| 01.Apr.2006 Study fails to show healing power of prayer A study of more than 1,800 patients who underwent heart bypass surgery has failed to show that prayers specially organized for their recovery had any impact, researchers said on Thursday. For a while now, I have been writing about our penchant for "movie-plot threats": terrorist fears based on very specific attack scenarios. Terrorists with crop dusters, terrorists exploding baby carriages... From the article: " Researchers at Duke University have taught a lab monkey to control the movement of a robotic arm, using only signals from its brain. The monkey's immediate utilization of this new skill was to shower a group of neurobiologists with feces, according to the report by lead researcher Miguel Nicolelis."" 01.Apr.2006 A no-bid, $6 million contract represents the first time a foreign company will be involved in running sophisticated U.S. radiation-detection equipment at an overseas port without the presence of U.S. Customs agents. The deal involves a company, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., that some Republicans have cited for national security concerns in the past. This is security? 4/1 01.Apr.2006 John W. Dean, Richard Nixon's White House lawyer, told senators Friday that President Bush's domestic spying exceeds the wrongdoing that toppled his former boss. 01.Apr.2006 Wings of Justice Award Winner (Buzz Award Mentioned in Article) Continues Planning Abortion Clinic on Native American Reservation in South Dakota 4/1 Auschwitz - Grosswerther - Gunskirchen A Nine Months' Odyssey ... - HTML-Version civilian clothes stumbled out of the wagons, hungry, thirsty + exhausted ... sites, were first and foremost “ labor camps.” Their inmates constituted the ... www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%203223.pdf Haftbedingungen in US-Gefängnissen - DAA 10 This program was created by the passage of Proposition 139, the Inmate Labor Initiative of 1990, which was an initiative to overturn the 1882 abolition of ... NET NEWS GLOBAL It has to do with official plans of the US Army to enact something called the " Civilian Inmate Labor Program." The general idea is that with troop manpower ... www.net-news-global.de/index.php?cat=50 Depending on the size of the German firm which employed these inmates of the ... www.remember.org/educate/dingell.html The first prisoners sent out to pick fruit must be Ann Coulter (after her conviction for voter registration fraud) and Rush Limbaugh (after his conviction for drug abuse). Permalink We won't ask why you're leaving, whether it's because of incompetence, corruption, treason, criminal negligence or whatever. We just want you to resign and take that war profiteer Dick Cheney with you. We are sick + tired of the Vice President's corrupt cronies at Haliburton getting no-bid contracts to clean up the messes you have made. Along with everything else, you were too slow to muzzle the press, to slow to set up your spin machine. Americans have at last seen the truth with their own eyes. They will not be deceived again. You lied us into a war that not only has killed 2,000 U.S. troops and 100,000 innocent Iraqi men, women and children, but also tied up our national guard when it was desperately needed here. You have gutted our civil rights, defunded the Treasury and put the American people at poverty's doorstep. Don't deny it. FEMA's National Response Plan makes it clear that the federal government must be help accountable, not state and municipal governments. In any case, it was you, Mr. Bush, who defunded the levee project that would have protected the Crescent City and its citizens. As long as you're telling the truth, Mr. Flynt -- when will we get the full version of the Gordon N./Vicki Morgan thing...? Permalink The roof of the factory has the company name, along with their slogan “When it Rains It Pours” and the “Morton Salt Girl”, a drawing of a ... "The Economist reports that scientists in California are coming closer to creating real-life mythical animals. Basically, they re-create the natural selection process through a computer simulation and then clone the resulting set of DNA in a donor animal." From the article: "Each computer starts with a search image (dragon, unicorn, gryphon, etc) + the genome of the real animal most closely resembling it (a lizard for the dragon, a horse for the unicorn and, most taxingly, the spliced genomes of a lion and an eagle for the gryphon). The virtual genomes of these real animals are then tweaked by random electronic mutations. When they have matured, the virtual adults most closely resembling the targets are picked and cross-bred, while the others are culled." Bohrkerne aus der Mitte des Einschlagkraters hatten aber bereits vor zwei Jahren Zweifel an dieser Lesart geweckt. Hartings Fund verstärkt die Zweifel, dass der Einschlag und das Iridium miteinander zu tun haben: Wenn das Glas vom Meteoriten stammt, so tut es das Metall offenbar nicht. Die meisten Wissenschaftler glauben, dass ein gewaltiger Meteoriteneinschlag die Dinosaurier getötet hat. Doch die Hinweise verdichten sich, dass der vermeintlich schuldige 300.000 Jahre zu früh auf die Erde getroffen ist. Kleine Glaskügelchen entlasten den Meteoriten von Chicxulub. Dass sein Einschlag für das Massensterben der Dinosaurier verantwortlich war, wird immer unwahrscheinlicher. Jüngste Analysen bestätigen den Verdacht, dass der Himmelskörper die mexikanische Halbinsel Yucátan rund 300.000 Jahre zu früh traf, um als globaler Killer infrage zu kommen. 01.Apr.2006 Konfrontationskurs: Steinbrück gegen Mindestlohn Anhörung im US-Senat zu Bushs Lauschangriffen Washington - Der Senat müsse Bush offiziell rügen, sagte Nixon-Berater John Dean vor dem Rechtsausschuss des Senats. Sollte dies aus politischen Erwägungen nicht erwünscht sein, müssten die Senatoren Bush zumindest verwarnen. Für ihn sei dies keine parteipolitische Frage, sondern eine Frage des parlamentarischen Stolzes. "Der Präsident muss daran erinnert werden, dass Gewaltenteilung nicht eine Gewaltenisolierung bedeutet", erklärte Nixons ehemaliger Berater laut einem vorab verbreiteten Manuskript. Präsident Nixon stürzte 1974 über die Watergate-Affäre. "Man muss ihm sagen, dass er nicht einfach ein Gesetz missachten kann, ohne dass dies Folgen hat." Wäre Nixon damals vom Kongress gerügt oder verwarnt worden, "wäre die Tragödie von Watergate vielleicht verhindert worden", sagte Dean. "There are many enigmas of intelligence that they can now solve," he said. Dr. Thompson said the new study opened huge possibilities because researchers should be able to identify the factors that influence the brain by looking at the scan patterns identified by the researchers. The analysis was started to check out a finding by Dr. Thompson: that parts of the frontal lobe of the cortex are larger in people with high I.Q.'s. Looking at highly intelligent 7-year-olds, the researchers said they were surprised to find that the cortex was thinner than in a comparison group of children of average intelligence. It was only in following the scans as the children grew older that the dynamism of the developing brain became evident. The researchers found that average children (I.Q. scores 83 to 108) reached a peak of cortical thickness at age 7 or 8. Highly intelligent children (121 to 149 in I.Q.) reached a peak thickness much later, at 13, followed by a more dynamic pruning process. But basically the brain seems to be rewiring itself as it matures, with the thinning of the cortex reflecting a pruning of redundant connections. "Peter Blecha has written the first comprehensive history of music censorship." ?New York Press (6/2/04) "Taboo Tunes is a www.tabootunes.com Palestinians 'terrorised' by sonic boom flights Pirates use 'flag-hopping' to plunder world's fish ... www.independent.co.uk/world/fisk 01.Apr.2006 Exxon Mobil not welcome in Venezuela anymore : Venezuela's oil minister said today that Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's second-largest integrated oil company, was no longer welcome in this oil-producing nation. 