[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2019-03-12
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Wasserman Schultz Threatens Kicking Bernie Out Of Party Over Venezuela
BBC Reporter Corrects US Media on Venezuela W/Greg Palast
BBC Reporter Slams NY Times For “Lazy F***ism” - w/Greg Palast
Jake Tapper’s Former Boss Reveals His Emptiness w/Greg Palast
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Venezuela
Greenwald: White House Spread False Story About Venezuela Burning Aid Trucks to Win Support for War
NYT’s Exposé on the Lies About Burning Aid Trucks in Venezuela Shows How U.S. Government and Media Spread Pro-War Propaganda
EVERY MAJOR U.S. WAR of the last several decades has begun the same way: the U.S. Government fabricates an inflammatory, emotionally provocative lie which large U.S. media outlets uncritically treat as truth while refusing at air questioning or dissent, thus inflaming primal anger against the country the U.S. wants to attack. That’s how we got the Vietnam War (North Vietnam attacks U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin); the Gulf War (Saddam ripped babies from incubators); and, of course, the war in Iraq (Saddam had WMDs and formed an alliance with Al Qaeda).
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source: the intercept/Glenn Greenwald
Two policemen arrested in Brazil over killing of black activist
Two policemen were arrested Tuesday in the killing of Brazilian black activist Marielle Franco, news reports said.
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source: france24 see:
Marielle Franco
Marco Polo is back in China – again
President Xi Jinping is due to arrive in Italy for an official visit on March 22. The top theme of discussion will be the New Silk Road, or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
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source: asia times/Pepe Escobar
Politics - Trump Seeks Huge Premium From Allies Hosting U.S. Troops
For years, President Donald Trump has complained that countries hosting American troops aren’t paying enough. Now he wants to get even, and then some.
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source: bloomberg
source: time
ANNE FRANK CENTER COMPARES JEWS FLEEING NAZIS TO ISLAMIC STATE TERRORISTS
Colonel Richard Kemp, who was a former Commander of Operation Fingal in Afghanistan, wrote on Twitter: “A terrible insult by @BS_AnneFrank. They should delete this disgraceful tweet.”
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source: jpost
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IS
Politics - Don't Look Now, But Italy's PD Party Is Inching Up on Five Star
What a difference a year makes. On March 5, 2018, Italians woke up to learn that the upstart Five Star Movement was their country’s biggest political party, with almost twice as many seats in parliament as the defeated Democrats, or PD.
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source: bloomberg
Cologne New Year's Eve: Only three sex offenders convicted
The criminal investigation of New Year's Eve in Cologne, Germany in 2015 has brought a sobering result. Although more than 600 women reported sex offenses, only three sex offenders could ultimately convict the judiciary, as the "Spiegel" reported today, citing a statement by the Cologne District Court. Two of these three perpetrators were sentenced to probation.
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source: orf translate
source: orf
source: focus translate
source: focus
source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
source: taz translate
source: taz
Headscarf dispute Berlin enforces a landmark decision
In Berlin, Muslim teachers may soon wear headscarves in class. Because the education administration has changed its strategy in terms of neutrality law. For months, the Senate had refused to have the law reviewed by the highest court. This law prohibits the wearing of all religious signs in the classroom. So far, there are only isolated cases, most fell in favor of the headscarf-wearing women . The judges saw discrimination, the women were awarded a claim for compensation. However, there was no fundamental decision on the law of neutrality. So far.
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Headmasters warn against softening the law
Schools in social hotbeds, however, warn school heads against softening the law of neutrality. Even now, schoolgirls would be put under pressure by classmates if they did not follow religious guidelines. Girls would be criticized if they did not wear a headscarf, instead dressed more freely, headmaster Detlef Pawollek of the Neukölln Röntgen School report. Even a Turkish social worker had already been asked by parents, why she wears no headscarf. Thus, fewer girls would probably dare to break away from the strict religious guidelines from their parents' home. Whatever Karlsruhe decides, it will create new controversy.
source: berliner-zeitung translate
source: berliner-zeitung
AdministrativeCourt of Düsseldorf - Court President criticizes German and EU asylum law
Hitting out against the German asylum law and regulations in Europe: In view of the current migration movements, the Düsseldorf administrative judge Andreas Heusch considers the entire system to be "dysfunctional". The church and the Bamf (Federal Agency for Migration and Refugees) complicated the situation additionally.
