[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2020-07-17

  1. English Videos
    1. NBC & Google Team Up To Censor Conservative News
    2. Who's Fighting The War Against Cash?
  2. English News and Articles
    1. US to withdraw from Open Skies accord in Trump's latest treaty pullout
    2. Turkish Newspaper: We Want Crete! & We want Crete - ATTENTION TO Crete!
    3. AMERICAN SPENDING COLLAPSED BY A RECORD 13.6% IN APRIL & More than 3 million Americans filed for unemployment last week, but claims are falling
    4. Spain is deploying a basic income to citizens to ease the coronavirus impact
    5. Turkey planning hydrocarbon exploration near Greek islands
    6. Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship
    7. Trump Surprises Germany With Plan to Withdraw 9,500 U.S. Troops & U.S. decision to withdraw troops from Germany 'unacceptable' - Merkel ally
    8. After three weeks, the StopCovid app only notified 14 people
    9. Turkey's Erdogan orders the conversion of Hagia Sophia back into a mosque & Hagia Sophia stripped of museum status, paving its return to a mosque
  3. Translated News in English
    1. The head of the German Council of Economic Experts recommends zero round on the minimum wage (locking the level)
    2. Brandenburg head of state - Kalbitz is no longer an AfD member
    3. Can a constitutional judge be a member of an association that is monitored by the constitutional protection? In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania it happened exactly like that
    4. Victim in mortal danger: extreme left-wing scene is supposed to be behind the attack in the Corona demo
    5. Ibizagate
    6. State aid to corona is not enough in three quarters of the hospitals
    7. Criticism of the red-red-green law - Berlin no longer gets hundreds of other federal states?
    8. Constitutional Protection Act - Federal government agrees on state Trojans for domestic intelligence
    9. Seehofer: We are accepting migrants again
    10. Coronavirus: contract secures EU 300 million vaccine doses
    11. Police report hundreds of party rioters
    12. Berlin compensates victims of abuse - Under the aegis of the educationalist Helmut Kentler, foster children were abused by pedophiles.
    13. US troops in Germany: the federal government paid almost a billion in ten years
    14. COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY - Toll scandal: doubts about the reason for termination
    15. Germany: Islamists responsible for rail security

I. English Videos

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-> NBC & Google Team Up To Censor Conservative News

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-> Who's Fighting The War Against Cash?

II. English News and Articles

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-> US to withdraw from Open Skies accord in Trump's latest treaty pullout
The United States announced its intention on Thursday to withdraw from the 35-nation Open Skies treaty allowing unarmed surveillance flights over member countries, the Trump administration’s latest move to pull the country out of a major global treaty.
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source: france24
source: voa
source: bbc
source: the moscow times

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-> Turkish Newspaper: We Want Crete!
It has become a near daily occurrence that someone in Turkey, whether they be media, political or military, express their delusions of occupying a part of Greece – particularly Western Thrace, the Eastern Aegean Islands and/or Crete.
The last delusions, as reported by Greek City Times, came last week from Turkish state-owned Anadolu Agency and Turkish journalist Hac? Yak???kl? working for Yeni Akit, who think that a lawsuit by 100 NGO’s will make Greece lose their sovereignty over 18 Aegean islands, Crete and Western Thrace.
“ATTENTION TO Crete!” is how an article published on Friday and titled “We Want Crete” by Turkey’s Far Right Önce Vatan newspaper began.
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source: greek city times
-> We want Crete - ATTENTION TO Crete!
Turkey's maritime jurisdiction with Libya signed an agreement on limiting the extremely uncomfortable for Greece will do its utmost to prevent implementation of the agreement. According to the map that are subject to the Memorandum, Turkey and Libya, immediately southwest of the island of Crete, 18.6-mile, so we have a 29.9-mile limit. Turkey in 2011, had signed the Continental Shelf Limitation Treaty with the TRNC.
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source: once vatan translate
source: once vatan

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-> AMERICAN SPENDING COLLAPSED BY A RECORD 13.6% IN APRIL
More than 40 million people have filed first-time jobless claims since the coronavirus pandemic forced the US economy to shut down in March.
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source: waay tv
-> More than 3 million Americans filed for unemployment last week, but claims are falling
More than 3 million Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, raising to more than 42 million the number of workers who have lost jobs since the coronavirus crippled the economy.
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source: cbs news

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-> Spain is deploying a basic income to citizens to ease the coronavirus impact
The basic income is meant to reach 850,000 households and 2.5 million citizens.
The plan to install a basic income was a pre-electoral promise, but it was accelerated due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Spain has one of the highest levels of unemployment in the euro area and this is set to worsen given the Covid-19 crisis.
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source: cnbc

