Thursday, October 17, 2024

18 Oct 2024: Five German News Stories

 1.  Talk started up within the EU....to control Musk's Twitter and disinformation....the EU wants to take incoming profit/funds from all of Musk's enterprises (meaning the rocket business, Tesla, and so on). 

I looked over the story.  There is a group (not exactly a majority) within the EU with this idea.  I would imagine if you asked country-by-country....you'd find several countries that would be very fearful of this tactic and not in favor of it.

If you were seizing Tesla profits....why run the plant in Germany?  I would suspect within a day or two....it'd be shut-down and the German gov't would be asking a lot of questions over lost jobs and no production.  

The more logical approach to cancelling out the threat of too much information in society.....is to just shut down the internet, and cease 'chatter' of all  types (you know....go back to the way things were in the 1980s).  

2.  WELT piece: 90-percent of 'assistant-doctors' in Germany....are non-German, and don't speak German.  In relationship....national shortage of  doctors in Germany presently.

3.  Joe Biden in Germany for 24 hours....heavily packed schedule.

4.  Netflix numbers are up (on subscriptions).....five million 'new' accounts.

5. The smaller airlines in Germany are cutting flights.

Ryanair, Condor and Eurowings are angry over a fee increase of 2.30 euros at Hamburg Airport. Lesser flights mean a tougher time in getting reservations.

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