[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2019-08-02

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  1. English Videos
    1. Hong Kong
    2. Mueller Investigation
  2. English News and Articles
    1. Tanker-War: Everything Is Ideological
    2. Iran Conflict
    3. North Korea conducts new projectile launch - U.S. officials
    4. Bomb Revelation Former Commander KP: Turkey Prepares Nuclear Weapons
    5. Wealth - France’s Richest People Get Richer Faster Than Everyone Else
  3. Translated News in English
    1. Trouble with Deutsche Bahn - Trains have been driving over demolition bridges for years
    2. Answer of the Federal Government - More than half of the pensions below 900 euros
    3. Climate protection - Left-wing boss calls for nationalization of airlines
    4. Poland is cutting income tax for people under the age of 26
    5. Saxony-Anhalt - Suspected arson attack on AfD politicians
    6. New security measures - A ditch for the Reichstag
    7. Iran Conflict and Germany
    8. report - Also destroyed before core handover hard drives
    9. Lack of living space in big cities - Enteignet the small gardeners!
    10. 6.52 million people live on unemployment benefits or Hartz IV benefits & What the official number of unemployed keeps silent: 3.18 million people without work
    11. Comparison of Investigations against violent Extremist
    12. Exit from INF treaty - NATO partners are closed behind USA
    13. The Worst

I. English Videos

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China Calls for Crackdown on Hong Kong Protesters

China Might Send Military to Hong Kong

On July 31, 2019, the PLA’s troops stationed in Hong Kong released official promotional videos, which were aimed at strong meaning.

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Revealed: Mueller Didn’t Re-Interview Or Charge Phony Russiagate Originator

Mueller Caught Lying About “Exoneration” Of Trump

Mueller Admits NO OBSTRUCTION Of Investigation Occurred w/Aaron Mate

II. English News and Articles

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Tanker-War: Everything Is Ideological
Ukraine’s most senior military prosecutor, Anatoly Matios, announced yesterday that the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) had seized the Russian tanker Nika Spirit at the port of Izmail and detained the crew, including at least 7 Russian nationals. Matios alleged that the tanker was involved in the Kerch Strait incident in November, during which Ukrainian naval vessels were seized by the Russian Coastguard for attempting to illegally enter Russian territorial waters, and 24 Ukrainian sailors arrested. Anatoly Matios has claimed that the Russian tanker was seized yesterday as material evidence in the ongoing Ukrainian investigation into the Kerch Strait incident.
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source: cgr

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Russia and Iran confirm bid to expand military cooperation in memorandum of understanding
The sides may shortly hold a joint naval exercise in the area of the Strait of Hormuz
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source: tass
Iran, U.A.E. Discuss Maritime Security Amid Heightened Tensions in Gulf
Meeting coincides with a brewing crisis between Tehran and the West that threatens the United Arab Emirates’s reputation as a safe business hub
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source: wsj

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North Korea conducts new projectile launch - U.S. officials
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has carried out a new projectile launch, U.S. officials said on Thursday, adding that initial information indicated the launches were similar to two recent short-range tests carried out by Pyongyang.
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Earlier on Thursday and before the latest launch, U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said North Korea’s latest missile launches did not violate a pledge that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made to Trump not to test long-range missiles and nuclear weapons.
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source: reuters voa

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Bomb Revelation Former Commander KP: Turkey Prepares Nuclear Weapons
A bloody episode occurred shortly after midday at the train station, a former bomber of the Cyprus Intelligence Agency, General Andreas Pentaras, told the Cypriot television network Sigma Live. Thessaloniki.
As Mr Pentaras has denounced, the Russia-Turkey agreement for the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear plant allows Ankara to produce depleted uranium in the four reactors, which has nothing to do with the production of nuclear energy but is used for nuclear weapons and bombs.
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source: dikaiologitika translate dikaiologitika

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Wealth - France’s Richest People Get Richer Faster Than Everyone Else
The first half of 2019 brought continued civil unrest to France, with throngs of protesters taking to the streets to demand higher wages and pensions amid widening wealth inequality. But for the nation’s richest citizens, the first six months have been filled with good fortune.
The 14 people from France on the 500-member Bloomberg Billionaires Index added a combined 78 billion US-Dollar to their collective net worth since Dec. 31, a 35% increase. That’s more than double the pace of China’s richest, at 17%, and the U.S.’s 15%. The best returns outside of France came mostly from Asia as Thailand’s wealthiest were a close second at 33%, followed by Singapore’s 31% and 24% for Japan.
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source: bloomberg

