Saturday, December 13, 2025

13 Dec 2025: Germany: 3 Things

 1.  Interesting docu-news program on Monday night (15 Dec)....8:15 PM...."How divided is Germany."

ARD, Channel 1.

Hour-long summary....how increased conflict/debate over values, opinions, and power is affecting Germany.  Probably worth watching.

You can throw some blame on social media....but print-media, political parties attaching themselves to trends, and TV commentary....triggering lots of people to have 'stances'

2. Germans wanting to get ALL tickets for Germany-related World Cup games (if they go to the finals)...can go through a national organization.  Problem?  Cost for such packages.....6,000 Euro.  Might be a handful of folks with that determination.  If you throw in air-travel, hotels, and food/drink....probably amounts to 25,000 Euro total.

3.  Some passenger attempted to go through/enter the Frankfurt Airport....with a false bottom  to his luggage.....11,000 diamonds found.  Guy came from Angola to Frankfurt.

Cops admitted...they had to individually count each diamond (several hours of effort).  They now need a expert to appraise each diamond. Guy sits in jail until this can be done, and a fine determined.  Could be a while.

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