Tuesday, February 9, 2021

Is There Anything Really Happening in Germany?

 If you went and crossed off Covid-19 topic, the blizzard business, and the prep-up for the March state elections in Baden-Wurttemberg and the Pfalz....well, yeah....it's a pretty empty newscast.  

Face it, the US barely gets mentioned now that Biden is President.

BREXIT?  Done, and finished.

Scandals?  We haven't had a decent German scandal in at least two years.

Wirecard?  It ought to be a top ten story, but a fair number of political folks are tangled up into this....so you don't hear much.

Violent crime and hired-killings?  German police have commented on this (as well as Interpol), but it's rarely front-page news.  ARD did a short piece today talking about the profits of the criminal gangs/clans.....in Europe, adding up to 100 billion Euro a year.  The gangs?  The police readily admit that Vietnamese, Mexican and Columbian groups are now operating in Europe.

Russia?  There's usually some update nightly on ARD/ZDF, but it's mostly video of demonstrations.

A slow period?  More or less.  

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