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-> Turkey planning hydrocarbon exploration near Greek islands
Sections of 24 blocks outlined in the Turkish Government Gazette on May 30 stemming from the contentious maritime borders agreement signed last November between Turkey and the Tripoli-based government in Libya come within or beyond 6 nautical miles of the coasts of eastern Crete, Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes, and overlap the Greek continental shelf. While Ankara has not designated a block off the island of Kastellorizo, it is clear from the way the blocks are designed that Ankara plans to challenge Greece’s sovereignty in the area by reiterating its position that the Greek islands cannot claim a continental shelf but just 6 nautical miles of territorial waters.
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source: ekathimerini

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-> Trump Surprises Germany With Plan to Withdraw 9,500 U.S. Troops
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was caught off guard by U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull 9,500 U.S. troops out of Germany by September.
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source: bloomberg
source: ny times
-> U.S. decision to withdraw troops from Germany 'unacceptable' - Merkel ally
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany’s coordinator for transatlantic ties has criticised U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw thousands of troops from Germany.
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source: reuters


-> After three weeks, the StopCovid app only notified 14 people
The government presented a quantified assessment of the French application to fight the pandemic of Covid-19. 68 people reported as sick.
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source: le monde translate
source: le monde

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-> Turkey's Erdogan orders the conversion of Hagia Sophia back into a mosque
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ordered the conversion of the city's historic Hagia Sophia back into a mosque after a court annulled a 1934 presidential decree that made it a museum.
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source: cnn
-> Hagia Sophia stripped of museum status, paving its return to a mosque
The 1,500-year-old World Heritage monument has been the contested religious center of both Christian and Muslim empires—now the world is waiting to see what happens next.
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source: nationalgeo graphic

III. Translated News in English

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-> The head of the German Council of Economic Experts recommends zero round on the minimum wage (locking the level)
According to the previous legal requirements of the minimum wage commission, the statutory lower wage limit would have to increase again in the new year. Economist Lars Feld now advises against this.
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source: wiwo
source: wiwo

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-> Brandenburg head of state - Kalbitz is no longer an AfD member
The federal executive board of the AfD has declared the membership of the Brandenburg head of state Kalbitz null. He is one of the best-known faces of the party's right-wing nationalists. He wants to take action against the de facto exclusion.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau
source: welt

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-> Elected to the Constitutional Court on the second try
In the second attempt, it worked: The state parliament completed the election of new judges for the regional constitutional court in Greifswald and filled vacant positions with it. In a new vote, the parliament also elected the former member of the Left, Barbara Borchardt, to the country's highest court. On Wednesday, the qualified lawyer still failed due to the necessary two-thirds majority. The 64-year-old former legal spokeswoman for the left faction is not without controversy.
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source: ndr translate
source: ndr
source: spiegel
source: zeit
-> Can a constitutional judge be a member of an association that is monitored by the constitutional protection? In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania it happened exactly like that
Barbara Borchardt co-founded the anti-capitalist left. The association appears in the Federal Constitution Protection Report. With the votes of the SPD, CDU and Linke, she has now been elected to the Constitutional Court.
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source: nzz translate
source: nzz
-> Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: uprising of the left hardliners
In the middle of the election campaign, the Left Party in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania disassembled: The old left demand that the "lack of alternatives" to the building of the wall be recognized.
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This is exactly what the old leftists in the state association were bothered about. They registered their own application for the state party convention. It is called "Theses on the 50th Anniversary of the Berlin Wall" and states that there is a "historical truth" about the background of the construction of the Berlin Wall: "The decision to build the wall was in 1961 for the leadership of the Soviet Union and the GDR without a reasonable alternative. "
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The paper, of course, "does not correspond to the majority opinion" in the party, says head of state Bockhahn. However, the 10 theses were also signed by the parliamentary faction in the Schwerin state parliament, Barbara Borchardt and the deputy party leader, Torsten Koplin.
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source: zeit translate
source: zeit

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-> Victim in mortal danger: extreme left-wing scene is supposed to be behind the attack in the Corona demo
Brutal attack during a demo against corona restrictions in Stuttgart: hooded offenders, apparently from the left-wing extremist scene, beat three men with brass knuckles. One of them is in mortal danger. The 54-year-old is said to belong to the right-wing union "Zentrum Automobil". The police assume a targeted crime. The prosecutor's office is investigating attempted manslaughter.
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source: focus translate
source: focus
ref:
Me Ne Frego

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-> Affair in Austria - BKA ensures complete Ibiza video
In 2019, a video recorded in Ibiza caused a state crisis in Austria. Now the police were able to confiscate all the material - and are looking for the decoy with a mug shot.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau
-> ÖVP - "Shredder" employee was promoted to the Chancellery
That cabinet employee of Chancellor Kurz, who had hard drives shredded under a false name, is now head of the Chancellery
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source: der standard at translate
source: der standard at
ref:
Ibizagate

