Yes, I actually used that awful pun.
I don’t care. Ich stehe dazu (I stand by it).
Germany news: Minister sounds alarm on food security – Germany’s farming minister says the country needs to be more prepared for future food emergencies.
Germany’s Agriculture Minister Alois Rainer says farms and food producers must be included in future Bundeswehr emergency exercises, calling them “critical infrastructure.”
He warned that if agriculture failed, “our food supply would collapse.”
No way.
It can’t happen here. Again.
Suspected arson triggers Berlin blackout, 40,000 homes and businesses without electricity – A fire on two high-voltage pylons in southeastern Berlin triggered a major power outage Tuesday morning, leaving more than 40,000 households without electricity in what authorities suspect was an arson attack.
The suspected arson recalls previous attacks linked to the left-wing extremist group “Vulkangruppe,” which has claimed responsibility for targeting infrastructure in Berlin since 2011.
Because starting around 2015, the money had to be used for other things.
‘Rust in peace’: why are Germany’s bridges and schools falling apart?
Problems caused by underinvestment are being seized on by the far right as evidence of ‘state failure.’
Being that everything in Germany is already busted, I’ll go with boom.
Could German infrastructure be the next hot investment?
Germany’s newly minted government is looking to the private sector to help save the country’s ailing infrastructure.
Economy minister Katherina Reiche called for a cash injection earlier this month:
“We need speed and investments, and we need private capital,” she told CNBC. “Of all the investments we will do, 10% of them could be done with public money, we need 90% of private sector investments.”
That means to go bat shit crazy further into debt. Unnecessarily.
German taxpayers “contribute” a billion euros a year now. German politicians burn most of it. They have all the money they need. They just refuse to cut spending à la DOGE. This is a “conservative” planning to do this, mind you.
German parties agree on historic debt overhaul to revamp military and economy – The parties hoping to form Germany’s next government on Tuesday agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund and overhaul borrowing rules in a tectonic spending shift to revamp the military and revive growth in Europe’s largest economy.
Friedrich Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD), who are in negotiations to form a coalition after a national election last month, will put their proposals to the German parliament next week.
That means blasting, the blasting or demolition of.
Another section of the Carola Bridge in Dresden collapsed during demolition work on Friday night.
It is the section of the bridge near the riverbank that had already collapsed into the Elbe on Wednesday night, according to a police spokesperson in the morning. Streetcar tracks and a cycle and footpath run over the so-called bridge span. It had collapsed over a length of around 100 meters. Two other bridge sections (A and B), including lanes for cars, are still standing.
In Germany?
Montezuma’s Revenge it is not. More like Moscow’s Revenge, I’d say.
Drinking water contaminated? Suspected sabotage again at Bundeswehr base – Once again there is suspicion of sabotage at a Bundeswehr base. This time, a fence at a drinking water tank in Mechernich, North Rhine-Westphalia, has been cut. The public health department warns against using the water.
Time to go on the defensive, again.
Germany blames China for ‘serious’ cyber attack – Berlin says Beijing behind 2021 hack on precision mapping agency…
The BKG, itself a part of the interior ministry, collects precision data about “the properties and position of every point on the surface of [the] country,” according to its website.
Its data systems are linked to many pieces of critical national infrastructure. After the attack was discovered, German security authorities worked to purge the BKG’s systems of Chinese intruders. The agency says it now believes its databases to be completely secure…
The accusations against Beijing come just weeks after the German government agreed a plan with telecommunications companies to strip Chinese technology from the country’s 5G networks over security concerns.
It doesn’t stink anymore either these days, for some reason.
Germany finishes construction of its first LNG import terminal – Completion of project in just 200 days eases fears of gas shortage amid cut in Russian supplies.
Liquefied gas is to secure the energy supply in the coming years. The first plant has already been completed in Wilhelmshaven, but terminals are also likely to follow at other locations.
It’s not like the Russians would ever interfere in Germany’s internal affairs or anything.
Germany’s cybersecurity chief faces dismissal, reports say – German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser wants to dismiss the country’s cybersecurity chief due to possible contacts with people involved with Russian security services, German media reported late on Sunday, citing government sources.
Arne Schoenbohm, president of the BSI federal information security agency, could have had such contacts through the Cyber Security Council of Germany, various outlets reported.
Schoenbohm was a founder of the association, which counts as a member a German company that is a subsidiary of a Russian cybersecurity firm founded by a former KGB employee, they wrote…
War is now waged not only on the battlefield, but also on the Internet. Hackers are the soldiers of the modern age. And Russia is one of the most active players in cyberspace: Putin’s state apparatus disinforms with media loyal to the state, clogs up comment columns on social networks with the help of so-called troll factories, or blows the whistle on direct digital attacks on other states.
Observing Hermann 