By P Gosselin
Germany’s economic and heritage destruction has reached an all new level, thanks to the Green Revolution
Traditional family companies, in business for generations, are now being forced to close up due to energy scarcity and high prices, mostly brought on by the “Green Revolution” madness.
430 years of tradition in Germany gets destroyed by high energy prices as Bavarian traditional bakery, established in 1591, can no longer afford energy. Image: public domain.
Traditional companies now “struggling to stay alive”
Germany’s Chamber of Industry and Trade reports that the potential to further reduce natural gas consumption has “exhausted” and that many companies are struggling to stay alive. This is reported by Pleiterticker.de here.
Some family companies, with generations of treasured tradition, have now succumbed to the “Green Revolution” despite having survived all the terrible upheavals over Germany’s tumultuous history.
430-year old bakery calls it quit
The latest shocking news comes from the Sinzinger bakery from Otterskirchen near Passau in Lower Bavaria.
“The traditional bakery has been baking since the 16th century – now it has to close down,” reports Pleiteticker.de here. The Sinzinger bakery was even able to survive the nasty Thirty Years’ War, Napoleon, two destructive world wars and numerous technological and economic upheavals, but not Germany’s Green Revolution and the energy shocks it has brought with it.
According to Pleiteticker.de: “In 1591, the company received its baker’s right. Now the 430-year-old family bakery must close all of its nine branches by February 2023. The reason is rising energy prices.”
“Rising energy prices”
“‘With all the rising energy prices and raw material costs, we can not simply continue the operation,’ said master baker Klaus Wagner to Die Welt,” so reports Pleiteticker.de. “Now 70 employees face unemployment. With five delivery trucks, the baked goods were also taken to old people’s homes and butcher’s shops in the region.”
“Now the baking ovens are going out. It’s a shock for employees and customers.”
The real tragedy here is that this is not just a company that’s closing, but rather it represents the end of centuries of heritage for many of Germany’s small craft businesses, many of which have been in the family for generations. A cultural tragedy is taking place.
Wait until they come after the breweries.
Those that have never been to Europe and savored the fresh bread baked in gas/coal fired kilns
will never experience real craftsmanship and taste.
100% correct bigfoot…. the bread and pastry in Portugal (and most of Europe) I ate when I was much younger there is just simply at another level that US baked goods cannot compare to… especially bread made in wood-fired brick ovens…. not that I don’t like US baked goods, but it simply tastes better there.
While European bread is delicious, it’s no better than home baked bread in the USA. Well made bread is well made bread.
Let them eat bugs.
Bill Gates was one of the first to feed us bugs with every release of Windows. We had to pay for being involuntary software testers of course, that was his genius, Now he is into big farming.
and big pharming as well
Or cake.
Correction: let them eat ze boogs.
And that is before they were forced to purchase and charge 10 EV trucks to replace their current 5 ICE engine fleet.
But they’ll need to keep the 5 ICE fleet to back up the 10 EV trucks when they run out of charge.
Or to contain the fire when the EVs self-ignite…
“Or to contain the fire when the EVs self-ignite…”
You might have just inadvertently solved their baking fuel problems. Place the unbaked bread in the EV seats and wait for a nice “lithium quick baking event”.
EVs solve everything. Onward…to the stone age!!
All so they can prop up the corrupt oligarchs of Ukraine & the subsidy farmers of “renewable energy.” Germans need to get a spine & throw out their government.
How dare those nasty Ukrainians, if they had just allowed Putin to take as much of their territory as he wanted, all of this nastiness could have been avoided.
As Ye Sow, so shall Ye Reap.
Michael VK5ELL.
What has that to do with Germany?
And also the Russians are only protecting the Russian regions in the eastern part of Ukraine. If the Ukrainians had left those alone and hadn’t become a NATO-country, nothing would have happened.
Ukraine isn’t a NATO country.
So does Putin idea of eastern Ukrainian include Kiev then.
Why not . kiev was where the idea of RUS began
I’ve always wondered since reading about the Kievan Rus at school why aren’t Russians actually Ukrainian – it is a conundrum
Or Varangians I suppose. Perhaps Putin will create the new Byzantine Empire and take over parts of Turkey as well!
