1. There's a new German natural gas 'tax' to occur in October. Driving force? Well.....the supply people are in dire straits.....so the tax income will help prevent bankruptcy among them.
How much of a tax? Up to this point....unknown, which is a bit odd.
The suggested scenario going around would be two additional Euro-cents per Kilowatt hour, or in the range of 300 Euro extra a year for a family of four. Acceptable to the public? I doubt if the middle-class will buy into this discussion easily.
2. There was supposed to have been a reggae music concert-fest down in Switzerland. Chief band involved? Bunch of white folks with dreadlocks. Cancel crowd got wind of the whole thing.....appears the concert is cancelled....because of the fake nature of the hair.
Yeah....but if you gaze around Europe....there's probably about forty reggae bands, of which they are all white Europeans. So the music as far as I can see.....is finished, unless they import some Jamaican groups.
3. In the past couple of days....lot of chatter coming out of Bavaria and Baden-Wurttemberg, over natural gas worries, a severe winter, and a potential power-grid problem.
Soder, the Premier-President for Bavaria is asking for face-to-face meetings with the Scholz coalition government. The general hype? He wants the Bavarian nuke-power plant that was supposed to close in December.....to remain open. The amount of power that it supplies to the state? Around the 25-percent range.
This probably will progress over the next month into a top five topic for the government, and puts more pressure on the idea of keeping the three nuke plants operational past December.
Green Party reaction? They swear up and down.....that the nuke position is complete shutdown.....no deal past December (presently).
4. I noticed a Russian-Ukrainian war story this AM.....which might be partially to fully BS. Some Russian conscript was captured, and admitted that once he'd been recruited.....then spent five days at boot-camp, and then dumped off at the 'front'. He had zero knowledge of his gun upon arrival.
Personally, I can't believe they'd be that stupid to just drive the guy into the front, and confidence-wise.....he wouldn't last more than a week or two in combat situations. Imagine a thousand Conscripts like this.
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