| 31.Oct.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-587495,00.html Das Ergebnis der Untersuchung überrascht: Ötzis Typ mitochondrialer DNA ist bislang gänzlich unbekannt. Frühere Untersuchungen von Ötzis Erbgut hatten gezeigt, dass der Eismann einer genetischen Linie angehörte, die "K" genannt wird. Experten sprechen auch vom "Haplotyp K", zu dem heute noch rund acht % aller Europäer gehören. Ötzi fällt bisherigen Studien zufolge in die Subgruppe "K1", die sich wiederum in drei Teilgruppen aufspaltet. Wie die nun vorgestellte Untersuchung zeigt, passt Ötzis Erbgut jedoch in keine dieser drei Teilgruppen. 31.Oct.2008 Finanzkrise in Japan: Nikkei stürzt trotz historischer Zinssenkung ab (Wirtschaft) 31.Oct.2008 Liebe im Erbgut: Per Gentest zum Traumpartner (Wissenschaft) A new poll from the University of Texas and the Texas Politics Project finds that nearly a quarter of Texans erroneously believe that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is a Muslim: When asked to identify Obama’s religion, 45 % of respondents accurately identified him as Protestant, however 23 % erroneously identified him as Muslim . Another 28 % of Texans did not know Obama’s religion, while 0.2 % of Texans believe that Obama is a Hindu. The poll’s sponsors did not speculate as to why so many Texans are mistaken about Obama’s faith. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal … Or if they had looked to the United States Constitution, they may have erroneously thought “equality” was an important American value: No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. Thankfully, Dennis Prager is here to protect and defend American inequality. ones using proto-Canaanite characters, therefore making it difficult to prove it was Hebrew and not a related tongue spoken in the area at the time. Hebrew University archaeologist Amihai Mazar said the inscription was "very important", as it is the longest proto-Canaanite text ever found. 31.Oct.2008 Colombia sacks generals over suspected executions: Military commander General Freddy Padilla relieved three generals, 11 colonels, four majors, one captain, one lieutenant and seven lower-ranking soldiers of their duties following a probe into the disappearance of youths from poor neighborhoods in the south of the capital city 31.Oct.2008 America's Forgotten War: On June 17, America's longest-running war reached another milestone - 37 years and counting, with no end in sight. Hardly anyone noticed. Neither of the leading presidential candidates mentioned the struggle that has cost hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars and countless American lives. A Senate hearing was held to mark the anniversary, but hardly anyone came. 31.Oct.2008 Guantanamo man tortured into confessing - US judge: A young Guantanamo prisoner's confession to Afghan police was obtained through torture and cannot be used as evidence in his trial on charges of wounding U.S. soldiers with a grenade, a judge in the U.S. war crimes court ruled Tuesday. 31.Oct.2008 Court documents describe force feeding of Guantanamo hunger striker: According to court documents reviewed by The Associated Press, guards have struggled with him repeatedly, at least once using pepper spray, shackles and brute force to drag him to a restraint chair for his twice-daily dose of a liquid nutrition mix force-fed through his nose. 31.Oct.2008 UK: Four remanded on terror charges; Four men accused of terror offences after a series of raids in Birmingham have been remanded in custody. 31.Oct.2008 Hatred of America unites the world: The Gallup poll (which surveyed 10,000 Muslims in 10 different countries) also revealed that the wealthier and better-educated Muslims are, the more likely they are to be politically radical. So if you ever believed that anti-Western sentiment was an expression of poverty and deprivation, think again. 31.Oct.2008 Intelligence agencies spent $47.5 billion this year: Around 80 % of the intelligence budget is consumed by Defense Department intelligence units, including the National Security Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency 31.Oct.2008 UN General Assembly demands U.S. lift embargo on Cuba: The resolution was passed by an overwhelming majority of votes in the 192-member world body with 185 states in favor, three against (the United States, Israel and Palau) with Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstaining. 31.Oct.2008 Gates Says The Long-Term Safety of Nuclear Weapons Is “Bleak“: Gates says the nuclear stockpile is getting old and notes that sensitive parts don't last forever. The United States has not built a new nuclear weapon since 1992. 31.Oct.2008 Australia's compulsory internet filtering 'costly, ineffective': Australia's level of net censorship will put it in the same league as countries including China, Cuba, Iran and North Korea, and the Government will not let users opt out of the proposed national internet filter when it is introduced. 31.Oct.2008 The Rothschilds and their 200 years of political influence: John McCain's campaign team is under investigation for allegedly accepting a benefit in kind from two mega-rich British citizens, namely Nat Rothschild and his father, Jacob, the Fourth Baron Rothschild. 31.Oct.2008 Putin rules out nationalization of Russian economy: "I would like to stress that imposing state controls on Russia's economy is not, cannot be, and will not be our task. Increasing the state's presence in the economy is a forced measure and is temporary," Vladimir Putin told an economic conference. 31.Oct.2008 U.S. pulls the plug on the world: The U.S. administration has prompted a huge surge in the U.S. dollar, which may help refinance its financial sector. The cost is a currency whirlwind that threatens the collapse not just of banks and companies but entire countries. 31.Oct.2008 Banks to Use Bailout Bucks for Mergers: The Treasury Department’s capital injection program is well underway, with more than $150 billion total now promised to around 30 banks. So far, the evidence suggests many of those banks will use the cash to buy up weaker banks. 31.Oct.2008 Car dealers hit by sales decline, weak economy: Sonic Automotive, which operates only in the United States, posted a loss of $25.3 million, or 57 cents per share during the quarter, compared with a profit of $26.1 million, or 58 cents, a year ago. 28.Oct.2008 Interventionism, Not Muslims, Is the Problem -By- Jacob G. Hornberger 31.Oct.2008 American Hegemony Bites The Dust The Defanging of America: Reality-Based Community Overthrows History’s Actors -By- Paul Craig Roberts The American neoconservatives are the heirs of Leon Trotsky. Their dream of American “Full Spectrum Dominance”--US military and economic superiority over any possible combination of states--is matched in ambition only by the early 20th century Trotskyite dream of world Communist revolution. Continue 31.Oct.2008 Let Us Speculate -By- William Bowles 31.Oct.2008 U.S. Should Enact $400 Billion Stimulus, Roubini Says -By- John Brinsley 31.Oct.2008 -current- financial crisis 00.000.2006 said the economy risks falling into “a self-fulfilling animal spirit recession that is more severe than otherwise” because of the collapse of credit markets + weak consumer and corporate spending. Continue 31.Oct.2008 Our Choice -By- Nouriel Roubini 31.Oct.2008 What Will YOU Do About The Worst Capitalist Crisis Since The 1930s? Uniting & fighting back is no longer a choice; it’s a matter of survival -By- Larry Holmes 31.Oct.2008 Latin American’s ‘New Left’ In Crises As the ‘Free Market’ Collapses -By- James Petras 31.Oct.2008 PM Putin Suggests Russia, China Ditch Dollar in Trade Deals -By- RIA Novosti 31.Oct.2008 The Financial Woes Signal The Death Of The Dollar? -By- Rev. Richard Skaff 31.Oct.2008 Syria Wants Apology, Payment For U.S. Attack: Government Denies Al Qaeda Leader Killed In Attack, Only Civilians Foreign Minister Says 31.Oct.2008 Syria asks U.N. council to prevent new U.S. attacks: Syria called on the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to take action to prevent a repeat of a weekend U.S. attack on Syrian territory, and to hold the United States accountable. 31.Oct.2008 CIA led mystery Syria raid that killed terrorist leader: The body of Badran Turki Hishan al Mazidih, an Iraqi national who used the nom de guerre Abu Ghadiya, was flown out of Syria on a U.S. helicopter at the end of the operation Sunday by CIA paramilitary officers and special forces, one U.S. official said. 31.Oct.2008 Why Syria? Why now?: "Why now at the end of the Bush administration, with Washington trying to play nice with Damascus and tensions easing throughout the region, would US forces stage such a gambit? 31.Oct.2008 The American Attack: This American precedent of raiding Syrian territories under the pretext of stopping the smuggling of fighters may open the door to another issue unrelated to Iraq, but one which relates to the accusations against Syria of smuggling arms to its allies in Lebanon, especially Hezbollah. 31.Oct.2008 Iraq says delayed U.S. forces deal must ban strikes on neighbours: Amendments sought by Iraq to a security pact with the United States would ban U.S. forces from striking neighbouring countries from Iraqi territory, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said on Wednesday. 31.Oct.2008 Syria Wants Apology, Payment For U.S. Attack: Government Denies Al Qaeda Leader Killed In Attack, Only Civilians Foreign Minister Says 31.Oct.2008 Syria asks U.N. council to prevent new U.S. attacks: Syria called on the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to take action to prevent a repeat of a weekend U.S. attack on Syrian territory, and to hold the United States accountable. 31.Oct.2008 CIA led mystery Syria raid that killed terrorist leader: The body of Badran Turki Hishan al Mazidih, an Iraqi national who used the nom de guerre Abu Ghadiya, was flown out of Syria on a U.S. helicopter at the end of the operation Sunday by CIA paramilitary officers and special forces, one U.S. official said. 31.Oct.2008 Why Syria? Why now?: "Why now at the end of the Bush administration, with Washington trying to play nice with Damascus and tensions easing throughout the region, would US forces stage such a gambit? 31.Oct.2008 The American Attack: This American precedent of raiding Syrian territories under the pretext of stopping the smuggling of fighters may open the door to another issue unrelated to Iraq, but one which relates to the accusations against Syria of smuggling arms to its allies in Lebanon, especially Hezbollah. 31.Oct.2008 Suicide bombings in Somalia kill 28: A wave of suicide bombings killed at least 28 people across northern Somalia today in five attacks that switched attention from talks taking place in neighbouring Kenya. 