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coup number 2?
Woodward and Costa: "Trump acted like a six-year-old who had a tantrum"
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Suddenly I am reading and hearing more and more about Donald Trump again.
It was already a year and a day ago that he was voted out, but we didn't know for sure at the time, the counting of the votes dragged on.
It was only four days after the election that it became clear: Joe Biden is unassailable in front.
TV stations faded in info tapes, newsrooms sent breaking news, at SPIEGEL we exchanged the cover picture.
To this day, the loser in the election does not admit his defeat - on the contrary: he revolted his supporters with the lie that his victory was stolen from him.
Behind it hides not only hurt vanity and narcissism, but also political calculation: He and his supporters are working on a comeback, not only in the headlines, but also in the White House.
Nobody has dissected Trump's tenure in more detail than Bob Woodward, the reporter legend who brought the Watergate scandal with his then colleague Carl Bernstein of the Washington Post to light in the early 1970s. My colleague Roland Nelles, our correspondent in Washington, spoke to Woodward and his co-author Robert Costa about the mistakes of the ex-president and his plans. "Woodward has really seen everything in his journalistic life," says Roland. But what he was able to find out about the events behind the scenes around the storm on the Capitol, surprised and shocked him too. "Trump's madness, the fear of the top military that the president might use nuclear weapons, all of this is hair-raising - Woodward was seriously worried when I spoke to me.that Trump could return - like many Americans. "
You can read the whole conversation here: "Our democracy is on fire"
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The African Corona Miracle
The Robert Koch Institute reported 33,949 new infections today, the highest value since the beginning of the corona pandemic.
The nationwide seven-day incidence is therefore 154.5 - for comparison: the previous day the value was 146.6, a week ago it was 130.2.
(Read more here.) A cynic would say: things are looking up.
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The latest studies show: In the Kibera slum, more than two thirds of the residents have been infected with corona
Photo: Gordwin Odhiambo / DER SPIEGEL
My colleague Heiner Hoffmann reports on really positive corona developments - in Kenya and in other African countries. There, the great catastrophe did not materialize, despite the low vaccination rates and rapid contamination of the population. "At the beginning of the pandemic there were terrible scenarios," says Heiner. “The pandemic will be devastating in Africa in particular, and perhaps worst in the slums.” He was also surprised by the latest studies: “In Kibera, for example, the largest slum in Africa, the majority of the residents have long since been infected. But there were significantly fewer deaths than feared, even if many died in secret from the virus. «The so-called case mortality is therefore significantly lower than in Europe and the USA - it stateshow high the proportion of deaths in all known infections is. And that cannot be explained solely by the fact that many infections may go undetected.
A scientist, with whom Heiner spoke, puts forward the thesis: “Above all in Central and East Africa, there are many comparable viruses, including similar corona viruses.
The residents are exposed to them much more frequently than in Europe, for example.
We therefore assume that many have developed a kind of cross-immunity that now also protects against Sars-Cov-2. ”In addition, the following could be the case: the population is younger on average;
Diseases of affluence such as diabetes and obesity are comparatively rare, albeit on the rise.
"Africa remains a kind of cynical live experiment," reports Heiner: "With all the unvaccinated people, scientists can observe how the virus spreads largely unchecked."
Read the full story here: low case numbers and empty hospitals despite low vaccination rates
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Down and back
Group boss Diess next to Tiguan GTE: Strategic foresight, but deficiencies in communication
Photo: RALPH ORLOWSKI / REUTERS
Generations of learner drivers have learned in the VW Golf how to press down the gear lever to engage reverse gear.
Down and backwards - that seems to me to be the motto of how top management, the supervisory board and works council at VW treat each other when I read the texts of my colleague Simon Hage from our economic department.
The staff meeting at the Wolfsburg main plant was advised today to open accounts with VW boss Diess.
Works council boss Cavallo accuses him of not getting the chip shortage under control - and prefers to show himself with Elon Musk than with his own employees.