It’s wise to put your brain into gear before engaging your mouth
Your comment would indicate you have less understanding of the facts leading up to this situation than Chrissie, perhaps listening g to MSM. There has been constant flouting of agreement by NATO since the Berlin wall came down, surrounding Russia, the US organized coup against the elected govt. in 2014, installing the Azov nazis into power, and their stated mission to cleanse Ukraine of those of Russian descent. Why is there no reporting of the 14000 Ukraine Russians murdered by the Azovs since then. Putin was asked for assistance because of this action. The Ukraine becoming a NATO country was the last straw Putin made known, would not be tolerated, as the US did when Cuba tried to bring in Russian armaments. There were 2 requirements needed to stop Russia taking action, Ukraine not become a NATO country, and the 2 Nazi battallionbe dismantled and stop their aggression. There was also to be discussions about the ownership of the Russian inhabited states, which the Ukrainians have refused to partake iý
Yes bazpal, this is my understanding of the situation as well. It’s all fairly straightforward and simple to research. I’m amazed at how many people don’t know this simple history of NATO expansion and the AZOV agressions.
Please name and link to the NATO agreement that was “flouted”.
Silly request. Russia is not bound by any NATO agreement. For that matter, Cuba is not bound either by any US agreement, but that did not stop the Bay of Pigs invasion or the Missile Crisis.
And NATO arsenals are being emptied to Ukraine for a lost cause and maybe lost currency.
Getting rid of old possible getting to past its shelf life stuff, making new stuff, the military industrial complex always needs some conflict somewhere to keep making money.
Heck the US needs a war at least every 10 years or so to replenish it’s supply of war trained special forces and non-commissioned officers so that we will be ready for the next war.
Ex. When the US was preparing for the Iraq invasion, my over 40 YO insurance agent was called up to service. After he got back I asked him why. He told me that the kids he trained just didn’t know how to actually do what needed to be done. He was special forces, inserted behind enemy lines to locate scud missile launcher location and call in the air strikes. He and his “trainees” dug holes and hid all day long, moving at night to scout. He said it is easy to tell people what to do, but much harder for them to actually do what they are told, without being shown HOW.
When Ukraine gave up it’s nuke’s, Russia promised to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
The Azoz unit was never more than a tiny fraction of the Ukraine military.
Putin’s trolls are out in force today.
Don’t forget the Bill Clinton promised the US would ALSO protect Ukraine in that same deal.
Obama, a Democrat, ignored the Democrat Clinton’s promise when Russia invaded Crimea.
‘The Azoz unit was never more than a tiny fraction of the Ukraine military.’
That was probably true of the Waffen SS relative to Germany’s military.
‘Putin’s trolls are out in force today.’
Wouldn’t know, but there are certainly some here who admire Biden’s colossally stupid foreign policy.
Fingers, even. Or do you know something about how Chrissie uses a keyboard that the rest of us do not? Do tell?
germanys funding and supplying weapons etc
Hope the world you inhabit is enjoying wall to wall sunlit uplands…
Recall that Hitler Aldo started his conquests by “protecting” German minorities in Czechoslavakia, then Poland, then…
So Russia has a veto over the foreign policy of all countries near it?
Fascinating.
Do all countries have a right to invade their neighbors if they feel that the other country is being mean to it’s citizens?
Apparently we do. Oh, and they don’t even have to be neighbors.
Nah, Putin wants the Russian part.
The Russian part includes that which they conquered from the Ottomans (Crimea) and from the Lithuanians (Ukraine and Lithuania) and from the Poles (Poland and much of eastern Germany) and…
Putin has said that he sees the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest disaster of the 20th Century. He has many failings but there’s no reasion to think he was lying.
where do you reckon the idea of the eu union came from?
when russia was one cohesive place communism aside it worked for them. no worse than other places in that timeframe anyway. indias Raj uks empire and even americas original “union”
admitted and available usa plans to destabilise russias so called colonialsim” are available to see on the web
dates back decades and being refreshed by fools yet again
I thought the idea of the EU came from the Central Powers plan agreed between Germany and the Austro-Hungarians prior to 1914 and reinstated by Hitler in the 1930’s?