III. Translated News in English

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Trouble with Deutsche Bahn - Trains have been driving over demolition bridges for years
At least 1250 railway bridges are so dilapidated that only the demolition remains. The Deutsche Bahn still drives over it - and calms the passengers.
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As the DB topped up in the confidential papers, for many years more than half of all bridges were identified as wrong and mostly much younger. For many stood in massive and conspicuous accumulation the year 1927 in the statistics. Only after a review, coordinated with the supervisors of the Federal Railway Authority (EBA), was the previous useful life of 13,535 buildings drastically revised upwards. As a result, the average bridge age rose by 16.4 years in one fell swoop in 2017, reaching 73.5 years by the end of 2018.
These processes are so far only a few insiders known. Although the corporation emphasizes in the documents, the correction does not change the condition of the bridges. However, the decisive factor is that almost 2,000 more buildings are nearing the end of their useful life much faster than previously reported. In concrete terms, the number of bridges that have been in operation for more than 100 years has increased by one-fifth to 11,939.
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For bridges, the average technical service life is 122 years. According to the Court of Auditors, at least 1,000 bridges would have to be renewed in five years so that the rehabilitation backlog would not increase. From 2015 to 2019, DB Netz AG is to replace 875 existing buildings, according to LuFV II. At the beginning of the year, just under 700 existing bridges were renewed, including small overpasses with only 20 square meters, as a glance at the infrastructure status reports shows. In 2018, 266 bridges were replaced in accordance with LuFV II.
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel

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Answer of the Federal Government - More than half of the pensions below 900 euros
"No longer poverty-proof" calls the left-wing MP Zimmermann the statutory pension in view of the figures: Under 900 € would get more than every second pensioner. This is the result of a response from the Federal Government.
More than every second German pension is less than 900 euros. This emerges from the response of the Federal Government to a request of the Left MP Sabine Zimmermann, which is the ARD capital studio. Previously, the editorial network Germany (RND) had reported about it.
According to the Federal Government 51.4 percent of pensioners in 2018 got less than 900 euros - more than 9.3 million people. 58.6 percent received accordingly less than 1000 euros. The data are pension payments - after deduction of social contributions and before taxes.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau
source: orf

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Climate protection - Left-wing boss calls for nationalization of airlines
Environmental policy is not one of the core themes of the left. Now party leader Riexinger sets according to a media report on drastic measures against the climate crisis: "Airlines belong in state hands."
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
source: faz
source: tagesspiegel
source: zeit

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Poland is cutting income tax for people under the age of 26
About three months before the Polish parliamentary election, the government in Warsaw abolished the income tax for young workers. Anyone under the age of 26 will be exempt from tax from August - that's the new regulation.
According to the government, Poland's national conservative governing party Law and Justice (PiS) wants to increase employment among young people and prevent undeclared work. In addition to the age, a gross annual income of up to approximately 20,000 euros is a precondition for tax relief. Company founders are excluded from the scheme.
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source: orf translate
source: orf
source: spiegel
source: die presse
source: nzz

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Saxony-Anhalt - Suspected arson attack on AfD politicians
In the vicinity of Salzwedel, according to media reports, a wooden bungalow was lit in which an AFD district chairman and his girlfriend stayed overnight.
According to media reports, an arson attack has apparently been committed to an AfD local politician in Saxony-Anhalt. The act is said to have been committed in the night of Sunday following a summer party of the AfD youth organization Junge Alternative in Arendsee. As reported by the Magdeburg Volksstimme , unknown people set fire to a wooden bungalow in which the politician - a district chairman of the party - and his girlfriend stayed overnight.
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source: sz translate
source: sz
source: welt
Saxony-Anhalt : Investigations on attempted murder of AfD politicians
In Saxony-Anhalt someone should have tried to light the arbor of a AfD local politician. The 32-year-old and a woman were sleeping in the building right now.
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source: zeit translate
source: zeit
source: tagesspiegel
[S] Home visit to AfD City Council Burkhard Korneffel in Stuttgart
On Thursday, the 25.07.19 the first constituent council meeting took place in the Stuttgart city hall. With it five right Hetzer of the AfD. We saw it as our antifascist obligation not to accept this without comment and therefore decided to visit the AFD City Council Burkhard Korneffel and his also active in the AfD wife Lidia Korneffel, Tappachstraße 77a, in Stuttgart Zuffenhausen.
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source: indymedia translate
source: indymedia
ref:
Me Ne Frego

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New security measures - A ditch for the Reichstag
A new visitor center and a security area will better protect the Reichstag in Berlin in the future. Planned are a fence and a ten-meter-wide ditch.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
ref:
[Dossier] Crime in Germany

