https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-31/germany-citizens-of-the-reich-foreign-correspondent/102789818
…Suddenly, it [AfD]’s the second most popular party in Germany and has a real chance of winning in state elections next year. It’s now polling at around 20 per cent, putting it just behind the conservative opposition party, the CDU, and well ahead of the main governing party, the centre-left SPD…
Unless agencies like the CIA are stopped, Carlson said the U.S. will continue to ‘decline’ and see its ‘democratic institutions weaken.’…
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-australia-66645263
A neurosurgeon has described her shock at pulling out a live worm from a woman’s brain during surgery…
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-agrees-corporate-tax-cuts-to-stimulate-economy/a-66664991
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government on Tuesday agreed upon a tax relief plan worth some €7 billion ($7.6 billion) per year for companies in a bid to revive Europe’s largest economy…
https://www.dw.com/en/canada-issues-lgbtq-travel-warning-united-states/a-66667584
Canada is home to 40 million people, of whom about a million recognize themselves as belonging to the LGBTQ community, according to Statistics Canada…
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-low-consumer-confidence-expected-to-dip-further/a-66656748
Germany’s GDP growth figures dipped in the last quarter of 2022 and the first of 2023, before creeping back to just above breaking even in the second quarter. A negative overall growth figure for the year is currently considered a possibility by some, though the government predicts marginal growth for the year…
https://www.dw.com/en/live-parasitic-worm-plucked-from-australian-womans-brain/a-66657943
Bandi and Senanayake speculated that the woman might have been exposed to the parasite when foraging for wild grasses to make a dish similar to spinach, when she might have been exposed to python feces…
https://www.dw.com/en/berlin-unveils-plans-for-memorial-to-polish-victims-of-nazis/a-66664347
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The “German-Polish House” memorial is set to be built in Berlin near the German parliament and the Chancellery. Meanwhile, Germany and Poland are still disagreeing about war reparations…
https://www.dw.com/en/meta-uncovers-worlds-largest-spam-campaign-to-boost-china/a-66664497
Meta said it removed some 7,700 Facebook accounts plus hundreds of other pages, groups and Instagram accounts that pushed pro-China narratives online…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-20/audience-new-covid-variant-ba-2-86-pirola-omicron/102751366
“Even in the worst case scenario where BA.2.86 caused a major new wave of cases, we are not expecting to witness comparable levels of severe disease and death than we did earlier in the pandemic when the Alpha, Delta or Omicron variants spread, Dr Balloux said…
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