1.
Up and down
First things first: The project "We're sending Captain Kirk into space" is delayed by one day.
The space company Blue Origin of Amazon founder Jeff Bezoz announced: Due to the forecast of strong winds, the start of "Star Trek" icon William Shatner, 90, originally planned for Tuesday, has been postponed to Wednesday.
(More background information on the PR campaign here from my colleague Christoph Seidler.)
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Do you feel sorry for him?
Read this text by our columnist Nikolaus Blome: Armin Laschet was as much a perpetrator as a victim.
Photo:
Michael Kappeler / dpa
The CDU project "We shoot Laschet on the moon" is also dragging on, but things are moving forward.
Today the top bodies of the party decided: A special party congress is to re-elect the entire federal executive board.
The decision was made unanimously, as General Secretary Paul Ziemiak said.
He also announced a meeting of the district chairpersons for October 30th.
Three days later, the Presidium and the Federal Executive Committee will decide how the base is to be integrated.
The question that remains is whether the grassroots will come to terms with what their Presidium and Board of Directors will allow for involvement.
In any case, a majority would like a primary election of the future CDU boss, as a current SPIEGEL survey shows (more on this here).
»Election of the entire board of directors - that may sound like tabula rasa at first,« says my colleague Florian Gathmann from our capital city office.
“In truth, the decision on the future head of the consensus was initially shifted to the district chairperson.
And everyone from the federal executive can run again at the party congress - even if there should be a member survey beforehand. "
Read more here: CDU wants to re-elect the entire federal board
2.
The end of the test matches
As of today, the vast majority of adults have to pay for their corona rapid tests themselves, the prices apparently fluctuate between 18 euros and 40 euros. Exceptions apply to those with previous health problems who cannot be vaccinated and to pregnant women for whom the Stiko has only recommended vaccination since September. Children under the age of 12 do not have to pay either; no vaccine has yet been approved for them. And young people over 12 do not have to pay until next year; here, too, the Stiko recommendation is still fresh. For everyone else: you could have vaccinated long ago - why should the general public pay for your tests?
Perhaps so that as few infections as possible remain hidden, thinks the occasional Drosten listener.
But many experts apparently consider the elimination of the free tests to be bearable, as my colleague Julia Merlot from our science department reports: On the one hand, many Germans have been vaccinated, on the other hand, the citizen tests have probably benefited from the citizen tests anyway rather a wealthy clientele who go to the cinema and theater meetings and can afford restaurant food - not necessarily representative.
As in Great Britain, it would make more sense to regularly take samples from a cross-section of the population.
And Christian Drosten also pointed out in one of the last podcast episodes on NDR that vaccinating is better than testing.
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Find the bug in this picture
Photo: Stefan Zeitz / imago images
What worries me: Do I exaggerate when, as a vaccinated person, I meet other people who have been vaccinated and insist that we all test each other anyway?
"That depends a little on the circumstances," says Julia.
"If, for example, older or previously ill people are present, tests offer additional protection because the vaccination sometimes doesn't work quite as well for them as it does for younger people." Unvaccinated children could also catch the virus and become carriers themselves again.
"The home tests don't cost much and at least don't do any harm," says Julia.
In the case of vaccinated and healthy adults, however, my family and friends may find me overly cautious.
I have to live with that.
Read more here: From now on it will be billed
3.
Unsocial media
The federal spokeswoman for the Green Youth, Sarah-Lee Heinrich, who was only elected on Saturday, avoids the public for a few days.
"For their own safety," as their people say, because there have been death threats against Heinrich.
What happened?
There are old, sometimes insulting or politically sensitive Twitter posts by Heinrich, who is now 20 years old, in circulation: In one of them, she used the expression "fagot" as an insult.
What is often missing from the screenshots: the date of the posts.
Most of them were from 2014 and 2015, when Heinrich was 13 or 14 years old.
She apologized directly for one of them.
"I just became aware of a tweet in which my account commented› Heil ‹under a tweet with a swastika in 2015," she tweeted on Sunday.
"That was extremely stupid and inappropriate." She was part of an anti-fascist youth organization.
“This tweet in no way reflects my position.
I'm really sorry that I ever posted a tweet like this. ”The tweet has since been deleted.
Heinrich spoke of an attempt by right-wing political opponents to stir up shitstorms against them.
