Why should your welfare state be any different than the others?

August 25, 2025 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking Tags: Debt, Germany, Governemnt, Industry, Socialism, Spending, Welfare Leave a comment

They all run out of other people’s money eventually.

German welfare state ‘can no longer be financed’ — Merz. The German chancellor has called for a welfare reform, putting him on course for a possible clash with the SPD.

“The welfare state that we have today can no longer be financed with what we produce in the economy,” Merz said in the town of Osnabrück.

The coalition partners had already agreed to reforming the social insurance system, which covers health insurance, pensions and unemployment benefits, due to rising costs and gaps in the federal budget.

The chancellor acknowledged that making cuts to social welfare would not be easy for the center-left SPD, but called for the two parties to work together.

The best time to cross the Elbe was in November…

August 11, 2025 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hideology, History, Home Cooking Tags: Berlin Wall, Borders, Cold War, Communism, Germany, Green, Iron Curtain, Nature, Socialism Leave a comment

When fog obscured the visibility along the river.

Refugees had to endure freezing temperatures, scaling barbed-wire fences and hiding from soldiers on patrol. Getting caught meant a one-way ticket to one of East Germany’s special prisons — if you were not shot…

How Germany’s “death Strip” Became A Sustainable Lifeline.

How did they gather all that information without everybody carrying handheld surveillance monitors?

August 3, 2025 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, History, Home Cooking Tags: Communism, Espianage, Germany, Secret Police, Socialism, Spies, Spying, Stasi, Surveillance Leave a comment

You know, like we do now?

Very impressive.

Stasi: How the GDR kept its citizens under surveillance – Do all intelligence agents live like James Bond? Not those who worked for East Germany’s Ministry for State Security (Stasi). A new book reveals the mundane lives of the agents.

“Comrades, we must know everything!”

“Free money”

April 15, 2025 By Hermann Observer in Helplessness, Hideology, Home Cooking, Hypocrisy Tags: Communism, Employment, Experiments, Government, Income, Jobs, Redistribution, Socialism, Taxation, Theft, Waste Leave a comment

Brilliant. This is better than free lunch!

Why didn’t anyone ever think of this before?

Free money for all: Germany’s basic income experiment – One of the world’s most extensive studies on unconditional basic income was held in Germany. What does the experiment reveal?

… It is seen as a redistribution of wealth through taxes. In the activists’ calculation, Germany’s top earners — 10% of the population — would end up contributing a part of their income to everyone else. They estimate that 83% of the population would thereby have access to more money. The remaining 7% mid-earners would be unaffected by the redistribution scheme.

In times of rising populism, the basic income activists believe that this is a way to combat the population’s dissatisfaction due to wealth inequality.

“What on earth is happening with European leadership?”

December 20, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Heconomy, Helplessness, Hideology, Hurt Feelings Tags: Elections, EU, Europe, France, Germany, Leadership, Socialism Leave a comment

What a silly question.

“European leadership?” There is no such thing. It’s just that now and then little reminders like this pop up in the news. Europe doesn’t lead. Europe doesn’t produce. It redistributes. It redistributes until there is nothing less to distribute.

First France, Now Germany: What Is Going On in Europe?

Germany’s government collapse and imminent snap elections mark the latest crisis amid an ‘uneven’ state of European leadership, an expert says.

German of the day: Zwangsarbeit

October 31, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hideology, History, Hurt Feelings Tags: Communism, Forced Labor, GDR, German, Germany, Ikea, Language, Socialism Leave a comment

That means forced labor.

IKEA’s motto: “Everything is possible if you think in opportunities.”

IKEA to compensate East German prisoners for forced labor – The German branch of IKEA has pledged millions to compensate victims of the former Communist East German regime, who were forced to make furniture components in the GDR.

German of the day: Erics Lampenladen

July 29, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Hideology, History, Home Cooking Tags: Architecture, Berlin, Communism, Exhibitions, GDR, German, Germany, Language, Socialism Leave a comment

The means Eric’s Lamp Shop (Eric Honecker’s Lamp Shop).

Das waren Zeiten. That means those were the days.

A demolished communist palace and other rubble: How Berlin is managing its GDR buildings and monuments – An exhibition commemorates the demolition of the former parliament building in the German capital in 2008, an example of the persistent erasure of traces of socialism in the city.

“We must finally start deporting people on a grand scale”

January 22, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology, Hypocrisy Tags: AfD, Asylum Seekers, Borders, Deportation, Germany, Immigration, Media, Migrants, MSM, Olaf Scholz, Political Parties, Socialism, SPD, State TV Leave a comment

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) said this months ago. He has always been ahead of his time, I guess.

That’s why the current fabricated frenzy about the AfD party allegedly planning the same thing doesn’t make much sense. But Scholz is a social democratic (socialist) goody-two-shoes kinda guy so the mass deportation he is demanding must be a nicer and more “social” kind. If he says “we have to deport people more often and faster,” nobody cares. That it’s all talk and no walk and none of these deportations will ever take place in Germany is another story altogether.

Funny what a few months and the continued success of of the AfD at the polls can make. But nothing has been orchestrated here, folks. Just move along please.

“Wir müssen endlich im großen Stil abschieben.”

The BSW Party

January 14, 2024 By Hermann Observer in Hard Facts, Helections, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Elections, Germany, Left Party, Leftists, Political Parties, Sahra Wagenknecht, Socialism, Socialists Leave a comment

With an emphasis on the BS.

Leftist remarketing tricks still work (socialist BS is the gift that keeps on giving).

The new and improved “Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance – Reason and Justice” (BSW) party, here to “save democracy,” is polling at “up to” 14% of the vote in Germany. This means, of course, it might get 4% of the vote in an actual election, which isn’t enough to be elected, but still.

New German leftist party could take up to 14% of vote, poll shows – A leftist politician who quit Germany’s Left party and this week set up her own could win as much as 14% of the vote in national elections, dealing heavy blows to both conservatives and the far right, a new poll has found.

Pre-Game Show

May 1, 2023 By Hermann Observer in Habitudes, Hard Facts, Helplessness, Hideology Tags: Berlin, Communism, Demonstrations, Germany, Marxism, Marxists, May 1, May Day, May Day Riots, Socialism, Tradition, Violence Leave a comment

It only makes sense to warm up with a little senseless violence before the real, official senseless violence begins.

May demonstration in Berlin: police report riots. “Bottles and pyros” thrown – At least one stone was thrown at police during a demonstration in Berlin on the eve of May 1 with around 3,300 participants. One woman was arrested.

On the night of May 1, demonstrators attacked police officers in Berlin-Kreuzberg. During a left-wing queer-feminist demonstration on Sunday evening, participants threw bottles and firecrackers at the police.

Observing Hermann

“Was interessiert mich mein Geschwätz von gestern?”

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