[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2019-11-27

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  1. English Videos
    1. #Irancables
    2. Bolivia
  2. English News and Articles
    1. France unveils new model EU enlargement
    2. Yellow vest anniversary protests lead to 254 arrests across France
    3. New measurement: SD (Sweden Democrats) and S (Social Democrats) equal size
    4. Swedish prosecutor drops Assange rape investigation
    5. #Irancables
    6. Daphne Caruana Galizia
    7. Doctors: Ailing Assange Needs Medical Care in Hospital
    8. #Chinacables
  3. Translated News in English
    1. Victim families accuse the federal government of lying and "stalling tactics" & Questions about uncomfortable for Merkel? ZDF invites Berlin terror victims from broadcast
    2. Money transfer to Turkey - Grossrazzia against hawala banking
    3. PRINCETON STUDY: Social benefits attract immigrants
    4. Protection of the Constitution (Domestic Intelligence Service/Verfassungsschutz) warns - "climate killer" in the crosshair: Left attacks on cruise ships and SUV fears
    5. Ibizagate
    6. Maas against withdrawal of nuclear weapons
    7. 38 percent of Germans suspect political influence on the media
    8. Housing Association should no longer criticize Mietenteckel practice
    9. Experts consider salaries at public broadcasters too high
    10. Germany takes in more refugees
    11. Trecker demo in Berlin - Why the farmers protest
    12. The Worst

I. English Videos

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-> The Story Behind the Iran Cables

-> Leaked Cables Show Depth of Iranian Influence in Iraq After U.S. Invasion “Shattered” the Country

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-> Massacre in Cochabamba: Anti-Indigenous Violence Escalates as Mass Protests Denounce Coup in Bolivia

II. English News and Articles

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-> France unveils new model EU enlargement
Western Balkan countries should still become EU members, but via a new, step-by-step process, France has said.
The "gradual association" idea was the basis for a "reformed approach to the [EU] accession process", set out in an informal, six-page paper circulated to EU diplomats by France on Friday (15 November) and seen by EUobserver.
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source: eu observer

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-> Yellow vest anniversary protests lead to 254 arrests across France
French police arrested 254 people during clashes in Paris and other cities on the first anniversary of the 'yellow vest' movement, Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said Sunday.
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source: the local

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-> New measurement: SD (Sweden Democrats) and S (Social Democrats) equal size
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The Social Democrats 24.4% 24.9% The Moderate 17.0% 17.7% Sweden Democrats 23.0% 22.7%
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source: expressen se translate
source: expressen se
ref:
Sweden , Schweden

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-> Swedish prosecutor drops Assange rape investigation
Sweden's prosecution authority said Tuesday it had dropped its investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange over a 2010 rape allegation, even though prosecutors found the plaintiff's claim "credible".
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source: france24
source: reuters
source: bbc
source: the local

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-> A SPY COMPLEX REVEALED - Leaked Iranian Intelligence Reports Expose Tehran’s Vast Web of Influence in Iraq
IN MID-OCTOBER, with unrest swirling in Baghdad, a familiar visitor slipped quietly into the Iraqi capital. The city had been under siege for weeks, as protesters marched in the streets, demanding an end to corruption and calling for the ouster of the prime minister, Adil Abdul-Mahdi. In particular, they denounced the outsize influence of their neighbor Iran in Iraqi politics, burning Iranian flags and attacking an Iranian consulate.
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source: the intercept
-> THE CHANGING OF THE OVERLORDS - From the Rubble of the U.S. War in Iraq, Iran Built a New Order
ABOUT A MONTH before the United States invaded Iraq in March 2003, Tariq Aziz, one of Saddam Hussein’s most trusted comrades, sat in his office in Baghdad in an olive green uniform, cigar in hand, wearing house slippers. The man who for decades had served as the public face of high-stakes Iraqi diplomacy offered a political analysis that might well have gotten him executed in years past.
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source: the intercept
-> A SECRET SUMMIT - Iran’s Quds Force and the Muslim Brotherhood Considered an Alliance Against Saudi Arabia
THEY WERE HARDLY kindred spirits. In fact, they stood on opposite sides of one of the world’s fiercest geopolitical divides. Yet in a secret effort at detente, two of the most formidable organizations in the Middle East held a previously undisclosed summit at a Turkish hotel to seek common ground at a time of sectarian war.
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source: the intercept

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-> Daphne murder: 17 Black owner Yorgen Fenech arrested on yacht
Prime Minister describes businessman as 'person of interest' in case
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source: times of malta
-> Who is Yorgen Fenech?
A prominent businessman and a once-mystery company
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source: times of malta
source: lov in malta

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-> Doctors: Ailing Assange Needs Medical Care in Hospital
LONDON - More than 60 doctors have written to British authorities asserting that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urgently needs medical treatment at a university hospital.
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source: voa
source: al jazeera
-> Concerns of medical doctors about the plight of Mr Julian Assange
Open letter to the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott
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source: letter pdf

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-> CHINA CABLES - Exposed: China’s Operating Manuals For Mass Internment And Arrest By Algorithm
A new leak of highly classified Chinese government documents reveals the operations manual for running the mass detention camps in Xinjiang and exposed the mechanics of the region’s system of mass surveillance.
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source: icij

