[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2019-04-03

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

I. English Videos

UK govt plans to give £10mn for ‘network of NGOs’ to combat Russia – Integrity Initiative leaks

II. English News and Articles

Disinfo Maginot Line: Protecting EU from ‘Russian Influence’ – by Manufacturing History
It is now apparent with the release of the Mueller investigation findings, that the great storm that has embattled the US government and establishment since 2016 over supposed Russia-Trump collusion during the US elections, originates not from a genuine tangible source, but a constant stream of rhetoric driven by partisan corporate media. One certainty though is the Western narrative of Russia as a ‘malign influence’ will not go away. While America’s liberal establishment continues to rage at Trump, Europe allies, under the influence of Washington, maintain their aggressive stance towards Russia following the catastrophic US meddling in Ukraine in 2014 and the subsequent reunification of Crimea with Russia. The question is how can the narrative of ‘malign Russian influence’ be kept going? Mainstream media will continue its role in this, but Western governments are also pouring resources into promulgating certain narratives while containing others. This week, hackers released more documents from the UK government-funded project known as the Integrity Initiative, revealing British government plans to build an umbrella network of organisations across Europe to counter ‘Russian disinformation’. The following is a look at one of the EU projects already operating to ensure European populations do not stray from this constructed narrative that at times crosses over into real xenophobic racism, or Russophobia. While researching this phenomenon, it was impossible not to find some of the EU’s counter-propaganda material quite funny.
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source: 21st century wire

Integrity Initiative leaks: £10mn in UK govt funding for ‘network of NGOs’ to combat Russia
A seventh batch of Integrity Initiative leaks has been dumped by hackers, revealing British government plans to build an umbrella network of organizations across Europe focused exclusively on countering ‘Russian disinformation.'
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source: rt
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[Dossier] Integrity Initiative en , Integrity Initiative en











Exclusive: With a piece of paper, Trump called on Kim to hand over nuclear weapons
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On the day that their talks in Hanoi collapsed last month, U.S. President Donald Trump handed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a piece of paper that included a blunt call for the transfer of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and bomb fuel to the United States, according to the document seen by Reuters.
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source: reuters

Bolton Torpedoed the Trump-Kim Hanoi Summit
An explosive report by Reuters confirms that John Bolton sabotaged the denuclearization talks between Kim Jong un and Donald Trump in Hanoi in February. According to a March 29 exclusive by journalists Lesley Wroughton and David Brunnstrom:
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source: cgr





New Middle East Alliance Shakes World Powers
A new bloc is emerging in the greater Middle East with the declared objectives of dominating the entire Arab world, confronting and containing the US and its allies; and controlling and benefiting from the entire hydro-carbon economy, from production to transportation.
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source: the oilprice





FACEBOOK CEO MARK ZUCKERBERG : Four Ideas to Regulate the Internet
We need a more active role for governments and regulators in order to keep the online community safe. Companies cannot and should not make judgements alone. A guest article.
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source: faz

Skolstrejk/demonstration mot Artikel 11 och 13
School strike / demonstration against Articles 11 and 13
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source: facebook





Iranian women's rights activist condemns Western feminists for wearing the hijab in 'solidarity', saying: 'Calling the compulsory headscarf my country's culture is INSULTING'
- Masih Alinejad said female visitors to Iran were leaving activists 'on their own'
- She rejected the argument that visitors should wear the hijab 'out of respect'
- The issue has been thrown into new focus in the wake of the Christchurch attack
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source: daily mail
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[Commentary] The campaign against Islam- and migration-criticism can strengthen anti-Islam- and anti-foreigner-hatred





Spain’s GDP: growing and growing and growing?
What looks big is sometimes less big than you think if you look more closely. Spain’s gross domestic product could well be such a pseudo giant. Why it is growing at such an incredible rate is a big mystery that nobody seems to be interested in this, in Spain – or the EU.
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source: flassbeck-economics

III. Other News in English

Monitoring - Against the Center for Political Beauty (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit) is being investigated for forming a criminal organization
Most recently, the Interior Ministry had uninvited artist Philipp Ruch from a conference with reference to an ongoing procedure. Now it turns out: Against the Center for Political Beauty (Zentrum für Politische Schönheit) is being investigated for forming a criminal organization. The fact that the state is using this remedy against artists, should be unique.
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source: netzpolitik translate
source: netzpolitik source: anfrage pdf
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[Domestic Policy] The second manhunt in Chemnitz





