1. Curious update on the Trier stabbing-death of the university student by the Afghan refugee guy.
Prosecutor is using paragraph 126A....holding the guy in a mental clinic. Once established as 'mentally-lack-of-culpability', or unable to handle right from wrong....zero charges and he'll be set for life in a German mental hospital.
Not saying right or wrong, but the public will ask from day one, that he entered Germany.....shouldn't someone have tested/noted the guy was this way and sent him 'home'?
From social media commentary....folks from around Trier (I lived there for 13 months) are fairly hyped-up (critical/negative).
2. Jens Spahn (CDU political figure, gay) and his husband....went through a US-gal for surrogacy.....producing a kid....for a sum of money.
Yeah, it's illegal if you'd done it in Germany. But since it was in the US....totally legal.
Oddly, ARD (Channel 1 of public TV) made this top-top-top news at 8 PM last night.
Personally, I didn't see a big deal, and I suspect there are probably 300 German gay couples a year who go the US surrogacy route.
3. German union folks are pushing for heat-related compensation payment. Probably won't pass in 2026....but in 2027....possible. They suggest one in three Germans deserve heat compensation.
How you'd assess heat zones? Unknown.
Seems like you'd have to require sensors on people.
4. Noted in news yesterday.....300,000 individuals (with a guest situation)....are unemployed, and lacking job-skills. Selling point to open-door policy....was that they'd fit in, and be skilled-employees.
What is odd....the German economy is struggling. Companies are shutting down. People are dealing with salary cuts or losing their jobs. AT SAME TIME....Germany needs around 400,000 new workers every year to fill the gaps in its workforce. It doesn't make sense.
5. Odd travel news....Turk flying from Turkey to Dusseldorf....gets on plane and finds he has to sit next to a woman....complains.....says he can't do it.....stewardess intervenes....Turk slaps the stewardess to knock sense into her.
Probably going to be charges on the guy.
Will probably have to be a male-only area to sit....in the future. If airlines were smart....they'd charge extra for this benefit.
6. Malaria reported in Frankfurt area.....all four with it...employees at the airport. Some belief that mosquitos got into the country.
Hate to imagine that I'm only 22 miles from the Flughafen.
7. Under-16 'kids' in UK...banned from energy drinks....new law.
Personally.....the over-60 crowd probably needs a banning as well.
8. Munich says they will build up a structure at the airport....allowing up to 100 folks to be delivered daily....from the banned group, and deported. State money flowing in....to make the building possible.
9. General average of 4,000 Euro....now required to pay for driver's license/training in Germany. Huge sum of money.
Alternate path? You could go to Romania or Bulgaria....do the same training....half the cost.
Amazing that the Air Force (while stationed at Bitburg) did it free of charge for me.
10. EU Commission examining a technology that would locate new cars via GPS, 5G, and cameras from space, reduce engine power if in a lower zone area, and automatically brake as soon as a lower speed limit is detected.
Probably three years away from development.
If you poll Germans....I would guess 90-percent would be against the idea.
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