[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2019-12-09

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  1. English Videos
    1. The China Deal for Joe Biden’s Son | America Uncovered
    2. Italy's China City: Sweatshops to Wedding Shops
  2. English News and Articles
    1. London Bridge: Two killed in stabbing attack
    2. The Hague stabbing: Three injured in attack on shopping street
    3. Organizations Funded by the NED
    4. Trump Stocks His Cabinet Increasingly With Business Lobbyists
    5. Nicaragua, Mexico & Bolivia
    6. Map delineates Turkey's maritime frontiers in Med Sea
    7. France Strike
  3. Translated News in English
    1. From 2021 - Germany pays more to NATO
    2. Hans-Eckhard Sommer (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees) : Bamf President warns of permanent poverty of refugees & Bamf (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees) boss - Sommer calls for more Sammelabschiebungen
    3. 6.38 million people live on unemployment benefits or Hartz IV (minimum welfare subsidy) benefits & What the official number of unemployed keeps silent: 3.12 million people without work
    4. ASB trial: imprisonment for both defendants
    5. Thousands of deported asylum seekers back in the country
    6. THE BASE HAS CHOSEN: Esken and Walter Borjans become new SPD chairmen & New SPD leadership demands German coalition talks
    7. Funded jobs: 41,000 employees in the social labor market
    8. Diesel dragnet: Berlin police want to automatically monitor driving ban
    9. PISA 2019 - German education system has room for improvement: report
    10. Population study - Almost three-quarters of German immigrants are academics
    11. 175 million euros: Federal Government spends more money on external consultants
    12. Tafeln (foodbank) at capacity - Number of pensioners increased by 20 percent within one year
    13. Network Enforcement Act - Social media must report hate mailings to the BKA in the future

I. English Videos

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-> The China Deal for Joe Biden’s Son | America Uncovered

ref:
[Foreign Policy] #Ukrainegate - What is behind the accusations of #Trump , [Außenpolitik] #Ukrainegate - Was steckt hinter den Anschuldigungen an #Trump

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-> Italy's China City: Sweatshops to Wedding Shops

II. English News and Articles

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-> London Bridge: Two killed in stabbing attack
Two members of the public have died after a stabbing attack at London Bridge, in which police also shot dead the suspect.
The Met Police has declared the attack a terrorist incident.
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source: bbc
source: bbc
source: dw
source: voa
source: tass
-> London Bridge: attacker had been jailed for al-Qaida inspired bomb plot
Usman Khan shot dead by police while wearing fake suicide vest
Man and woman killed in attack on Friday, three others injured
Police searching Staffordshire address connected to Khan
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source: the guardian

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-> The Hague stabbing: Three injured in attack on shopping street
Three people have been stabbed in an attack on a busy shopping street in The Hague, officials say.
Police said they were still searching for a suspect and no arrests had been made after the attack at about 19:45 local time (18:45 GMT).
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source: bbc
source: france24
source: the guardian

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-> Organizations Funded by the NED
The following exclusive list shows the more than 1600 NGOs that between 2016 and 2019 have received grants by the U.S. National Endowment for Democracy (NED). The NGOs have been extracted from the official NED grant database and have been grouped by region.
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source: swprs

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-> Trump Stocks His Cabinet Increasingly With Business Lobbyists
In his previous life as a lobbyist, Dan Brouillette represented clients including Ford Motor Co. and electric utilities with business before the U.S. Energy Department. Now he’s on the verge of running the very agency he once sought to influence.
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source: bloomberg

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-> Operation Condor 2.0: After Bolivia coup, Trump dubs Nicaragua ‘national security threat’ and targets Mexico
After presiding over a far-right coup in Bolivia, the US dubbed Nicaragua a “national security threat” and announced new sanctions, while Trump designated drug cartels in Mexico as “terrorists” and refused to rule out military intervention.
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source: the grayzone/Ben Norton
source: whitehouse/Statement from President Donald J. Trump Regarding the Resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales
source: whitehouse/Text of a Notice on the Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to the Situation in Nicaragua
ref:
Bolivia , Bolivien

