In the latest victory against right-wing extremism, police officers pull a 16 year-old girl out of chemistry class and advise her to stop posting Smurf-themed AfD-friendly content to TikTok I wrote in February about the plans of Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) to combat “right-wing extremism,” by re-purposing the regulatory state to restrict the speech, travel and economic activity of people with inconvenient opinions. She wants to use state resources to intimidate “those who mock the state,” and she
Why Olaf Scholz is not a "peace Chancellor," why Ukraine still stands a good chance of getting their cruise missiles, and why the entire debate surrounding Taurus is such a riddle The Taurus leak continues to dominate German headlines. It is an incredible embarrassment for the Luftwaffe, and for the Scholz government it is yet another in a long line of unwelcome crises. Some have ventured to characterise Olaf Scholz as the “peace Chancellor,” opposed to war-hawks like Emmanuel Macron, who
Bizarre hypervaccinator from Magdeburg receives 217 Covid jabs over 29 months, finally achieves antibody levels necessary to prevent infection I have a wild story for you today (h/t Sborg40). It is about some lunatic from Magdeburg who claims to have gotten himself vaccinated 217 times between 3 June 2021 and 7 November 2023, at a nominal cost to the German taxpayer of around 4000 Euros.1 Researchers say
The German energy transition threatens to be an unaffordable, unrealisable disaster, according to the government's own independent auditors The German Bundesrechnungshof, or the Federal Audit Office, is an independent government body charged by statue with overseeing the economic management of the Federal Republic. Last week, they published a devastating “Report … on the implementation of the energy transition” in Germany. Every one of its fifty-eight pages represents a brutal
The WHO Pandemic Agreement may be worrying, but it is also really stupid The WHO Pandemic Agreement has worried many, and justifiably so. Covid has taught us all to be wary of people who talk about pandemics, of people who plan for pandemics and above all of people peddling various snake oils and schemes to mitigate pandemics. The prospect of an international treaty
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls for nationwide protests to defend democracy against the consequences of his own policies During the pandemic, our leaders claimed to act on behalf of the health concerns of the oldest and the sickest, effectively reducing all of Germany to a farcical authoritarian care home for the immuno-compromised. While the worst abuses of that era have passed, the lunacy and hysteria have persisted, assuming
The German farmers are greatly angry and there are a lot of them: An early report from the gathering great farmers' rally in Berlin We are now a week into the great German farmers’ protest, and the main event is set for tomorrow in Berlin. 10,000 demonstrators are expected; the rally will begin at 11:30am. Speakers will include Johann Rukwied, President of the German Farmers’ Association, and also Finance Minister Christian Lindner.
The Great German Farmer Protests Have Begun First came the farmers’ protests in the Netherlands, then the Freedom Convoy in Canada. Now the farm protests have reached Germany. The background is simple: On 15 November 2023, the Federal Constitutional Court declared the budgetary manipulations of the Scholz government unconstitutional, in one stroke depriving our rulers of 60
As Alternative für Deutschland approach 40% support in East Germany, a right-leaning CDU faction announce plans to break away from the Union and found a new party that will cooperate with AfD In September, three East German states – Saxony, Thüringen and Brandenburg – will hold elections for state parliament. Alternative für Deutschland are now by far the strongest-polling party in each of these states. In Saxony, for example, they are polling at an-time high of 37%: The SPD – the party of federal Chancellor
How the climatoids spent the summer lecturing us on the permanent drought that climate change has brought to Central Europe, and how they have earned nothing but rain for their hubris June headlines: "Germany is facing permanent drought." August headlines after a rainy summer: "Rain is no help against drought." December headlines after still more rain: "There is no more drought." In the past year, Germans have had to read a great deal about how carbon dioxide-induced drought is on the
New Survey: Fewer Germans feel free to express their political opinions in 2023 than in any year since the early days of the Federal Republic The Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research regularly polls the German population, among other things to construct a dubious “Freedom Index” for the Federal Republic. This Index purports to measure the social and political status of whatever it is that “freedom” amounts to in Germany, on a scale ranging from
Prof. Dr. Bob Wachter, Deranged UCSF Dept. of Medicine Chair, explains what he is doing "Covid-wise" & why he masks in elevators but not restaurants in Day 1,371 of his Covid Chronicles When we last encountered Prof. Dr. Wachter, whose blood estradiol levels must be several hundred times those of the average pre-menopausal female, he was recovering from a mild case of Covid that had escalated into a serious case of Covid after he took a shower, fainted and hit his head
Claudine Gay, Plagiarist Claudine Gay is a pseudointellectual who specializes in being a Diverse Black Female Academic. She first served as a Diverse Black Female Academic at Stanford University, before leaving to become a Diverse Black Female Academic at Harvard University. In 2018, Harvard decided it would be even more Diverse of them
