Harrison Mwilima at Deutsche Welle, which is a leg of the German public broadcasting system, has designed a new form of cooperation between Africa and Europe: Europe denies all its interests and African regimes get everything they want. For that to work Europeans have to listen. Currently they work with dictators, he abhors, just to curb migration. They should rather listen to same dictators, he proposes. The piece is another intellectual gem highlighting the quality of German public broadcasting. sources: https://www.dw.com/en/opinion-europe-should-listen-more-to-africa-on-migration/a-57954955?maca=en-rss-en-eu-2092-rdf [thumb]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Refugees_Welcome.jpg [logo]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Deutsche_Welle_Logo.svg/440px-Deutsche_Welle_Logo.svg.png ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftb2bmGGzEk

A sea of tents sprawls over the US American airbase Ramstein (Germany, state of Rhineland-Palatinate) to host at least 20,000 Afghans; more likely 34,000 already. About a thousand arrivals land every day and the troops have moved a 5,000 of them to their nearby military base 'Rhine Ordnance Barracks.' The US works feverishly to expand its capacity there to host even 6,000 of them. And while many conservatives have dropped the ball in their obsession to exploit any failure of the Biden administration, the uneasy question who can be rescued, correctly identified and who can not remains unanswered. Commentator after commentator shows compassion with that 50% of women that will have to live under the Taliban despite the Pew Research finding that 99% of those very women want to live under shariah law. Everybody feels heartless asking how the other 1% can be identified so we don't import the very Taliban we once set out to fight. And now with the sprawling camp smack in the middle of Europe nobody knows how to get some of the "rescued" back home again. sources: https://www.tichyseinblick.de/daili-es-sentials/manche-us-fluechtlinge-aus-afghanistan-bleiben-in-deutschland/ https://www.tichyseinblick.de/kolumnen/knauss-kontert/afghanen-in-ramstein-deutschland-hinter-der-fichte/ [about the Court of Justice ruling*]https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2021-09/europaeischer-gerichtshof-asylantrag-minderjaehrige-fluechtlinge-eltern-nachzug-urteil https://www.bild.de/regional/hamburg/hamburg-aktuell/nordoestlich-von-hamburg-frau-23-in-ahrensburger-fluechtlingsheim-getoetet-77606234.bild.html https://www.bz-berlin.de/berlin/charlottenburg-wilmersdorf/messer-attacke-auf-gaertnerin-afghane-29-zunaechst-schuldfaehig [parliamentary correspondence on the number of army and foreign office cooperators 'Ortskraefte']https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/19/054/1905454.pdf [thumb, Ramstein air base] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:C-130_and_Ramstein_AB_Control_Tower.jpg maps: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Deutschland_politisch_2010.png/620px-Deutschland_politisch_2010.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Germany_in_the_European_Union_on_the_globe_%28Europe_centered%29.svg/620px-Germany_in_the_European_Union_on_the_globe_%28Europe_centered%29.svg.png *CAVEAT: I didn't see an English source for the court ruling. ZEIT, a major German newspaper, does just write 'European court of justice' (europaeischer Gerichtshof) which could be wildly interpreted as any court in Europe. Without context, such as in this article, the expression is about the EU Court of Justice. But given that I cannot find an English source immediately chances are that ZEIT could have made a mistake. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKgS_xao03w

On the 2nd December the EU Commission issued a statement on their official website that reports on the assurance of the German government to prevent ultra-vires verdicts of its courts. "Ultra vires" are cases about alleged power overreaches of an institution. The conflict that sparked the utter submission of our legal system under the arbitrary rule of the EU resulted from a struggle between the German Supreme Court and the EU Court of Justice over the rightfulness of the national central bank's bond-buying activities abroad. I explain the details in the video. The website with the note is this one: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/inf_21_6201 [thumb nail image ressource] https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/366/19138839664_8cefa862b2_b.jpg ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9JB1ca3Cs0

Merkel plans a national lockdown law which will even include a nightly curfew. A open letter by the Society of Aerosol Research is warning of the counterproductive effects, but Merkel seems to go ahead anyway. source: http://docs.dpaq.de/17532-offener_brief_aerosolwissenschaftler.pdf (Johnson & Johnson vaccination risk):https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/us/politics/johnson-johnson-vaccine-blood-clots-fda-cdc.html (Time magazine - indoors is the danger)https://time.com/5883081/covid-19-transmitted-aerosols/ (thumb nail image ressource)https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Prisonbars.PNG (the English Wikipedia page on incidence; beware that the Germans standardize it to get a key value)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidence_(epidemiology) ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtJXecjCo08