Well....a major distributor brought this up yesterday....since the team is 'out'.
I asked the wife...if this would affect sports-viewing and marginal interest for the remainder of the games. Answer: 'hell---yes'.
Even beer consumption will probably drop.
Well....it's odd to lay this out.
This Turk-German guy (born in Germany, ethnic status: Turk)....lives in Hannover. He was driven by a older gal (age 65), who was a migration policy activist....from a local NGO.
German federal program (financed)....called 'Democracy Live'.
The strange thing is that he (the shooter) was a German (born in Germany)....yet being handled/supported....as a immigrant/migrant.
No one says much....in the retreat/effort-to-leave-the-scene...but the gal (driver) had to hear the shots and know chaos was occurring.
Charges on her? I seriously doubt it. She simply believed in good intent (even if he had a open-file with the police....connected to some crime-clan operation).
For a normal German looking at the whole story....nothing makes much sense.
Jürgen Klopp. (My humble guess)
Management career: 2001–2008: Mainz 05 (considered a legend in Mainz), 2008–2015: Borussia Dortmund (considered a legend in Dortmund), and 2015–2024: Liverpool (considered a legend).
He 'retired' in 2024, and returned to the Wiesbaden....saying he was finished.
1. Weather folks anticipating 35-plus C temp's.....mid-July.
2. Job Center authorities in Neukölln....early Wednesday morning....did a 'audit' o a homeless shelter for fraud. Twenty-six folks were noted 'gone'....explanation? Well....they were on vacation. How they could afford vacation? Unknown.
When they show back up....there's some explaining to do.
3. The DFB (Deutscher Fußball-Bund / German Football Association) headquarters in Frankfurt....got raided yesterday by police.
150 cops involved.....accusation? Investigation into suspected corruption / granting and accepting undue advantages (Vorteilsgewährung / Vorteilsannahme) linked to UEFA Euro 2024 in Germany.
It appears some type of possibly illegal or preferential internal allocation of thousands of tickets to favored guests.
WELT says the suspects...include a 66-year-old German (former administrative employee from Gelsenkirchen, previously known in connection with fraud allegations).
Official response? No-comment.
4. Lot of chatter over the contract of the German national team coach....very critical. Even if they fire him....he walks away with 11-million Euro.
5. That shooter guy (I essayed the story 3 days ago)....bought the pistol used....around 7-to-14 days prior....4,000 Euro. (Bild)
'Intent' will come up in the court business now.
First, power grid cost are outrageous....more than most all EU member states. If you were talking about 15 days a year of running a AC unit....it's not bad. If this were 60-odd days....some folks would have a cash-flow problem.
Second, if you live in a apartment building built in the 1950s/1960s/1970s, and hasn't had a electrical renovation....you probably have a limited amount of power that you can draw. You could overcome the issue....with a 3k to 5k project.
Third and final....there's a guilt 'trip' involved....where public TV (ARD/ZDF) will attempt to identify you as a problem. I would imagine a quarter of the population would prefer not to receive criticism.
1. German national soccer 'drama'.
Apparently, the coach-contract was set to around 21-million Euro....locked into place, if the team emerged out of the first three games (which they accomplished). I think the German national authority will just let this go....probably for a year, before they dismiss the guy.
2. Of the top ten producing Russian refineries....only two are undamaged.
3. German inflation rate falls to 2.3-percent, for June.
1. This second 'heat-dome' chatter?
The current cooling off....probably 7 days of 25-to-29 C (max of 84 F). Then the heat-dome returns to some degree....probably 2 weeks....of 31 to 35 C (max of 95 F). Weather gal hint....another cooling trend occurs (week or two).
She doesn't say if a 3rd heat-dome occurs.
I would just say....as bad as 35 C (95 F) is....getting to 38 C (100 F)....is damn hot.
2. The chatter of Germans asking if this is a permanent thing....is a daily thing now.
The cut-off point, I think.....if you say there's to be 35 C plus-temps over 60-plus days each summer.....most folks are going to buy a AC unit (roll-around) by spring of 2027.
3. Could the grid handle doubling and tripling the AC unit count in Germany?
I have my doubts.
4. Mandates likely by spring of 2027?
Would not shock me if NO-Booze sales during heat waves (maybe beer/wine-coolers allowed). France has some 'rule' like this currently.
5. Buckling of pavement on a massive scale?
Talked about a good bit.
6. “Mallorca rule”?
Well....if you are a German public 'servant'....you can do home-office up to 8 weeks a year....out-of-the-country. I'm not saying they do it much....but it's been brought up.
1. Germany-Paraguay game.
This went on to like 1:30 AM. Average play by German team....nothing spectacular. Some analyst over the weekend had said....one of the weaker German teams of the past 20 years.
From the games I've watched....France and Argentina look stronger of the entire group.
Nagelsmann (the coach)? I'd say he's gone by spring of 2027. High expectations for past four years.
2. New whale drama....version 2.0....Timmy II. They named the weakened whale....'Hartwin'....younger whale than Timmy.
No analysis yet on their strategy of handling this whale.
3. Extremely high number of road 'blow-ups' being reported (because of the recent heat).
4. Weather view? About 7 more days of 25-to-28 C....then 35 C temps return.
5. Sort of funny.
I asked AI (Grok).....if El Nino was causing the US heat-umbrella/dome.....answer yes.
So I asked.....the European heat umbrella/dome....also caused by El Nino....NO.
Grok explain the US problem is El Nino, and the European problem is man-made climate change.
I paused here....asking if the US pattern of wind/Gulf Stream could be contributing....NO was the answer.
So, I asked Grok....assemble all reports/data from 1990 to 2005....asking if El Nno affects European weather patterns. 'Absolutely' was the answer.
Yeah....Grok/AI has been taught to answer in a certain way. One problem can be answered one way....the other a different way.
