Sunday, March 17, 2024

17 Jan 2024: Six German News Stories

 1.  Just an odd story from  Friday....Berlin police officers pulled some German guy over on Charlottenstrasse (mid-Berlin) who had no license plate on his E-Scooter.

An inspection occurs.  It's a modified E-scooter.

From what they can figure....it's built in some way to get up to 128 kph.  Illegal?  OH YEAH.

Problems for the 58-year-old guy?  No insurance, no license and a illegally modified E-scooter.

2.  CDU's 'boss' (Merz)...said he wants a national policy....no more than 100,000 migrants a year coming in.  

If you did the general average presently?  It's in the 200k to 300k range.  

SPD, Green voters?  No, they won't agree to that.  In Bavaria?  I would imagine 75-percent of voters would pursue this idea.

3.  The Education Minister has spoke up in Germany about the idea of having civil defense classes for German kids.  

4.  BND (the German version of the CIA) is upping a recruitment program...to bring new people in.

5.  There is some talk about a new program....where German soldiers would come into classrooms...NOT for recruitment purposes,  but to explain the war in the Ukraine. 

Just from the chatter....I would imagine that most teachers are not qualified to explain the Ukraine-Russia war, or the harsh details.  Course, if you asked me if a class of 25 German 15-year old kids could handle this....I'd say more than half should not get the lecture and could not handle the conversation.

The same group would be shocked when some history element comes up and WW II is mentioned, and they know little to nothing over the war.

6.  Odd story out of Focus....affecting the town of Heide (extreme far north of Germany). 

From the description, over the past year...a 'gang' of 14-to-18 year old Germans had formed up, and conducted threats against the residents of the town.  Cops finally stepped in....arresting several...charging them, and the court system has a conviction on a couple.

2 comments:

Daz said...

They should let Bavaria control it's borders and have no immigration so we can sit back and laugh as their service and health care industries collapse.

Schnitzel_Republic said...

Everything is tied to a lessening birth-rate. The bad news? Even as migrants come and get situated...they will evolve into a 1-kid family (statistical survey from ten years ago proves that point).