31.Oct.2008 Sudan says at least 3 Chinese hostages killed: Government official denies report of botched rescue attempt 31.Oct.2008 Russia to continue arms sales to Iran: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says US sanctions will not stop Russia's state arms trader from selling defensive weapons to Iran. 31.Oct.2008 Israeli soldiers shoot dead elderly shepherd: A 68-year old shepherd was shot in the back by Israeli troops Wednesday. 31.Oct.2008 Boat arrives in Gaza to protest Israeli blockade: - A boat loaded with protesters has arrived in the Gaza Strip to bring attention to Israel's blockade of the Hamas-controlled territory. 31.Oct.2008 Biden voices 'unshakable commitment' to strong Israel-U.S. ties: Democratic U.S. vice presidential nominee Senator Joe Biden met with Israel's ambassador to the United States Sallai Meridor on Monday, and stressed his and his running mate presidential nominee Barack Obama's "unshakable commitment" to strong U.S.-Israel ties. 31.Oct.2008 Enough already: Ehud Barak is trying to make the Israeli government seem tough on settler extremism, when it is anything but 31.Oct.2008 Iran opens navy base in Persian Gulf: Navy chief Brigadier-General Habibollah Sayyari said that the base in the town of Jask would enable Iran to block the entry of an "enemy" into the Persian Gulf 31.Oct.2008 Bomb kills five at Pakistan checkpoint: Five people were killed Wednesday when an apparent suicide bomb exploded at a security checkpoint in the Pakistani city of Bannu, PakTribune reported 31.Oct.2008 Three dead in Pakistan car attack: They say that the attack was sectarian and those killed were all were all members of the minority Shia community. They were shot while travelling on the main highway outside the town. 31.Oct.2008 White House: No Let Up In Anti-Terror Effort In Pakistan: The U.S. said Wednesday it was ready to discuss Pakistan's " very serious problem" with extremism anytime authorities there wish to, but vowed no let-up in counter-terrorism efforts. 31.Oct.2008 Pakistan summons US ambassador on border strikes: - Pakistan's government summoned the U.S. ambassador on Wednesday to urge an immediate halt to missile strikes on suspected militant hide-outs near the Afghan border. 31.Oct.2008 Pakistani, Afghan Delegates Agree to Talks With Taliban: Pakistani and Afghan political and tribal leaders meeting in Islamabad Tuesday have agreed to seek talks with Taliban insurgents in a bid to limit violence along their shared border. 31.Oct.2008 Nato's Afghan occupation forces 'hit limit': Coalition forces in Afghanistan have "now reached their limit", according to General Sir Michael Rose, former commander of UN forces in Bosnia. He said Nato forces should consider forming local tribal militias to help stabilise the country. 00.Oct.2001-31.Oct.2008 -since- Over 1,000 foreign soldiers killed in AfghanistanThe U.S. has suffered the most losses, with 625 dead. The U.S. is followed by the U.K. with 121 deaths, Canada with 97, Germany 28, France 22, the Netherlands 17, Denmark 16, and Italy 13. 31.Oct.2008 Venezuelan satellite is launched from China: Chinese and Venezuelan scientists hovered over radar screens, a Russian combat jet flew overhead and satellite dishes tilted toward the skies as Venezuela tracked the launch of its first satellite on Wednesday. 31.Oct.2008 Colombia sacks generals over suspected executions: Military commander General Freddy Padilla relieved three generals, 11 colonels, four majors, one captain, one lieutenant and seven lower-ranking soldiers of their duties following a probe into the disappearance of youths from poor neighborhoods in the south of the capital city 31.Oct.2008 America's Forgotten War: On June 17, America's longest-running war reached another milestone - 37 years and counting, with no end in sight. Hardly anyone noticed. Neither of the leading presidential candidates mentioned the struggle that has cost hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars and countless American lives. A Senate hearing was held to mark the anniversary, but hardly anyone came. 31.Oct.2008 Guantanamo man tortured into confessing - US judge: A young Guantanamo prisoner's confession to Afghan police was obtained through torture and cannot be used as evidence in his trial on charges of wounding U.S. soldiers with a grenade, a judge in the U.S. war crimes court ruled Tuesday. 31.Oct.2008 Court documents describe force feeding of Guantanamo hunger striker: According to court documents reviewed by The Associated Press, guards have struggled with him repeatedly, at least once using pepper spray, shackles and brute force to drag him to a restraint chair for his twice-daily dose of a liquid nutrition mix force-fed through his nose. 31.Oct.2008 UK: Four remanded on terror charges; Four men accused of terror offences after a series of raids in Birmingham have been remanded in custody. 31.Oct.2008 Hatred of America unites the world: The Gallup poll (which surveyed 10,000 Muslims in 10 different countries) also revealed that the wealthier and better-educated Muslims are, the more likely they are to be politically radical. So if you ever believed that anti-Western sentiment was an expression of poverty and deprivation, think again. 31.Oct.2008 Intelligence agencies spent $47.5 billion this year: Around 80 % of the intelligence budget is consumed by Defense Department intelligence units, including the National Security Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office, National Geospatial Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency 31.Oct.2008 UN General Assembly demands U.S. lift embargo on Cuba: The resolution was passed by an overwhelming majority of votes in the 192-member world body with 185 states in favor, three against (the United States, Israel and Palau) with Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstaining. 31.Oct.2008 Gates Says The Long-Term Safety of Nuclear Weapons Is “Bleak“: Gates says the nuclear stockpile is getting old and notes that sensitive parts don't last forever. The United States has not built a new nuclear weapon since 1992. 31.Oct.2008 Australia's compulsory internet filtering 'costly, ineffective': Australia's level of net censorship will put it in the same league as countries including China, Cuba, Iran and North Korea, and the Government will not let users opt out of the proposed national internet filter when it is introduced. 31.Oct.2008 The Rothschilds and their 200 years of political influence: John McCain's campaign team is under investigation for allegedly accepting a benefit in kind from two mega-rich British citizens, namely Nat Rothschild and his father, Jacob, the Fourth Baron Rothschild. 31.Oct.2008 Putin rules out nationalization of Russian economy: "I would like to stress that imposing state controls on Russia's economy is not, cannot be, and will not be our task. Increasing the state's presence in the economy is a forced measure and is temporary," Vladimir Putin told an economic conference. 31.Oct.2008 U.S. pulls the plug on the world: The U.S. administration has prompted a huge surge in the U.S. dollar, which may help refinance its financial sector. The cost is a currency whirlwind that threatens the collapse not just of banks and companies but entire countries. 31.Oct.2008 Banks to Use Bailout Bucks for Mergers: The Treasury Department’s capital injection program is well underway, with more than $150 billion total now promised to around 30 banks. So far, the evidence suggests many of those banks will use the cash to buy up weaker banks. 31.Oct.2008 Car dealers hit by sales decline, weak economy: Sonic Automotive, which operates only in the United States, posted a loss of $25.3 million, or 57 cents per share during the quarter, compared with a profit of $26.1 million, or 58 cents, a year ago. 28.Oct.2008 Interventionism, Not Muslims, Is the Problem -By- Jacob G. Hornberger 31.Oct.2008 American Hegemony Bites The Dust The Defanging of America: Reality-Based Community Overthrows History’s Actors -By- Paul Craig Roberts 31.Oct.2008 Let Us Speculate -By- William Bowles 31.Oct.2008 U.S. Should Enact $400 Billion Stimulus, Roubini Says -By- John Brinsley 31.Oct.2008 Our Choice -By- Nouriel Roubini 31.Oct.2008 What Will YOU Do About The Worst Capitalist Crisis 00.000.1930 -Since The s-? Uniting & fighting back is no longer a choice; it’s a matter of survival -By- Larry Holmes Yet by the time the decade was over, the working class had won great battles, first by organizing itself into Unemployment Councils and tenants unions and later into giant labor unions. Continue 31.Oct.2008 Latin American’s ‘New Left’ In Crises As the ‘Free Market’ Collapses -By- James Petras 31.Oct.2008 PM Putin Suggests Russia, China Ditch Dollar in Trade Deals -By- RIA Novosti 31.Oct.2008 The Financial Woes Signal The Death Of The Dollar? -By- Rev. Richard Skaff 31.Oct.2008 Shots Heard Round the World -By- David Glenn Cox 31.Oct.2008 Coalition kills 12 "Taliban" to secure downed chopper : The helicopter was recovered and taken to a nearby ISAF base. The coalition helicopter was shot down in Said Abad district of Maidan Wardak province on Monday, the day when two American occupation force soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on northern Afghanistan. 31.Oct.2008 Afghan asylum seekers sent home by Australia 'killed by Taleban': The Australian government is investigating claims that up to 20 Afghan asylum seekers denied entry to Australia were killed by the Taleban after being sent home. 31.Oct.2008 Afghanistan: Increasing hardship for growing displaced population: 00.Oct.2002 -before + just after the fall of the Taleban government-around 185,000 people, internally displaced continue to live in camp-like settlements in the south, west + south-west. 31.Oct.2008 Taliban rule returning to Kandahar province: As Canadian Forces continue to fight and die throughout Kandahar province, the Taliban have quietly set up parallel governments only kilo-metres away from the provincial capital, local residents say. 31.Oct.2008 British general says NATO has 'reached limits' in Afghanistan: - A top British general has warned that NATO occupation forces in Afghanistan have "reached their limit" and suggested that it was time to consider supporting the formation of local tribal militias to help stabilize the country. 31.Oct.2008 US general: Negative Afghan headlines overblown: U.S. Gen. David McKiernan's public relations push comes at a time when more US + NATO occupation troops have died than in any other year since the 00.Oct.2001 U.S. invasion, in part because Taliban militants are launching increasingly complex and deadly attacks. 31.Oct.2008 In Afghanistan, the Loudest Sound Is the Clock Ticking: Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “It is my professional opinion that no amount of troops, in no amount of time, can ever achieve all the objectives we seek in Afghanistan,” he said. “Frankly, we’re running out of time.” 31.Oct.2008 U.S. May Talk With Taliban to Quell Afghan Insurgency, WSJ Says: The recommendation calls for the talks to be led by the Afghan government, with the participation of U.S. officials, according to the report. 31.Oct.2008 Pakistan: Unanimous Senate resolution "blasts" US attacks : The Senate resolution against drone attacks said strikes inside Pakistan were unfortunate and a gross violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty. The resolution underlined that continued incursions were harming the government's efforts to seek a political solution through dialogue. 31.Oct.2008 World Bank Cancels $300 Million Loan To Pakistan: The economic stabilization program was initially estimated at $500 million under which the World Bank had asked Pakistan to end all subsidies in the economy. The World Bank has also postponed disbursing another $300 million loan toward National Trade Corridor Project, which is estimated to cost $6 billion 31.Oct.2008 World ‘has six days to save Pakistan’: Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s foreign minister, warned on Tuesday that the world had less than a week to prevent a full-blown financial crisis in Pakistan, as Islamabad said it expected to strike a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund in a day or two. 31.Oct.2008 Iraq: At least 7 killed in another bloody day of US occupation: Four police officers were killed Tuesday in a drive-by shooting in the turbulent northern city of Mosul and three civilians were killed in a separate Baghdad bombing, police said. 31.Oct.2008 Turkey's Warplanes Bomb Northern Iraq: Turkey's warplanes have successfully bombed several Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Tuesday, the country's army said in a statement. 31.Oct.2008 Iran to US: Release kidnapped diplomats: Iran has deplored the violation of the rights of three kidnapped Iranian diplomats by US forces in Iraq, calling for their release, PressTV reported. 31.Oct.2008 Iran says snubbed by six powers on nuclear offer: "The policy of few powers in insisting on suspension as a precondition for negotiations bears zero relation to realities and is an irrational and failed policy," Khazaee said. 31.Oct.2008 US : We Can Kill Anyone, Anywhere At Anytime: In justifying the attack, American officials said the Bush administration was determined to operate under an expansive definition of self-defense that provided a rationale for strikes on militant targets in sovereign nations without those countries’ consent. 31.Oct.2008 Syria warns US: an eye for an eye: Syria has warned the United States of retaliatory measures if Washington launches another incursion into the country's territories. 31.Oct.2008 Russia says U.S. fuelling tension with Syria attack: "We believe attacks that are worthy of condemnation should not be launched on the territory of sovereign states under the slogan of the fight against terrorism." 31.Oct.2008 Israeli forces kill three Palestinian youths near Ramallah: IPS visited the area where two of the killings took place in the Palestinian refugee camp Jalazone, north of Ramallah. The families of the deceased gave a completely different version of events to that of the army, and accused the Israelis of premeditated murder. 31.Oct.2008 Israeli shooting wounds Palestinian schoolgirl in Gaza : A Palestinian schoolgirl was injured on Monday when Israeli occupationj forces opened fire at her school and the surrounding farms in southeast Gaza Strip, witnesses and medical sources said. 31.Oct.2008 Britain urges Israel to halt illegal "settlements " : "Continued settlement construction threatens the goal of a two-state solution to which the Israeli government itself is committed," British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Bill Rammell told reporters in Amman. 31.Oct.2008 Israeli parliament agrees to hold elections in mid-February: Elections have been penciled in for February 10, but could be moved to the 17th, a parliamentary spokeswoman said. 31.Oct.2008 Hard-line Somali rebels rule out truce until Ethiopians leave: Somalia's hard-line insurgents vowed Monday to fight on despite Addis Ababa's pledge to respect a UN-sponsored deal reached a day earlier that allows for a phased pullback of Ethiopian occupation troops. 31.Oct.2008 Alexander Cockburn: Obama, the first-rate Republican: Is there anything the front-runner will not say to become President? No progressive cause would have a chance with him in charge. 31.Oct.2008 'You hear them say Obama will be assassinated': As two Tennessee neo-Nazis face charges of plotting to kill 102 black children and Barack Obama, the Missouri leader of the National Socialist Movement tells James Ridgeway that others may be planning similar actions 31.Oct.2008 Al Qaeda will have to support McCain : The Endorsement From Hell: “Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” read a commentary on a password-protected Islamist Web site that is closely linked to Al Qaeda and often disseminates the group’s propaganda. 31.Oct.2008 PM Putin suggests Russia, China ditch dollar in trade deals: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed on Tuesday that 00.000.2008 -in-Russia + China gradually switch over to national currency payments in bilateral trade, expected to total $50 billion. 31.Oct.2008 Mass protests in Italy to stop cuts: Cries of “Berlusconi, now you know what people think of you!” rang through the streets of Rome last Friday as half a million people demonstrated against the right wing government. Milan + Turin each saw marches of 50,000 too. 31.Oct.2008 Warnings of deep recession as US layoffs spread coast-to-coast: Unemployment is set to rapidly increase. "My view is that it will be near 8 or 8.5 % by the end of next year," Nigel Gault, chief domestic economist at Global Insight, told the New York Times. 31.Oct.2008 10/27/08 US Invades Syria: Kills 8 Civillians2 Minute Video Report - Syria said the soldiers attacked a house in a farming area near the town of Abu Kamal, about 8km inside the border with Iraq. Continue 31.Oct.2008 Two Parties, One Imperial Mission The US Empire will Survive Bush -By- Arno J. Mayer 00.000.2007 Tough times: Congress Grew 13 % Richer -in- By- Rob Hotakainen 31.Oct.2008 Bush Trying to Avoid War Crimes Charges 2 Minute Video - President Bush is trying to pardon himself. Continue 31.Oct.2008 CIA allowed concealing torture documents: Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the Washington D.C. Circuit Court declined to review torture allegations from men held in the CIA's prisons-because it could put the nation at risk of grave danger if allowed to be made public. 31.Oct.2008 DOD and CIA Can Decide Which Laws They Like: The judge’s reasoning highlighted one of the more disturbing aspects of the recent revelations that the Defense Dept., with the aid of the Justice Dept., likely tortured prisoners in violation of U.S. and international law. 31.Oct.2008 Europe's looming crisis: It all started with sub-prime loans in the United States. Or did it? As the IMF is called in to bail out failing economies, the scale of European exposure to toxic debt is becoming clear 31.Oct.2008 AIG used billions from Fed but hasn't said for what: The American International Group is rapidly running through $123 billion in emergency lending provided by the Federal Reserve, raising questions about how a 00.Sep.2008 -company claiming to be solvent in- could have developed such a big hole by 31October. Some analysts say at least part of the shortfall must have been there all along, hidden by irregular accounting. 31.Oct.2008 Goldman Sachs ready to hand out £7bn salary and bonus package... after its £6bn bail-out: Each of the firm's 443 partners is on course to pocket an average Christmas bonus of more than £3million. 31.Oct.2008 Taxpayers Could Cover Government Pension Shortfall: Illinois taxpayers may soon be called on to bail out what is arguably the best-funded public pension plan in the state thanks to $3.6 billion in fund losses caused by the spiraling economy. 31.Oct.2008 Exxon Mobil posts biggest US quarterly profit ever: Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, reported income Thursday that shattered its own record for the biggest profit from operations by a U.S. corporation, earning $14.83 billion in the third quarter. 31.Oct.2008 Colombia: Civilians killed for body count: "Innocent people in urban slums were apparently tricked, abducted, and killed" in "a gruesome trafficking in cadavers allowing officers to claim high body counts," said Colombia analyst Adam Isacson of the Washington–based Center for International Policy. 31.Oct.2008 Bolivia: Unprecedented alliance defeats right-wing assault: After three months of intense class struggle, there can be no doubt that the US-backed right-wing opposition to the government of President Evo Morales has suffered three important defeats. 31.Oct.2008 Anti-government protests rock Peru: Around 40 % of Peruvians live in poverty and have seen little relief despite seven years of economic growth. 31.Oct.2008 Syrians rally against US aggression: Demonstrators waved Syrian flags and banners reading "No to American terrorism" and "American democracy: the killing of civilians at Abu Kamal," the border area targeted in Sunday's US raid. 31.Oct.2008 Paulson's Swindle Revealed -By- William Greider 31.Oct.2008 The World Tires of Dollar Hegemony -By- Paul Craig Roberts The government said it was giving banks more money so they could make more loans. Dollars paid to shareholders don't serve that purpose, but Treasury officials say that suspending quarterly dividend payments would have deterred banks from participating in the voluntary program . The irony is strong in this one: Weil die Atomkraftwerke nicht ausreichend gegen Terrorangriffe gesichert sind, können sieben ältere Atomkraftwerke kurzfristig geschlossen werden. Diese Schlussfolgerung zieht die Vereinigung Eurosolar aus einem Urteil des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts vom April dieses Jahres. Das Gericht hatte einer Anwohnerin das Recht auf Schutz vor Strahlung vom Atomkraftwerk Brunsbüttel zugesprochen (AZ 7 C 39.07). Die Betreiber könnten sich demnach nicht auf die Zuständigkeit des Staates für die Terrorabwehr berufen, sondern müssten den Schutz der Bevölkerung bestmöglich gewährleisten, sagte am Mittwoch die Juristin Cornelia Ziehm, die das Urteil im Auftrag von Eurosolar analysiert hat. Sehr schön. Betroffen sind die folgenden AKWs: Dies sind Brunsbüttel, Philippsburg 1, Isar 1, Biblis A und B, Neckarwestheim 1 sowie Unterweser. Und nicht nur für die Banken: Japan's Prime Minister Taro Aso announced a 27 trillion yen ($275 billion) stimulus package Thursday for the world's second-largest economy, including credits and loans to help small businesses, a reduction in highway tolls and a cash payback to households . Besonders die mit dem neuen BKA-Gesetz geplante heimliche Online-Durchsuchung von Computern sollte nicht kritisch beäugt werden, weil sie gar nicht die Computer von Privatbürgern im Visier habe. Nicht Privatbürger, ja? Also das heisst dann nur Personen des öffentlichen Lebens oder wie? 31.Oct.2008 Ägypten: Polizei nimmt fünf deutsche Islamisten fest (Politik) Um Gewicht einzusparen, hatten die Konstrukteure das Musterschiff jedoch mit viel zu kleinen Nieten und zu dünnen Stahlplatten zusammengezimmert - der Titan ging bereits mürbe wie ein Greis auf seine Jungfernfahrt. So war die "Titanic" mutmaßlich nicht wegen eindringenden Leckwassers abgesoffen; vielmehr riss der Mantel des Schiffs nach der Kollision wie das Blech einer Konservendose. Groß war etwa die Verwunderung über den Umstand, dass sich das Meisterwerk zeitgemäßer Ingenieurskunst bereits gut zwei Stunden nach dem verheerenden Aufprall im Meer verdünnisierte. 