[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2019-03-23

  1. English Videos
  2. English News and Articles
  3. Other News in English

I. English Videos

Would the US Support Philippines in South China Sea? | Mike Pompeo Defense | US News and Politics


‘Zombie Company’ Apocalypse Looms in China | China Economy and Trade


Is Google Helping China’s Military? | Trump vs Google on CCP | China Uncensored


Class Struggle Over Brexit - Lapavitsas and Jay


Is Corbyn's Socialism Possible Within the EU? - Lapavitsas and Jay


38 Years Prison and 148 Lashes for Iranian Human Rights Defender

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[Commentary] The campaign against Islam- and migration-criticism can strengthen anti-Islam- and anti-foreigner-hatred , [Kommentar] Die Kampagne gegen Islam- und Migrationskritik kann Islam- und Fremdenhass stärken

II. English News and Articles

Real Collusion: Ukraine Launches Criminal Investigation Into Pro-Hillary Election Meddling
Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has launched an investigation into the head of the Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau for allegedly attempting to help Hillary Clinton defeat Donald Trump during the 2016 US election by releasing damaging information about a "black ledger" of illegal business dealings by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
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source: zero hedge





Looking to the Future, Public Sees an America in Decline on Many Fronts
Majorities predict a weaker economy, a growing income divide, a degraded environment and a broken political system
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source: pew research





Trump says US will recognize Israel's sovereignty over Golan Heights
- Israel captured Golan Heights from Syria after war in 1967
- Netanyahu responds on Twitter: ‘Thank you President Trump!’
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source: the guardian





NEWS - EPP votes to suspend Hungary's Fidesz party
The powerful center-right alliance in the European Parliament has voted to suspend membership of Viktor Orban's party. Ahead of the vote Orban said that Fidesz would quit the EPP if its membership was suspended.
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source: dw

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Thank god they go against this guy. I still have nightmares of the way he treats the protestors. ...
Oh wait, that was Emmanuel Macron. I guess thats the glorious liberal-democracy everyones talking about.

'Symbolic': Yellow Vest protester's hand blown off near National Assembly in Paris






Mueller-Dämmerung
If Nietzsche was right, and what doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger, we can thank the global capitalist ruling classes, the Democratic Party, and the corporate media for four more years of Donald Trump. The long-awaited Mueller report is due any day now, or so they keep telling us. Once it is delivered, and does not prove that Trump is a Russian intelligence asset, or that he personally conspired with Vladimir Putin to steal the presidency from Hillary Clinton, well, things are liable to get a bit awkward. Given the amount of goalpost-moving and focus-shifting that has been going on, clearly, this is what everyone’s expecting.
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source: off-guardian

III. Other News in English

From Turkey, an Egyptian Muslim brother preacher calls on Algerians to Islamize their movement
The renowned Egyptian preacher, Wagdi Ghoneim, a Muslim Brother close to Qatar and a refugee in Turkey, provoked an uproar on social networks by calling on protesters in Algeria to demand an Islamic state.
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source: france tv info translate
source: france tv info
see:
[Commentary] The campaign against Islam- and migration-criticism can strengthen anti-Islam- and anti-foreigner-hatred





Diplomat says NATO chief failed to show Lavrov any proof of Russia’s INF ‘violations’
The United States argues that Russia violates the INF treaty and demands that Moscow should eliminate its ground-based cruise missile 9M729
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source: tass
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... The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty prohibits the possession, production and testing of land-based missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 km between the US and the Soviet Union or its successor state of Russia. Even before the INF treaty was terminated NATO said it would give Russia one final opportunity to end the alleged violation of the INF Treaty. And the Foreign Ministers of the Member States unanimously declared at a meeting in Brussels that Russia violated the contract with newly developed cruise missiles. The head of the Russian rocket and artillery troops Mikhail Matwejewski however claimed that the 9M729 rocket with its range of 480 km complies with the INF contract. [21] [22] [23] ...





PROTECTION OF THE CONSTITUTION - AfD proceeds with complaint against Verfassungsschutzchef
Conservation Chief of Defense Haldenweg had publicly declared the AfD "test case". The party sees its reputation thereby massively damaged.
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source: abendblatt translate
source: abendblatt
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Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution
... The domestic intelligence agency (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz/Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) has announced on January 15, 2019 that the AfD will be considered as a whole party as a test case. On 12 February 2019 the scientific service of the Bundestag then announced that the publication of the classification interferse with the equal opportunities of the parties. Although The domestic intelligence agency (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz/Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) may observe the object in question on the basis of open sources, publication of the classification as a test case is not for general public. [31] [32] [33] ...





Former Stasi agents being questioned over Lockerbie bombing
At least five retired Stasi agents in Germany are being questioned about the 1988 Lockerbie bombing as Scottish prosecutors investigate the deadliest terror attack in British history.
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source: the times
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source: spiegel





NEWS - New Zealand to 'confront' Erdogan over Christchurch mosque shooting remarks
Erdogan said the massacre in Christchurch was part of a broader attack on Turkey and Islam. He also warned anti-Muslim Australians that they would be sent back in coffins like their grandfathers at Gallipoli.
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source: dw

New Zealand does not mention shooting video in Erdogan meeting - minister
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Friday that he did not ask Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to stop showing at election rallies video footage of last week's shooting in Christchurch because he understood it has stopped.
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source: reuters





Islam-Institute at the University Berlin - The domestic intelligence agency (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz/Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) classifies advisory board candidate as "questionable" one
The future advisory board of the Berlin Islam Institute was checked for suspected extremism. A candidate has therefore apparently been removed.
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel





Case of Relotius as a career killer
As a result of the scandal about fake stories, the "mirror" employees Ullrich Fichtner and Matthias Geyer will not rise to the editor-in-chief. A personal guilt in the cases of fraud but they do not deceive, said the Spiegel-Verlag.
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source: nzz translate
source: nzz
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Claas Relotius





Berlin-Koepenick - Arson attack on the car of Berlin AfD politician
In Berlin Köpenick burned again Friday a car of an AFD member. The police suspect arson. In this case, the state protection determined.
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source: bz translate
source: bz
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Me Ne Frego





"A big city that comes to us every year"
The President of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, Hans-Eckhard Sommer, explains that "too many people without asylum reason" enter. More than half do not provide identity documents. About a third come by plane.
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source: welt translate
source: welt
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Migration

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