[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2019-08-15

1. English Videos
1. "MH17 - Call for Justice"
2. CNN Journo Self Owns While Smearing Tulsi
3. Quitting Cold Turkey
4. Will China “Intervene” in Hong Kong?
2. English News and Articles
1. Italian coalition
2. Italy Polls
3. Italy: New government without Salvini in the making
4. ASIA PACIFIC - Trump aide John Bolton links future Asia missile deployment to protecting allies including Japan & China's National Defense in the New Era
5. Culture senator finances Nazi play
6. Jeffrey Epstein Dies Of “Suicide”
7. Danish climate body wrongly reported Greenland heat record
3. Translated News in English
1. Scientific opinion - CO2 tax violates the Basic Law (unconstitutional)
2. monitoring - 5G: Federal government wants to force providers to monitor
3. Dispute over defense expenditures - USA threatens again with troop withdrawal from Germany
4. Ibizagate
5. "Because Meuthen does not want to go by himself" - Secret sound recording surfaced: AfD politician planned with party friends Meuthen fall
6. "Business trips by plane - Bundestag members flew 15 million kilometers
7. Council of Europe accuses Germany - Bundestag fails in the fight against corruption
8. Seyran Ates on the Tempelhofer Feld prayer - "These are Muslim identities"
9. Long-term recipients of Hartz IV: (minimum welfare subsidy) Less than two percent find work
10. Economic - downturn Merkel currently finds economic stimulus unnecessary
11. 2500 flats - Senate denies settlement construction
12. The Worst

I. English Videos

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"MH17 - Call for Justice"

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CNN Journo Self Owns While Smearing Tulsi

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Quitting Cold Turkey

4

Will China “Intervene” in Hong Kong?

II. English News and Articles

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TICKER - Italian coalition fight over Lyon-Turin high speed train
Italy's co-ruling party, the Five Star Movement, has filed a motion in the Senate to stop the construction of the Trasporto Alta Velocita (TAV), the high speed train connection between Lyon and Turin. The motion was rejected by a large majority. The party of prime minister Giuseppe Conte is against the train line as it would be expensive and environmentally-unfriendly, while the League party is supporting it.
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source: eu observer
source: bloomberg
Italy's Salvini says government is finished, wants elections
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Thursday there was no way to patch up differences in Italy’s ruling coalition and the only way forward was to hold new elections.
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source: reuters
source: bbc
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Italy , Italien

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Ipsos survey (8 August 2019)
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source: scenari politici translate
source: scenari politici

GPF survey - Salvini, Premier or Re?
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The first question posed by GPF is all in all usual: would Salvini be a Prime Minister welcome to the Italians? The answer is an almost plebiscitary yes, at 62%. An understandable fact, the secretary is undoubtedly the political fashion of the moment; precisely this peak of consensus, certified by polls like this, is the basis of the decision to bring down the Conte government to go to the polls, hoping to capitalize on the favorable moment.
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source: sondag gibidimedia translate
source: sondag gibidimedia
The "grillini positive" ranks that look at the center-right - The "Christian Democratic" area near Di Maio and Bonafede could break away from the M5s and approach the Carroccio
If we went to elections, thanks to the discontents of the 5 Star Movement, Matteo Salvini could really point to Bulgarian percentages. Judging by rumors in the palaces of power, in fact, there are already many pentastellati parliamentarians ready to abandon the boat to join political movements outside the M5s and closer to the center-right alliance that is about to be signed. Not surprisingly, in an interview with the Giornale di yesterday, Salvini had already sent a signal «to the many positive grillins we have known. Not all 5 Stars are like Fico or Di Battista ».
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source: il giornale translate
source: il giornale
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The Lega and Matteo Salvini reach record levels in the polls. And the EU as well as the open-borders-advocates have given both a perfect opportunity. After the elections Lega and Salvini should therefore thank the EU and the open-borders-advocates.
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[Economics] #MiniBOT, #Italy - The Resistance against the Euro comes from the Right not the Left anymore , [Foreign Policy] Moral Imperialism and the Manufacturing Consent at the example of Sea-Watch and Carola Rackete , [Foreign Policy] The radicalization in the migration debate at the example of Sea-Watch and Carola Rackete
anmerkung:
Die Lega und Matteo Salvini erreichen Rekordwerte in den Umfragen. Und die EU sowie die offene-Grenzen-Fraktion haben beiden eine Steilvorlage gegeben. Nach den Wahlen sollten sich Lega und Salvini also bei der EU sowie der offene-Grenzen-Fraktion bedanken.
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[Wirtschaft] #MiniBOT, #Italien - Der Widerstand gegen den Euro kommt von Rechts und nicht mehr von Links , [Außenpolitik] Moralischer Imperialismus und Meinungsmache am Beispiel der Sea-Watch und Carola Rackete , [Außenpolitik] Die Radikalisierung in der Migrationsdebatte am Beispiel der Sea-Watch und Carola Rackete

