The Situation In Germany

[Mari]

More protests: the incident with the NS1&2 took place just one day after thousands of German protesters took to the streets and demanded the opening of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Thousands take to streets in north Germany demanding launch of Nord Stream 2

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the eastern German seaside town of Lubmin on Sunday, urging officials to put into service the halted Nord Stream 2 pipeline project that was designed to transport fuel from Russia to Germany.

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Thousands take to streets in north Germany demanding launch of Nord Stream 2​

Monday, 26 September 2022 7:22 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 26 September 2022 7:46 AM ]

A demonstration in Lubmin, northern Germany, on September 25, 2022, demanding the launch of shuttered Nord Stream 2 gas piepline.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the northeastern German seaside town of Lubmin on Sunday, urging officials to put into service the halted Nord Stream 2 pipeline project that was designed to transport fuel from Russia to Germany.

Germany had stalled the launch of the ambitious energy project for months before putting it on the back burner in the wake of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, which is now in its eighth month.

The gas pipeline made landfall in the German port city of Lubmin in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

With the cold winter approaching, the demonstrators demanded Lubmin officials turn the taps on the Nord Steam 2 natural gas link to Russia.

“So that our homeland has a future, finally open Nord Stream 2,” demonstrators chanted at the protest rally, as reported by German media.

In related news, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz signed a new energy deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday to compensate for significant cuts in Russian supplies.

Scholz told reporters in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi, that the German government was determined to avoid energy dependence on Russia, and to achieve this Berlin had drafted plans for "a whole series of projects here in terms of the production and purchase of diesel and gas."

"The fact that we are dependent on one supplier and also dependent on its decisions will certainly not happen to us again," he said.

In the meantime, Der Spiegel reported that the European country was currently facing dire conditions not seen for decades.

Germans face diminishing prosperity, a shrinking middle class, and growing inequality, according to the report in the magazine.

The country's recent economic crises have been exacerbated by soaring inflation, skyrocketing energy prices, and a slow economy that got worse after Russia began its military operation in Ukraine on February 24.

“The losses in prosperity will be permanent. Germany, according to the forecasts, is in decline,” Berlin-based economist Michael Fratzscher was quoted as saying in the report.

Fratzscher warned that the German economy will slide into recession this winter with a tenfold increase in the exchange electricity price, numerous corporate bankruptcies, and a permanently damaged economy.

Video here Lubmin: Demonstranten fordern Öffnung von Nord Stream 2

Also here

Live from Lubmin on Sunday, September 25, as people take to the streets to protest against current energy policies, skyrocketing prices, and inflation. Protesters demand the immediate opening of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The Nord Stream 2 project, a second pipeline pumping gas from Russia to Germany, was unilaterally suspended by Berlin in February following the conflict in Ukraine. Nord Stream 1 is currently closed after Gazprom said it had found an oil leak following issues with the turbines. Germany and the EU have accused Moscow of energy 'blackmail', while the Kremlin says Western sanctions are to blame for hampering routine maintenance work. Source - Ruptly

And now, NS1-2 is no more...

 

[Pierre]

How long will Germany be the lackey of the USA ?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1575581871164952576

 

[Claus]

Wow, it is realy good, that that was not cenzored. I never thought that Bild will bring souch things.

 

[XPan]

Humor from Crazy Germany

"From now on, preserving jam is forbidden
because of "cultural appropriation"
... take this bitterly seriously!




German Polit®ix

The Gauls are crazy!

• Knows nothing (Chancellor Scholz)
• Money nothing
• Gas nothing (Habeck, Vice Chancellor of Germany, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action)
• Can nothing (Germany's health minister, no real doctor nor scientist, vax propagandist of the worst kind)





The Universe speaks:

"I had to make you uncomfortable or you would never have moved"





Oh pleeeeze, get me outta here from these crazy german Polit®ix
(it must be one of The Absolutely Worst, most ridiculous statements ever made)

Katrin Göring-Eckhardt:

Hate on the net is omnipresent.
With increasing extreme temperatures it increases even more,
as scientists of the @PIK_Klima have now discovered.

