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Trump expected to focus on election conspiracies in national address Trump addresses the nation this evening local time. Main topic: Election Fraud. Yawn! 🥱 Details here.

If there is one thing that makes Germany great: it’s the breads! Once you try them, you are addicted for life. 😋🍞🥪 🇩🇪 THE FLENSBURG FILES

In America , we have the cheddar, Monterrey Jack and the marble Jack. Germany has this and many more kinds of cheeses. What about your country? 🇩🇪 THE FLENSBURG FILES

What table manners does your country have? Is it similar to the ones here in Germany? Check them out and feel free to comment. 🇩🇪 THE FLENSBURG FILES

The Files is going on break for a couple weeks but in its place, here are some interesting things about German culture and places that might interest you. This is for those who wish to visit the country in the future, let alone move there. Have fun and see you in a couple weeks! 😊👋 🇩🇪 THE FLENSBURG FILES

More weeks of what is now the deadliest heatwave on record in Europe is expected. Already more than 5100 people have died. No country is spared. Even Germany could face temperatures of 35-45°C in the coming weeks. And with that, more melted traffic lights and blowouts on the Autobahn. Details in the CDE News article 👇 Europe may face ‘more deadly weeks’ as new heatwave builds, WHO warns ⛵ THE…

In connection with my previous article, here’s a look at what we can do to stop the remigration process both in the US as well as in Europe. Courtesy of Jeff Crosby ********* The fight against Trump’s mass deportation of migrants has raged for some 17 months. Immediately when he took office, Trump announced his massive deportation efforts, and just as quickly it became clear that he had no…

A week has passed since the infamous AfD convention in Erfurt and we’re still analyzing the results of the event and looking for solutions to the far-right Alternative’s surge in the polls. It’s no secret that the party of Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla want to shift Germany towards Russia, throw out the foreigners and introduce German patriotism similar to Hitler’s Third Reich. Yet there is one…

This comment should put an exclamation point onto Trump after his interference on the part of the US in the FIFA World Cup in men’s soccer. And the timing could not have been more perfect. The US is out because of him, and the head of FIFA should also remove himself from his post as president of FIFA once the tournament is finished for bending the law to favor him. Belgium made sure that laws…

Every July, a quote makes the rounds attributed to Abraham Lincoln: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedoms, it will be because we have destroyed ourselves from within.” It’s a good line. It’s also fabricated. Lincoln never said it. There’s no record of it in his collected works, his letters, or his speeches. It’s a 20th-century invention, loosely inspired by…

‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ singer Bonnie Tyler dead at 75 British pop singer Bonnie Tyler, famous for Total Eclipse of the Heart and I Need a Hero, has died after a long illness. A look at her life and times in the article. 🎹🎵 THE FLENSBURG FILES

Faced with July 4th celebrations that are focused on militarism, ultra-nationalism, and “bombs bursting in air,” many American families who do not share those values turn July 4th into another summer holiday focused on picnics, sports, and fireworks, while doing their best to avoid the dominant rhetoric and bombast. This year that kind of celebration is particularly difficult when many of us are…

One should not forget about the warnings that the forefathers of the US Constitution had about the Republic. Robert Reich shows you why and how they are relevant to today’s situation. It needs no brief introduction even and if you are interested in his work, click here. This Fourth of July, and continuing until the November Elections, let’s put away the differences and make America colorful…

Joshua Zachariah Ellis wrote a sobering piece on America and how it survived some of the toughest challenges in its 250-year history. The question he poses here (and you should consider yourselves) is that whether America will be able to survive this onslaught by Trump 2.0, or will it fragment into different states. ************* It feels like Heather Cox Richardson is doing, as a historian,…

Many of us wonder why we have the colors of red, white and blue on the US flag. Here’s a story behind its history. Some of it we know, others will take us by surprise. Check it out…… Old Glory and 250 Years of Independence: The Story Behind America’s Flag This Fourth of July, and continuing until the November Elections, let’s put away the differences and make America colorful again. Click on…

Photo by aku0131n akdau011f on Pexels.com This story is unique for even though the Declaration of Independence was written on July 4th, 1776, it took a team of horse riders to travel across the entire colonies to get the message across and prepare the people for what could be the battle for independence. We should remember their courageous stories as we face similar trials and tribulations to…

I have been on the road today thinking about America, the country where I was born and raised, and what it taught me as a person. Apart from hard work and working together to become successful and pursue our happiness, there were some other things that America can stand for. I decided to display some thoughts with AI, but would like to ask you to add from what I have. How do you view America at…