An inquiry into Fuggalu, or: How the guardians of German democracy aim to protect our democratic constitution by punishing those who argue that the pandemic response was anti-democratic Something has gone very wrong with the way establishment politicians and journalists talk about “democracy” “Democracy” and the various concepts associated with it have acquired a mysterious new semantic range that nobody will acknowledge or discuss. This problem has grown so obtrusive that whenever any politician or media personality begins
"RSV Wave Underway" screeches the German press, as winter viruses rise unremarkably and in accordance with long-standing seasonal trends Now that the EMA has approved new RSV vaccines, journalists have another virus to stir anxiety about. During the pandemic, journalists discovered a new occupation, one which was particularly appealing for the small effort it required. This occupation consisted of consulting any of the numerous Covid dashboards and weekly virus
Jay Bhattacharya punks Karl Lauterbach for a bizarrely mistaken rant about John Ioannidis & the German media realise their health minister is an international laughingstock I know that some of you are impatient with my posts about German politics, and particularly my repeated pieces on our retarded Health Minister. I get that this can seem like inside baseball, and that all of you suffer under the very similar idiocies of your own Covid politicians. But,
The New Zealand Vaccination Records Leak: A New Analysis by William Briggs and Some Lesser Thoughts of My Own As everybody in this corner of the internet knows, a New Zealand Te Whatu Ora employee named Barry Young leaked four million vaccination records from New Zealand’s “pay per dose” vaccine program to Steve Kirsch on 8 November. The records pertain to doses administered to individual patients at apothecaries
Bavaria in the Snow In a brief Zeit article on winter fashion from 13 October 2023, one reads the following deeply amusing lines: Winter may no longer be cold, but our jackets are getting thicker and thicker. This fashion satisfies our longings for a climate that no longer exists. …. This year saw the highest
Snowy Open Thread: Expiring Unwanted Expensive Covid Vaccine Edition Today, southern Bavaria is covered in snow. No trains are running, the Munich airport is closed, many shops have not opened, and children are enjoying fierce snowball fights before the offices of the plague chronicle. The trees bend under the weight of their white blankets; one of them (thankfully not
The Cyber Threat Intelligence League, Sara-Jayne Terp, and the unbearably idiotic schoolmarms who have been unleashed to censor the internet Michael Shellenberger, Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi have continued their reporting on the “Censorship Industrial Complex” with a new piece on an odious organisation called the Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) League. Their revelations provide fresh details about the early history of the public-private campaign to censor the internet in the
Is Karl Lauterbach replacing two-thirds of STIKO, the "independent" German vaccine advisory body, to ensure the approval of shiny new RSV jabs from Pfizer and AstraZeneca? German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is working hard to restructure the entire German public health bureaucracy, according to the lessons our rulers have derived from the Covid pandemic. The purpose of his reforms are hard to work out, and ominously, nobody at the Health Ministry will explain them. A little-known
Infighting and internal divisions intensify among German climate activists and their patrons in government, as political momentum shifts decisively to the right Political movements derive cohesion from the momentum and energy they command. With the wind at their backs, adherents are willing to overlook their divergent interests and fight for a common cause. As these movements lose momentum and face hardening opposition, they suddenly find themselves rent by infighting and factionalism. Being
BBC declares "Black women most likely to die in medieval plague" after unnamed "academics at the Museum of London" collect doubtful statistics on 145 medieval skeletons in an uncited unavailable study The internet is presently having a laugh at the BBC for their declaration that “Black women” were “mostly likely to die” in the 14th-century plague. Black women of African descent were more likely to die of the medieval plague in London, academics at the Museum of London have found. The
Who was responsible for the draft resolution, circulated among the state health ministers of Germany, demanding the vaccination of teenagers contrary to regulatory advice? Some final notes on the 2021 campaign to vaccinate German children and the importance of 28 July. I must make a correction to yesterday’s post on the bizarre campaign to vaccinate German children against the recommendations of regulators and in the absence of all evidence. It is important enough
The bizarre campaign to vaccinate German children against the recommendations of regulators and in the absence of all evidence Whys were German politicians were so eager, in summer 2021, to vaccinate school children? This was the question at the centre of yesterday’s post. I mean it in a very specific way. I understand this was a time of general vaccine mania, when everybody from local paediatricians to Chancellor
