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Uncertainty for students
This morning at eight o’clock my seven-year-old daughter is sitting in front of the laptop. Their teacher invites the first graders to a video conference, does some homework with them, and discusses the daily and weekly schedule. Our daughter knows that since the days before Christmas, she thinks it is exciting, of course it is also new, different, exciting, that lesson on the computer. She goes about the after-work with amazing independence, my wife and I help and cheer if needed, or entertain her two-year-old brother. He also finds his sister’s videoconference quite interesting …
Crown everyday life. As in Berlin, holidays in various federal states ended today. the schools but they remain empty for the moment, because Christmas New YearsTo turn off forces millions of children and parents to Homeschooling. It will probably stay that way for a while. Given the contagion situation, it is impossible for public life to resume on January 10, which is still in force.
However, one should be surprised that the same debates are being held again after a year of Corona: shouldn’t they at least reopen daycares and schools after all? Or only with certain low incidence values? Maybe just elementary schools? Or just the final classes? What is better: change of presence, distance learning? And can schools even handle that?
The closing and the end of the holidays are a complete surprise once again.
2021 begins as 2020 ended. Parents, schoolchildren, and kindergarten children do not know what will happen in the coming winter months, when there is little relief on the front of the pandemic. This Monday they advise Minister of Education of countries on whether there is one national course she can give the Prime Minister and Chancellor Recommend for your round the next day.
You don’t have to be a prophet: there won’t be this uniform course. It’s not that bad, after all, not all countries and all regions are affected equally. The downside is that it is unlikely that there is a course that politics, federalism or not, is not in a position to adopt a Minimum level of commitment create a rough roadmap, railings, guidelines, call it what you want, anything schools, teachers, parents, kids can get their bearings on.
Is Assange being sent?
This Monday, a London court will decide whether Julian Assange shipped to the US Goes behind the swanky stucco facade of Old Baily Central Criminal Court about more than just the legal fate of WikiLeaks-Founder. Maybe it’s your life too.
The 49-year-old Australian has been in Belmarsh maximum security prison for more than a year and a half, alone in a two-by-ten-meter cell 23 hours a day, although he has not yet been convicted of any crime; will be held there until the result of the Extradition procedures It is safe.
A procedure in which Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, sees that “fundamental norms” of human rights and the rule of law are violated. A psychiatric advisor feared that Assange might attempt suicide if he was extradited to the United States. The United States judiciary accuses him, among other things, of espionage and, if convicted of all counts, Assange faces up to 175 years in prison.
You don’t need to like Julian Assange, attribute noble motives to him, or worship him as a brave hero. But the importance of the case extends far beyond the man’s personal destiny. Its about Freedom of the press. The United States wants to set an example, send a warning to investigative journalists. The investigation turns into espionage, even if it uncovers war crimes, corruption, or other heinous acts (read more about the background to the complex case here).
If the hitherto unscrupulous London judge Vanessa Baraitser decides against Assange, her lawyers want to appeal. In the end, the new president of the United States, Assange, may be the last hope. When Joe biden When Barack Obama was vice president, the United States dropped an impeachment.
The despair of Donald Trump
You could laugh out loud if it weren’t for howling: Donald trump You still don’t think about giving up. After a group of Trump fanatics among the Republican senators announced the official confirmation of the electoral victory of Joe biden Wanting to sabotage by the Congress of the United States, the president still in office has this weekend Georgia State Elections Officer on the phone he bluntly urged “finding” 11,780 votes and “recalculating” the result – in other words: hitting the Trump state.
The story is really amazing, but you can hear everything. There is a recording, which includes undisguised threats from the president to his interlocutor. Brad RaffenspergerEven Republicans are at high risk if they don’t comply with the request. Raffensperger is also not impressed.
It’s so amazing that the ten former US Defense Secretaries are still alive We consider it necessary to warn against abuses by the military in the dispute over the electoral result. Mark Esper, who recently served under Trump, is one of the authors of the guest article in the Washington Post.
No, it’s not a laughing matter after all.
Farewell of the day
Gerry Marsden is dead. Many football fans may not even know the name of the British singer of the group “Gerry And The Pacemakers”, although they have already heard his most famous song of the 1960s several times. “You will never walk alone” is not just the anthem of Liverpool FC clubs, but it also sounds right at home in stadiums around the world (the original, by the way, comes from a 1945 musical). Marsden died at the age of 78, his song will survive forever.
