Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Music 4 Summer
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Bananarama: Venus
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Cutting Crew: I just died in your arms tonight
C&C Music Factory VC Charles remix (chasy)
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Esposito Kalimba della Luna
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CLICK LINK FELIX - Everybody is a star
Felix-crazy
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Hypnosis:Pulstar
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kano-Another Life
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Click Link Murray Head - One night in Bangkok
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Rozalla - Everybodys free
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SABRINA:Boys Boys Boys /Let the Childrentz speakz
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Sunday, 28 June 2009
Argentine
Argentine President Cristina Fernandez suffered a stinging blow in Sunday's mid-term, losing her majority in the lower house as voters rejected her combative politics and handling of a slowing economy.
Kirchners lose control of Argentine Congress
The ruling coalition of Argentine President Cristina Kirchner was dealt a blow in mid-term elections, losing control of the country's Congress and suffering defeat in five key provinces.
A 41-year-old Argentine former reporter acknowledged having a relationship with South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, saying Sunday that widely published e-mail correspondence between the two was obtained from her account without permission.
Iran
New clashes in Iran as standoff worsens with West
Britain assails Iran over embassy staff detentions
Iranian Election: Clockwork Orange
Can A Nervous Regime Strike Fear Once More Into The Population It Fears Most?
By Steve Schippert
Much like Stanley Kubrick's 1971 movie Clockwork Orange, Iranian elections are irresistibly difficult to watch. And this election has all the hallmarks of being more than just another sequel, but rather that rare occurrence where it is even more compelling (and irresistibly difficult) than any of its serial predecessors. One of the smartest - and most principled - Iran experts, my friend Michael Ledeen, explains ably just why this is. Their [open demonstrators by the thousands] candidate is the former...
California's Fiscal Crisis: The Legacy of Proposition 13
yahoo.com
The financial crisis in California grew worse this week as State Controller John Chiang warned that if legislators and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger fail to come up with a budget-balancing package, he would begin paying California's bills with IOUs on July 2. The last time the state did this was during the Great Depression.
What has brought California to such a perilous state? How did its government become so wildly dysfunctional? One obvious cause is the deep recession that has caused tax revenues to plunge for all states. But California's woes have a set of deeper reasons: direct democracy run amok, timid governors, partisan gridlock and a flawed constitution all contribute to budget chaos and people in pain. And at the root of California's misery lies Proposition 13, the antitax measure that ignited the Reagan Revolution and the conservative era. In Washington, the Reagan-Bush era is over. But in California, the conservative legacy lives on. (Read TIME's report: Can the U.S. Afford to Let California Fail?)
Before Prop 13, in the 1950s and '60s, California was a liberal showcase. Governors Earl Warren and Pat Brown responded to the population growth of the postwar boom with a massive program of public infrastructure - the nation's finest public college system, the freeway system and the state aqueduct that carries water from the well-watered north to the parched south. When Ronald Reagan was governor he actually raised taxes. Then Proposition 13 shot the tires out of Pat Brown's liberal state. Liberal legislative leaders such as Willie Brown and John Burton jerry-rigged repairs and kept the damaged vehicle running for 30 years. Now Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger says there is no choice but to complete the demolition by slashing essential services. (TIME's Joel Stein weighs in on California's state of insanity)
Proposition 13 was the brainchild of the late Howard Jarvis. The antitax crusader was a policy genius not unlike Franklin D. Roosevelt. Both shared an affinity for designing deep structural change that, once embedded in the political system, is nearly impossible to alter without a massive change of heart by voters. Social Security is the lasting legacy of the New Deal era because F.D.R. understood that workers who contribute payroll-tax deductions from their paychecks would not want politicians tinkering with their retirement dollars. Conservatives have mounted assaults on Social Security through the years but to no avail.
Jarvis created a similarly impregnable institution. When he rode the wave of anger over skyrocketing property-tax assessments to pass Proposition 13 in 1978, he included a two-thirds vote requirement for the passage of any new taxes in California - an insurmountable obstacle built on populist allergy to any kind of new levy. Beholden to a tax-averse electorate, the state's liberals and moderates have attempted to live with Proposition 13 while continuing to provide the state services Californians expect - freeways, higher education, locking up felons, assisting needy families and, very importantly, essential funding to local government and school districts that vanished after the antitax measure passed.
