1. This AM....odd story developing. Since 2022....the beginning of the Ukraine-Russia war...many EU states imposed sanctions against Russia. Well....five guys in Germany circumvented these sanctions and supplied tens of thousands of products. Secret network, now exposed.
2. Beer statistics....in 2025, breweries and beer warehouses sold a total of 18.9 percent, or 1.8 billion liters, LESS beer than in 2015.
Looking over my beer consumption in 2025....I probably had no more than 40 bottles (with 20 of them the .3-liter size).
3. If you go to Rome.....the Trevi Fountain was one of the ten things you had to go and see/experience.
Rome now charges two euros to enter.
4. From RBB this AM....Security authorities for the city...speaking up of a 'hybrid' threat, with hospital operators seeing a growing risk.
Berlin hospitals have been recording an increase in suspicious incidents for months.
Combination of things: cyber attacks, drones, unauthorized persons, forced entry, etc. Belief? Russian KGB.
5. 'Schwarzfahrer', term used by Germans (translates to 'blackrider') for people on trains without tickets....NOW seen as discriminatory language.
Talk now centering on inventing a new term for something that has been used for almost 100 years in Germany.
6. Last night...prime news on ARD...natural gas reserves for the nation now down to 33-percent.
7. Josef Seitz wrote a Focus commentary....after watching the ARD (public TV) forum show last night (Caren Miosga Show).....that after a year of hyped-up worry over Trump...plus years of Ukraine-Russia war....he personally doesn't care anymore.
Yes, the hyped-up BS.....doesn't sell anymore.
8. Massive strike today (Monday) across a lot of Germany. My village and city of Wiesbaden part of it.....no bus service or local rail-traffic.
9. Across Germany....noted today....41,000 kids are repeating the first-grade (half of them...in NRW).
10. Report this AM....nearly half-a-million people in Germany (mostly men) are members of a clan-crime 'gang'.
Report says 36 groups...13 come from Arab regions, 11 belong to the Mhallamiye community with roots in Turkey, Lebanon, or Syria. 9 have Turkish origins, 2 are Kurdish, and 1 comes from the Western Balkans.
The report suggests that they now exert influence (avoiding the term blackmail) over politicians and LE.
2 comments:
Is propane not use much in germany for home heating?
Used to be a lot....villages/cities had NG pipelines installed. I looked it up...maybe still 4-to-5 percent of places have a propane situation. I was in a restaurant last weekend...that was the heating method they used.
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