1. Putin had some student PR session yesterday (for public TV consumption). So he chats up on the fact that Germany is still occupied (controlled by the American Army).
I was entertained by the idea. Since 1945, it is true....the US Army has maintained a presence in Germany. For probably a decade after the war, there was a fair amount of control extended over Germany. Since the mid-1950s....zero control. But Russians might easily perceive what Putin has said and believe it.
2. Just an odd thing you notice via Focus this AM.....long chat about knife attacks in Germany, and they point out that the federal apparatus (PKS) doesn't really put out the national story. There are no statistics to analyze.
3. From the railway car stabbing episode.....I chatted on from yesterday....cops now say the guy had a record (around a dozen times that he'd been brought before a court).
A process was underway to deport him.....from what N-TV news had hinted.
Most accounts describe the guy in a state of confusion. They don't say 'drugged-up' but you get the impression that he must have been on some type of drug.
4. About a month ago....both ZDF and ARD (public TV) went on a big positive hype of the 'far-right' gov't of Brazil going away, and 'trusted' Lula was to return....bringing in stability. President Steinmeier of Germany even traveled over and was part of the change-over.
Well....WELT wrote up a big piece today.....suggesting all this positive chatter in recent days by Lula about the great things going on in Venezuela and Cuba...pretty much wrecked all the good beliefs of the German political system.
5. The German Economic Institute did a study. In major cities of Germay.....one out of every three families are in an apartment that this too small. Finding a place bigger and within cost is typically the problem hindering their movement.
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