01.Apr.2006 Send in the marines: U.S. Strike Group Will Head South For "Training" : Some defense analysts suggested that the unusual two-month-long deployment, set to begin in early April, could be interpreted as a show of force by "anti-American governments in Venezuela and Cuba". 01.Apr.2006 Venezuela postpones ban on US airlines : The decision to postpone the ban was made after talks with US officials + Venezuela's INAC aviation authority said on Wednesday (30 March) that it would suspend the ban until 25.Apr.2006 01.Apr.2006 S.America pipeline said to exceed estimate: The cost of building a natural gas pipeline spanning South America would exceed the most recent estimate of US$25 billion (euro20.7 billion), the chief executive of Brazil's state-owned petroleum company said in an interview published Thursday. 01.Apr.2006 Fear and Loathing in Asia: The Pentagon’s annual report to Congress confirmed the rapid growth in Chinese military capabilities.[3] The report pointed out that the weapons that Beijing has amassed to intimidate Taiwan--700 short-range missiles, a modernizing fleet of diesel and nuclear submarines, fourth-generation aircraft procured from Russia, increased operational tempo and sophistication of military exercises--also can be used against other regional powers. 01.Apr.2006 Ex-Prosecutor Accused of Concealing Evidence in Terror Case : A grand jury charged today that a former federal prosecutor in Detroit who led one of the Justice Department's biggest terrorism investigations concealed critical evidence in the case in an effort to bolster the government's theory that a group of local Muslim men were plotting an attack. 01.Apr.2006 Long Live The 11.Sep.2001 Conspiracy! : Anyone still care about the heap of disturbing, unsolved questions surrounding Our Great Tragedy? 01.Apr.2006 The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll: You probably already know that much of what exactly happened on 11.Sep.2001 remains deeply unsettling + largely unsolved - or to put another way, if you don't know all of this + if you fully + blithely accept the official 11.Sep.20011 story, well, you haven't been paying close enough attention. 01.Apr.2006 Explosive Testimony: Revelations about the Twin Towers in the 11.Sep.2001 Oral Histories: Aan interview with Professor David Ray Griffin 01.Apr.2006 Sheila Samples : 11.Sep.2001 -- Eliminating The Impossible.: I said I'd never do it -- say what I think about that terrible morning of 11.Sep.2001 . I've seen what happens to those who question the elaborate, tangled explanations the Bush administration offers about what happened, how it happened, who did it The war in Iraq is a grand profiteering scheme gone awry and Americans need to take off their blinders and face the truth. 01.Apr.2006 Repairing Rumsfeld's Damage: Anyone else might be embarrassed when not one but two detailed studies of the way he's doing business conclude that his plans + assumptions are totally wrong, but not Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld. 01.Apr.2006 Manufacturing consent for war: UN Security Council calls on Iran to suspend enrichment-related activities : Expressing serious concern that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is unable to conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear materials or activities in Iran, the United Nations Security Council today called upon that country to re-establish full and sustained suspension of all enrichment-related + reprocessing activities, 01.Apr.2006 UN demands Iran stop uranium enrichment work: Iran remained defiant, saying that it was not seeking an atomic bomb and regardless of assurances, the United States + others would find new reasons to fault Tehran. 01.Apr.2006 Iran rejects call to halt enrichment: Iran refused Thursday to comply with a UN Security Council demand to freeze uranium enrichment, defying a call by major world powers to curb its nuclear program or face isolation. 01.Apr.2006 World powers discuss next steps in Iran crisis: Six world powers were gathering in Berlin on Thursday to discuss the next steps in dealing with Iran's nuclear programme, with Russia + China looking for assurances that there are no plans to use force against Tehran. 01.Apr.2006 Russian warning over Iran crisis : Russia has warned it will not support any attempts to use force to resolve the stand-off over Iran's controversial nuclear programme. 01.Apr.2006 Iran to hold large-scale naval war games: Today, Iran is calling for its rightful demands with strength + national unity + these exercises will show an increase of strength + preparedness?, the navy commander added. 01.Apr.2006 Iran's plan to weaken the dollar will fail: Surely Tehran lost touch with reality when it developed its plan to use a new, euro-based oil exchange, on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf, to dethrone the greenback from its position as the world's reigning reserve currency. 01.Apr.2006 Weinberger, Bushes & Iran-Contra: In the early-to-mid 1980s, Ronald Reagan had sought to avoid a head-on clash with Congress by taking his foreign policy underground, using cutouts like Israel to ship missiles to Iran + White House aide Oliver North to funnel supplies to the contra rebels fighting in Nicaragua. It's extremely rare, to get this kind of an insight of an extremely private, we should say secret meeting between two leaders preparing for a coming war. Tell us what you think are the main insights to be gained from the so-called White House memo? The Muslim world is not fooled by our talk about spreading democracy and values. The evidence is too overwhelming that we do not hesitate to support dictators and install puppet governments when it serves our interests. When democratic elections result in the elevation of a leader or party not to our liking, we do not hesitate for a minute to undermine that government. Continue Video and transcript New US policy to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear countries has been officially formulated in two US government documents Nuclear Posture Review delivered to Congress in December 2001 and Doctrine for Joint Nuclear Operations dated 15.Mar.2005 Continued 01.Apr.2006 Antarctic air is warming faster than rest of world: New finding could have implications for sea level rises 01.Apr.2006 Pentagon block on move for safer water: The Pentagon stalled efforts to clean water supplies contaminated by a carcinogenic chemical despite evidence that it posed a significant health risk to millions of people, it was reported yesterday. 01.Apr.2006 Iran: Scenarios of an American strike: The risks are great if Washington's neo-cons choose military options to prevent Iran from blocking US imperial designs for the Middle East 01.Apr.2006 Head of Arab League Calls on Arab States to Enter Nuclear Club:According to a report in the Associated Press, Arab League head Amr Moussa called on Arab states to pursue the development of atomic energy 01.Apr.2006 US professors accused of being liars and bigots over essay on pro-Israeli lobby: An article by two prominent American professors arguing that the pro-Israel lobby exerts a dominant + damaging influence on US foreign policy has triggered a furious row, pitting allegations of anti-semitism against claims of intellectual intimidation. 01.Apr.2006 James Petras : Record Profits and Rising Authoritarianism : The ascendancy of finance capital and its influence over US economic policy has had major, largely negative, consequences for the US economy, especially our living standards, external accounts and budget. 