1. There is a draft law floating around (before the end of the current session).....it would allow Scholz (the Chancellor) and the 16 Ministers....to get a one-time payment of 3,000 Euro....for inflation purposes.
I think a lot of people are shocked over this deal. Tax-free? Yeah....it's designed that way. No one else in the government to get the money? Correct. If a normal company tried to give 500 Euro to their employees? Some do, for inflation purposes, but it can't be identified as tax-free.
2. The wife and I spent yesterday at the summer fest in Wiesbaden. Typically, between food and drink....we spend around 80-to-90 Euro (pre-Covid era). With inflation going on....we spent near 130 Euro.
On food booths? It was probably 75-percent of what was there before Covid, and the crowd was less than normal.
3. There was a protest in Erding (near Muich) yesterday. Topic? Anti-heating-pump law. Based on cop-reports, I'd say a minimum of 10,000 showed up. CSU-boss Soder showed up and tried to make a speech....failing....lot of negativity about his appearance.
4. German federal police (the BKA folks) have assigned around 540 crimes to the Last Generation activists. Odds of jail sentences and fines? Once BKA gets involved....your odds of jail-time goes up.
5. The Saarland state folks wrote up a law that limits their public TV/radio executive to make no more than the Premier-President of the state. At least two other states are discussing the same type law.
How this came up? At some point in 2022....the salary of the director-boss was noted to be 245,000 Euro. A lot of people in the Saarland grumbled about this level of salary. With the law? As you reach the position in the future....180,000 Euro is the max limit.
What the TV folks say? If you don't pay top-level pay.....people move on (suggesting that they go to commercial TV operations). I can't think of a single public TV executive who has ever done that. If you said journalists in public TV? Yeah.....some have left for better money, but they aren't making 200,000 Euro.
6. Watched an update on Nord Stream 1/2 bombing.....German cops still looking for the crew.
I'll just say three things: (1) it was a Ukraine crew who did it, (2) boat ownership goes back to a Ukrainian, and (3) the US (meaning either the CIA or Pentagon) knew of the plan in advance.
7. German education folks are talking about discontinuing English in German schools (not referring to gymnasium-level). Reason? They say dismal math and reading scores are so bad.....that more time needs to be devoted for German language and math.
Odds of this happening in 2024? I'd give it 50-50. Part of the blame goes toward non-German kids in the system.
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