1. Interesting piece off Focus this AM over Plauen (state of Saxony, about halfway between Dresden and Frankfurt).....about 65,000 residents. For about a year, in the mid-town area....a number of violent acts which lead back to non-Germans (mostly young men).
Level of violence escalating in the past couple of weeks. Now leading to locals having a fear of movement in the downtown area. If you read through things....appears to be a small group of 'misfits' who are making negative attention.
2. Whole lot of business news chatter within VW about job cuts coming....downsizing.
3. Minister of Economics Habeck....has let go of his deputy....Graichen (I talked over this issue in yesterday's blog). Interesting sideshow now to develop....the heat-pump draft law is up for discussion, and Graichen wrote a good portion of this. Whole lot of negativity brewing over the law, as is......so one might suspect that the mandated nature of this might disappear. Personally, it'd make more sense to offer a five-year period of zero VAT (no taxation) for the heat-pump installation to entice people into installing it.
4. CDU/CSU is openly calling for an end to the revolving door between the government and think-tanks. A lot of this leads back to the Green Party, but all four of the big parties are doing this at the national level. One might suspect it occurs even at the state-level.
5. Court case opened yesterday in Koblenz....against those five accused of coup planning.
Three stages were discussed as they opened the case. The group had planned on a massive nation-wide power-failure (taking down the grid), then kidnapping the Health Minister (Lauterbach), and finally a take-over of the Berlin gov't would occur.
Oddly enough, in this final stage, they had a person who resembled Chancellor Scholz in mind....to fake-out the public and convince them of a peaceful movement to the new gov't.
Lot of attention focused on the case....probably eight minutes of the late news last night covered this.
The one female accused? A former school teacher....75 years old....had to be carried into the court. Physically, I'd say she's in pretty weak condition. I'd take a humble guess she doesn't weigh more than 90 pounds.
From this core group of five, if convicted on all charges? Probably a minimum of 20 years.
I'll add this last comment.....I seriously doubt that the case ends in 2023. This will likely be a fairly long episode, and this former school teacher....I have my doubts that she's around (alive) at the end.
On guilt? It's just an amazing amount of belief that they could carry out a coup against the German government, and their absolute belief that people would form up with the 'recovered' monarchy government....invented out of thin air. I would make a humble observation that fewer than 2-percent of the public might be open to this 'invention' or coup.
This to be made into a movie one day? Somewhere down the line (probably in ten years)....someone will try to explain this story, but it'll come out as a comedy, instead of a drama.
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