01.Apr.2006 The US-China trade imbalance: The world's interlinked economies no longer trade to capture a comparative advantage; they compete in exports to capture dollars needed to service dollar-denominated foreign debts and to accumulate dollar reserves to sustain the exchange value of their domestic currencies. 01.Apr.2006 Blackburn mosque cancels Rice invitation: Muslim leaders yesterday withdrew an invitation to the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, to visit a mosque in the Blackburn constituency of the home secretary, Jack Straw. 01.Apr.2006 Insulating Bush : Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush's 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration 01.Apr.2006 K Gajendra Singh: Hyper power hubris: Here are men in USA with terrible means of destruction in their hands , with their narrow corporate experience and vision ,with little overall holistic understanding , hurtling along a mad course to a war , opposed by majority of the world and its population . 01.Apr.2006 Noam Chomsky on Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy: Professor Chomsky thinks that the United States is beginning to resemble a failed state that cannot protect its citizens from violence and has a government that regards itself as beyond the reach of domestic or international law. 01.Apr.2006 DAVE LINDORFF: The Mustafa Mosque Massacre was No Accident or Error: Events in Iraq are giving the lie to administration claims that all it wants to do is create a stable, democratic Iraq + then leave 01.Apr.2006 Ignorance by Content and Omission -By Charles Sullivan 01.Apr.2006 Vision Quest -By Chris Floyd 01.Apr.2006 Noam Chomsky on Failed States -The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy Professor Chomsky thinks that the United States is beginning to resemble a failed state that cannot protect its citizens from violence and has a government that regards itself as beyond the reach of domestic or international law Heiße Quellen und Geysire erinnern noch immer an die Apokalypse, die den heutigen Yellowstone-Nationalpark einst erschaffen hat. Das Naturwunder im Norden der USA entstand durch die gewaltigen Eruptionen eines sogenannten Supervulkans. Bisher ging man davon aus, dass die Explosionen von Yellowstone in ihrer Größe weltweit einzigartig waren. Aber nicht nur Nordamerika musste in der jüngeren Erdgeschichte solch kolossale Vulkaneruptionen über sich ergehen lassen. Wissenschaftler haben jetzt herausgefunden, dass auch Südamerika von Supervulkanausbrüchen erschüttert wurde. Die Explosion, welche die bisher weitgehend unbekannte Vilama-Caldera in Nordargentinien erschaffen hat, scheint sogar mit der Yellowstone-Eruption gleichziehen zu können. Wer oberhalb der 6000-Punkte-Grenze weiterhin in Aktien investieren will, sollte schon an eine Fortsetzung des amerikanischen Konsumwunders glauben. Zweitens: In den USA wird nicht nur der private Konsum zum Risikofaktor. Das Land schiebt ein Leistungsbilanzdefizit in Höhe von mehr als 700 Milliarden US-Dollar vor sich her + muss sich täglich rund sechs Milliarden Dollar vom Rest der Welt borgen, um sein Defizit zu finanzieren. Um das Problem in den Griff zu bekommen, müsste der Dollar kräftig abwerten. Am Ende erwächst daraus für die Weltwirtschaft ein kaum kalkulierbares Dollar-Risiko. Ein Rückgang des privaten Konsums in den USA wird mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit sowohl die Aktienmärkte in den USA als auch im Rest der Welt belasten. Wer argumentiert, die US-Märkte hätten nach Jahren der Underperformance gegenüber Europa und Asien nun einen Teil ihrer stolzen Bewertung abgebaut und wieder viel Luft nach oben, übersieht zwei Dinge. Erstens: Die US-Börsen dürften kaum eine Rallye am Aktienmarkt anführen, wenn der heimischen Konjunktur die wichtigste Stütze fehlt. Kaum kalkulierbares Dollarrisiko Platzt die US-Immobilienblase, kommen viele US-Bürger in Schwierigkeiten. Sie können erstens ihren großzügigen Kreditrahmen nicht mehr mit dem gesunkenen Wert ihrer Immobilie besichern + müssen zweitens auf Grund höherer Zinsen mehr Geld für den Schuldendienst aufbringen. Das bedeutet bei einer Sparquote von Null weniger Geld für den Konsum + das ist für die US-Wirtschaft ein gewaltiges Problem. Doch nun kommt Ben Bernanke + Bernanke tut richtig weh. Der neue Chef der US-Notenbank hat wenig Zweifel daran gelassen, dass die Zinsen in den USA in diesem Jahr wohl noch auf mindestens fünf % steigen werden. Damit Speaking to The Alex Jones Show - Asner, best known for his Emmy-winning role as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, echoed Charlie Sheen's sentiments in stating, "I became suspicious of 11.Sep.2001 on the day it happened." "I will always be that suspect of it and challenge it and challenge various points of it," said Asner. Asner agreed that the official story of 11.Sep.2001 and the Kean Commission investigation was a fable and a fraud Asked who gained from 11.Sep.2001 Asner answered, "Certainly the military has, Halliburton, Brown and Root, Mr. Cheney's old outfit....the oil companies of course now with record highs + the White House is of course involved with oil and the military and always has been." Asner doubted that another terror attack needed to be staged in order to accomplish more of the same agenda. "They don't have to have another attack, if they indeed launched the first one they have screwed up our country so badly they could just let us sink in upon ourselves." Asner questioned why CNN chose to cancel his scheduled spot on Showbiz Tonight. After speaking to inside sources within CNN we were able to confirm that the order came down from a higher office to "kill" the story, despite the fact that the issue had generated the most interest Showbiz Tonight had ever encountered. Asner is a true humanitarian and is an activist in the fields of missing US PoW's, depleted uranium, which Asner suggested was a deliberate population reduction method + the fight to get the FDA to eliminate deadly thimerosal mercury additives to vaccines. His public stance on 11.Sep.2001 and his support of Charlie Sheen helps in the ongoing effort to encourage public figures with large media platforms to step forward and become prominent voices for the 11.Sep.2001 truth movement. "Sheen tritt in die Meschugge-Brigade ein", spottete die "New York Post". Doch der Schauspieler befindet sich in illustrer Gesellschaft. Ausgerechnet in diesen Tagen, da sich Qaida-Anhänger Zacarias Moussaoui vor einem US-Gericht mit den abenteuerlichsten Geschichten über seine Rolle an den Anschlägen selbst das Grab schaufelt, scheinen immer mehr Amerikaner Gefallen an alternativen Versionen vom 11. September zu finden. Sheens Interview passt prima ins ganzjährige "Sommerloch" der überdrehten US-Medienwelt aus Kabelnews, Klatsch und Blogs, die rund um die Uhr gefüttert werden wollen. Eine Google-Suche nach den Stichworten "Charlie Sheen 11.Sep.2001" ergab gestern 795.000 Fundstellen, eine nach " 11.Sep.2001 conspiracy" sogar 15,5 Millionen. Als Sheen seine Zweifel auf dem Mainstream-Sender CNN wiederholte, ließ sich dessen Publikum mitreißen: In einer CNN-Blitzumfrage erklärten 34.692 Zuschauer (84 % der Teilnehmer), auch sie glaubten, die Regierung verheimliche die Wahrheit über den 11. September. Verschwörungstheorien Die Verschwörungstheorien um den 11.Sep.2001 bekommen neuen Auftrieb: Jetzt ist es der Schauspieler Charlie Sheen, der öffentlich über ein bizarres Komplott zwischen CIA, Bin Laden und Bush spricht. Ein Großteil der Amerikaner scheint an solche kruden Thesen zu glauben. New York - Charlie Sheens wilde Zeiten sind lange vorbei. Früher hat