30.Oct.2008 -00.000.2001 -seit Sommer- Dies war der stärkste Rückgang. Im zweiten Quartal war die größte Volkswirtschaft der Welt noch mit einer hochgerechneten Jahresrate von 2,8 % gewachsen. 30.Oct.2008 Armut: Industriestaaten sparen bei Entwicklungshilfe (Wirtschaft) 30.Oct.2008 Biosensor: Forscher bauen Bakterien-Lichtorgel (Wissenschaft) Deputy Chairman of the Board at I.D.B. Holding Corporation Ltd. Chairman + Director of the following ... www.bankigud.com/BankIgud/management.shtml IDB Holding Corp . Ltd. is mulling an entry into the energy market in Turkey. A delegation headed by Clal Energy, a unit owned by IDB subsidiary Clal ... www.turkses.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4883&Itemid=1 28.Oct.2008 Koor Industries Ltd.'s holding in Credit Suisse Group above ... Ltd. is in turn controlled by IDB Holding Corporation Ltd. All four ... finchannel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22790&Itemid=16 TheMarker.com It was Oudi's departure from the Israeli business scene sparked the whole control battle over IDB Holding Corporation , the biggest concern in the country. www.themarker.com/eng/archive/arc_article.jhtml?ElementId=ea20010807_01e Among others, Erez was the Founder and CEO of Voltaire ( NASDAQ : VOLT) and the VP of Marketing at Fundtech ( NASDAQ : FNDT ) and M-Systems (acquired for $ 1.55 ... www.grg.co.il/global_network.html ... string of successes: AudioCodes ( Nasdaq : AUDC), Fundtech ( Nasdaq : FNDT ), ... stakes in AudioCodes, VCON + ClickSoftware Technologies ( Nasdaq :CKSW), ... www.genesispartners.com/content.asp?page=genesis_news&id=681 die Verschwörungs-Gegenthese ist ja, dass das alles im Gegenteil genau so läuft, wie die das geplant haben. Wenn die Leute jetzt nämlich in großem Stil auf Bargeld im Koffer umsteigen, dann gehen den Juntas ja ihre Steuern flöten. Daher haben sie vor Jahren, als sie das kommen sahen, die ganzen Geldwäsche-Gesetze gemacht, die es vergleichsweise schwierig machen, international größere Bargeldmengen zu bewegen. Und inzwischen sind wir ja bei einem Punkt, wo mehr oder weniger klar ist, dass wir da nicht mehr raus kommen. Und in Situationen, wo wir eh verloren haben, haben die Regierungen ja schon immer Atombunker für sich gebaut, in denen sie dann im Ernstfall zwischen verstrahlten Leichenbergen ausserhalb ein paar Wochen vor sich hin vegetiert hätten. Und vielleicht stimmt es ja, vielleicht haben die für das Szenario mit dem tobenden Mob auf der Strasse auch einen Plan, und der sieht dann eben Totalüberwachung und Schäuble-Polizeistaat vor. Und Passagierflugzeuge abschiessen. Und Militäreinsatz im Inneren. That is where Asian companies are most vulnerable. Instead of relying on broad capital markets as is common in American and Europe, they seek credit in more traditional ways: bank loans, the sale of discounted receivables, and letters of credit. One trading company based in China says the collateral required for a letter of credit —typically a safe kind of loan because it involves merely delivering something to a customer— has jumped from 25% to 50% of the stated amount . An odd beneficiary of this squeeze has been the dollar, since orders are increasingly being settled in cash . Lasst euch das mal auf der Zunge zergehen! Die lassen da Leute mit Geldkoffern rumlaufen, weil die Banken zu viel Ärger machen mit dem Letter of Credit. Unglaublich. 00.Jul.2008 -in- according to three administration sources, the Bush administration formally gave the military new power to strike terrorist safe havens outside of Iraq and Afghanistan . Before then, a military strike in a country like Syria or Pakistan would have required President Bush's personal approval. Now, those kinds of strikes in the region can occur at the discretion of the incoming commander of Central Command (Centcomm), General David Petraeus . One intelligence source described the order as institutionalizing the "Chicago Way," an allusion to Sean Connery's famous soliloquy about bringing a gun to a knife fight. Unter dem Kapitel “Crazy markets, crazy prices” hat sich heute schier Unglaubliches ereignet. Was als “mother of all short squeezes” bezeichnet werden kann, verdient eine genaue Beschreibung. Zuwächse verzeichnete einzig das Global Transaction Banking, in dem die Wertpapieraufbewahrung, der Zahlungsverkehr und die Handelsfinanzierung gebündelt sind. Die Sparte konnte mit einem Gewinnplus von sieben % auf 281 Millionen Euro vor Steuern das beste dritte Quartal ihrer Geschichte ausweisen. Dabei: 5% der Bestverdienensten zahlen soviel wie die 65% der ... jeder dieser Euros würde in der dritten Welt Kindern das Leben retten. Würde man z. ... forum.tagesschau.de/showthread.php?t=418 29.Jun.2005 President Bush on Wednesday directed the creation of a new National Security Service within the FBI, one of 70 recommendations on improving ... www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/29/bush.intel/index.html 30.Oct.2008 Quartalsergebnis: Gewinn der Deutschen Bank bricht ein (Wirtschaft) The nuclear option is to print money by issuing Special Drawing Rights, in effect acting as if it were the world's central bank. This was done briefly after the fall of the Soviet Union but has never been used as systematic tool of policy to head off a global financial crisis. "The IMF can in theory create liquidity like a central bank," said an informed source. "There are a lot of ideas kicking around." Annual production is set to drop by 9.1 % in the absence of additional investment, according to the draft of the agency's World Energy Outlook obtained by the newspaper, the FT reported. Even with investment, output will slide by 6.4 % a year , it said. Die Zahlen kommen von einem Bericht der IEA. Aber die Formulierung ist interessant. Sie suchen nicht jemanden, der ihnen einen Quantencomputer baut, sondern sie suchen jemanden, der damit coole Dinge tut. Investigators should presuppose the existence of a fully functional quantum computer and consider what algorithmic tasks are particularly well suited to such a machine. 29.Oct.2008 Afghanistan : Bundeswehr verteidigt Schüsse auf Zivilisten (Politik) 29.Oct.2008 Konjunkturprobleme: US-Notenbank senkt Leitzins auf ein % (Wirtschaft) Playing the game, however, soon reveals how well directed the total experience is. The US Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft found evidence of hydrated silica, better known as opal. "No one has ever thought of patenting this idea, even though vortex induced vibrations were first observed in 1504 by Leonardo da Vinci." Last night, an American pilotless plane reportedly killed 20 people during an attack on a militant compound in Pakistan. It could well be the deadliest drone strike ever. 29.Oct.2008 Treibhausgas-Emissionen: China wird weltgrößter Klimasünder (Wissenschaft) 29.Oct.2008 Banken-Pleite: Sozialversicherer legten 800 Millionen Euro bei Lehman an (Wirtschaft) 29.Oct.2008 Drogenkrieg in Mexiko: "Die Leute haben Angst" (Panorama) 29.Oct.2008 Finanzkrise: Merkel will mit Schutzschirm Jobs retten (Politik) The notorious agent provocateur of war, Sir Basil Zaharoff , was an active figure in ... and of the British nobility itself a large proportion is Jewish . www.scribd.com/doc/813216/E-C-Knuth-The-Empire-of-The-City Regent Press Basil Zaharoff is therefore the King of Sugar who must eventually ... She was raised in Berkeley, California, the daughter of progressive Jewish parents. www.regentpress.net/books_page1.html 11.Jan.1996 Oxford University Gazette, : Lectures SIR BASIL ZAHAROFF LECTURE 1995--6; HENSLEY HENSON LECTURES 1995–6 ... 30 Jan., 2.30 p.m., Wolfson College: ` Jewish ethics and natural law.' ... www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1995-6/weekly/110196/lecs.htm CONRAD BURNED Basil Zaharoff : Munitions King, Richard Lewinsohn, P. Lippincott Co., ... from Jewish ancestry to spitting on his ex-wife [again in total, huge, ... conradburned.blogspot.com/ (CONSTANTINOPLE) Tall Armenian Tale: The Other Side of the ... The British Prime Minister Lloyd George was a believer in Mazzinian nationalism, passionately pro-Greek + an intimate of Sir Basil Zaharoff. www.tallarmeniantale.com/constantinople.htm Bush family election special 2004 Vickers's roving salesman, the sinister Sir Basil Zaharoff , ... murderous intentions towards the Jewish race (+ any opposition) became crystal clear. ... www.e-book.com.au/electionspecial04.htm London : British Association for the Jewish National Home in Palestine, ... pollit.lib.uci.edu/pollitip.html Was damals bei den Blues Brothers schon im Film funktionierte, klappt heute in der Realität noch immer, sagt der Carbon-Chef: Immer wieder geben sich böse Jungs als Gesetzeshüter aus. Dies könne für die Beurteilung von Tatmotiven bei Kriminalfällen von Interesse sein, sagte Zeki. schreiben die Neurowissenschaftler Semir Zeki und John Romaya vom University College London im Journal "Plos One". Sowohl bei Hass als auch bei romantischen Gefühlen seien das sogenannte Putamen + die Inselrinde aktiv - zwei Teile des Großhirns. 29.Oct.2008 Hirnforschung: Wo Hass entsteht (Wissenschaft) 29.Oct.2008 Datenklau-Affäre: Telekom schickt Manager in "Erholungsurlaub" (Wirtschaft) Diese Kunden selbst für den Schutz ihrer Rechner verantwortlich zu machen, ist hochgradig unseriös. Autos verkauft man auch nicht mit offenem Motorblock, auf dass der Käufer den Kram selbst verschraube. Bis sich da etwas ändert, bleibt nur, elementare Sicherheitsregeln zu befolgen und sich eben für den Ernstfall zu wappnen. Es kann zurzeit absolut jeden erwischen. Es ist Virenzeit, die PC-Epidemie grassiert, und wie im richtigen Leben stecken mitunter Rechner andere an, denen man gar nicht anmerkt, dass sie krank sind. Vor allem aber ist es eine ganz andere Art von Schadsoftware als früher, und immer häufiger bittet die den Geschädigten direkt zur Kasse. 