1. As of 6:30 AM Thursday....air traffic into Frankfurt's airport shut-down.....apparently, some 'Last Generation' activists sneaked out and glued themselves on ramps.
What makes this interesting....about five months ago....the group promised that they were looking for new tactics and would cease the airport drama business.
In a normal day, Frankfurt handles around 1,400 flights. Cancellations yesterday? Near 250.
It is deep into the vacation period....so the discount airlines (the ones that want you physically on the plane at 5:30 AM for take-off, or landing at 10:45 PM)....were stuck in a landing pattern that would not work. Fair amount of hostility brewing. Leaving the next day? No one is saying that for sure.
Expectations on the activists? This time....I think the authorities will put the hammer down and start mandating multi-year jail sentences.
2. Interesting twist of politics in the state of Thuringia. Election coming up (state type) and the AfD candidate says if they win....they will cease MDR (the state public TV network) and force an end to the TV/Media tax.
On polls? Yeah, AfD seems likely to get 29-percent of the vote (first place). Since they can't partner with anyone....it seems unlikely this threat will occur.
But here's the one hook....if you go and chat with Germans in the age group of 18 to 40....I would imagine almost 50-percent of people want the TV/Media tax dumped.
3. A Frankfurt Islamic Center has now been shutdown....same story as the Hamburg episode.
4. 28 Sep 2025 is now set as the federal election day (Sunday).
5. WDR, one of the sub-public TV networks.....is putting up a new film building for the organization. An executive chair was bought....with the public TV folks paying 4,500 Euro for 'bosses' chair.
6. Ford-Germany 'boss' came up in a interview yesterday....saying the E-car business is NOT working....sales are flat.
The VW, Opel and BMW chiefs have already made similar statements.
Crisis level? When you start to pull into a German dealer lot, and he has forty E-cars just sitting there, and there's another 8,000 back at the factory....yeah, that will be the crisis point where the federal government admits they screwed up with the mandate.
7. Crazy episode in Hamburg late yesterday.....some apparently mentally unstable German guy had barricaded himself in an apartment holding hostages (one was his mother). Apparently had a AK-47. Police eventually stormed the apartment....no one harmed.
8. The Bahn (the railway system) says they had a billion-Euro loss for the previous year. To fix this? They intend to cut personnel.....while in a crisis on lateness.
Yeah, there's going to have to be a substantial rise in tickets (my guess, near 20-percent).
9. This African Swine Fever is reaching a point in Hessen (my regional state) where the authorities are actively asking hunters to go out and shoot as many wild boar as possible.
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