1. In the past year, I've cut back drastically on watch ARD's Monday night public forum show....Hart Aber Fair (Hard But Fair). New moderator, and fairly biased....at this point. I did catch about 20 minutes of it last night.
It was mostly a public forum over poor people in Germany.....controlled by 'people north of Brandenburg' (yeah, there's a tune here but lets skip that).
Some mother called in and told her woeful story.....she ain't got money for this or that, and caring for her kids is a pitiful story. Moderator tried to get the Green Party 'boss' (Lang)....one of the guests....to respond.....she couldn't say much of anything.
If the numbers are to be trusted....twenty-percent of German society in a bad state of financial affairs and 'just-living' (my phrase for it).
2. This Meseberg Castle meeting for the SPD-coalition coming up?
The Chancellor needs a script for the next six months where positive things come out, and no crappy failures. In some ways, this meeting is supposed to get the Green Party, SPD Party and FDP Party....reading off the same script.
3. Is Berlin in a drinking-water crisis?
Well....for months, there's been this 'message' going on that maybe Berlin has a future potential drinking water problem.
So the current suggestion? Some money would go up to the far north (coast of the Baltic)....build a desalinization plant, and then pump water 195 kilometers (more or less). You can build these plants (medium-sized) for about 20-million Euro these days, but if you were talking a mega-plant (for Berlin), then the pipes to bring it to Berlin? I'd be guessing a minimum of 1-billion Euro.
A trend starting up with dozens of desalinization plants to be built? Wouldn't shock me.
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