Tuesday, April 15, 2025

15 Apr 2025: Eight German News Stories

 1.  Odd death....Hamburg, over the weekend.  What the cops say....they were called...1 AM Sunday.  Dead body on the ground outside of a apartment building.

Upstairs....they determine the dead guy is a 15-year old Syrian kid, who lived in the building.  They go to the 8th floor apartment.  At some  point...the kid had fallen off the balcony.

Then they come to these five  'guests'....4 Syrian young lads...juveniles, and one Iraqi female.....20 years old.  

No one seems to know much and there's some speculation of the dead kid having been pushed off the rail.

2. N-TV item.....what German city makes the most from speeding tickets and fines?  Berlin, with 112.43 million Euro annually.

3.  The state of NRW....Ministry of Education...has given out advice to teachers.  If your room gets out of control (hinting violence)......flee (don't try to deescalate the matter).  

4.   N-TV ran a piece this AM....talking over what some fear is a health risk with E-cars....by having a fair amount of magnetic fields in a tight space.  Experts have reviewed the numbers and say there is no risk.  The numbers of E-cars presently in Germany?  1.6 million.

The one thing I found interesting....or lacking...in this discussion....it appears that only German or European cars were in the study.    

5.  Extreme weather deaths in Europe for 2024?  N-TV spoke to the topic, and said 335 Europeans died in some manner....by extreme weather.

6.  Not a well known fact in Germany, but presently...just over 800 non-alcohol beer brands now sold in Germany.

7.  ARD (public TV,  Channel 1) has added a new news-documentary piece called 'Klar'.  Aim?  Well....the question opens in each episode....'what is going wrong in society', and basically lays out problems that people are discussing.

Yeah, a bit unusual....admitting negative landscapes in German culture.

The previous mentality....never discuss screwed-up things in a public forum.

8..  Should be interesting weather in my valley this afternoon....weather guy is giving a 75-percent chance of rain....something rarely seen since Christmas. 

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