Now, however, that balancing act no longer seems possible. In the state's current fiscal crisis, California's public schools stand to lose $5.3 billion on top of $7.4 billion in cuts last year. Superintendents and school boards foresee teacher layoffs, increased class sizes, the loss of computer labs and libraries and, in some districts, insolvency. Superintendent Ramon Cortines says the Los Angeles Unified School District will lay off more than 2,500 teachers.
"If not for the county [welfare program], lots of people would be out on the streets and I'd be one of them with my two kids," says Cinnamon McDaniel. Petite and well dressed, McDaniel is hardly the Reagan-stereotype welfare mom of yore. The 26-year-old African American mother of two was employed until a year ago when her doctor ordered her to stop working because of complications with her second pregnancy. A high school graduate and a preschool teacher's aide for six years, she is working toward a nursing degree. Following a divorce, she now receives a welfare check for $623 as well as food stamps and the state's health coverage for low-income families. "Last year I was able to work and pay my own bills. I'd like to see if Gov. Schwarzenegger could cut it on $600 a month."
South of Los Angeles at California State University, Fullerton, Nicole Muth, 22, has just finished her junior year with straight A's. Muth grew up in Modesto with "lots of love but no money." Raised by her aunt and uncle, she receives a Cal Grant of $4,500 a year. "It definitely helps," says Muth, who credits the grant with allowing her to focus on her studies. As part of his proposed budget cuts, however, Schwarzenegger says Cal Grants should be phased out and that money promised to the incoming college class eliminated. "I appreciate the grant very much and I'm concerned about students coming after me not having the opportunities I've had," says Muth. "I'm really sad to see our state in this economic crisis. It's bewildering." Muth is not alone.
The governor has addressed the need for shrinking the state, saying, "We have to go and make certain cuts in health care. We have to make certain cuts in education, in higher education, in all these various different programs, in prisons, law enforcement and so on." But Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, a nonprofit advocacy group, says, "These are no longer cuts. These are amputations, and the question is, Which limb are we cutting off today?"
Honduran military ousts president ahead of vote
Honduran military ousts president ahead of vote
AP – 39 mins agoTEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – Soldiers seized the national palace and flew President Manuel Zelaya into exile Sunday, hours before a disputed constitutional referendum. Zelaya, a leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said he was victim of a coup. Full Story »
Report: Iran detains 8 local British Embassy staff
Smells a bit like war for me. I think its highly relevant to increase the alert level for US troops
Wilmington-Wilmington-Jacksonville-DCSaturday, 27 June 2009
Iran pledges 'crushing' response to US critiques
I mean held a totally baseless speech in Cairo. Id call it kirre but it doesnt matter. Akmaydjinedjads baseless accusation now that the mask has been removed (or whatsoever) is something that estranges me even more.What mask? Michael Jackson? Anyway, whoever may be concerned by this totally unprecise remark, its still a lousy reflection of eventrs. Not only that Iran rolled over its own population, they also slapped Obamas far stretched hand away. Akmaydjinedjad wasnt very eager to shake it. Iran should be more silent. This comes very close to a point where the US should react in a diffrent form.
EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed Saturday to make the U.S. regret its criticism of Iran's postelection crackdown and said the "mask has been removed" from the Obama administration's efforts to improve relations.
Ahmadinejad — with his internal opponents virtually silenced — all but dared Obama to keep calling for an end to repression of demonstrators who claim the hardline leader stole re-election through massive fraud.
"You should know that if you continue the response of the Iranian nation will be strong," Ahmadinejad said in a speech to members of Iran's judiciary, which is directly controlled by the ruling clerics. "The response of the Iranian nation will be crushing. The response will cause remorse."
South Korea warns of first strike
Rawstory
Ooups. Dramatic turn of events.So the North Korean "acts of self defense" weren't totally baseless
In a reversal of the usual pattern, South Korea is now warning North Korea that it is developing a first-strike capacity against the communist country.
Ooups. Dramatic turn of events.So the North Korean "acts of self defense" weren't totally baseless
In a reversal of the usual pattern, South Korea is now warning North Korea that it is developing a first-strike capacity against the communist country.
In the wake of a recent nuclear bomb test by North Korea, South Korea is ratcheting up its war of words against its northern neighbor, announcing plans to accelerate the deployment of defense systems.
