| 23.Feb.2009 https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/business/24bank.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=print “The capital needs of major U.S. banking institutions will be evaluated under a more challenging economic environment,” the administration said. “Should that assessment indicate that an additional capital buffer is warranted,” it continued, the banks could be required to give the government a right to acquire common shares, with voting rights. The Obama administration put the nation’s biggest banks on notice Monday that the government could become their biggest shareholder if regulators decide they are not strong enough to weather a deeper-than-expected ... US regulators eye more bank capital, common equity Reuters Und der ist groß: Die Mehrheit der Briten zweifelt an der Evolution, 40 % will Kreationismus im Biologieunterricht, ergab eine Umfrage aus dem Jahr 2006. 23.Feb.2009 Debatte über weltweites Finanzsystem: "Keine Ausnahmen für Schattenbanken" (Politik) 21.Jul,2002 -am- holten Männer in schwarzen Skimasken Binyam Mohamed am Flughafen in Islamabad ab, zogen ihn nackt aus, legten ihm eine Windel an, verbanden seine Augen und verklebten seinen Mund. -des nächsten Morgens- um 22.Jul,2002 03.43 Uhr In einer von der CIA gecharterten Gulfstream N 379 P, in Geheimdienstkreisen auch als "torture taxi" bekannt, landete Mohamedin Rabat/Marokko. Wir wollten, dass er davon erfährt. Aber alle wesentlichen Teile meines Briefes an ihn wurden geschwärzt. Man muss sich das einmal vorstellen: Sie hindern ihren Obersten Befehlshaber daran, Dinge zu erfahren, über die er informiert sein sollte. Ich habe Barack Obama geschrieben, dass ihm der Zugang zu Geheimdienstinformationen verweigert wird, mit denen sich wohl nachweisen ließe, dass US-Beamte sich strafbar gemacht haben. Stafford Smith: Wir müssen unterscheiden, es geht bei Binyam immer um zwei sehr verschiedene Anliegen. Das erste war seine schnellstmögliche Rückkehr nach Großbritannien, das zweite sind die Beweise für Folter in seinem Fall. Seine Rückkehr betreffend war die Rolle der britischen Regierung sehr positiv. Sie haben zahlreiche Anstrengungen unternommen, ihn zurückzuholen und diese Angelegenheit sehr ernst genommen. Dafür kann ich sie eigentlich gar nicht genug loben. Was aber die Folter betrifft, hat sich die Regierung alles andere als gut verhalten. Sie versteckt Dinge und hält Dokumente zurück, die Beweise für die stattgefundene Folter enthalten. 23.Feb.2009 Guantanamo-Anwalt Stafford Smith: "Mit mittelalterlichen Methoden gefoltert" (Politik) 23.Feb.2009 Maroder Autohersteller: US-Regierung trifft Vorsorge für GM-Pleite (Wirtschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Umstrittene Wirtschaftshilfe: EU-Kommission scheitert mit Konjunkturpaket (Wirtschaft) The money came from a Citibank account in New York held by the National Bank of Ethiopia, that country’s central bank. Prosecutors said the conspirators, contacted by Citibank to verify the transactions, posed as Ethiopian bank officials and approved the transfers. Muhahaha, wie im Fernsehen! Hat aber nicht lange gehalten, die Freude, weil der Depp in die USA eingereist ist. Mr. Amos was arrested last month as he tried to enter the United States through Los Angeles, a prosecutor, Marcus A. Asner, said in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Die haben das überhaupt nur gemerkt, weil einige der Zielbanken in den Überweisungen die Kohle zurück geschickt haben, weil sie da was nicht zuordnen konnten. The entire high command of Colombia's secret police, the Das, has been asked to resign by the agency's director, Felipe Munoz Gomez. [...] What started as allegations that some rogue agents of the Das (Department of Administrative Security) could have intercepted the phone calls and e-mails of judges, politicians, government officials and journalists, appear now to be accepted as fact. The information garnered from their wire taps could have been passed on to criminal elements, drug-traffickers, paramilitaries and even Marxist rebels. Movers and Shakers of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta ... 31.Aug.2008 The Safari Club's network included the Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Ashraf Marwan of Egyptian intelligence, ... moversandshakersofthesmom.blogspot.com/2008/08/alexandre-de-marenches.html Bilderberg.org :: View topic - Did "Le Cercle" Kill Diana? His pet project was the " Safari Club ," which Vaughan describes as "a consortium ... everyone mentioned in the former chapter concerning Ashraf Marwan . Mystery CIA officer reveals bombshell to Joe Trento - Democratic ... 00.Jul.2008 Safari Club was created during Poppy's CIA reign ... (Friends of Rumsfeld), Ashraf Marwan (Egyptian intelligence) and Kamal Adham (BCCI). ... www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x128884 Cannonfire Prince Turki belonged to a mysterious power group called The Safari Club , ... Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Ashraf Marwan of the Egyptian intelligence, ... cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/12/mysterious-prince-turki-al-faisal.html Le Cercle - Secret Transnational Intelligence He is said to have closed down the Safari Club after it’s existence was ... Close associate of controversial people like Ashraf Marwan ("Dr. Death"), ... www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_lecercle01.htm 23.Feb.2009 Gewaltopfer: Kindesmisshandlung verändert die Stressgene (Wissenschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Weltfinanzgipfel: Trichet besteht auf strengerer Regulierung der Finanzmärkte (Wirtschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Terrorismus: Sawahiri erklärt Jemen zum Schlachtfeld (Politik) 23.Feb.2009 Europäischer Energieriese: Vattenfall kauft Nuon für 8,5 Milliarden Euro (Wirtschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Millionenverluste: Städte verzocken sich mit riskanten Leasing-Geschäften (Wirtschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Arktis: Küstenerosion in Alaska nimmt dramatisch zu (Wissenschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Prognose: Deutschland verliert Einwohner (Panorama) 23.Feb.2009 Appell an Staat und Verbände: Özdemir warnt vor Antisemitismus bei Muslimen (Politik) 23.Feb.2009 Neugier in Mexiko: Uni zwingt Studentinnen zu Intim-Auskunft (UniSPIEGEL) 23.Feb.2009 Heute in den Feuilletons: "Presse im Würgegriff" (Kultur) 23.Feb.2009 Autokonzern: Opel-Betriebsratschef fordert Geld von Bund und Ländern (Wirtschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Lernfähiger Routenplaner: Big Navi is watching you (Auto) 23.Feb.2009 Influenzaforschung: Universal-Grippeimpfung rückt näher (Wissenschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Ungleiche Bezahlung: Lohnabstand von Frauen in Deutschland wird größer (Wirtschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Konjunktur: Deutsche Bank sieht Wirtschaft um mehr als fünf % schrumpfen (Wirtschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Angeschlagene US-Bank: Citigroup braucht deutlich höhere Staatshilfe (Wirtschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Lidl-Vorstand Goudsblom: "Wir haben große Fehler gemacht" (Wirtschaft) 23.Feb.2009 https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/world/asia/23notebook.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print SFCG Co Ltd (8597.T), a lender to smaller companies, failed on Monday as tightening credit hits businesses throughout the Japanese economy, and shares of other non-bank lenders fell sharply amid fears of ... Japanese 10-Year Bonds Rise as Stock Slide Lures Buyers to Debt Bloomberg He believes that if radio had been invented today the record labels would have tried to shut that down too. “But just as the radio and cassettes haven’t killed music, it is a preposterous claim to say that file-sharing does,” Solhjell told VG nett. 22.Feb.2009 Finanzkrise: Politiker befürchten Inflation durch Konjunkturhilfen (Wirtschaft) 'Cybot' Development For Network Defense - Soulskill lwbrown writes with this excerpt from Government Computer News about a concept being explored at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: "UNTAME is the product of a long-term program by the division's Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Group to develop futuristic security functionality for increasingly large, complex environments. The cybots differ from traditional software agents in that they form a collective and are aware of the condition and activities of other cybots in the collective. 'You give it a mission and tools to work with, such as mobility and intrusion sensors, and it uses those tools and cooperates with other cybots to accomplish the mission," said Lawrence MacIntyre, one of the project's developers.'" https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/f7NsO_R_8Fo/article.pl Most Extreme Gamma-Ray Blast Yet Detected - Soulskill Matt_dk sends in a quote from a story at NASA: "The first gamma-ray burst to be seen in high-resolution from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is one for the record books. The blast had the greatest total energy, the fastest motions and the highest-energy initial emissions ever seen. ... Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most luminous explosions. Astronomers believe most occur when exotic massive stars run out of nuclear fuel. As a star's core collapses into a black hole, jets of material — powered by processes not yet fully understood — blast outward at nearly the speed of light. The jets bore all the way through the collapsing star and continue into space, where they interact with gas previously shed by the star and generate bright afterglows that fade with time. ... Fermi team members calculated that the blast exceeded the power of approximately 9,000 ordinary supernovae, if the energy was emitted equally in all directions." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/faIXvrDyFak/article.pl A Surveillance Camera On Every Chicago Street Corner? - Soulskill Mike writes "Chicago Mayor Daley has stated that if his Olympic dreams come true, by 2016 there will be a surveillance camera on 'every street corner in Chicago.' Just like in London, elected officials all over America appear to be happily advancing a 'surveillance society' without regard for civil rights or privacy concerns. Ray Orozco, executive director of Chicago's Office of Emergency Management and Communications is quoted as saying, 'We're going to grow the system until we eventually cover one end of the city to the other.'" Chicago has been developing its surveillance network for some time, but it seems they plan to continue increasing the scale. https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OEAyaa7-kTI/article.pl tether strength Wisconsin Passes Digital Download Tax - Soulskill McGruber writes with news that the State of Wisconsin has passed legislation to extend sales tax to digital downloads. The new law will go into effect on October 1st. Estimates suggest that the 5% tax on "downloads of music, games, books, ring tones and other video entertainment" will bring in $6.7 million annually. "[Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle] has been fighting for the change for years. He and other state officials say it is a matter of fairness: Internet vendors shouldn't have a tax-exempt advantage over Wisconsin's brick-and-mortar retail stores." Similar legislation has been proposed in North Carolina, and we've previously discussed New York's foray into taxing sales made online in addition to downloaded purchases. https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xbw3m2CzSoY/article.pl ISPs worry that Net safety bills would outlaw e-mail Proposed Internet Safety Act would outlaw an Net service that "facilitates access to" illegal content. Providers worry that this could include the mere provision of e-mail, other services. https://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10168704-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5 Home repossessions rise to 40,000 Home repossessions last year rose by 54% to 40,000, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7900854.stm Italy passes emergency rape law Italy rushes through a law on sexual violence and illegal immigration after a spate of rapes blamed on foreigners. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/7902107.stm Ridge: We were wrong to torture Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge accepts some recent criticisms of the US "war on terror" . https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/7903516.stm Adams call to chase 'bad bankers' Bank executives should be brought before the courts if they have broken the law, says Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/northern_ireland/7902986.stm Brown wants 'old-fashioned' banks Gordon Brown is demanding the return of prudence and sobriety in high street banks. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/7903985.stm Watchdog probes Tory backer The elections watchdog launches an inquiry into donations to the Tory Party by the company of party backer Lord Ashcroft. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/7904033.stm Huge protest over Irish economy Thousands of people gather in Dublin city centre to protest at the Irish government's handling of the recession. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/7903518.stm Earthjustice Wants Companies to List Chemicals in Household Cleaners Examine a bottle of Palmolive dishwasher soap or Tide laundry detergent and try to figure out what chemicals they use to break down grease or produce suds. Stuck? You're not alone. Those chemicals aren't listed. https://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=chemicals-in-household-cleaners Drought to cut off federal water to Calif. farms Source: www.sunherald.com - 2 Federal water managers said Friday that they plan to cut off water, at least temporarily, to thousands of California farms as a result of the deepening drought gripping the state. https://www.rssmicro.com/article/Drought_to_cut_off_federal_water_to_Calif_farms.i243846350.html World leaders in CO2 now talk climate change Source: blogs.zdnet.com - 3 Today you can read headlines that would have been unthinkable four months ago. American and chinese political leaders discuss what their nations can do about climate change. The new U.S. Secretary of State has invited China to join her country in working against global warming. China and the U.S. are the global leaders in CO2 emissions. China has moved into the overall league lead with its numerous coal-burning electric generation plants. Meanwhile, don't we need to reclaibrate all the estimates based on the current real-world status of the recession/depression? I suspect nearly all economic activity has slowed a lot, save perhaps ethanol production for human consumption. https://www.rssmicro.com/article/World_leaders_in_CO2_now_talk_climate_change.i244177901.html TV's Autopsy star bemoans modern policing Linda Geddes, reporter Things just aren't like the old days - especially when it comes to solving murders. Michael Baden, chief forensic pathologist for the New York State Police and presenter of HBO's Autopsy complains that the murder solve rate was 80% when he embarked upon his career in the 1960s, but today just 50% of murders in the US get solved, despite great leaps forward in terms of forensics - including DNA testing. https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/02/tvs-autopsy-star-bemoans-moder.html Now Issa cares about taking extra measures to preserve White House e-mails. - Matt Corley In a letter to White House Counsel Gregory Craig today, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the ranking Republican on the House Oversight Committee, “called on President Obama to put in place a system that ensures all White House emails be preserved even if official business was done through private e- mail accounts.” This newfound interest in the use of outside e-mail accounts at the White House is ironic, considering his dismissal of such concerns when Democrats investigated the Bush administration’s use of RNC e-mail accounts: Republicans accused the Democrats of pursuing the investigation simply to dig up dirt on Rove and waste hundreds of thousands of dollars of money that the RNC could be using to shore up its candidates’ campaigns. “Are we simply going on a fishing expedition at $40,000 to $50,000 a month?” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) asked National Archives and White House officials at the hearing. “Do any of you know of a single document, because this committee doesn’t, that should’ve been in the archives but in fact was done at the RNC?” 00.000.2007, the House Oversight Committee discovered that at least 88 Bush White House officials, including former adviser Karl Rove and former chief of staff Andrew Card, had RNC e-mail accounts. Additionally, the RNC has preserved no e-mails for 51 officials and had major gaps in the e-mail records of the 37 White House officials for whom the RNC did preserve e-mails. https://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/19/issa-white-house-emails/ “Demand at food banks across the country increased by 30 % 00.000.2008 from the previous year,” according to a survey by Feeding America. Even food pantries in upscale communities are seeing an uptick in demand. “These are people who never really had to ask for help before,” said Brenda Beavers of the Salvation Army. