1.
Raw nature
Hans-Georg Maaßen, of all people, complained about a »brutalisation of political discourse« today - pause for a moment as a rhetorical pause.
The former President of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and current Bundestag candidate of the CDU in southern Thuringia reacted to the accusation of climate activist Luisa Neubauer with Anne Will that he was spreading anti-Semitic and racist content (more about the program here).
Maaßen said today to the dpa news agency: "For me, these are unfounded and paperless claims that I firmly reject."
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Candidate for a direct mandate in the Bundestag for the CDU in southern Thuringia: Hans-Georg Maaßen
Photo: imago images
Neubauer was actually unable to substantiate the presentations on the talk show yesterday.
But can they not be held either?
Numerous users put together several examples in the social media of statements with which he is at least in dubious company.
So he uses
"anti-Semitic ciphers",
when he tweeted about "globalists" and their alleged "contempt for ordinary people". This is an "anti-Semitic code that describes a globally networked elite caste that supposedly directs and controls the political fortunes of Germany, for example," said Meron Mendel, director of the Anne Frank educational institution, the editorial network Germany. The RND colleagues kindly link to the website of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, on which it says: »› Globalism ‹is the term used by right-wing extremists for› globalization ‹."
Armin Laschet said yesterday to Will über Maaßen: "He is not an anti-Semite and he does not disseminate any anti-Semitic texts, and if he did it would be a reason for exclusion from the party." Others, who are quite critical of Maaßen, also think that one can do him accuse a lot, but not anti-Semitism. “Maassen is a difficult case for the CDU. Many of his theses are difficult to bear «, says my colleague Veit Medick, who attended the Freestyle Maaßens in Suhl. “But he covers a spectrum that he fears will migrate to the AfD. That is why it is not so easy for the party to cast him out. "
Some time ago, my colleague Dirk Kurbjuweit wrote a portrait of the former top civil servant (click here for the text).
It contains the sentence: "Even if Maaßen is not right-wing extremist, he sometimes sounds like someone from the AfD because he consistently uses the populist method." That was in 2019. Since then, interviews, tweets and speeches by Maaßen have not been doing that Impression as if he wanted to contribute to the objectification of the debate.
On the contrary: his provocations reliably lead to outrage and thus to attention that few other candidates receive.
Read more about the background here: Maaßen rejects accusations of anti-Semitism
2.
Recovery solution
Subjective impression from private and professional chat groups: Everyone talks about
vaccination
, but hardly anyone talks about healing.
Now the headlines read: The World Health Organization (WHO) has included three other possible drugs against Covid-19 in a large-scale, international series of studies.
Is the corona treatment approaching?
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Covid-19 patient in intensive care unit: anti-inflammatory drugs could improve chances of recovery
Photo: Jefferson Bernardes / dpa / AP
The drugs previously examined by the WHO in the so-called "Solidarity Trial" did not bring the hoped-for breakthrough - they were drugs that can stop the virus early. "But the results of the study were sobering," reports my colleague Julia Köppe from our science department. That is why there is now a new edition of the study series: The preparations that are now at stake are anti-inflammatory drugs that are supposed to prevent an excessive immune reaction.
"All three are not new drugs, but have been on the market for a long time," says Julia.
So far, doctors have been able to use them against Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis, malaria and in cancer therapy.
Now the question is: do you also help against Covid-19?
"If that were the case, approval could go much faster than with completely new drugs." However, it will probably take months before the results are achieved.
More here: WHO starts testing three potential Covid-19 drugs
3.
Savings program
Let's call it: my father-in-law's amazement, all adults in a Hamburg household that I know very well failed for a long time to follow his advice and set up ETF savings plans.
But there seem to be people for whom things are completely different: Burkhard and Sabine Koch, both 55, for example, told my colleague Anne Seith how they had invested large parts of their family income in equity investments since they were in their early 20s - and now rich are enough not to have to work anymore.
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Dropout couple Koch: on a world tour for 17 years
What can be learned from such extreme savers, even if you don't want to quit the job early?
Or if you didn't start on time?
Anne explains this with numerous examples.
Here is the text: How to become financially independent
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What else is important today
Catholic clergy bless homosexual couples - and trigger debate:
lesbian and gay couples are also blessed in more than a hundred church services.
Catholic clergy are thus opposed to the Vatican.
Criticism comes from the German Bishops' Conference.
The cyber attack on the US pipeline is a warning shot for Germany:
Online criminals have attacked the company operating the largest US pipeline.
What are the consequences?
And how threatening is ransomware for German companies?
Answers to the most important questions.
Navalny's ex-doctor reappeared:
Alexei Navalny's ex-clinic director and doctor from Omsk did not return for days from a hunting trip on Friday.
Now Alexander Murachowski has found his way back alone - apparently unscathed.
What we recommend today at SPIEGEL +
Australia's unprecedented toughness in the fight against Corona:
Thousands of Australians are stuck in high-risk India.
For fear of Corona, their own government forbids them to return home - with a penalty.
It's an unprecedented disposition.
Who will become the new Tesla?
Investors celebrate newcomers to electric mobility such as Nio, Faraday Future and Sono Motors.
Some of the start-ups have not yet sold a single car.
When parents separate - and children lose grandma and grandpa:
The parents quarrel and split up: that's bad enough for children.
But many of them also see their grandparents less often.
Three stories.
Which is not so important today
How Cro can you go?
Photo:
Bernd Weissbrod / dpa
Panda-Me:
The pop-rap artist
Cro,
real name Carlo Waibel, 31, who wore a mask before the whole country switched to it due to corona, has now admitted that there was a double under his panda hood , for example at the Echo Awards 2012. He told the radio station MDR Jump: "I couldn't go there for lack of time, and then we sent another guy whose name was actually Carlo."
Typo of the day
, now corrected: "According to the DWD, 30.6 degrees were measured in Bad Mergentheim in the north of Baden-Württemberg."
Cartoon of the day:
vaccine shame
Photo: plassmann / Thomas Plaßmann
And tonight?
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THE MIRROR
You could read a book called "Weather" but not about it.
Elke Heidenreich praises the work of the American author Jenny Offill with great enthusiasm in her video column "Spitzentitel": not a classic novel, but the diary-like snippets of thoughts of a woman named Lizzie, whom Elke Heidenreich describes as "the classic, modern, completely overwhelmed woman", »Who feels responsible for everything.
The kind of woman who goes on and on and without whom everything would collapse. ”Looks familiar?
Sometimes it helps to read books that seem to be about your life in order to be clear about some things.
In this case one supposedly learns not to despair of life.
Sounds very promising.
Here you can see what Elke Heidenreich has to say about the book.
A lovely evening.
Sincerely
yours, Oliver Trenkamp
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