The Soviet Union worked for those who ran it. For everyone else, it was an utter disaster. As for stuff being available on the web, there’s all kinds of nonsense on the web.
BTW, I’m still waiting for a source for your claim that MacArthur had claimed that a few days of embargo would have caused Japan to surrender. I suppose you found that quote somewhere on the web as well.
If MacArthur said it, it would lend toward that ‘it’ was wrong.
So, if he actually said a few days of embargo would have caused Japan to surrender, I would have had another reason to vote for the big bomb.
Putin has declared that he wants to reassemble the Soviet Union. He may not be trying to take it all right now, but he has shown that he is willing to take it one piece at a time.
He has shown, with this feeble “invasion”, where he has run out of artillery shells and must buy more from North Korea, must buy drones from Iran, etc. that his country cannot expand beyond what little he has occupied in Ukraine.
As with any MAJOR war, it comes down to the ability to produce the necessary arms, and recruit, train and equip the necessary soldiers. Russia cannot do either of those things for just this minor skirmish.
In modern warfare, as in all warfare, control of the high ground is of vital importance, and Russia has yet to achieve air superiority. If they cannot do that against their own air defense missile systems, what chance would they have against US and UK air defense systems? Rhetorical question, they would have NO chance.
Israel’s Iron Dome based on the US Patriot system, would preclude any air attacks from Russia, and even something as simple as the US agreeing to replace Polish Soviet era aircraft with US aircraft so Poland can transfer the old planes to Ukraine would probably shift the balance of air power to Ukraine, thus the Brandon administration refusing to do so.
My original thought of creating a “Flying Tiger” type air force with retired F117 and modern munitions, old F 16s, etc. rebranded as from Ukraine and retired US pilots retrained and loaned to the Ukraine air force, along with dual citizenship, would end this special operation in a matter of days after total control of the high ground was achieved.
Just the fact that 10 miles of Russian equipment was allowed to sit for a week outside to Kiev without being destroyed showed that the West was and is more interested in bleeding Russia by a long protracted war than protecting the people of Ukraine and achieving a peaceful resolution to this situation.
How dare those nasty Russians, if they had just allowed Zelensky to annihilate his ethnic Russian opponents and setup a neocon puppet state on their border, all of this nastiness could have been avoided.
It really is amazing how some people are so eager to believe whatever Putin tells them to believe.
Frank,
How many Ukrainians were intentionally starved to death in those region by Stalin?
How many of those Russian speaking Ukrainian citizens would be there if Stalin had not decimated the Ukrainian population by starvation?
Did anyone stop the Russian speaking citizens from living freely in Ukraine before the “separatists” were funded and armed by Russia to begin this whole expansionist process.
Has Russia been trying to overtake the industrial heartland of Ukraine?
Why?
Just asking for a friend.
The Ukraine banned teaching students in Russian, The cads.
if theyd stuck to the Minsk agreement and stopped killing the people in Donbas/luhansk it wouldnt have started up
that and being usa mil puppets
Putins been warning them since 2014
Spare me the Putin-derangement-syndrome.
We are in Ukraine because the military contractors lost the Afghanistan market. We are draining hundreds of billions of inventory under Biden so that under the next Republican President we can spend trillions building inventory back up.
Wow, so much paranoia, so little real world contact
My understanding is that Putin wants to be Emperor over all the Russias. Ukraine is just one of the Russias that has slipped away. I vote that Ukraine, Poland, Prussia, and the rest of the historic Russias work together to tell Putin where to shove it.
Yes, Prussia. Of all the first world nations that should be funding this it is the one that has historically shared a (not so peaceful) border with Russia & USSR.
“…as much of their territory as he wanted..”
You mean all of it?
He was certainly trying to take all of it before his military started falling apart.
Ukraine has made strides in correcting its corruption. Russia, not so much, as so dramatically shown by its plundered army.
Evidence? What ‘strides’?
Poroshenko was voted out. A pretty big stride.
Is the Zelensky govt squeaky clean? I’ve no idea. Do you have evidence that it isn’t?
‘Is the Zelensky govt squeaky clean? I’ve no idea. Do you have evidence that it isn’t?’
