[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2019-02-25

Canadian Reporter In Venezuela Contradicts U.S. News Coverage





CNN & Facebook Coordinate To Silence Dissenting Voices





White House Says 200 Troops Will Stay in Syria, Retreating From a Full Withdrawal

WASHINGTON — The White House said on Thursday that it plans to leave about 200 American troops in Syria, signaling a partial retreat from President Trump’s announcement in December that he would withdraw all 2,000 forces after what he described as a victory over the Islamic State.
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source: ny times



2018: State achieves record surplus of 58 billion euros

WIESBADEN - According to updated results of the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the state's net lending amounted to 58.0 billion euros in 2018. In absolute terms this is the highest surplus the state has achieved since German reunification. Based on the gross domestic product in respective prices (€ 3 386.0 billion), this results in a surplus ratio of +1.7% for the state. These results are data in the demarcation of the European System of Accounts (ESA) 2010, which form the basis for monitoring the budgetary situation in EU Member States.
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source: destatis (federal agency for statistics) translate
source: destatis (federal agency for statistics)

Germany closed 2018 with record budget surplus

A record budget surplus totaling €58 billion was made by Germany's federal, regional and communal governments last year. But the economy has been slowing down, and there's widespread concern that's not about to change.
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source: dw



"At least six" - Berlin police officers cooperate with large Arab families

Are police involved in the criminal activities of family clans? The federal spokesman of the Federal Association of Critical Policemen says yes. He starts from "at least six colleagues".
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source: welt translate
source: welt

Statement by club spokesman "Critical Policemen" - Several Berlin policemen are to work with clans

At least six Berlin policemen are supposed to provide information to members of Arabian family clans. That said the speaker of the association "critical policemen" in the rbb.
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source: rbb translate
source: rbb



Terror attack on Berlin Christmas market - government deported Amri confidants to cover up its involvement in terror attack

The German security agencies have apparently deported a close confidant of the Berlin Christmas market assassin Anis Amri to cover its involvement in the attack with 12 dead and more than 60 injured in December 2016.
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source: focus translate
source: focus



German journalists in Rohingya camp attacked

Everybody can do good things so easily, but it is especially bitter when you get flogged for your good deeds instead of gratitude. Such as a German documentary filmmaker and his local assistant, who were beaten in a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, apparently because of a misunderstanding. According to police, the filmmaker, two other Germans, and their local companion aroused the mistrust of the refugees in the Kutupalong camp at Cox's Bazaar when distributing sweets to children.
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source: n-tv translate source: n-tv source: n-tv archive



German Federal Government - blocks tax transparency in the EU

- A bill proposed by the European Commission aims to increase tax transparency by requiring companies to present their data by country.
- Finance Minister Scholz, while endorsing this reporting obligation, does not want the information to be published - and thus blocks the bill again, as internal documents show.
- Already in June last year, a decision had been postponed because Germany had filed a so-called review reservation.
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source: sz translate source: sz



Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst/BND) warns of Nigerian mafia in Germany

"Extremely brutal": The Federal Intelligence Service warns against the expansion of mafia organizations as a result of the influx of Nigerian asylum seekers. This influx increased by 30 percent in 2018.
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source: welt translate source: welt