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/nyregion/20food.html?ref=todayspaper Security for the Bush family costing Dallas more than $1 million annually. - Amanda Terkel The Star-Telegram has a report on the tight security surrounding George W. and Laura Bush’s move into their Dallas home. Police officers have been turning away vehicles trying to enter the Preston Hollow neighborhood, “explaining that it is closed to the general public.” While there will soon be a private security gate going up (paid for by the Bush family, not the federal government as previously reported), the city is racking up close to $1 million annually in security expenses for the former president. They have also “barricaded the entrance to Daria Drive, allowing only neighbors and people on a special list to enter.” One resident a few doors down said he has yet to even be allowed to “walk down by the Bush home.” https://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/20/bush-dallas-list/ Phil ‘mental recession’ Gramm attempts to resuscitate his reputation. - Pat G. This month, Time released a list of the top 25 people to blame for the financial crisis. Second on the list (and leading its readers’ poll) is former Sen. Phil Gramm (R-TX). Gramm advised Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) during the presidential campaign, famously referring to America as a “nation of whiners” in a “mental recession.” In the 90s, he also played an instrumental role in deregulating the financial sector. Today, Gramm has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal denying that the deregulation he promoted had anything to do with the financial crisis. Gramm relied on a series of tired conservative tropes — like blaming the Community Reinvestment Act and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — in an attempt to exonerate himself from well-deserved culpability. The Wonk Room has more. https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1878509_1878508,00.html https://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/20/gramm-reputation/ Fleischer: On Iraq, ‘Saddam was the big liar.’ - Ryan Powers In an interview set to air over the weekend on ’s D. L. Hughley Breaks the News, Ari Fleischer admits that the Bush administration was wrong to claim that Saddam Hussein had WMD in the lead up to the Iraq war, but still insists that Saddam was at fault for the war. “Saddam was the big liar here,” Fleischer concludes: FLEISCHER: We were wrong about weapons of mass destruction being in Iraq. […] HUGHLEY: When you found out that you were wrong, how did that make you feel? FLEISCHER: You just scratch your head and say, “How could we be wrong?” It wasn’t just us that thought he had weapons of mass destruction. The Egyptians thought it, the French thought it, the Germans thought it the United Nations thought it, Bill Clinton’s CIA though it. We all thought it. Saddam was the big liar here. https://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/20/fleischer-big-liar/ Taguba backs commission to investigate Bush-era abuses. - Guest Blogger Last summer, former Abu Ghraib investigator ret. Army Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba said that the Bush administration had “committed war crimes” and needed to be “held to account.” Yesterday, 18 human rights organizations, former State Department officials, and former law enforcement and military leaders — including Taguba — signed onto a letter asking the President to create a non-partisan commission to investigate the Bush administration’s torture policies. In a new interview with Salon, he explains why: I feel we have to come to terms with policies that have gained such notoriety and have been debated about whether they were in the best interest of our national security, and whether those who created these policies were pressured by their senior leadership. […] [I support] a structured commission with some form of authority with clear objectives and a follow-on action plan. I’m not looking for anything that is prosecutorial in nature, unless a suspected violation of relevant laws occurred, which should be referred to the Dept of Justice. https://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/20/taguba-commission/ https://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/02/21/taguba/ Indeed, 00.000.1988 Reagan signed the U.N. convention against torture — which the Bush administration later called “quaint.” Bush’s departure from Reagan wasn’t confined to torture. According to Lou Cannon of the Washington Post, Reagan said that any retaliation that killed innocent civilians is “itself a terrorist act.” Bunch observed at TPM Cafe this week, “As relates to Iraq, Reagan would have been appalled at the military strategy underpinning the 00.Mar.2003 assault, the heavy bombing tactic known as ’shock and awe.’” https://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1079/is_n2137_v88/ai_6742034 https://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/18/the_reagan_myth_and_the_iraq_war/ As Michael Hitzik wrote of the banks, “We bought them. We own them. The only problem is that we’ve failed to exercise our right to control them.” Indeed, another benefit of nationalizing is the opportunity to wipe the bank’s management slates clean. But if nationalization occurs, it needs to be done in a quick manner. There’s danger in allowing the banks to sit on the government’s hands for too long; “prolonged government intervention in the Indian and Chinese banking systems led to major inefficiencies, which stymied economic growth.” If Not Nationalization, Then What? https://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/21/nationalizing-banks/ Former Bush administration officials are having trouble finding work. - Ben Armbruster The Wall Street Journal reports today that “for many of the roughly 3,000 political appointees who served President George W. Bush, [f]inding work has proved a far tougher task than those appointees expected”: Only 25% to 30% of ex-Bush officials seeking full-time jobs have succeeded, estimated Eric Vautour, a Washington recruiter at Russell Reynolds Associates Inc. That “is much, much worse” than when Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton left the White House, he said. At least half those presidents’ senior staffers landed employment within a month after the administration ended, Mr. Vautour recalled. Carlos Gutierrez, Commerce secretary under President Bush, blamed the struggling economy. “This is not a great time for anyone to be job hunting, including numerous former political appointees,” he said. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales feels the same way, but his successor, Michael Mukasey, didn’t seem to have any problem landing a job. https://www.eschatonblog.com/2009_02_15_archive.html#1984015493762255864 However, these are not worst case scenarios, and I will spare you the details of those, as they are truly sickening. > Previously: 27.Jan.2009 Residential Real Estate Price Freefall () https://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/01/residential-real-estate-price-freefall/ 18.Feb.2009 Homes: Still Too Pricey to Stabilize () https://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/02/homes-still-too-pricey-to-stabilize/ 21.Feb.2009 Source: Double Trouble ALAN ABELSON Barron’s https://online.barrons.com/article/SB123517396995937201.html So, will the highest level of government be receptive to the bank-nationalization idea? “I think it will,” Mr. Roubini says, unhesitatingly. “People like Graham and Greenspan have already given their explicit blessing. This gives Obama cover.” And how long will it be before the administration goes in formally for nationalization? “I think that we’re going to see the policy adopted in the next few months . . . in six months or so.” Good stuff . . . > Source: NOURIEL ROUBINI: ‘Nationalize’ the Banks Dr. Doom says a takeover and resale is the market-friendly solution. TUNKU VARADARAJAN WSJ, OPINION: THE WEEKEND INTERVIEW 20.Feb.2009 10:59 P.M. https://online.wsj.com/article/SB123517380343437079.html ‘Nationalize’ the Banks https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBigPicture/~3/a9sAFrxUhjU/ Lord Nicholas Stern Paints Dire Climate Change Scenario: Mass Migrations, Extended World War Source: www.huffingtonpost.com - 42 CAPE TOWN, South Africa — If we don't deal with climate change decisively, "what we're talking about then is extended world war," the eminent economist said. His audience Saturday, small and elite, had been stranded here by bad weather and were talking climate. They couldn't do much about the one, but the other was squarely in their hands. And so, Lord Nicholas Stern was telling them, was the potential for mass migrations setting off mass conflict. "Somehow we have to explain to people just how worrying that is," the British economic thinker said. Stern, author of a major British government report detailing the cost of climate change, was one of a select group of two dozen _ environment ministers, climate negotiators and experts from 16 nations _ scheduled to fly to Antarctica to learn firsthand how global warming might melt its ice into the sea, raising ocean levels worldwide. Their midnight flight was scrubbed on Friday and Saturday because of high winds on the southernmost continent, 3,000 miles from here. While waiting at their Cape Town hotel for the gusts to ease down south, chief sponsor Erik Solheim, Norway's environment minister, improvised with group exchanges over coffee and wine about the future of the planet. "International diplomacy is all about personal relations," Solheim said. "The more people know each other, the less likely there will be misunderstandings." Understandings will be vital in this "year of climate," https://www.rssmicro.com/article/Lord_Nicholas_Stern_Paints_Dire_Climate_Change.i244245211.html Catli Grossman The Documents: 1594-1710 What has happened is that the once unbroken facade of memorial reconstruction has now cracked and its complacent contents are spilling out. ... www.ericsams.org/print_only_version_sams_the_real_shakespeare_II.pdf Women in power BCE 20070508 May 2007 Conspiracy theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In doing so, they attempt to rebut ... Emil Georg von Stauß, der Manager der IG-Farben + ... alfatomega.com/20070508.html Emil Georg von Stauß – Wikipedia 04.Jan.2009 Emil Georg von Stauss (1929). Emil Georg von Stauß (* 6. ... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Georg_von_Stauß (Weitergeleitet von Emil Georg von Stauss). Wechseln zu: Navigation, Suche. 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Juli gab der Schweizer Ingenieur Ulrich Lumpert eine Erklärung ab, ... und seine Falschaussage im Prozess 2001 strafrechtlich verjährt. 18.Jul.2007 -from the- The affidavit of Ex-MEBO engineer Ulrich Lumpert ... für kriminelle Manipulationen an Beweisen und Falschaussagen zu suchen? www.lockerbie.ch/ Balkan Forum | Druckvorschau: Lockerbie-Anschlag wird neu ... 18.Jul.2007 -The document is dated- + signed by Ulrich Lumpert who worked as an ... Darüber hinaus war er schon früher in den USA wegen Falschaussage ... www.balkanforum.org/print.php?threadid=1197&page=1&sid=87c1445a8b1d08164ed71d36f8d77bbe It chose to submit, and concluded a very disadvantageous agreement with the “oil trust”. The Deutsche Bank agreed “not to attempt anything which might injure American interests”. Provision was made, however, for the annulment of the agreement in the event of Germany establishing a state oil monopoly. Emil Georg von Stauss , Generaldirektor der Deutschen Bank Berlin jüdischer Abkunft142 ... www.scribd.com/doc/8291150/Wolfgang-Eggert-IsraelsGeheimvatikan-III-2002 The Path to 9-11 ... www.piratenews.org/911con.html Michael Novak verrät uns den tieferen Sinn der religiösen Renaissance: Der Mann ist Chefideologe des 1980 gegründeten „ Institut für Religion und Demokratie “ ... cms.freidenker.org/index.php?id=239 Antiwar.com Blog · Luke Ryland ... a top Turkish gangster and hitman called Abdullah Catli . Ryland: Yeah – in Ankara in fact, when Grossman was the ambassador in Turkey, ... www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/02/28/luke-ryland/ Rastî: DEEP STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE It was Turkish state assassins, like Abdullah Catli , who carried out the ... 00.000.2005 -at the beginning of- Why did Grossman resign from the State Department when ... rastibini.blogspot.com/2007/03/deep-state-secrets-privilege.html 00.Feb.2008 Rastî: ... Marc Grossman was the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs; and Joseph Ralston was the Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff. rastibini.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html Paul Wolfowitz, Marc Grossman , Eric Edelman, and Stephen Solarz. ... www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x415126 Sibel Edmonds & the Neocon Turkish Gravy-Train - Democratic ... Other noted neoconservatives linked to Turkey are former State Department number three, Marc Grossman , current Pentagon Undersecretary of Defense for Policy ... www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3062584 Endlich zeigt sich auch die Schulmedizin ernsthaft interessiert. Die Heidelberger Universitätsklinik beginnt eine Studie mit 25 Patienten, die an der Transthyretin-Amyloidose leiden, einer verwandten Erkrankung. Werden die Wirkstoffe, die Hunstein helfen, auch bei den Probanden die Eiweißablagerungen stoppen und sogar auflösen? An der Charité in Berlin läuft ebenfalls eine klinische Studie über die Wirkung von EGCG an Patienten, die an Multipler Sklerose leiden. Die Ergebnisse des Molekularbiologen Erich Wanker sind inzwischen in "Nature" erschienen, einer der weltweit wichtigsten Zeitschriften für Naturwissenschaften. 02.Apr.2009 in London. Ein Stratege operiert geheim; er täuscht, legt falsche Spuren, hebt Fallgruben aus, lauert hinter Hecken. Er hat allerdings Vorsorge dafür zu treffen, dass dies alles zugleich als "authentisch" erscheint, also mit dem "Saum des Glaubens" ausgestattet wird. Seit jeher kümmert sich erfolgreiche Führung darum, ihr Tun moralisch zu verbrämen. Jedenfalls: Aus diesem Holz scheinen die harten Führernaturen des politischen Establishments häufig geschnitzt zu sein. Die Vetomächte müssen ihre Routineeinwände unter dem Druck der aufgeschreckten Öffentlichkeit zurückstellen. Der Exekutive werden in den Zeiten des Notfalls außerordentliche Befugnisse eingeräumt. Die sonst sperrigen Institutionen dürfen zwischenzeitlich übergangen werden. Und in der Regel erweist es sich überdies als Vorteil, nicht über die Maßen klug zu sein. Der Mangel an Zweifel am eigenen Tun erleichtert das politische Führungsleben, während Skrupel und Reflexionswut es erheblich beschweren. 23.Feb.2009 Kongo-Flüchtlinge: Uno warnt vor humanitärer Katastrophe (Politik) 23.Feb.2009 Geheimnis der Machtmenschen: Wieso Politiker nicht die Klügsten sind (Politik) 22.Feb.2009 Deutsch-polnisches Verhältnis: Zurück in die Eiszeit (Politik) 22.Feb.2009 Wirtschaftskrise: Deutsch-amerikanische Arbeitsgruppe berät über Opel-Rettung (Wirtschaft) 22.Feb.2009 G20-Treffen: Steinbrück fordert europäischen Schulterschluss (Politik) 21.Feb.2009 Landesbank: Kieler Regierung bereitet Nordbank-Rettung vor (Wirtschaft) 21.Feb.2009 Finanzkrise: Großdemo gegen irische Wirtschaftspolitik (Politik) 21.Feb.2009 Bank-Gehälter: Dicke Boni sind ein Fall für den Staatsanwalt (Wirtschaft) 21.Feb.2009 Konjunktur: Zweifel an schneller Wirkung von Rettungspaket (Wirtschaft) The Brazilians provided McClatchy with the bill of sale, but the ,,, (Root, of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, reported from Mexico City. Mangano East Carolina University Cornyn to make up for contributions from Stanford Fri 20.Feb.2009Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn said Friday he'll give $4,000 to charity to make up for contributions he accepted from Texas financier R. Allen Stanford. more... Stanford Financial Group https://www.star-telegram.com/804/v-print/story/1216698.html The fund’s losses were primarily attributed to domestic bond and hedge fund portfolios. Nunez and State Board of Education member Rick Agosto, D-San Antonio, raised questions about one hedge fund manager, Blackstone, asking the staff and Heiner for details about a portfolio manager who recently left the firm. "What I want to know is, again, I heard rumors that Blackstone had some problems and one of their portfolio managers . . . ," said Nunez, who didn’t detail the concern. Nunez and State Board of Education member Rick Agosto, D-San Antonio, raised questions about one hedge fund manager, Blackstone, asking the staff and Heiner for details about a portfolio manager who recently left the firm. "What I want to know is, again, I heard rumors that Blackstone had some problems and one of their portfolio managers . . . ," said Nunez, who didn’t detail the concern. Ecuador seize two units of Stanford Financial Group Who's on Drugs? - Tom (Daschle) and Trent (Lott) in a satirical conversation, by semitrue.com Lott, Trent Senate (R-Miss.) 1941 Vietnam cheerleader A note here to the reader notice the similarity in this passage and the Council of Conservative Citizens that Senator Lott and representative Barr supported before becoming embroiled in the resulting scandal in late 1998. 10 The web site for this white supremacist group described inter racial marriage to the mixing of chocolate milk with plain milk and labeled it as a path to racial extinction. They also described Lincoln as a communist. 11 minorities and the poor is centered about the debate to allow a statistical correction to the 2000 census. Such effort on the part of the Republicans goes far beyond the election of 2000. The census will be used to reapportionment of the congressional districts for the decade. Thus by denying the correction they in effect are perpetuating their power to the 2010 by undercounting groups that historically vote for Democrats. In 00.Dec.1998 Republican House member Bob Barr and Senator Trent Lott were exposed as keynote speakers before the Council of Conservative Citizens, a racist organization. Lott was later determined to have been an honorary member and had written several articles for their paper dating back to the early 1990 s. In 00.Jan.---- Republican National Chairmen, Jim Nicholson asked members to dissociated themselves from this group and directly appealed to national committee member Buddy Witherspoon from South Carolina to resign. The request was refused. 38 A note here to the reader notice the similarity in this passage and the Council of Conservative Citizens that Senator Lott and representative Barr supported before becoming embroiled in the resulting scandal in late 1998. 10 The web site for this white supremacist group described inter racial marriage to the mixing of chocolate milk with plain milk and labeled it as a path to racial extinction. They also described Lincoln as a communist. 