Why were German politicians so eager to vaccinate children, and why are they lying about it now? Here is a riddle: Why were German politicians so eager, in summer 2021, to vaccinate children? Why did they place public pressure on vaccine regulators to recommend child vaccination? Even a few months ago, I would’ve said this was no great mystery. Before August 2021, everybody still operated on
Ampeldämmerung: Scholz government in crisis after doubtful budgetary manoeuvre to fund Green climate fantasies with unused Covid funds is declared unconstitutional For my entire life, German governments have lit money on fire with great abandon. The pandemic was a particularly insane period of spending. Among the final acts in this spree was a supplementary budget pushed through by Merkel’s government in April 2021, allocating an additional 60 billion Euros for
On the curious schemes of various activists, ideologues and politicians to minimise the emission of certain atmospheric gases by restructuring our energy supply and thereby our entire civilisation As the insanity of the pandemic era recedes, I find myself writing more and more about climate politics. Many of my posts on this matter – especially the last one – elicit disagreement from readers who believe that my arguments validate the premises of climate propagandists, who want me to know that
Study: Liquid natural gas, the great future hope of Robert Habeck's Green energy policy, causes up to THREE TIMES more emissions than coal Let us review some recent history: In 2021, Germany owed 27% of its total energy supply to natural gas. We imported over 40% of this natural gas from Russia. Then the Ukraine war happened, and by September the gas had slowed to a trickle. To compensate, we increased imports from
The Green Paradox: Why unilateral emissions restrictions may actually increase fossil fuel production and will always fail to do anything about atmospheric CO2 levels Periodically, journalists realise that our climate policies are doing absolutely nothing to reduce CO2 emissions. The latest entry in this amusing genre of reporting comes from N-tv and the Deutsche-Presse Agentur: The planned global production of coal, oil and gas continue to significantly exceed levels required to mitigate climate change.
Why the migrant crisis is a self-inflicted catastrophe for the European political establishment The mass importation of regime clients from the third world, under the pretence of high-minded liberal values, has become a runaway phenomenon threatening the very political order that authored it. Some valued readers objected to my remark in yesterday’s post that the political establishment appears “completely powerless” to stop
After a 17-hour meeting to address the escalating migrant crisis, German federal and state politicians produce a 5000-word resolution that promises nothing and offers no meaningful solutions at all On Monday, negotiators from the German federal and state governments met to hammer out a solution to the migration crisis. The states themselves have been overwhelmed by the flood of refugees, whose numbers exceed all available infrastructure and financial resources. The federal government – the worst we have had since 1949
Why Daylight Saving Time is Stupid The twice-annual clock fiddling ritual is a pointless pain in the ass and it should be abolished everywhere On 29 October, the superstitious annual ritual known as Daylight Saving Time ended in Europe, and for my American readers it will end this coming Sunday, on 5 November. For half or
The European Union walks back its ruinous proposal to mandate minimum energy efficiency standards for buildings, as the political will for climate policies continues to crumble across the West Climatism is slowly dying, and the only remaining question is how long it will yet linger and how much damage it will do before it is gone. Everything that comes out of Brussels is a foul multilayered onion. On the outside is the laughable impossible childish impossible utopian idealism. As
As the German Health Ministry drowns in millions of unwanted vaccine doses, Karl Lauterbach begs Germans to please, please line up for their fifth jab From the erstwhile vaccine propagandists at Der Spiegel, who I think are also tiring of the insipid autumnal vaccination liturgy and its noxious political enablers: Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has again called on people to get a booster vaccination. “Despite the pandemic and awareness campaigns, the importance of the
First Nord Stream, now Balticconnector: What is happening to European Baltic gas pipelines? On 26 September 2022, the Nord Stream pipelines bringing Russian gas to Germany via the Baltic Sea were attacked in a series of clandestine bombings. According to Seymour Hersh, the sabotage was planned by the Biden administration in late 2021, and carried out by U.S. Navy divers in collaboration
The Managerial Menace Back in August, the Wall Street Journal ran a long article on the insane spending of American public universities, with special emphasis on their proclivity for expensive building projects. This is an issue very close to my heart. I spent over a decade in American academia, at several different very
Christian Drosten, enduring virologoid villain, demands mass livestock virus testing and scientific truth panels to enhance pandemic preparedness and marginalise people who disagree with him Christian Drosten, the malevolent virologoid at Berlin Charité who achieved international prominence in 2020 as court virus astrologer to the Merkel government, and who acted for years as the public face of hygiene restrictions in the Federal Republic, is one of the great villains of the pandemic. From lockdowns to