der US-Schauspieler mit Frauengeschichten, Schießereien und Drogenexzessen Schlagzeilen gemacht. Heute verdient sich der Sohn von Altstar Martin Sheen ("Apocalypse Now", "West Wing") mit einer passablen TV-Sitcom das Auskommen. Jetzt aber hat Sheen Junior ein neues, publizitätssicheres Steckenpferd entdeckt: Er ist unter die Verschwörungstheoretiker gegangen und hat sich dem wachsenden Chor der Zweifler an der offiziellen Version des 11. September 2001 angeschlossen. Denn die werfe für ihn "viele Fragen auf", sagte Sheen einem amerikanischen Talk-Radiosender jetzt. The Swedish study found that long-term mobile phone exposure could raise the chance of developing ... Alexa is giving users and developers access to their crawler in order to build their own search engines. From the website: The Alexa Web Search ... Bei solchen Fragen wollen wir prüfen, ob wir mit unseren bisherigen Annahmen richtig liegen", erklärt Cooper im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE. "The Justice Department, in their continued effort to revive questionable legislation, has subpoenaed dozens of ISPs for files. Considering that ISPs generally host their users' mail, this seems like it could be a larger issue than their fight with Google over search queries. Some, like Verizon, even resisted the call for information." From the article: "Representatives for McAfee and Symantec confirmed that the companies had received and complied with the subpoenas. A spokeswoman at LookSmart did not immediately return a phone call. Many of the subpoenas asked for information related to products that can be used to filter out adult content for underage Internet users. Symantec's subpoena, dated June 29, asked for a wide range of information about the price and popularity of the Internet filtering products it sells and how the products are used by customers. " Information Week has a number of the documents involved, including the letter of objection from Verizon. "Scientists in Japan have come up with a way of harnessing a truly random datasource for generating one time encryption pads: Quasars. One time encryption pads are widely accepted as being the most secure form of encryption, but this new technology from the National Institute of Information + Communications Technology makes the pads even more secure." "Ja, hallo, es gab hier eine Explosion", sagt ihr Sohn. "Anrufzeit: null-achthundert-Uhr, fünfzig Minuten und dreißig Sekunden", sagte die Stimme eines Fremden. 11.Sep.2001 08-50-30 Sekunden - nur vier Minuten, nachdem das erste Flugzeug an den Türmen zerschellte. Die nun folgende Stimme kam ihnen bekannter vor. "Ja, hallo, ich befinde mich im 106. Stock des World Trade Centers, es gab hier eine Explosion", sagt ihr Sohn. "Im 106. Stock?", fragt der Mann in der Notrufzentrale. "Wir hatten eine Konferenz hier oben", sagt Chris Hanley. "Es sind ungefähr 100 Leute hier." Der 35-Jährige arbeitete für Radianz, damals ein Tochterunternehmen der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters. An jenem Morgen war Chris Hanley auf einer Konferenz, die von Risk Waters organisiert wurde, einem Finanzverlag. Sie fand in einem Luxusrestaurant statt, das direkt unter dem Dach des Nordturms lag. "Alles um den 11.Sep.2001 herum ist verrückt", sagt Frau Andreacchio. "Warum haben sie so etwas nicht schon viel früher herausgerückt? Das wird niemals aufhören." Johann Fuchs, Wissenschaftler am Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung in Nürnberg, glaubt auch nicht an die These der Vollbeschäftigung durch demografischen Wandel. Aber immerhin: "Die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland wird dadurch sicher weniger werden", sagt er. Aber Vollbeschäftigung? "So einfach ist die Welt nicht. Die Theorie taucht immer mal wieder auf. Ich kenne aber keinen Forscher, der das ernsthaft vertritt." Bei Hochqualifizierten wie Akademikern und Facharbeitern könnte es tatsächlich zu einem Engpass kommen, räumt auch Fuchs ein. Rosswog ist zuversichtlich, dass die Computersimulation nahe an echte Kollisionen herankommt. "Momentan sind acht Systeme mit sich umkreisenden Neutronen-Doppelsternen bekannt. Sie alle haben fast exakt die 1,4-fache Masse der Sonne." Der Computer habe einen Zusammenprall mit "Standardmassen" simuliert. Das Resultat - blitzschnell entstehende, mächtige Magnetfelder - falle aber auch bei Sternen anderer Größe ähnlich aus. Mit mehreren Jahren Vorlaufzeit und intensiver Arbeit in den vergangenen zwei Jahren entwickelten Price und Rosswog ein Rechenmodell für die auftretenden physikalischen Parameter beim Zusammenprall zweier Neutronensterne: Anziehungskräfte, Kernphysik, Hydrodynamik - "wir saßen einige Wochen praktisch Tag und Nacht am Computer, bis wir endlich einen Lösungsalgorithmus gefunden hatten. Die tatsächlichen Rechnungen liefen dann noch einmal fast einen Monat", sagt Daniel Price. Die Verbraucherschützer kritisierten, dass die Industrie auch mit überzogen Mitteln kämpfe. So sei der Kino-Werbespot "Raubkopierer sind Verbrecher" juristisch falsch. Im strafrechtlichen Sinn handele es sich nicht um ein Verbrechen, sondern um ein Vergehen. Die angekündigten fünf Jahre Haftstrafe drohten nur, wenn jemand gewerblich mit illegalen Kopien handele. In der Praxis müssten Raubkopierer vor allem mit Geldstrafen rechnen. 31.Mar.2006 Klage: Yahoo Hongkong soll Nutzerdaten an China geliefert haben 31.Mar.2006 Mega-Eruptionen: Explosiver Zwilling des Yellowstone-Vulkans entdeckt 31.Mar.2006 Verschwörungstheorien: Bush, Bin Laden und die Meschugge-Brigade 31.Mar.2006 Elbhochwasser: Dresden bereitet Evakuierungen vor “They got their gold and shipped us to Fresh Kills,” he said. Call it one more conspiracy theory, but many uniformed firefighters believe the powers that be cared more about finding the gold reserves held in vaults beneath the Trade Center than the bodies of their fallen brothers. Still, the fireman said, if he had to pick a letter in my poll, it would be A. “Osama fucking bin Laden, like Bush says. If I thought it was someone else, then I’d have to do something about it. And I don’t want to think about what I’d do.” I asked Dr. Sunder about 7 WTC. Why was the fate of the building barely mentioned in the final report? This was a matter of staffing and budget, Sunder said. He hoped to release something on 7 WTC by the end of the year. NIST did have some “preliminary hypotheses” on 7 WTC, Dr. Sunder said. “We are studying the horizontal movement east to west, internal to the structure, on the fifth to seventh floors.” Then Dr. Sunder paused. “But truthfully, I don’t really know. We’ve had trouble getting a handle on building No. 7.” 11.Sep.2001 -William was late. Instead of mopping the stairwells on the 110th floor, where he almost certainly would have died, he was chatting with the maintenance crew on level B-1 in the basement. “I heard this massive explosion below, on level B-2 or 3. I saw this guy come up the stairs. The skin on his arms was peeled away . . . hanging. Then I heard another explosion, from above. That was the first plane, hitting the building.” In possession of one of the few master keys in the building, William led firemen up the stairwells. He was responsible for getting at least a dozen people out of the towers. Trying to escape as the North Tower fell, he found himself beneath a half-buried fire engine. “I told myself this is going to be a slow death, but I should make it last as long as I could. My training as an escape artist helped me. I knew to be calm. They found me just in time. I understood my whole life had been pointing to this moment.” Acclaimed as “the last man pulled from the rubble,” William became a hero of 11.Sep.2001 . “I was at the White House. They took my picture with President Bush.” Four years later, after repeatedly being rebuffed in his attempts to tell officials his story about the basement explosion, William is suing the U.S. government under the rico statute, legislation drafted to prosecute Mafia families. The suit reads like an Air America wet dream, with Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, John Ashcroft, George Tenet, Karl Rove + others (the Diebold Company is thrown in for good measure) listed as defendants. “They say I’m a conspiracy theorist; I call them conspirators, too,” William says. There is also the very big question of what happened to 7 WTC, the only building not hit by anything at all, but which collapsed anyway, in a perfect controlled-demolition sort of way, for no reason anyone can sufficiently explain. But which just so happened to contain vital offices for the IRS, the Department of Defense, the CIA, the Secret Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission and more. 31.Mar.2006 Long Live The 11.Sep.2001 Conspiracy! Anyone still care about the heap of disturbing, unsolved questions surrounding Our Great Tragedy? 