1. Another shooting. What the Hessen state police say....around 5:40 PM Saturday....2 folks were shot dead on the street in front of a apartment building in Bad Nauheim (Wetterau region), Huge police operation developed....dozens of police. For reference, this is about 30 minutes straight north of Frankfurt....pretty near the autobahn.
So far....no real description, or motivation given. Ages of the two dead folks....unknown.
Yeah, it's just rare that shootings occur in Germany....so this went to front-page news in a hurry.
2. I noticed this story in the AM today. If you want to join the German police, there are several tests to rank you in the process.
In the Hamburg region, for the city-police....they've decided to abolish the dictation test in their aptitude test .
Reasoning? Roughly 60 percent of all applicants failed the test. What you can get out of this....standards of school work....where you'd pick up the skill of dictation....are slacking.
3. Poland went in the past week to make illegal....taking pictures of certain locations (25,000 of them)....saying it's for a security reason. Even some bridges are on this list. Related to a fear of Russian invasion? I get some sense out of this way of thinking but it'll be a challenge if you were a tourist....trying to figure out ways to photograph something.
4. I noticed some SPD chatter this AM....possibly discussing raising some taxes....with the CDU-CSU saying they won't agree to this.
5. I watched a N-TV piece this AM....referencing public discontent about center-center political positions (something that Merkel started). Problem? Well....the general public now are saying such politics....aren't right-wing enough, and that some positions need to be 'marked' to move further right (politically).
I was at a base logistics point (Ramstein) in the 2007/2008 period, and got into a talk with a older German base employee. He was fairly disgruntled over the way that the CDU was progressing with this center-center political talk. Even at that point....people like this guy didn't think the party was conservative anymore.
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