29.Oct.2008 Geruchssinn bei Dinosauriern: T-Rex hatte feinen Riecher (Wissenschaft) 29.Oct.2008 Massenangriff der Virenmafia: Nepper, Schlepper, Computer-Fänger (Netzwelt) 29.Oct.2008 "Christian Science Monitor": Renommierte US-Zeitung zieht ins Web um (Netzwelt) Outdated information: If your website contains timely information, you need to keep it updated regularly, or remove the old stuff like the article below. Coast to coast fun as Y2K hits U.S.A. ( : 14-Mar-00) 29.Oct.2008-00.000.2050 -bis-möglich, den weltweiten Energiebedarf zu decken und zugleich den CO2-Ausstoß um 60 bis 80 % zu reduzieren, teilte die Umweltschutzorganisation mit. 00.000.2035 theoretisch zwei Planeten benötigt, um den weltweiten Bedarf an Nahrung, Energie und Fläche zu decken. Der Report 2006 hatte dafür noch eine Frist bis 29.Oct.2008-00.000.2050 errechnet. Wenn die Menschheit den Planeten weiterhin so ausbeutet wie bisher, wird sie 29.Oct.2008-00.000.2035 -bis zum Jahr-die Ressourcen von zwei Erden brauchen. Der Fußabdruck der Menschheit ist einfach zu groß für den Planeten. Berlin - Der letzte Report vor zwei Jahren war schon deprimierend. Nun wird es noch schlimmer: In dem "Living Planet Report 2008", den die Umweltstiftung Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) jetzt vorgestellt hat, zeichnet sie ein düsteres Bild vom Zustand unseres Planeten. Fazit: Der globale Raubbau an der Erde wird immer dramatischer, Ressourcen werden immer schneller verbraucht und verglichen mit der vorangegangenen Studie von 2006 hat sich die Situation noch einmal drastisch verschärft. "Wir übersteigen mit unserem Konsum die vorhandenen Möglichkeiten um ein Drittel", warnte WWF-Naturschutzdirektor Christoph Heinrich. Am größten ist die Zustimmung zur Verstaatlichung der Strom- und Gaskonzerne. 77 % der Deutschen wünschen dies. 84 % der Grünen sind dafür und sogar knapp drei Viertel der Unionsanhänger (73 %) sowie 70 % der FDP-Wähler. Aus Sicht der meisten Bürger sollten auch die Finanzindustrie wie Banken und Versicherungen (64 %) und Logistikunternehmen wie Fluglinien, Bahn und Post (60 %) zumindest teilweise staatlich sein. Den Truman-Vergleich mag Bush selber. "McCain könnte so deutlich verlieren, dass er die ganze Republikanische Partei mit in den Abgrund nimmt", unkt Ex-Bush-Redenschreiber David Frum in der "Washington Post". 00.000.2000 McCain Bush in einem schmutzigen Vorwahl-Duell unterlag. "Ich bin nicht George W. Bush", lautet McCains Kampf-Slogan für den Schlussspurt. In einem neuen Werbespot spricht er direkt in die Kamera: "Die vergangenen acht Jahre haben nicht so gut geklappt." Im Interview mit der "Washington Times" leiert McCain eine Litanei der Kritik herunter: "Wir haben die Dinge völlig aus dem Ruder laufen lassen." 29.Oct.2008 Bürgerkrieg: Hunderttausende fliehen vor Kämpfen im Kongo (Politik) 29.Oct.2008 Aktion gegen Turbulenzen: Porsche will VW-Aktien auf den Markt werfen (Wirtschaft) 29.Oct.2008 Rettungspaket: Hypo Real Estate beantragt neue Hilfe in Milliardenhöhe (Wirtschaft) 29.Oct.2008 Jugendkriminalität in London : Metropole der Messermörder (Panorama) 29.Oct.2008 Naturkatastrophen: Viele Tote und Verletzte bei Erdbeben in Pakistan (Panorama) “ Nine of 10 American workers are losing sleep over financial worries ,” according to a survey released yesterday by ComPsych Corporation. In addition, thirty % of those surveyed “reported worrying about the cost of living while 29 % cited credit-card debt.” Recently, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) said that if Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is elected, there will be “an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.” He followed up his comment by saying that Obama will rise to the occasion, because he has “steel in his spine.” Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) quickly jumped on the first part of Biden’s comments, declaring that the fact that Obama may be tested is actually a sign of weakness: “ I’m gonna test them ,” Republican John McCain said at a campaign rally in New Mexico this morning. “ They’re not gonna test me. ” Increasingly, national security experts are disavowing McCain’s comments. They agree that an international crisis confronting the next president is not a sign of weakness, but rather a very likely occurrence no matter if Obama or McCain wins: – “I think the enemy could well take advantage” of the transfer of power in Washington , said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, who launched preparations for the transition months ago – Veteran Pentagon consultant Michael Bayer, chairman of the Defense Business Board, told his fellow panelists that the new president’s inner circle should “set aside time in transition to identify the planning, gravitas and interagency process necessary to respond to a likely first-270-day crisis .” Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says the federal government is monitoring “dozens” of potential terrorists in the U.S. … Chertoff says there is a risk that some would see opportunity during the transition between administrations . – In its Administration Transition Task Force Report issued early this year, DHS’s Homeland Security Advisory Council placed the peak threat period from 30 days prior to the change in administrations, to six months after . In June, even close McCain confidante Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) predicted that “our enemies will test the new president early.” As all these experts pointed out, preventing such an attack from being catastrophic requires extensive planning and preparation. So far, McCain has dismissed talk of transition planning, and it doesn’t appear that he has prepared anything except tough rhetoric. Der Dow Jones legte in Erwartung einer Zinssenkung um fast 11 % zu - der zweitgrößte Tagesgewinn seiner Geschichte. Auch die anderen US-Indizes explodieren geradezu. Sep.2007 Geschäfte mit dem Irak : Die Hitparade der Kriegsprofiteure ... Sep.2007 Glenn Greenwald : The DC Establishment versus American public opinion 9/10 ... alfatomega.com/20070911.html Copper mines in southern Jordan were active centuries earlier than previously believed, according to a new study that suggests the area was producing the metal at the same time the Biblical figure of King Solomon is said to have built Jerusalem's first Jewish temple. posted by Prof. Hex Auf Frauen dagegen hatte Rot keinen derartigen Einfluss - sie beurteilten die Attraktivität anderer Frauen unabhängig davon, ob Rot auf dem Bild vorhanden war oder nicht. 20070226 FLORIDA SECURED FUNDING CORP – Timothy Ray Sacora . alfatomega.com/20070404.html Explosivos Alaveses , umha empresa pública espanhola, também fabrica estas bombas. ... https://chuza.org/histori... 2008/10/14 Ja, aber wieso, Entschuldigung, gab : Gibt es diesen Präsidenten denn nun? Was macht ihn wirklich aus? Von der Doku-Satire "Being W", die Arte heute Abend zeigt, darf man sich Aufklärung erhoffen. Zwar kommt die fast zweistündige Montage von George Walker Bushs öffentlichen Fehlleistungen über Strecken als wohliges Bad Bushisms: Eine Lachnummer - oder? https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,149134,00.html in den wunderbarsten "Bushisms" daher - es arbeitet aber auch gekonnt die verführerische Kraft dieses Mannes heraus, der stets als Mischung aus Clown, Cowboy und Betbruder die Welt für die etwas schlichteren Gemüter auf ein überschaubares Format schrumpfte. Wieso sollte man zum Beispiel Parteiprogramme durcharbeiten, wenn es jemanden wie George Bush gibt, der schon bei der Wahl um das Gouverneursamt von Texas 1994 das seine bequem auf drei Punkte bringen konnte: "Punkt eins ist das Bildungssystem, Punkt zwei die Strafjustiz, Punkt drei der ganze Rest." London - Die Eisdecke in der Arktis wird einer neuen Studie zufolge immer dünner. Im vergangenen Winter schrumpfte die Eisdicke in großen Teilen der Arktis im Vergleich zu den vorangegangenen fünf Jahren um fast einen halben Meter. Das entspricht etwa 20 % der Gesamtdicke, wie britische Wissenschaftler in den " Geophysical Research Letters" (online vorab veröffentlicht) berichten. Dies folge den "dramatischen" Entwicklungen im Sommer 2007, als die Ausdehnung des arktischen Eises auf den niedrigsten Stand seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen sank. Warum nicht, erklärte er 1983 dem US-Magazin " Creative Computing" so: "Wir wussten, dass das Spaß macht und einige von uns sahen das Potential. Aber das war nicht, woran die Regierung Interesse hatte." Für die forschte er. 00.000.1910 (geb.) Erfinder William Higinbotham Physiker leitete 00.000.1958 -damals- die Abteilung für Messgeräte ("Information Division") am "Brookhaven National Laboratory" (BNL). London - 2.800.000.000.000 Dollar wird die Finanzkrise nach Einschätzung der britischen Notenbank weltweit kosten. Das geht aus dem am Dienstag in London veröffentlichten Finanzstabilitätsbericht der Bank von England hervor. Die Prognose der britischen Währungshüter ist damit noch düsterer als die des Internationalen Währungsfonds. 28.Oct.2008 Zinswetten-Streit: Deutsche Bank muss Schadenersatz zahlen (Wirtschaft) 28.Oct.2008 Kurskapriolen: Experten warnen vor gefährlicher VW-Blase (Wirtschaft) 28.Oct.2008 Börsenrat Wolfgang Gerke: "VW muss raus aus dem Dax" (Wirtschaft) 28.Oct.2008 Finanzkrise: Kanzlerin beruft Issings Expertengruppe (Politik) 28.Oct.2008 Finanzdebakel: Lehman-Anlegern steht Entschädigung zu (Wirtschaft) 28.Oct.2008 Ägypten: Hausaufgaben nicht gemacht - Lehrer schlägt Schüler tot (Panorama) 28.Oct.2008 Farbwirkung: Rot macht Frauen sexy (Wissenschaft) Bush-Satire "Being W": Patzer, die die Welt beherrschten Kultur) 28.Oct.2008 Extremismus: Großbritannien will Hasspredigern die Einreise verweigern (Politik) 28.Oct.2008 Erderwärmung: Arktis-Eis wird immer dünner (Wissenschaft) 28.Oct.2008 Banken: Santander steigert Gewinn (Wirtschaft) 28.Oct.2008 Autokrise: Continental verlängert Weihnachtsferien (Wirtschaft) blog.fefe.de/Der DAX ist heute um 9% eingebrochen. Also wäre es. Wenn nicht die VW-Aktie einen Kurssprung um zeitweilig mehr als 200% nach oben gemacht hätte, weil Porsche seinen Anteil bei VW vergrößert hat. Dank dieser einen Aktie hat der DAX jetzt sogar leicht im Plus geschlossen. Was für ein Casino-Bullshit. blog.fefe.de/Die Amis haben es geschafft, mit Wahlmaschinen so viel Unsicherheit zu verbreiten, dass die Briefwahl eine hohe zweistellige %zahl an Wahlbeteiligung hat. Und die Briefwahl ist ja noch einfacher zu fälschen als die Wahlmaschinen. blog.fefe.de/Au weia. Ich hatte hier ja schon mal Carry Trade thematisiert. Die Asiaten haben die Hose voll gekriegt deshalb und haben Massnahmen eingeleitet, daraufhin sind die Carry Trader nach Neuseeland gewandert. Aber inzwischen haben die Amis so viel Liquidität im Markt herbeigeführt mit ihren Gelddruckmaschinen, dass die Carry Trader innerhalb von einer Woche von Neuseeland in die USA gewechselt sind. Lasst euch die beeindruckende Grafik da nicht entgehen, das ist echt hart. blog.fefe.de/Länderdomino: Die Australier müssen die Notenbank von der Leine lassen, um ihren Dollar zu retten. blog.fefe.de/Und noch ein Grund, wieso Bailouts nicht funktionieren: der Bailout-Topf ist gerade größer als der "Profite aus normalen Geschäften" Topf, also bemühen sich die Firmen mehr um Bailout-Anteile als um ihr Geschäft. 