Fighting the #climatecrisis, also helps in the fight against #HateSpeech!





The following jokes
play on Minister Habeck's recent statement, that stopping production and stop selling products, is not the same as going insolvent.

Dear public City works,
I am not insolvent,
I just stop paying the bills.






"Your grandmother is not dead,
she has just simply stopped breathing for the time being"
- Habeck calms mourners at funeral

 

[Nachtweide]

Patriarch Cyril I calls for prayers for Putin
Patriarch Kyrill I. ruft zu Gebeten für Putin auf – kath.ch

An extraordinary speech on the accession of the new territories in German. What an inspiring spirit dwells in Putin - God bless him.
Komplette Rede in Deutsch- Putin unterzeichnet Abkommen über Beitritt neuer Gebiete Russlands

 

[Nachtweide]

Speech by Lukaschenko - with German subtitles. Worth listening.
"Frieden in der Ukraine ist in wenigen Tagen erreichbar" – Alexander Lukaschenko zu ausländischen Diplomaten

 

[Nachtweide]

Putin's appearance at concert in Moscow after accession of new territories to Russia
Putin speech from 0:34
German translation from 0:36

Auftritt von Putin bei Konzert in Moskau nach Beitritt neuer Gebiete zu Russland

 

[Pierre]

To be checked by natives:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1577618652609843200

 

[Claus]

To be checked by natives:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1577618652609843200

"Am Anfang haben wir eine riesige Solidarität mit Flüchtlingen aus der Ukraine beobachtet. Jetzt ist das weniger geworden — die Leute haben das Gefühl, dass sie wegen des Flüchtlingszustroms weniger Essen bekommen"

Translated:

"In the beginning we saw huge solidarity with refugees from Ukraine. Now it has become less - people feel that they get less food because of the influx of refugees."

 

[sToRmR1dR]

To be checked by natives:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1577618652609843200

EU public support for Ukraine drops – poll

Despite a slight drop in support for Ukraine among the EU public, measures to help Kiev “remain popular,” a poll by Eupinions has revealed

www.rt.com

5 Oct, 2022

'Until money falling us apart.'

Berlin denounces Washington’s ‘astronomical’ profiteering

Germany’s economy minister has called on Washington to lower the “astronomical” prices for the natural gas it supplies to the EU

www.rt.com

5 Oct, 2022

 

[Mari]

To be checked by natives:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1577618652609843200

Energietalk bei Anne Will – Mitgründerin der ersten Tafel in Deutschland

Sabine Werth ist skeptisch. Bei Anne Will berichtet sie über die Angst der Tafel-Gäste, finanziell nicht über den Winter zu kommen.

www.rtl.de

(machine translation)

Energy talk with Anne Will - with co-founder of the first food bank in Germany


Sabine Werth, with Anne Will 2022-10-02, Germany, Berlin.

by Marko Schlichting

The co-founder of the first food bank (Tafel - eng. table) in Germany, Sabine Werth, is skeptical. In the ARD talk show Anne Will, she reports on the fear of many guests at the food bank that they will not be able to get through the winter financially, despite the promised brake on energy prices.

Sabine Werth founded the group "Berliner Frauen e.V."

In 1993, Sabine Werth and her initiative group "Berliner Frauen e.V." the first food bank in Germany. There are now 960 panels nationwide with around 2,000 distribution points. It was clear to the founders: they cannot fight poverty in Germany. But they can help alleviate them. That is why they support people who have little money with food. But the Tafel suffer from two problems: in the last nine months, the number of people seeking help has doubled, and at the same time there are fewer and fewer food donations.

