1. The youth-element of the SPD Party (left-of-center) has made a demand upon the actual party itself (yesterday)....saying that Germany should eliminate the billionaire-class in Germany.
I'll just say it bluntly....it won't happen, period. But it does make headlines.
2. Two terrorists went to a Turkish aerospace-defense company in Ankara...two dead and around two-dozen wounded. Kurdish element.
3. Finally, last night via ZDF (public TV, Channel 2)....they ran a research piece (45 min) on the US election. Seven person team....two RVs....crossing the US...getting reactions of Americans.
I'd say it was a fair piece. If you were a German watching....you were probably shocked at the number of people supporting Trump, and the various reasons for this support. It was curious in that almost no journalist was interviewed.....just people off the street.
If you wanted to view the docu-piece? Here is the site. 45-min long.
4. There's supposed to a re-group of the German Green Party in 3 weeks. Some people now suggest it'll end up 'pulling' the party mechanism further left. Alienating some folks? I'd suggest 10-to-20 percent won't be happy.
5. Fair amount of German attention on North Korean soldiers getting into the Ukraine war. Video run last night on ZDF....soldiers being issued new uniforms for the 'front'. I'll just say from the room and the 40-odd soldiers shown....none of them weighed more than 140 pounds (63 kg).
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For story #1, East Germany did plenty of wealth elimination. In then end, it just meant that rich people still existed, but only among the Communist leadership.
In the history of the DDR...I'm not sure if you could classify anyone as a millionaire (considering the worthless nature of the East German Mark. If you had 'status', you got better housing, better cars, better vacation allocations. One odd thing, the super-elite were all into hunting (or at least pretending to being hunters).
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