III. Translated News in English

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-> Victim families accuse the federal government of lying and "stalling tactics"
After the controversial statements in the investigative committee on the case of Amri, the survivors of the victims of the attack sharply criticize the German government - and demand the questioning of the then Minister of the Interior.
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source: welt translate
source: welt
-> Questions about uncomfortable for Merkel? ZDF invites Berlin terror victims from broadcast
The ZDF has the survivors of a victim of the terrorist attack from Berlin Breitscheidplatz off the program "plain text, Mrs. Merkel!" Offloaded.
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source: merkur translate
source: merkur

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-> Money transfer to Turkey - Grossrazzia against hawala banking
In North Rhine-Westphalia and other federal states investigators search this morning about 60 apartments and companies. The accused are said to have smuggled hundreds of millions of euros from Germany to Turkey.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau
source: zeit

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-> PRINCETON STUDY: Social benefits attract immigrants
So far, scientific studies have demonstrated only a weak effect of social transfers on willingness to migrate. A team of researchers has now examined it using the example of Denmark and observed surprising results.
Many refugees are on their way to Europe only because they know that they can collect lavish social benefits here. This thesis is particularly persistent in the immigration debate - in research, however, this so-called "pull effect" of the welfare state is controversial. So far, many studies have indicated at most a low magnetic effect of generous transfer payments.
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source: faz translate
source: faz
ref:
[Dossier] Migration Business , Migration

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-> Protection of the Constitution (Domestic Intelligence Service/Verfassungsschutz) warns - "climate killer" in the crosshair: Left attacks on cruise ships and SUV fears
The Protection of the Constitution (Domestic Intelligence Service/Verfassungsschutz) raises alarm: Left-wing extremists could carry out new attacks in Germany under the guise of "climate protests". Possible targets of violent actions are high-horsepower cars, luxury ships, airports and large livestock farms. Actual intention of the perpetrators: The overthrow of capitalism.
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source: focus translate
source: focus

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-> Detention against suspects requested
Following the arrests in connection with investigations into the production of the "Ibiza video", the Vienna public prosecutor's office has now requested Detention against three suspects. It must be decided by a judge of the Straflandesgericht. He has 48 hours from admission to the prison and thus until Friday afternoon time.
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source: orf translate
source: orf
ref:
Ibizagate

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-> Maas against withdrawal of nuclear weapons
In the Bundestag election campaign, the SPD had made a strong case for a withdrawal of American nuclear weapons from Germany. Your Foreign Minister says: That's no use.
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source: faz translate
source: faz

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-> 38 percent of Germans suspect political influence on the media
According to a study, more than a third of Germans believe that German media receive guidelines from politicians in their reporting. And 16 percent find that public service broadcasting is dispensable.
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source: welt translate
source: welt
ref:
Manufacturing Consent

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-> Housing Association should no longer criticize Mietenteckel practice
Berlin. The Berlin Left demands from the Association of Berlin-Brandenburg housing company (BBU), in the future practically no more public criticism of the planned Mietdeckel practice. In a party decision on Saturday, the association is called on to "give up" its "campaign" against the referendum on the expropriation of large housing companies and the rental cover.
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source: morgenpost translate
source: morgenpost
source: bz
ref:
Berlin

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-> Experts consider salaries at public broadcasters too high
For its opinion on the amount of the broadcasting fee, the expert commission KEF examined the salary structure of the public service broadcasting. The result: The employees earn disproportionately well there.
A few days ago it was announced that the independent expert commission for determining the financial needs of broadcasters (KEF) in a preliminary draft pleads for the broadcasting contribution in Germany from 2010 from 17.50 euros per month and household by 86 cents to 18, Raise 36 euros. The increase would be the first since 2009. Ultimately, however, the federal states decide on the future amount of the broadcasting fee for ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio.
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source: welt translate
source: welt
source: medienkorrespondenz
ref:
ARD

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-> Germany takes in more refugees
They are considered vulnerable, but have little chance of being received by a country. For such refugees there is a separate program of the UN. Germany will also participate in 2020.
Germany wants to continue to participate in the resettlement program for the resettlement of refugees from hopeless circumstances. According to information from the Evangelical Press Service (EPD), the German government has informed the EU Commission that it plans to resettle up to 5,500 people next year. This is a similar number as before: For 2018 and 2019, the Federal Government had pledged a total of 10,200 seats.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau

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-> Trecker demo in Berlin - Why the farmers protest
Thousands of tractors will paralyze large parts of the capital on Tuesday. "We are tired of being the whipping boys of the nation," say the farmers.
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel
source: taz
source: faz
source: tagesspiegel
-> Green Group Chairman : Anton Hofreiter criticized farmers' demonstrations
In Berlin, thousands of farmers protest with tractors against the agricultural policy of the Federal Government. The Green Group leader sees in the criticism a "wrong approach".
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source: zeit translate
source: zeit

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Hello, @polizeiberlin! Please explain this pro-fascist photo? What is the #Police #Berlin #Racism and the anti-constitutional Gray Wolves? #Jew-hatred #Kurds-hatred


ref:
Grey Wolves

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