1. Green Party mass-meeting held over the weekend in Wiesbaden. Fridays-For-The-Future 'leader'....Luisa Neubauer....gave a farewell speech for the outgoing Green Party leader Ricarda Lang. Toward the end of it....she then spoke about Robert Habeck's "natural gas euphoria"...peeving him a good bit.
One should note....the Green Party is fairly divided and for each party member who is endorsing and hyped-up over Habeck....there's probably another member who grumbles over party policy.
2. Health Minister Lauterbach did some long 'lecture' to a long-Covid victim....but the victim's mother countered Lauterbach...pound by pound.
3. Intense effort by the Chancellor to ensure medium-range missiles provided by the US/NATO are NOT used. US gave some permission over the weekend.
4. Two undersea cables broke....one between Finland and Germany....one from Lithuania and Sweden. Culprit unnamed....some belief it's Russia, but zero proof so far.
5. Entrepreneur Carsten Maschmeyer spoke out yesterday in an interview over the collapse of the government. Very negative views of Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) and Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD). Generally, on commerce and economics....Maschmeyer is a qualified expert. A fair number of people have grumbled over the current economics trend in Germany.
6. Police commissioner of Berlin spoke yesterday....agreeing....'yes, there are NO-GO areas within Berlin.'
To be honest, if you had me a list of the top forty cities of Germany....virtually ALL of them have some NO-GO element in existence. I'd even say that for Wiesbaden (if you want the prime location to buy crack/cocaine/etc....walk north out of the train station (across the street)...about 500 feet, where the 'gardens' exist....there's always three to five dealers standing there).
7. One AfD Party member has openly said he'll vote 'FOR' Chancellor Scholz in the NO-Confidence vote. This has triggered some speculation that all AfD members might go this way, and halt the early election emphasis going on presently.
I call it BS....but factually speaking....if all AfD members vote for Scholz to remain....then the early election is defeated and we go to Sep of 2025. This would be craziest outcome you could imagine.
8. WELT had a piece this AM....talking over the massive drop in used E-car prices. To some extent.....they just aren't selling off the lots.
9. Austria in serious trouble over lack of natural gas. Some payment discussion started up between Austria and Russia, with the court siding with Austria's version of facts. Russia said fine....we will cut you off.
Various natural gas transport ships have been diverted (I count 7 so far) to dock around Europe, and deliver more costly natural gas to Austria.
10. Saudi Arabia is being geared up for the 2034 FIFA soccer cup. Fifteen stadiums to be in the mix. They were apparently the ONLY applicant for the selection.
11.'Hart Aber Fair' public forum show last night via ARD (live). Topic? Covid, and it got pretty intense. Lot of things said....that weren't public information things in 2020/2021. What I expect in 2025? Probably some new gov't truth-commission....to uncover Covid details.
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