[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2020-02-29

  1. English Videos
    1. Hall and Oates - Out of Touch
  2. English News and Articles
    1. Belarus starts importing oil from Norway amid rift with Russia
    2. Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes in Brazil
    3. Italy deputy PM Di Maio quits as Five Star party leader
    4. Germany to Ask Bolivia's Next President to Revive Lithium Deal
    5. EU plan to renew 'Sophia' naval mission on Libya fails — report
    6. Salvini’s League pulls out all the stops to win Italy’s rich leftwing stronghold
    7. Police shoot man in London after several stabbed in 'terrorist-related' incident
  3. Translated News in English
    1. Germany: Thousands of farmers protest in Berlin
    2. Intervention in civil war zones: The role of Russia in the conflict between East and Ukraine
    3. EU-TURKEY DEAL - Only 189 people were deported to Turkey in 2019
    4. Left demo in Leipzig - A rain of stones, firecrackers and rockets
    5. Bundeswehr : Wolfgang Schäuble pleads for more German military operations
    6. Solidarity surcharge : Olaf Scholz wants to abolish soli earlier
    7. 17 percent of participants in integration courses are illiterate
    8. After criticizing Islam, teenage Mila still can't go back to high school
    9. Lithium extraction for e-mobility robs Chilean communities of water
    10. Nine dead in German shisha bar shootings
    11. Thuringa

I. English Videos

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-> Hall and Oates - Out of Touch

II. English News and Articles

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-> Belarus starts importing oil from Norway amid rift with Russia
Belarus has started importing oil from Norway after its main oil provider, Russia, suspended supplies earlier this month amid stalled talk on further strengthening economic ties between two countries.
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source: energy voice

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-> Glenn Greenwald Charged With Cybercrimes in Brazil
Mr. Greenwald is accused of being part of a “criminal investigation” that hacked into the cellphones of prosecutors and public officials.
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source: ny times
source: wapo
source: the guardian
see:
[Domestic Policy] Bolsonaros first Scandal , [Domestic Policy] The pressure on #Bolsonaro in #Brazil is growing


siehe:
[Innenpolitik] Bolsonaros erster Skandal , [Innenpolitik] In #Brasilien wächst der Druck auf #Bolsonaro

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-> Italy deputy PM Di Maio quits as Five Star party leader
Italy could be heading for a snap election after deputy prime minister Luigi Di Maio resigned Wednesday as leader of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, coalition partner of the centre-left Democratic Party. The 33-year-old Di Maio faced mounting internal criticism as Five Star plunged in opinion polls and lawmakers abandoned his party. More than 20 lawmakers have left or been expelled since the government came to power last September.
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source: reuters
source: france24
source: eu observer
ref:
Italy , Italien

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-> Germany to Ask Bolivia's Next President to Revive Lithium Deal
A few days before the U.S.-backed coup d'etat, Evo Morales suspended a decree that allowed a German company to industrialize the Bolivian lithium.
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source: telesur

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-> EU plan to renew 'Sophia' naval mission on Libya fails — report
Proposals to revive the "Sophia" naval mission with a focus on enforcing the UN weapons embargo on Libya have broken down, according to a German media report. Italy had expressed skepticism over the plan.
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source: dw
source: welt

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-> Salvini’s League pulls out all the stops to win Italy’s rich leftwing stronghold
Emilia-Romagna, the wealthy region that is home to Ferrari and has been run by the left since 1945, could fall to the far right in Sunday’s elections
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source: the guardian
-> Italy: The election in Emilia Romagna – or How Europe is Constantly Dismantling Itself
“Matteo Salvini has lost, his plan to overthrow the government has not worked.” This, or something similar, is the usual chorus of headlines in German papers after the regional election in Emilia Romagna. The malicious joy of the “good Europeans” creeps out of every line. The German-hater Salvini – the man who is challenging the whole of Europe -has been considerably chastened. But that is not the truth or even half of it. It is true that Salvini’s Lega has not achieved its goal of overthrowing the incumbent regional president and taking power in Bologna itself with a coalition of right-wing parties.
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source: flassbeck-economics
ref:
2020 Emilia-Romagna regional election:
Democratic Party (Centre-left coalition): 51.4 %
League (Centre-right coalition): 43.7 %
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, Italy , Italien

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-> Police shoot man in London after several stabbed in 'terrorist-related' incident
Police shot a man in south London on Sunday after several people were believed to have been stabbed in what police described as a terrorism-related incident.
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source: france24
source: al arabiya