27.Oct.2008 blog.fefe.de/Die Briten wollen jetzt mobile Fingerabdruckscanner an die Streifenpolizisten ausgeben. blog.fefe.de/Und noch eine tolle Weltuntergangs-Geschichte, dieses Mal: Als nächstes sterben die Emerging Markets in Osteuropa und Asien, und da haben vor allem die Euopäer investiert, nicht so die Amis. Finde ich nicht völlig von der Hand zu weisen, denn deren Wirtschaften leben von den Investitionen aus dem Ausland, also uns, und bei uns sitzt jetzt die Kohle nicht mehr so locker wie früher. Selbst wenn deren Banken gar nicht von dem US-Klärschlamm betroffen sind, kann das schon sein, dass da gerade einige Verzweifelte Kredite nicht verlängern oder gar zurückfordern und damit eine Schockwelle auslösen. The latest data from the Bank for International Settlements shows that Western European banks hold almost all the exposure to the emerging market bubble, now busting with spectacular effect. They account for three-quarters of the total $4.7 trillion £2.96 trillion) in cross-border bank loans to Eastern Europe, Latin America and emerging Asia extended during the global credit boom – a sum that vastly exceeds the scale of both the US sub-prime and Alt-A debacles. Dann haben sie da den Währungs-Experten von Morgan Stanlay, der sich laut freut, dass diesmal die Europäer das Epizentrum haben, nicht die Amis. Und mit dem Hinweis, dass Österreich schon Auslöser der großen Depression war, als dort 1931 die Credit-Anstalt zusammenbrach: Austria’s bank exposure to emerging markets is equal to 85pc of GDP – with a heavy concentration in Hungary, Ukraine, and Serbia – all now queuing up (with Belarus) for rescue packages from the International Monetary Fund. Au weia, das klingt ja nicht gut. Auch deshalb, weil Österreich über Jahre der Geheimtipp der Deutschen Steuerhinterzieher war (noch ist?), weil deren Bankgesetze relativ strikt waren. D.h. die Kohle, die die da investiert haben, ist die Kohle unserer Steuerhinterzieher. Das würde dann tatsächlich mal die Reichen treffen, nicht nur die Armen. :-) Oh und wo wir gerade beim Risiko relativ zum Bruttoinlandsprodukt sind: die Schweiz ist zu 50% betroffen. Und Spanien hat fett in Südamerika investiert, wo gerade Argentinien und Brasilien im freien Fall sind. 00.000.2008 -in-All 48 of the developed and emerging markets tracked by MSCI have declined , with 22 losing at least half their value. The 73 % plunge by Russia's Micex Index is the steepest. Benchmark indexes for China, Greece, Ireland, Peru and Austria retreated more than 60 %. The S&P 500 dropped 40 %. Morocco and Jordan have done the best, falling 6.4 % and 19.2 %, respectively. Also, ab jetzt in Marokko investieren! :-) blog.fefe.de/Volvo (die LKW-Abteilung) hat im 3. Quartal des letzten Jahres 42000 Bestellungen gehabt, dieses Jahr waren es 115. Ich hielt das erst für einen Tippfehler und habe daher eine Weile auf der Meldung gesessen, aber jetzt berichten da auch andere Medien drüber mit der Zahl. Wow. blog.fefe.de/Die neuen Terroristen: Twitter-User und Eigentümer von Smart Phones. This recent presentation - put together on the Army's 304th Military Intelligence Battalion and found on the Federation of the American Scientists website - focuses on some of the newer applications for mobile phones: digital maps, GPS locators, photo swappers, and Twitter mash-ups of it all. The report is roughly divided into two halves. The first is based mostly on chatter from Al-Qaeda-affiliated online forums. One Islamic extremist site discusses, for example, the benefits of "using a mobile phone camera to monitor the enemy and its mechanisms." Another focuses on the benefits of the Nokia 6210 Navigator, and how its GPS utilities could be used for "marksmanship, border crossings, and in concealment of supplies." Such software could allow jihadists to pick their way across multiple routes, identifying terrain features as they go. A third extremist forum recommends the installation of voice-modification software to conceal one's identity when making calls. Excerpts from a fourth site show cell phone wallpapers that wannabe jihadists can use to express their affinity for radicalism the Federal Reserve is prepared to ratchet down interest rates — perhaps to their lowest point in more than four years — with the hope of relieving some of the pain felt by many Americans. The convergence of a housing collapse and a lockup in lending has created the worst financial crisis in more than a half-century. Alan Greenspan, who ran the Fed for 18 1/2 years, called it a “once-in-a century credit tsunami,” and conceded that he made mistakes that may have aggravated the economy’s slump. Dank dieser einen Aktie hat der DAX jetzt sogar leicht im Plus geschlossen. Was für ein Casino-Bullshit. Der Zusammenhang erschliesst sich vielleicht dem einen oder anderen nicht auf Anhieb: FOUR extra ravens are being drafted into the Tower of London because of the financial crisis - to prevent a 350-year-old curse coming true . King Charles II decreed there must be at least six ravens otherwise a disaster would strike the nation and the Royal Family. And up to now, bosses have kept just one spare bird in residence to act as a "super sub". But with the UK facing credit crunch meltdown, they ruled an extra four must now be acquired. Na dann ist ja alles gut. 28.Jun.2008 · Filed under Society [PROPAGANDA] , Social responsibility , Organisation, Public Relations, PR, The Profession, Professional Associationsm, Comment, - www.prconversations.com/?cat=32 07.Aug.2008 · Filed under Comment, Debate, Governance, Institutionalization, Listening, Management, Organisation, Public Relations, Reputation, Society, The Profession 26.Aug.2008 The Obama Assassination Attempt . A small group of white power nutjobs apparently came up with some sort of ill conceived, meth inspired plot ... rightwingnews.com It shows up a lot on old New England headstones, and it’s kind of a ... 1. "Ted Stevens", 2. "Obama Attentatsversuch", 3. "ATF" (die US-Kriminalbehörde, die den Fall meldete), 4. "Daniel Cowart" (einer der zwei Verhafteten). Gefolgt von einem einzigen, weiteren Satz, der allerdings diese Behauptung nur noch einmal wiederholte. Die Meldung erschreckte - in vielen Redaktionen breitete sich Hektik aus, nicht nur in den USA. Die eigentlichen Storys des Tages - die eskalierende Wahlkampf-Rhetorik zwischen Barack Obama und John McCain, das Korruptionsurteil gegen Top-Republikaner Ted Stevens - rückten sofort in den Hintergrund. Verschwörung? Ermordung? Obama? Bislang stille Befürchtungen wurden da laut. Zumal es bei Auftritten McCains und seiner Vize-Kandidatin Sarah Palin in den vergangenen Wochen vereinzelt zu "Kill him!"-Rufen gekommen war. Doch mehr als diesen einen, dürren Satz lieferte AP zunächst nicht. Eine gute halbe Stunde lang herrschte danach Funkstille. Anhand von Kohlefragmenten, die sich an den ehemaligen Schmelzstätten in großer Zahl finden, konnten die Forscher das Alter der Minen genau bestimmen. Die frühesten Aktivitäten datieren sie auf das zehnte Jahrhundert vor Christus, wodurch sie somit in die vermutete Regierungszeit von König Salomo fallen, schreiben die Wissenschaftler im Fachblatt "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences". Frühere Forschungsergebnisse, denen zufolge die Minen erst 300 Jahre später in Betrieb gingen, hält Forschungsleiter Levy demnach für überholt. Insgesamt hat der Wolfsburger Autobauer zurzeit einen Marktwert von 153 Milliarden Euro - mehr als alle anderen europäischen und amerikanischen Konkurrenten zusammen an der Börse kosten. Zeitweise war die Aktie am Montag sogar bis auf 635 Euro gestiegen. Anders als direkte Beteiligungen müssen Optionen nicht in allen Fällen zeitnah gemeldet werden. 28.Oct.2008 Jordanien: Kupferminen stammen aus Zeit König Salomos (Wissenschaft) Der Kapitalismus an seinem Ende, jedenfalls an seinem Relaunch. " Die Kernschmelze des Weltfinanzsystems hat stattgefunden." Draußen skandiert eine Menge Studierender so laut "Wir wollen rein", dass der Präsident der Uni, Christoph Markschies, nervös wird. Proteste im Nahen Osten und Russland Die US-Attacke auf Syrien wurde überall im Nahen Osten schockiert registriert. "Die USA haben ihrem Sündenregister einen neuen Eintrag hinzugefügt, ... der amerikanische Terror hat jetzt auch Syrien erreicht", schrieb die regierungskritische irakische Nachrichtenagentur INA. Amre Mussa, Generalsekretär der Arabischen Liga, kritisierte, das Letzte, was die Region jetzt brauche, seien neue Versuche, sie zu destabilisieren. Der libanesische Ministerpräsident Fuad Siniora verurteilte den Angriff als gefährliche und inakzeptable "Verletzung der syrischen Souveränität" Auch Russland verurteilte den Angriff scharf. Unter dem "Motto des Anti-Terror-Kampfes" dürften keine Territorien souveräner Staaten angegriffen werden, sagte der Sprecher des russischen Außenministeriums, Andrej Nesterenko. Man habe den Angriff mit "großer Besorgnis" zur Kenntnis genommen. Proteste im Nahen Osten und Russland Nur was für eine? Die USA drohen - und Syrien auch Die US-Regierung weiß, dass sie mit dem Angriff in Syrien ein riskanten Manöver vollzogen hat - daher nur die inoffizielle Bestätigung. Öffentlich teilten die US-geführten Truppen im Irak nur mit, sie hätten "keinerlei Informationen" über den Vorfall. Dana Perino, Sprecherin von US-Präsident George W. Bush, wollte keinen Kommentar abgeben, ebenso wenig der Sprecher des Verteidigungsministeriums. 28.Oct.2008 Joschka Fischer im SPIEGEL-Gespräch: "Das ist der zweite Fall der Berliner Mauer" (UniSPIEGEL) 28.Oct.2008 Anti-Terror-Aktion an Grenze zu Irak: Wieso die USA plötzlich Syrien attackieren (Politik) Und Steinbrück ätzte: "Russische Oligarchen machen gerade die Erfahrung, das der Fahrstuhl im Turbokapitalismus nicht nur nach oben fährt". Von den großen Wall-Street-Banken sei keine mehr übrig, aber die "belächelte Bausparkasse", die sei sicher. Schadenfreude über Finanzjongleure Zwar wurde allseits betont, es gebe keinen Anlass zur Schadenfreude. Doch den einen oder anderen Seitenhieb wollte man sich nicht verkneifen. Selbst das "Zentralorgan der Marktradikalen", der britische "Economist", rufe plötzlich nach dem Staat, stichelte Steinmeier. So sehe es aus, wenn das "Scheitern falscher Überzeugungen" bewiesen werde. 27.Oct.2008 Tennessee: US-Behörden verhaften Skinheads nach Todesdrohungen gegen Obama (Politik) 27.Oct.2008 USA: Republikanischer US-Senator wegen Korruption verurteilt (Politik) 27.Oct.2008 Branche in der Krise: Experten sehen jeden zehnten Autobauer-Job bedroht (Wirtschaft) 27.Oct.2008 Streit um Börsengang: Regierung drängt Bahn-Chef zum Bonusverzicht (Wirtschaft) 27.Oct.2008 Chronologie: Piratenüberfälle am Horn von Afrika "Zudem haben private Beteiligungsgesellschaften eher anderes zu tun, als ins Rückversicherungsgeschäft zu gehen", sagte Hannover-Rück-Vorstandsmitglied Michael Pickel. Sie hatten den angestammten Konzernen zuvor zunehmend Geschäft streitig gemacht. Ich kann mir das ja irgendwie nicht vorstellen, dass die Schweiz pleite geht, aber hey, auch Island hatte nicht gerade ein Hazardeur-Image. 27.Oct.2008 blog.fefe.de/Länderdomino: "Demonstrations and Flag-Burning in Iceland". blog.fefe.de/Auch die Britischen Rentenkassen haben ein paar Milliarden Pfund in der Bankenkrise verloren. There are no plans to introduce e-voting in the UK, or even to conduct further pilots of the technology, a government minister has confirmed. TEMPEST : Ausspähen durch elektromagnetische Abstrahlung. Das " Abhören " der elektromagnetischen Abstrahlung von Computergeräten ist schon lange eine geübte ... www.kecos.de/script/script_create.php?a_tree=tree_kecos&line_nr_sel=1&level_sel=0 „Die meisten Unternehmen kennen bis heute nicht einmal Tempest und die Gefahr, die davon ausgeht. news3.de/sicherheit/s1.html 00.Mar1945 Wisner was transferred to Wiesbaden, where he served as OSS liaison to the Gehlen Organisation. [2] 00.000.1946 Wisner returned to law practice, joining the New York City law firm of Carter Ledyard. [edit] CIA 00.000.1947 Wisner was recruited by Dean Acheson to join the State Department's Office of Occupied Territories. 00.000.1948 the CIA created a covert action wing, innocuously called the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). Frank Wisner was put in charge of the operation and recruited many of his old friends from Carter Ledyard. According to its secret charter, its responsibilities include "propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world." [1] Later that year Wisner established Operation Mockingbird, a program to influence the domestic and foreign media. 00.000.1952, he became head of the Directorate of Plans, with Richard Helms as his chief of operations. This office had control of 75% of the CIA budget. In this position, he was instrumental in bringing about the fall of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán in Guatemala. [7] The FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover, became jealous of the CIA's growing power. He described the OPC as "Wisner's gang of weirdos" and began carrying out investigations into their past. It did not take him long to discover that some of them had been active in left-wing politics in the 1930s. This information was passed to Joseph McCarthy who started making attacks on members of the OPC. Hoover also gave McCarthy details of an affair that Wisner had with Princess Caradja in Romania during the war; Hoover claimed that Caradja was a Soviet agent. [8] Wisner worked closely with Kim Philby, the British agent who was eventually unmasked as a Soviet spy. He was also deeply involved in establishing the Lockheed U-2 spy plane program run by Richard M. Bissell, Jr. [2] Wisner was devastated when the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. [2] Soon thereafter, he suffered a breakdown, and was diagnosed as a manic depressive. He underwent psychoanalysis and was subjected to electroshock therapy. After spending 6 months at the The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, [2] he was released 00.000.1958. CIA Director Allen Dulles named Wisner Chief of the CIA's London Station, but he was still suffering from mental illness. [2] 00.000.1962 Wisner was recalled to Washington, D.C., and agreed to retire from the CIA. [edit] Personal life Wisner married Mary Knowles Fritchey (June 28, 1912–July 9, 2002). They had four children: Frank G. Wisner, Ellis Wisner, Graham Wisner and Elizabeth 'Wendy' Hazard. After retiring from government service 00.000.1997, Wisner joined the board at a subsidiary of Enron, the former energy company. He is also on the board of Hakluyt & Company, a British corporate investigation firm. Wisner is an Advisory Board member for the Partnership for a Secure America, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to recreating the bipartisan center in American national security and foreign policy. Wisner also serves on the Advisory Board of the National Security Network. Wisner is married to Christine de Ganay (former wife of Pal Sarkozy and mother-in-law of french president Nicolas Sarkozy), and they have four children. One of them, David Wisner, was the spokeman of Nicolas Sarkozy during his presidential campaign. 27.Oct.2008 -Currently- Wisner is the special envoy of the US in the Troika group for the negotiations on the future status of Kosovo. [...] 00.000.1938-- Frank George Wisner II ( ) is an American businessman and former diplomat. He is the son of Frank Wisner. Wisner is currently Vice Chairman of American International Group. 00.000.2002 he was hired by UBS, where he advised on many billion dollar acquisitions. [1] On 03.Mar.2008 Sarkozy was appointed to be the Co-head and Managing Director of the Carlyle Group's Global Financial Services Group. [2] His father was previously married to Andrée Mallah and had three children with ... 27.Oct.2008 Carlyle poaches Olivier Sarkozy - Business News, Business - The ... 04.Mar.2008 French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ratings may be plummeting, but his half- brother's star continues to rise in the world of financial ... www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/carlyle-poaches-olivier-sarkozy-790939.html 27.Oct.2008 The Carlyle Group : P. Olivier Sarkozy P. Olivier Sarkozy . Managing Director. New York , NY. Fund : Global Financial Services Buyout. Industry : Financial Services. Oliver Sarkozy is a Managing ... www.carlyle.com/team/item10347.html 27.Oct.2008 FT.com - Olivier Sarkozy outlines Carlyle plans 03.Mar.2008 Olivier Sarkozy , the former UBS (NYSE:UBS) banker who has joined the Carlyle Group, on Monday said the private equity firm would become a ... us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto030320082249041755 12.Nov.2007 Olivier Sarkozy , 38, is an investment-banking exec for UBS, and he lives with his wife, Charlotte, 37, a children’s-book author + ... nymag.com/news/intelligencer/40677/ Carlyle hires Olivier Sarkozy for financial | Deals | Private ... LONDON, 03.Mar.2008 (Reuters) - US-based buyout giant The Carlyle Group [CYL.UL] said on Monday it hired Olivier Sarkozy from investment bank UBS to boost its ... www.reuters.com/article/privateEquity/idUSL0318917320080303 01.Mar.2003 Executive Order 13292 -vom- erweiterte Cheneys Möglichkeiten um das Recht, Dokumente geheim halten oder vernichten zu dürfen. 01.Mar.2003 -ab sofort- Executive Order 13292 Cheney war kein Vizepräsident mehr, sondern ein Co-Präsident, der außerhalb des Rechtssystems agiert. [...] Er gibt nicht bekannt, wie viele Mitarbeiter er hat und wer sie sind; veröffentlicht keinen Kalender; übergibt Nachrichten nur mündlich, nie schriftlich; hat alle Besucherlisten seiner Privatwohnung und vom Weißen Haus vernichten lassen. Zwischendurch verbrannte in einem Feuer viel Papier. Die über Cheney schreiben haben ähnliche Problem wie die, die ihn anklagen wollen: Beweise sind kaum zu finden. Also schreibt man aufs Buchcover, wenn man einen Hauch von „Insider“-Wissen besitzt. 27.Oct.2008 [...] Ron Suskind mit „The One % Doctrine: Deep Inside America‘s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11“ konzentriert sich auf Cheneys Kriegshunger. Der Titel spielt auf die so genannte Cheney-Doktrin an, nach der eine ein%ige Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Ereignisses behandelt werden muss wie eine hundert%ige Gewissheit. Der Vizepräsident meinte Massenvernichtungswaffen im Irak. Bis heute versucht er auf Basis derselben Doktrin einen Angriff auf den Iran einzufädeln. 27.Oct.2008 Litauen: Konservative siegen bei Parlamentswahl (Politik) 27.Oct.2008 Finanzkrise: Postbank macht 449 Millionen Euro Verlust (Wirtschaft) 00.000.1982-27.Oct.2008 Bankenkrise: Börse in Tokio fällt auf tiefsten Stand -seit- (Wirtschaft) 27.Oct.2008 Mexiko: Polizei fasst mächtigen Drogenboss (Panorama) 27.Oct.2008 Pakistan: US-Drohne soll bis zu 20 Menschen getötet haben Allerdings wird sie nur dann zum Erfolg führen, wenn aus den vielen Komponenten ein gemeinsames Ganzes wird. Ein System. 00.000.2050 mit 62 Milliarden Tonnen gut doppelt so hoch sein wird wie heute – und die Durchschnittstemperatur um sechs Grad höher. Das hieße: Land unter. Soll der Temperaturanstieg auf noch halbwegs erträgliche gut zwei Grad begrenzt werden, müssten die Emissionen sich auf 14 Milliarden Tonnen reduzieren. 48 Milliarden Tonnen CO2 liegen zwischen Rettung und Untergang. Als Sie Finanzminister waren, 1999, gab es einen breiten internationalen Konsens darüber, dass die Märkte stärker reguliert werden müssten - nach Meinung vieler eine historische Chance. Warum haben Sie diese Chance nicht als Finanzminister genutzt und für mehr Regulierung gekämpft, sondern Ihr Amt aufgegeben, was Ihnen heute viele vorwerfen? Das ist ein Märchen. Eine solche Chance bestand nicht, vor allem weil Amerika strikt dagegen war - ein Land, in dem die Wahlkämpfe der Präsidenten im wesentlichen von der Wall Street finanziert werden. 26.Oct.2008 Im Gespräch: Oskar Lafontaine: „Das X wird täglich größer“ 26.Oct.2008 GESICHTER DER FINANZKRISE: Der gute Kapitalist 1857, dem Vorspiel der ersten Weltwirtschaftskrise, festhielt: »Die politischen Ökonomen, die vorgeben, die regelmäßigen Zuckungen von Industrie und Handel durch die Spekulation zu erklären, ähneln der jetzt ausgestorbenen Schule von Naturphilosophen, die das Fieber als den wahren Grund aller Krankheiten ansahen.« Schätzungen der US-Anti-Drogen-Behörde DEA zufolge schmuggelt das Tijuana-Kartell rund ein Viertel des in den USA konsumierten Kokains über die Grenze. Soldaten nahmen Felix am Freitagabend nach einer Schiesserei zusammen mit seiner Tochter in einer Wohnsiedlung der Grenzstadt Tijuana fest, wie das Verteidigungsministerium am Sonntag mitteilte. Nach dem Drogenboss ist das Arellano-Felix-Kartell in Tijuana benannt. 26.Oct.2008-01.Sep.2008 -since- $16.3 trillion in stock value lost ; some brokers fear more drops 22.Oct.2008 Wall Street's 'Disaster Capitalism for Dummies' 26.Oct.2008 Maybe U.S. Needs Yard Sale-By- Eric Margolis - Russia could buy back Alaska or perhaps Canada could pick up sunny Florida. Continue 26.Oct.2008 Arms For The Poor -By- Jeff Huber 26.Oct.2008 In case you missed it - The 545 People Responsible For All Of U.S. Woes -By- Charley Reese 26.Oct.2008 US suspends Bolivia trade pact: The USA - undoubtedly frustrated that Bolivia sent the US Ambassador packing, closed down US AID operations and told the DEA to bugger off — has inflated import duties on anything and everything Bolivia wants to try and sell in the United States. 