A South Korean defense reform plan, reported on by the Korea Times, describes the country’s plans for a defense network that would link surveillance satellites, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft and early-warning radar in an effort “to remove North Korea’s asymmetrical military threat of nuclear and missile programs.”
GOP is running naked in the woods
Mark Musselwhite, 43, said he was hot and had been in the creek, according to a Georgia Department of Natural Resources incident report. He apparently didn’t think he was doing anything wrong.
Mark Musselwhite was elected to the Gainesville City Council in 2000, serving for six years, including as mayor of the town.
was arrested last weekend after being confronted by state DNR authorities. He was charged with public indecency.
“He told me he was the ex-mayor of the city Gainesville and he was a very political person,” DNR Ranger Brandon Walls wrote in the report.
Walls and a deputy sheriff went to the campsite Saturday evening after a complaint of a man walking naked in Earls Ford Road, according to the report. Musselwhite appeared to be intoxicated, and several alcoholic beverages were at the campsite, Walls said.
Walls said he had spoken to Musselwhite earlier in the day regarding an ATV the former mayor was driving.
“He looked at us and said hello,” according to the report.
Musselwhite then asked why he was being visited.
Argentina's First Couple face election test
Argentina's First Couple face election test
I think Mengele was suspected to be in Argentine. I mean its not clear to me why the injected Opium into Jackson in large amounts. I read it was Demerol. Its fully synthetic and may have complications because its in fact not very organic. jackson was seen before at Staples center. He didnt have spots or any other signs that may imply that he had organic failures. So in fact the only thing u needed to do was to dope him. There was no organ failure to be expected. If he had some pill cocktail before, its very important that the organs continue to process, otherwise u may have some poisenoius mix minside your body that stays unprocessed. What is a total mystery to me is that they saw the heart rate falling and they didnt react at UCLA. U have to make immediate use of dopamine if such a case occurs (or inject coffeine, or taurin or cocaine).
I think Mengele was suspected to be in Argentine. I mean its not clear to me why the injected Opium into Jackson in large amounts. I read it was Demerol. Its fully synthetic and may have complications because its in fact not very organic. jackson was seen before at Staples center. He didnt have spots or any other signs that may imply that he had organic failures. So in fact the only thing u needed to do was to dope him. There was no organ failure to be expected. If he had some pill cocktail before, its very important that the organs continue to process, otherwise u may have some poisenoius mix minside your body that stays unprocessed. What is a total mystery to me is that they saw the heart rate falling and they didnt react at UCLA. U have to make immediate use of dopamine if such a case occurs (or inject coffeine, or taurin or cocaine).
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) -- Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has held power since 2003, and Sunday's midterm elections will prove pivotal to her hold on power.
Much depends on how Fernandez's husband -- and predecessor -- Nestor Kirchner fares in his race for a deputy's seat in the nation's lower house.
Even though he has not been in office since December 2007, some analysts say he remains the most influential political figure in the nation and the person who still makes most important policy decisions for his wife's government.
At stake Sunday are half of the seats in Argentina's lower house of Congress (127 of 257 seats) and one-third of the Senate posts (24 of 72).
Recent polls have indicated an extremely tight race, with the Kirchner Peronist Party expected to lose a large portion of the national vote and the majority it now holds in the lower house. It could even lose control of the Senate.
"The overall outlook appears bleak from the government's perspective," said Daniel Kerner, an analyst with the Eurasia Group consulting firm.
Police focus on medical treatment in Jackson death
Police focus on medical treatment in Jackson death
APLOS ANGELES – Police investigating Michael Jackson's death looked into his medical treatment Friday, seeking to interview one of the pop king's doctors and seizing a car that they said may contain drugs or other evidence. Full Story »
Jackson insisted promoter hire his cardiologist
APLOS ANGELES – Just before he died, Michael Jackson insisted that his concert promoter's payroll include his personal physician, a financially troubled cardiologist who was with the entertainer when he collapsed. Full Story »
Friday, 26 June 2009
Militants blow up girls school
Dont know what this is about. I think certain things are just sad
RAWSTORY
RAWSTORY
Michael Jackson
Jackson Danced and Sang Last Night
Posted Jun 25th 2009 7:35PM by TMZ Staff
We've learned Michael Jackson showed no unusual signs of distress -- he was rehearsing his upcoming concert at the Staples Center in L.A. But, we're told, like other nights of rehearsal, Jackson was both hours late and lethargic.