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Italy: New government without Salvini in the making
Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi has proposed to form a technical government without the far-right League party, in a potential threat to League chief Matteo Salvini's ambitions.
The "institutional government" would include left and centre-right parties for the sake of national unity, Renzi said on Sunday (11 August).
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source: eu observer
WENN VERRÄTER SICH VERRATEN

Conte:
The 5 star movement suffers because ...
Merkel:
Di Maio?
Conte:
... because they fall in the polls.
... I'm very worried about the sales, because Salvini is 35-36% and she (the 5 star movement) is only 26-27%
... then they say (5 stars B)
... Which
... Which
... I mean
which topics can help us in the election campaign?
... because Salvini is obviously all about immigration ... he covers everything ...
... there is no room
It's different for me, you know ...
... do you remember Malta? ...
... when I said that I would let women and children fly in
... because Jucker told me;
"Salvini says all ports are closed"
I told him
"OK, that means I'll catch up with planes"
 You know ...
Merkel:
Is it really true that ...
Conte:
we'll get her, of course
but Angela, do not worry, I am very determined
It will come like that ...
we are only at the beginning

Conte:
Die 5 Sterne Bewegung leidet, weil ...
Merkel:
Di Maio?
Conte:
.. denn in den Umfragen fallen sie.
... ich bin bezüglich der Umfagen sehr besorgt, weil Salvini bei 35 -36% liegt und sie (die 5 Sterne Bewegung) nur bei 26-27%
... dann sagen sie (5 Sterne B)
... welche
... welche
... ich meine
welche Themen können uns im Wahlkampf helfeen?
... denn bei Salvini dreht sich offensichtlich alles um die Einwanderung er ... er deckt disbezüglich alles ab ...
... da ist kein Platz
Für mich ist es anders, weißt Du ...
... erinnerst Du dich an Malta? ...
... als ich sagte, dass ich Frauen und Kinder einfliegen lassen würde
... weil Jucker mir sagte;;
"Salvini sagt, dass alle Häfen geschlossen sind"
Ich sagete ihm
"OK, das heißt, dass ich sie mit Flugzeugen hereinholen werde"
Weißt Du ...
Merkel:
Ist es wirklich wahr, dass ...
Conte:
wir werden sie holen, natürlich
aber Angela, mache Dir keine Sorgen, ich bin sehr entschlossen
Es wird so kommen ...
wir sind erst am Anfang

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ASIA PACIFIC - Trump aide John Bolton links future Asia missile deployment to protecting allies including Japan
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday linked the deployment of intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) in Asia to protecting America’s allies in the region — including Japan — despite Chinese warnings it would take retaliatory countermeasures.
Bolton said that any U.S. deployment of the missiles would be a defensive move as China continues to amass a large arsenal of weapons that put American and Japanese military bases and facilities within striking distance.
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source: japan times
China's National Defense in the New Era
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Today, with their interests and security intertwined, people across the world are becoming members of a community with a shared future. China is at a critical stage of completing the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects and embarking on the new journey of building a modernized socialist country in an all-round way. Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era.
The Chinese government is issuing China’s National Defense in the New Era to expound on China’s defensive national defense policy and explain the practice, purposes and significance of China’s efforts to build a fortified national defense and a strong military, with a view to helping the international community better understand China’s national defense.
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Major countries around the world are readjusting their security and military strategies and military organizational structures. They are developing new types of combat forces to seize the strategic commanding heights in military competition. The US is engaging in technological and institutional innovation in pursuit of absolute military superiority. Russia is advancing its New Look military reform. Meanwhile, the UK, France, Germany, Japan and India are rebalancing and optimizing the structure of their military forces.
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source: gov cn

