Friday, April 19, 2024

20 April 2024: 4 German News Stories

 1.  Large segment on Focus...talking up Putin, strategy of Russia to take on NATO, invade Baltic states, etc.  Probably worth a read.

Just a lot of BS chatter.  Russians have lost bulk (probably 90-percent) of all hardware for the Army since 2000, in this invasion of Ukraine.  Even if you started to rebuild....it'd take 20 to 30 years to be back into a real threat to NATO.

2.  ARD (public German TV, Channel One) has their 'boss' out and doing PR to sell the general public on media-tax increase. 

No real polls existing, but I'd say it's near 50-percent of the public who want major reform of public TV, and zero tax increase. 

3.  Nuthetal (town outside of Berlin)....has put up a city-wide rule....no robotic mowers operating at night.

I'll just say that this robotic mower thing has really caught on with the general public.  So the odd thing is that it's fairly quiet, and folks even run the mowers in evening hours.  The threat here?  Small hedge hogs are active at night, and the mowers 'threaten' them in some fashion.

4.  Some political talk of a national day to recognize German military vet's.  

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