11 Chicken Hawks : As introduced by PR Watch: What do George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Britt Hume, Rush Limbaugh, John Ashcroft, Tom DeLay, Trent Lott, Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reily and Jerry Falwell all have in common? They're all listed in the "Chickenhawk Database." Compiled by Vietnam veteran and newspaper editor Steve Fowle, the database lists pro-war pundits who "share three qualities: bellicosity (a warlike manner or temperament), public prominence, and a curious lack of wartime service when others their age had no trouble finding the fight." The Washington Post notes that many of "the nation's most persistent voices in support of military US History. Bush had said "Texas did not sign the Vienna Convention, so why should we be subject to it?" Many Christian Zionists are growing rapidly and significantly in their absolutist support of Israel, and Israel embraces their enthusiastic financial aid despite knowing that Christians believe Jews will go to Hell unless they accept Jesus Christ as their Lord + Savior. Senator Trent Lott, Rep. Tom Delay, Rep. Bob Barr, Rep. Dick Army, Senator Orrin Hatch and other Republican lawmakers are members of the Council for National Policy (CNP). The Council's leaders include one R. J. Rushdoony, founder of the Chalcedon Foundation. In his monthly newsletter, Rushdoony gives voice to those such as the Reverend William O. Einwechter, a Pennsylvania minister who is also the VP of the National Reform Association that pushes for a Christian government. Einwechter believes that parents should stone to death THE CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY In early 1998, Congressman Frank Wolf (R-VA) sponsored in the U.S. Congress a Freedom From Religious Persecution Act (HR 2431), ominously titled A Bill to Provide For The Office Of Religious Persecution Monitoring and to Provide for the Imposition of Sanctions against Countries Engaged in patterns of Religious Persecution and for Other Purposes. Upon its passage in the House of Representatives in May, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) introduced the bill to the Senate as S- 772. Debate concerning the legislation ensued among Christian conservatives while S-772 was stalled in committee for several months. However in late September, Republican leadership led by Trent Lott maneuvered a compromise version of the bill through Jesse Helms' Foreign Services Committee. On October 10, 1998, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed the International Religious Freedom Act. Provisions of the Act are provided on the Library of Congress web site; type S.1868 in the box "Search by Bill Number." As usual, the Bush administration, its cronies + compatriots + the corporate media are all doing their level best to redirect America's attention away from the idea that the Bush administration might have had an inkling - or more - of what was to come on 11.Sep.2001 . Former press secretary Ari Fleischer warned us to "watch what we say." George W. Bush + Dick Cheney + Donald Rumsfeld + Trent Lott + Robert Mueller + innumerable others tell us to be quiet, take what we're given + go away, at risk of being considered "contemptible," "despicable," "unpatriotic," or even worse, "aiding and abetting the cause of terrorism." > Das ist wahre Perversion. Alienation "Organisationen, die Lefebvre nahe stehen, haben die drei Teilstreitkräfte in der Doktrin des konterrevolutionären Kampfes unterrichtet und Zitate des heiligen Thomas von Aquin missbraucht, um Entführungen, Folter und geheime Hinrichtungen zu rechtfertigen". In dieser unseligen Tradition steht auch der Militärkaplan Cristian von Wernich. Der deutschstämmige Geistliche wurde vor anderthalb Jahren in einem Aufsehen erregenden Prozess wegen mehrfachen Mordes verurteilt: Während der Militärdiktatur war er bei Folterungen von Regimegegnern dabei gewesen und hatte die Schergen der Junta gesegnet. https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-608254,00.html Frage: Ist unsere Demokratie mittlerweile nicht gefestigt genug? Welzer: Unsere Gesellschaft ist in der Demokratie angekommen, aber sie hat noch keinen Schlechtwettertest bestanden. Es gibt die begründete Hypothese, dass die Loyalität der Bürger schwindet, sobald das System ihre Versorgungserwartungen nicht mehr erfüllt. Bereits jetzt erodiert die Zustimmung zur Demokratie in Bevölkerungsgruppen, die wirtschaftlich weniger Erfolg haben. Die Finanzkrise wird das Vertrauen in unser System nicht stärken. Da bröckelt so einiges SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - Umweltflüchtlinge Irgendwann kommen nicht nur ein paar Boote, sondern Millionen - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Wissenschaft Clyde O'Connor Desmantelan PGR y Hacienda ... (es) The Brazilians provided McClatchy with the bill of sale, but the (Root, of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, reported from Mexico City. So maybe this isn't the biggest downturn since The Great Depression? Maybe it's bigger than that. Maybe this is a corner-turn for the human race, maybe last September was when it finally occurred to us, collectively, that we couldn't keep going as we were going, and we hit the brakes in the way the Invisible Hand does. Maybe the efforts to "jump start" the economy won't work, and maybe that's as it should be, and maybe that's a good thing? https://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/02/15/maybeThisIsTheBigSlowdown.html Sea Sponge Extract Conquers Resistant Bacteria - kdawson Science News has an article on research into a compound found in a particular kind of sea sponge that seems to have the ability to restore antibiotics' effectiveness against resistant bacteria. The hope is that, since the compound is not itself deadly or even harmful to bacteria, it may skew the antibiotic-bacteria arms race in our favor. "Chemical analyses of the sponge's chemical defense factory pointed to a compound called algeferin. Biofilms, communities of bacteria notoriously resistant to antibiotics, dissolved when treated with fragments of the algeferin molecule. And new biofilms did not form. So far, the algeferin offshoot has, in the lab, successfully treated bacteria that cause whooping cough, ear infections, septicemia and food poisoning. The compound also works on... [MRSA] infections, which wreak havoc in hospitals. 'We have yet to find one that doesn't work,' says [one of the researchers]." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ktu41_eFuQM/article.pl High Tech Misery In China - kdawson theodp writes "Think you've got a bad job? Think again. You could be making keyboards for IBM, Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo and HP at Meitai Plastic and Electronics, a Chinese hardware factory. Prompted by the release of High Tech Misery in China by a human-rights group, a self-regulating body set up by tech companies will conduct an audit of working conditions at the factory. In return for take-home pay of 41 cents per hour, workers reportedly sit on hard wooden stools for 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Overtime is mandatory, with workers being given on average two days off per month. While on the production line, workers are not allowed to raise their hands or heads, are given 1.1 seconds to snap each key into place, and are encouraged to 'actively monitor each other' to see if any company rules are being transgressed. They are also monitored by guards. Workers are fined if they break the rules, locked in the factory for four days per week, and sleep in crowded dormitories. Okay, it's not all bad news — they're hiring." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OHOHj7HBQwc/article.pl Do We Need a New Internet? - kdawson Richard.Tao and a number of other readers sent in a NYTimes piece by John Markoff asking whether the Internet is so broken it needs to be replaced. "...[T]here is a growing belief among engineers and security experts that Internet security and privacy have become so maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start over. What a new Internet might look like is still widely debated, but one alternative would, in effect, create a 'gated community' where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety. Today that is already the case for many corporate and government Internet users. As a new and more secure network becomes widely adopted, the current Internet might end up as the bad neighborhood of cyberspace. You would enter at your own risk and keep an eye over your shoulder while you were there." A less alarmist reaction to the question was blogged by David Akin: "If you build a new Internet and you want me to get a license to drive on it, sorry. I'm hanging out here in v.1." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9YGpzCkcBYs/article.pl Collided Satellite Debris Coming Down? - kdawson Jamie found this Bad Astronomy blog on the many reports beginning about 7 of one or more fireballs in the sky across Texas. That blog's proprietor first doubted that the phenomena could be due to the satellites that collided in orbit last week, but later left the possibility open. The National Weather Service for Jackson, KY put out an announcement about possible explosions and earthquakes across the area and blamed the defunct satellites. "These pieces of debris have been causing sonic booms...resulting in the vibrations being felt by some residents...as well as flashes of light across the sky. The cloud of debris is likely the result of the recent in orbit collision of two satellites on Tuesday...February 10th when Kosmos 2251 crashed into Iridium 33." An Austin TV station has more reports. https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/w2jE5cMPs1U/article.pl Acquired Characteristics May Be Inheritable - kdawson A story from a week or so back in Technology Review describes research coming to the surprising conclusion that Jean-Baptiste Lamarck may have been right — that acquired characteristics can be passed on to offspring, at least in rodents. Lamarck's ideas have been controversial for 200 years, and dismissed in mainstream scientific thinking for nearly that long. "In Feig's study, mice genetically engineered to have memory problems were raised in an enriched environment — given toys, exercise, and social interaction — for two weeks during adolescence. The animals' memory improved... The mice were then returned to normal conditions, where they grew up and had offspring. This next generation of mice also had better memory, despite having the genetic defect and never having been exposed to the enriched environment." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EcMBccHEh0U/article.pl Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life - kdawson An anonymous reader sends us to Cosmos Magazine for a speculative article arguing that a 'shadow biosphere' may exist on Earth, unrelated to life as we know it. If such non-carbon-based life were found here at home, it would alter the odds for how common life is elsewhere in the universe, astrobiologists say. "The tools and experiments researchers use to look for new forms of life — such as those on missions to Mars — would not detect biochemistries different from our own, making it easy for scientists to miss alien life, even if [it] was under their noses. ... Scientists are looking in places where life isn't expected — for example, in areas of extreme heat, cold, salt, radiation, dryness, or contaminated streams and rivers. [One researcher] is particularly interested in places that are heavily contaminated with arsenic, which, he suggests, might support forms of life that use arsenic the way life as we know it uses phosphorus." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MNQR-ap5leI/article.pl Drug Giant Pledges Cheap Medicine For World's Poor - kdawson bmsleight writes in with a Guardian piece on the decision of the world's second biggest pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, to radically shift its attitude towards providing cheap drugs to millions of people in the developing world. "[The new CEO] said that GSK will... cut its prices for all drugs in the 50 least developed countries to no more than 25% of the levels in the UK and US — and less if possible — and make drugs more affordable in middle-income countries such as Brazil and India; put any chemicals or processes over which it has intellectual property rights that are relevant to finding drugs for neglected diseases into a 'patent pool,' so they can be explored by other researchers; and reinvest 20% of any profits it makes in the least developed countries in hospitals, clinics, and staff." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xQx8aRw2obI/article.pl Facebook's New Terms of Service - CmdrTaco An anonymous reader writes "Chris Walters writes about Facebook's new terms of service. 'Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want.'" Oh no! Now they'll be able to license your super flair goblin poke 25 tag history! https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tKdkl7odabY/article.pl Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean' - CmdrTaco Jantastic noted a BBC report saying "A Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision with a French nuclear sub in the middle of the Atlantic. It is understood HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant were badly damaged in the crash earlier this month. Despite being equipped with sonar, it seems neither vessel spotted the other, the BBC's Caroline Wyatt said." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yquDD9nwm9A/article.pl Earth Under Threat From Dark Comets - CmdrTaco An anonymous reader writes "Comets could be the most significant impact hazard to Earth, with sky surveys underestimating the number that are potentially devastating by a factor of between 10 and 100, U.K. astrophysicists say." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y0Gaubj9hOM/article.pl New York Wants To Tax Internet Downloads - CmdrTaco An anonymous reader writes "NY is considering taxing 'video and music' downloads to offset a burdgeoning budget deficit." How long before we all have meters on our routers? This version is just a 4% tax on movies and songs downloaded from services like iTunes, but I'm sure if they could figure out a bit tax, they would. https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pZuX8M0yzYE/article.pl Carbon Burial Research Grows as Huge Experiment Begins - Alexis Madrigal A new carbon sequestration project, sponsored by the Department of Energy, is underway in Illinois. It's a sign of the agency's continued support for the controversial climate-change tech. https://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/abbU44t9uIM/carbonstorage.html New Zimbabwe minister blames bank Zimbabwe's central bank is at the heart of the nation's economic decay, new Finance Minister Tendai Biti says. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/africa/7891761.stm Crash plane 'dropped in seconds' A plane that crashed onto a house in New York state killing 50 people dropped 800 feet in five seconds, officials say. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/7891770.stm Japan's economy in quarterly dive Japan's economy contracted by 3.3% in the final quarter of 2008 - its worst showing since the oil crisis of the 1970s, figures show. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7891849.stm CBI warning over recession cash The government will have to borrow £100bn more than thought to stave off the worst of the recession, the CBI says. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7891514.stm Warning over metal detector crime Britain's heritage is under threat from illegal metal detector users, or "nighthawkers", who face little threat of being caught, a report says. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/7891530.stm Russian output plummets further Russia's industrial output sank 16% in January from a year earlier after the sector was hit hard by the economic downturn. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7892528.stm Battle plan How UK's plans to tackle extremism are changing https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_7891000/7891612.stm Chavez wins chance of fresh term Venezuelans vote to scrap term limits on elected posts, paving the way for President Hugo Chavez to seek re-election. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/7891856.stm Anti-terror tactics 'weaken law' The UK and the US have 'actively undermined' international law in the way they fight terrorism, a jurists' group says. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/7892387.stm China warns against protectionism China warns against protectionist measures by other countries, amid fears such action could aggravate the economic slump. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7892070.stm Ice oceans 'are not poles apart' A marine census finds that at least 235 species live in both polar regions, despite being 12,000km apart. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7888558.stm Alien life 'may exist among us' Alien life-forms may be thriving right here on Earth, a physicist tells a major science conference. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7893414.stm Smith to scrap police timesheet Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says a police survey in England and Wales is to be scrapped to free up time. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk_politics/7892137.stm French Holocaust role recognised France's top court recognises the state's "responsibility" for deporting Jews in WWII, but says reparations have been made. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/7893127.stm Changing times Is innovation creating a cashless society? https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7850945.stm No 10 rules out Lloyds bank move Gordon Brown says he does not regret allowing the merger between Lloyds TSB and HBOS, as shares continue to slide. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7892125.stm Job cuts at Mini spark angry rows Angry agency staff confront union officials at BMW's Mini Cowley plant, after the carmaker confirmed 850 job cuts. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7891913.stm Nuclear subs collide in Atlantic A Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision with a French submarine in the middle of the Atlantic, the MoD says. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/7892294.stm If price of crude oil is dropping, why is cost of gas rising? Source: www.chron.com - 5 On Thursday, crude oil closed just under $34 a barrel, its lowest point for 2009. But the national average price of a gallon of gas rose to $1.95 on the same day, its peak for the year. On Friday gas went a penny higher. https://www.rssmicro.com/article/If_price_of_crude_oil_is_dropping_why_is_cost_of.i241771644.html Colgan Air operates a fleet of 51 regional turboprops including Continental Connection, United Express and US Airways Express. Ch https://www.rssmicro.com/article/Plane_that_crashed_near_Buffalo_was_on_autopilot.i241779232.html Scientists: Pace of Climate Change Exceeds Estimates Source: www.newscloud.com - 3 14.Feb.2009 CHICAGO-- The pace of global warming is likely to be much faster than recent predictions, because industrial greenhouse gas emissions have increased more quickly than expected and higher temperatures are triggering self-reinforcing feedback mechanisms in global ecosystems, scientists said... https://www.rssmicro.com/article/Scientists_Pace_of_Climate_Change_Exceeds.i241851443.html Source: www.wjla.com https://www.rssmicro.com/article/Dairy_cows_head_for_slaughter_as_milk_prices_sour.i242039213.html Nuclear Subs Collide In Atlantic Source: www.cbsnews.com - 20 Nuclear-armed submarines from Britain and France collided deep under the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month, causing damage to both vessels but releasing no radioactivity, a British official said Monday. https://www.rssmicro.com/article/Nuclear_Subs_Collide_In_Atlantic.i242117026.html Nation's dairy cows headed for slaughter as milk prices sour Source: MercedSunStar.com - 3 Hundreds of thousands of America's dairy cows are being turned into hamburgers because milk prices have dropped so low that farmers can no longer afford to feed the animals. https://www.rssmicro.com/article/Nation's_dairy_cows_headed_for_slaughter_as_milk.i242085439.html "We don't have to go to Mars," Davies said. "No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so if it's true that life emerges on Earth-like conditions, should it not happen many times here?" How to hunt for shadow life https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/02/how-to-hunt-for-shadow-life.html More than a quarter of young Iraqi men remain jobless, threatening stability. - Amanda Terkel A report released yesterday by the United Nations’s Information Analysis Unit finds that more than “a fourth of Iraq’s young men are out of work, a situation that is likely to worsen and threatens the country’s long-term stability. … Overall, the country’s unemployment rate is 18%, but an additional 10% of the labor force is employed part time and wanting to work more.” In a country still struggling to attract private investment, government jobs now make up 60 % of employment, a rate that will be unsustainable as oil prices drop. https://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/16/iraq-jobless/ https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq16-2009feb16,0,292115.story 2008 presidential bid, including $4,600 from Allen Stanford, the firm's leader. Former Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), who served prison time for his role in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, received $28,200 (this includes contributions to Ney's candidate committee and leadership PAC). Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), who reportedly flew on Stanford's jet, collected $20,100 from the company between the 2000 and 2006 election cycles. There is more to the private prison business than meets the eye . ... www.mail-archive.com/cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com/msg12279.html Stanford Financial Group Forms Stanford Institutional Consulting to Provide Asset Management Services to Individual and Institutional ... findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m4PRN/is_2008_Dec_17/ai_n31136741 The U.S. military says an investigation into a coalition operation in western Afghanistan has found that 13 civilians were among 16 people killed. 00.Jan.2008 two financial advisers who had resigned from Stanford Group Co. , a member of Stanford Financial that offers private wealth ... www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6263269.html The Stanford Financial Group ’s management office in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, a privately held global network of independent, affiliated financial ... www.lindberghfoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=293 The New York Post cited three unknown sources that IMG and Stanford had a “quid pro quo” deal in which Stanford paid IMG a fee to steer their clients toward ... www.churchofcowherd.com/img-connected-to-stanford-group/ DALLAS, Texas - BeaconEquity.com announces the publication of “ Stanford Financial Group in Hot Water for ... www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/stanford-financial-group-in-hot,723611.shtml 00.000.2006 Stanford Financial Group named St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as their official corporate charity of choice and committed to a $6 million ... www.stjude.org/stanfordfinancialgroup The Stanford Financial Group , based in Houston, Texas, United States, is a privately held conglomerate of independent, affiliated financial services ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Financial_Group Art Theft Central: Stanford Financial Group's Artistic Side Today, the SEC accused Stanford Financial Group of "conducting 'a massive ongoing fraud' in the sale of about $8 billion of high-yielding certificates of ... arttheftcentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/stanford-financial-groups-artistic-side.html President Barack Obama's campaign fund moved Wednesday to distance him from the burgeoning scandal involving ... dequalss.com/2009/02/19/stanford-financial-group-crumb-snatching-scumbags/ 14 Feb 2009 ... Stanford Financial Group Co., which has more than 30000 investors, ... Stanford Financial Group previously has been in the sights of various ... online.wsj.com/article/SB123457038088986331.html - The SEC has registered a complaint against Stanford Financial Group ( StanfordFinancial.com), alleging massive fraud. allfinancialmatters.com/2009/02/17/sec-accusing-stanford-financial-group-of-fraud/ 00.000.1932 Die -gegründete- Stanford Financial Group ist ein US-amerikanischer Finanzdienstleistungskonzern mit Hauptsitz in Houston im Bundesstaat ... de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Financial_Group Die Analysten von Stanford Financial Group stufen die Aktie von Maxwell Technologies (ISIN US5777671067/ WKN 867584) von zuvor ... www.stock-world.de/nachrichten/aktien/2888757-Maxwell_Technologies_buy_Stanford_Financial_Group.html Die Analysten von Stanford Financial Group stufen die Aktie von McAfee (ISIN US5790641063/ WKN A0B6WS) ... www.stock-world.de/nachrichten/aktien/2892664-McAfee_neues_Kursziel_Stanford_Financial_Group.html Robert Allen Stanford (58), Texaner in fünfter Generation, ist Chef der Stanford Financial Group of Companies mit Kunden in 140 Ländern. ... news.orf.at/090218-35181/35183txt_story.html 00.000.2007 Stanford gave Cornyn two donations of $2,000 each in 00.Dec.2008 the PSF suspended its guarantee program for school bonds. That program allowed even financially strapped districts to borrow money at low cost. Because of losses, the fund didn’t have the capacity to back more bonds under Internal Revenue Service rules. "We’re looking at as much information as we can," he told committee members. Heiner said his company does not keep track of securities of individual portfolio managers. "You don’t have capabilities . . . of providing information about managers?" Agosto asked. Nunez and State Board of Education member Rick Agosto, D-San Antonio, raised questions about one hedge fund manager, Blackstone, asking the staff and Heiner for details about a portfolio manager who recently left the firm. "What I want to know is, again, I heard rumors that Blackstone had some problems and one of their portfolio managers . . . ," said Nunez, who didn’t detail the concern. From Aug. 31 through Oct. 31, the hedge fund program lost hundreds of millions of dollars. "We were probably three or four years late," Nunez said. Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn said Friday he'll give $4,000 to charity to make up for contributions he accepted from Texas financier R. Allen Stanford. more... Regulators in the Caribbean took over Antiguan banks owned by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford on Friday, hoping to contain damage to the local economy as U.S. investigators explore an alleged fra... more... Doctors have come across some baffling day-to-day ailments, but few conditions are as strange as these 20 disorders, which range from biological to psychological to cultural in nature. Thanks Scott! posted by Prof. Hex Bereits vor seiner offiziellen Veröffentlichung rief der Pentagon-Bericht Kritik hervor. Die Bürgerrechtsorganisation American Civil Liberties Union kritisierte das "Übertünchen" der mutmaßlichen Misshandlungen von Gefangenen während der Amtszeit von Präsident George W. Bush. Der Bericht sei eine "Farce". Wenn Walsh eine umfassende Prüfung der Bedingungen in dem seit sieben Jahren bestehenden Lager binnen nur 17 Tagen nach Erhalt des Auftrags zum Abschluss bringe, entbehre dies jeder Logik. Obama selbst habe gesagt, dass in Guantanamo nationales und internationales Recht verletzt werde. Daher sei der Bericht so "verstörend", erklärte der ACLU-Vorsitzende Anthony Romero. Amnesty International zweifelte an der Genauigkeit des Berichts. Menschenrechtsorganisationen werde nach wie vor der Zugang zu dem Lager verweigert, kritisierte ai. Frage: Ist unsere Demokratie mittlerweile nicht gefestigt genug? Welzer: Unsere Gesellschaft ist in der Demokratie angekommen, aber sie hat noch keinen Schlechtwettertest bestanden. Es gibt die begründete Hypothese, dass die Loyalität der Bürger schwindet, sobald das System ihre Versorgungserwartungen nicht mehr erfüllt. Bereits jetzt erodiert die Zustimmung zur Demokratie in Bevölkerungsgruppen, die wirtschaftlich weniger Erfolg haben. Die Finanzkrise wird das Vertrauen in unser System nicht stärken. Da bröckelt so einiges Der Klimawandel wird zumindest in diesen Regionen ohne Zweifel zu sozialen Katastrophen führen, die Auswirkungen bis nach Europa haben werden. Bereits jetzt werden vor den Küsten Südeuropas jedes Jahr Tausende von Flüchtlingsbooten aufgebracht. Frage: Sind das denn Klimaflüchtlinge? Welzer: Derzeit dominieren noch die Armutsflüchtlinge. Aber sie zeigen, was auf uns zukommen könnte. Uno-Organisationen prognostizieren in den nächsten Jahren bis zu 150 Millionen Umweltflüchtlinge Frage: Die Weltwirtschaftskrise beunruhigt die meisten Menschen derzeit sehr viel mehr als der Klimawandel es je getan hat. Zu Recht? Welzer: Obwohl sich bei der Wirtschaftskrise auch Abgründe auftun, wird der Klimawandel hier immer noch unterschätzt. Selbst mit dem Thema beschäftigte Wissenschaftler denken, es ginge primär um Probleme in der Stratosphäre und deren meteorologische Folgen. Viele Menschen denken, dass es in unseren Breiten so schlimm schon nicht werden wird, wenn wir ein bisschen auf unsere Emissionen achten: Dann schiene endlich die Sonne an der Nordsee, und außerdem könnten wir der ganzen Welt Solarzellen und Elektroautos verkaufen. Die Äußerungen Clintons wurden von Menschenrechtsorganisationen scharf kritisiert. "Amnesty International ist schockiert und tief enttäuscht", erklärte die Organisation. Human Rights Watch sprach von einem "strategischen Fehler". Yang sagte, seiner Regierung sei sehr daran gelegen, die Devisenreserven sicher zu investieren. Diese sind mit 1,95 Billionen Dollar die größten von allen Staaten. "Organisationen, die Lefebvre nahe stehen, haben die drei Teilstreitkräfte in der Doktrin des konterrevolutionären Kampfes unterrichtet und Zitate des heiligen Thomas von Aquin missbraucht, um Entführungen, Folter und geheime Hinrichtungen zu rechtfertigen". In dieser unseligen Tradition steht auch der Militärkaplan Cristian von Wernich. Der deutschstämmige Geistliche wurde vor anderthalb Jahren in einem Aufsehen erregenden Prozess wegen mehrfachen Mordes verurteilt: Während der Militärdiktatur war er bei Folterungen von Regimegegnern dabei gewesen und hatte die Schergen der Junta gesegnet. Argentinien hat bereits einen unrühmlichen Ruf als Zufluchtsort vieler Nazi-Kriegsverbrecher. Dass nach den Mengeles und Eichmanns ein vom Papst rehabilitierter Holocaust-Leugner in dem Land unterschlüpfen konnte, muss den Opfern der Menschenschlächter und ihren Angehörigen wie eine Verhöhnung ihres Schicksals vorgekommen sein. Williamson fühlte sich zweifellos wohl im Schoß der Pius-Bruderschaft von La Reja: Antisemitismus und Judenhass haben in Argentiniens konservativem Klerus Tradition. Das rechtsradikale Gedankengut des französischen Kardinals Marcel Lefebvre, der Williamson kurz vor seinem Tod zum Bischof geweiht hatte, ist in Teilen des Klerus und im Militär tief verwurzelt. Lefebvre hatte beste Beziehungen zur Militärdiktatur, die von 1976 bis 1983 Zehntausende Regimegegner foltern und umbringen ließ, unter ihnen zahlreiche Juden. Er lobte die Terrorherrschaft als "Regierung der Ordnung und fester Prinzipien". Dem Chef der ersten Militärjunta, General Jorge Videla, stattete er alljährlich einen persönlichen Besuch ab. Philipe Goujon, zugleich UMP-Abgeordneter im Nordteil des Stadtteils, setzte Parteiaktivisten an die Telefone, um Sarkozy-Claqueure in ausreichender Zahl zu mobilisieren. Präsidenten-Fans, die bereit waren, am Samstagmorgen den Staatschef zu beklatschen, versprach man Freikarten, erzählt ein UMP-Politiker. Natürlich durfte dabei keinesfalls der Eindruck entstehen, das parteiamtliche Engagement käme in Konflikt mit den hoheitlichen Aufgaben des Bürgermeisters: "Holen Sie sich die Tickets also nicht im Rathaus ab", so die telefonische erteilte Anweisung seines Vorzimmers, "sondern kommen Sie direkt zur Sprechstunde von Monsieur Goujon." Sarkozys neues Milliardenpaket befriedete die Spannungen ebenso wenig wie ein "Sozialgipfel" mit Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgebern, und obendrein demonstrieren Uni-Professoren und Studenten gegen neue Auflagen der Hochschulreform. Wirtschaftskrise, steigende Arbeitslosigkeit und der galoppierende Verfall der Konjunktur sorgen für stetiges Abrutschen in den Meinungsumfragen: 23.Feb.2009 Bush-Kurs fort" href="https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,609135,00.html ">Gefangenenlager Bagram: Obama setzt harten Bush-Kurs fort (Politik) 23.Feb.2009 Umweltflüchtlinge: "Irgendwann kommen nicht nur ein paar Boote, sondern Millionen" (Wissenschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Kunden stürmen Autohäuser: "Es ist absurd, wie ein Tsunami" (Wirtschaft) 21.Feb.2009 Williamson-Rauswurf: Argentinien bricht mit seiner Vergangenheit (Panorama) 21.Feb.2009 Treffen mit Ahmadinedschad: Zentralrat der Juden greift Schröder an (Politik) 21.Feb.2009 Rezession: Experten rechnen mit Massenentlassungen ab Sommer (Wirtschaft) 21.Feb.2009 Erster Besuch in Peking: Clinton klammert Menschenrechte aus (Politik) 21.Feb.2009 Zehn Minuten: Post plant längere Arbeitszeiten (Wirtschaft) 23.Feb.2009 Autokonzern: CDU-Politiker hält Opel-Pleite für unvermeidlich (Wirtschaft) 21.Feb.2009 Auftritt in Paris: Sarkozy bestellt sich Schein-Applaus (Politik) 21.Feb.2009 https://blog.wired.com/cars/2009/02/milk-trucks-in.html "It's energy projects like this that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and get us off our dependency on foreign oil," Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, said in a statement. "It also addresses sources of long-term air and water pollution problems." "I think that the secretary of the Treasury could not fully comprehend what that linkage was and the extent to which this would materialize into problems," says former Lehman board member Henry Kaufman. The two judges pleaded guilty in a stunning case of greed and corruption that is still unfolding. Continue The U.S. economy cannot “inflate its way out of debt,” because this would collapse the dollar and end its dreams of global empire by forcing foreign countries to go their own way. Continue 18.Feb.2009 Strange Math -By- Ignacio Merino Then in three months he’ll be back at the trough looking for more money. Six months will pass, things will get worse, and it will be viewed as his problem to clean up. 31.Dec.2009 -By the end of- assuming he follows the path laid out with the stimulus bill, he will be viewed by the American public as inept and the “wrong man for the job”. Things will be a lot worse than they are now. Continue 18.Feb.2009 10,000 Americans Going Into Foreclosure Every Day 18.Feb.2009 Madoff Loss Spawned in ‘Bargain With Devil’ at Cerberus Bank: - Two of Japan’s eight nationwide banks are braced for $2.6 billion in losses after investments by U.S. private equity groups, which the Obama administration is counting on to help bail out the U.S. financial system. 18.Feb.2009 Germany Prepared to Lend Financial Help to Eastern Europe: "If help is needed we are ready, particularly through the IMF," Merkel said. "Germany will not refuse to (financially) support the IMF if necessary. But we should avoid talking down countries that are not encountering difficulties because there are lots of rumors circulating that can breed weakness." "I wanted to restore the pride of the Iraqis in any way possible, apart from using weapons." 