There’s a lot of evidence that if a Republican President asks Zelensky how his regime’s anti-corruption efforts are progressing, he gets impeached, and the latter doesn’t lift a finger to prevent it.
Btw, I continue to be amazed by commenters who (correctly IMO) disparage many of Biden’s disastrous domestic policies, while being A-OK with his equally disastrous foreign policies.
Do you have any evidence that Trump asking about anti-corruption efforts in the Ukraine is the direct cause of the impeachment, or is that just what Putin told you to believe.
It’s in Article I of the Democrat’s impeachment document. And please lay off the Putin!, Putin!, Putin! nonsense lest people start thinking you’re a Zelensky or Biden stooge.
The Democrats stole the last election, I suppose this means Canada would be justified in invading the US.
The amount of foreign equipment showing up on the black market would indicate otherwise, as would Zelensky’s offshore accounts detailed in the Panama papers. Whatever ‘strides’ Ukraine has appeared to make have been just for show, nothing has altered in practice.
err you meant “perfecting” its corruption didnt you??
brandon and son sure showed em how its done
That was over six years ago. If you have actual evidence of current corruption at govt level (which may or may not still be going on), please share it.
To a hammer anything looks like a nail.
Don’t you mean a sickle?
Kazakhstan, Georgia, Ukraine… Do you think that would be the end of it if Russia wasn’t stopped just outside Kiev?
Moldova would certianly be next. There are already Russiaan forces in Trans-Dniester.
Then linking up with Kaliningrad (through NATO countries), perhaps.
Or will you wait for WW3 to start when they reach Berlin, again?
Putin wants to restore the USSR, and beyond.
No! He has made his demands very specific, unlike the US government: No NATO expansion and implementing the Minsk Accords….
and, of course, he will “stick” when that is agreed…..ha ha.
So Putin is going to accept the Ukrainian Govt’s control over its borders as per Minsk 2? And who the hell is Putin to demand anything wrt Ukraine’s relationship with NATO? Or are you still living in the post-war age of vassal states? Putin chose to embark upon this war, nothing anyone else did or didn’t do, or said or didn’t say, forced his hand. It was his choice, and his choice alone.
I could have sworn he just annexed a chunk of Ukraine. That means he made it a part of Russia. You still don’t think he wants to expand Russian borders?
transdniester seems to WANT to secede TO Russia from the votes
So you actually believe the vote wasn’t rigged? Really? Are you that delusional?
98% voted to join Russia? Really?
If only we had stood up to them in SE Asia!
Ukraine has a new secret weapon: Sending crates of vodka to the Russian troops. The Ruskies just can’t say no. The Ukrainians just march in a carry off the drunks.
as if the Ukie Nazis don’t drink…
So every single Ukrainian is a Nazi? Is that what Putin told you to believe?
That was suggested by an outfit called Peace Through Alcohol during the Cod War. They proposed parachuting 5-ton palettes of vodka just ahead of Warsaw Pact front lines. The idea was it would stop them and render them easy targets for a counter-attack.
These green devils are pure evil.
It is truly unfortunate.
However, this is what happens when you californicate a country.
Mental disorder has two forms, often physiological. Neurosis is an irrational exaggeration of some aspect if reality. Psychosis is a total removal from reality which is often permanent.
The overwhelmingly tragedy is this: Individual dysfunction has been extensively studied and treated. But what of the contagious, rapidly spreading, possibly spiritual aspect of certain violent and criminal forms of psychosis. Whole nations quickly become infected. Marxism. Nazism. Dialectic Materialism. Super-spreaders include Rousseau, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, a number of leaders in office today. In the 20th Century alone, over 100,000,000 people were murdered or starved. Such epidemics of madness vastly out-killed such catastrophes as the Black Death of the mid 1300s.
Today, such pathologies, fomented by many very sick leaders threaten to overwhelm much of the human race. When will it stop?
100,000,000 deaths as a result of various collectivist movements that ‘theoretically’ were supposed to improve the lot of mankind. Now consider that the primary tenet of the ‘Greens’ is that mankind itself is the Earth’s greatest problem.
when crap like “youre with us or against us” BY a ussa president stops?