31.Mar.2006 Borneo rainforests a treasure trove of rare species About three years ago, wildlife researchers photographed a mysterious fox-like mammal on the Indonesian part of Borneo island. Since then, more new species of plants and animals have been found and conservationists believe Borneo, the world's third-largest island, is a treasure trove of exotic plants and animals waiting to be discovered. By shining those particular wave lengths on the skin you can get an image of the lesion in various layers. This camera adapter is designed for a Nikon ... The falling spherules might have heated the atmosphere enough to start a global fire, as one example. How the ... The trial conducted in January in New York contained a former Belgian justice minister, Melchior Wathelet, who worked for the ... From the article: 'Google was presented with an award as part of the Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy in Curitiba, Brazil, this week. The organisers allege that Google's collaboration with genomic research institute J. Craig Venter to create a searchable online database of all the genes on the planet is a clear example of biopiracy.'" Under the new amendment, anyone renewing a designated document (e.g. passport) will be able to opt-out of getting a card until 2010, but will still have their details put on the National ID Register immediately." C’est là, à l’âge de douze ans, que John a une révélation. ... www.19e.org/personnages/etranger/rockefeller.htm 30.Mar.2006 Support Fair Trade on BuzzFlash.com: Empowering People, Creating Jobs, Sustaining Lives. It's in your hands to make a difference. 30.Mar.2006 Fla. AG Subpoenas Voting Machine Companies 3/30 Bowen has uncovered a new plan: McPherson, taking his cue from Katherine Harris, has instituted a new voter registration database , designed to "weed out" the poor and the homeless. (And there will soon be plenty of them , once the housing bubble bursts.) More than 14,000 new voter registration and re-registration applications just from Los Angeles County were recently invalidated under this new stringent set of regulations — and other counties are seeing similar results. 30.Mar.2006 Abramoff gets 5 years, 10 months in fraud case : Assuring the judge he is working to become “a new man,” disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced Wednesday to nearly six years in prison for committing fraud in the purchase of a fleet of gambling boats. 30.Mar.2006 GOP congressional candidate faked photo of Baghdad : He posted on the official Web site for his campaign a picture taken in “downtown Baghdad,” he said, during his visit to the city, which supposedly indicated that the media was wrong about the level of violence in the city. 30.Mar.2006 GM Begins Firing Salaried Workers at About 30 U.S. Locations : General Motors Corp., struggling with $10.6 billion in losses last year, started firing hundreds of its U.S. salaried employees at about 30 U.S. locations, part of a North American restructuring plan. 30.Mar.2006 Thom Hartmann : Illegal Workers: the Cons' Secret Weapon : None will tell Americans the truth about why we have eleven million illegal aliens in this nation now (when it was fewer than 2 million when Reagan came into office), why they're staying, or why they keep coming. 30.Mar.2006 Jesse Jackson : Wage War on Poverty, Not Immigrants : We can spend billions trying to lock immigrants out and hold those that come in down. Or we can devote energy and resources now wasted on a civil war in Iraq to help lift our neighbors up, gain real trading partners and significantly reduce the misery that drives people from their homes. 30.Mar.2006 Brazil's Lula Lashes Out At Rich Nations: Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva Monday castigated the wealthy and technologically advanced countries of the world for failing to live up to their responsibility in tackling poverty and environmental degradation on the planet. 30.Mar.2006 Argentina & Uruguay Abandon School Of Americas: Critical victory for human rights organizations across the Americas 30.Mar.2006 Watchdog contends budget bill broke law: President Bush signed into law a bill that never passed the House. Bill – in this case, a major budget-cutting measure that will affect millions of Americans – became a law because it was “certified” by the leaders of the House and Senate. 30.Mar.2006 U.S. bonds dive after decision on rates : Prices on U.S. Treasury notes plunged on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the 15th straight time and signaled that further increases lay ahead. 30.Mar.2006 Neo-con cabal blocked 2003 nuclear talks : The George W Bush administration failed to enter into negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program 00.May 2003 because neo-conservatives who advocated destabilization + regime change were able to block any serious diplomatic engagement with Tehran, according to former administration officials. 30.Mar.2006 MI5 enabled UK pair's 'rendition' : "They could hear screams from other prisoners " We can pay bribes and cajole and threaten, but in the end, the fate of Iraq is now in the hands of the Iraqis + there is nothing we can do about it. 30.Mar.2006 A madness for war : We took out a madman with madness. At a minimum, there should be hearings, with Bush under oath. With any more details like this, the next step is impeachment. 30.Mar.2006 Bombing civilians is not only immoral, it's ineffective : The US marine air wings operating in Iraq announced in a press release 00.Nov.2005 that since the invasion began it had dropped more than half a million tons of explosives on Iraq. 30.Mar.2006 The Iraqi Civil War in Context : Those seeking to discover some of the key precipitating factors behind Iraq's furious plunge into chaos and disintegration might find one of them in the records of an obscure Congressional committee meeting on 10.Aug.2004 . 30.Mar.2006 Dahr Jamail: An "Alliance" of Violence : A disturbing trend noticeable in Iraq for quite some time now is that each aggressive Israeli military operation in the occupied territories results in a corresponding increase in the number of attacks on US forces in Iraq. 