21.Feb.2009 Officials Confirm CIA Drones In Pakistan: This report was filed by CBS News' Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad.Pakistan, the U.S., and other NATO member countries have had a quiet, unwritten agreement for the past three to five years to allow the CIA to fly unmanned drones out of remote airstrips in the Pakistan-Afghanistan border region, a senior military official from a NATO country confirmed to CBS News on Thursday. 21.Feb.2009 Secrecy and denial as Pakistan lets CIA use airbase to strike militants: The CIA is secretly using an airbase in southern Pakistan to launch the Predator drones that observe and attack al-Qaeda and Taleban militants on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan, a Times investigation has found. 21.Feb.2009 Pakistan Lends Support for U.S. Military Strikes: Leaders Continue to Condemn Air Attacks, but a Private Shift in Policy Aims to Aid Drone Assault on Militant Targets 21.Feb.2009 Afghanistan: Slipping out of control: There has been a 50 per cent increase in kidnappings and assassinations. Fatalities among Western forces, including British, went up by 35 per cent while the civilian death toll climbed by 46 per cent, more than the UN had estimated. Violent attacks were up by a third and roadside bombings, the most lethal source of Western casualties, by a quarter. There was also a 67 per cent rise in attacks on aircraft from the ground, a source of concern to Nato which depends hugely on air power in the conflict. 21.Feb.2009 Good News for the Taliban: If all this sounds eerily reminiscent of Taliban rule in Afghanistan before the U.S. and NATO military action to remove it, that’s because it is. Having failed miserably—despite receiving billions in American military aid—to quash the militants in the border areas, the Pakistani government has now, at least temporarily, given up and provided them with a safe haven, as well as a “legal” system of their own. 21.Feb.2009 President Karzai to Make Final Decision in Two Weeks: In a meeting with people in Laghman province, President Karzai said that in 15 days he will make his final decision about whether he will continue his job as president or leave the office considering the security issues and Afghan national interest. 21.Feb.2009 UK resident to leave Guantanamo Bay: The United States has agreed to release Binyam Mohamed, a British resident held at the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay for the past five years without charge, Britain's foreign ministry has said. 21.Feb.2009 Report: Over 100,000 deportees had children in US: An investigation by the Homeland Security Department inspector general found immigration officials deported 108,434 parents with children who are U.S. citizens during 1998 to 2007. A report on the investigation was made public Friday. 21.Feb.2009 GM shares hit 74-year low: General Motors Corp. shares on Friday tumbled to their lowest level in more than 70 years, pulled down by a drop in the broader markets and continued speculation about the future of the struggling automaker. 21.Feb.2009 Saab Seeks Protection From Creditors as GM Pulls Out: Saab Automobile sought protection from creditors after parent General Motors Corp. said it will cut ties with the Swedish carmaker following two decades of losses. 21.Feb.2009 US bank stocks fall to 17-year low: US banking shares hit their lowest level since 1992 on Thursday as fears mounted that the government would be forced to nationalise a key institution. 21.Feb.2009 Fed offers bleak economic outlook: The Federal Reserve cut its economic outlook for 2009 on Wednesday and warned that the United States economy would face an "unusually gradual and prolonged" period of recovery as the country struggles to climb out of a deep global downturn 21.Feb.2009 California Prepares To Eliminate 10,000 Jobs: Tax revenues have plunged by billions of dollars as the recession clobbers California, leaving the state without sufficient cash to pay its bills. The remedy offered by the governor and lawmakers is to reopen the budget in the middle of the fiscal year, enact deep cuts and tax increases, and work out a fix that will cover the state's spending through June 2010. 21.Feb.2009 Court's 'rocket docket' blasts through foreclosures: As the Obama administration unveiled its plan to rescue the U.S. housing market, officials in Lee County have come up with their own plan for dealing with the crisis. To clear a huge backlog of foreclosures, judges are hearing "rocket dockets" of nearly 1,000 cases per day and calling retired colleagues back to the bench to help ease the workload. 21.Feb.2009 Plan: $10 tax to file on paper: Fee proposed for state income taxes returns not filed electronically draws protests 21.Feb.2009 J.C. Penney reports 51 % slide in 4Q profit: J.C. Penney Co. reported a 51 % drop in fourth-quarter profit Friday as customers sharply cut spending on clothing and other items. The results beat Wall Street expectations, but the chain projected a wider first-quarter loss than analysts had predicte 21.Feb.2009 February 19, 2009 Afghanistan, The Next U.S. Quagmire? -By- Thalif Deen 21.Feb.2009 Exposed : Secret CIA Base For Drone Raids Google Earth Reveals Secret History of US Base In Pakistan -By- Jeremy Page 21.Feb.2009 Iran and the West: A History of Violence -By- Eric Margolis 21.Feb.2009 Zionism Is The Scourge Of The Jewish People -By- Judith Weisman "Worst Is Yet to Come:" 21.Feb.2009 Americans' Standard of Living Permanently Changed -By- Aaron Task Should I Laugh Or Cry? 21.Feb.2009 Stimulus Package Tax Credit Should Mean $8 To $10 A Week -By- James Oliphant Organize! 21.Feb.2009 Many Employers Are Just Using the Recession to Stick it to Workers -By- Dave Lindorff Disinformation and propaganda: Manufacturing consent for an attack on Iran: Iran in 'backroom offers' to West: Iran offered to stop attacking British troops in Iraq to try to get the West to drop objections to Tehran's uranium enrichment project, a UK official says. 21.Feb.2009 Iran general scores Moscow trip 'success': Iran's defense minister says he achieved the objectives of his official visit to Russia amid reports that Tehran sought the S-300 system. 21.Feb.2009 'US no longer a military threat to Iran': "I believe that the threat of waging war as a means to curb Iran's nuclear activities is no longer an option," the IAEA director general said on Friday. 21.Feb.2009 20 nations to boost Afghan commitments?: Three countries committed to "providing a range of air assets, from cargo planes to jet fighters', and five nations would send more helicopters and 2.5 million euros ($A4.92 million) for a helicopter fund, he said, without naming the nations 21.Feb.2009 Change? What Change? US expands prison in Afghanistan: The US military is about to complete a $60m expansion to its prison at the Bagram air base in Afghanistan, where it holds more than 600 so-called enemy combatants. 21.Feb.2009 Gates says he would accept truce in Afghanistan: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that Washington could accept a political agreement between the Afghan government and the Taliban if the insurgents will lay down their arms and accept the government's terms. 18.Sep,2008 the astonished leadership of the U.S. Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave danger of a complete meltdown within a matter of days. "There was literally a pause in that room where the oxygen left," says Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) Continue 21.Feb.2009 We Can't Make It Here Anymore -By- James McMurtry - Video and Text 21.Feb.2009 Venezuela Ends Term Limits -By- Patrick Irelan 21.Feb.2009 Der Spiegel Exposes the Brazilian Ethanol Madness - Why the Promise of Biofuels is a Lie -By- Robert Bryce 21.Feb.2009 US Empire and the Conflict in Israel/Palestine -By- GRITtv 21.Feb.2009 From One Assault On The Constitution To Another -By- Paul Craig Roberts 21.Feb.2009 Investigating Bush's Crimes -By- Scott Horton Selling Justice For War Crimes As Vengeance? 21.Feb.2009 The Case for a Truth Commission -By- Senator Patrick Leahy Für diese längerfristig angelegten Deals sei ständig frisches Geld notwendig, das die Bank am Markt nicht mehr bekomme. Dabei sollen die Banker erneut Geschäfte außerhalb der Bilanz gemacht haben. Gregor Gysi, Fraktionschef der Partei Die Linke im Bundestag, forderte am Freitag einen Untersuchungsausschuß. »Die Bundesregierung kippt Milliarden und Abermilliarden an Steuergeld in ein fast täglich größer werdendes schwarzes Loch, ohne auch nur die geringste Vorsorge getroffen zu haben, daß und wie das Geld wieder zurückfließt. Das kann zu einer staatlich organisierten Veruntreuung werden«, so der Politiker. 21.Feb.2009 Finanzkrise in Russland: Kreml macht aus Furcht vor Unruhen mobil 21.Feb.2009 Börsen brechen weltweit ein 21.Feb.2009 Neue Schulden, Steuererhöhungen, Ausgabenkürzung 20.Feb.2009 Zauber großer Zahlen Because Geronimo’s initial place of burial was a U.S. military base, the suit’s 20 plaintiffs — all lineal descendants of Geronimo — named President Barack Obama, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates + Secretary of the Army Pete Geren as defendants in the suit. 20.Feb.2009 https://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/27792 The descendants of the Apache Geronimo, a warrior chieftain whose remains are rumored to be held inside Yale’s oldest secret society, filed a lawsuit Tuesday demanding the return of their ancestor’s skull. posted by Prof. Hex 00.May 2004 BrothersJudd Blog: Archives ... even though you do get an official appointment when you go to the latter. Senate Democrats and Republicans as well as Andrew Card , the White House chief of staff. ... Philip Mangano has some new ideas about homelessness. brothersjuddblog.com/archives/2004/05/ 20.Feb.2009 Widerstand in der Union: Hartz-IV-Reform ist gescheitert (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 Karneval: Ordensfrauen protestieren gegen Nonne im Nacktscanner (Panorama) 20.Feb.2009 Postbote für Obama: US-Senator Kerry nimmt mutmaßlichen Hamas-Brief in Empfang (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 Üben für die Geiselrettung: Elitetruppe GSG9 trainiert in der Wüste (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 Deutsche Konzerne unter Druck: Stresstest für die Auto-Giganten (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Kritik am Krisenmanagement: Medwedew rückt von Putin ab (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 https://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/02/neij.html "But someone must ultimately decide whether to put up a certain text or graphic," he protested. "No," Neij answered. "Why? If someone believes a new text is needed, he just inputs it. Or if a graphic is ugly, someone makes a better one. The one who wants to do something just does it." 20.Feb.2009 Berlins Finanzsenator: Sarrazin beansprucht Top-Job bei Bundesbank (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Rezession: Brüssel lobt deutsche Konjunkturprogramme (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Datenaffäre: Transparency attackiert Bahn-Vorstand (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Bundesrat: FDP macht den Weg fürs Konjunkturpaket frei (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 Autokrise: Mehrheit der Deutschen will Staatsbeteiligung an Opel (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Antarktis-Station "Neumayer III": Polarforschung auf 16 Beinen (Wissenschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Witz-Theorie: Lachen mit System (Wissenschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Arzr-Comedian Hirschhausen: "Spaß treibt das Gehirn an" (Wissenschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Humor-Forschung: Macht der Pointe (Wissenschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Zukunft der Medien: Eine Welt ohne Presse (Netzwelt) 20.Feb.2009 Israel: Katholische Bischöfe empört über Jesus-Witze (Panorama) 20.Feb.2009 Anglo American: Bergbaukonzern streicht 19.000 Stellen (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Vier-Monats-Tief: Dax nähert sich 4000-Punkte-Marke (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Ägyptischer Dissident Aiman Nur: "Politik ist mein Leben" (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 Wirtschaftskrise: Finanzministerium plant Rettungspaket für Europa (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-608887,00.html "Man hat zum Beispiel soeben herausgefunden, dass Menschen, die ständig vor dem Fernseher herumgammeln statt sich körperlich und geistig zu betätigen, ein höheres Risiko haben, an Alzheimer zu erkranken", warnte Nicotera. Das, sagte er, "ist doch eine wertvolle Information." Forschungsministerin Schavan malte ein düsteres Bild für den Fall, dass die Mediziner und Biologen es nicht schaffen, die Ursachen des krankhaften Gehirnverfalls zu ergründen und Therapien zu entwickeln. "Die ganze EU ist schon jetzt massiv von Demenzkrankheiten betroffen", sagte sie. Bis zu 4 Millionen Menschen könnten in Deutschland zur Mitte des Jahrhunderts demenzkrank sein. Heute sind es rund 1,2 Millionen Menschen. Der Grund für die wachsenden Zahlen ist, dass die Menschen immer älter werden und immer rüstiger ins hohe Alter eintreten, der Ausbruch von Alzheimer und anderen Krankheiten sich bisher aber kaum nach hinten verschoben hat. Beliebt war Stanford bei den Mächtigen in Venezuela schon lange nicht mehr. Im Oktober 2008 wurde ihm vorgeworfen, für die USA zu spionieren - er war mit Bodyguards angereist, die dort für amerikanische Agenten gehalten wurden. Eine Razzia daraufhin überstand das Unternehmen so folgenlos wie den Vorwurf, vor einigen Jahren Steuern hinterzogen zu haben. Stanford ist eine schillernde Figur, ein 58-jähriger Dandy, dem die Jet-Set-Welt vertraute, vor allem in Lateinamerika. Etwa ein Drittel der acht Milliarden Dollar Einlagen der SIB stammen von Anlegern aus Venezuela, wo Präsident Hugo Chávez Regierung, Parlament und Justiz kontrolliert und sich gerade die Macht auf viele Jahre hinaus gesichert hat. Da bringt man sein Geld aus Sorge vor Unruhen und politischer Instabilität lieber ins Ausland. 20.Feb.2009 Afghanistan-Versorgung: Kirgisien besiegelt Ende der US-Militärbasis (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 Wirtschaftskrise: Bundesrat verabschiedet 50-Milliarden-Konjunkturpaket (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 Spitzenforschung in Bonn: Neues Demenzzentrum nimmt Kampf gegen Alzheimer auf (Wissenschaft) 20.Feb.2009 U.S. Tries a Trillion-Dollar Key for Locked Lending The Obama administration hopes to encourage new lending by effectively subsidizing the profits of firms that serve as bankers to the banks. Wir haben verstanden. Es rettet Dich kein höh'res Wesen. In Gefahr und größter Not hilft nur Currywurst mit Brot. Du musst nur immer wieder aufstehen und Nachschub holen. Stattdessen jubeln fünftausend Arbeiter ihrer milliardenschweren und faustdick geschminkten Chefin Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler zu, die darob zu Tränen gerührt ist. Statt sie wegen ihrer abenteuerlichen Übernahme der fünfmal größeren Firma Conti zu kritisieren, appellieren die Proletarier gemeinsam mit ihrer kapitalschwachen Klunker-Diva an den Staat, der wieder einmal einspringen soll. Soll das der neue Klassenkampf sein? Die Untersuchung des Stickstoffs in einer Schieferschicht, die aus 2,5 Milliarden Jahre altem Meeresboden entstanden ist, gab den Forschern den entscheidenden Hinweis: Sie fanden Stickstoffatome, die nur durch Denitrifizierung entstanden sein konnten - und diese Denitrifizierung setzt das Vorhandensein des aeroben Stickstoffkreislaufs voraus, erklären die Forscher. Daraus schließen sie, dass sich schon damals die Bakterienarten entwickelt hatten, die heute den Kreislauf betreiben. Wann genau sich dieser Kreislauf in seiner heutigen Form entwickelte, war bisher nicht eindeutig geklärt. Doch Bohrproben aus Sedimentgestein haben Forscher um Jessica Garvin von der University in Washington nun zu einer wichtigen Erkenntnis geführt: Im Fachmagazin "Science" (Bd. 323, S. 1045) berichten sie darüber, dass der Prozess schon sehr, sehr lange in der uns bekannten Form ablaufen muss. Obwohl sie im Akkord abwracken, sind die Altmetallverwerter keine Gewinner der Autokrise. "Der Boom kommt ein halbes Jahr zu spät", schimpft Lippl. "Im vergangenen Sommer gab es für die Tonne Karossenschrott noch 300 Euro, aber seither sind die Preise im freien Fall." Heute gibt es pro Tonne bestenfalls noch ein Zehntel; ein gewürfelter Fiesta ist nach Abzug von Plastik, Glas und Gummi rund 700 Kilo schwer und vielleicht noch 15 oder 20 Euro wert. Der Umsatz schnellt mit der Abwrackprämie zwar in ungeahnte Höhen, doch zögen die Gewinne leider nicht nach, sagt der Betriebsleiter. Längst nicht jedes Auto, das hier entsorgt wird, ist schrottreif. Der blaue BMW 7er, die alte Mercedes C-Klasse, der rostige VW Golf - sie alle hätten ihren Besitzern möglicherweise noch mehr als die 2500 Euro Abwrackprämie gebracht, schätzt der Experte. "Doch wenn es Geld vom Staat gibt, schalten viele offenbar ihr Gehirn aus", vermutet Lippl und wundert sich schon längst nicht mehr, was da auf dem Lkw-Anhänger oder auf eigener Achse plötzlich alles auf den Hof gekarrt wird. "Um darüber nachzudenken fehlt uns einfach die Zeit." 20.Feb.2009 GM-Krise: Opel braucht mehr Hilfe vom Staat (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Kreditmarkt: Öffentliche Kassen haben 1,5 Billionen Euro Schulden (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 US-Statistik: Hunderttausende Autofahrer quetschen sich die Finger (Auto) 20.Feb.2009 Evolution: Wichtige Bakterien existieren seit 2,5 Milliarden Jahren (Wissenschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Atomkonflikt: Clinton geißelt Diktatur in Nordkorea (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 Steueridee: Politiker wollen Krisen-Soli von Vermögenden erheben (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 US-Studie: Haie attackieren immer seltener Menschen (Panorama) 20.Feb.2009 Hochbetrieb auf Schrottplätzen: Würfel pressen wie im Wahn (Auto) 18.Feb.2009 https://de.rian.ru/safety/20090220/120239263-print.html Sollte sich das Kontingent der Bereitschaftstruppen als unzureichend aufweisen, könnten auch die Fischereiinspektoren und die privaten Sicherheitsfirmen eine große Hilfe leisten, so die Experten. „Die Föderalbeamten sind teilweise einer Illusion verfallen, denn sie denken, es wäre möglich sich vor der Krise mit nackter Gewalt zu schützen, doch dies ist eine Utopie“, sagt Gennadi Gudkow, der Duma-Abgeordnete und Mitglied des Sicherheitsausschusses im russischen Parlament. Die Geschichte zeige an vielen Beispielen, wie eine maßlose Militarisierung des Staats die bewaffneten Zusammenstöße und Unruhen nur provoziert. Mr. Jarrah’s motives remain a mystery. He said he tried to stop, but the Israelis would not let him, investigators said. It is not the family’s first brush with notoriety. One of Mr. Jarrah’s cousins, Ziad al-Jarrah, was among the 19 hijackers who carried out the terrorist attacks of 11.Sep.2001 though the men were 20 years apart in age and do not appear to have known each other well. https://blog.fefe.de/Und noch eine schöne Bailout-Geschichte: Bank of America hat mit der Bailout-Kohle erst mal eine Telefonkonferenz organisiert, wo sie geplant haben, mehr Politiker zu kaufen. Three days after receiving $25 billion in federal bailout funds, Bank of America Corp. hosted a conference call with conservative activists and business officials to organize opposition to the U.S. labor community's top legislative priority. Und natürlich nicht nur Bank of America! Participants on the October 17 call — including at least one representative from another bailout recipient, AIG — were urged to persuade their clients to send "large contributions" to groups working against the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), as well as to vulnerable Senate Republicans, who could help block passage of the bill. Business as usual. Aber Iwaschow geht noch weiter. Er meint, die Amis wollen in Afghanistan genug Truppen aufbauen, um die Aufständischen in die Nachbarländer zu schieben. Dann wäre Afghanistan ein Hort der Stabilität und die Amerikaner könnten die Nachbarstaaten von sich abhängig machen. Das glaube ich nun hingegen nicht, denn warum würden die Amis der Taliban dann Waffen, Munition und Lebensmittel geben. Kein Wunder, dass in Afghanistan die "Verschwörungstheorie" umgeht, die Amis würden beide Seiten des Konfliktes bewaffnen, um den Konflikt am Leben zu halten. https://blog.fefe.de/Kleine Anfragen der Linkspartei haben herausgearbeitet, wie stark die Bundeswehreinsätze im Inneren in den letzten Jahren zugenommen haben. 