[Hints] Voices from the Blätterwald - 2020-05-17

1. English Videos
1. "This will go down in history as the biggest hoax" - Shiva Ayyadurai MIT-Engineer & „Es gibt keine echten Wissenschaftler mehr, nur noch Akademiker, die kuschen“ – Shiva Ayyadurai
2. Coronavirus: Now the Government Will Be Tracking You
3. Trump Ad Slams Out Of Touch Pelosi
4. Chomsky Pushes 40 Year Old Failed Voting Strategy
5. The Federal Reserve Picking Winners/Losers During Crisis
6. Oil Prices PLUNGE To Zero Dollar Per Barrel! WTF?!?
2. English News and Articles
1. Bank of England to finance UK government Covid-19 crisis spending
2. US oil prices crash below zero for first time ever
3. Turmoil in Brazil: Bolsonaro Fires Police Chief and Justice Minister Quits
3. Translated News in English
1. Fighting Covid-19 - Confidential government study describes corona scenarios for Germany
2. Border closure applies to everyone - only not to asylum seekers
3. Broadcasting fee is expected to rise to EUR 18.36 per month
4. After calling for Corona demo - Heidelberg lawyer in psychiatric facility (update)
5. Corona pandemic - harvest helpers come in special aircraft
6. Consequences of the corona crisis - Companies do not want to train as much
7. Corona pandemic : Federal government wants to introduce immunity card
8. Kurz advisor Mei-Pochtler: "Everyone will have an app"
9. Voss: Travel faster again with the Corona app, to the restaurant and the outdoor pool
10. Corona data under lock and key: RKI slows down discourse

I. English Videos

1

-> "This will go down in history as the biggest hoax" - Shiva Ayyadurai MIT-Engineer

-> „Es gibt keine echten Wissenschaftler mehr, nur noch Akademiker, die kuschen“ – Shiva Ayyadurai

2

-> Coronavirus: Now the Government Will Be Tracking You

3

-> Trump Ad Slams Out Of Touch Pelosi

4

-> Chomsky Pushes 40 Year Old Failed Voting Strategy

5

-> The Federal Reserve Picking Winners/Losers During Crisis

6

-> Coronavirus: Now the Government Will Be Tracking You

II. English News and Articles

1

-> Bank of England to finance UK government Covid-19 crisis spending
With lockdown likely to be extended, Treasury can draw on billions in extra funds to support cashflow
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source: the guardian

2

-> US oil prices crash below zero for first time ever
Having already hit a 20-year low early in trading, West Texas Intermediate oil prices collapsed later on Monday. Longer-term prices were more robust, but futures for delivery in May were valued at effectively nothing.
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source: dw
source: bbc
-> Here Is The Full Explanation Behind Today's Unprecedented Negative Oil Price
How did you end up with negative oil prices today? This happens when a physical futures contract find no buyers close to or at expiry.
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source: zero hedge
-> Why Today’s 300% Oil Price Crash Isn’t As Bad As It Seems
Oil price futures slipped into negative territory on Monday - a shocking oil-market first - making previous doom and gloom forecasts of OPEC’s too-little-too-late production cuts now seem like sober predictions rather than overzealous fearmongering.
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source: oil price

3

-> Turmoil in Brazil: Bolsonaro Fires Police Chief and Justice Minister Quits
Sergio Moro, the justice minister who became the face of a powerful anti-corruption crackdown in Brazil, resigned in protest after President Jair Bolsonaro fired the head of the national police.
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source: ny times
source: yahoo
ref:
Bolsonaro en , Bolsonaro de

III. Translated News in English

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-> Fighting Covid-19 - Confidential government study describes corona scenarios for Germany
According to SPIEGEL information for the Interior Ministry, several scientists have investigated how the epidemic could spread. In a worst-case scenario, they describe what happens if the state does too little against Corona.
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source: spiegel translate
source: spiegel
source: tagesschau
source: sz
source: faz
source: fragdenstaat pdf

2

-> Border closure applies to everyone - only not to asylum seekers
In the Corona crisis, Germany has the sharpest border guards since Schengen joined. Foreigners from France, Austria, Denmark, Luxembourg and Switzerland are no longer allowed to enter unless they have a valid reason. The federal police have been checking at these border sections again since March 16 - and refuses if they are not commuters or some other exceptional groups.
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source: welt translate
source: welt

3

-> Broadcasting fee is expected to rise to EUR 18.36 per month
The increase in the radio license fee is a done deal: the fee will increase by 86 cents and thus amount to EUR 18.36 per month from 2021. Now the federal states still have to ratify the decision.
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source: welt translate
source: welt

4

-> After calling for Corona demo - Heidelberg lawyer in psychiatric facility (update)
The Federal Constitutional Court had previously dismissed the lawsuit against the Corona ordinance
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source: rnz translate
source: rnz
source: t-online

5

-> Corona pandemic - harvest helpers come in special aircraft
The first machines with harvest helpers from Romania have landed in Berlin and Düsseldorf. More workers are to follow. In coordination with farmers' associations, a total of tens of thousands of seasonal workers are flown in from the EU.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau
source: dw
source: tagesspiegel
ref:
[Dossier] Migration Business

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-> Consequences of the corona crisis - Companies do not want to train as much
According to experts, the craft sector lacks skilled workers. The corona crisis could exacerbate the situation. Every fourth company wants to train less. This is shown by a survey that Report Mainz has.
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source: tagesschau translate
source: tagesschau

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-> Corona pandemic : Federal government wants to introduce immunity card
Corona-recovered people could get special rights. Proof is that they are not contagious. However, there are concerns about data protection.
The federal government plans to introduce a corona immunity card, which, like the vaccination card, could prove that a Covid 19 disease has been overcome. This emerges from a bill that was passed in the cabinet on Wednesday. However, the prerequisite for the introduction of such a document is that there is scientific evidence that people cannot get contagious after a corona disease, said Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU). So far you have not had this. The law is therefore a "precautionary regulation".
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source: sz translate
source: sz
source: tagesschau

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-> Kurz advisor Mei-Pochtler: "Everyone will have an app"
Chancellor adviser Antonella Mei-Pochtler assumes that contact tracing apps and other technology will be an integral part of social life in the future. “It will be part of the new normal. Everyone will have an app, ”she told the Financial Times (online edition). European countries would have to get used to tools that were "on the edge of the democratic model".
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source: orf translate
source: orf

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-> Voss: Travel faster again with the Corona app, to the restaurant and the outdoor pool
The EU legal politician Axel Voss calls for incentives for a "voluntary" tracing app and a European database for evidence of immunity.
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source: heise translate
source: heise
source: faz

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-> Corona data under lock and key: RKI slows down discourse
Numbers, diagrams and tables have never been more popular in the media than in the Corona crisis. This is good because the right data - such as the number of infected people, the speed of the virus or the number of deaths - help us to understand the new, strange (epidemic) world in which we live and have to make important decisions . But many important corona data are difficult or impossible for journalists to access because the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin holds them back or only releases them in drops.
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source: ndr translate
source: ndr