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Culture senator finances Nazi play
The Maxim Gorky Theatre in Berlin wants to make a „hero of the Hitler era“, who murdered thousands of Jews, Poles, Russians, Ukrainians and other people, palatable to the population with hip hop. The background is that the protagonist of the play „BANDERA“ is revered as a hero in the prevailing political climate of today’s Ukraine and fascists have been part of politics and society there since the Maidan coup in 2014. The veneration of the murdering Hitler collaborator Bandera also belongs to the current „pro-Western“ Ukrainian state propaganda. That’s why he obviously has to be washed clean, at least in part, in the West.
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source: blauer bote

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Jeffrey Epstein Dies Of “Suicide”
Disappointing everyone yet surprising no one, accused sex trafficker and alleged billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has “committed” “suicide”. Details are muddled and conflicting, with CNN reporting that Epstein “was taken from New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center at 3:30 a.m. Saturday in cardiac arrest and died at an area hospital” and the New York Times reporting that “Mr. Epstein hung himself and his body was found this morning at roughly 7:30.”
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source: caitlin johnstone
Epstein’s Death Must Be the Start, not the End, of the Investigation 151
There are a number of royal palaces and grand residences of former Presidents and Prime Ministers where the inhabitants have a little bit more spring in their step following the death of Jeffrey Epstein. The media is rushing to attach the label “conspiracy theory” to any thought that his death might not have been suicide. In my view, given that so many very powerful people will be relieved he is no longer in a position to sing, and given that he was in a maximum security jail following another alleged “suicide attempt” a week ago, it would be a very credulous person who did not view the question of who killed him an open one.
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source: craig murray
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What if, he would have died in a Russian cell?

Anyway. Move along. Nothing to see here.

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Danish climate body wrongly reported Greenland heat record
Denmark's national climate body has admitted it wrongly reported record warm temperatures on the centre of the Greenland ice sheet last week, in what it called "good news from a climate perspective".
The Danish Meteorological Institute, which has a key role in monitoring Greenland's climate, last week reported a shocking August temperature of between 2.7C and 4.7C at the Summit weather station, which is located 3,202m above sea level at the the centre of the Greenland ice sheet, generating a spate of global headlines.
But on Wednesday it posted a tweet saying that a closer look had shown that monitoring equipment had been giving erroneous results.
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By combining measurements with observations from other weather stations, the DMI has now estimated that the temperature was closer to -2C.
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source: the local

III. Translated News in English

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Scientific opinion - CO2 tax violates the Basic Law (unconstitutional)
The Scientific Service of the Bundestag considers a tax on carbon dioxide emissions to be unconstitutional. FDP and CDU want other solutions.
The introduction of a tax on carbon dioxide emissions would violate the Basic Law in the opinion of the Scientific Service of the Bundestag. A taxation of a CO2 emission "for constitutional reasons", the experts write in a report from the end of July, which was published on Thursday on the website of the Bundestag.
In the opinion of the experts, the type of tax code of the Basic Law is decisive for the collection of national taxes. This provides "a tax law, but just no tax invention right" before. A newly designed tax must therefore be classified under the existing tax types, write the scientists. She could definitely have "guiding character".
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel
source: focus
source: bundestag pdf

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monitoring - 5G: Federal government wants to force providers to monitor
5G telephony makes communication significantly safer. Only at individual network nodes connections are still decrypted, conventional IMSI catchers are useless. Police and intelligence agencies do not like this, the federal government is already planning new laws.
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source: netzpolitik translate
source: netzpolitik