At Volkswagen, like every autumn, the so-called planning round is currently underway.
"Top managers and supervisory boards are struggling to invest billions in plants and new products," reports Simon.
"An unprecedented deal that brings Europe's largest car company to the brink of a management crisis with tiring regularity." Some then speak of "breaches of trust" and others of "blockade".
The main topic of the planning round, the utilization of the VW locations with future-proof products - suddenly a minor matter.
"As if the group just had no major problems," writes Simon:
While VW suffers from a slump in sales, Tesla announces record profits quarter after quarter.
New Chinese competitors are entering the European market.
The German competition is recovering: Diess' ex-employer BMW manages the chip shortage much more professionally than the Wolfsburg-based company.
So why do they prefer to push each other down at VW?
The origin of the ongoing conflicts between top management, works council and supervisory boards is often difficult to understand.
Especially since those involved like to emphasize that they are "actually not that far apart".
Simon says: "So it's also about power, pride and vanity." You also know from other companies, but hardly anywhere do they celebrate it like in Wolfsburg.
Obviously, according to Hobbes: Man is a golf to man.
Read the whole comment here: Global company in kindergarten mode
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What else is important today
Esken wants to apply for a new term of office:
Saskia Esken wants to remain SPD chairwoman.
She decided to "renew her application for the highest office in the party."
Planned super write-offs tear billions holes in the federal budget:
Red-green-yellow wants to encourage companies to invest more with super write-offs.
But the planned changes to the regulations could cost the federal government 40 billion euros per year, according to DIW calculations.
"Anger, despair, humiliation and revenge":
She killed five of her six children: Christiane K. has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
The judge spoke of a "tragedy".
The defense does not want to accept the verdict.
Zschäpe fails before the Federal Court of Justice:
NSU terrorist Beate Zschäpe does not want to accept the confirmation of the verdict on her complicity in ten murders.
However, the BGH dismissed a complaint from her as unfounded.
What we recommend today at SPIEGEL +
What the climate crisis means for your place of residence:
Three times more hot days than in the 1950s: The consequences of global warming are also noticeable in Germany.
Interactive graphics show how the climate has changed regionally and is likely to continue to change.
This is how Daimler is said to have manipulated its engines:
A hacker cracked the software of an E-Class for the first time.
He can evidently prove how Mercedes reprogrammed its customers' cars.
In Germany alone there are at least 15,000 lawsuits.
Forensic medicine checks connection with corona vaccination after the death of a twelve-year-old:
Has a boy from Cuxhaven died as a result of a corona vaccination?
The case causes a stir - the exact background is still unknown.
An overview.
"We admire them for everything we are not ourselves":
"Mutti, c'est fini": Angela Merkel experienced a triumphal procession on her last visit to France with touching and sometimes embarrassing gestures of affection.
Which is less important today
Master And Servant: Dave Gahan
, 59, has been the front man of Depeche Mode since 1980, 41 years after the founding of his band, he feels happy and imprisoned at the same time.
"We are prisoners in a very comfortable place to which we always return voluntarily," he told the "Playboy".
"We locked ourselves up."
Typo of the day
, corrected in the meantime: In the fall of 1986, SPIEGEL had the title "Climate Catastrophe" with Cologne Cathedral in flood, that was very early.
Cartoon of the day:
Trump again
And tonight?
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Actress Mia Wasikowska in "Bergman Island": Relationship put to the test
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World cinema
Could you follow a recommendation from my colleague Hannah Pilarczyk and watch the autobiographical relationship film »Bergman Island« by Mia Hansen-Løve in the cinema, in which the director mixes »the highly refined private and artistic«.
One can and should think of her famous ex Ingmar Bergman, says Hannah, the film is "a feminist disrespect".
(Here is the full review.)
A lovely evening.
Sincerely
yours, Oliver Trenkamp
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