1. Attack....involving a German police operation at the Suhl initial reception refugee center on Friday night. TAG24 source.
What the police....somewhere along 10:30....couple of folks of the center got into a discussion, which led onto a argument. Fight then broke out.....appears that they had iron-bars as weapons, and the cops got called to settle it.
Yeah...couple of the residents ended up wounded from the fight.
What this was about? Police don't say, and it just makes you wonder if this was bad blood from the old country, or a whole new discussion.
2. I was sitting Saturday evening and watching N-24 news. Interesting point they brought up....almost 50-percent of German manpower at McDonalds....is female. And from management....it's almost 50-percent there being female.
I was at the Wiesbaden train-station McDonalds around 2 years ago....standing there after having ordered and it hit me....from the six folks running the place (1 manager and 5 employees)....all were female.
3. WELT had an interesting piece....talking over extremist presentations now on German You-Tube. German youth can get a dose of right-wing talks easily.
I tend to agree but would suggest if you really look around....you can get a left-wing dose, or an environmental dose, or even a radical Islam dose as well.
4. The SPD Party (left-of-center) proposing a Covid-committee be created....to review past actions. Not sure if this is a plus or minus in terms of reality.
5. Some new health law being drafted by the gov't. Would require health insurance to provide exams that would predict heart problems years ahead of time. Question would be....what's the cost impact, and just how many Germans would agree to have such exams.
6. Interesting piece on N-TV this AM.....presenting the whole case of this potential ban on Sunday driving in Germany.
A lot of this goes back to a CDU law (Merkel era) entitled 'Climate Protection Act', which said X-amount of C02 was the limit. If you failed....severe measures would follow. Well....as best as Germany has attempted to go this direction (without the use of nuke-power)....they can't meet the exact goal (not sure if the CDU Party or Merkel ever considered this problem).
So the FDP Party which controls the budget, and the Transport Ministry....has laid out a reform....to get 'Climate Protection Act' changed. To accomplish this....they need the SPD and Green Party (their partners in the coalition) to agree.
If the Greens won't agree, then the outcome will be a weekend ban of some type (probably Sunday driving).
Greens reaction? They think this ban-chatter is BS.
I'll just offer this analysis.....there's tons of innovation over the past decade, and a lot less C02 production via cars/trucks than 20 years ago. This talk of more use of public transportation being 'forced' upon the public? It hasn't really shown that much of a trend. E-car trend? In terms of numbers, they seem to have maxed out on enthusiasm with the general public here in 2024.
So I don't think the FDP is joking around on the reform law or the weekend-driving ban suggestion.
Was there bans before? Yes, this often gets brought up....during the gas-crisis of the 1970s, West Germany had a ban for weekends.
I'm guessing here but I suspect if pushed....the Transport Ministry would start off with a once-a-month Sunday driving ban. If you asked me about grumbling? I'd say as long as you don't do this in the summer period....nine out of ten Germans would quietly accept a Sunday driving ban for two Sundays a month....with some marginal grumbling along the way. Tourism would suffer, and cops would still ticket 10,000 folks a weekend because they'd disobey the ban rules.
Just funny how the CDU (right-of-center) created this around a decade ago, and the path has led to weekend driving ban chatter.
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Did you know 89.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
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