[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2019-03-09

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Geostrategy of the India-Pakistan standoff in Kashmir





Chinese Investment and Trade Leaves Serbia in a Bind | China Uncensored





Prank with Elliott Abrams: invasion in Venezuela and freezing of Maduros accounts


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Politics - Heavily Armed Soldiers Aborted a Plan to Enter Venezuela by Force

Late last month, as U.S. officials joined Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido near a bridge in Colombia to send desperately needed aid to the masses and challenge the rule of Nicolas Maduro, some 200 exiled soldiers were checking their weapons and planning to clear the way for the convoy.
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source: bloomberg



I dedicate this #InternationalWomensDay to the brave Iranian activist @AlinejadMasih, who, with her #WhiteWednesday and #MySteahltyFreedom campaigns, has shown millions of women a way out of the jail of regressive veiling practices. We salute you!




Research results of "die Welle" 2018

The majority of Germans continue to trust the established media. 44 percent of Germans trust the established media on important issues - the highest value ever measured. 22 percent express fundamental mistrust. The group of those who occupy a middle position in trust ("partly, partly") is smaller than ever before in the so far five survey waves of the Mainz research group. Their share is now 34 percent. In the previous year it was 41 percent, ten years ago still 63 percent. Obviously, many people in the face of a polarized debate feel compelled to take up positions for or against the media themselves.
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source: uni-mainz translate
source: uni-mainz



Hartz IV (minimum welfare subsidy) recipients: Only one in three is officially unemployed

In September 2018, there were just under 4.1 million Hartz IV recipients, but just 36 percent of them are considered unemployed in the sense of statistics. At 64 percent, most of them are not counted among the unemployed. This is shown by the current labor market report of the Federal Employment Agency.
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source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt translate
source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt

February 2019 - 3.29 million people without work

In February 2019, there were officially around 2.37 million unemployed. Not included in the official number of unemployed, however, are about 919,000 also virtually unemployed.
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source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt translate
source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt

December 2018: 6.6 million beneficiaries

In December (some of the latest available values ??due to waiting periods in statistics), there were around 2.2 million unemployed according to the statistics of the Federal Employment Agency (BA). At the same time, over 6.6 million people were living on unemployment benefits and / or Hartz IV benefits. Nearly 775,000 people received unemployment benefits and just under 5.9 million people lived in a Hartz IV household, a so-called need community, including almost 2 million children and adolescents under 18 years (November 2018).
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source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt translate
source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt



Syria - 51 German IS fighters in the hands of Kurdish forces

According to the Federal Interior Ministry, 51 IS fighters from Germany are currently in the hands of the Syrian opposition.
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel
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"The fight continues" - anonymous left extremists revive the RAF - but the state security (Staatsschutz) does not investigates

The left-wing extremist Red Army Fraction (RAF) was responsible for 33 murders. In addition there are numerous hostages, bank robberies and bomb attacks with more than 200 injured. On April 20, 1998, the left-wing radicals proclaimed their self-dissolution.
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source: focus translate
source: focus



Internal Letter provokes fierce criticism - constitutional protection/domestic intelligence (Verfassungsschutz) calls on all employees to disclose contacts to the AfD

The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has asked its more than 3,000 employees to inform the Security Division about any membership in the right-wing populist party AfD. This reports the news magazine FOCUS, citing a letter to officials and employees of the domestic intelligence service.
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source: focus translate
source: focus
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Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution



Bosnia warns EU about "escalation of migration problem" in spring

Security Minister Mekti? indicates a new onslaught on Europe. At least 70,000 people were waiting in Greece for the march, several thousand currently in Bosnia-Herzegovina alone.
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source: die presse translate
source: die presse



REPORTER BILLY SIX IN CUSTODY: Dark single cell in Caracas

almost four months, German journalist Billy Six has been imprisoned in Venezuela. He has been in solitary confinement for more than 110 days in the infamous military prison "El Helicoide" in Caracas. The thirty-two-year-old is accused of espionage, terrorism and violation of security areas. The real reason may lie in Six's research into the country's decline through abuse of power and corruption. Critical reporting represses President Maduro with all his might.
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source: faz translate
source: faz
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OFFICIALS SPITTED AT AND THROWN AT WITH FECES - JVA (prison) Bruchsal raises the alarm:

After the BNN had reported at the beginning of the week about the increase in heavy attacks on southwest judicial staff, now reports the total staff council of the prison Bruchsal and the field office Kislau (open custody) to speak.
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source: bnn translate
source: bnn