1.
Does Laschet give up?
While the SPD, Greens and FDP began their explorations for a common future in the government today, the CDU must probably plan a future without Armin Laschet.
At the meeting of the Union parliamentary group, the loser in the election indicated that he would renounce the party leadership.
He said he wanted to initiate a personnel reorganization of the CDU top.
Perhaps by doing so he is pre-empting an uprising among his own people.
According to SPIEGEL information, several CDU country chiefs are thinking about plans for a new beginning.
In order to avoid a mistake at the top, the base should have a say in the future.
Hamburg's CDU regional chief Christoph Ploß says: "We will only make it with a higher participation of members." The party congress and federal executive board had recently "made several decisions against a presumably large majority of the membership, which in retrospect did not always turn out to be successful."
Bremen's head of state, Carsten Meyer-Heder, says the procedure for electing the CDU federal chairman must be scrutinized: “At the end of the day, the members must be able to assemble behind the person.
We did not succeed in this in the election campaign and one reason for the result of the CDU. "
And Thuringia's CDU boss Christian Hirte says: "In our party, many have the impression that our management bodies have not always decided on personnel issues in accordance with the majority will of the members."
I wonder how Armin Laschet last followed the debate.
He is known for his ability to take, but if the alleged party friends have been giving you verbal blows in the neck for days, even the strongest will eventually go down.
Is there actually nobody in the CDU who recently had sympathy?
Yes, one.
North Rhine-Westphalia's Minister of Social Affairs, Karl-Josef Laumann, spoke on the WDR.
“I am concerned with how the political annihilation of a person takes place here.
That is bitter.
In my opinion, this is not how political debate has to be. "
Laumann is right there.
Read more here: CDU regional leaders demand basic participation in the next election of chairmen
2.
Shortly before the end?
Imagine if a top politician wants to polish up his image.
Benevolent surveys are commissioned and placed with a large medium.
The positive editorial shoot is agreed between politicians and the medium, but the audience does not recognize the contributions as advertising.
The media company receives other advertising orders in the millions, paid out of taxpayers' money.
What sounds like an episode from "House of Cards" are some of the allegations that are made against Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and his people (here is the overview). It's about infidelity, bribery, corruptibility. Investigators searched the Federal Chancellery, the headquarters of the short party ÖVP and the Ministry of Finance yesterday in Vienna. At a ceremony with a view to the raids, Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen said: "Today we witnessed a very unusual and serious incident." Austria's Greens, who form a coalition with Kurz, today questioned his ability to act. The Fellner media company is under public pressure; its heart is a television station and the mostly free mass newspaper »Austria«.
Kurz rejects the allegations.
Yesterday evening he appeared on the news program "Zeit im Bild 2".
My colleague Oliver Das Gupta from Vienna observed him, he found him not very convincing: »Sebastian Kurz has never been seen like this: First a stain on the temple, then the whole face takes on color despite all the powder.
This is what a head of government looks like when he is worried about his position. "
At one point in particular, Kurz had a deep look, writes Oliver: When asked by the moderator whether he knew of something in return for the state advertisements, he initially evaded.
But then he said: "I very much hope that there was something in return, namely reporting and an advertisement, because that's the price you pay."
Read the full story here: "I very much hope there was something in return: reporting"
3.
The vaccination miracle
In Germany, significantly more people are already vaccinated against the corona virus than the official statistics show.
This is what the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) writes in a new report.
According to the RKI, it can be assumed that up to 84 percent of adults had been vaccinated at least once and up to 80 percent fully by the deadline on October 5th.
According to reports from the vaccination centers, on the other hand, there are only just under 80 percent single and a good 75 percent twice vaccinated, i.e. about five percentage points less each.
This corresponds to a deviation of around 3.5 million people.
3.5 million forgotten vaccinees?
A vaccination miracle!
Or are we Germans just too stupid to count syringes?
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) is happy.
The vaccination campaign is going better than expected: “That gives us additional security for autumn and winter.
We want to go back to freedom and normalcy step by step with care and caution, «he says.
This also means that people over the age of 70 get a booster vaccination, as recommended by the Standing Vaccination Commission today.
I think it is now all the more time for a German Freedom Day.
The vaccinated no longer need protection, the unvaccinated do not want any.
The latter are unreasonable, but a liberal society can take it.
There is also a right to kill yourself.