'Islam is evil' + : 'They hate us.' Most of the guys I was with believed it." Continued 30.Mar.2006 Finding no fault - By Molly Ivins And - have a seat, get the smelling salts, hold all hats - the Pentagon has once again concluded the Pentagon did absolutely nothing wrong and will continue to do so. Continued 30.Mar.2006 Channel 4 - Paints Chavez As Dictator By John Pilger Worse, it joined the kind of hysteria in the US that is following the Bush administration’s agenda of “positioning” Venezuela as a “rogue state” + a threat to US interests: in other words, softening it up for attack. Continued 30.Mar.2006 Interview With America's Auditor -in-Chief, David Walker Is America facing an economic disaster? The richest, most powerful nation on earth faces a fiscal "tsunami" which threatens to overwhelm Government and citizens alike. Who says so? America's auditor in chief, David Walker, whose job it is to oversee all Federal spending. He's pleading with US politicians and taxpayers to face up to the harsh economic realities that come with an ageing population and spiralling budget deficits. But is economic disaster really so close at hand? 30.Mar.2006 Frankreich: Verfassungsrat billigt Arbeitsmarktreform 30.Mar.2006 Kleine Trabanten: Mini-Monde zeichnen Propeller in Saturns Ringe 30.Mar.2006 Verflogen: Ryanair landet auf falschem Flughafen 30.Mar.2006 Terrorprozess: 30 Jahre Haft für geplanten Mord an Bush 30.Mar.2006 Naturkatastrophen: Sachsen flüchten vor dem Hochwasser 30.Mar.2006 Raumfahrt: Erster Brasilianer im All There are 80 surveillance cameras for the 2,400 people, which translates to one camera for every 30 people. The cameras... Informações: preparação ao nível do comando e controle, ... https://www.jornaldefesa.com.pt/conteudos/view_txt.asp?id=238 Seit vielen Jahren finanziert die Rockefeller -Dynastie das Union.. www.whitehousestinks.com/article/Glossar/1044804960.html 29.Mar.2006 Grow your own MEAT?! Huh? Wha!? Author: Muddyboy While some people may grow fresh herbs in their homes, others may be growing fresh meat in the future. "In no way could I feel comfortable with these machines," Funk said Monday. "I don't want to be part of something that put into ... Even if he didn't have the presence of mind to leave, why didn't Andrew Card think of the obvious course of action? As Bush approached his car, a reporter asked, "Do you know what's going on in New York," and Bush said he did - and would say something later. They disagreed over the Harriet Miers nomination: Card pushed for Miers, while Rove probably aided the conservative groups who called for her to withdraw. Some observers aver that Card quickly lost enthusiasm for the Iraq war itself. (The deadline to turn over all materials was October 10.) Andrew Card could probably tell us some very interesting details about this strange matter. 29.Mar.2006 Protests in Puerto Rico mount against FBI over tactics: The FBI is under attack in Puerto Rico for operations that critics say unfairly target pro-independence activists. 29.Mar.2006 U.S. Willing to Deploy Combat Troops to Colombia : Given that the U.S. government’s intervention in Colombia already involves everything but the deployment of U.S. combat troops, it is clear that Patterson’s comments were intended to illustrate the Bush administration’s willingness to deploy U.S. troops to Colombia to combat FARC guerrillas. 29.Mar.2006 'Asia must prepare for dollar collapse': East Asian economies need to prepare for a possible collapse of the US dollar, the Asian Development Bank says. 29.Mar.2006 East Asian economies must prepare for possible sharp US dollar slide : With the US trade deficit at a record high and global interest rates rising, East Asian economies need to be prepared for a possible sharp slump in the value of the dollar, the Asian Development Bank warned here. 29.Mar.2006 Core contradictions: The US trade deficit with China ballooned in 2005 to US$202 billion, more than one-quarter of the total deficit 29.Mar.2006 Ron Paul: The Perils of Economic Ignorance: Last week in this column I wrote of a perfect economic storm facing America, caused by a federal government that spends, borrows + prints so much money that our dollars are eroding in value at an alarming rate. 29.Mar.2006 American Theocracy: Kevin Phillips Interviewed by Grover Norquist: Kevin Phillips, a former Republican strategist explains his problems with America's majority political party. His new book is titled "American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil + Borrowed Money in the 21st Century." 29.Mar.2006 Big Oil's Big Windfall : A public already groaning under huge deficits does not need more red ink. An oil industry already rolling in record profits does not need more tax breaks. But both are sure to happen unless some way can be found to claw back from a decade's worth of Congressional and administrative blunders, aggressive lobbying and industry greed. 29.Mar.2006 We can afford bombs while : 'Policy' denies nutrients to 1,000 Florida children: More than a thousand severely disabled or chronically ill children who relied on state dollars for life-sustaining nutritional supplements have been cut off from Florida's Medicaid program, resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings to the agency, state officials acknowledged Thursday. 29.Mar.2006 Peak oil and failing mass media: How can we solve a problem that we do not know exists? Who will speak out? 29.Mar.2006 Citizenship bill heads to Senate floor : A Senate panel Monday approved a bill that would allow millions of undocumented immigrants to obtain legal status and eventual citizenship without first leaving the United States. It also would allow hundreds of thousands of foreigners to come work here every year. 29.Mar.2006 Paul Krugman: North of the Border : I'm instinctively, emotionally pro-immigration. But a review of serious, nonpartisan research reveals some uncomfortable facts about the economics of modern immigration + immigration from Mexico in particular. 29.Mar.2006 Video: The Future of Food : THE FUTURE OF FOOD offers an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade. 29.Mar.2006 Eric Margolis: Neocon ambitions and the spectacular disaster of Iraq : In reality, the Bush Administration went to war to attain two objectives: 1. Seizing Iraq’s vast oil reserves + turning Iraq into a base to dominate the Middle East; 2. Destroying one of Israel’s two main enemies( Iran being the other). 29.Mar.2006 Imperial overreach is accelerating the global decline of America : The disastrous foreign policies of the US have left it more isolated than ever + China is standing by to take over 29.Mar.2006 Iraqi Documents Are Put on Web + Search Is On : American intelligence agencies and presidential commissions long ago concluded that Saddam Hussein had no unconventional weapons and no substantive ties to Al Qaeda before the 2003 invasion. 29.Mar.2006 U.S. top court to weigh Guantanamo tribunals: The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear a challenge Tuesday from Osama bin Laden's former chauffeur on President George Bush's power to set up war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo Bay. 29.Mar.2006 Britain 'complicit' in human rights abuses at Camp Delta : Britain has been complicit in the human rights abuses committed by US authorities at Guantanamo Bay prison camp, according to a report released today. 29.Mar.2006 Drawing on exhaustive interviews with detainees and evidence from security services, the dossier gives the complete picture of the British government's co- operation with the US over a camp it now says should be closed. 