Musk goes and what happens to Doge? The situation in the morning

Good morning, dear readers,

That’s it with politics: Elon Musk Run back where he came from – to his cars and rockets. At the head of the Doge authority, the Tech billionaire wanted to destroy the bureaucracy, released non-useful federal employees and thus spare the taxpayers’ $ two trillion, as he said himself. Musk had 130 days for this. Mission Accomplished, you could say.

The White House has already officially said goodbye to Elon Musk (“We thank you for his services.”). Donald Trump puts one on top tonight. Then he wants to keep a last press conference with Musk, the US President had Truth Social Knowledge through his social media platform and added: “Elon is great.”

The only question is how the newly founded efficiency authority goes on. Doge without musk? It is impossible, a former employee believes. “The attraction and attraction were largely with Elon.” Employees would probably “just no longer appear to work”. Then the project will probably be done soon.

However, a spokeswoman for the White House claims the opposite: “The efforts, waste, fraud and abuse will continue.” In what form? You can stay excited.

They constantly expand their monopoly and thus endanger the media landscape. They use the German infrastructure, do a billion dollar business, but pay too little taxes. Yes, you read properly, it is again about the platforms Google and Co. Germany wants to ask the gentlemen from the Silicon Valley to checkout; With a “platform soli”. More precisely, the Wolfram Weimer, Minister of State for Culture and Media, wants. “We should finally ask Google and Co.,” he said in star-Interview.

In digital times, such a debate is ancient, almost yesterday’s snow, because nothing has changed for years. But the new federal government now wants to change that. By the way, its model is Austria: a digital tax of five percent has been in effect there for five years. Weimer finds the experiences “convincingly” there and therefore wants to sign the platform operators in the Federal Republic. The invitation for talks already went to Silicon Valley. Let’s see what they say.

Two days ago Saúl Luciano Lliuya failed in front of the Higher Regional Court in Hamm. He fears that the glacier near his village in Peru could melt through climate change and bury his home. The energy group RWE, one of the world’s largest issuers, should pay for the costs of the protective measures already incurred. The judges dismissed the lawsuit because a glacier root is considered unlikely.

Irony of history: Exactly one day after the verdict, this horror scenario occurred in Switzerland. There, a glacier root has almost completely buried the 300 souls of Blatten. There were no deaths because the population had previously been evacuated. But whole existences are under rubble. And that was by no means everything: a river bed was also blocked in the glacier root. There, the water and the authorities are now converting that it will soon overflow and cause further damage.

Climate catastrophes are no longer a scenario that takes place far away in Latin America, Asia or Africa. The rising temperatures let glaciers shrink in the Alps and make them unstable. In August 2017, 3.1 million cubic meters of rock on the mountain Piz Cengalo in the canton of Graubünden in southern Switzerland crashed near the Italian border. Most only understand what this means when human life are involved. Eight hikers died at the time and the village of Bondo also had to be evacuated.

Perhaps blatts and bondo would be cases in which the courts had decided differently.

And with that I can say goodbye to you at this point. It was a pleasure for me to start the day with you every morning from Seoul for a month – I hope that reading was just as fun for you. The estimated colleague Yannik Schüller will take over next week.

With this in mind: Get well into Friday and then into the weekend!

Christine Leitner
(News editor)