1. Just an odd piece/commentary in WELT....written by Nathalle Weldenfeld....entitled "From migration to sex education, how we take back AfD's issues'.
It's a basic commentary how the various political parties (CDU, SPD, Greens, etc) should take pieces of AfD's issues and reclaim 'interest' (even if it was fake interest).
To be honest....some folks have been suggesting this for several years, and it goes nowhere.
It's worth a read....in Wed's WELT.
2. Berlin judge handed down a ruling on ownership of a villa in the city....belonging to the Remmo 'crime-family'. Judge says....since the money was all illegal in the purchase....the city has the right to take the property. I would imagine this will anger the crime family a good bit.
3. Discover Airways (owned by Lufthansa) is on strike. It's mostly a airline built for tourist industry....cheap flights around Europe.
4. If you are a subscriber to Netflix in Germany....'RAW' (the WWE wrestling show) is coming as a hyped-up show.
5. N-TV news from yesterday....headline: "China is experimenting with a deadly Corona variant".
Germans will be hyped-up....affects brain activity and suggested to be 100-percent fatal.....but so far, only experimented in lab mice. Called GX_P2V virus at present.
I'm guessing some German PhD folks will figure out a nicer name for it....maybe Covid II?
6. Some odd BS story out of France....Macron in a speech Wed....says that there needs to be a time limit...per kid....on video games.
Actually....I'm shocked he said instead it of German SPD Party executives.
7. ARD public forum show (public TV)....'Hart Aber Fair'.....has had a number of weeks of low ratings (last quarter of 2023). So they say (executives within the network)....they are revamping the way the show works.
Note, they aren't firing the moderator (Klamroth).
The commentary says next Monday night (1st episode of 2024)....the show will be 'different'.
On public forum status....I'd rank this show number one for information discussions....until 2023. They retired the old moderator...Plasberg in January 2023.
The old format? It was mostly a discussion between a moderator and five guests who knew something about the issue....sometimes having no political status or news media status. That was the part I appreciated.
Since then? From the episodes I've watched....it seems molded into some fashion to be a mouthpiece to whatever Klamroth is supporting or giving more support to. He is leading you to a belief....not letting the guests dump information on you.
It is a primetime slot that 'Hart Aber Fair' holds....so if they can't draw an audience....it'll likely get dump. Just odd...its been around since 2007. Odds of Klamroth is gone by summer-vacation season? Well....you just wonder how much the network is attached to the format and viewership.
8. Some evidence that German kids are using ChatGPT in schools now for homework. Some serious worry going on....if misuse will screw-up the system, and you end up with stupid kids who can't pass tests.
9. Refugees in Germany are slowly being pushed to accept a bank-card for payments (instead of cash). Administrators of the system are happy.....some users are not happy. It's in a test phase presently....around 790 'customer' going down this path.
10. Odd weather pattern.....it's a 18-degree (C) temperature difference for my house over the past week.....heating up to 12 C (53 F) today. Virtually all the snow and ice gone. Weather guy is talking up how it'll be this way for a minimum of fifteen days.
11. Unusual short story late yesterday....from Reuters. The European Central Bank asked some banks to monitor social media for "early signs of bank runs".
Note, they didn't ask all banks in the EU.
What the deal might be? If you pay attention to Chinese industry, commerce and banking failures over 2023.....just a lot of frustrated Chinese who had money in the banks, and now cannot take the money out.
I suspect that the ECB folks are now realizing that some banks in the EU (without saying their names) are particularly weak, and if you had some money-guru or Instagram influencer suggest taking your money out....it'd trigger a panic among a lot of people....even those who have money in 'safe' banks. Yeah, making them more skeptical than they should be.
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Although on the video games I can understand some concern. The modern games are so brilliant that people can spend the entire day without getting bored of them. And the dirty mobile games that have gambling in them should definitely go.
I would agree, but how you'd 'force' a 90-min play-time per day into the gaming world....I have no idea. I think the level of 'beat-the-system' juveniles is at an extremely high level.
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