Sunday, August 25, 2024

25 August 2024: Four German News Stories

 1.  Solingen knife assault?  26-year-old Syrian who'd arrived in late 2022 for asylum....turned himself in.  

My humble guess?  Judge will probably ask for a medical/mental review, and find he has some type of schizophrenia or was drugged-up (remember little of the event).  

Three dead and five wounded from the incident.

I'll just say....chatter  has bumped up a notch.....security and safety is uttered a lot right now.

2.  Soccer coach legend....Christoph Daum....has finally passed on (cancer).  Well known in the 1980s....also had a serious cocaine habit.

3.  Some climate study done.  That goal of carving off 1.5-percent of temperature?  Now considered impossible.   Just looking over the story and general chatter...just reaching plain old 1-degree....might not even be achievable.  Probably some new goal of .5-degree.

4.   550-million Euro goes to the two churches of Germany (from the church tax business).  Tens of thousands of Germans each year....quit the churches.  So debate has started up....this burden of the 16 states to pay money out of their pot of funds....is growing.  The 550 number will likely flip to half that amount (my humble view).  Renovation projects will be what gets hit the most.  

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