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-> State aid to corona is not enough in three quarters of the hospitals
Due to the corona pandemic, the economic situation of many clinics has deteriorated significantly.
The state receives a flat rate of 560 euros per day for free beds.
For larger clinics in particular, the compensation payments are not enough to compensate for the missing income.
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source: rnd translate
source: rnd

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-> Criticism of the red-red-green law - Berlin no longer gets hundreds of other federal states?
Berlin's Green Justice Senator is planning an anti-discrimination law. Brandenburg's interior minister finds a regulation for reversing the burden of proof "indecent".
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The central point here is paragraph seven of the draft law, which provides for a reversal of the burden of proof - contrary to the Federal Republic's legal system, according to which evidence is normally required to punish an offense. Justice Senator Behrendt, on the other hand, speaks of a relief of evidence. Accordingly, an employee of the Berlin State Service accused of discrimination no longer has to be shown the alleged discrimination.
Rather, the accused and his authority must refute the allegation if "facts are made credible" that make discrimination predominantly likely. At the same time, class actions should be possible. If discrimination is judged, the victims should receive compensation.
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel
source: bz
source: welt

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-> Constitutional Protection Act - Federal government agrees on state Trojans for domestic intelligence
The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution should hack devices with state Trojans to eavesdrop on communication. The Ministry of Justice and the Interior agreed on this during negotiations on the new constitutional protection law. There is still controversy about the online search.
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source: netzpolitik translate
source: netzpolitik

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-> Seehofer: We are accepting migrants again
Most recently, Germany had made no commitments. Now Berlin wants to participate in the redistribution of rescued refugees in Europe again. The Federal Minister of the Interior explains why there was a break.
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Germany wants to allow migrants rescued from distress to enter the country who went ashore in Malta and Italy. "We will also accept migrants in these cases," said Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer. "The fact that there was a dent is simply due to the Corona development."
Germany had regularly helped Italy and Malta in the past. Because of the corona pandemic, however, no commitments have been made recently. The situation is currently easing, said Seehofer. He has not yet been able to quantify the number of people Germany will take in, as talks are still ongoing.
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source: dw translate
source: dw

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-> Police report hundreds of party rioters
A drug control is said to have led to street battles in Stuttgart during the night, there were injuries and looting. The situation was temporarily "completely out of control".
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source: sz translate
source: sz
source: stuttgarter-nachrichten
source: spiegel

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-> Berlin compensates victims of abuse - Under the aegis of the educationalist Helmut Kentler, foster children were abused by pedophiles.
Berlin. Education Senator Sandra Scheeres (SPD) took over responsibility for the State of Berlin after the presentation of the result report on the punishable act of the social pedagogue Helmut Kentler. Under the guise of an alleged Kentler experiment, the researcher, who had worked for the Senate Department for Schooling in West Berlin for years, had systematically placed foster children and adolescents at foster homes managed by pedophiles for decades. Affected people reported to the team of scientists about their childhood, about “massive experiences of violence and abuse, about a strong influence of Helmut Kentler on the foster home, about powerlessness and helplessness, which they mainly justify because the responsible youth welfare office suffers them in their suffering at all didn't notice ",the researchers write in the report. This means, for example, the foster home with Fritz H., who lived in Kreuzberg and Tempelhof-Schöneberg and accommodated ten foster children between 1973 and 2003. The victims wre both six years old when they came to H., who has since passed away.
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source: morgenpost translate
source: morgenpost

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-> US troops in Germany: the federal government paid almost a billion in ten years
A total of just under 35,000 US soldiers are stationed in Germany, some of which the US President now wants to withdraw from the Federal Republic.
But what has the deployment of US troops cost the federal government in recent years?
The left asked.
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source: rnd translate
source: rnd
source: tagesanzeiger ch
source: rp-online

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-> COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY - Toll scandal: doubts about the reason for termination
After the toll judgment, the transport minister also quit the company for poor performance. However, documents prove: there are considerable doubts about the allegation.
Berlin The request startled Götz Blumenberg. On the evening of June 23, 2019, the Handelsblatt wanted to know from the project manager for the infrastructure levy at the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) what the cooperation with Autoticket GmbH was like, a car for the federal government with the company that had been busy with it since the beginning of the year Toll system.
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source: handelsblatt translate
source: handelsblatt

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-> Germany: Islamists responsible for rail security
Recently we spoke to Irfan Peci about the hatred that migrants have for our society on the occasion of the riots in Stuttgart and Vienna . Now the " Islamist hunter" is publishing his new research on foreign extremists in the security area.
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source: wochenblick at translate
source: wochenblick at

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