The Psychology of Totalitarianism by Mattias Desmet is a good start on the pathological group psychology that we see from time to time.
Estimates of fatalities from the Black Death range from 75 to 200 million. Of course, that was a much higher percentage of global population than the totalitarian massacres of the 20th century.
Don’t say no one told you this would happen if you continued voting Marxists to office.
I think EOM really nails it with his synopsis of what seems to be taking place. In school when we studied history I thought to myself “ how could people be so stupid as to fall prey to fallacious reasoning ,false narratives and let tyranny propagate or worse support it ; and then wonder why their society is destroyed. It is some sort of psychological/social defect in human nature.
Stanley Milgram looked into it.
His answer was ‘very easily’.
I believe some of us were naturally annoying kids who asked lots of awkward questions all the time.
But that’s actually quite rare.
Worst teacher I ever had taught me my most important lesson : always ask why? I’ve been annoying ever since.
followed by “who”, “how”, “when”, “what”, and “please”
Is it maybe what we call ‘Obedience‘ – that we naturally tend to follow a leader?
The Classic was the experiment where A Questioner, physically and visibly removed from An Answerer, delivered increasingly powerful electric shocks when the answerer got the answer wrong, and could clearly hear the cries of pain from the hapless soul
Yet despite repeatedly querying the organiser/leader of the experiment about the anguished wailing and morality of what he was doing, the questioner was ‘given reassurance’ and so carried on delivering increasing levels of pain.
So it is in this modern world……
Coz here I am in sight of a TV (no sound, just subtitles) and thereon is seen BBC News talking about yet another new tax
The beatings will stop when…………
I don’t know why rising energy costs are a concern for this bakery. Seems to me they could just introduce CO2 into the ovens and the loaves would bake in no time.
/sarc
430 year old business just needed to figure out how to run itself sustainably.
/s
Keep us up to date with the situation in Germany/Europe/UK. NZ legacy media can’t be relied on for much nowadays.
DIY
SOTT.net altnews.com.blacklisted news.com and a host of excellent authors are now on substack zerohedge.com is also not just financials anymore either
scott ritters pretty good as well
Welcome to the future. They are just among the first of many businesses to close in Germany and Europe.
Yes, it is also happening in the UK; the result of over 20 years of green policy.
And the green madness is still going on in the UK.
https://www.netzerowatch.com/sunaks-ban-on-domestic-shale-gas-is-an-economic-blunder-that-will-worsen-britains-energy-crisis/
The UK has more political problems than energy policy.
The Tories banned fracking in their 2019 manifesto, voted for fracking last week and decided against again this week.
That’s not just energy policy chaos. it’s just chaos. Complete breakdown of the UK government.
It is chaos. And to make matters worse, the opposition is even more clueless than the government. Parliament is packed with dross.
I thought that he had more fracking sense than that .
nope
hes a young WEF laddie
It really is not his decision, (although I’m certain he approves, he’s just that stupid) sunak is a WEF puppet and this order came from the top.
It’s far worse than just Sunak. There are many other WEF member MPs.
https://planettoday.substack.com/p/wef-puppet-new-british-pm-heckled-andhtml
Oh, the irony. In 1591 they would definitely have been wood-fired. How hard would it be for them to use wood? Oh, wait, using wood is probably illegal in Germany.
They should use coal fired ovens, hard for the government to ban that given the expansion of coal use at the moment…
wonder why marie antoinette springs to mind?
wont be cake either
decades ago a yuppie bakery had this odd sprouted wheat loaf going cheap cos…weird no one bought it.
cheap enough so i did;-)
it wasnt bad in small thin sliced amounts but you couldnt feed kids etc with it
looking back it used more wheat than flour would have for a normal loaf as well
mayhap everyone in germanys going to be eating unleavened bread? as its far cheaper to produce on a hotplate etc.
when the poor cant even afford or FIND bread to fill bellies the brown stuff is going to splatter far n wide. deservedly so
amazing that 430 years ago the bakery was running on natural gas.
Not quite as amazing as your capacity for making crass comments. You think this is something to celebrate?
Since griff knows that bread comes from the grocery store, obviously bakers are not needed and should all go out of business.
