1. The RKI folks (national health)....did a study and concluded that 40-percent of Germans don't get enough sleep....more so for men, than women. Varying reasons given, but there's a list of consequences (bad ones)...if you aren't getting enough sleep.
2. Focus article on Russia....Russians quietly withdrawing their cash from banks....trust on the decline. Banks/state itself.....now at risk.
3. Jan Solwyn....former German federal police officer and currently a security analyst....suggests that in major metro cities of Germany....civil-war potential is brewing....because of crime syndicates/families/clans. He gave a talk, and indicates that it's beyond the control of what exists for the police.
4. WELT article: local authorities in Koln examining record and actions of the migration office. Some suggestion that they were anti-deportation.
5. Just odd numbers that make no sense. Currently, in Germany....over 9.2 million people are unemployed.....while the national authorities are hyped up saying that is a shortage of skilled workers.
It begs the question....why expect migration to fix/resolve the shortage?
6. Someone on social media pointed out: More people died in France this year (2026) from not having air conditioning (7,300) than American deaths from mass shootings in all of recorded U.S. history (1,741).
I paused over this numbers-BS....yeah, the point of climate-change and European heat deaths...you eventually drift over to comparisons that make points invalid.
7. SPD chatter on income tax reform has started up. CDU-CSU not exactly in agreement on where this is going. If you were hyped-up....the SPD end-result is probably 300 Euro in your pocket for the whole year. Not exactly worth opening a bottle of champaign over.
8. German natural gas reserves in trouble? Well....German levels (as of last week) were at the 50-percent point (mandated levels). At this time a year ago....it would have been at 67-percent. Reaching the 80-percent point by 1 November (on the books, it is mandatory that they be at that level)....if you use the calculations....they probably will be 66-to-68 percent.
Problems in buying NG? Tankers are looking for bids and each load has a hefty price tag.
This relating to a winter shortage of natural gas? It would depend on winter temperatures and how Feb/Mar goes.
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