More of a local-ish story from Germany: Some policeman shot a catfish that attacked some swimmers at a lake in Bavaria three times.
He didn't even kill the fish, it was later fished out of the lake and killed. There's a big investigation into if that policeman was right to shoot the fish and if it was right to kill it in the first place (it wasn't IMO).
Germany: After Germany started ramping up border controls, Poland has now started stopping and controlling people coming in from Germany in retaliation.
Croatia:
- Thompson 0.5mill people concert was yesterday in a country with less than 4mill people, so more than 20% of people attended the concert.
- also it is one of the biggest concerts in the world if not the biggest by tickets sold.
- sauce in english
And holy hell was it a bizarre nationalist spectacle!
We watched a bit on YouTube and it felt like some sort of awful scene from a movie...
That's fucking depressing.
Sorry to hear that it's also a bad thing.
Hopefully it was also bringing ultra right wing nationalist types from other countries and not drawing exclusively from Croatia.
I do enjoy the irony of idolizing a puppet regime though. Strange that people want even their government leaders to be boot lickers of others again.
Germany:
- Current government promised to reduce taxation on electricity "for all, immediately", but only reduced it for large companies instead.
- The former minister of health did some odd deals to acquire masks at the beginnig of the pandemic, which now become public.
- Border controls to reject immigrants has been an issue between Germany and Poland.
UK. The Australian Mushroom murders are big news here.
Catfishes are biting swimmers in a lake and therefore getting shot by police.
Australia: A mother was found guilty today of murdering her in-laws and a friend by inviting them over for a beef Wellington lunch, laced with foraged Death Cap mushrooms. Tried fairly hard to get her (estranged) husband over for the lunch too.
Brazil: the big retirement fund steal (Fraude do INSS) and how the govt is acting to try and give the old people their money back.
In an extremely predictable twist, the right-wing is doing everything they can to paint the fraud solely as the current govt's fault, despite them being in control from 2016-2022, years during which said fraud was already running.
Political scandal involving our current prime minister and his funding sources, that seem like cutbacks or getting paid for money laundering.
Oh blimey any truth in it?
The people who do the investigations are reputable if not always likeable. But we'll see what the government investigation reveals.
Last news article I saw making waves was train ticket prices going up
Not countrywide, but in Philadelphia, PA, USA, there is a city-worker strike and there is now trash everywhere. The mayor defended her proposal to the union and said "If this means I'm gonna be a one-term mayor, so be it". Wow what a great mayor (sarcasm). Defending the decision to pay people less? Lolol. Could've said "budget issues" or whatever... but wtf is this "idc if I lose the next election" attitude? Fuck this shit, primary them all.
We could've had a progressive, but instead, the two progressives split the primary vote and this centrist/conservative democrat got nominated and elected. What a shitshow lmfao.
Also she said she opposed stop and frisk, but then when she ran for mayor, she said she support stop and frisk to lower crime...
Um... okay Mayor "Flip-Flop I can't decide my political positions" Parker. Lol
Anyways, this is just city drama, hopefully this isn't too political for this comm.