Read more here: RKI estimates official vaccination statistics to be too low
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What else is important today
Nobel Prize for Literature goes to Abdulrazak Gurnah:
Nobody expected him - the Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The jury praised him for his "uncompromising and compassionate" approach to the effects of colonialism.
Stiko recommends booster vaccination for
people over 70 years of age
:
According to Stiko, people over 70 years of age should be offered a booster vaccination.
Another new feature is that anyone who has been vaccinated with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine should receive an additional dose of mRNA vaccine.
Leipzig hotel manager has guests questioned:
A law firm is supposed to investigate Gil Ofarim's allegations on behalf of the Westin Leipzig.
The hotel manager stated in an interview that a witness presented the event differently.
Long-time "kicker" boss Holzschuh has died:
he shaped the "kicker" for more than 50 years and was the publisher of the football trade journal until the beginning of the year.
"One-two-pass" fans knew him as a guest of the football talk.
Rainer Holzschuh died at the age of 77.
Bahn wants to lure passengers away with sprinter trains:
an ICE can transport five times as many people as a medium-haul aircraft.
Now the Deutsche Bahn wants to offer more connections in the Sprinter variant - and thus compete with short-haul flights.
My favorite story today: Around the world in eleven pictures
Ever since everyone snaps their cell phone, I've had the feeling of drowning in a flood of images.
How do your colleagues from the “National Geographic Traveler” have to feel when they call for the competition for the best travel photo?
Nevertheless, this year they managed to make a splendid selection again: eleven pictures that capture the magic of the world.
We see cheerful Chinese cooks, a colorful Peruvian market, a facade overgrown with plants in Myanmar.
The winner in the "Urban" category photographed her friend Sarah.
You can see them very small on the stairs of the Veles e Vents building in the port of Valencia, and the jury praised: "The choice of light complements the architecture and creates a soft, white color palette that is coherent and appealing." to the pictures.)
What we recommend today at SPIEGEL +
"You had half an hour before the slaughter began":
For ten days, victims and relatives have been testifying to the attacks of November 13, 2015 in the terror trial.
Often in tears and marked by the horror that befell them.
Like Nadia Mondeguer, who lost her daughter Lamia.
What RSV infections in small children
are all about
: There are
already significantly more small children with RSV in clinics than in a normal year, and the situation will worsen in the next few weeks.
What kind of disease is that?
And what should parents watch out for?
"Disgusting to see that on my news":
"Dick pics" are as widespread as unsightly a problem for women on the Internet.
However, more and more affected internet users are reporting them.
There have been hundreds of investigations this year alone.
"Not everyone is able to read a gender star correctly":
Does gender-sensitive language exclude parts of the population?
Josef Lange from the German Spelling Council says why he considers neither Binnen-I nor Genderstern to be suitable for the future.
Which is less important today
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Jake Gyllenhaal and Jennifer Aniston at the premiere of "The Good Girl": "Strangely mechanical"
Photo: Kevin Winter / Getty Images
Love torture
: Actor
Jake Gyllenhaal, 40,
claims to have suffered when he played an erotic scene with
Jennifer Aniston
, 52, in the film "The Good Girl"
20 years ago
.
Sex portrayal in front of the camera is always difficult, he said on the "Howard Stern Show," but in this case it was added that he was in love with Aniston.
His love, however, remained unrequited, at the time Aniston was married to Brad Pitt.
"It was torture," said Gyllenhaal.
Typo of the day
, corrected in the meantime: "Soziloge Buchtik believes that many Czechs continue to buy his central message from him."
Cartoon of the day:
It's going loooos!
And tonight?
Germany, the Kohl years.
Two young computer nerds are at Telekom and present their idea for a new program.
With little success.
"The Internet will not catch on at all," they say.
"We have studies for that!"
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Scene from "The Billion Dollar Code"
Photo: Netflix
Did two Germans invent the model for Google Earth in the mid-1990s, but were ignored and ripped off? The series "The Billion Dollar Code", which has been running on Netflix since today, is about this crazy, but at least partially true story. Mark Waschke, Mišel Matičević and Lavinia Wilson play the leading roles. Screenwriter Oliver Ziegenbalg and director Robert Thalheim have turned the story into a successful journey back in time to the beginnings of the Internet and the creatively chaotic Berlin. My colleague Oliver Kaever from the cultural department writes: "A plump, intoxicating, thrilling piece of series television made in Germany." Fortunately, there is now not only Internet, but even Internet TV. (Read Oliver's review of the Netflix series here.)
A lovely evening.
Sincerely,
Alexander Neubacher
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