26.Oct.2008 Bolivian official accuses US of role in jungle clash that left Morales supporters dead: -that on- 11.Sep.2008 the U.S. had "participated in the massacare" in the remote Amazonian province of Pando. Presidential Minister Juan Ramon Quintana said that Bolivia would "denounce before the entire world" 26.Oct.2008 Air Force Wants 'Freedom to Attack' Online: Gone are the days when the Air Force pledged to "dominate" cyberspace. Now, the flyboys just want "freedom of action" online. Oh, and the ability to deceive foes, and cyberstrike enemies at will. 26.Oct.2008 McCain Surrogate -War With Iran Is Certain: "Let me assure you of this," Grayson said after the student presentation on foreign policy. "The next president, whether it is Senator Obama or John McCain, will go to war, and he will go to war with Iran. 26.Oct.2008 Down For The Count"The whole system is contracting"-By- Mike Whitney The free market has been abandoned altogether. Everything from commercial paper to money markets is now backed by the "full faith and credit of the United States". Continue 26.Oct.2008 Meet the World's New Reserve Currency -The Chinese Yuan-By- Mike Whitney- Things are getting worse. On Friday morning, futures trading was halted for the first time ever after futures plunged more than 5 %. The sell-off came after another 500-plus down day on the Dow followed by steep declines in equities markets across Europe and Asia. Continue 26.Oct.2008 The Grand Merger! -By- Rev. Richard Skaff The stench of our political sewage system has contaminated our nation and the world. Mendacity became truth, and manipulation became intelligence and virtue. Continue 26.Oct.2008 What “Incredibly Tough” Foreign Policy Actions is Obama Preparing? -By- Patrick Martin 26.Oct.2008 Shame And The 2008 Election -By- Angie Riedel All that matters to them is themselves. The only other thing that matters is that we comply. And should we fail to comply the punishments are ever more swift in coming. Continue 26.Oct.2008 Keep Religion Away From the Ballot -By- Larry Beinhart We line up the presidential candidates and cross-examine them about their faith. They respond with Sunday school sagas about how they met God and pander to us with stories about how prayer will help them lead. How did this come about? Continue 26.Oct.2008 -00.000.2000 -erst seit dem Jahr- Zwei Drittel der gigantischen Weltwährungsreserven von 5,2 Billionen Dollar sind aufgebaut worden. In Deutschland ist der Anteil derer, die von einem Systemfehler ausgehen, mit 30 % wesentlich höher als in den anderen Ländern, in USA z.B. nur 7 % (Abb. 03796). Das ist nicht nur die Folge besonderer deutscher Ängstlichkeit und Trauer um die verlorene Soziale Marktwirtschaft. Hier drückt sich auch die Erfahrung, der seit vielen Jahren besonders ungleichen Einkommensentwicklung aus (Abb. 13542). Today on ’s Late Edition, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) claimed President Bush’s economic agenda had nothing to do with the current financial crisis, insisting defiantly that Bush “doesn’t run the economy”: KYL: George Bush doesn’t run the economy. He didn’t create this problem. His tax rates being lower actually helped for six years create the second largest economic growth that we’ve had in the history of the country in recent years. … The President doesn’t run the economy. Watch it: The current financial crisis is a direct result of Bush running the economy. Bush’s massive tax cuts for the wealthy have contributed to record inequality and historic deficits and debt. The administration gutted several “specific regulations” of the financial system, helping plunge Wall Street into the mess it is facing today. Embracing a common conservative talking point, Kyl tried to lay all the blame for the crisis on the lack of regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. As Alan Greenspan, SEC Chairman Chris Cox, and former Treasury Secretary John Snow — along with the Wonk Room — have stated, this is false. CAP’s Scott Lilly noted that for the past eight years “we have papered over the fact that American consumers do not have the purchasing power to sustain economic expansion.” Why? Bush’s policies have done nothing for the majority of Americans. If Bush or any president doesn’t run the economy, then who does, Sen. Kyl? 26.Oct.2008 Schwache Nachfrage: Daimler stoppt Produktion für fünf Wochen (Wirtschaft) Wenn die Amis eine verschlüsselte Platte finden, fliegen sie den Eigentümer zum Foltern in die Türkei. Die Koalition der Folterknechte. To enrich their xenon to the experimental levels they wanted, the team had to reach out to our former Cold War opponents. "We used money available from the U.S. government to keep former Soviet weapons scientists busy," Wodin said. "This was a fantastic partnership. We gave them our Xenon and they purified it to a single isotope. That increases our sensitivity massively." That relationship, Wodin said, is a key advantage the team of Stanford researchers and their international collaborators has over their competitors in the search to figure out the neutrino's fundamental properties like the fantastically named Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events in Italy, and the Germanium Detector Array and the Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride 0-Neutrino Double Beta Research Apparatus in Germany. And that's important because with a prize as large as understanding how matter came to persist in the universe, the competition is intense. 22.Oct.2008 09-00 am It’s a conspiracy, I tell you 67.30.13 . ... 140.158.149 Special 9/11 Don't Take My Word For It "The ... events of 11.Sep.2001 ... www.apfn.net/messageboard/11-20-03/discussion.cgi.70.html 10.Oct.2003 ... Now if Warren Buffett hosting a "charity event " at the US Strategic Commander ... evil.healingmindn.com/911-conspiracy.html What is not in question is the steady effort by some to lay the ground work for such an action. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy has drafted a blueprint for the next president's Middle East policy with preventive military attack on Iran as a vital policy option. Look for the Dow to retreat much further ~ for the full extent of this crisis will not be known until after election day : Allen L Roland Quoting: "The new detector will try to fill in the picture, determining basic features of [neutrinos], like their mass and whether or not they, unlike almost all other particles, are their own antiparticles. That quirk is why some scientists believe neutrinos could be the mechanism for the creation of our matter-filled universe. Almost all other particles have an antiparticle twin that, if it comes into contact with the particle, immediately annihilates it. But if neutrinos are their own antiparticles they could conceivably be knocked onto matter's 'team,' thereby causing the cascading win for matter over antimatter that we know occurred. As the Indian theoretical physicist G. Rajasekaran put it in a speech earlier this year, neutrinos that are their own antiparticles would explain 'how, after [the] annihilation of most of the particles with antiparticles, a finite but small residue of particles was left to make up the present Universe.'" Today, Apple publicly announced its opposition to the marriage equality ban in California: Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a person’s fundamental rights — including the right to marry — should not be affected by their sexual orientation. Apple views this as a civil rights issue, rather than just a political issue, and is therefore speaking out publicly against Proposition 8. Last month, Google also took the unusual step of coming out against the measure. Support the No on 8 movement here. 25.Oct.2008 -1992 war er Mitglied des Vorstandes der Preussag Stahl AG, 1994 wurde er Sprecher des Vrstandes Preussag Stahl AG. und ab 1996 agierte er als Mitglied des Vorstandes der Holding, Preussag AG. Prof. Hans-Joachim... The answer is key to understanding why our world is like it is. 25.Oct.2008 Rettungspaket: Bayern drohen neue Belastungen, WestLB und HSH Nordbank greifen zu (Wirtschaft) 25.Oct.2008 Rom: Hunderttausende demonstrieren gegen Berlusconi (Politik) Für die Aufklärung des Verlustes der 17 Mio Kundendaten haben sie erst mal ... die Verbindungsdaten ihrer Mitarbeiter durchschnüffelt. Bei der Konkurrenz knallen bestimmt gerade die Korken. unterstrich die Bedeutung des Sozialismus-Theoretikers Karl Marx bei der Analyse der Verhältnisse. "Die Globalisierung hat Marx schon im Kern als Globalisierung des Kapitals erkannt." Die Katholische Soziallehre habe diese Erkenntnisse aufgenommen. Erzbischof Marx über den Theoretiker Marx: "Wir stehen alle auf seinen Schultern, weil wir uns in der Geschichte und Geistesgeschichte an ihm abarbeiten – positiv oder negativ." In wenigen Tagen will der Erzbischof sein neuestes Buch vorstellen. Es trägt den Titel "Das Kapital". 25.Oct.2008 Landesbank: Bund will Bayern Milliardenhilfe verweigern (Wirtschaft) 25.Oct.2008 Ungenutzte Medikamente: Der Patient, der nicht schlucken will (Wissenschaft) 25.Oct.2008 Flughafensicherheit: Niederländer haben kaum Bedenken gegen Nacktscanner (Reise) Nun ist "Das Kapital", sein Hauptwerk, endlich verfilmt worden. Das sagt sich leicht dahin, ist aber schwer vorstellbar. Alexander Kluge griff einen Plan auf, den der russische Filmregisseur Sergej Eisenstein vor 80 Jahren, zur Zeit der großen Depression, entwickelt, jedoch nie realisiert hatte. Intelligence vient du latin intellegentia (faculté de comprendre), dérivé du latin intellegere signifiant comprendre, et dont le préfixe inter (entre), et le radical legere (choisir, cueillir) ou ligare (lier) suggèrent essentiellement l' aptitude à relier des éléments qui sans elle resteraient séparés. 00.000.2005 -Anfang- "Wenn der US-Leitzins bei 4 und nicht bei 2 % gelegen hätte, hätte es niemals so starke Übertreibungen am US-Häusermarkt und an den Finanzmärkten gegeben." Für das Weltwirtschaftswachstum werde die Expansionsrate auf 1,2 % fallen. Dies sei der niedrigste Stand seit dem starken Abschwung Anfang der achtziger Jahre. So werde die Finanzkrise Deutschland noch mindestens bis Ende 2009 zu schaffen machen. "Wir haben es nach wie vor mit einer gefährlichen Situation zu tun." Steinbrück sagte, er wolle den Bürgern nichts vormachen. Er behaupte nicht, dass die Regierung alles unter Kontrolle habe. 25.Oct.2008 Autoindustrie: Warum deutsche Hersteller von der Krise profitieren werden (Wirtschaft) 25.Oct.2008 Heute in den Feuilletons: "Eine völlig irreale Ideologie" Kultur) |