Eh?
Oh I don’t know – did you know that the first mechanical dough-mixer was invented by the Romans somewhere around the 1st or 2nd century AD? Something that wouldn’t be seen again until the industrial revolution in the 1800’s. Early gas-fired ovens wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.
In the Middle Ages the bakeries were probably running on wood combustion ‘griff ‘ ……Now thanks to the Green energy crisis and the Ukraine war Germans are renewing coal mines and fossicking for wood to heat their homes again …. Something tells me ‘griff’ has never helped manage a family business ..
Something tells me that griff has never worked a day in his life.
griff is now advocating the destruction of Germany’s forests to get wood for baking bread.
Hard to import enough from USA.
griff shows just how utterly clueless he is, on a daily basis.
Gosh Griff your ignorance amazes me.
This bakery has been running for 430 years baking bread .
It has been forced to close through lack of affordable fuel and massive price rises for other inputs .
This is the result of very poor decisions made by the green leaning German government .
The German government has relied on Russian gas instead of developing their own gas supplies .
Your stupid government in Britain have not learnt a thing from what has happened in Germany and have now flip flopped over allowing fracking for gas to give your country some energy security
They have now banned fracking again .What a fracking joke these governments around the world are
When you are all freezing in the coming winter just remember to blame your frost bite on climate change as our Prime Minister did in NZ..
.
With respect to Martin Niemoller,
paraphrasing.
First they came for the committee.
I did not speak out, I was not a committee member.
Then they came for the soil workers
I did not speak out I was not a soil worker
Then they came for the traders
I did not speak out I was not a trader
Then they came for the weak and feeble
I did not speak out I was not weak or feeble
Then they came for me
There was no one left to speak out for me….
Unacceptable that a traditional business of the most basic foodstuff, a business that has existed for over 400 years, is closing its doors in Green fixated Germany, who will speak out for them?
On a personal note.
I will never forget the chant resonating around the grounds in the Melbourne Parliament buildings in March 2019 as the AOC inspired Green New Deal demonstration was in full cry. Raising their arms in clenched fist salute, young adults, children and parents. their distorted chant chilled the soul as they echoed what we had previously hoped was historic mass insanity.
“Seek Higher! Seek Higher! Seek Higher!!”—–
Our hopes were dashed. The young and the Green Youth movement exists.
A catastrophic disaster just waiting for a charimatic dictator to unleash it.
Thank God Biden has no charisma. Nor any other major Democrat.
Amen to that.
I was reading about a family owned coffee shop in N. Carolina. The gentleman who owned the business had left a corporate career because he felt the need to return to his home town. For over a decade he ran a successful business, he used his profits and his time to help numerous local charities as well as individuals. After the recent court decision overturning Roe v Wade somebody found out that the owner was pro-life.
Within days, boycotts were organized. People who had never been to his shop starting writing scathing reviews on local web-sites. His store was vandalized.
The saddest part was all of the people and groups that he had helped for years, turned their backs on him.
This past week he was forced to close his shop for good.
The left wing mob has decided that anyone who disagrees with them, must be destroyed. No exceptions.
The mob mentality rules .
If Germany sees the destruction of its “Mittelstand” economy, the 1930’s will seem like a picnic.
Just what Putin was hoping for.
It may be their intention to destroy the history, cultured and wealth of Germany and replace it with something of their own liking. Whatever the result is if the greens do it it will not be good.
They have shown no compassion for anything except their goals.
They are determined to destroy Old Ideas, Old Culture, Old Customs, and Old Habits (旧思想, 旧文化, 旧风俗, and 旧习惯).
What is happening now is nothing new, it is a cultural revolution very similar to what happened in China in the ’60s. Based on the ideas of the same people, for the same reasons, and if we’re not careful will have the same outcome (a totalitarian centrally controlled society, replete with digital currencies and social credit scores, such that no man who defies the edicts of the government will be able to buy even food).
This must be resisted like your life depends on it. Because it does.
They survived the nazis, but not the greenies
Pied Piper of Hamelin stuff. Jumping on insane bandwagons – being led by flashy, colourful rhetoric WILL be the path to oblivion.