Germany to make final WWI reparation payment

Well, it took quite a few decades but on October 3, 2010, Germany will make its final reparation payment for losing World War I, Der Spiegel reports. War costs do tend to linger in more ways than one, don’t they?

And this surely will result in quite a sense of relief in Berlin!

Actually, I did not know they were still paying off the debt, did you?

Greece raises white flag April 23, 2010

Well, today Greece has raised the white flag and asked for financial aid from her euro partners and the IMF.

All righty then, says Germany, but Angela Merkel plans to be ‘strict’.

Then perhaps the US needs Merkel to school Goldman Sachs for hiding the true magnitude of Greece’s debt!

There’s sneaky spying in Germany too

You know it’s not just Bush, Cheney, Michael Hayden, and a new US administration doing the eye-in-the-sky thing against its citizens anymore.

The sneakiness has surfaced in Germany as well and they’re pretty grumped up over it as the number of known victims swells:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,604301,00.html