29.Mar.2006 Fabricating Terrorism - Executive Summary : ‘Our promotion of human rights and democracy is in keeping with America's most cherished principles and it helps to lay the foundation for lasting peace in the world … The duty to defend human rights and to help spread democracies' blessings is especially great for the United States and other free nations …" Condoleezza Rice 29.Mar.2006 Report: Full Text: Fabricating Terrorism: British Complicity in Renditions and Torture They’ve learned from Vietnam to say, ‘If you don’t support me, you don’t support the troops,’ but they’re hiding behind those kids.” Continued 29.Mar.2006 Pillaging the Treasury and the Constitution -By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS 29.Mar.2006 Would a Christian invade another country on false pretenses, kill tens of thousands of innocent civilians + show no remorse or inclination to cease the aggression? Continued 29.Mar.2006 US living on borrowed time - and money -By Julian Delasantellis 29.Mar.2006 The Cowards Path An open letter to Ralph Nader - By Linda H Riegler - Sir, I owe you an apology… Continued It is the open and honest truth about war itself that will change the false perceptions and moral abiguity that have allowed a culture of war to be perpetuated by our government in our name for a century. Let us never forget that the use of the chemical weapons that once existed in Iraq was given a wink and a nod by Donald Rumsfeld personally. https://www.gwu.edu/... By the summer of 1983 Iran had been reporting Iraqi use of using chemical weapons for some time. The Geneva protocol requires that the international community respond to chemical warfare, but a diplomatically isolated Iran received only a muted response to its complaints [Note 1]. It intensified its accusations in October 1983, however + in November asked for a United Nations Security Council investigation. The U.S., which followed developments in the Iran-Iraq war with extraordinary intensity, had intelligence confirming Iran's accusations + describing Iraq's "almost daily" use of chemical weapons, concurrent with its policy review and decision to support Iraq in the war [Document 24]. The intelligence indicated that Iraq used chemical weapons against Iranian forces, and, according to a 00.Nov.1983 memo, against "Kurdish insurgents" as well [Document 25]. What was the Reagan administration's response? A State Department account indicates that the administration had decided to limit its "efforts against the Iraqi CW program to close monitoring because of our strict neutrality in the Gulf war, the sensitivity of sources + the low probability of achieving desired results." But the department noted in late November 1983 that "with the essential assistance of foreign firms, Iraq ha[d] become able to deploy and use CW and probably has built up large reserves of CW for further use. Given its desperation to end the war, Iraq may again use lethal or incapacitating CW, particularly if Iran threatens to break through Iraqi lines in a large-scale attack" [Document 25]. The State Department argued that the U.S. needed to respond in some way to maintain the credibility of its official opposition to chemical warfare + recommended that the National Security Council discuss the issue. Following further high-level policy review, Ronald Reagan issued National Security Decision Directive (NSDD) 114, dated November 26, 1983, concerned specifically with U.S. policy toward the Iran-Iraq war. The directive reflects the administration's priorities: it calls for heightened regional military cooperation to defend oil facilities + measures to improve U.S. military capabilities in the Persian Gulf + directs the secretaries of state and defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to take appropriate measures to respond to tensions in the area. It states, "Because of the real and psychological impact of a curtailment in the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf on the international economic system, we must assure our readiness to deal promptly with actions aimed at disrupting that traffic." It does not mention chemical weapons [Document 26]. Soon thereafter, Donald Rumsfeld (who had served in various positions in the Nixon and Ford administrations, including as President Ford's defense secretary + at this time headed the multinational pharmaceutical company G.D. Searle & Co.) was dispatched to the Middle East as a presidential envoy. His December 1983 tour of regional capitals included Baghdad, where he was to establish "direct contact between an envoy of President Reagan and President Saddam Hussein," while emphasizing "his close relationship" with the president [Document 28]. Rumsfeld met with Saddam + the two discussed regional issues of mutual interest, shared enmity toward Iran and Syria + the U.S.'s efforts to find alternative routes to transport Iraq's oil; its facilities in the Persian Gulf had been shut down by Iran + Iran's ally, Syria, had cut off a pipeline that transported Iraqi oil through its territory. Rumsfeld made no reference to chemical weapons, according to detailed notes on the meeting [Document 31]. And when they try and boot it up again with an alert or a military intensive, well, people aren't being rebooted. Their fear uptake receptors are all burned out now. Overused and completely non-responsive to images of death and destruction, threats of pillage and rape. I am very quizzical (and surely rambling) now because I'm not sure this has ever happened to so many people and so globally. I know people were really burned out after the two world wars. But what of this, in the absence of wide spread physical trauma as well? What will replace this knee-jerk fear response in the people? Perhaps Rumsfeld doesn't know either + so he sits late at night (in pressed boxers, no doubt) reading the blogs, on their websites + searching, searching, searching for the next thing. While the wife sleeps deeply, in an Ambien haze + the blue light of the computer screen winks friendly in the dark quiet of the inky air. The goal? Cutting a scourge in the sky that puts up to 152 million Americans at risk. From Forbes.com. Just substitute "corporations" for "angry wife," and "your personal data" for "cocaine straw." Commentary by Jennifer Granick. In einer Show kommen Hollywoodstars Charlie Sheen Bislang jeweils 15 Minuten an 4 Tagen seit dem 23.3. - Blackout der Printmedien - total to test the integrity of Diebold voting fraud machines, part of a recent $27 million statewide purchase (to make sure that only the "Right" candidates win). Diebold goon says machines are now jinxed and it may cost up to $40,000 to fly in a company witch-doctor to make sure there were no warranty violations. Since EVERY SINGLE VOTER who uses these machines is a potential hacker looking to alter election results, why is Diebold so concerned? " The article takes a look at some of the bloggers who are fighting for their rights and how. From the article: "The Iranian blogging community, known as Weblogistan, is relatively new. It sprang to life in 2001 after hard-liners -- fighting back against a reformist president -- shut down more than 100 newspapers and magazines + detained writers. At the time, Derakhshan posted instructions on the internet in Farsi on how to set up a weblog." 