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Dispute over defense expenditures - USA threatens again with troop withdrawal from Germany
- The US ambassador in Germany has renewed the threat of withdrawing troops from Germany if defense spending is not increased.
- Some of the soldiers stationed in Germany should be transferred to Poland.
- The Federal Government had promised to increase the budget, most recently 1.36 percent of the gross domestic product was invested in it.
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source: sz translate
source: sz
source: faz
source: spiegel
source: zeit
source: tagesschau

Ambassador Grenell: "It is offensive to assume that the U.S. taxpayers will continue to pay for more than 50,000 Americans [U.S. troops] in #Germany, but the Germans get to spend their surplus on #domestic programs." #2percentby2024

— US-Botschaft Berlin (@usbotschaft) August 9, 2019

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However this is sold to the public as taking on responsibility or even as an increase of sovereignty. It is then pretende as if one can no longer rely on the US government. To pretend as if one acts against the US government while following its orders is clever because it undermines established patterns of thinking. But in fact the development is larger. As early as 2012 then-President Barack Obama announced a pivot to Asia and thus sent the message to the NATO member states in Europe that in the future they have to count on fewer resources from the USA. However in 2014 NATO also stated in Wales that the unification of Crimea with Russia requires a strong stance from NATO. [10] [11] [12] [13]
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JUDGMENT TO THE IBIZA VIDEO: The detective should not come into the picture
The district court of Berlin limits the reporting on the Ibiza affair: "Die Zeit" had previously informed in detail about a suspected behind the video. This will be made more difficult in the future.
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A role in the creation of recordings meanwhile, the private investigator Julian H. played. With his work and its history, the "time" dealt in particular. However, according to a ruling by the 27th Civil Division of the Berlin Regional Court this Thursday (ref .: 27 O379 / 19), that is almost impossible. The Chamber prohibited the reporting of "time" on Julian H. in four out of five points where there was no public interest. Alone over the fact that the Viennese public prosecutor's office determined against the detective, may be reported. But not about any criminal record, previous alleged activities of Julian H. for various security services and also not on legal procedures in which Julian H. played a role, what in the "time" and in other media also working as a detective , former companion of Julian H., Sascha Wandl, had left out.
It seems all these circumstances, to which the detective Julian H., as the lawyer of the "time", Jörg Nabert, said in court, have also made six or seven false affidavits to refer to possible backgrounds of the Ibiza video. This had the "Zeit" editor Stark researched in his article, discussed and provided understandable in some places for each reader with question marks. The editors had evaluated eleven gigabytes of investigation files, had, as Stark is in his story, contacted the alleged creators of the video on encrypted communication and asked questions, some of which were answered and some not. The researcher listened to numerous witnesses who had something to say about how the video came about and the alleged trade in order to complete the picture of the "Ibiza affair" of which one would hardly be able to say that their enlightenment was not in the public interest.
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source: faz translate
source: faz
Casinos Austria Post - Strache confirms house search
In the case of the appointment of a board member at Casinos Austria, ex-FPÖ chief Heinz-Christian Strache has now confirmed the house search on Tuesday afternoon. Previously, it was said informally from legal circles that raids were carried out at Strache, former FPÖ club boss Johann Gudenus and other people. Sharp criticism comes from SPÖ, NEOS and NOW.
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source: orf translate
source: orf
source: welt
source: spiegel
source: sz
ref:
Ibizagate

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"Because Meuthen does not want to go by himself" - Secret sound recording surfaced: AfD politician planned with party friends Meuthen fall
In the AfD it apparently rumbling at the base. According to a media report, the Baden-Württemberg AfD chairman Dirk Spaniel planned with other party friends the overthrow of party leader Jörg Meuthen. What the group did not know was that someone secretly accepted the controversial plans.
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source: focus translate
source: focus
source: faz

