experience the challenges the endangered species bring to the community.

Mr Masisi was responding to Germany’s environment ministry suggesting earlier this year that there should be tougher rules against importing hunting trophies.

Botswana’s president said Germans should “live together with the animals, in the way you are trying to tell us to”.

German of the day: Die Schnauze voll haben

March 28, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: German, Germans, Germany, Greens, Language, Political Parties, Russia, Ukraine, War Leave a comment

Having the snout full means to be fed up with it, to be sick to death of it.

And the German Greens are filling up everybody’s snouts these days.

Germans Fed Up With Greens as Founding Member Resigns – The aggressive policies of the German Greens have alienated not only many voters in Germany but also their own supporters, including one of the founders of the party who has accused them of pursuing a warmongering foreign policy…

Annalena Baerbock, the young, inexperienced minister of foreign affairs, has promised to introduce a ‘feminist foreign policy,’ but she seems helpless in the face of the momentous challenges posed by the Russian-Ukraine war. The Greens have converted from a ‘pacifist’ party into the most belligerent party of all.

Breaking News: Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah are now right-wing white supremacists

March 25, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Academia, Bibel, Cancel Culture, Christianity, Churches, Critical Race Theory, CRT, German, Germans, Germany, Leftists, Mass Hysteria, Media, Old Testament, Prophets, Religion, Statues, Woke, Wokeness Leave a comment

And I’m not even going to get into the patriarchy part. Old Testament prophets go home!

You can’t make this stuff up, people.

‘We are dealing with fundamentalist rightwingers’: Berlin statues are latest battleground in Germany’s culture wars – Monuments erected on the Stadtschloss are an ‘infiltration’ of the city and its skyline by nationalists, say critics.

“It appears that we are dealing with a targeted infiltration of the Berlin palace by fundamentalist rightwingers who want to turn it into symbol of a Christian and thereby ‘white’ ethnic Germany.”

Almost 70% of Germans supportive of Hamas attack on Israel

March 23, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Gaza, Germans, Germany, Hamas, Israel Leave a comment

More than two-thirds (69%) of Germans consider Hamas’ terrorist attack on Israel to have been justified in view of the many civilian casualties, according to the results of a new survey published on Friday.

Or something like that. I forget the details.

Of 1,296 people polled for the ZDF broadcaster, 87% also said the West should exert more pressure on Israel to improve the supply of food and medicine to the population in the Gaza Strip. Only 7% did not agree with this statement.

Fallen behind?

March 21, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Home Cooking Tags: Germans, Germany, Happiness Leave a comment

Germany? In happiness?

I don’t understand. Isn’t falling behind in happiness the whole point of being German? So falling behind in the annual World Happiness ranking this year should make everybody here happy, right? I just don’t get it. Germans are einfach kompliziert (simply complicated).

Why Germany has fallen behind on happiness – Like the US, Germany has fallen behind in the annual World Happiness ranking. Especially young people don’t appear to be doing as well as they did before.

While Finland again tops the ranking in the annual “World Happiness Report, “Germany has fallen behind.

In Germany, people are not unhappier than in previous years, but people elsewhere have surpassed them. That puts Germany at 24th — and only 47th among people under the age of 30. A similar trend is seen in the United States, which overall ranks 23rd. That’s the first time the US has fallen out of the top 20 due to significant unhappiness among younger people.

Half of Germans support reintroducing military service

March 13, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hurt Feelings Tags: Army, Bundeswehr, Draft, Germans, Germany, Military, NATO, Russia, Service, Ukraine Leave a comment

For the other half.

And for some odd reason the younger Germans are much less enthusiastic about the idea than older Germans.

Around half of German citizens are in favour of reintroducing compulsory military service, according to a survey by opinion research institute Forsa.

In the poll commissioned by German news magazine Stern, 52% of respondents were in favour of compulsory military service, the magazine said on Tuesday.

Some 43% were against it and 5% expressed no opinion. According to the data, the strongest supporters of compulsory military service were found in the over-60 age group, with 59% in favour. In contrast, 59% of 18 to 29-year-olds were against compulsory military service.

When in doubt…

February 22, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Higher Education, Hysteria Tags: Business, Economy, Factories, Fear, German, Germans, Germany, Greens, Industry, Language, Negativity, Tesla Leave a comment

Just say no. When not in doubt, sowieso (anyhow).

“Expansion” is a scary word. It sounds too much like growth, increase, prosperity, success. We vote no! Because you can never know, unless it’s no.

Tesla in Germany: Locals vote against factory expansion plan – Residents of Grünheide near Berlin have voted against expansion plans for the large Tesla facility there. But the vote is not binding and local authorities can still decide. Turnout was high, though, indicating interest.

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”

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