Sunday, July 17, 2022

Four German News Stories

 1.  Not exactly public news, but I heard via a German who knows the Frankfurt Airport situation....baggage chaos has sit a major peak.  

Somewhere in the amount of 20,000 bags are sitting there....failing to make it to the planes in time.  Out of this number.....around 8,000 bags are label-less (meaning no tag and requires research to find the rightful owner).

Supposed to be trucks to pick these up and haul them to Munich....where some research group will try some new attempt to deliver the bags.  Same thing repeating at other airports (Berlin, Hamburg, etc).....with bags destined to this central facility in Munich.

Just looking at the description....you could go to Turkey and spend two weeks without any clothing much....return home, and a month later get a call that they found your bag.  

Yeah, it's going to be a lot of angry Germans over their holiday chaos, with no clothing for the vacation.

2.  Nancy Faeser, Minister of Interior, spoke at an interview with BR (Bavaria public TV)....on chaos she expects this winter.  

What she says.....a lot of right-wing individuals will be protesting and causing trouble because of escalating energy prices.  Populists and extremists....she says....are going to be in the mix.

I thought about this and readily agree.....left-wing radicals would never complain about heating costs.  It's the whining right-wingers who'd cause up trouble. //sarcasm off//

Lets just be honest....once your heating bill is tripled-up over last year's bill and you don't have the money to cover the bill....do you really expect the general public to be that understanding?  

3.  The Anne Will Show (public forum) from Sunday night?   Topic was fear of natural gas not being there for the winter period.  You can view it here.

I lasted through about half of the show.  It was a dead-end topic, without much information.

If you were a German and watched the whole thing.....you probably are now intensely worried, and not counting on politicians figuring out solutions.

4.  Some intense discussion started up over the weekend with German soccer.  Question came up.....would the league and players accept body-cam situations....live shots?  

I personally don't care and doubt if it really adds value to the game.  

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