Crazy Munich doctor earns nationwide press coverage with call for Germans to resume indoor masking because "we have a lot of infections right now," even though we don't Clemens Wendtner is an oncologist and head physician at the Munich Schwabing Clinic. Despite his total lack of epidemiological qualifications, he rose to prominence in the pandemic because he ended up treating some of the very first officially recognized Covid infections in Germany. In those early days, he was fond
The very same Europe that stopped travel over a virus cannot close its borders against the global south, even as the failure to do so threatens the viability of establishment parties and the EU itself Europe has entered its second great migration crisis since 2014. Numbers are now at levels not seen since the aftermath of the Libyan civil war in 2014. Here, from the Italian Institute for International Political Studies, is a graph of migrant arrivals in Italy from January 2010 through September 2023:
State elections in Bavaria and Hessen show the establishment parties to be in decline as political momentum shifts decisively to the right Yesterday was election day in Bavaria and Hessen. Just over 23% of the entire German population had the chance to express their political preferences at the ballot box. The results were not only a slap in the face to the parties of the federal coalition, but also yet another sign
Nobel Prize awarded to mRNA researchers in effort to "Encourage hesitant people to opt for vaccination in the reassurance that it is safe and effective" On 2 October, the biochemists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology, for their contributions to the development of mRNA vaccine technology. In 2005, Karikó and Weissman solved a crucial problem that had bedeviled all prior attempts to develop RNA-based therapies. This problem was
Covid Juice 3.0 hits the shelves in Germany, with interest at such record lows that many doctors have not even bothered to stock it The latest Covid Juice release is for sale in Germany as of today, and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach was first in line. There’s abundant evidence that he’s not a great fan of vaccination; he got his third dose in secret, well after the rest of the vaccinators, and
Renowned idiot Karl Lauterbach shows his vaccine pass to the cameras, reveals once again that his 2022 claim to be quadruple vaccinated is a lie The idiot Health Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Karl Lauterbach, has beclowned himself again, leaking additional evidence that he lied about receiving a second booster in Spring 2022. To recap: By late summer of last, Lauterbach had spent many weeks urging a fourth dose on all and sundry,
Study: With each Covid vaccination, healthcare workers get sicker – applying for progressively more leave and taking more analgesic medication after each dose “Inability to work following COVID-19 vaccination” is a modest paper just published in Public Health (paywalled, but available here as a preprint from last November), analysing data from the ‘CoVacSer’ cohort study, conducted out of Würzburg to monitor the effects of Covid infection and vaccination on healthcare workers. Of 1,
More details on the very strange efforts of the German Health Ministry to hide internal details of the Covid response from a parliamentary investigative committee More details have emerged on the measures of Karl Lauterbach’s Health Ministry to conceal internal details of the pandemic response from the German public.
Vaccines and the Midwit Effect, or: Why smart people seem to believe all manner of crazy things, and smarter people seem to believe them even harder Some weeks ago, this Swedish study on the correlation between cognitive ability and readiness to accept Covid vaccination made the rounds. It irritated a lot of people, particularly in these circles, for appearing to support the observation that getting vaccinated is just something that more intelligent people do – and, by
In act of divine retribution, equestrian statue of Angela Merkel collapses spontaneously under its own weight Certain natural events – however seemingly insignificant – achieve so perfectly a higher symbolic meaning, that it is hard not to see in them a divine message. Such is the case with the only equestrian statue erected to honour former German chancellor Angela Merkel, which yesterday collapsed spontaneously under its own weight.
On Fact-Checkerism and the Mythology of Disinformation Thoughts on what our discourse police are even trying to do and why they are so stupid. Nobody in our corner of the internet could fail to notice the antics of those yapping bouncing frenetic chihuahuas who call themselves fact-checkers. Mostly they work in obscurity, misunderstanding internet jokes, recycling the
American Centers for Disease Control recommend the updated XBB.1.5 jabs to everyone 6 months of age & older because this will "ease ... roll-out" and "improve ... equity" While Europe has now largely confined Covid vaccination to older and vulnerable groups, the American Centers for Disease Control have chosen a different path. Yesterday, they accepted the advice of an advisory panel and recommended the XBB.1.5 jabs to everyone six months and older. They insist that “the
AfD candidate poised to win head mayorship of Nordhausen (Thuringia); Sahra Wagenknecht announces plans to form her own protest party As the German ruling establishment continues to alienate voters and lose ground, a new kind of politics is taking shape beneath them. Candidates of Alternative für Deutschland continue to win high political office in East Germany. First, it was Robert Sesselmann, who won the office of Landrat in Sonneberg, Thuringia.
