1. Just an odd thing I noticed off ARD news....past year has been a record on emergency room services used....12-million 'visits'. So you can figure....one out of seven Germans had a visit of some type.
2. Shipping accident on the Mosel River.....will end up closing the passage for 4 months. Apparently, a cargo ship rammed a lock gate.
3. Yesterday, a discussion started up in Germany....if Assad's 'henchmen' (the bad guys from Syria) might attempt to escape into Germany. Yeah, it's an odd discussion.
4. German cops arrested a trio on Sunday....on terror planning charges. What they say?
The three guys are a German-Lebanese pair of brothers (15 and 20 years old).....from Mannheim. The third guy was a Turk from the Hochtaunus region..
What they were planning? Either a Christmas market attack, or a New Year's eve attack.
5. RTL-TV did a poll. SPD on political polling....up a point....to 17-percent....still in 3rd place behind the CDU-CSU and AfD. Their poll had this odd feature....if you asked all CDU-CSU voters about Merz as the Chancellor candidate....almost 12-percent said 'no'.....they'd rather see Habeck from the Greens as the Chancellor.
6. What the hell is Disease 'X'?
Well....some kind of mysterious disease has started up in the Congo....400 with it, and 31 have died. Some words from German TV discussion last night....some form of a flu or malaria....that has mutated. Fear is....it'll eventually get to Germany.
7. 120 folks arrested in Berlin yesterday.....'Last Generation' protest.
At some point, some German glued themselves to a wheel of a delivery truck. The rescue folks attempt to get the person detached....failed....so they had to take the whole wheel off the truck and take the person to some hospital.
Yeah, I anticipate the judges involved in each case....to lean toward significant fines.
8. Germans have paid out one billion Euro for what is perceived as fake climate protection projects
Most of this went to projects in China. This comes from German Institute for Economic Research. Saw this report on ZDF-Frontal news program last night.
9. N-TV piece this AM.....saying best prediction for E-car registration in Germany by 2030....11-million total. Way off from predictions by Merkel gov't from six years ago.
10. Chancellor Scholz suggested a VAT (sales tax) cut on food. He's not saying a complete 100-percent cut....just of some type of cut (probably one-third). There is a 7-percent VAT on some foods....while the bulk are taxed at 19-percent (presently).
11. So the EU started a talk yesterday to dump the mandate on NO gas/diesel new car sales after 2035. Yeah....shocker.
So what they are talking about.....you could still make gas/diesel cars after 2035....if they ran on bio-fuels.
If you were Opel, VW, BMW or Audi? You'd be mad as hell....how you got into spending a billion Euro each to get to the E-car level.
Big question? Where will this bio-fuel come from? Massive corn-crop required? Go expect bio-fuel stock to massively take-off in the next five years.
A lot of disgruntled people? Yeah, I'd suggest this will linger a long time.
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