Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Three Odd Things

 1.  Germany's Minister of the Interior is opening what will be called a 'safe sport' contact point (in Berlin).

Now, you will ask....what exactly is this?  Well....if you were in some type of sports (juvenile or adult-related) and there ws some type of sexual, psychological or physical violence performed against you.....you'd call up these federal folks to get involved in your situation.

Some study has come out....to say such things now occur.  

Potentially triggering a big mess?  You have to wonder....if some pro-soccer guys or gals got around to reporting things....would the Interior Ministry get all into pro-sports?

2.  I sat and viewed a ARD (public TV, Channel 1) segment.....basically no one (not political or journalistic) can come up with a way to hinder the AfD Party (the right wing folks).  

In a way, it's amusing.

To describe how we got to this point?  A coalition government was formed with left-of-center folks, the Green Party, and a right-of-center party controlling the budget.  

You can write down fifty 'acts' or promises that the coalition has cemented as a 'must-do' situation, and generally say the vast majority of these have either failed or gotten negative public attention.  

The issue can be clearly defined....after x-number of 'Jesus-moments' that miracles failed to occur, your track-record is observed by the public.  The coalition needs to lower their goals to a level where it's fairly easy to get something done.  

3.  Prepare yourself a German version of Afghanistan's US evacuation.  It appears that the exit of the German military from Mali will occur in the middle of the night, and it won't shock me if they drive out to some neighboring country.  

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