[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2019-04-17

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  1. English Videos
    1. Europe will be diverse, or war! - Frans Timmermans
    2. France: Police massively use tear gas for yellow vests in Toulouse (Frankreich: Polizei setzt massiv Tränengas gegen Gelbwesten in Toulouse ein)
    3. Julian Assange
  2. English News and Articles
    1. Is Julian Assange a traitor or a champion of free speech? Plus, upskirting, and home births results
    2. Shamima Begum was cruel enforcer in Isil's morality police, say Syrian witnesses
    3. Recession's Underestimated Danger
    4. Julian Assange Languishes in Prison as His Journalistic Collaborators Brandish Their Prizes
    5. Notre Dame
    6. Foreign and Domestic Enemies
    7. Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show
    8. USEUCOM deploys THAAD system to Romania
  3. Other News in English
    1. Press Release: German professionals and volunteers working with refugees and migrants calling for a new refugee and migration policy from scratch
    2. Hardly a refugee is deprived of its protection status
    3. Upload Filter
    4. Funded by the employment agency: Every third placement leads to temporary work
    5. Muslim Brotherhood
    6. New EU data retention at the initiative of Austria
    7. Spaghetti Monster Church complains to the Court of Human Rights
    8. Asylum fraud: More than 1.6 million euros damage
    9. Misogyny among refugees - Green-Party quarrel about machos
    10. Migration Business
    11. Donation - affair AfD should pay 402,900 euros
    12. Domestic Intelligence warns of Antisemitism within Islamism

I. English Videos

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Europe will be diverse, or war! - Frans Timmermans

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FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT (2014-2019)
Frans Timmermans
Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
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France: Police massively use tear gas for yellow vests in Toulouse (Frankreich: Polizei setzt massiv Tränengas gegen Gelbwesten in Toulouse ein)






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Honest Government Ad | Julian Assange


Pro-Assange protesters clash with cops in Ecuador, calling President Moreno ‘traitor’

II. English News and Articles

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Is Julian Assange a traitor or a champion of free speech? Plus, upskirting, and home births results
1. Some people have described Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, as a traitor to the West who has given information to our enemies. Other people see him as a champion of freedom of information. Which of the following comes to closer to your view of Julian Assange?
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source: yougov





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Shamima Begum was cruel enforcer in Isil's morality police, say Syrian witnesses
Shamima Begum, the Bethnal Green schoolgirl, served in the Islamic State’s “morality police” and also tried to recruit other young women to join the jihadist group, well-placed sources have told The Telegraph.
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source: telegraph
ref:
Jihad en , Jihad de





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Recession's Underestimated Danger
ROME/BERLIN (Own report) - Financial experts from Switzerland's major UBS bank are warning of Italy's considerable risks in the case of a recession in the euro zone and they do not rule out the country's exit from the euro. If there is a recession, Rome must expect credit downgrades, UBS notes. Its national debt could easily soar out of control, and leaving the euro possibly could no longer be avoided. A fierce dispute is looming between Berlin and Brussels, on the one hand, and with Rome on the other, because Italy's budget deficit is higher than expected, due to its significant economic slump. Brussels and Berlin are currently only hesitant about engaging in the dispute because of the conflict over the Brexit and particularly because of the approaching EU elections, according to observers. At the same time, Germany is, itself, also moving toward stagnation, not least of all, because of a slump in Germany's export-dependent automotive industry.
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source: gfp
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... With currently 39 % export share, Germany is more dependent on exports than China. Thus Germany's economy is enormously dependent on exports and particularly prone to international crises or a trade war. And even the export surplus is currently 8 % higher than China's export surplus. ...





