1. Focus had a pretty interesting summary of issues now existing with the heat-pump agenda....worth reading.
One thing they point out....presently, the enthusiasm to shop around and go heat-pump....has crapped out.
Natural gas and oil heating systems? Upward trend.
One interesting point that is continually brought out....homes built two or three decades ago and going back....never were wired-up to handle heat-pumps...let alone....charging up of cars. So if you did go and have interest in heat-pumps now....you'd have to bring in the electrical guy to survey the house. My humble guess (a home built in 1960s)...the electrician would just start laughing. You'd need 7k Euro minimum of electrical wiring upgrades before you even talked about the heat-pump.
2. Ukraine-Russia war. Just an odd thing....the FSB (former KGB) was given orders to investigate the Wagner contractor chief and Wagner itself.
Prigozhen (the boss) has gotten into a corner and finding himself isolated from Putin.
WELT says that one group of Wagner has advanced onto Rostov. Numbers? Conflicting. It sounds like a couple of hundred.
One could ask the question....are the regular police equipped or trained to handle an internal civil conflict (I doubt it), and presently....the Russian Army is stretched-out.
3. Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud....major grocery chains and 'separate' for a couple of decades (family decision to split them) are discussing a merger. Would be a big deal if this occurred.
4. German weather guys say the jet-stream has gone back to 'normal'....with more rain anticipated for the next four weeks. Drought situation currently? Up until the past week....my valley had gone almost 100 days without any rainfall.
5. Journalists shocked (at least WELT says so) that the police have been listening into phone conversations with the Last Generation activists.
Once the judges declared the 'kids' as a criminal front....the legal papers were signed to listen in. I'm surprised that news folks didn't grasp that.
6. WELT had a piece which details clan-wars going on in Castrop and Essen....between clans associated with Lebanese families and Syrians.
You could go back a decade and see the problem developing. I suspect if you asked around Hamburg, Frankfurt, etc.....there's pre-war developments occurring each week.
7. Criticisms of the German national soccer team and coaching? In the past month....probably the most of the entire past decade.
8. Till Lindemann's legal troubles (the Rammstein scandal business) went down a notch this week. The police in Lithuania completed their investigation of allegations....saying nothing illegal occurred. German cops? Still looking into allegations.
I'll say....if the German cops come to wrap up the case and say no charges.....a lot of anger will brew over how the news media handled the suggestion of a crime.
9. HR (public TV for Hessen) did a fairly big story over Frankfurt being the cocaine-hub of Germany. The South American cartels have developed this over the past decade.
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