Saturday, September 26, 2026

26 Sep 2026: Germany: 6 Stories

 1.  What the savings are for the 1 Oct gas-price change (due to tax cut temporarily)?  For a refueling (figure 30 liters)....about 10 Euro.  The change lasts for about 3 months.

2.  Bill Gates gave a talk this week, which got hyped-up by German newspapers/networks....saying around 1-billion people may die due to AI.

A lot of BS sprinkled around this topic.  If you crunched the numbers for Germany's 84-million population....probably 10-million Germans must die, for this theory/idea to work.  No explanation on how the folks will die.

On my doom-BS-meter (1-to-10)....this ranks about a '99' (way past turbo-BS).

3.  Saxony-Anhalt....pretty clear now....AfD and BSW will have a coalition.

4.  Ankle-monitors are a new trend in Germany....mostly where you have right-wing convicted folks.  So it came up this week....the police union of Germany wants the monitors prescribed for left-wing convicted folks as well.

5  Some demonstrations yesterday....by older school kids...against the conscription idea/draft.  

6.  Starting in November....new EU 'fee' is established...2 Euro.  If you order a product (like from Amazon) and the distributor is NON-EU....for the order, you pay 2 Euro.  Whether or not China accepts this rule, or starts a counter-rule against the EU....unknown.

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