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source: mdr translate
source: mdr
Ministry of Labor plans to increase the pocket money/subsidies for asylum seekers
Asylum seekers should get 15 euros more a month according to plans of the Ministry of Labor. The government is obliged to adjust its services on a regular basis. Nevertheless, there is criticism of the increase.
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source: welt translate
source: welt
source: bmas translate
source: bmas
New German leftist movement wobbles as co-founder retreats
The German far left's star politician Sahra Wagenknecht said Sunday she was quitting the leadership of a new populist movement that aims to address the concerns of the poor and win back working-class voters but has struggled to gain momentum.
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source: the local
Collection movement - Wagenknecht leaves "stand up" point
The "stand up" movement is supposed to offer a home to disappointed leftists. Now initiator Wagenknecht withdraws from the top. She complains of "extreme stress" and speaks of misjudgments.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau
Interview with Gregor Gysi: "The members of society became lonely"
Berlin The left-politician Gregor Gysi speaks in an interview with our editorial office about the mistakes of the West and failures in private life. He has a sensitive recommendation for Sahra Wagenknecht.
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Does it help or divide the left that their faction leader Sahra Wagenknecht and her husband Oskar Lafontaine founded the movement "stand up"?
Gysi neither. "stand up" takes care of itself step by step. You can not dictate a movement from above. That's either from below or not at all. And a movement works only for one topic - against deforestation of an old forest in North Rhine-Westphalia or against the police law in Bavaria or for the bees in Bavaria. But for an offer from A to Z there are parties. "En Marche" by Emmanuel Macron in France was an exception. And Germany is not France.
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source: rp translate
source: rp
The left - Wagenknecht abandons left-wing group chairman
- The parliamentary group leader of the left, Sahra Wagenknecht, wants to hand over the post in the autumn.
- She will not run for office again, media reports.
- It was not until the weekend that Wagenknecht announced that he was withdrawing from the "stand up" movement she had founded.
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Does it help or divide the left that their faction leader Sahra Wagenknecht and her husband Oskar Lafontaine founded the movement "stand up"?
Gysi neither. "stand up" takes care of itself step by step. You can not dictate a movement from above. That's either from below or not at all. And a movement works only for one topic - against deforestation of an old forest in North Rhine-Westphalia or against the police law in Bavaria or for the bees in Bavaria. But for an offer from A to Z there are parties. "En Marche" by Emmanuel Macron in France was an exception. And Germany is not France.
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source: sz translate
source: sz
Army in bad condition - von der Leyen makes state report of the Bundeswehr to the secret classified information
The Ministry of Defense has for the first time classified the report on the operational readiness of the Bundeswehr's main weapon systems as "secret". "Awareness of unauthorized persons could damage the security interests of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Alliance," said a spokesman for Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) the editorial network Germany (RND / Tuesday).
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source: focus translate
source: focus
AfD party leader admits to have received election campaign help from Switzerland
He has received money from the Swiss advertising agency Goal AG campaign assistance worth 90,000 euros, confessed AfD boss Jörg Meuthen.
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source: tagesanzeiger translate
source: tagesanzeiger
ref:
Venezuela
EVERY MAJOR U.S. WAR of the last several decades has begun the same way: the U.S. Government fabricates an inflammatory, emotionally provocative lie which large U.S. media outlets uncritically treat as truth while refusing at air questioning or dissent, thus inflaming primal anger against the country the U.S. wants to attack. That’s how we got the Vietnam War (North Vietnam attacks U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin); the Gulf War (Saddam ripped babies from incubators); and, of course, the war in Iraq (Saddam had WMDs and formed an alliance with Al Qaeda).
...
source: the intercept/Glenn Greenwald
Two policemen were arrested Tuesday in the killing of Brazilian black activist Marielle Franco, news reports said.
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source: france24 see:
Marielle Franco
President Xi Jinping is due to arrive in Italy for an official visit on March 22. The top theme of discussion will be the New Silk Road, or the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
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source: asia times/Pepe Escobar
For years, President Donald Trump has complained that countries hosting American troops aren’t paying enough. Now he wants to get even, and then some.
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source: bloomberg
source: time
Colonel Richard Kemp, who was a former Commander of Operation Fingal in Afghanistan, wrote on Twitter: “A terrible insult by @BS_AnneFrank. They should delete this disgraceful tweet.”
...
source: jpost
ref:
IS
What a difference a year makes. On March 5, 2018, Italians woke up to learn that the upstart Five Star Movement was their country’s biggest political party, with almost twice as many seats in parliament as the defeated Democrats, or PD.