Exclusive Report on the Knife Attack - Secret File "Chemnitz": The criminal career of the elusive Iraqi is unbelievable
The deadly Messer attack in Chemnitz and the following riots have shaken Germany. Now the deed is worked up in a process. VIP News was able to view confidential investigation files and shows now in a series previously unknown details and backgrounds. Part 1: The criminal and asylum file of the main fugitive Farhad A., who stabbed a man in 2017. When attacking Daniel H. in August 2018, he should not have been in Germany at all.
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November 19, 2016 : Farhad A. stole money and tickets from the team leader's office of his accommodation for unaccompanied minor refugees in Chemnitz.
- November 20, 2016 : Farhad A. stole two pairs of shoes and a hair straightener from the room of another refugee.
- November 23, 2016 : Farhad A. stole goods worth almost five euros in a shopping market.
- December 12, 2016 : Farhad A. stole a pair of Adidas sneakers in the sports department of a department store.
- January 28, 2017 : Farhad A. stole food in a supermarket for more than 40 euros.
- March 2, 2017 : Farhad A. loomed threateningly in front of a young German man, insulting him and attacking him. He hit the face of a young German woman with the palm of her hand. He spit in the face of another German woman.
- April 26, 2017 : Farhad A. drove in Chemnitz without a ticket by public transport.
- April 27, 2017 : Farhad A. - with bare feet - entered a room door in the Chemnitz Asylum Home after being caught in a theft.
- July 4, 2017 : Farhad A. was caught with 15 grams of marijuana , which he had bought in Leipzig for 100 euros. Because of this act sentenced him the district court Stollberg later to a prison term of four months - but on probation.
- August 2, 2017 : Farhad A. went to a 16-year-old and threatened him, "If the police were not here, I'd kill you!"
- December 4, 2017 : While drinking, Farhad A. fought another refugee and punched him in the face; the home management in Crottendorf in Saxony called the police to help.
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source: focus translate
source: focus
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Chemnitz





Ukrainian Nationalism and its Demons from the Past
Poland/Ukraine – On January 1st, 2019, several thousands of Ukrainians marched in the streets of Kiev, Lviv and Khmelnytskyï (Western Ukraine) to celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birth of Stepan Bandera. These past years, there were plenty of similar processions in Ukraine, in particular in the Western part. Thousands of young Ukrainians take part in this nationalists marches, where they wave flags picturing Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych. Even though they contributed to the creation of an independent Ukraine, the two men have been guilty of many war crimes within their collaboration with Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Nowadays Bandera and Shukhevych remain controversial historical figures. For some they are national heroes and for others they are criminals.
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source: visegrad post





Administrative court opens a field office
Thousands of pending complaints from asylum seekers and new staff: The authority on Habsburgerstraße needs a second location.
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source: badische-zeitung translate
source: badische-zeitung

Germany returned six migrants to Greece in 2018
Greece is torpedoing the Dublin system: only six migrants who have been illegally transferred to Germany were returned last year under this EU asylum regime. Athens rejected 97 percent of the takeover requests from the Federal Republic.
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source: welt translate
source: welt
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We say yes to the euro - Katja Kipping on the right-wing »alternative« and the future of the single currency
The existence of the new political party "Alternative for Germany" (AfD) is a direct consequence of the wrong euro rescue policy of Chancellor Merkel. Their policy reinforces the mistake already made in the founding of the euro: A common currency presupposes a common economic, social and financial policy. Above all, the Federal Government opposed Chancellor Kohl, who negotiated the introduction of the euro against a stronger coordination of these policies. Because Chancellor Merkel does not want to correct this mistake, she not only runs the risk of facilitating the establishment of a right-wing split-off from the Union; above all, she is jeopardizing the euro.
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source: neues-deutschland/Katja Kipping (chairperson of The Left/Die Linke) translate
source: neues-deutschland/Katja Kipping (chairperson of The Left/Die Linke)
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Euro Currency , ... As far as the EU is concerned a leftist would have to supply the criticisms in the interests of the working class. It could criticize the strongly supply-oriented economic policy. It could criticize the large free trade area and the resulting wage pressure of high-wage countries with low-wage countries within the EU. A leftist could question a policy by which several states with their own economy were transformed into an economy with multiple competing locations. ...
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Not least because of the European Union nation states with their own economies have been transformed into a transnational economy with competing locations. After all as a result of free trade in the EU's common market high-wage countries such as Germany compete with low-wage countries such as Romania. And because of the euro monetary union countries have lost the possibility of devaluing their currency to even out their foreign trade balance.





Almost every second unemployed person has a migration background
According to the Federal Employment Agency, the proportion of unemployed people with a migrant background has also increased as a result of asylum migration. In the employable service earners even to 57 percent. However, the information on the migration background is voluntary.
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source: welt translate
source: welt





Draft Criminal Law Amendment - Introduce autonomous criminal liability for the operation of Internet-based trading platforms for illegal goods and services
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source: bundestag
source: bundestag pdf
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This bill would make anonymous browsers such as the Tor-Browser illegal.

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