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Iran Conflict - US officially asks Germany to participate in Hormuz Mission
Help German soldiers to secure the Strait of Hormuz? The United States has sent a formal request to the federal government in the Iran conflict.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
source: tagesschau
OMID NOURIPOUR: Green politician open to Bundeswehr deployment in the Persian Gulf
A protection mission of the EU with Bundeswehr participation could contribute to the "de-escalation", says the foreign policy spokesman of the Greens. Important, however, are a "prudent reaction" and the right conditions.
The foreign policy spokesman of the Greens parliamentary group, Omid Nouripour, holds under certain conditions a Bundeswehr participation in a protection mission for ships in the Persian Gulf for appropriate. In view of the tensions in the region, deployment of the Bundeswehr could contribute to "de-escalation," said Nouripour of the "Passauer Neue Presse". It was necessary "a judicious reaction to the Iranian provocation" to prevent an Iran-American overreaction.
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Britain had raised the idea of ??a European military mission in the Strait of Hormuz a few days ago, after a British tanker had been stationed in the strategically important strait by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The talks about such a mission are still ongoing. The options range from a pure observation mission to military escorts for merchant ships. Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) had not fundamentally excluded Bundeswehr involvement in a European protection mission.
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source: faz translate
source: faz
Iran policy - Federal government faces US
- According to information from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) had already clarified last Wednesday that the German government rejects the US proposal.
- The US recently asked Germany to join the protective mission in the Strait of Hormuz. The US Embassy made the request public on Tuesday.
- The British government had evidently moved away from the plan to set up its own European protection mission.
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source: sz translate
source: sz
source: orf
Kramp-Karrenbauer: decision on golf mission open
According to Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU), the German government has not yet finally decided that it rejects the US request for a stake in the operation for the protection of merchant ships in the Gulf of Hormuz. "We are currently examining these requirements in close consultation with Great Britain and France," Kramp-Karrenbauer said today in Brussels.
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source: orf translate
source: orf

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Report - Also destroyed before core handover hard drives
Even before the transfer of ex-Chancellor Christian Kern (SPÖ) to his successor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) apparently hard drives have been destroyed. As the "Kronen Zeitung" reported on Tuesday, according to an order confirmation from 1 December 2017, seven replaced or removed printer media were destroyed. Kern emphasized on Facebook that he had not been commissioned to do so.
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source: orf at translate
source: orf at
source: krone at
source: der standard at

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Lack of living space in big cities - Enteignet the small gardeners!
It is under-built, also because there are too few open spaces. Build apartments on small farms! Because their former meaning has long since done.
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source: taz translate
source: taz
note:
And that's why one should not even start with expropriations.

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6.52 million people live on unemployment benefits or Hartz IV benefits
There were nearly 2.24 million unemployed in May 2019. But with over 6.52 million, almost three times as many people in Germany lived on unemployment benefits or Hartz IV benefits, including 1.95 million children and adolescents. Because only a part of those who need state support, is also considered unemployed in the sense of statistics.
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source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt translate
source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt
What the official number of unemployed keeps silent: 3.18 million people without work
In July, the Federal Employment Agency reports just under 2.28 million unemployed. However, the total number of people without work does not reflect the official figure. Because around 904,000 de facto unemployed are not included in the unemployment, but in the separate underemployment statistics.
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source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt translate
source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt
ref:
[Economics] Is the German Economy great

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Prosecutor General's procedure at the Federal Court of Justice since 2013
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2. How many procedures related to
a) Islamist terrorism,
b) right-wing extremism,
c) left - wing extremism and
d) foreign extremism
were initiated since January 2014 at the Federal Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice (please break down according to the number of allegations and annual slices)?
The GBA has until 10 July 2019
in 2014
a) 30 investigations into Islamist terrorism,
(b) two investigations concerning right-wing extremism,
c) six investigations into left-wing extremism,
in 2015
a) 59 investigations into Islamist terrorism,
b) four investigations related to right-wing extremism,
c) four investigations into left-wing extremism,
in 2016
a) 88 investigations into Islamist terrorism,
(b) five preliminary investigations relating to right-wing extremism,
(c) an investigation into left-wing extremism,
in 2017
a) 1048 investigations relating to Islamist terrorism,
(b) eleven investigations related to right-wing extremism;
c) four investigations into left-wing extremism,
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source: bundestag pdf

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Exit from INF treaty - NATO partners are closed behind USA
With their withdrawal from the INF disarmament treaty, the US has officially ended the agreement with Russia. The backing comes from NATO: responsibility for the end of the treaty is the sole responsibility of Russia.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
ref:
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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]
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