...
source: bloomberg
The criminal investigation of New Year's Eve in Cologne, Germany in 2015 has brought a sobering result. Although more than 600 women reported sex offenses, only three sex offenders could ultimately convict the judiciary, as the "Spiegel" reported today, citing a statement by the Cologne District Court. Two of these three perpetrators were sentenced to probation.
...
source: orf translate
source: orf
source: focus translate
source: focus
source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
source: taz translate
source: taz
In Berlin, Muslim teachers may soon wear headscarves in class. Because the education administration has changed its strategy in terms of neutrality law. For months, the Senate had refused to have the law reviewed by the highest court. This law prohibits the wearing of all religious signs in the classroom. So far, there are only isolated cases, most fell in favor of the headscarf-wearing women . The judges saw discrimination, the women were awarded a claim for compensation. However, there was no fundamental decision on the law of neutrality. So far.
...
Headmasters warn against softening the law
Schools in social hotbeds, however, warn school heads against softening the law of neutrality. Even now, schoolgirls would be put under pressure by classmates if they did not follow religious guidelines. Girls would be criticized if they did not wear a headscarf, instead dressed more freely, headmaster Detlef Pawollek of the Neukölln Röntgen School report. Even a Turkish social worker had already been asked by parents, why she wears no headscarf. Thus, fewer girls would probably dare to break away from the strict religious guidelines from their parents' home. Whatever Karlsruhe decides, it will create new controversy.
source: berliner-zeitung translate
source: berliner-zeitung
Hitting out against the German asylum law and regulations in Europe: In view of the current migration movements, the Düsseldorf administrative judge Andreas Heusch considers the entire system to be "dysfunctional". The church and the Bamf (Federal Agency for Migration and Refugees) complicated the situation additionally.
...
source: mdr translate
source: mdr
Asylum seekers should get 15 euros more a month according to plans of the Ministry of Labor. The government is obliged to adjust its services on a regular basis. Nevertheless, there is criticism of the increase.
...
source: welt translate
source: welt
source: bmas translate
source: bmas
The German far left's star politician Sahra Wagenknecht said Sunday she was quitting the leadership of a new populist movement that aims to address the concerns of the poor and win back working-class voters but has struggled to gain momentum.
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source: the local
The "stand up" movement is supposed to offer a home to disappointed leftists. Now initiator Wagenknecht withdraws from the top. She complains of "extreme stress" and speaks of misjudgments.
...
source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau
Berlin The left-politician Gregor Gysi speaks in an interview with our editorial office about the mistakes of the West and failures in private life. He has a sensitive recommendation for Sahra Wagenknecht.
...
Does it help or divide the left that their faction leader Sahra Wagenknecht and her husband Oskar Lafontaine founded the movement "stand up"?
Gysi neither. "stand up" takes care of itself step by step. You can not dictate a movement from above. That's either from below or not at all. And a movement works only for one topic - against deforestation of an old forest in North Rhine-Westphalia or against the police law in Bavaria or for the bees in Bavaria. But for an offer from A to Z there are parties. "En Marche" by Emmanuel Macron in France was an exception. And Germany is not France.
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source: rp translate
source: rp
- The parliamentary group leader of the left, Sahra Wagenknecht, wants to hand over the post in the autumn.
- She will not run for office again, media reports.
- It was not until the weekend that Wagenknecht announced that he was withdrawing from the "stand up" movement she had founded.
...
Does it help or divide the left that their faction leader Sahra Wagenknecht and her husband Oskar Lafontaine founded the movement "stand up"?
Gysi neither. "stand up" takes care of itself step by step. You can not dictate a movement from above. That's either from below or not at all. And a movement works only for one topic - against deforestation of an old forest in North Rhine-Westphalia or against the police law in Bavaria or for the bees in Bavaria. But for an offer from A to Z there are parties. "En Marche" by Emmanuel Macron in France was an exception. And Germany is not France.
...
source: sz translate
source: sz
The Ministry of Defense has for the first time classified the report on the operational readiness of the Bundeswehr's main weapon systems as "secret". "Awareness of unauthorized persons could damage the security interests of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Alliance," said a spokesman for Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) the editorial network Germany (RND / Tuesday).
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source: focus translate
source: focus
He has received money from the Swiss advertising agency Goal AG campaign assistance worth 90,000 euros, confessed AfD boss Jörg Meuthen.
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source: tagesanzeiger translate
source: tagesanzeiger