1. 2nd heat wave in effect.....yesterday was 35 C day (95 F). Today will max at 31 C. Yeah, I've been running the portable AC unit a bit.
Thursday is supposed to return to the 27-to-30 C temps for a week.
2. Crazy police crash in Frankfurt last night. From the report....cops were bringing two 'guests' back to the squad area....crashing into another vehicle.....both vehicles totaled.
3. ZDF (public TV, Channel 2) ran another 45-min Bahn (railway) critical report last night.
The general problem (if you review the facts)....the Bahn is in the middle of a long era (over 10 years) of upgrades/renovation. Anyone expecting the top efficiency BS....is kidding themselves. If you are on a wild 500 km trip via the Bahn....yeah, you need to be open to the idea of delays or cancellations.
4. 20 Sep Berlin-City election approaching. Linke Party in the lead: 21-percent. CDU at 19-percent SPD at 12-percent. AfD at 18-percent. Greens at 17-percent. Everyone else at 4-percent or less.
CDU currently runs the council......so the Linke is posed to lead.
Based on reporting....a large segment of the youth vote is Linke at this point.
5. EU has started to talk 'tough' on border control, and people-smuggling. Whether or not it's true....unknown.
6. Hotel Adion in Berlin to be sold. Highest rated hotel in Germany....was actually owned by a syndicate group.....around 4,000. Most were in a age-group aimed for retirement and wanted to 'dump' their shares. About a 3-min walk from the US embassy.
7. The 'Abdul-terrorist' event in Berlin...isn't really concluded (the guy is dead).
Questions continue to arise. One of the key ones.....police had identified him as a 'threat'.....yet he was on bail. How this was possible....no one can readily explain.
8. Oddly, several cities that hosted World Cup soccer games....are waiting to be paid by FIFA for 'services'.
9. Ladies Tour de France.....investigations? Well....there's inspections going on....some type of special bra being used....for aero-dynamic purposes (illegal apparently). My view....if you are a big-boob gal and Tour-rider.....this improves airflow around the boobs. How they tested this and proved the point....unknown.
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