1999: ein Einsatz. 2007: 16. 2008: 30. Und das sind nur die Amtshilfen. Unglaubliches Detail: Im Gegensatz zur Amtshilfe können dabei nicht nur Behörden, sondern auch Privatvereine und beispielsweise Rüstungsfirmen Einsätze der Bundeswehr beantragen. Zwischen den Jahren 00.000.2000-00.000.2007 pendelten die Zahlen zwischen 11 und 32. Im Jahr 00.000.2008 waren es 74. Äh, wie meinen?! Und dazu kommt noch, dass es alleine 00.000.2005 knapp tausend Fälle gab, wo der Bundeswehr das Hausrecht übertragen wurde, und die dann Soldaten mit Schusswaffen zum Fernhalten von "Störern" schicken. Frank hat da mal drüber nachgedacht und schlägt folgendes vor: die Eltern untersagen der Schule schriftlich, die Daten ihrer Kinder weiterzugeben. In Berlin besteht Schulpflicht, und das Gesetz sieht keine Sanktionen für Datenboykott vor. Daher ist das unseres Erachtens risikoarm. Make it so. Und das geht natürlich auch die CIA an, daher schickt Obama 17.000 Soldaten zusätzlich nach Afghanistan. Change we can believe in. Das ist das Ende des Schweizer Bankenwesens. Warum sollte jemand noch sein Geld da lagern, wenn die die Daten im Zweifelsfall rausgerückt werden? Da kann man sein Geld auch direkt bei der Sparkasse lagern. https://blog.fefe.de/America, fuck yeah! Judges plead guilty in scheme to jail youths for profit. Zwei Richter haben über 2,6 Millionen Dollar Provision von Jugend-Gefängnissen kassiert, dafür dass sie da für Nachschub sorgen. “In my entire career, I’ve never heard of anything remotely approaching this,” said Senior Judge Arthur E. Grim, who was appointed by the State Supreme Court this week to determine what should be done with the estimated 5,000 juveniles who have been sentenced by Judge Ciavarella since the scheme started 00.000.2003 . Many of them were first-time offenders and some remain in detention . https://blog.fefe.de/Länderdomino: Die Russische Industrieproduktion fiel im Januar um 20%. Und auch jetzt im Februar sieht es nicht besser aus. Heute haben sie erst mal die Börse zugemacht. https://blog.fefe.de/Kurzes Euphemismus-Update: "Bad Bank" heißt jetzt "Mobilisierungsfonds". ... Kaffeekauf übers Internet kann strafbar sein ... Der Zoll wende derzeit sehr konsequent das Kaffeesteuergesetz an, sagte Pre... 23.Nov.2006 ... Wer im Internet Kaffee kauft, gerät schnell ins Visier des Zolls. Die Behörden ermitteln gegen die Kunden wegen Verdachts de... .. Vom Kaffeetrinker zum Steuerhinterzieher: Kaffeekauf bei Ebay ist ... Ich hoffe ja inständig, dass ich vom Zoll keine Rechnu... Sollte sich herausstellen, das ich dem deutschen Staat Steuern schulde, werde ich entsprechenden Forderungen umgehend nachkommen." Er habe seinen Wohnsitz bewusst in Deutschland gewählt und bezahle in dem Land seine Steuern "in bedeutendem Ausmaß". "Meine Steuerpflichten nicht zu erfüllen, war nie meine Absicht." He's also a major player in U.S. politics, personally donating nearly a million dollars, mostly to Democrats. At 6-feet-4 and 240 pounds, he towered over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi while giving her a warm hug at the Democratic National Convention last year. Stanford is a larger-than-life figure in the Caribbean, using his personal fortune to bankroll public works and cricket tournaments. Also frozen were assets of Houston-based Stanford Capital Management and Stanford Group Co., which has 29 brokerage offices around the U.S. In September, Forbes magazine named Stanford No. 205 in its "400 Richest Americans" article, estimating his net worth at $2.2 billion. The fallout from the fraud case is already rattling around the global financial system. Assuring investors that their money was safe from Bernard Madoff's highly publicized $50 billion alleged Ponzi scheme when, in fact, some of Stanford's holdings were invested through Madoff's firm. Rose Romero, Regional Director of the SEC's Fort Worth Regional Office, added, "We are alleging a fraud of shocking magnitude that has spread its tentacles throughout the world." Washington, D.C., 17.Feb.2009 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Robert Allen Stanford and three of his companies for orchestrating a fraudulent, multi-billion dollar investment scheme centering on an $8 billion CD program. Additional Materials Information for Stanford Customers Litigation Release No. 20901 SEC Complaint Memorandum of Law He has extensive business ties in Latin America and the West Indies, and dual citizenship in the United States and the Virgin Islands. He was even knighted in Antigua and Barbuda, where he resides and is better known as Sir Allen. 19.Feb.2009 Investoren-Abzocke: FBI spürt mutmaßlichen Milliardenbetrüger Stanford auf (Wirtschaft) 19.Feb.2009 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegelgeschichte/0,1518,druck-604042,00.html Berühmt wurde Juvenals grimmig-kulturkritisches Verdikt über seine römischen Landsleute - es gehe ihnen nur noch um zweierlei: um Brot und Spiele, panem et circenses. Ebenso gut kann man wohl in der gelungenen Mischung von Sozial- und Vergnügungsstaat einen Hauptgrund für die beachtliche innere Stabilität im Rom der frühen Kaiserzeit sehen. 20.Feb.2009 Iran-Reise: Schröder trifft Ahmadinedschad (Politik) 19.Feb.2009 https://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/K%C3%83%C2%B6lsch-Platt Doch damit nicht genug. Für den Fall, dass die "Spessart" ein in Kampfhandlungen beteiligtes Schiff auftanken muss, brauchte es auch eine Lösung. Da die Unterstützung von Kampfhandlungen für die "Spessart" auch unter EU-Flagge nicht legal wäre, müssen dann beide beteiligten Schiffe auf die jeweilige Nationalität umgeflaggt werden. Die Betankung wäre als bilaterale Hilfe möglich. Im Rat ging es konkret um die Frage, ob die Gruppe von bis zu zehn Schiffen, darunter die deutsche Fregatte "Emden" und der Tanker "Spessart", auf dem Weg zu einer Übung nahe Australien im Golf von Aden im März rund zwei Wochen Halt macht und dort die EU-Mission "Atalana" und die Task Force 151 der USA unterstützt. Dafür wurden einige andere Stationen auf dem Weg nach Australien gestrichen. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Haben Sie persönlich je geholfen, Steuern zu hinterziehen? Kaiser: Ich mache erst seit drei Jahren Vermögensberatung, die Steuerbelange einbezieht. Aber ich bin mit ein paar bekannten Sportlern befreundet. Wenn mich da einer gefragt hat, habe ich ihm schon vor 20 Jahren geraten: Sei ehrlich, du stehst derart im Rampenlicht - wenn das rauskommt, zerstört es dich. Einige sind dann nach Monaco umgezogen. SPIEGEL ONLINE: Liechtenstein ist in Wahrheit gar kein Steuerparadies? Kaiser: Dieses Label passt ganz einfach nicht mehr. Wir sind schon seit Jahren auf dem Weg von der Steueroase zur Vermögensoase. Die irakische Justiz wirft Saidi "Aggression gegen den Präsidenten eines ausländischen Staates" vor. Sollte das Gericht ihn wegen "vorsätzlicher Aggression" verurteilen, drohen bis zu 15 Jahre Haft, bei "versuchter Aggression" maximal fünf Jahre. Ein Anwalt des 30-Jährigen sagte, der Journalist habe "soziale, politische und psychologische Gründe" für sein Verhalten gehabt. Die Verteidiger wollen erreichen, dass die Anklage fallengelassen und ihr Mandant auf freien Fuß gesetzt wird. Für den Fernsehjournalisten arbeiten rund 25 Anwälte. Mit einem "eisigen Lächeln" im Gesicht habe Bush mit dem irakischen Ministerpräsidenten Nuri al-Maliki über ein bevorstehendes Abendessen gescherzt, erinnerte sich der Angeklagte Bush: Sicherheitslücke mit Schuhgröße 44" href="https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,596896,00.html">an die Pressekonferenz am 14. Dezember 2008. Bush habe von Erfolgen der USA im Irak gesprochen, während er selbst an eine Million Tote, vergossenes Blut, Razzien in Moscheen, vergewaltigte Irakerinnen und erniedrigte Iraker denken musste, sagte Saidi, der sich anlässlich des Prozesses eine irakische Flagge um die Schultern gebunden hatte. "Ich war vom Zorn überwältigt, ich habe nur noch ihn gesehen", erinnerte sich der Angeklagte. Er habe seinen ersten Schuh genommen und geworfen, ohne zu treffen, dann habe er den zweiten geworfen. "Ich hatte nicht die Absicht, den Befehlshaber der Besatzungstruppen im Irak zu töten, noch den Ministerpräsidenten zu treffen", sagte Saidi aus. Er hatte seine Schuhe in Richtung des scheidenden US-Präsidenten geworfen und dabei gerufen: "Dies ist dein Abschiedskuss, du Hund!" Weil Bush sich wegduckte, trafen die Schuhgeschosse nicht. Später scherzte Bush, der Schuh habe Größe 10 gehabt. Von Reue keine Spur: Der irakische Journalist Saidi hat an seinem ersten Prozesstag seine Schuhattacke auf George W. Bush verteidigt. Das "eisige Lächeln" Bushs habe ihn auf der Pressekonferenz im Dezember 2008 zu dem Wurf verleitet. Saidi drohen 15 Jahre Haft. 20.Feb.2009 Nato-Einsatz vor Somalia: Bundeswehr flaggt Schiffe für Piratenjagd um (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 Dresden: Neonazis überfielen offenbar auch Regionalzug (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 Suhrkamp-Umzug nach Berlin: Respekt, Frau Verlegerin! (Kultur) 20.Feb.2009 Ausschlussverfahren: Geograf will Bin Laden aufgespürt haben (Wissenschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Bush" href="https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,608705,00.html">Prozessbeginn: Schuhwerfer von Bagdad verteidigt Attacke auf Bush (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 Börsen-Crashs: Finanzkrise beschert Banken Billionenverluste (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-608482,00.html Werden die Mitochondrien durch die freien Radikale also beschädigt, vermindert sich somit ihre Aktivität, vermutet Hekimi. Der Wurm werde so quasi auf Diät gesetzt und lebt länger - in Einklang mit dem lebensverlängernden Diät-Effekt. Dies sei eine bedeutende Erkenntnis, sagte Hekimi im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Die Theorie des Einflusses der freien Radikale auf die Lebensdauer setzte sich damals durch, weil die Mitochondrien als eine der Radikal-Hauptquellen angesehen wurden." Der Befund zeige, dass zwar nicht die freien Radikale selbst, aber die Mitochondrien im Alterungsprozess eine Rolle spielen. Paris - Die Weltbildungsorganisation stellte am Donnerstag in Paris ihren dritten "Weltatlas zu bedrohten Sprachen" vor. Insgesamt 13 Regionalsprachen in Deutschland seien nicht mehr sicher, sagen die Unesco-Experten, deren Atlas auf umfangreichen und überprüften linguistischen Analysen basiert. In der letzten Ausgabe von 2002 führte das Kompendium sieben bedrohte Sprachen für Deutschland auf. Ernsthaft um ihr Überleben fürchten müssen der neuesten Ausgabe zufolge das Ost- und Nordfriesische. Die Zahl der Menschen, die Ostfriesisch in seiner historischen Reinform sprechen, sei auf 1000 gesunken, so die Unesco. Auch das im Spreewald und der Lausitz gesprochene Sorbisch sei gefährdet, es werde noch von knapp 20.000 Menschen benutzt. Sowohl Friesisch als auch Sorbisch stehen auch auf der Uno-Charta für bedrohte Sprachen und werden öffentlich gefördert. Für den kölschen Dialekt besteht jedoch noch Hoffnung, meint Christine Merkel, Kulturchefin bei Unesco-Deutschland. Sie verweist darauf, dass sich etwa die Akademie für die kölsche Sprache um die Mundart kümmere und sogar Predigten auf Kölsch gehalten würden. "Wichtig ist aber die Sensibilisierung für die bedrohte Sprachvielfalt", sagte sie. "Sprachen sind wichtige kulturelle Ressourcen." Den Unesco-Experten geht es um das historische Limburgian-Ripuarian und Colognian, das in den limburgischen Provinzen in Belgien und den Niederlanden sowie im Rheinland gesprochen wird. Die Zahl der Menschen, die noch "Original-Kölsch" können, schätzt die Unesco auf eine Million. 20.Feb.2009 Altern: Neue Studie lässt Anti-Aging-Produkte alt aussehen (Wissenschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Kampf gegen die Taliban: Afghanistan-Einsatz überfordert müde Briten (Politik) 20.Feb.2009 Datenaffäre bei der Bahn: Tiefensee fordert Namen von Verantwortlichen (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Schwere Rezession: Autokrise zieht deutsche Wirtschaftskraft nach unten (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Israel-Tagebuch: Zittern im Schutzraum (UniSPIEGEL) Die Passagiere dürfen an Bord ihr Telefon, ihren Blackberry oder Laptop dann einschalten, wenn ein grünes Licht leuchtet. Ryanair arbeitet mit dem Kommunikationsunternehmen OnAir zusammen. Im vergangenen Jahr hatte die EU den Weg für das Telefonieren über den Wolken frei gemacht. Als erste Airline führte die arabische Emirates vor etwa einem Jahr einen Handy-Service ein. Auch europäische Fluggesellschaften wie zum Beispiel Air France testen, ob Passagiere an Bord mobil telefonieren können. Viele Reisende sind aber gegen solch einen Service, weil sie dann auch beim Fliegen den Handy-Gesprächen ihrer Mitmenschen lauschen müssen. Im gleichen Maß, wie das Reich der Römer sich durch seine militärischen Triumphe ausdehnte, stieg die Einwohnerzahl der Tiberstadt. Schon die stete Zufuhr von Kriegsgefangenen, die aus allen Himmelsrichtungen als Sklaven nach Rom geschafft wurden, trug erheblich dazu bei. So wuchs die Bevölkerung von etwa 463 000 Einwohnern, die eine Volkszählung im Jahr 86 v. Chr. ermittelt hatte, über rund eine Million um Christi Geburt auf mindestens anderthalb Millionen zur Mitte des zweiten Jahrhunderts. Die kühle Marmorpracht der legendären öffentlichen Gebäude, in denen Roms Stolz und Ruhm sich spiegelten, kontrastierte mit der stickigen, schmutzigen und buntscheckigen Enge, in der sich das Leben der Römer abspielte. 20.Feb.2009 Freispruch für Ex-NPD-Funktionär: Attacke auf Hells Angel bleibt ohne Folge (Panorama) 19.Feb.2009 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-608611,00.html "20 Minuten" schreibt, die Schweizer Politik befinde sich "in einer Art Geiselhaft des maroden Finanzmultis". Die sofortige Herausgabe von Kundendaten bedeute "nämlich nicht nur ein eigentliches Einknicken vor den US-Behörden, sondern die bewusste und offensichtliche Aushebelung des Rechtsstaats Schweiz". 19.Feb.2009 Bankgeheimnis-Bruch bei UBS: "Folgenschwerer Schlag für die Schweiz" (Wirtschaft) 19.Feb.2009 Afghanistan-Krieg: Obama setzt Nato-Partner unter Zugzwang (Politik) 19.Feb.2009 Carsharing: Zahl der Kunden steigt deutlich an (Auto) 19.Feb.2009 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-608025,00.html 19.Feb.2009 Wettermanipulation: Peking versinkt in Schnee (Panorama) 19.Feb.2009 Pterosaurier: Luftgefüllte Knochen ließen Urzeitriesen fliegen (Wissenschaft) 20.Feb.2009 Jahreszahlen: Postbank macht fast eine Milliarde Euro Verlust (Wirtschaft) 20.Feb.2009 USA: Vier Jahre Haft für den Tod eines Polizeihundes (Panorama) 19.Feb.2009 Medizin im antiken Rom: Blut, Schleim und Galle (Wissenschaft) 19.Feb.2009 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-608564,00.html Düstere Prognose: Die gigantischen Konjunkturpakete werden nach Einschätzung der US-Notenbank Fed verpuffen. Die Zentralbank hat ihre Wirtschaftsprognose für die USA sogar noch einmal drastisch nach unten korrigiert. Die US-Regierung hat den Vorwurf des Terrorismus gegen die 17 Uiguren bereits fallen gelassen, ihre Freilassung scheiterte bislang aber daran, dass sich kein Land zu deren Aufnahme bereitfand. China stuft sie als Terrorverdächtige ein und verlangt eine Auslieferung; die USA lehnen dies ab, weil den Männern dort Folter drohen könnte. Ab 31. Dezember 2010 erfolge eine Erhöhung der Mindestdeckung auf 100.000 Euro, und die Auszahlungsfrist werde auf höchstens 30 Arbeitstage verkürzt. Nach Ansicht des Deutschen Sparkassen- und Giroverband (DSGV) setzt der Regierungsentwurf noch zu wenig Anreize, die Beratungsqualität auszubauen. "Vom jetzigen Entwurf profitieren solche Banken, die ihre Kunden dürftig oder gar nicht beraten. Das kann nicht im Interesse der Verbraucher sein", sagte das Geschäftsführende Vorstandsmitglied des DSGV, Karl-Peter Schackmann-Fallis. In dem für rund 800 Insassen konzipierten Auffangzentrum befanden sich am Mittwoch nach Angaben der Lagerleitung rund 890 Menschen - zum größten Teil aus Tunesien. 