1. The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) says (as of April 1), 575 people in Germany are 'watched' under special official rules, as dangerous individuals.
Majority? Under the class of "religious ideology." Figure around 458.
2. The BSW Party is still asking for a national re-count of the election. They missed getting seats in the Bundestag....by roughly 9,000 votes. Won't happen....my bet.
3. Flights from Aghanistan with new refugees to Germany....are halted until the new coalition steps in.
4. I watched a piece from ARD's Tagesschau news program....relating to 'space' for incoming new German Army folks, and the Army admits...in terms of barracks space, they have a serious problem.
5. AfD's headquarters in Berlin....has a problem. The landlord wants them out. Lease terminated without notice.
6. Jan Fleischhauer wrote a piece for Focus....says that roughly "65 percent of school principals report cases in which teachers were threatened, insulted, or bullied by students. 35 percent report physical attacks".
7. About two years ago....my town (Wiesbaden) voted (within the city council) a new tax.....water-consumption tax....amounting to 90-Euro-Cents per cubic meter of water use. Immediately, consumer groups sued...saying it wasn't right. It drifted around at the local level, and the court last week said that the city has the right to create such a tax.
Why a new tax? What the city said was that people were using too much water.
I posed this to my wife.....what would we have to pay, and she did the numbers....saying it was fairly close to 17 Euro a month. I then asked.....how we could cut use, and her response was....well....just stop taking one or two baths per week.
The matter going to a higher court? Yeah. What the city likely makes per year....once it's implemented? Well...near 26-million Euro (my best guess).
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