Retirement at 73. The idea is in the air, once again, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. For decades, the pension system was never fundamentally reformed. Now that the consequences of this inaction are becoming visible, the answer is once again: work longer.
In late January 2026, the German Bundestag debated weather manipulation. The AfD had introduced a motion (Drucksache 21/3832) calling on the federal government to investigate the risks of geoengineering and weather modification.
On March 13, 2026, the First Chamber of the Berlin Administrative Court delivered a ruling that barely made headlines. Presiding Judge Jens Tegtmeier stated clearly: Marcel Luthe, former FDP member of parliament and plaintiff, had “no legal claim to the release” of possible Stasi files on Angela Merkel under the Stasi Records Act.
Reiner Haseloff, CDU, Minister-President of Saxony-Anhalt, in the state parliament, June 12 of last year. Emotional, combative, passionate:
“I was born in this state and I will die in this state and I will do everything to make sure they never come into government responsibility.”
Cem Özdemir wears a UN SDG pin on his lapel. A small badge symbolizing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. For most, a detail. For those who look closer: a signal.
March 14, 2020 — the day a government agency lied to its citizens and was never held accountable.
Exactly six years ago today, Germany’s Federal Ministry of Health (BMG) published a tweet that would go down in history — though not in the way the ministry had intended.
Everyone is staring at the wrong thing.
Since the Epstein files dropped, public attention has locked onto the obvious — prominent names, sexual misconduct, a convicted pedophile with impossible connections. That story is real and it matters. But Prof. Roland Wiesendanger, physicist and nanoscientist at the University of Hamburg, spent his time in the documents looking somewhere else. And what he found is arguably bigger.
When Elementary School Knowledge Becomes a Challenge # You would think that newsrooms funded with over 8.6 billion euros annually would at least know what European flags look like. You would think wrong.
When a Health Minister with a Questionable Track Record Aims for the Top of Global Health Policy # Karl Lauterbach is being floated as a candidate for the position of WHO Director-General. You have to read that sentence twice to grasp what is happening. The man who promoted the COVID vaccine as “more or less side-effect-free” — on national television, in February 2022, to an audience of millions — is supposed to decide the health policy of the entire planet.
Two Weeks, Two Broadcasters, Two Scandals — German Public Broadcasting in Free Fall # The dust had barely settled on the ZDF debacle — an AI-generated fake video in the flagship news programme “heute journal”, complete with a whistleblower hunt — when the ARD followed suit. Not with a technical error, but with a misrepresentation recycled for 15 years.
This is a documentary without easy answers. No conspiracy theories, no minimization — just faces, names, diagnoses. People who were harmed during the COVID years: physically, professionally, socially. And the question that remains at the end: who takes responsibility?
In the first part of this series, we showed what happened: an employee exposes internal misconduct, and instead of addressing the fake scandal, ZDF hunts down the messenger. Works council member Hubert Krech collected 600 likes with a tirade in which he labeled journalism as treason and called critical media war enemies.
