Berlin Moves To Ban Autos From Inside The City. Widespread Chaos Looms

Just 12 car trips person per year would be allowed! The Berlin Constitutional Court has declared the “Berlin car-free” referendum admissible, paving the way for a possible drastic reduction in car traffic. Hat-tip: Blackout News Cars may soon be banned in Berlin. Image generated by Grok 3 AI  The court found that the aim of…

Berlin Moves To Ban Autos From Inside The City. Widespread Chaos Looms

German Police Conduct Nationwide Crackdown on Citizens Accused of Online Speech Crimes

This month, the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) conducted a nationwide search for citizens accused of committing speech crimes.  The annual crackdown is part of Germany’s robust censorship and speech criminalization policies. As European Union censors seek to expand the reach of laws like the Digital Services Act (DSA), all Americans need see the […]

German Police Conduct Nationwide Crackdown on Citizens Accused of Online Speech Crimes

Germany’s Renewable Energy Overcapacity Is Pushing The Power Grid To The Limit

By Frank Bosse at Klimanachrichten (Translated, edited by P. Gosselin) “Too much electricity is also a danger.” With that headline, Germany’s “n-tv” surprised its readers on Pentecost Sunday. Attentive readers of “Klimanachrichten” already knew this beforehand: The past holiday weekend was a stress test for our electricity grid: The sun is very high, provides a…

Germany’s Renewable Energy Overcapacity Is Pushing The Power Grid To The Limit

Banning the AFD would make them stronger

Matt Goodwin writes: There’s a national election. The mainstream parties do badly. They are challenged by an insurgent party that seems more in touch with the country.  The mainstream parties then form a coalition, with no plan other than to keep themselves in power and the insurgent party out of power.  Then, the intelligence services in that […]

Banning the AFD would make them stronger

Democracy in danger

Germany’s domestic intelligence agency on Friday designated the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, as an “extremist endeavor,” a move that lowers hurdles for the spy agency in conducting certain kinds of surveillance on the party, the second-largest in Germany’s parliament. In a statement, the intelligence agency said the designation was “due to the […]

Democracy in danger

German Editor Sentenced and Fined for Satirical Picture of Interior Minister

We previously discussed the case of  Deutschland-Kurier editor David Bendels who published a satirical meme of Interior Minister Nancy Faeser holding an altered sign that read “I hate freedom of speech.” Ironically, the sign was believable given the anti-free speech positions of Faeser and the German government. Faeser, however, went ballistic. In a country that routinely arrests […]

German Editor Sentenced and Fined for Satirical Picture of Interior Minister

Germany’s First Offshore Wind Farm To Be Dismantled After Just 15 Years Of Operation

The Alpha Ventus offshore wind farm near German North Sea island of Borkum is set to be dismantled after being in operation for only 15 years.

It has become too unprofitable to operate without massive subsidies.

Germany’s First Offshore Wind Farm To Be Dismantled After Just 15 Years Of Operation

New German Law Mandates Energy Consumption Cuts

By Paul Homewood    We have just escaped the Climate and Nature Bill by the skin of the teeth, but it seems the Germans have not been so lucky. Benny Peiser sent me an essay (translated) by Robert von Loewenstern, which tells about a new law, the “Energy Efficiency Act”, which was passed in 2023. […]

New German Law Mandates Energy Consumption Cuts

Was Germany Really Starved Into Surrender in WW1? (Documentary)

2024 Registrations Of New Electric Cars Plummet 27.5% In Germany…”Petrol Dominates”

How’s the Green New Deal working out in Germany? Not very well at all. Firstly, Germany has been in recession for almost 2 years now – thanks mostly to the policies of Economics Minster Robert Habeck (Green Party), who incidentally has no education in economics, business or finance. The guy just doesn’t know what he’s…

2024 Registrations Of New Electric Cars Plummet 27.5% In Germany…”Petrol Dominates”

Germany Already Rationing Energy…”Avoid Using Electric Appliances Until After 11 A.M.!

Recall that Germany’s green energy masterminds decided that it would be best to decommission the country’s fleet on nuclear power plants, and to produce weather-dependent power with wind farms operating in the north of country, and then supply it to southern Germany via power transmission lines. There’s on problem with the masterplan from the green masterminds: the wind doesn’t blow all the time and so shortages result and rationing becomes necessary!

Germany Already Rationing Energy…”Avoid Using Electric Appliances Until After 11 A.M.!

As Germany’s Energy Crisis Heightens, Two Brief Windless Periods Pushes Grid To The Limit!

It is also often forgotten that wind turbines consume electricity when they are stationary or switched off. This is because all technical components (oil pumps, fans, control systems, etc.) must remain in operation even when they are still. Vestas specifies an electricity consumption of 55,000 kWh per year for a 4.2 MW turbine at standstill. During production times, the turbine supplies itself with electricity. But it is virtually idle 120 days a year.

As Germany’s Energy Crisis Heightens, Two Brief Windless Periods Pushes Grid To The Limit!

German Death Wish On Display

Tilak Doshi describes the self-inflicted German downfall in his Daily Sceptic article Germany’s Economic and Political Suicide. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. It’s that festive time of the year when interesting tales get told around a fireplace. So here goes (minus the fireplace). Once upon a time there lived a country […]

German Death Wish On Display

Please Santa, Just One More Present

I must have been extra good this year because my prezzie list is overflowing with bounty: But there’s one present that Santa could bring me for Christmas: the complete and utter destruction of the Justin Castrudeau government in Canada – and it’s close to happening: Now, the Liberal Party is imploding in Canada. They were […]

Please Santa, Just One More Present

Germany chart of the day

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Germany chart of the day

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