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Germany’s economy is facing significant challenges, with bankruptcy filings reaching a 10-year high in July.

District courts recorded 4,007 bankruptcies, marking a 19.2 percent increase from the previous year, according to the Federal Statistical Office.

This surge highlights ongoing economic pressures despite government efforts to stimulate growth.

Unemployment has also risen sharply, approaching levels not seen in a decade. The number of unemployed stands at 2.98 million, up 170,000 from last year, with 125,000 layoffs announced since July 1, as reported by the Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft.

Federal Employment Agency head Andrea Nahles anticipates the figure will exceed 3 million in August.

Economic output revisions paint a grim picture of contraction. For 2023, growth was adjusted to -0.7 percent from an initial -0.1 percent estimate, and 2024’s figure was revised to -0.5 percent from -0.2 percent, per the Federal Statistical Office. The first quarter of 2025 continues to show negative growth.

Industrial production dropped 1.9 percent in June, hitting its lowest point since the coronavirus pandemic. Sectors like chemicals, mechanical engineering, and automotive manufacturing have been hit hardest.

These declines come amid Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s earlier pledge for a summer turnaround through tax relief, reduced bureaucracy, and major investments.

Merz’s administration unleashed nearly a trillion euros in debt for infrastructure and defense to jumpstart the economy. However, business leaders argue that without deep structural reforms, these measures fall short.

A summit with top corporations in July promised hundreds of billions in investments, yet economists warn of continued crisis without changes.

CEOs are voicing urgent calls for deregulation to counter overregulation’s harms. Belén Garijo, CEO of Merck, stated that Europe must adapt to realities or lose industrial leadership due to excessive rules and stagnation.

Ryanair’s Eddie Wilson criticized Germany’s high fees and taxes, leading to reduced flight offerings in major cities.

Mercedes boss Ola Källenius specifically urged the government to push for weakening EU climate goals in alliance with Paris, Rome, and Warsaw.

This reform is seen as essential to ease burdens on industry. Such demands reflect broader frustrations with policies that hinder competitiveness.

Clemens Fuest, president of the ifo-Institute for Economic Research , advocated for a comprehensive reform package across departments. This includes capital market deregulation, increased startup financing, simplified tax laws, and administrative digitization.

Wolfgang Große Entrup, head of the German Chemical Industry Association, pressed for immediate cuts to paperwork by 25 percent. He warned that the world will not wait for Germany to act.

Bureaucracy alone costs companies 146 billion euros annually, with employees spending 22 percent of time on administrative tasks.

Arndt G. Kirchhoff, a business association president, highlighted excessive bureaucracy, high energy costs, taxes, and social contributions as key burdens.

Within the CDU, General Secretary Carsten Linnemann acknowledged missteps in a letter to members. He admitted frustrations over issues like electricity taxes and judicial elections. Linnemann reflected on the country’s mood, noting it has not improved as hoped in the government’s first 100 days.

A Forsa survey reveals 62 percent of Germans fear further economic decline. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) continues to surge with promises of improvement, while the CDU/SPD coalition engages in anti-democratic lawfare as Germany’s economy slumps.

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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has issued an immediate freeze on all employment visas for commercial truck drivers, declaring that the growing number of foreign drivers on American roads is “endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.”

The directive follows a shocking August 12 crash on the Florida Turnpike.

Harjinder Singh, a 28-year-old Indian national who reportedly entered the U.S. illegally in 2018, performed an unauthorized U-turn through an “Official Use Only” zone.

His tractor-trailer blocked traffic, resulting in a fatal collision with a minivan that claimed the lives of three innocent Americans.

State and federal investigators later confirmed that Singh lacked English proficiency, failing to correctly identify road signs or answer basic language questions.

According to Homeland Security:

“Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien from India who killed three innocent people, FAILED an English Language Proficiency assessment. Singh provided correct responses to just 2 of 12 verbal questions and only accurately identifying 1 of 4 highway traffic signs.

And yet, Gavin Newsom’s sanctuary California gave this illegal alien who cannot speak English a Commercial Drivers License to drive an 18-wheeler.

DHS will work with [U.S. Department of Transportation] to root out and prevent illegal aliens from obtaining these licenses from sanctuary jurisdictions that put American drivers and passengers in danger.”

UPDATE: Harjinder Singh, an illegal alien from India who killed three innocent people, FAILED an English Language Proficiency assessment. Singh provided correct responses to just 2 of 12 verbal questions and only accurately identifying 1 of 4 highway traffic signs.

And yet,… pic.twitter.com/AwndMrW9Vm

— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) August 20, 2025

Secretary Rubio’s freeze on issuing truck driver visas is part of a broader push to raise safety standards and enforce immigration policy.