Report: 'Injection of Demerol' may be cause.. |
lebanon
'Hariri approved as PM by parliament'
Pro-Western son of slain leader expected to become premier; president to declare final decision Saturday
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Iran
rawstory
Saaed Mortazavi, an Iranian prosecutor who was responsible for ordering over 100 newspapers closed and dozens of bloggers and journalists arrested, tortured and in some cases, killed, has been empowered to interrogate Iran’s opposition leaders, according to published reports.
Mortazavi’s frightful history has earned him two distinct nicknames: “Butcher of the press” and “torturer of Tehran.”
“The leading role of Saeed Mortazavi in the crackdown in Tehran should set off alarm bells for anyone familiar with his record,” said Human Rights Watch Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson, according to a a Times Online report.
Michael Jackson
rawstory.com
Pop legend Michael Jackson has died, according to The Los Angeles Times. The Associated Press confirmed the report with an unnamed source with first-hand knowledge of Jackson’s condition. CNN is also reporting that the coroner’s office has confirmed, the “King of Pop” has passed away.
The star the world could not ignore
Pop legend Michael Jackson has died, according to The Los Angeles Times. The Associated Press confirmed the report with an unnamed source with first-hand knowledge of Jackson’s condition. CNN is also reporting that the coroner’s office has confirmed, the “King of Pop” has passed away.
The star the world could not ignore
Michael Jackson has died after a suffering a cardiac arrest at his Los Angeles home. In a career spanning more than four decades, the 50-year-old pop icon enjoyed a level of hero worship on a par with Elvis Presley and the Beatles, before scandal and poor health caused his star to wane. full story
LATIMES
LATIMES
FBI news on 911
Peter Dale Scott writes about how the FBI protected Ali Mohamed:
In our book, '9/11 and Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out,' I wrote of Ali Mohamed, the close ally of Osama bin Laden and his mentor Ayman al-Zawahiri. It is now generally admitted that Ali Mohamed (known in the al Qaeda camps as Abu Mohamed al Amriki — "Father Mohamed the American") worked for the FBI, the CIA, and U.S. Special Forces. As he later confessed in court, he also aided the terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri, a co-founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and by then an aide to bin Laden, when he visited America to raise money.
The 9/11 Report mentioned him, and said that the plotters against the U.S. Embassy in Kenya were “led” (their word) by Ali Mohamed. That’s the Report’s only reference to him, though it’s not all they heard.
Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney who negotiated a plea bargain and confession from Ali Mohamed, said this in testimony to the Commission
Ali Mohamed. …. trained most of al Qaeda’s top leadership – including Bin Laden and Zawahiri – and most of al Qaeda’s top trainers. He gave some training to persons who would later carry out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing…. From 1994 until his arrest in 1998, he lived as an American citizen in California, applying for jobs as an FBI translator.
Patrick Fitzgerald knew Ali Mohamed well. In 1994 he had named him as an unindicted co-conspirator in the New York landmarks case, yet allowed him to remain free. This was because, as Fitzgerald knew, Ali Mohamed was an FBI informant, from at least 1993 and maybe 1989. Thus, from 1994 “until his arrest in 1998 [by which time the 9/11 plot was well under way], Mohamed shuttled between California, Afghanistan, Kenya, Somalia and at least a dozen other countries.” Shortly after 9/11, Larry C. Johnson, a former State Department and CIA official, faulted the FBI publicly for using Mohamed as an informant, when it should have recognized that the man was a high-ranking terrorist plotting against the United States.
As I say in our book, in 1993 Ali Mohamed had been detained by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Canada, when he inquired at an airport after an incoming al Qaeda terrorist who turned out to be carrying two forged Saudi passports. Mohamed immediately told the RCMP to make a phone call to the United States, and the call secured his release. We’ve since been told that it was Mohamed’s West coast FBI handler, John Zent, “who vouched for Ali and got him released.”
This release enabled Ali to go on to Kenya, take pictures of the U.S. Embassy, and deliver them to bin Laden for the Embassy bombing plot.