The energy crisis scares the people who depend on the blackboard

Many people who have to use the boards are desperate. More and more guests are coming who never expected to have to ask for their help, says Werth. She is a guest on the ARD talk show "Anne Will" on Sunday evening. There the guests will once again talk about the current energy crisis and whether the electricity and gas price brake announced by Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday will actually reach consumers. Many of Sabine Werth's guests and her volunteers "don't know what's to come," she says. More and more people need her help because they don't earn enough and now have to save to get through the winter. These are often small business owners who have had to close. "People don't know how they're going to manage that in the next few months. There will be a lot of fear," predicts Werth.

When is housing benefit paid out?

As for the "double boom" announced by Chancellor Scholz last Thursday, she says: "There are certain people who can develop hope when certain promises are made. But there are certainly many who would rather wait and see." The housing benefit, for example, which is to be expanded on January 1st, is problematic. About 1.4 million new housing benefit recipients could be added. But it is unclear where the staff who will process the relevant applications should come from. Werth wonders when the housing benefit will be paid out.

"The resentment is getting bigger"

But Sabine Werth sees another problem. She observes that her guests' solidarity with the refugees from Ukraine is waning. "People have the feeling that they would get more food if the refugees weren't there. The resentment is growing," says Werth. She criticizes the first relief packages: they were not targeted enough. "We have to put together targeted packages, and that's a big challenge for politicians," she demands

SPD General Secretary Kühnert sees it the same way. At the moment, however, he is concerned with implementing the current measures as soon as possible. "You will be felt by the population very quickly," he promises.

 

[Gawan]

'Until money falling us apart.'

Berlin denounces Washington’s ‘astronomical’ profiteering

Germany’s economy minister has called on Washington to lower the “astronomical” prices for the natural gas it supplies to the EU

www.rt.com

5 Oct, 2022

I'm not holding my breath if any European leader in power will ever see, that they got duped since a long time. Maybe it is like Stockholm syndrome.

Energietalk bei Anne Will – Mitgründerin der ersten Tafel in Deutschland

Sabine Werth ist skeptisch. Bei Anne Will berichtet sie über die Angst der Tafel-Gäste, finanziell nicht über den Winter zu kommen.

www.rtl.de

Unfortunately, it will only get worse, since many people who receive social benefits are already at their limit. Many needed already to do additional payments for their energy bills, since the prices did rise.

 

[Tauriel]

Doom is coming for the people in Germany like a freight train and still most are asleep.
Our hospital is overwhelmed by more and more suicidal people from all walks of life and more and more homeless people checking into psychiatry for food and to avoid the cold.
It's the saddest thing to see. Popcorn tastes stale these days.

 

[Nachtweide]

@Tauriel I can only agree with you there. The feeling of living in a bubble and madness knocking against the front door every second. I've learned to distance myself from the crowd and opinion to 95%. A working day of 12 hours today means 100% misery, illness, fear, repetition of manipulated news etc. Many today already can not pay the bills, have chronic colds, permanent diarrhea and latent cough. Old people are depressed, see no more sense in life and sit in cold apartments. It will come true just as I said a long time ago: A full belly does not stand up in Germany. People must suffer, they must freeze and has hungry - only then will they realize the meaning of their existence. The egoism and personal advantage of the people will make them turn around their own axis very quickly in their entrenched views. Like flags in the wind. Ukraine has very bad cards if the personal well-being suffers losses. The Germans have changed fronts faster than one can suspect.

 

[XPan]

Attack of the Green Party
with possible wealth levy tax on the German People

Ukraine war "suitable cause" for one-off wealth levy

The climate and energy crises are causing more and more costs and driving low-income earners into financial distress. At the request of the Greens, the Bundestag's Scientific Service has now examined whether the state could levy a wealth tax to finance this. The result: in principle, yes.

The financial consequences of the climate crisis or the Russian attack on Ukraine are, according to the Bundestag's Scientific Service, a possible reason for levying a wealth tax. This is the result of an expert opinion commissioned by Bundestag Vice-President Katrin Göring-Eckardt (Greens).