1. Cops have said....over this dead 12-year old girl (killed by her two friends....age 12/13)....that the victim was 'mobbed' for several weeks prior to the murder.
Mobbing? Basically being picked upon or bullied. You see this a good bit in school discussion groups.
At one point, the victim told her parents. That was the turning point where the other two girls decided to murder her.
2. There's low-level chatter going on with the European Central Bank....about a housing crisis and potential bank crash.
As bad as Germany might be....several other countries (Netherlands, Cyprus, and Greece) are in a more difficult position,.
3. Not a big deal (perhaps) but the IAEA folks have said that ten containers (holding a total of 2.5 tons of uranium) have disappeared in Libya. Yes, you could make a nuke bomb from the material. All the IAEA is saying is that they can't find the containers....not that they were stolen by some evil 3rd-world dictator.
4. Credit Suisse survives on....with a loan of about 50-billion Swiss Franc's....from the Swiss National Bank.
5. Saxony's Prime-Minister (Kretschmer) is now calling for a migration/asylum 'limit'. Other states are in line, but insisting that either more money comes from the federal government of Germany, or a limit is established.
6. There's a law in Germany that says....if you were convicted on something and simply fined (no jail).....you are given x-amount of time to pay. After that...failure to pay? You are jailed.
Well...in recent hard times....the money isn't there and people have been picked up to do jail-time.
The SPD-led gov't wants a draft bill which would change the wording on this law.
I read through a lot of this, and it's interesting.....in about 90-percent of convictions in Germany for 2020.....it was merely a fine, not jail-time.....given.
Curiously, the rate of cost for a day in state prison? 120 Euro. So if you had a hundred folks who failed on the fine business and took them off to jail for 30 days....you (the state) paid 360,000 Euro to quarter the 'bad-boys' in jail.
You can do the math....if your fine was 1,000 Euro or 30 days in jail....the 30 days would cost the gov't around 3,600 Euro. Only rational way to 'fix' this....cut the fine cost down one-third of what the law stipulates currently.
7. I was watching ARD news this AM.....interesting piece.....one out of every two new bikes sold in Germany now, is an E-bike.
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