29.Mar.2006 Moussaoui-Prozess: Staatsanwalt verlangt die Todesstrafe Some have described the situation in Iraq as a tightening noose, noting that "time is not on our side"and that "morale is down." Others have described a "very dangerous" turn of events and are "extremely concerned." Who are they that have expressed these concerns? In fact, these are the exact words of terrorists discussing Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi + his associates - who are describing their own situation + must be watching with fear the progress that Iraq has made over the past three years. The terrorists seem to recognize that they are losing in Iraq. I believe that history will show that to be the case. Fortunately, history is not made up of daily headlines, blogs on Web sites or the latest sensational attack. History is a bigger picture + it takes some time and perspective to measure accurately. History, for Rumsfeld, would ideally be made up of neatly organized DOD press releases. Yet the legacy of this war will include the blogs. The internet has empowered the citizens of this country to preserve facts in the face of a relentless propaganda campaign. Where the administration has sought to cover-up and hide the reality of this conflict, blogs have stepped up to counter their revisionist history. As the scribes of a new millennium, we preserve in pixelated form every folly, every lie + every death Rumsfeld wishes was overshadowed by false claims of victory. Ultimately, it will be the truth-seekers, on and off the internet, that will shape the legacy of this war as an ill-conceived fraud perpetrated on the American public, as an endless war grossly mismanaged by those who breached the public trust. Hunderte von Freiwilligen schichteten Sandsäcke auf und bereiteten die Räumung von Gebäuden entlang der Moldau vor. Die Behörden hoffen, dass ein inzwischen installiertes Hochwasserschutzsystem seine Bewährungsprobe besteht. Normal sind etwa zwei Meter. Bei der Jahrhundertflut im August 2002 war in Dresden ein Höchststand der Elbe von 9,40 gemessen worden. Abgesehen davon wurde die Sieben-Meter-Marke in Dresden seit 65 Jahren nicht mehr erreicht. Auch bei diesem Vorhaben eines Speichers sprach Claassen von einem "Kraftwerk". Nach fünf Tagen informiert der Schichtleiter den Kraftwerksleiter, eine Woche nach dem Verschwinden erfährt das für die Atomaufsicht zuständige Umweltministerium davon. Stuttgart/Philippsburg - Die Spur der Schlüssel verliert sich am Nachmittag des 10. März. An jenem Montag, so der Stand der Ermittlungen, lässt sich ein Mitarbeiter des Kernkraftwerks im baden-württembergischen Philippsburg morgens im Block 1 einen Schlüsselbund aushändigen. Der Mann soll Kontrollarbeiten vornehmen, offenbar an einem Notstromaggregat, die Übergabe des Bundes wird ordnungsgemäß schriftlich dokumentiert. Stunden später sind die zwölf Schlüssel weg, drei davon ermöglichen den Zugang zu sicherheitsrelevanten Bereichen, allerdings nicht zum "primären Reaktorbereich", wie es heißt. Die baden-württembergischen Grünen kritisierten nach Bekanntwerden des Vorfalls in Philippsburg das Sicherheitssystem des Betreibers scharf. Die zugesagte neue Sicherheitsphilosophie des Energiekonzerns habe kläglich versagt, sagte der Grünen-Landtagsabgeordnete Boris Palmer. Die Proteste gegen die Reform gehen unvermindert weiter. In mehreren Städten des Landes blockierten Studenten am Vormittag Verkehrswege. Im westfranzösischen Rennes bildeten sich deshalb Staus von Dutzenden Kilometern Länge. Die zweitgrößte französische Gewerkschaft CGT rief für Donnerstag und Freitag zu Streiks im Öffentlichen Dienst gegen die Reform auf. Gemeinsam wollen die Gewerkschaften einen weiteren großen Streiktag am nächsten Dienstag organisieren. Villepins einst hohe Popularität hat in der Krise erheblich gelitten. Die Zeitung "Le Monde" berichtet, Villepin habe weitere sieben Punkte auf 29 % verloren. Dem widersprach allerdings Regierungssprecher Jean-François Copé: Die Mehrheit stehe vereint hinter Villepin und dem CPE. Mit Spannung wird die für morgen erwartete Entscheidung des Verfassungsrates über das Reformgesetz erwartet, das Mittel- und Großbetrieben die Möglichkeit gibt, bei jungen Arbeitnehmern in den ersten beiden Jahren Kündigungen ohne Grund auszusprechen. Dabei geht es um das Eilverfahren, mit dem Villepin das Gesetz durch das Parlament gebracht hatte. Erklärt der Verfassungsrat dieses für unzulässig, müsste es nochmals in die Nationalversammlung. Villepin, der die Rücknahme des Gesetzes ablehnt, bekäme dann die Möglichkeit, Änderungen vorzunehmen. Auch Staatschef Jacques Chirac könnte das Gesetz vor Inkrafttreten nochmals an das Parlament verweisen. Er ließ ankündigen, er wolle sich "in den nächsten Tagen" zu dem Streit äußern. Auf rund 400 Kilometern Länge soll dazu ein Pilotsystem am Great Barrier Reef, dem weltweit größten Riff, installiert werden. Das neue System ist Herzstück eines Plans, auf den sich 60 Experten aus zehn Ländern am heutigen Mittwoch bei ihrem Treffen in Townsville an der Nordostküste von Australien einigten. Am Ende soll ein Netzwerk von Sensoren stehen, das auf Riffen, die über den gesamten Erdball verteilt sind, Verschmutzung und Temperaturen misst. Die Empfänger der Messdaten wurden bereits in Taiwan, Florida und in der Südsee getestet. Die Ausbreitung der Parasiten bedeutet aber nicht nur für Jäger, sondern auch für Wildhüter Schwierigkeiten: Offenbar ist der Läuseplage kaum Herr zu werden. Der Kampf scheint inzwischen an vielen Fronten zugunsten der neuen Erreger auszugehen, wie Rudi Balling, Leiter der vom Bund betriebenen Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung, im Gespräch mit dem SPIEGEL ONLINE feststellt. "Unser Gesundheitssystem ist nicht optimal vorbereitet, es kommen nur noch sehr selten neue Wirkstoffe auf den Markt." Die aber wären nötig, um den tödlichen Erregern den Garaus zu machen. "Die Industrie hat sich in den letzten Jahren immer mehr aus der Entwicklung neuer antiinfektiver Medikamente und Impfstoffe zurückgezogen", sagt Balling. Die Erklärung sei relativ einfach: "Die Entwicklung dauert lange und ist extrem kostenintensiv." weil die neue Bakteriengeneration Streptococcus pneumoniae den meisten Medikamenten trotzt. "Nipah kam gewissermaßen aus dem Nichts", erklärt Klaus Stark, Experte für Zoonosenerkrankungen am Berliner Robert-Koch-Institut (RKI) im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Vermeiden kann man solche Ausbrüche ohnehin nicht." Unendliches Reservoir, keine Medikamente Derartige Ausbrüche, bei denen bislang völlig unbekannte Krankheitserreger auftauchen, sind keinesfalls neu - nehmen aber seit Jahren zu. Als nahezu sicher gilt, dass die Killerviren zunächst im Tierreich auftreten + erst danach, nach entsprechenden Mutationen des Erbguts, auf den Menschen überspringen. Neue Seuchen beunruhigen Experten Von Vlad Georgescu Regierungen in aller Welt planen Maßnahmen gegen eine Vogelgrippe-Pandemie, doch Experten fürchten noch eine andere Gefahr: tödliche Viren und Bakterien, die noch niemand erforscht hat - und gegen die es keine Medikamente gibt. Seit Anfang März rätseln Epidemiologen und Mediziner in aller Welt über das, was ihre Kollegen aus der indischen Provinz Orissa am Golf von Bengalen alarmiert gemeldet haben: Ein bislang unbekannter und bis heute noch unidentifizierter Erreger hat innerhalb kürzester Zeit rund 3000 Menschen infiziert + bei den Erkrankten hohes, teilweise lebensbedrohliches Fieber ausgelöst. Das Virus hat sich derart rasant verbreitet, dass indische Behörden die internationale Forschergemeinschaft um Unterstützung gebeten haben. AP Begräbnis von Ebola-Toten in Zaire 1995: Tropische Gebiete in Afrika und Asien gelten als Wiege neuer Seuchen machte dabei nicht einmal vor isolierten Lebensräumen halt - zu den Infizierten zählen auch Insassen des staatlichen Gefängnisses. Von "epidemischen Zügen" sprach der staatliche Chefmediziner des Distrikts, Premananda Patnaik. Die Analyse von immerhin 857 Blutproben förderte nur wenig Verwertbares zu Tage. Immerhin: Die Epidemie stand in keinerlei Verbindung zur weltumspannenden Vogelgrippe, wie die Untersuchungen belegten. Welcher Erreger aber am Werk war, bleibt ein Rätsel. Es war, heißt es im internen Infodienst der International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), eine "mysteriöse virale Attacke" die, so viel scheint klar, über die Luft übertragen wurde. Some have described the situation in Iraq as a tightening noose, noting that "time is not on our side"and that "morale is down." Others have described a "very dangerous" turn of events and ... 30.Mar.2006 Katastrophenalarm: Wassermassen bedrohen Dresden 30.Mar.2006 Wirbelsturm: Neuer Zyklon bedroht Australien 29.Mar.2006 Warten auf Vista: Analysten sehen Schaden für Microsoft 29.Mar.2006 Bushs Pannenserie: Frühjahrsputz im Weißen Haus 29.Mar.2006 Israel: Olmerts Kadima gewinnt Wahl |