Thursday, August 24, 2023

Five German News Stories: 24 Aug 2023

 1.  Wagner boss (Prigozhin) dead?  Pretty much the lead story across Germany last night.  They spent a fair amount of time telling of his air crash.  

Am I skeptical?  Well....it'd be awful easy to have a look-alike climb aboard the plane and fly out into doom.

2.  Markus Lanz ZDF (public TV, Channel 2) Late Show for last night?  Curious piece....he invited Anton Hofreiter.....fairly well known Green Party member.  Fairly intense talk about why the coalition gov't is so screwed-up.  Hofreiter doesn't occupy a position, so he's free to talk.  His blame?  Chancellor (Scholz).  

3.  Anthropologists across Europe are all hyped-up.  New dig-discovery....in France.....bone found which doesn't belong to humans or Neanderthals.  

4.  Green Party 'boss' (Lang) made a comment on Twitter, where tons of likes were achieved.  Research has now proven....the bulk of the likes....were 'bots'.  So the question comes up....did Lang or the Green Party pay for the bot's work?

5.  WELT had a piece over Serbia, and their spending a fair amount of cash on Chinese anti-aircraft hardware, and twenty-thousand Iranian-made drones.  Balkans war being viewed?

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