1. I was watching N-TV yesterday, and the German police admitted a interesting statistic on train travel, and assaults.
Acts of violence (use of knives)...in both trains and train-stations in Germany....doubled in 2022, over 2021 numbers.
336 acts. Of this....82 were on the trains themselves, the rest in stations.
There were 14,155 total acts across the nation (in terms of any type of assault) in 2022, with around 55-percent being non-German in terms of 'who' committed the act.
2. Erdogan says 'yes' to Finland joining NATO.....not so much for Sweden. This will present a dilemma.
3. Three elections in 2023 for Austria....first one was yesterday. What to take home about the results? The ÖVP Party (Chancellor's group) suffered some bad numbers, and the more right-leaning FPÖ Party is picking up more support.
4. Months ago....Putin called up the UK PM (then Johnson), and talked up the idea of a rocket attack upon them. Mostly BS, but it's headline news.
5. Some chatter in Hamburg over the Minister of Justice (Green Party official) who may not have enforced the laws on this train-attack culprit....prior to his situation. I would suggest some review will occur....perhaps even a truth commission.
The chief problem? Various laws are already on the books, and it just seems like they avoided reading over them or enforcing them.
6. The Broadcasting Council (the overlords of public TV) wants to have a chat with the bosses of WDR (sub-network off ARD). In this talk....Louis Klamroth (new moderator for Hart Aber Fair's public forum show) will have to appear. He kinda hid his relationship with a known environmental activist until after he secured his new position.
I would imagine the Council will tell Klamroth that as long as the forum show does not touch any environmental topic....he's OK. On average? I'd say in the past five years....they average a minimum of five shows a year on environmental hype.
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Given that the conservatives are the Kremlin branch within Westminster I'm sure it's just cover fire. The amount of oligarch money that props them up is amazing, and was the whole driving force behind the Brexit misinformation campaign. They didn't want to have to be subject to the EU tax transparency laws, which suited the conservatives and all their other donors just fine.
While some of what you suggest is true....lets be honest, a ton of money-laundering by Russian Oligarch folks and general Russian mafia...is positioned in Germany today. Somewhat true for France as well. Probably half of the SPD Party elite have some pro-Kremlin position and it's been that way since the 1960s. Lets not even drag up Cypriot/Greek bank failures with Oligarch funds lost.
On the UK, both the conservatives and liberals have lost public trust in the past five years. The aftermath of BREXIT is just of forty-odd issues brewing. There is no magic formula to restore public trust at present.
The main problem with Boris Johnson's claims is that he's shown he's a pathological liar. It's why he's facing the privileges committee next month, and Sunak might follow him due to lying about his knowledge over Zahawi's investigation.
And yes, you're right, it's only surfacing though thanks to some of these tax transparency laws, and now it's poisonous to touch this stuff.
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