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The annual report by Hans-Peter Bartels  parliamentary ombudsman for the armed forces  follows a spate of media reports about shortfalls in everything from tanks to body armor that have raised concerns about whether Germany will be ready to take command of a NATO rapid response force next year.
 German parliamentary armed forces ombudsman Hans-Peter Bartels  whose job is to hear soldiers’ complaints  presents his annual report on the state of the German military in Berlin  Germany  February 20  2018 . REUTERS/ Axel Schmidt
None of Germany’s six submarines are currently combat-ready and there have been days when no single A400M military transport was available for military use   Bartels  added.
 Bartels  said the German navy had only nine frigates available  compared to 15 that had been planned  and they were more frequently in maintenance because of their increasing age.
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'Big gaps' persist in German military personnel equipment


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Virginia's Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe  said  he  would respond physically to President Donald Trump if  he  ever used intimidation tactics and got in his "space " the Washington Examiner reported Friday.
"You would have to pick  him  up off the floor  " McAuliffe  told MSNBC's Chris Matthews on "Hardball" Thursday.
"Listen  if  this guy  got in my space â you wanna get in my space? I've always said  'Chris  you punch me  I'm going to punch back twice as hard.' And  it wouldn't be hard to do it. But  you know   this guy  thinks  he  can intimidate everybody. It's disgraceful. It's embarrassing.
"If  he  ever came over and leaned on  me  and got in my space  that would be the last time Donald Trump ever did that "  McAuliffe  said.
 McAuliffe  has been a vocal opponent of Trump  especially on immigration issues.  He  served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2001 to 2005 and was chairman of the presidential campaigns of former President Bill Clinton in 1996 and Hillary Clinton in 2008.
 McAuliffe  is due to leave office on Saturday when newly-elected Democratic Gov.-elect Ralph Northam takes office.
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Gov. Terry McAuliffe : I'd Respond Physically If President Donald Trump Got in My 'Space'


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J.B. Pritzker  has a boil on  his  neck the size of Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios.
Actually  it is Joe Berrios  as if Joe just walked out of the Erie Cafe after a nice veal chop. Now  he âs sitting on  his  patch of  Pritzker  for all voters to see.
Joe might as well just light a cigar and wave to the cameras filming those anti-Pritzker political ads.
But  Pritzker  the billionaire running for governor in the March 20 Democratic primary   doesnât want to touch this.  He  wonât go near it.
Berrios  who is also the Cook County Democratic Party chairman (by grace of Boss Madigan)  backs  Pritzker . And so  Pritzker  isnât engaging the thing that stares property tax-paying homeowners right in the face.
Kennedy has long made the property tax system  and the corruption in it  a feature of his campaign. He has called on Berrios to resign.  Pritzker  and  his  ally Mayor Rahm Emanuel would rather change the subject and talk about the guy in the White House.
 âPritzker  talks about things that arenât really the issue.  He  talks about Donald Trump  but  he  skirts the issue of using Joe Berriosâ office to call political supporters.  Pritzkerâs  locked in with those guys.â
Most recently  reporter Jason Grotto âs  excellent series âThe Tax Divideâ â published in June in the Chicago Tribune and continued this month in collaboration with ProPublica â has laid bare much that is wrong with the property tax assessment system in Cook County:
As Kennedy  along with Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner and his GOP primary opponent  state Rep. Jeanne Ives  demand Berriosâ head on a pike  pressure increases on Joeâs friends  like  Pritzker .
 Pritzker  has money.  He âs built a statewide political organization. If  he  can satisfy the media by issuing proclamations against Trump  why should he fight on Kennedyâs ground?
Galia Slayen  the communications director for the Pritzker campaign  notes that  Pritzker  has publicly called out the property tax system. And  she says  the criticisms of her candidate are unfounded.
Fair enough. But  Pritzker  isnât running against Rauner now.  He âs not running against Donald Trump either.
 He âs running for the Democratic nomination against Chris Kennedy  and property taxes will be the issue. And they will be the issue in the general election.
Yet  he  avoids any mention of Berrios  who maintains the system  or Madigan  who benefits  and who can snap  his  fingers and have Joe come running.
 Pritzker  has a serious weakness in all this beyond the Berrios on  his  neck.  His  ham-handed decision to seek a property tax reduction for  his  Gold Coast neighborhood mansion will revisit  him .
 He  bought the house next door and had the toilets removed so it would be declared an uninhabitable dwelling. Then  he  got a tax break of nearly $230 000 for living next to it.
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Pritzker has a Berrios problem and he won't touch it