1. Chatter in Berlin....up-tick on parking 'card' expected....going up to 60 Euro a year for a card that you'd have to put in some display....even in a free parking area. This is five times the current yearly parking fee.
2. Over in Berlin, due to complaints....a meeting was held in the Doberlug-Kirchhain neighborhood over the company that is running local refugee accommodations.
Allegations? Well...the accusations included racism, lack of privacy, and some element of unequal treatment.
I should point out....this was not the locals complaining....but the actual occupants of the refugee 'center'..
3. I sat and watched N-TV news yesterday. A segment came on....hyping up environmental polling, and basically said...that from the group who are pro-environment....about 40-percent of these Germans also fear that poverty and loss of jobs/industry will come with the actions Germany takes.
This belief....whether real or fake....ought to concern the bulk of German voters. Even if you suggest that a third of the German population is extremely pro-action on the environment.....then you are saying that half of that 'third' aren't expecting to live a really productive life for what they have remaining.
If you said a fair amount of German industry will leave the country....to find some a better landscape, it'd probably scare some Germans over lifestyle options.
4. N-TV piece.....this odd discovery made in German kid's urine?
What the German Federal Environment Agecy says.....a pollutant was discovered in urine samples of kids.
Where's it come from?
Well....the current chatter is sunscreen. They can't explain how this would work, but you would assume some absorption by the skin, and the body in some ways transfers this to the kidney (but only in kids).
Not in adults? That's another part of the story.....so far....only kids.
5. Syphilis rise up in Germany? Yes.
Not a lot of indicators how or why....just that the numbers are seen in a upward trend.
6. German inflation in the new year (2024)....lowest since mid-2021? Yeah, the slow-down has finally started to occur.
7. Austrian police (mid-day Friday) found the missing deputy editor-in-chief of the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” gal (accused of plagiarism a week ago).....near a bridge.
Based on the description....she was severely hypothermic but alive.
8. Odd flight drama. Lufthansa flight.....Thailand to Germany....German male passenger (63) has some health issue, and by the end....coughing up blood via his nose/mouth. The term 'liters' is used but I doubt that they meant such a loss of blood. The guy died by the time they landed.
It just sounded like one of these weird African diseases that kills you within hours, but this was coming out of Thailand.
9. WELT wrote a significant piece this AM....tax burden on German companies is enormous, and killing competition. Even German Green Party members are quietly admitting that something about taxation has to change.
10. Some kind of new protest group starting up....'Fridays for Israel'. Protesting against anti-Semitism. Mostly a teen/young adult effort here in Germany.
11. BASF (the major German company) is selling off it's projects in China (two major industry operations).
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