1. If you go and read through Spiegel (from Friday afternoon), they suggest in the Idar-Oberstein area of Germany (German training center) that Russian secret service 'spies' are active and watching the Germans train the Ukrainian soldiers there.
There's also some suspicion that Grafenwohr (the US center in Bavaria) is being spied upon.
My BS-meter? Probably at a '2'. It's probably mostly all true.
2. All that massive rain and lightning predicted in the Wiesbaden area of yesterday? Amounted to nothing much. The drought continues.
3. Two German retail stores (Saturn, Galerie Kaufhof) made a decision to turn off their escalators.....to save energy. I would imagine almost all stores will do that by October.
4. Well known Bavarian political figure is calling for construction of three new nuke electrical plants (in Bavaria). N-TV ran the piece this AM. Odds of this being accepted by the federal gov't? Near zero, currently.
After the chaotic winter? If it goes really negative and power is a problem....I'd say it's better than a 50-percent chance that this will be pushed in the spring, and the Bavarians will make this a major issue for the state.
5. This natural gas new 'levy' (tax) being discussed (scaring the crap out of Germans for excessive cost) is now back on the examination table. At the very least, I'd say it will be trimmed back in scale.
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