1. The German gov't wrapped up a fairly 'big' investigation about four years ago....against the far-right extremist group 'NSU'. So the 'adventure' ended with court action....between summer 2013 to summer 2018. Charges? Related to murder of some Turks in Germany. Key issue? This was the longest, and most expensive court case in German history.
Two of the three key people in this court action....were dead.
So at the end of this.....there's a lot of investigative information sitting there, and the government decided to classify it....for 120 years. Yeah, it's a bit extreme, and begs a lot of questions how this came to be almost two entire generations of secrecy.
ZDF (public TV, Channel Two) has this comedian hired up as a night-time host (Bohmermann) and somehow....his staff got a copy of the entire investigation and posted it online this week.
Effect? I think the government is shocked how this occurred, and some investigation will occur. Bohmermann in trouble? Hard to say.
The information? So far, there's nothing much shocking there and most people are asking....why the 120 year secrecy?
2. Last night....a live show on Pro7 commercial....called 'The Voice' (singing show). There's a live 'vote' being conducted and at some point....a massive screw-up occurred....some candidate was announced the 'winner' and within sixty seconds....the network folks realized they had tabulated the votes in some poor fashion. Must have taken a good ten minutes to correct everything, and get on with the rest of the show.
3. Two phases of evacuation from Kherson, Ukraine....as the Russians leave. There's the friendly-you-gotta-leave phase, and then there's the forced-deportation phase. Locals seem shocked.
You get the impression that the Russian military intends to level the entire city.
4. Focus article....more German Covid deaths so far in 2022....than in 2021.
5. Nuke attack chatter on Germany?
Well....yeah....Focus reported this in the AM today and it comes from 'radio' communications from the Russians....that PM Scholz was told about.
The threat? This was back in April. The threat discussed....the Russians would nuke three targets (the weapon storage facility in Buchel....60 miles west of Wiesbaden, Ramstein Air Base, and Berlin).
Where this chatter started from? A Russian naval message.
It's pointed out....the Russians knew they were bugged, and they intentionally spoke to the idea of nukes and the three targets.....to 'thrill' NATO.
The problem of this discussion and 'worry'.....the nuke talk comes from the end of 2021, BEFORE the war started, and was in the midst of some exercise.
Reality here? I think Scholz got the basis of the message and has been awful careful about what Germany does....believing the threat made and it's real (when it's not). I also think the threat was just chatter between two naval officers about their fantasy-dream sequence of targets to hit.
6. There's a fair amount of hype in Germany over escalating prices for heating oil and wood-pellets (their prices have gone up drastically in the past three months). The Economics Minister (Habeck, Greens) is trying to avoid this 'help' and suggesting more money for thermal energy instead.
7. German inflation rate is now past 10-percent for 2022.
8. Anne Schneider wrote up a piece for WELT today....if you can find a copy, it's worth a read. She takes on the 'Last Generation' radical kids....saying "The Last Generation is closer to the stone-age, than to the future."
I think most German adults are losing patience with the group, and it's a question of when the court system finally says 'enough' and starts hauling the kids off to some detention center or jail-situation.
9. NTV had a piece talking over the 11th Army Corps of Russia....who was formed in the Kalingrad area around 8 years ago, and was deployed into the Ukraine. On paper, they were supposed to be near 20,000 in number.....some suggest the reality was that they amounted to 10,000 when dispatched. According to the journalists....other than the headquarters element....the corps itself (probably in 10,000 range) has been wiped out.
It would be a shocker if this one actual unit (not reservists or conscripts) came to be non-existent.
10. NTV reports there's some kind of Chinese police unit in Germany....tracking and reporting on Chinese citizens who've left China (permanently).
11. German Finance Minister has now said that German states will not get any additional funds for refugees. So if more show up.....the states themselves will have to divert their money from other projects (like road repair, sports, education, etc)....to pay for the residence, cost of living, etc.
Yeah, there's going to be heartburn here, and you can sense that some 'limit' is going to be established eventually on accepting refugees in Germany.
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