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Julian Assange Languishes in Prison as His Journalistic Collaborators Brandish Their Prizes
WHILE JULIAN ASSANGE languishes in south London’s maximum-security Belmarsh Prison, a British court is weighing his fate. The 48-year-old Australian founder of WikiLeaks is serving time for the minor crime of jumping bail by taking asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden. His fear at the time was that the Swedes, with a track record of assisting rendition of suspects sought by the U.S., would send him straight across the Atlantic. Now that he has lost his diplomatic refuge, 70 British members of Parliament have petitioned to dispatch Assange to Sweden if prosecutors there reopen the case they closed in 2017. The greater threat to his liberty is the U.S. Department of Justice’s extradition demand for him to stand trial in the U.S. for conspiring with Chelsea Manning to hack a government computer.
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source: the intercept/Charles Glass





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Notre-Dame fire: What the cathedral means to the French
No other site represents France quite like Notre-Dame.
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source: bbc







Out of Dresden's ruins, hope
IT WAS one of the finest baroque churches in the world until the night of 13 February 1945, when Allied bombers destroyed the city of Dresden and up to 100,000 of its inhabitants. After the war, the city's Frauenkirche was left as a blackened ruin to remind the world of that terrible night.
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source: independent
source: bbc
source: the guardian
note:
N'attristez pas mes amis français. Vous reconstruirez Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris lorsque l'église Notre-Dame de Dresde a été reconstruite.





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Foreign and Domestic Enemies
BERLIN (Own report) - Nebulous warnings from anonymous intelligence officials are sustaining Brussels and Berlin's campaign against alleged Russian interference in the European election campaign. German flagship media are quoting intelligence officials saying that "efforts" are being made "to support Russia-friendly or EU-critical parties." Presenting no evidence, they claim instead that, in this case, Russian activities are "less visible" than in other cases. The EU has increased its staff and means for its "EU East Stratcom Taskforce," claiming to reveal "pro-Kremlin" propaganda, while openly making propaganda for the European Union. With an annual budget of five million euros, the Taskforce is propagating fake news. To such allegations about Russia's "hybrid war, " advanced, for example, by a US specialist on Russia in an article on the so-called "Gerasimov doctrine," German military officials respond "they are not doing anything different from us." Playing on anti-Russian sentiment, Berlin is increasingly attacking not only the foreign enemy, but also the domestic opposition - as alleged puppets of Moscow.
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source: gfp





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Mark Zuckerberg leveraged Facebook user data to fight rivals and help friends, leaked documents show
Facebook’s leaders seriously discussed selling access to user data — and privacy was an afterthought.
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source: nbcnews

FACEBOOK CEO MARK ZUCKERBERG LEVERAGED USER DATA AS 'BARGAINING CHIP' AGAINST RIVALS
Facebook's executive team, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, used data on Facebook users as leverage over partner companies.
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source: firstpost





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USEUCOM deploys THAAD system to Romania
STUTTGART, Germany – At the request of NATO, the Secretary of Defense will deploy a U.S. Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to Romania this summer in support of NATO Ballistic Missile Defense.
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source: eucom

III. Other News in English

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Press Release: German professionals and volunteers working with refugees and migrants calling for a new refugee and migration policy from scratch
Calling for a new refugee and migration policy from scratch:
German professionals and volunteers working with refugees and migrants criticise existing structures and the lack of a master plan.
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source: basis initiative
ref:
Migration





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Hardly a refugee is deprived of its protection status
Only 1.2 percent of the revocation checks of recognized asylum seekers ended in 2018 with the withdrawal of the protection title. This shows a small request from the FDP to the government. For the Liberals, the practice raises questions, especially in the case of Iraqis.
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source: welt translate
source: welt
source: bamf translate
source: bamf