III. Translated News in English

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-> Germany: Thousands of farmers protest in Berlin
Long convoys of vehicles blocked roads in Bavaria, Baden Württemberg and Bremen, as well as the German capital. Agriculturists are angry at what they perceive as unwarranted environmental regulations.
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source: dw
source: orf
source: spiegel

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-> Intervention in civil war zones: The role of Russia in the conflict between East and Ukraine
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The question of whether pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region are currently controlled and controlled from Moscow, or whether regular Russian troops are still on Ukrainian territory, cannot be answered reliably without reliable factual material - especially without appropriate intelligence information.
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source: bundestag pdf

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-> EU-TURKEY DEAL - Only 189 people were deported to Turkey in 2019
Actually, since 2016 all migrants who illegally enter Greece have to be returned to Turkey. But the authorities cannot keep up with the deportations. Union faction vice freely accuses Greece of "administrative failure".
As part of the EU-Turkey declaration on ending irregular migration, only migrants have been deported from Greece to the neighboring country since 1995, according to a report by the EU Commission available to WELT AM SONNTAG. In return, 25,660 Syrians were legally flown from Turkey to the EU during the same period.
While the crossings to the Greek islands in 2019 increased significantly according to the EU document with more than 60,100 - around 37,700 were transferred to the mainland - deportations continued to decrease. According to the Commission document, out of a total of those repatriated since 2016, most were flown to Turkey in 2016 (801) and 2017 (683). In 2018 there were only 322 and in 2019 only 189 people.
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source: welt translate
source: welt

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-> Left demo in Leipzig - A rain of stones, firecrackers and rockets
Left-wing autonomists demonstrate in Leipzig. After a few minutes, the first firecracker explodes at the feet of the police. A report from on site.
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source: tagesspiegel translate
source: tagesspiegel
source: mdr
source: welt
ref:
Me Ne Frego

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-> Bundeswehr : Wolfgang Schäuble pleads for more German military operations
The President of the Bundestag is in favor of more Bundeswehr deployments abroad. The Auschwitz apprenticeship could not be a permanent undertaking.
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source: zeit translate
source: zeit

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-> Solidarity surcharge : Olaf Scholz wants to abolish soli earlier
The finance minister wants to give up the solidarity surcharge already in the middle of the year. The household allow that. Ten percent of taxpayers should continue to pay it.
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source: zeit translate
source: zeit
ref:
[Economics] How a real tax for the rich is abolished in #Germany with the #Soli

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-> 17 percent of participants in integration courses are illiterate
"We were always aware that only a few specialists arrive via the escape route," says the head of the Federal Refugee Agency. He now presented new figures on the literacy level of refugees - and their perspective on the job market.
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This poses a problem for the integration into the labor market: "450,000 of the refugees are currently still looking for work." The Federal Office was "always aware" that "only a few specialists arrive via the escape route," said Sommer , "Around 17 percent of the participants in our integration courses are illiterate."
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source: welt translate
source: welt
ref:
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A policy that consciously imports people with lower education and training levels inevitably leads to failures. One consequence is extensive language programs. According to the BAMF (Federal Agency for Migration and Refugees) in Germany just under 75 % of all respondents in 2017 participated in or completed at least one language-course. In addition 50 % of all respondents in 2017 participated in or completed state-supplied language support programs for refugees. And 9 % of all respondents in 2017 have participated in or completed further language programs that also provide job-specific vocabulary. [1,p.5]
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-> After criticizing Islam, teenage Mila still can't go back to high school
"We were always aware that only a few specialists arrive via the escape route," says the head of the Federal Refugee Agency. He now presented new figures on the literacy level of refugees - and their perspective on the job market.
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source: le figaro translate
source: le figaro
source: l'express
source: faz
ref:
Islam

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-> Lithium extraction for e-mobility robs Chilean communities of water
Global demand for lithium is expected to triple in six years. But mining companies are increasingly coming into conflict with indigenous communities who are worried about the future of their ecosystems.
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source: dw

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-> Nine dead in German shisha bar shootings
A German national with a gun licence shot dead nine people, most of them of Kurdish origin, at two shisha bars in Hanau in central Germany on Wednesday, German media say. The bodies of the attacker and one other person were later found at the attacker's home, police said. The attacks come after a shooting at a Turkish comedy centre in Berlin four days ago, which left one person dead.
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source: eu observer
source: tagesschau

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-> Thuringia crisis - CDU wants to vote for Ramelow - new elections in April 2021
Breakthrough in Thuringia: The CDU now wants to elect Bodo Ramelow as Prime Minister. There will be new elections in April 2021.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel

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