Today it's about Annalena Baerbock's attempts to restart, about differences between Armin Laschet and Markus Söder - and about the connections between the Communist Party of China and the »FAZ«.
Baerbock's hope for a new start
The Chancellor candidate of the Greens, Annalena Baerbock, wants to hold a digital press conference today.
Specifically, she would like to present an "impulse paper" for a
"national education
offensive"
.
It is not yet known from whom the ideas and formulations of this paper originate, but will certainly be clarified in the course of the press conference.
After all the annoying to embarrassing revelations about Baerbock, her public appearances are currently a little, well, loaded.
The knowledge of her tendency to make herself a little bigger than she actually is is dormant at least in the back of her mind.
The knowledge of their tendency to generously take over intellectual property as well.
Nevertheless, today Baerbock wants to open a
new chapter in this so far rather tragicomic election campaign
.
So educational policy!
Something else.
In which case, wasn't it precisely the chapter on educational policy from her campaign book in which she had made extensive use of the ideas and formulations from a book by Robert Habeck?
Incidentally, as a non-candidate for chancellor, Habeck is not giving a press conference today.
Instead, he ends his “coastal tour” - with a conversation with young voters in the amphitheater on the Königswiesen in Schleswig.
Even many Greens have long wanted the distribution of roles to be reversed.
How Annalena Baerbock wants to turn things around after her botched election campaign
Laschet's radical vagueness
Armin Laschet and Markus Söder, those leading Christians who, as is well known, do not fit a sheet of paper, should perhaps sit down again after all. And agree on the election campaign strategy of their Union. It seems to me that there is a
misunderstanding between the two of them
. In a hot off the press
interview with SPIEGEL
, Söder can hardly hide the fact that the previous appearances of the Chancellor candidate Laschet are far
too empty
for him.
It will be "very important" to make it even clearer in the next few weeks what the Union stands for, Söder explains in an interview.
"We have to show a clear edge now, otherwise there is a risk that we will lose our success in the end."
I had to laugh for a moment when I read this.
And I immediately asked myself whether Söder and Laschet had actually never spoken to each other this year.
At least never openly.
Because it is obvious that what Söder is now criticizing is Laschet's deliberately chosen strategy.
A strategy from which he expects the greatest possible success: radical vagueness, maximum connectivity through minimal content.
Every time Markus Söder says that you can win elections by "showing a clear edge", Armin Laschet is probably seized with a fit of giggling.
In any case, nothing could be further from Laschet.
And of course the Union's candidate for chancellor will
stick
to his
active campaign boycott by consistently refusing to take a position
.
Just like Angela Merkel all the approximate years before.
Because, at least in Germany, this approach is evidently very promising.
In this way, Laschet could actually become the first Federal Chancellor whom, at least according to surveys, hardly anyone wanted as Federal Chancellor.
Quite simply because he is the Union's candidate.
And because the potential challengers do almost everything to ruin the historic opportunity to dispute the Union's chancellery.
Chancellor candidate in the crisis: Armin Laschet and the yes-but-principle
German luxury problems
While German politicians are racking their brains these days about how one
could convince
so-called
vaccination skeptics
(a strange mixture of strict rights, spoiled eco-friendly products and Hubert Aiwanger) to accept a vaccination against the coronavirus, doctors or doctors are dying in poorer parts of the world Nurses fighting the virus.
To people in developing countries, our problems must appear like extreme luxury problems.
My colleague Markus Becker thinks this
global imbalance is ridiculous or even outrageous
. Ridiculous because many people in rich countries don't want the vaccines their own researchers have developed. And because their problems - such as worrying about their next vacation - seem trivial compared to the existential needs in poorer countries. Outrageous, because in Germany alone there are now
more than 15 million vaccine doses lying around unused
, which are urgently needed elsewhere.
In the leading article of the new SPIEGEL, he therefore calls for the majority of those millions of vaccine doses that are stored in refrigerators in Germany
to be distributed to medical staff in developing countries as quickly as possible
.
That would be necessary not only from an altruistic, but also from an egotistical point of view.
"Because even the Germans will only be able to calm down from the virus if new variants cannot always arise in other parts of the world," said Becker.
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Winner of the day ...
... is the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
. In a full-page advertisement, she has just congratulated herself on her 100th birthday in German. However, the page did not appear in Neues Deutschland or in Hückeswagen's advertising paper, but in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" ("FAZ"). It contains many chic photos from modern China and sets new standards in the art of self-defamatory poetry.
"In the past century, the CCP led the Chinese people to national independence and transformed China from an impoverished country into the second largest economy in the world," one can read in the FAZ, for example. Or: "The party has continued to improve the system to ensure that people participate in democratic elections, consultations, decision-making, administration and supervision in accordance with the law."
It is doubtful that the FAZ editors liked to read such lies of a brutal capitalism dictatorship under the guise of communism in their paper.
Apparently the Chinese Communist Party proceeded here with a representative of an economically not exactly prosperous industry according to the same motto that Mario Adorf represented as a manufacturer Haffenloher in the TV series "Kir Royal": "I shit you with my money."
Incidentally, the addressee was also a journalist in the series.
The latest news from the night
Robert Koch Institute reports more infections after trips abroad:
The number of corona cases among return travelers is growing.
According to the RKI, the delta variant is also clearly predominant in Germany.
And more serious cases are appearing in the hospitals
Germany eight rows to silver:
The parade boat of the German Rowing Association wanted to reach for the gold medal in Tokyo.
In the final, New Zealand was clearly superior
Amazon misses sales expectations - and new trouble threatens:
In the pandemic, Amazon's business is booming so far.
Now, however, sales remained below analysts' expectations.
There could also be problems with the sale of diet and sexual enhancers
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