Thursday, January 19, 2023

Five German News Stories

 1.  This video piece from the Lutzerath demonstration site in the NW of Germany....had a unique feature of Greta Thunberg being arrested by the state police.  

You can find the video on YouTube and if you watch it a couple of times....yeah, it's pretty much a 'staged' event where it was scripted for some PR reason.  

But lets be honest....a lot of the Fridays-For-The-Future and Last-Generation action is developed as a public relations gimmick.  

2.  Lot of unusual speculation over the crash of the helicopter in the Ukraine that killed the Interior Minister and his senior staff members.  

3.  The CDU/CSU Party is calling for a limit on asylum applications (per year)....the hint is that it'll less than 200,000.  

4.  The Bavarian head of state (Soder, CSU) has openly said now that Bavaria aims to hire 6,000 new teachers in the next five years, and they are willing to 'steal/recruit' them from the 15 other German states.

Here's the thing....if the state apparatus developed a strong HR-head-hunter situation....they'd go out and find the higher quality teachers throughout Germany, then offer them moving/resettlement costs and 25-percent higher pay, thus starting a teacher 'war'.  

To get payback....I wouldn't recruit beyond age 35.

5.  Lufthansa has made a offer to the Italian gov't to buy ITA.  

Here's the view of ITA....back in Oct of 2021....they took over Alitalia, which was in serious financial condition.  For probably over 20 years....Alitalia was marginally surviving.  Maybe ITA has improved the value of the purchase, and long-term....Lufthansa might see a benefit.  

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