18.Feb.2009 Wirtschaftskrise: US-Notenbank erwartet trotz Milliardenprogramm Konjunktureinbruch (Wirtschaft) 18.Feb.2009 Krisenopfer: Sarkozy hilft den Armen (Politik) 19.Feb.2009 Rettungspaket: Obama pumpt 275 Milliarden Dollar in Immobilienmarkt (Wirtschaft) 18.Feb.2009 Opel-Rettung: Merkel macht Druck auf General Motors (Politik) 18.Feb.2009 Milliardenhilfe: VW-Finanztochter erhält Staatsbürgschaft (Wirtschaft) 18.Feb.2009 Kriminalstatistik: Zahl rechtsextremer Straftaten steigt auf Rekordniveau (Politik) 18.Feb.2009 "Phoenix": Forscher wollen flüssiges Wasser auf dem Mars nachgewiesen haben (Wissenschaft) 18.Feb.2009 Commerzbank: Investmentbanker kassieren Millionen trotz Boni-Stopp (Wirtschaft) 18.Feb.2009 Kampf mit Polizei: Flüchtlinge rebellieren auf Lampedusa (Politik) 18.Feb.2009 Trotz Finanzkrise: Biobranche wächst gegen den Trend (Wirtschaft) 18.Feb.2009 Demo für Staatshilfe: Tausende jubeln Milliardärin Schaeffler zu (Wirtschaft) 18.Feb.2009 Neues Rettungspaket: Obama will Hausbesitzern mit 75 Milliarden Dollar helfen (Wirtschaft) 18.Feb.2009 Unruhen auf Guadeloupe: Steine gegen Urlauber (Reise) "Das ist gegen die Spielregeln", sagte er. "Für diese Darstellungen ist der Karneval doch erfunden worden." Bei einem anderen Wagen hat Kuckelkorn dagegen Mut bewiesen: Er wird verhungernde Häftlinge, rauchende Wärter unter Palmen und "Uncle Sam" in einer Hängematte liegend zeigen, berichtet der "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger". Das Festkomitee hatte mit der Menschenrechtsorganisation Amnesty International kooperiert, um das "Guantanamo-System" auf diese Weise zu kritisieren und den Wagen zu erstellen. Wie die anderen Forscher hatte auch Dannenberg in der Heeresversuchanstalt Peenemünde gearbeitet. Er hatte sich vor allem mit dem Antrieb der A4-Rakete ("V2") befasst. Die US-Öffentlichkeit erfuhr nach dem Krieg erst mit einem Jahr Verspätung von dem Know-how-Import aus Feindesland - und reagierte in vielen Fällen mit Ablehnung. Potentielle Kriegsverbrecher wollte man nur ungern in eigenen Diensten haben. Doch die militärisch wichtigen Forschungsergebnisse sollten nicht den Sowjets in die Hände fallen, so das Kalkül der Amerikaner. Doch auch Moskau sicherte sich den Zugriff auf deutsches Raketenwissen. Zuckerberg: "Wir haben uns entschieden, einen neuen Ansatz zu wählen, um unsere Nutzungsbedingungen weiterzuentwickeln." Die nächste Fassung der Bedingungen werde eine komplette Überarbeitung sein, bei der "Facebook-Nutzer viel Einfluss auf die Gestaltung haben werden". 18.Feb.2009 Daten-Debakel: Facebook verzichtet auf Endlos-Datennutzung (Netzwelt) 18.Feb.2009 Ende der Heizperiode: Mehr als 200 Gasfirmen senken Preise (Wirtschaft) 18.Feb.2009 Rote Zahlen: Commerzbank streicht Boni und Dividende (Wirtschaft) 18.Feb.2009 Materialforschung: Verbindung könnte härter als Diamant sein (Wissenschaft) 18.Feb.2009 Handy im Flugzeug: Passagier muss 1500 Euro Strafe zahlen (Reise) 18.Feb.2009 Krise des Opel-Mutterkonzerns: GM will 47.000 Jobs streichen und fordert riesiges Hilfspaket (Wirtschaft) 18.Feb.2009 Opel-Mutterkonzern: GM will 47.000 Jobs streichen und fordert riesiges Hilfspaket (Wirtschaft) 17.Feb.2009 Verstärkung für Afghanistan: Obama schickt 17.000 zusätzliche Soldaten in Krieg gegen Taliban (Politik) 17.Feb.2009 Feierliche Unterzeichnung: Obama besiegelt gigantisches Konjunkturpaket (Politik) Sea Sponge Extract Conquers Resistant Bacteria - kdawson Science News has an article on research into a compound found in a particular kind of sea sponge that seems to have the ability to restore antibiotics' effectiveness against resistant bacteria. The hope is that, since the compound is not itself deadly or even harmful to bacteria, it may skew the antibiotic-bacteria arms race in our favor. "Chemical analyses of the sponge's chemical defense factory pointed to a compound called algeferin. Biofilms, communities of bacteria notoriously resistant to antibiotics, dissolved when treated with fragments of the algeferin molecule. And new biofilms did not form. So far, the algeferin offshoot has, in the lab, successfully treated bacteria that cause whooping cough, ear infections, septicemia and food poisoning. The compound also works on... [MRSA] infections, which wreak havoc in hospitals. 'We have yet to find one that doesn't work,' says [one of the researchers]." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Ktu41_eFuQM/article.pl High Tech Misery In China - kdawson theodp writes "Think you've got a bad job? Think again. You could be making keyboards for IBM, Microsoft, Dell, Lenovo and HP at Meitai Plastic and Electronics, a Chinese hardware factory. Prompted by the release of High Tech Misery in China by a human-rights group, a self-regulating body set up by tech companies will conduct an audit of working conditions at the factory. In return for take-home pay of 41 cents per hour, workers reportedly sit on hard wooden stools for 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Overtime is mandatory, with workers being given on average two days off per month. While on the production line, workers are not allowed to raise their hands or heads, are given 1.1 seconds to snap each key into place, and are encouraged to 'actively monitor each other' to see if any company rules are being transgressed. They are also monitored by guards. Workers are fined if they break the rules, locked in the factory for four days per week, and sleep in crowded dormitories. Okay, it's not all bad news — they're hiring." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/OHOHj7HBQwc/article.pl Do We Need a New Internet? - kdawson Richard.Tao and a number of other readers sent in a NYTimes piece by John Markoff asking whether the Internet is so broken it needs to be replaced. "...[T]here is a growing belief among engineers and security experts that Internet security and privacy have become so maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start over. What a new Internet might look like is still widely debated, but one alternative would, in effect, create a 'gated community' where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety. Today that is already the case for many corporate and government Internet users. As a new and more secure network becomes widely adopted, the current Internet might end up as the bad neighborhood of cyberspace. You would enter at your own risk and keep an eye over your shoulder while you were there." A less alarmist reaction to the question was blogged by David Akin: "If you build a new Internet and you want me to get a license to drive on it, sorry. I'm hanging out here in v.1." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/9YGpzCkcBYs/article.pl Collided Satellite Debris Coming Down? - kdawson Jamie found this Bad Astronomy blog on the many reports beginning about 7 hours ago of one or more fireballs in the sky across Texas. That blog's proprietor first doubted that the phenomena could be due to the satellites that collided in orbit last week, but later left the possibility open. The National Weather Service for Jackson, KY put out an announcement about possible explosions and earthquakes across the area and blamed the defunct satellites. "These pieces of debris have been causing sonic booms...resulting in the vibrations being felt by some residents...as well as flashes of light across the sky. The cloud of debris is likely the result of the recent in orbit collision of two satellites on Tuesday...February 10th when Kosmos 2251 crashed into Iridium 33." An Austin TV station has more reports. https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/w2jE5cMPs1U/article.pl Acquired Characteristics May Be Inheritable - kdawson A story from a week or so back in Technology Review describes research coming to the surprising conclusion that Jean-Baptiste Lamarck may have been right — that acquired characteristics can be passed on to offspring, at least in rodents. Lamarck's ideas have been controversial for 200 years, and dismissed in mainstream scientific thinking for nearly that long. "In Feig's study, mice genetically engineered to have memory problems were raised in an enriched environment — given toys, exercise, and social interaction — for two weeks during adolescence. The animals' memory improved... The mice were then returned to normal conditions, where they grew up and had offspring. This next generation of mice also had better memory, despite having the genetic defect and never having been exposed to the enriched environment." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/EcMBccHEh0U/article.pl Earth May Harbor a Shadow Biosphere of Alien Life - kdawson An anonymous reader sends us to Cosmos Magazine for a speculative article arguing that a 'shadow biosphere' may exist on Earth, unrelated to life as we know it. If such non-carbon-based life were found here at home, it would alter the odds for how common life is elsewhere in the universe, astrobiologists say. "The tools and experiments researchers use to look for new forms of life — such as those on missions to Mars — would not detect biochemistries different from our own, making it easy for scientists to miss alien life, even if [it] was under their noses. ... Scientists are looking in places where life isn't expected — for example, in areas of extreme heat, cold, salt, radiation, dryness, or contaminated streams and rivers. [One researcher] is particularly interested in places that are heavily contaminated with arsenic, which, he suggests, might support forms of life that use arsenic the way life as we know it uses phosphorus." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/MNQR-ap5leI/article.pl Drug Giant Pledges Cheap Medicine For World's Poor - kdawson bmsleight writes in with a Guardian piece on the decision of the world's second biggest pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline, to radically shift its attitude towards providing cheap drugs to millions of people in the developing world. "[The new CEO] said that GSK will... cut its prices for all drugs in the 50 least developed countries to no more than 25% of the levels in the UK and US — and less if possible — and make drugs more affordable in middle-income countries such as Brazil and India; put any chemicals or processes over which it has intellectual property rights that are relevant to finding drugs for neglected diseases into a 'patent pool,' so they can be explored by other researchers; and reinvest 20% of any profits it makes in the least developed countries in hospitals, clinics, and staff." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xQx8aRw2obI/article.pl Facebook's New Terms of Service - CmdrTaco An anonymous reader writes "Chris Walters writes about Facebook's new terms of service. 'Facebook's terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want.'" Oh no! Now they'll be able to license your super flair goblin poke 25 tag history! https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/tKdkl7odabY/article.pl Nuclear Subs 'Collide In Ocean' - CmdrTaco Jantastic noted a BBC report saying "A Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision with a French nuclear sub in the middle of the Atlantic. It is understood HMS Vanguard and Le Triomphant were badly damaged in the crash earlier this month. Despite being equipped with sonar, it seems neither vessel spotted the other, the BBC's Caroline Wyatt said." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/yquDD9nwm9A/article.pl Earth Under Threat From Dark Comets - CmdrTaco An anonymous reader writes "Comets could be the most significant impact hazard to Earth, with sky surveys underestimating the number that are potentially devastating by a factor of between 10 and 100, U.K. astrophysicists say." https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Y0Gaubj9hOM/article.pl New York Wants To Tax Internet Downloads - CmdrTaco An anonymous reader writes "NY is considering taxing 'video and music' downloads to offset a burdgeoning budget deficit." How long before we all have meters on our routers? This version is just a 4% tax on movies and songs downloaded from services like iTunes, but I'm sure if they could figure out a bit tax, they would. https://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/pZuX8M0yzYE/article.pl Carbon Burial Research Grows as Huge Experiment Begins - Alexis Madrigal A new carbon sequestration project, sponsored by the Department of Energy, is underway in Illinois. It's a sign of the agency's continued support for the controversial climate-change tech. https://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/abbU44t9uIM/carbonstorage.html New Zimbabwe minister blames bank Zimbabwe's central bank is at the heart of the nation's economic decay, new Finance Minister Tendai Biti says. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/africa/7891761.stm Crash plane 'dropped in seconds' A plane that crashed onto a house in New York state killing 50 people dropped 800 feet in five seconds, officials say. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/7891770.stm Japan's economy in quarterly dive Japan's economy contracted by 3.3% in the final quarter of 2008 - its worst showing since the oil crisis of the 1970s, figures show. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7891849.stm CBI warning over recession cash The government will have to borrow £100bn more than thought to stave off the worst of the recession, the CBI says. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7891514.stm Warning over metal detector crime Britain's heritage is under threat from illegal metal detector users, or "nighthawkers", who face little threat of being caught, a report says. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/7891530.stm Russian output plummets further Russia's industrial output sank 16% in January from a year earlier after the sector was hit hard by the economic downturn. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7892528.stm Battle plan How UK's plans to tackle extremism are changing https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_7891000/7891612.stm Chavez wins chance of fresh term Venezuelans vote to scrap term limits on elected posts, paving the way for President Hugo Chavez to seek re-election. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/7891856.stm Anti-terror tactics 'weaken law' The UK and the US have 'actively undermined' international law in the way they fight terrorism, a jurists' group says. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/7892387.stm China warns against protectionism China warns against protectionist measures by other countries, amid fears such action could aggravate the economic slump. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7892070.stm Ice oceans 'are not poles apart' A marine census finds that at least 235 species live in both polar regions, despite being 12,000km apart. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7888558.stm Alien life 'may exist among us' Alien life-forms may be thriving right here on Earth, a physicist tells a major science conference. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7893414.stm Smith to scrap police timesheet Home Secretary Jacqui Smith says a police survey in England and Wales is to be scrapped to free up time. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk_politics/7892137.stm French Holocaust role recognised France's top court recognises the state's "responsibility" for deporting Jews in WWII, but says reparations have been made. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/7893127.stm Changing times Is innovation creating a cashless society? https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7850945.stm No 10 rules out Lloyds bank move Gordon Brown says he does not regret allowing the merger between Lloyds TSB and HBOS, as shares continue to slide. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7892125.stm Job cuts at Mini spark angry rows Angry agency staff confront union officials at BMW's Mini Cowley plant, after the carmaker confirmed 850 job cuts. