1. From the German Federal Statistical Office....one in seven children in Germany is at risk of poverty.
Numbers-wise....2.2 million children and young people out of Germany are at risk of poverty.
So what makes this a factor? Well....a low level of education among their parents.
I read over the story from ARD, and just wondered....if you had dimwitted parents...what exactly could the gov't do....other than grabbing the kids?
2. Economics Minister Reiche is in Qatar this week to talk natural gas deals.
3. The SPD Party has absolutely rejected CSU leader Söder's proposal for smaller nuclear reactors. Chief argument? Expense, unsafe, and produce more nuclear waste. It would just seem....if one could ever find a way to dispose of radioactive waste....the bulk of arguments would go away pretty fast.
4. Lanz talk show from last night....topic of bulking up pensions came up...with Lauterbach (SPD) as a guest, and a youth-CDU group guest. The CDU guest noted a 120-billion 'hole' existing Lauterbach went to conspiracy-theory-chatter accusations.
The problem here....most economists do agree a hole exists....however the number is always argued about....might be 10-billion....might be 40-billion....yes, even 120-billion.
I would suggest....it's probably closer to 100-billion, and will require fresh new taxes of some type.
5. Both ZDF and ARD (the 2 public TV networks)....are trying to tell bits/pieces of the Epstein story. The problem is...they've avoided it for a decade. If you asked a hundred German adults....probably 90-percent know nothing much about the guy. When Epstein Isle comes up....some think of the guy as an American billionaire/oligarch character.
6. Interior Minister got into a talk yesterday....suggesting a counter-war situation against the drone problem. Then he uttered: "direct use of firearms". Not sure how this will be developed.
The overall opinion of the German gov't.....all of the drone business is a Russia thing.
7. WELT piece this AM....talking over the UK introduction of mini-nuke-reactors for power requirements.
Pretty sure....no German discussion until you have a massive power loss.
8. We had a water issue in my city (Wiesbaden) couple of weeks ago....they wanted folks for 4 days to boil water. Yesterday, they finally came to tell the rest of the story, and why it was contaminated.....spiders got into the water supply.
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The french vitrify "seal in glass" their high level nuclear waste and store in barrels underground..
It seems like a good idea
Merkel's first job, for CDU, after unification....was nuke energy and the hot topic of storage. Took her about a year to lay out the science....barrels underground wouldn't work. From that day on...nuke energy in Germany was doomed. Science needs to advance with some tech-crap that would make it 'safe'.
Call Elon Musk, have him load all nuclear material into a SpaceX rocket and launch it to Venus. The material will decay in a few hours when exposed to Venus's atmosphere. Problem solved.
I don't think the aliens will accept that situation. Some kind of federation rule I bet.
Actually I have since researched the idea. Several factors prevent such a thing, 1. International law dating back to 1967
2. A rocket failure could cause nuclear material to spread globally (currently 1 out of 100 rockets fail)
3. Cost, It is apparently cheaper to store it underground.
4. The United Federation of Planets doesn't actually exit yet so they cannot voice an opinion.
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