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-> Map delineates Turkey's maritime frontiers in Med Sea
A Turkish diplomat on Dec. 2 shared a map of the country's continental shelf and the borders of its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in the Eastern Mediterranean following a maritime jurisdiction agreement with Libya.
With the chart, Ça?atay Erciyes showed the outer boundaries of Turkey's continental shelf and EEZ, designated in a 2011 agreement between Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), the median line between Egypt and Turkey's mainlands and a recent memorandum with Libya.
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source: hurriyet

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-> 806.000 demonstrators according to the Interior: the strike of December 5th is one of the strongest mobilizations of the decade
GRAPHICS. The mobilization of this Thursday was at the height of the expectations of its organizers. If it is not historic, it is still one of the most followed of the last 25 years.
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source: bfmtv translate
source: bfmtv
-> More than 1.5 million protesters according to the CGT, pursuit Friday, tensions in Paris ... Massive mobilization against the pension reform
At least 33,000 people in Toulouse, 25,000 in Marseille, 20,000 in Lyon, Montpellier and Bordeaux: more than 585,000 people demonstrated in 107 cities in France against the pension reform, according to the counts transmitted by the police or the prefectures.
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source: nicematin translate
source: nicematin
-> Before the December 5th strike, 71% of French people worried about the future of their retirement [EXCLUSIVE SURVEY]
A Yougov poll for "The HuffPost" shows that 60% of respondents support the December 5th strike.
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source: huffington post translate
source: huffington post

III. Translated News in English

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-> From 2021 - Germany pays more to NATO
Under pressure from US President Trump, the NATO countries have agreed on a new allocation of community costs. Germany will pay as much as the US in the future. That's 33 million euros more each year.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau

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-> Hans-Eckhard Sommer (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees) : Bamf President warns of permanent poverty of refugees
Many refugees have found work, most of them in the low paid sector. That is not good for society, says Hans-Eckhard Sommer.
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source: zeit translate
source: zeit
-> Bamf (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees) boss - Sommer calls for more Sammelabschiebungen
Hans-Eckhard Sommer, President of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, wants to bring more foreigners to leave the country. Since too many attempts failed, he proposes increased collective deportations.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel

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-> 6.38 million people live on unemployment benefits or Hartz IV (minimum welfare subsidy) benefits
There were around 2.23 million unemployed in September 2019. However, at just under 6.38 million, almost three times as many people in Germany lived on unemployment benefits or Hartz IV benefits, including 1.92 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: 3.12 million people without work
In November, the Federal Employment Agency reports just under 2.18 million unemployed. However, the total number of people without work does not reflect the official figure. Because around 937,000 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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-> ASB trial: imprisonment for both defendants
In the trial for the millions of frauds at the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) in Hannover, the two defendants have been sentenced by the Hildesheim district court to prison terms. The former managing director has to go to prison for six and a half years because of particularly serious infidelity, his accomplice for three and a half years. The two men are said to have diverted almost seven million euros over years to private accounts. The money was actually meant for refugee housing of the ASB, said a court spokesman.
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source: ndr translate
source: ndr
ref:
Workers Samaritan Federation

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-> Thousands of deported asylum seekers back in the country
Almost 30,000 asylum seekers who had to leave Germany have returned here. "Any violation of the entry ban must end in custody in the future," demands CSU politician Lindholz. Horst Seehofer sees an urgent need for action.
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A total of 28,283 asylum seekers who have arrived since 2012 and made an application, but then have been deported or emigrated, are now back here - and have made at least one further application. The majority of them, namely 22,050, "only" once entered again, so is the second attempt.
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source: welt translate
source: welt