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/business/7891913.stm Nuclear subs collide in Atlantic A Royal Navy nuclear submarine was involved in a collision with a French submarine in the middle of the Atlantic, the MoD says. https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/7892294.stm If price of crude oil is dropping, why is cost of gas rising? Source: www.chron.com - 5 On Thursday, crude oil closed just under $34 a barrel, its lowest point for 2009. But the national average price of a gallon of gas rose to $1.95 on the same day, its peak for the year. On Friday gas went a penny higher. https://www.rssmicro.com/article/If_price_of_crude_oil_is_dropping_why_is_cost_of.i241771644.html Colgan Air operates a fleet of 51 regional turboprops including Continental Connection, United Express and US Airways Express. Ch https://www.rssmicro.com/article/Plane_that_crashed_near_Buffalo_was_on_autopilot.i241779232.html Scientists: Pace of Climate Change Exceeds Estimates Source: www.newscloud.com - 3 CHICAGO, Feb. 14 -- The pace of global warming is likely to be much faster than recent predictions, because industrial greenhouse gas emissions have increased more quickly than expected and higher temperatures are triggering self-reinforcing feedback mechanisms in global ecosystems, scientists said... https://www.rssmicro.com/article/Scientists_Pace_of_Climate_Change_Exceeds.i241851443.html Source: www.wjla.com https://www.rssmicro.com/article/Dairy_cows_head_for_slaughter_as_milk_prices_sour.i242039213.html Nuclear Subs Collide In Atlantic Source: www.cbsnews.com - 20 Nuclear-armed submarines from Britain and France collided deep under the Atlantic Ocean earlier this month, causing damage to both vessels but releasing no radioactivity, a British official said Monday. https://www.rssmicro.com/article/Nuclear_Subs_Collide_In_Atlantic.i242117026.html Nation's dairy cows headed for slaughter as milk prices sour Source: MercedSunStar.com - 3 Hundreds of thousands of America's dairy cows are being turned into hamburgers because milk prices have dropped so low that farmers can no longer afford to feed the animals. https://www.rssmicro.com/article/Nation's_dairy_cows_headed_for_slaughter_as_milk.i242085439.html "We don't have to go to Mars," Davies said. "No planet is more Earth-like than Earth itself, so if it's true that life emerges on Earth-like conditions, should it not happen many times here?" How to hunt for shadow life https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/02/how-to-hunt-for-shadow-life.html More than a quarter of young Iraqi men remain jobless, threatening stability. - Amanda Terkel A report released yesterday by the United Nations’s Information Analysis Unit finds that more than “a fourth of Iraq’s young men are out of work, a situation that is likely to worsen and threatens the country’s long-term stability. … Overall, the country’s unemployment rate is 18%, but an additional 10% of the labor force is employed part time and wanting to work more.” In a country still struggling to attract private investment, government jobs now make up 60 % of employment, a rate that will be unsustainable as oil prices drop. https://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/16/iraq-jobless/ https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iraq16-2009feb16,0,292115.story Auch im Wissenschaftsjournalismus gilt dieses Prinzip. Allerdings kann eine schematische Anwendung zu einer verzerrten Berichterstattung führen, warnt Stephen Schneider von der Stanford University, Mitverfasser des IPCC-Reports von 2007. "Wissenschaft ist nicht Politik", sagte er auf dem gestern zu Ende gegangenen Jahrestreffen der Wissenschaftlervereinigung AAAS in Chicago. Man könne in Artikeln über die Klimaforschung nicht einfach zwei gegensätzliche Meinungen aufnehmen und glauben, man berichte ausgewogen. "Man muss die verschiedenen Standpunkte und ihre Glaubwürdigkeit berücksichtigen." Der IPCC-Autor spielte direkt auf sogenannte Klimawandelskeptiker an, die immer wieder Zweifel an der Theorie der menschgemachten Erderwärmung streuen. Der republikanische US-Senator James Inhofe etwa lässt über sein Büro einen "Minderheitsreport" verteilen, in dem mehr als 650 Wissenschaftler als Kronzeugen gegen den Weltklimarat IPCC aufgeboten werden. Es gebe keineswegs einen wissenschaftlichen Konsens über den anthropogenen Klimawandel, wie es die Verantwortlichen des Weltklimarats ständig glauben machen wollten, erklären die Unterzeichner, die mit solchen Aussagen auch immer wieder in der Presse zitiert werden. Houston-based broker-dealer and investment adviser Stanford Group Company, and investment adviser Stanford Capital Management. It also names James Davis, chief financial officer for the bank and Stanford’s roommate at Baylor University in the 1970s, as well as Laura Pendergest-Holt, chief investment officer for Stanford Financial Group. Alfredo Perez, spokesman for the U.S. Marshal's office in Houston, said marshals went to the Stanford offices around 10 a.m. this morning. He said they are not removing anything from the building, but are there to make sure no one disturbs computers or documents. . Die katholischen Orden, die bis in die neunziger Jahre viele der westdeutschen Erziehungsheime betrieben haben, mochten nicht direkt dabei sein am Runden Tisch. Dabei treffen ihre Häuser mit den oft wohlklingenden Namen wie "Zum guten Hirten", "Mädchenheim Vincenzhaus" oder "Marienheim" oft die schwersten Vorwürfe bis hin zu zahlreichen Berichten über sexuellen Missbrauch. Bilder, Nachrichten, Statusmeldungen, einfach alle Daten: Facebook sichert sich klammheimlich per AGB-Änderung umfassende Rechte an den Inhalten seiner Nutzer. Die Aktion kratzt am Ruf der Community - und Juristen bezweifeln, dass die Regeln in Deutschland Bestand haben. Die Aufregung und Zuckerbergs Antwort versteht nur, wer den Text genau gelesen hat. Facebook lässt sich von seinen Mitgliedern per AGB eine recht weitreichende Lizenz zur Nutzung aller Informationen, Fotos, Kommentare und Nachrichten geben, die der Nutzer auf der Plattform hinterlässt. Facebook veröffentlicht den Abschnitt auch auf seinen deutschen Seiten nur in englischer Sprache - daher hier eine Übersetzung: "Sie übertragen Facebook hiermit eine unabänderliche, unbefristete, nicht exklusive, übertragbare, hiermit vollständig bezahlte, weltweit gültige Lizenz (mit dem Recht sie weiter zu lizenzieren), alle Nutzer-Inhalte zu verwenden, kopieren, veröffentlichen, streamen, speichern, öffentlich aufzuführen, zeigen, übertragen, scannen, neu zu formatieren, verändern, redigieren, übersetzen, auszugsweise zu nutzen, adaptieren und zu verbreiten, die Sie bei Facebook einstellen (…)." Diese Lizenz gilt fast uneingeschränkt, nämlich für folgende Nutzungsfälle (auch hier gibt es keine offizielle Übersetzung): "… für jede Art der Verwendung, eingeschlossen kommerzieller und werblicher, innerhalb des Facebook-Dienstes selbst oder in Verbindung damit oder als Werbung dafür." Bis Anfang Februar schränkte ein Nachtrag die Nutzung ein - doch dieser Passus wurde gelöscht (erneut aus dem Englischen übertragen): "Sie können Ihre Nutzer-Inhalte jederzeit von der Seite entfernen. Wenn Sie das tun, erlischt auch automatisch die oben eingeräumte Lizenz, allerdings stimmen Sie zu, dass Facebook archivierte Kopien Ihrer Nutzer-Inhalte aufbewahren darf." Die ersatzlose Streichung dieses Absatzes bedeutet nichts anderes als eine Endlos-Lizenz für Facebook. Es darf mit Bildern, Kommentaren, Foreneinträgen und allem anderen, was der Nutzer in der Community hinterlässt, werben. Oder dieses Material speichern und auswerten. Oder damit tun, was immer es will. Über Ermordungen ist aus dem CIA-Programm öffentlich nichts bekannt. Aber die übrigen Maßnahmen dürften denen des Mossad ähneln. Es geht um Sabotage, Abwerbungen, wahrscheinlich auch Erpressungen, den Diebstahl von Unterlagen und Hardware, das Abhören von Gesprächen und den Einsatz von Spionage-Satelliten. Die Zeitung zitiert Reva Bhalla, einen Analysten der Firma Stratfor, die eng mit US-Regierungsbehörden zusammenarbeitet, mit einer brisanten Aussage: "In Kooperation mit den USA haben verdeckte israelische Operationen sowohl darauf abgezielt, Schlüsselpersonal zu eliminieren, das in das Nuklearprogramm involviert ist, als auch die nukleare Versorgungskette Irans zu sabotieren." Und ein namentlich nicht genannter europäischer Geheimdienstler sekundiert laut "Daily Telegraph": "Israel hat keine Hemmungen gezeigt, Waffenforscher feindlicher Regimes in der Vergangenheit zu ermorden. Sie haben es im Falle Iraks getan und werden es im Falle Irans tun, wenn sie es können." 17.Feb.2009 Energieversorgung: Russland und China schließen Ölabkommen (Wirtschaft) 17.Feb.2009 Wirtschaftskrise: EU rechnet mit 3,5 Millionen mehr Arbeitslosen (Wirtschaft) 17.Feb.2009 Spionage: Israel soll iranische Atom-Wissenschaftler ermordet haben (Politik) 17.Feb.2009 Worst Than The Great Depression? ' Worst Economic Collapse Ever' Must Watch 11 Minute Video 17.Feb.2009 Geithner's Debut: "Not Ready for Prime Time" -By Mike Whitney 17.Feb.2009 Britain’s bankers plumb new depths: Jon Moulton, the private equity chief, warned a City lunch this week that he feared serious civil unrest. There was, he said, a 25 per cent chance of one of the 15 member countries of the eurozone pulling out of the currency club. That, he said, would be a catastrophic shock leading to a “far greater financial crisis” than the current one. 17.Feb.2009 Bank Failures May Reach 1,000 on Bad Loans, RBC Says : As many as 1,000 U.S. banks may fail in the next three to five years, almost double the one-year tally at the height of the saving-and-loan collapse, as losses mount on commercial real-estate loans, RBC Capital Markets analysts said 17.Feb.2009 European banks' toxic debts risk overwhelming EU governments: The toxic debts of European banks risk overwhelming a number of EU governments and may pose a “systemic” danger to the broader EU banking system, according a confidential memo prepared by the European Commission. 17.Feb.2009 Latin America Faces Asia Slump, Morgan Stanley Says: Asia’s shrinking demand for raw materials amid a “collapse” in its own exports will show up in Latin America in February and March, Morgan Stanley economists Daniel Volberg and Gray Newman wrote in a report today. 17.Feb.2009 GM considering Chapter 11 filing, new company: report: General Motors Corp, nearing a Tuesday deadline to present a viability plan to the U.S. government, is considering as one option a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that would create a new company, the Wall Street Journal said in its Saturday edition. 17.Feb.2009 US foreclosure image is 2008 World Press Photo: A picture of an armed sheriff moving through an American home after an eviction due to a mortgage foreclosure was named World Press Photo of 2008 on Friday. 17.Feb.2009 Israel’s Rationale for Murder: No One is Innocent -By M. Junaid Levesque-Alam -After unearthing their country’s declassified archives, honest Israeli scholars have pointed to an 00.000.1947 Israeli campaign of rape, murder, and ethnic cleansing -that entered full swing-. Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, said to a colleague shortly after Israel’s expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians, “They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that?” Continue 17.Feb.2009 Defence Role in CIA's Secret Jails -By- The Age 17.Feb.2009 Americans Want Torture Inquiry, Obama Doesn’t 12.Feb.2009 revealed that 62 % of Americans want to investigate or criminally prosecute Bush administration officials who authorized torture in the so-called “war on terror.” But even though President Obama has said numerous times that “nobody's above the law,” on 10.Feb.2009 he used the Bush administration’s “state secrets” gambit to quash a lawsuit attempting to penalize some of those involved in renditioning torture subjects. Continue 17.Feb.2009 Large U.S. Banks on Brink of Insolvency, Experts Say -By- Steve Lohr A sober assessment of the growing mountain of losses from bad bets, measured in today's marketplace, would overwhelm the value of the banks' assets, they say. The banks, in their view, are insolvent. Continue 17.Feb.2009 Nationalize the Banks! We're all Swedes Now -By- Matthew Richardson and Nouriel Roubini 17.Feb.2009 The Oligarchy's Bailout Ball 17.Feb.2009 Looting Social Security -By- William Greider 17.Feb.2009 It's Going to Take a Civic Jolt -By- Ralph Nader High Treason? Feinstein Comment on U.S. Drones Likely to Embarrass Pakistan -By- Greg Miller 17.Feb.2009 Chavez 'wins' Venezuela referendum: Exit polls in Venezuela's referendum indicate that Hugo Chavez, the president, has won support to scrap term limits for elected officials, including himself. 17.Feb.2009 Russia to aid Bolivia drug battl e: Moscow has agreed to supply Bolivia with helicopters to help fight drug trafficking in the South American country, Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has announced. 17.Feb.2009 Japan slump fastest in decades: "This is the worst ever crisis in the post-war era," he told a news conference on Monday. "There is no doubt about it." 17.Feb.2009 Former Gitmo Guard Tells All -By- Scott Horton 17.Feb.2009 Davos Debt & Denial 00.000.1694 -Capitalism, which began in- with the issuance of debt-based money from The Bank of England, has now over three hundred years later reached its last and final stage. Continue 17.Feb.2009 Obama: Learn From Lincoln And Do The Right Thing No one knows what will happen. Even as the Stimulus bill was passed, no one is confident it will stem the tide of economic decline. Continue 17.Feb.2009 Ending the Hidden Agenda Behind Tax Cuts -By- Joe Brewer It is treated like the basis of sound reasoning, yet no one points out what should be obvious - that "tax relief" and "tax cuts" are just code words for destroying the capacity of government to serve the public. Continue In the interview, he clearly indicated he was aware of the nuclear nature of the work in which Khan was involved. According to Khan, a midsize Tokyo-based trading house, Western Trading, which 00.000.2004 went bankrupt, acted as the point of contact with Khan's side. Investigations revealed that both Khan and the head of the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission visited Japan at least once in the 1980 s to shop for their respective programs. Comments by Pakistan's disgraced nuclear scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan + former employees of the companies reveal in detail for the first time how leading Japanese manufacturers knowingly + unknowingly helped Pakistan acquire nuclear capability + were incorporated into its supply framework. 00.000.2000, Jowell and her husband took out a loan, securing it on their terraced house in Kentish Town, north London, and invested the proceeds in a hedge fund. The following month, the loan was repaid with the $600,000 at the centre of the trial. After the transaction came to light, Jowell said she only became aware four years later – in August 2004 – that her husband had received money he "had reasonable grounds to believe was a gift". Mills's lawyer, Federico Cecconi, told reporters afterwards: "This is a verdict based on a prosecution case that was anything but consolidated. It contravenes the logic and dynamics of the trial." Berlusconi – who was indicted alongside Mills, his former legal adviser on offshore dealings – is no longer a defendant. His government passed a law last year giving the prime minister and some other top Italian officials immunity from prosecution. It is thought to be the first time in Italy that someone has been found guilty of taking a bribe without the giver of the money being identified. Gandus's reasons for her verdict will be released in writing at a later date. 17.Feb.2009 Einsätze der Bundeswehr im Inneren haben massiv zugenommen The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) says bad debts will top 10pc and may reach 20pc. The Vienna press said Bank Austria and its Italian owner Unicredit face a " monetary Stalingrad " in the East. Natürlich hat Österreich die EU um Hilfe gebeten, aber der Steinbrück hat das plattgehauen: Mr Pröll tried to drum up support for his rescue package from EU finance ministers in Brussels last week. The idea was scotched by Germany's Peer Steinbrück. Not our problem, he said. We'll see about that. Credit ratings agency Moody's recently followed rival Standard & Poor's in warning it might downgrade Irish debt, amid fears that one of Europe's former success stories is falling into a deepening recession. The cost to hedge against losses on Irish debt rose last week to a record 355 basis points - meaning that for every £100 of debt, investors have to pay £3.55 to insure against default, according to data firm CMA Datavision. It was about 262 basis points at the end of January. Der Brüller daran: The spread between Irish and German debt rose last week to 203 points, meaning Ireland has to pay 2% more interest than Germany to borrow in the financial markets because of its perceived higher risk. Hahahaha, weil UNSERE Schulden, das ist ja was GANZ ANDERES als die Schulden der Iren!1!! https://blog.fefe.de/Mexiko klagt den Ex-Chef ihrer Spezialpolizei gegen organisierte Kriminalität an, weil er Informationen an ein Drogenkartell verkauft haben soll. The former head of Mexico's special organized crime bureau has been charged with selling information to one of the country's most powerful drug cartels, the attorney general's office said on Sunday. Nur bei uns gibt es dieses Bild der vertrauenswürdigen Polizei, die nie korrupte Dinge tun würde. Das sind alles bedauerliche Einzelfälle, verwirrte Einzeltäter, keinesfalls systemisch. Daher können wir denen auch immer neue Datenbanken, Abhör- und Einknast-befugnisse einräumen!1!! https://blog.fefe.de/Die Meldung mit den schlechten Erinnerungen gestern, die ist doch gar nicht so schlimm, wie sich herausstellt. Denn es stellt sich heraus, dass man mit einem altbekannten Betablocker Erinnerungen löschen kann. Doktor Frankenstein bitte zur Intensivstation. Doktor Frankenstein bitte. https://blog.fefe.de/Länderdomino: Spaniens größter Immobilienfonds beantragt für zwei Jahre keine Auszahlungen tätigen zu müssen, nachdem 80% der Investoren ihre Kohle sehen wollen. Sie befürchten jetzt einen Schneeballeffekt. https://blog.fefe.de/Länderdomino: Kansas zahlt keine Steuern mehr zurück, weil sie sonst die Gehälter für ihre Angestellten nicht zahlen können. 00.Apr.2005 the New York Times ran a. brief about a lawsuit brought by Jerry Gossett and his company , ... www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/pdf/Hockett.pdf 17.Feb.2009 London-Heathrow: Zoll findet fünf Kilo Kokain im Crew-Gepäck (Reise) Als Quelle konnten in den meisten Fällen indische Stahlwerke ausfindig gemacht werden, wo offenbar Kobalt-60-Srahlenquellen mit regulärem Schrott eingeschmolzen wurden - ob versehentlich oder zur billigen Entsorgung - ist noch offen. Kobalt kommt in Kernkraftwerken zum Einsatz, in der Krebstherapie und bei der Lebensmittelbestrahlung. Bei den Funden in Deutschland überschritt die Radioaktivität in mehreren Fällen die Grenzwerte der Strahlenschutzverordnung deutlich. In einem Aktenvermerk vom 6. Februar 2009 ("Vorkommnisse mit Co-60 kontaminiertem Edelstahl") haben Strahlenschützer des Bundesumweltministeriums die bis dahin bekannten Fälle aufgelistet. Seither sind weitere Fälle aufgetreten. Die Chronik der Ereignisse, die dem Vermerk zufolge aktenkundig sind, machen das Ausmaß des Giftmüll-Skandals deutlich: 17.Feb.2009 Bilanzreinigung: Bankenverband bastelt am eigenen Bad-Bank-Konzept (Wirtschaft) 17.Feb.2009 Giftmüll-Import: Strahlenschrott wurde über ganz Deutschland verteilt (Politik) 17.Feb.2009 Russlands Milliardäre in der Finanzkrise: Arme Oligarchen (Wirtschaft) Obwohl seine Zellen mit der gleichen Menge radikaler Sauerstoffverbindungen konfrontiert werden wie die von Mäusen, wird der Nacktmull bis zu 30 Jahre alt. Die Forscher um Perez vermuten, dass beschädigte Proteine des Nacktmulls schneller und besser abgebaut werden als die seiner kleineren Verwandten. Dadurch habe das Tier sein ganzes Leben lang mehr stabile Proteine. |