GER politics thread

[Skybird]

The 56th, a cold war era artillery unit, has been reactivated and deployed in Mainz Kastel. It is planned to receive the Mach 5 to Mach 17 Dark Eagle missile.


Please note: "is planned".



No such missiles already are there, it seems. Not one word on it in any German media, too. Internaitonal media vary in ther wpording on whether the unit already has these weapons deployed, or awaits their deployment.


I am surprised that German press has nothing on it. And that the SPD and the Greens are silent, too.

[Skybird]

So now it starts: the new government has presented a supplementary budget with which it takes on new debts that should have benefited the Corona aid funds and programs - but are now being pushed into a parking position from which they can be redirected to this coalition's favorite topics : energy transition, transformation of society, mihgration, the whole unworldly blah blah.



Amount of this such embezzled national wealth: 60 billion euros. Until now.


If you deal with liars and criminals, lies and crimes are what you get. Nobody has an excuse to pretend he is surprised.

[Skybird]

Friedrich Merz becomes new chief of the CDU. Already in the first round of the member survey he got 60% of the votes.

[Catfish]

^ maybe, i still hope he will be gone soon, togther with his friend Koch.

Meanwhile (defense ministers):

[August]

Originally Posted by Catfish

^ maybe, i still hope he will be gone soon, togther with his friend Koch.

Meanwhile (defense ministers):

Looks like she's related to our Secretary of "Health".

[Rockstar]

Looks like it’s going to be a very cold and very expensive winter.


Russia Cuts Gas Supplies to Europe as Temperatures Drop.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/...es-drop-a75881

[Skybird]

^ Indeed, confirmed by Euronews as well.

https://de.euronews.com/2021/12/21/j...-gas-lieferung

Shows how bad relations have become. During the cold war, they never violated their contracts this way, but stuck to them even during crisis.

So this part of the cold war is dead.

Most of the gas in that pipeline just gets transfered through Germany, further West, and back to Poland.

[Rockstar]

Seems German regulators are for whatever reasons delaying the commissioning of the NS2 pipeline. This might be Russia’s response to force and end to those delays.

[mapuc]

How much should we put into this ?

The head of Poland's ruling party Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Friday that Germany was trying to turn the European Union into a federal 'German Fourth Reich'.

Speaking to the far-right Polish daily GPC, the head of the Law and Justice (known by its Polish acronym PiS) party said some countries 'are not enthusiastic at the prospect of a German Fourth Reich being built on the basis of the EU'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...rth-Reich.html

Markus

[Skybird]

Its the PiS.
'nuff said.

[August]

Germany's new government thinks it's subjects aren't paying enough for their food.

German Agriculture Minister Calls for Higher Food Prices


Germany's new agriculture minister, Cem Oezdemir, took to the country's biggest tabloid over the weekend to call for higher prices for food and agricultural goods, telling Bild am Sonntag that "junk prices" drive "farms into ruin, prevent more animal welfare, promote the extinction of species and pollute the climate."
While that push is in line with his Green party's standard repertoire, it comes at a time when inflation is at a three-decade high.

Compared with European Union peers Germans already paid more than the bloc's average, according to Eurostat data for 2020.

https://www.independent.ie/business/...-41194136.html

[Skybird]

An outlook on 2022, from German, in parts Western perspective. Alarming and not pleasant at all, but I see almost all points by the author the same way. Germany will continue to run under full steam against the wall that it has build for the mere purpose of crashing itself against it.


https://www-focus-de.translate.goog/...en&_x_tr_hl=de

The forseeable future will become expensive. Very. Not just for state budgets - but for the ordinary households. Lets see if the millions of idiots who voted for getting raped this way will still love it in one, two, three years. I woudl expect that if the fire reaches the bed they lie in, then at the latest they should start to yell and scream, or not...?!

[Rockstar]

I’m a bit confused. German leadership has been shutting down its Nuclear power plants, investing heavily in solar and wind. On top of that the it seems the new German administration has delayed NS2.

Now the E.U. leadership comes out and label nuclear, natural gas energy as 'green' investments.

Has Germany shot itself in the foot, what’s going on?