The suspension applies to all nationalities and will remain in place pending a review of vetting and licensing protocols, according to Politico.

“Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers. The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers,” Rubio wrote on X.

Effective immediately we are pausing all issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.

The increasing number of foreign drivers operating large tractor-trailer trucks on U.S. roads is endangering American lives and undercutting the livelihoods of American truckers.

— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) August 21, 2025

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The FBI has raided the Maryland home of Trump’s former National Security Adviser, John Bolton.

On Friday morning, at 7 a.m., FBI agents raided Bolton’s Bethesda, Maryland, home in an investigation that FBI Director Kash Patel is leading.

The investigation is reportedly linked to a classified documents probe years ago, but was later shut down under the Biden administration.

LOOK:

BREAKING: Federal agents are RIGHT NOW in John Bolton’s home “going through things” following an early morning FBI RAID in the DC area over national security concerns.

Yes. We did, indeed, vote for this.

This is Bolton’s primary residence.

“This deals with classified… pic.twitter.com/PmIOAxTgtA

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) August 22, 2025

As the raid began, FBI Director Kash Patel took to X and wrote, “NO ONE is above the law.”

NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) August 22, 2025

Per The New York Post:

FBI agents raided former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton’s DC-area home Friday morning in a high-profile national security probe, The Post can exclusively reveal.

Federal agents busted into Bolton’s house in Bethesda, Md., at 7 a.m. in an investigation ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel, a Trump administration official told The Post.

“NO ONE is above the law… @FBI agents on mission,” he said in a cryptic post to X shortly after the raid began.

The probe — which is said to involve classified documents — was first launched years ago, but the Biden administration shut it down “for political reasons,” according to a senior US official.

Bolton has previously been accused of including classified information in his 2020 book, “The Room Where it Happened.”

Bolton, who was fired from his post in 2018, has been a fierce critic of President Trump since leaving his post.

The FBI has yet to release further information on the raid other than it’s connected to a National Security case.

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President Trump began to deploy some 800 D.C. National Guardsmen to the nation’s capital on August 11th.  Since evoking section 740 of the Home Rule Act, which allows the President to deploy troops for 30 days, several other states have vowed to send troops as well.

Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia have all pledged over 1,100 additional troops to help support the D.C. Guards’ mission, with West Virginia thus far committing the most.  Combined with the D.C Guard, the total deployment will be around 2,000 troops.

Now, according to an NBC exclusive report, the Department of Defense is poised to send members of the Judge Advocate General Corps (JAG), to D.C. to assist with prosecutions as special assistant U.S. attorneys.  In Washington D.C. exclusively, the U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecutes both federal and local crimes.

NBC reports:

Twenty members of the Defense Department are set to begin working as special assistant U.S. attorneys — federal prosecutors — in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia next week, two people familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Tim Lauer, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, confirmed the move, saying members of the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps would be joining the office, though he did not know how long the detail would last.

According to Georgetown professor Steve Vladeck, the last time the Guard was deployed to D.C. was in 1983.  At the time, the Supreme Court ruled that this “violated a statute that bans military officers from exercising the duties of a civil office.”  Vladeck addressed this issue in a 2017 Lawfare article:

“Congress responded quickly in the Department of Defense Authorization Act for 1984, enacting a series of amendments to the civil office ban in explicit response to the OLC memo. Among other things, the amendments narrowed the scope of prohibited ‘civil offices’ to an office (1) ‘that is an elective office,’ (2) ‘that requires an appointment by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate,’ or (3) ‘that is a position in the Executive Schedule under [5 U.S.C. §§ 5312–17].’ The amendments went on specifically to authorize the holding of civil offices by active-duty servicemembers in cases not already prohibited, presumably with an eye toward allowing JAG lawyers to serve as SAUSAs going forward.”

In Dalmazzi v. United States, SCOTUS opined that:

After and because of the 1983 amendments, it is no longer possible for a military officer to violate § 973(b)(2)(A) “in furtherance of assigned official duties”; indeed, the law today expressly authorizes such assignments.

Statute 973(b)(2)(B) states that “An officer to whom this subsection applies may hold or exercise the functions of a civil office in the Government of the United States that is not described in subparagraph (A) when assigned or detailed to that office or to perform those functions.”

BQQM

US Attorney Jeanine Piro has authorized 20 JAG OFFICERS to prosecute misdemeanors in DC

JAG: Judge Advocate General
MILITARY PROSECUTORS

Does anyone actually think that JAG are in DC to handle street crime? pic.twitter.com/PDJix7vvVP

— Jamie (@JamieMcBain17) August 21, 2025

No comment. pic.twitter.com/eIU5QaHgaa

— David Clements (@theprofsrecord) August 21, 2025

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