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Nothing New And Nothing Improved
That tired old SPD. With three tired old SPD guys trying to decide which one of them will have to be the one tired old SPD guy who will have to be the contender in next year’s election against the...
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Where’s The Enlightenment When You Need It?
This is German regulation madness at its best. Or, to be fair, Berliner Green Shirt regulation madness at its best. The city district council of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (the Greens) is currently...
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“German System” Suffering From Irregularity
But only in other countries where “German system” weapons are being exported to, of course. “How do these weapons end up in places they should not be?” a distressed Deutsche Welle asks with concerned...
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Black Workers Are Everywhere These Days
No, not Afro-American workers. You know, Schwarzarbeiter (illegal workers). And they’re everywhere all over Europe these days, although Germany is the champion here again too, as usual. Eight million...
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Time To Say Goodbye
To “clean power rebates” for German industry, that is. Germany collects surcharges from power users to help fund operators of solar and wind power installations. Heavy electricity users such as cement,...
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UN Called In To Protect German Cultural Treasure That Gets You Drunk As Shit
The Reinheitsgebot may be “intangible” here, but the beer behind it sure isn’t. German beer brewers have applied to Unesco for their Reinheitsgebot law to join a list of “intangible heritage” that...
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Uber And Out
It’s new, it promotes competition, it has something to do with the Internetz and it’s American. It just has to be verboten. The ride-hailing service Uber is about to have a head-on collision with...
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It’s Not Easy Being Optimist-In-Chief
When it comes to dealing with Europe, I mean. Optimism is suspekt (makes suspicious) here. There is always an angle to everything, you see. For him (Larry Page), the real danger is opposing...
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Paternoster Suddenly Too Dangerous For Human Use
Says the SPD. Even though they’ve been in use for decades here. More nanny state nonsense from Nanny Nahles. “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
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Redistribution Is Da Solution (Again)
The next step backwards: Berlin has a new law prohibiting landlords from demanding rents that are more than 10 percent higher than the area average, in an attempt to keep housing affordable in a city...
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Europe Must Think Hard About Automobile Control
“At some point we as a politico-economic union will have to reckon with the fact that this type of violence doesn’t happen in other advanced politico-economic unions or countries,” one leading...
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Free Choice, More Convenience, Lower Prices?
Not in our city, buddy. I mean Airbnb buddy. Not if we from the we’re-from-the-government-and-we’re-here-to-help faction can do anything about it. We like things regulated here in Berlin. You know, we...
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EU Demands 20% Steaming Crap Quota
Sorry. I meant streaming crap quota, of course. You know, when it comes to what Netflix and Amazon Prime is allowed to offer its customers here in Europe? That’s right. The European Commission is...
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Germans Can’t Live Without Facebook
Or at least that’s the impression I get. Otherwise, if they were so terribly worried about what Facebook does with their data, they would simply stop using it. It’s still a “free” service, right? But,...
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Whatever Is Not Expressly Allowed
Is verboten. In Germany. If you’re Facebook, Google, Amazon, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter and Co., that is. Recognize a pattern here? They’re all American companies and they’re all “free” to use. The...
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More State Control Of Media In Germany?
Like, than they already have? What could possibly go wrong? OK, it didn’t quite work out as planned back in the 1930s (or did it?), but today’s enlightened media experts are much more, you know,...
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German Of The Day: Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung
That’s a beauty, isn’t it? Some prefer using the word Tempolimit instead. To save time. Both mean “speed limit,” however. And no, it can’t happen here. A measure to introduce a 130 km/h (roughly 81...
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Ever Had A Windmill Shoved Down Your Throat?
How about thousands of them? And then you’re allowed to subsidize them all? You’d hat them too. Germany’s Giant Windmills Are Wildly Unpopular – Local politics are a bigger problem for renewable energy...
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German Of The Day: Späti
That means the late-night stores of Berlin. And we should have smelled this rat coming long ago. How could these popular local convenience stores be allowed to continue running without being...
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The Rents Won’t Be the Only Things That Will Freeze
Building will come to a complete standstill in Berlin too. But Berlin’s red-redder-green politicians (SPD, the Left Party, the Greens) don’t know anything about building (look at the state the city of...
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