[Catfish]

^ if you want to achieve the impossible, a bit of twisting the facts and frame definitions may help you

Shutting down nuclear and coal plants while at the same time needing more energy than ever for electric cars and the like will not get us far.. so the idea was to just import "dirty" energy from e.g. France, which has been instantly called out as a backdoor lie violating the promises the greens have made.
Next idea was to declare nuclear energy as "clean", but it was instantly called out as BS as well.

Yesterday there was a presentation about the goals to achieve zero CO2 levels around 2030, at the same time showing graphs and background info that it will be impossible. The greens have some good ideas, but.. "Klappen muss es" (Das Boot quote ), and it won't.
They have now agreed to think it all over and at least make the best possible effort until better ideas are being found.
To be true this is indeed one of the greatest challenges and whatever is being invented, it will not be easy and maybe not possible while keeping up the standard of living as we are used to.

Now that they are part of the government the awakening to harsh reality and the pressure to deliver must have been a hard landing

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Has Germany shot itself in the foot, what’s going on?

Yes. And all Germans. Saying this since long.

Else, what Catfish said. Ideology and irresponsibility crashes on the ground of reality and government participation now. Possisble that amny private households and small-scaler landlords of small apartments who let these by numbers of just one or two, will face either fincial ruin, or are forced to sell them. Which means more flats get accumulated in ever fewer hands. The EU wants all 230 million house sin eurooe being turne dinto moonbase-style fully isolated and environment-sealed bunker buildings, with no air exhange, rotting isoaltion, and big money spend for chemcial industries and producers of isolation materials. The air inside buildingd will get bad this way, since ther eis no air exchnage with the envrionment, the materials will rot, and sooner rather than later need to be disposed of.

France will win tremendously in influence. And no, they will not stop nuclear energy. Not at any costs.

Nowher are the taxes as high as here. Nowhere int he west does electriocty cvost as mucz as here. Nowhere in the West does house building cost as much a shere. Nowhere than here is house building such an overregulated, bureacratically haunted effort, than here.

There is a need for investors investing into gas powerplants. But they would be stupid to do so. There is need to build flats and housing, of socially affordable costs for renters. It becomes more and more unattractive, complicated, overregulated, and unprofitable to buid socially affordable housing. Ther eis grpowing dpeendency on power imports from our neioghbours - wh often run coal (Poland) and nuclear (France) energy. GHermany does expret power,t hey proudly say. At times, it does. But over the year, counting not just widny sunny days but the dark seasons of the year as well and the nigh times, Germany imports more power than it exports. Offical statistics try to hide it, but these are lies. And in our house where I live, me and the other owners have calculated already that at current legal status the demanded "investments" in the low 100 thousands (!) would pay of not before 25 years at thge earliest, and only if the state subsidies do nto get cut, and only if the schemes do not get tightened, and only if no further demands by the state get raise din the coming 25 years. Unrealistic.

And they want to make it all ever ore complicated and costly. Intentionally! Add to this the stupid CO2 cetitfctae scheme, and other nonsense. Too costly. Too overrgulated. Too ideolgicically drioven. Too irrelevant for adapting to life in as much wanted world.

Thats what it must be about: adaptation. instead they want to - metaphorically - build a time machine and move time back by a hundred years or so.

Sie werden krachend scheitern. neither the laws of nature and physics nor the laws of economics ever bend to human hybris. And when all time and ressources have been wasted, and need gets seen to adapt - then there will be no more time and ressources left for actually adapting. Evolution is about adaptation, not reversing.

The world will get much warmer, we are beyond the point of no return, the internal dynamcis of thse physics cannot be stopped, not to mention: reversed. And the process will accelerate, not slow down by stopping cows to fart.

In the end the Greens are as dumb and shortsighted and bigoted as the other parties. What they want, cannot socially and economically be maintained.

Thse costs add to the immense costs for Germany due to the EU, and evehjn more due to the ECB, the Euro, and the Target-2 saldo problem.


All these measurements will drive inflation. And the state'S effort to be of help and raise loans and duistriubute money, will pusz inflation further. German inflation is fofically 5.3% now, the real inflation is much higher. The mass anihilation of private wealth has begun. It will make its effect felt brutally.