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Business trips by plane - Bundestag members flew 15 million kilometers
Despite climate protection debate, the members of the Bundestag remain frequent flyers. Last year, according to a media report, they flew significantly more than they did in 2017. The Greens therefore come on the most individual trips.
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Green apparently with most single trips
A distinction is made between flights made by delegates in the context of delegations and those which they booked on their own initiative and settled with the Bundestag. According to the "Bild", 328 such delegation trips have been approved in the current legislative period. In addition, according to the newspaper 854 individual business travel by air, most of it from Union and SPD delegates.
According to Bild, since the beginning of the legislative period, the Greens have made the most individual journeys per capita: since autumn 2017, their 67 deputies have been flying 126 times on their own, each mathematically 1.9 times. On average, all fractions were 1.2 flights per MP.
The Greens told the two newspapers that the group is compensating for their own MEPs' flights with climate change payments.
source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau
source: spiegel

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Council of Europe accuses Germany - Bundestag fails in the fight against corruption
The Council of Europe accuses the Bundestag of failing to implement recommendations for the prevention of parliamentarian bribery. That was "generally unsatisfactory".
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel
ref:
Corruption

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Seyran Ates on the Tempelhofer Feld prayer - "These are Muslim identities"
The co-founder of a liberal mosque in Berlin-Moabit, Seyran Ates, is outraged by the "prayer in the open air" on the weekend in Berlin.
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What difference does it make that this gender segregation in prayer did not take place in a mosque, but in public?
The fact that in the past 20 years more and more patriarchal-archaic practices have been increasingly brought from the private to public spaces, a society with this image in quotation marks become more and more friendly and take such practices for granted. This idea of ??gender segregation is being carried more and more massively into everyday life. The rest of the population should get used to the fact that gender segregation is the identity of these people and that they feel it is important to live this way. This is absurd because we fight the other side for more gender justice.
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There is the argument religious freedom.
But religious freedom does not mean that we go beyond the limits of fundamental rights and overlook other fundamental rights such as gender equality. Green Berlin must also ask itself the question of whether it would leave a part of the field to a Christian grouping if they practiced a massive gender segregation there and postulated this as an ideal for the whole of society.
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel
ref:
Islam

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Long-term recipients of Hartz IV: (minimum welfare subsidy) Less than two percent find work
Only a few long-term recipients of Hartz IV create integration into the labor market. In 2018, almost 47,000 long-term benefit earners managed to integrate into employment each month - this corresponds to only about 1.7 percent of all just under 2.78 million long-term recipients of Hartz IV.
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source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt translate
source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt
ref:
[Economics] Is the German Economy great

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Economic - downturn Merkel currently finds economic stimulus unnecessary
The economy in Germany is falling - should the government quickly counteract this with state aid? Chancellor Merkel pleads for other measures.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel

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2500 flats - Senate denies settlement construction
Thursday, Parliament is to cancel 2500 planned apartments in Pankow from the land use plan. Berlin needs urgently more building land.
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel
ref: Berlin

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Scherbenhaufen SPD - Elfie Handrick in Höchstform (Disaster SPD - Elfie Handrick in top form)

Ich finde es auch nicht richtig dass man da immer die Sorgen und Nöte der Bevölkerung ernst nehmen muss. Was haben die denn für Sorgen und Nöte. Ich verstehe das nicht, kann das nicht verstehen und ich denke mir auch wenn sie Sorgen und Nöte haben, dann haben sie auch noch lange nicht das Recht mit "Heil Hitler" durch die Straßen zu laufen.

I also do not think it's right to always take the concerns and needs of the population seriously. What worries and hardships do they have? I do not understand that, can not understand it and I think even if they have worries and hardships, then they still have not the right to walk through the streets with "Heil Hitler".

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Where leftists earlier made an offer to the society and promised to improve their situation left-wingers now make demands to the population. Here within the left spectrum the demands prevail over offers and promises. In the left spectrum the demands have established that the lower and middle income groups have to give up their cars, pay for the energy transition and a CO2 tax. And instead of unmasking the economic interests of employers' organizations demands for immigration with all its consequences have been established in the left-wing spectrum. In extreme cases even the deteriorating security and economic situation is taboo.
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