In our book, '9/11 and Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out,' I wrote of Ali Mohamed, the close ally of Osama bin Laden and his mentor Ayman al-Zawahiri. It is now generally admitted that Ali Mohamed (known in the al Qaeda camps as Abu Mohamed al Amriki — "Father Mohamed the American") worked for the FBI, the CIA, and U.S. Special Forces. As he later confessed in court, he also aided the terrorist Ayman al-Zawahiri, a co-founder of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and by then an aide to bin Laden, when he visited America to raise money.
The 9/11 Report mentioned him, and said that the plotters against the U.S. Embassy in Kenya were “led” (their word) by Ali Mohamed. That’s the Report’s only reference to him, though it’s not all they heard.
Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney who negotiated a plea bargain and confession from Ali Mohamed, said this in testimony to the Commission
Ali Mohamed. …. trained most of al Qaeda’s top leadership – including Bin Laden and Zawahiri – and most of al Qaeda’s top trainers. He gave some training to persons who would later carry out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing…. From 1994 until his arrest in 1998, he lived as an American citizen in California, applying for jobs as an FBI translator.
Patrick Fitzgerald knew Ali Mohamed well. In 1994 he had named him as an unindicted co-conspirator in the New York landmarks case, yet allowed him to remain free. This was because, as Fitzgerald knew, Ali Mohamed was an FBI informant, from at least 1993 and maybe 1989. Thus, from 1994 “until his arrest in 1998 [by which time the 9/11 plot was well under way], Mohamed shuttled between California, Afghanistan, Kenya, Somalia and at least a dozen other countries.” Shortly after 9/11, Larry C. Johnson, a former State Department and CIA official, faulted the FBI publicly for using Mohamed as an informant, when it should have recognized that the man was a high-ranking terrorist plotting against the United States.
As I say in our book, in 1993 Ali Mohamed had been detained by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Canada, when he inquired at an airport after an incoming al Qaeda terrorist who turned out to be carrying two forged Saudi passports. Mohamed immediately told the RCMP to make a phone call to the United States, and the call secured his release. We’ve since been told that it was Mohamed’s West coast FBI handler, John Zent, “who vouched for Ali and got him released.”
This release enabled Ali to go on to Kenya, take pictures of the U.S. Embassy, and deliver them to bin Laden for the Embassy bombing plot.
ThreatWatch: RapidReckon: Massacre in Teheran?
Unimaginable Horror In Tehran Today
Iran has executed its Tiananmen Square. Baharestan Square has become synonymous with barbarity, cruelty, massacre and inhumanity.
An Iranian blogger (whose URL I will not publish) live blogging from Baharestan Square in central Tehran today captures but brief glimpses of the unimaginable horror that took place today. Bus loads of protesters were stopped and unloaded from their buses by "black-clad police" and literally herded. When the massing was sufficient, as the barely controllably distraught Tehran caller to CNN described first hand, hundreds of the regime's Basij thugs poured out of an adjoining mosque and commenced a massacre with axes, clubs, guns and gas.
From the live blogger's eyewitness account:
>More than 10.000 Bassij Milittias get position in Central Tehran, including Baharestan Sq.
>Army Helycopters flying over Baharestan and Vali Asr Sq.
>The streets, squares and around BAHARESTAN (Approx. South-eastern of Tehran) is swarming with military forces, civilian forces, the security motorists
>The croud have moved to the south of baharestan, the situation is bad, the shooting has started
>In Baharestan Sq. in the Police shooting, A girl is shot and the police is not allowing to let them help
>In Baharestan we saw militia with axe choping people like meat - blood everywhere - like butcher
This is the Iranian regime, wading into its own unarmed people and axing them to death, bludgeoning women (seen as the greatest threat to the regime) and throwing them to their deaths from pedestrian bridges. The same Iranian regime whose embassy officials are invited to American embassies around the world to celebrate on July 4th, of all things, a successful revolution.
This frantic phone call from a Tehran woman will break your heart as you consider our standard response has been "that there are sets of international norms and principles about violence" and that "the international community is watching." Part of yesterday's response by President Obama in a press conference included "that there is a peaceful path that will lead to stability and legitimacy (of the Iranian regime) and prosperity for the Iranian people. We hope they take it." The Iranian theocratic regime clearly is not interested.