Activism, agency, and the escape from mundane domesticity: The curious case of Judith Beadle, 43 year-old mother of two, climate vandal and self-gluing street activist Meet Judith Beadle. She is a dead-eyed 43 year-old Letzte Generation activist from Berlin who first came to the notice of the German public for gluing herself to a Munich street last November. The action won her nearly a month of preventive custody in Munich-Stadlheim, where she reports her vegan
Spiegel schoolmarm demands that Germans "act responsibly" and "get their masks back out" so she doesn't feel uncomfortable being the only "oddball" wearing a face diaper in public We’ve encountered Head Girl Science Fan Veronika Hackenbroch here at the plague chronicle once before. She’s a medical writer for Spiegel who defended lockdowns until the very end and is still fighting a halfhearted rearguard action to keep Corona alive. Her latest is a diatribe demanding that Germans
German health authorities plead to parliamentary committee that they have yet to evaluate adverse vaccine events because there are too many of them The major German political parties will never investigate the pandemic response, because they are all complicit in it. Across the entire political landscape of the Federal Republic, the right-populist Alternative für Deutschland stands alone in its critical stance towards lockdowns and mass vaccination, and only in the state parliament of
Green Party mask fanatic predicts that a "Covid Fall" awaits us, calls upon Germans to resume masking They will try to bring back masking, but it’s not going to happen. From Spiegel: Case statistics are rising, and some experts fear a Covid Fall.1 Now the health policy spokesman for the Green Party in the Bundestag, Janosch Dahmen, recommends a return to masking … “In order to
East Germany and the Failure of Liberal Democracy As AfD becomes the dominant party of the former DDR, East Germans find themselves slandered as antidemocratic by a ruling establishment that has systematically excluded and subjugated them As with Covid infection statistics, so with political preferences: You can easily identify the former DDR on a map of support for
Virus understander and former Drosten associate Isabella Eckerle insists that Covid "is not finished with us" in ridiculous self-contradictory plea for everyone to stay worried Perpetual Covid hystericist and former Christian Drosten associate Isabella Eckerle has condescended to put on her virus suit and grant an interview to Der Spiegel, in service of warning that “The virus is not yet finished with us.” For one, there’s the scary new variant. No, not EG.5
Two German childcare centres in Nordrhein-Westfalen issue child sexuality manifestos, waxing poetic about the benefits of masturbation and outlining rules for child sexual play A few of you have asked about reports of “sexual exploration rooms” in German childcare centres, where young children are encouraged to masturbate and touch each other. While I have no doubt the field of child sexual pedagogy is unusually depraved, I suspected the reports were exaggerated or lacking important
Dark Winter is tedious bioterror fanfiction written to inspire public fear of the smallpox virus and plead for the continued relevancy of its eradicators In which eugyppius reads another pandemic wargame so you don't have to. “Eugyppius,” said critics of the plague chronicle, “everybody knows the SPARS pandemic is a dumb exercise in public health communication. Of course there are no lockdowns in there, even though many have claimed otherwise for a very long
Atlanta college with not a single documented SARS-2 infection imposes mask mandates and other "Covid-19 safety protocols" in a two-week campaign to crush the curve Also open thread. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (h/t the invaluable Prof. Freedom): Two week[s] after classes began, Morris Brown College is once again requiring students and employees to wear face masks on campus. The small, private Atlanta college announced the mask mandate Sunday in a letter to faculty,
Eris vaccine marketing hits Germany, complete with panic about a nonexistent August "Covid wave" ripped from British and American headlines We will not be free of the virus until we are free of the vaccinators. The leftist taz newspaper on 17 August: New German Wave: The new Covid variant Eris has arrived in Germany. Concerns about a new wave are growing – but the country is not well prepared. The pandemic
Bundeswehr plane dumps 200,000 litres of jet fuel into the atmosphere on two failed and unnecessary attempts to fly Germany's foremost Green politician to Australia Notorious air travel opponent and current Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was set to return various sticks from a Leipzig museum to the Kaurna Aborigines. Last Sunday, Germany’s ridiculous Green Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock departed for a week-long tour of Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. The purposes of the trip
On the self-inflicted political crisis of the German ruling establishment, and why banning Alternative für Deutschland will deepen their failures For the soft authoritarian regimes of the post-liberal West, political repression is both a considerable risk and a very limited resource. Some responded to yesterday’s post with the argument that banning Alternative für Deutschland is the best thing for the German political establishment. They see this as a power
German media and political establishment ponder whether to ban the political preferences of a fifth of the population free, text Since 19 June, polls have consistently placed support for the right-populist party Alternative für Deutschland at 20% or higher, making them the second most popular party in Germany – slightly ahead of government-leading SPD, and behind the CDU/CSU. Last week, Thomas Haldenwang, the head of the Federal Office