Q-and-A

 1. What's to happen with the climate-kids 'Last Generation' and their public protests?

While the authorities and court system are trying to get their attention, and hopefully get them 'down' a notch or two....I generally expect the teenage protest group to continue, and likely go up a notch-or-two by spring of 2023....realizing that no one is really listening to them.

At some point, I expect them to cut power in some community, or commit to some action which has major consequences for public safety, then the 'adults' in the room will say enough and hustle a dozen kids off to five years in some holding system, or have them mentally evaluated for 'brain-washing'.

2.  US providing more weapons to the Ukrainians?

What the German news say.....the I-Hawk missiles will go in, and some renovated T-72 tanks.  Where the tanks came from?  It appears several of the ex-Warsaw Pact countries had some, and previously...some deal came to occur with the US getting them.  

I will say this....at the rate of death/wounded....with each day of the war spelling the end of a two or three APCs or tanks....the Russians are in a tough end-point in roughly 100 days as they wrap up a year of war.  It will take years to replace what's lost, and in the manpower losses.....with the birth-rate crapped-up.....they are not going to come back to a top tier or second-tier country status.

3.  Is it possible to buy a German apartment building, empty it out of renters....then claim in some funny way to have income off the empty building....with ghost-renters (money-laundering)?

Yeah....that's all I'm going to say.

4.  The 'end of democracy' in America if it's a massive vote flip on Tuesday in the election?

I've heard this on German TV at least ten times in the past week.  As the CDU crapped-up it's chances of winning the election in 2021....literally no one stood there to say this CDU loss was the end of democracy in Germany, as the left-of-center SPD took over with a win.

5.  Is there any real excitement going on for the World Cup games start shortly?

In my region of Wiesbaden....it's marginal.  

6.  Some Brit having Covid for 411 days straight?

Yes.  So the basic story here.....the guy got Covid....had various issues, and doctors kept testing him to show a negative on their test....day after day....week after week.

Guy is presently 59 years old.

One key part to the story....because of a kidney transplant....he had a weakened immune system to start with.

Eventually, they figured one method of getting him over Covid.  If you were doing test-cost?  Probably a minimum of 8,000 Euro.