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Whoever triggered it, yes, Heinrich is in the eye of a shit storm. Her name has been trending as a hashtag since yesterday, #saraleeheinrich. "The tweets are openly anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist," comments my colleague Janne Knödler. Some now dismiss Heinrich's utterances as "sins of youth" or think that you can hear that in every schoolyard. Janne writes that there must be consequences for such statements. But not in the form of a shit storm: "You have to be contradicted." Already in the schoolyard, not years later. The fact that this does not happen far too often says »more about our society than about its 13-year-olds«.
At the moment, however, the loudest voices are those who defend otherwise anti-Semitic and sexist statements down to the blood.
“And they are now taking part in a shit storm that is accompanied by racist remarks and death threats.
And so it shows once again that a shit storm is not a contradiction, but a distraction from the actual problem, «comments Janne.
“Because it attracts attention, collapses context, obliterates nuances.
And prevents learning. "
All right.
Or maybe it's not wrong that growing up without social media can be a blessing.
Read the whole comment here: A shit storm is not a contradiction in terms
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What else is important today
Where do the billions come from?
Beautiful pictures are not enough: On this Monday, the FDP, SPD and the Greens negotiate with each other for ten hours.
The three parties have to overcome the highest hurdles in financial policy.
Meuthen no longer wants to run for AfD chairmanship:
He was considered the spokesman for the more moderate AfD camp - now he wants to vacate his post: According to SPIEGEL information, Jörg Meuthen is not running for chairmanship in December.
He announced the withdrawal by e-mail.
Navalny,
according to his own statements, classified as a terrorist:
The Kremlin critic posted information on a change in his detention conditions on Instagram.
Accordingly, he was classified as an extremist.
A sign to this effect is now hanging over his bunk.
David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens have been awarded the Nobel
Prize for
Economics
:
three researchers share this year's prize.
According to the jury, they have fundamentally changed the understanding of empirical work in economics.
What we recommend today at SPIEGEL +
The unshakable love of the Austrians for Sebastian Kurz:
Although criminal investigations are ongoing against the ex-Chancellor, many voters would vote Sebastian Kurz again.
Is his departure just a move to return with renewed energy?
»People like me are - zack - simply sorted out«:
In Berlin there are more than 52,000 people who are considered to be homeless or homeless.
There are plans that they will all have their own roof over their heads by 2030, with no conditions attached.
Can it work?
"Our code is identical to that of Google":
In the 1990s, Axel Schmidt developed a program with astonishing parallels to Google Earth.
The Netflix series "The Billion Dollar Code" tells his story - here he says what it really was like.
Which is less important today
Missing the target
:
Daniel Craig, 53,
does not seem to bring the hoped-for success for the US cinema market - the new James Bond adventure "No Time to Die" with him in the lead role only has on its debut weekend in the USA grossed around $ 56 million. That is a lot of money, but significantly less than the 90 million that the second part of the comic book adaptation "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" brought in the previous week. From an international point of view, however, 007 is on the road to success: the film has grossed 313.3 million dollars worldwide so far. In Germany it had its best theatrical release since 2019, in Germany it has seen over two million people since its release nine days ago.
Typo of the day
, corrected in the meantime: "Belgium's national goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois has sounded the alarm in view of the jam-packed calendar in football with ever greater burdens for the players."
Cartoon of the day:
headline with a link to the photo gallery
And tonight?
/ And on the weekend?
Could you hear the Beatles again, which is always a good idea.
It came to me today when I read about an interview Paul McCartney gave to the BBC: It's not supposed to be out for two weeks, but parts of it have been pre-published.
In it he comments on a question that has haunted millions and millions of Beatles fans since the band broke up: Who was to blame?
Many believe: it was Paul.
After all, he had declared in April 1970 that the band no longer existed.
Well, 51 years later, McCartney says, No, it was John.
When asked in the BBC interview about his plans for a solo career at the time, McCartney replies: “Stop there.
I wasn't the one who started the breakup.
Oh no no no no
One day John came into a room and said, 'I'm leaving the Beatles.' Does that sound like a breakup or not? "
He himself regretted the breakup, not least because, in his opinion, the band had still done "pretty good stuff".
Specifically, he cites the albums Abbey Road and Let it be as examples.
He's right about both.
Goodnight.
Yours Oliver Trenkamp
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