Wednesday, January 14, 2026

Soap Opera Chatter

 About ten days ago....(2 Jan 2026), oddly just a couple of hours before the Berlin blackout...Channel 2 (ZDF, public TV) had a police 'soap-opera' (krimi series "SOKO Leipzig")....which came up at 9:15 PM.

I was channel-flipping....watched about 10 minutes of the show, and continued channel-flipping.

The initial buy-in?  Some type of scenario with radical eco-terrorism....convincing you that they were lefty-environmentalists.

So the next day....number of Germans commented via social media over what developed during the 90-minute.

Basically....there was a kidnapping of environmental activists from the "Blühende Landschaften" (Flowering Landscapes) movement.

This was all tied  into a 2nd more radical eco-group "Kommando 5 nach 12" (Command 5 After 12).  Yeah, catchy names, I will admit.

Somewhere in the first  30 minutes....there's this odd twist with the plot.

The Command 5 After 12 is really faked-up environmentalist group....who are NOT left-wing extremists.  Nope....they are some Reichsbürger movement (extreme right-wing nutcases who want to trigger a coup in Germany).

Yeah....so the kidnapping script/show....is mostly a false flag.

So what is odd here....at 02:47 (roughly 3 to 4 hours)....the Berlin power grid went down because of the explosion.

Tied in?  No.  But if you were a Berlin resident affected, and the next couple of days went by with various explanations over the situation....you might remember the ZDF cop show and wonder....maybe it was a fake environmentalist (really a Reichsberger guy) who did the damage.

I'll end my commentary with this humble thought....back a decade or so ago....I quit watching these German public TV cop-soap-operas...mostly because the scripts were so faked-up and marginal.  It felt like watch 1970s 'Dragnet' shows.  Maybe  I'll have to reverse my stand and start viewing them again.


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