Protest against migration deal - How Seehofer's deportation plan is being negotiated
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) proposes more sanctions and stricter detention rules in his draft for the so-called „Orderly Return Law“. The CDU justice ministers have legal concerns. But the Cabinet will probably decide the proposal. Because he is part of a deal.
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Measured by the number of deportations, his balance sheet after a year as Minister of the Interior initially turns out to be negative: the numbers are declining. While almost 24,000 people were deported from Germany in 2017, in 2018 there were around 4,000 fewer people. Therefore, now the „Orderly Return Law“ is to be decided to deport more people.
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„People are supposed to be detained here for up to 14 days, according to the wording of the law, even if they miss an appointment, which is totally disproportionate, of course, and imprisonment can only be used as a last resort and this proportionality is here no longer exists at all, „says Bellinda Bartolucci of Pro Asyl. Not only on the part of the refugee organizations, the Union has to deal with criticism of the draft. He had triggered unusually large protests in several country justice ministers. In a letter to Interior Minister Seehofer, the Ministers of Justice of the SPD and Greens from the federal states gave vent to their anger. They refer to the original as – quotation – „undifferentiated and in large part constitutional and politically questionable.“
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source: deutschlandfunk translate
source: deutschlandfunk
source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau
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Migration





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EU copyright law receives final approval
More than 2.5 years after the European Commission proposed it, the directive on copyright was given the final approval by member states in the Council of the EU on Monday. The text of the directive was the subject of intense debate and lobbying, with fears that the rules, meant to protect creators, could inadvertently stifle free speech. EU countries have two years to transpose the directive into national law.
source: eu observer
source: directive pdf

EU copyright reform - German says yes with reservations
The EU states have approved the controversial copyright reform. Despite considerable reservations, Germany also voted yes - as a tip on the scales.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau

Vote in the EU Council of Ministers - Controversial copyright reform finally adopted
The copyright reform is coming: in the EU Council, the controversial reform has now been finally voted upon.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel

EU copyright reform finally adopted: EU Council passes upload filter
The EU member states have confirmed the new copyright directive, thereby formally completing the last legislative act. Critics continue to warn against censorship.
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source: heise translate
source: heise





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Funded by the employment agency: Every third placement leads to temporary work
In 2018, almost every third placement of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) led the unemployed in temporary employment. In some cases these transfers are even subsidized by the BA. This emerges from the response of the Federal Government to a question from the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen faction. The Employment Agency thus promotes employment relationships that are often poorly paid and short-lived.
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source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt translate
source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt





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NRW Interior Minister informed in parliament : Bochum mosque for cooperation with Muslim Brothers in suspicion
Düsseldorf Due to cooperation with the radical Muslim Brotherhood, the Bochum Khaled Mosque and the Islamic Cultural Association Bochum (IKV) are suspected of anti-constitutional aspirations.
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source: rp-online translate
source: rp-online

Islamists in Bonn: Muslim Brotherhood is increasingly active in Bonn
BONN. The Muslim Brotherhood is increasingly active in Bonn too. The security authorities have in mind the Al Muhajirin Mosque on Brühler Straße in the north of Bonn. The community denies any proximity to the Islamist association.
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source: general anzeiger bonn translate
source: general anzeiger bonn
ref:
Islam





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New EU data retention at the initiative of Austria
The EU Council of Ministers is planning a new regulation on compulsory data retention for the new EU legislature from autumn onwards. The initiative was initiated by the Austrian Council Presidency, as evidenced by an internal document of the Council, available to ORF.at.
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source: orf at translate
source: orf at

New EU data retention at the initiative of Austria
The new initiative in the EU Council of Ministers came from the Austrian Council Presidency. The Council has already commissioned the Commission with soundings and the subsequent preparation of a first draft.
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source: orf at translate
source: orf at
source: pdf





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Spaghetti Monster Church complains to the Court of Human Rights
Criticism of religion and dogmatism is an integral part of the humanistic worldview. That is why the Pastafari is still concerned with their complaint.
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According to its own account, the FSM's main aim is to equate religious and scientifically oriented worldviews. No court has delved into the fact that the Pastafari are a world view community. "For the district court, it did not matter, the Higher Regional Court has denied the question without clarifying the facts on the assumption of too narrow conditions, the Federal Constitutional Court denied the clarification of the question," summarizes the FSM the way.
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source: heise translate
source: heise
source: pastafari





