The Climate Crisis strikes again

This time it’s ice floes on the Elbe. In the winter!

Bizarre natural spectacle: icebergs on the Elbe River – Just outside Hamburg, meter-high icebergs pile up near Geesthacht. A fleet of icebreakers stationed there battles a massive ice barrier at the weir, breaking up the ice cover into smaller icebergs.

15,000 German military personnel set to arrive in Greenland

No, wait a minute. That’s going to be more like 1,500.

Sorry. We’re going to have to settle with 15 (fifteen).

But that’s still way more than the Dirty Dozen.

German military personnel set to arrive in Greenland – Germany said that the European mission in Greenland was there to counter “threats” from Russia and China. The German team is among the groups of European military personnel who are scheduled to arrive in Greenland.

German of the day: Sich auflösen

That means to disintegrate.

Klingbeil: Transatlantic relations are currently disintegrating – Federal Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Klingbeil has described relations with the US as severely damaged.

At an event held by the German Institute for Economic Research, the SPD leader said that transatlantic relations as we know them are currently disintegrating. Klingbeil referred to the US military intervention against Venezuela, the conflict over Greenland, and the US government’s new national security strategy. The Trump administration is making it clear that it wants to dominate the Western Hemisphere and is increasingly turning away from Europe politically and culturally, Klingbeil said.

Why are you smiling like that?

Why do you look the way you do!?

German man picks apart the American habit of smiling at strangers in the most German way…

Mothers of Invention, “Weasels Ripped My Flesh,” “Didja Get Any Onya?” Minute 2:00: “Years ago in Germany, when I was a very small boy, there was a lot of people standing around on the corner asking questions like why are you standing on the corner, acting the way you act, looking like you look? Why do you look that way!?”

German of the day: “Faktisch am Ende”

That means effectively finished.

Iran’s regime is finished, says Merz – “I assume that we are now witnessing the final days and weeks of this regime,” German chancellor says as Iranian protests sweep the country.

“If a regime can only stay in power through violence, then it is effectively finished. I assume that we are now witnessing the final days and weeks of this regime.”