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-> THE BASE HAS CHOSEN: Esken and Walter Borjans become new SPD chairmen
The opponents of a continuation of the grand coalition, Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans, prevail over Olaf Scholz and Klara Geywitz.
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The German MP Esken and the former Minister of State Walter-Borjans won 53.06 percent of the votes cast. Their competitors in the runoff election, Finance Minister Scholz and the former regional deputy Geywitz came to 45.33 percent. A party convention of the SPD should now confirm the result in the coming week and choose the victorious couple.
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source: faz translate
source: faz
source: tagesschau
-> New SPD leadership demands German coalition talks
The socialist coalition partner (SPD) of German chancellor Angela Merkel has asked for a renegotiation of the coalition agreement. The newly-elected co-leader of the Social Democrats (SPD), Norbert Walter-Borjans, said "if the coalition partner then takes an obstructive approach for these new tasks then you have to make a decision that it cannot continue." Defence minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (CDU) dismissed any renegotiation, and said the CDU stands by the coalition.
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source: euobserver
source: spiegel
source: handelsblatt
-> No GroKo (Grand Coalition) end - The SPD top repels the revolt
The designated SPD chiefs had distinguished themselves as GroKo critics. Now they buckle. The lead application for the party convention is no longer about renegotiations.
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel

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-> Funded jobs: 41,000 employees in the social labor market
A total of 150,000 long-term unemployed wants to integrate the grand coalition into the social labor market by 2024. In November 2019, 41,000 people worked in an assisted position on the social labor market. Around 7.5 percent of the employment contracts were terminated prematurely.
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source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt translate
source: o-ton-arbeitsmarkt

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-> Diesel dragnet: Berlin police want to automatically monitor driving ban
The chief of police and trade unionists demand the use of license plate scanners to enforce traffic bans on diesel cars.
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source: heise translate
source: heise
ref:
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In addition the plans to control driving bans are a major extension of surveillance methods. There is still no nationwide control of driving bans. But according to the plans of the German Federal Government at least the number plate and the image of the driver should be recorded and stored. For this purpose the data should be collected automatically. And this would result in surveillance cameras. [10] [11] [12] [13]
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-> German education system has room for improvement: report
Is Germany facing another "education catastrophe?" The 2018 PISA study shows German schoolchildren are performing at above-average levels. However, a shortage of teachers threatens to undermine that progress.
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source: dw
source: spiegel
source: zeit
source: zeit
-> Germany lost in all areas
New Pisa blunder: Teacher explains 3 reasons why we cut only moderately
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1. Children without language skills: The OECD sees the refugee crisis as one of the causes behind the poorer performance of Germany - and the resulting increased demands on the education system. The proportion of students with "their own migration experience" has increased significantly since the last PISA survey, and their integration into the education system is a major challenge.
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2. Acute teacher shortage: The cause of the deterioration is also an acute shortage of teachers: "For four years, we have a massive shortage of teachers in Germany, which currently shows mainly in vocational, elementary and special needs schools." Concretely, this means that less lessons take place and it also give larger classes.
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3. Social origin: According to the OECD study, school success in Germany is still strongly related to the social background of the students. Privileged students, compared to those who are socio-economically disadvantaged, would have a competitive advantage.
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source: focus translate
source: focus

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-> Population study - Almost three-quarters of German immigrants are academics
Four million German citizens currently live abroad. Researchers have now investigated who they are and why they left Germany.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
source: zeit
source: tagesschau
-> This is where (and why) Germans are moving abroad
The majority of Germans move abroad for professional reasons - and earn significantly more there, according to new research.
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source: thelocal

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-> 175 million euros: Federal Government spends more money on external consultants
The Federal Government again engaged more external consultants in 2018. In particular, the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Transport used the expertise from outside.
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source: handelsblatt translate
source: handelsblatt

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-> Tafeln (foodbank) at capacity - Number of pensioners increased by 20 percent within one year
More than 400,000 pensioners get their food at the tables. Tafel boss Jochen Brühl therefore wants more support from the politicians.
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel
source: faz
source: spiegel

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-> Network Enforcement Act - Social media must report hate mailings to the BKA in the future
In the future, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will not only have to delete swastikas and death threats, but will also have to report them to the BKA using the sender's IP address. Insults are excluded from the federal government's plan.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
source: rbb24
ref:
NetzDG

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