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Asylum fraud: More than 1.6 million euros damage
Asylum fraud by multiple identity refugees has caused at least 1.6 million euros in damage. This resulted in a first damage calculation of the police Brunswick, as the responsible investigator Haug Schalk said the NDR regional magazine Hello Lower Saxony. The damage was caused because mainly Sudanese with had reported various identities as a refugee and therefore several times in different communities social benefits related. The fraud was noticed Employee of the State Reception Office (LAB) in Braunschweig. More than 92,000 euros of damage had been incurred directly by the State Reception Agency, through paid pocket money and other benefits. However, the biggest loss of more than 1.5 million euros arose in cities and districts that pay social benefits to refugees.
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source: ndr translate
source: ndr
ref:
Migration





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Misogyny among refugees - Green-Party quarrel about machos
Two Green MEPs call for "honest debate" by the party on misogynist refugees. Chief Baerbock contradicts.
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The initiative of the two MPs also met with criticism in the party. The Greens have been intensively debating the debate for a long time, argued Gesine Agena, vice chair and board member responsible for women's affairs. "The assumption that this has not been an issue for us greens is nonsense." In the debate, tonality matters. "Words must be carefully chosen so that they do not stir up prejudice." That was "not entirely successful in the paper," said Agena. Incidentally, all substantive proposals of her party friends long decision.
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source: taz translate
source: taz





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Number of foreign geriatric nurses without a job is rising
The Federal Ministry of Economics has become the "care of the elderly to the shortage number one". In recent years, efforts have been stepped up to recruit asylum seekers for work. Nevertheless, unemployment is growing here.
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source: welt translate
source: welt siehe auch:
... One side of labor migration is the increase in wage pressure due to an oversupply of applicants. Here the demand side of labor that is employers is deliberately over-advantaged by an oversupply of employees. In such a scenario employers can then dictate conditions and the price in the form of wages. And in order to achieve this the Bertelsmann Foundation's 2019 study explicitly calls for labor migration from outside Europe. Thus the Bertelsmann Foundation calls for labor migration from countries that almost always have a lower wage level than Germany. [3] [3,pdf] ...

Every second immigrant fails at German tests at the minimum standard
Anyone who completes the "German test for immigrants" with B1 proves that he can deal flexibly with everyday problems. But recent figures show that this target is missing more and more migrants. The offer should now be improved.
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source: welt translate
source: welt siehe auch:
... A policy that consciously imports people with lower education and training levels inevitably leads to failures. One consequence is extensive language programs. According to the BAMF (Federal Agency for Migration and Refugees) in Germany just under 75 % of all respondents in 2017 participated in or completed at least one language-course. In addition 50 % of all respondents in 2017 participated in or completed state-supplied language support programs for refugees. And 9 % of all respondents in 2017 have participated in or completed further language programs that also provide job-specific vocabulary. [1,p.5] ...





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Donation - affair AfD should pay 402,900 euros
The AfD politicians Meuthen and Reil have received free support from a Swiss advertising agency in election campaigns. The Bundestag administration evaluated this as illegal party donation and demands a fine of 402,900 euros from the AFD.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau





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Domestic Intelligence warns of Antisemitism within Islamism
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More pronounced are anti-Semitic views, however, in Islamism, in which religious, territorial and / or political motives to an anti-Semitic world view. The "enemy image of Judaism" forms a central pillar on which the arguments of all Islamist groups are based.
Such an insight is gaining in importance especially against the background of the influx of more than 1,000,000 Muslims1 into the Federal Republic of Germany between 2014 and 2017. Many of these people come from countries where antisemitic attitudes have been so commonplace for decades that even children naturally grow up with it.
source: bfv,p.5 ...
All Islamist organizations have in common that they hardly distinguish between the state of Israel and the Jewish people, either linguistically or in content. Thus centuries-old antisemitic stereotypes are often transferred to the current state of Israel.
source: bfv,p.25 ...
Such events suggest that Islamist anti-Semitic ideology is increasingly found in Muslim society outside Islamist organizations. Whether this is a permanent phenomenon - possibly even a continuing trend - remains to be seen.
source: bfv,p.39

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