Machtkampf in Iran
Ahmadineschad: Obama soll sich entschuldigen
Akmaydjinedjad: Obama should excuseIts such a sorry crossover: US revolution and this Iranian election. Really sad Obama had to utter slight criticism after he held this successful Cairo speech. I think anyway Obama should reconsider. If he doesnt utter any criticism anymore, the impression cannot occur the US of today has anything in common with the US of 1776.
(sorry just joking)
Shocking disaster Akmaydjinedjad has to present. Obama played a great gesture with his Cairo speech. The only thing we get in return is a regime that is defending in the most embarassing terms its grip onto power. If the GOP needed any proof that a dialogue with Iran is superflous, they got it now. The left got beaten again. After they toppled Carter 1980 with their lunatic occupation of the US embassy in Iran, they foul Obama with open arms. The hallucinating parts of the left who maintain a dialogue with orthodox Muslim forces is necessary after the Basji militia came obviously out of a mosque to axe the the demonstrators should rethink its approach towards human rights.
Dignity comptroller Obama is expressing how valuable Merkel is thru a meeting in the Rose Garden
Sarkozy presents his new administration
Hollande : "Un PS faible, et c'est toute la gauche qui souffre"
L'Elysée présente son nouveau gouvernement
LEMONDE.FR | 23 juin 2009 | Le Monde.fr, avec AFP | 359 mots
Michèle Alliot-Marie secretary of state,minister of justice
Brice Hortefeux, ministre of the interior,
Xavier Darcos minister for employment/labor
Bruno Le Maire ministre for agriculture
Luc Chatel minister 4 éducation.
Jean-Marie Bockel justice.
Rama Yade sports, NO HUMAN RIGHTS ANYMORE
Valérie Létard infrastructure (lasting development)
Hubert Falco, formerly territorial matters becomes veteran management
Frédéric Mitterrand culture communication.
Michel Mercier, rural (territorial matters)
Christian Estrosi industrie.
Henri de Raincourt, interaction of parliament and govt
Pierre Lellouche, europé
Nora Berra a été nommée secrétaire d'Etat chargée des aînés. Marie-Luce Penchard, conseillère technique à l'Elysée et secrétaire nationale de l'UMP chargée de l'outre-mer, a été nommée secrétaire d'Etat à l'outre-mer. Benoist Apparu, député UMP de la Marne, devient secrétaire d'Etat au logement.
Mussawi open for talks
Mussawi open for talks
USA disinvite Iran
Normally the US govt invited for the first time in 30 years Iranian diplomats (back then they were still Persian) for the independence celebrations on 4th of july. But for the repressions in Iran the invitation has now become inappropriate. In Teheran governs some tense silence. A commemoration march has been called off
. In Teheran herrscht inzwischen abwartende Ruhe; ein Trauermarsch ist abgesagt. ...»
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Sanford tells paper that he was in Argentine
Interesting. There are elections on the 28th in Argentina
Governor tells paper he was in Argentina
South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford did not spend the last five days hiking the Appalachian Trail -- as his staff indicated -- but instead was in Argentina, he told The State newspaper. Spotted returning to the airport in Atlanta, Georgia, Sanford told the paper he had considered hiking the trail after the end of his state's busy legislative season but decided differently. "I wanted to do something exotic," Stanford said. full story
dailykos
The Sanford E-mails
by Jed Lewison
Wed Jun 24, 2009 at 03:34:23 PM PDT
Last December, The State managed to get its hands on some of the e-mails between Mark Sanford and his lover, an Argentinian woman named Maria.
For some mind-boggling reason, The State has sat on those e-mails for the past six months, but now they say they will release them tomorrow. Today, they released a sample e-mail, sent on July 10, 2008 at 12:24 a.m., and oh what an e-mail it is. It's got everything.
It's got politics:
The following weekend have been asked to spend it out in Aspen, Colorado with McCain - which has kicked up the whole VP talk all over again in the press back home ...
It's got sweet nothings:
You have a particular grace and calm that I adore. You have a level of sophistication that so fitting with your beauty.
It's got a torn heart:
In the meantime please sleep soundly knowing that despite the best efforts of my head my heart cries out for you, your voice, your body, the touch of your lips, the touch of your finger tips and an even deeper connection to your soul.
And of course it's got steamy passion:
I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night’s light - but hey, that would be going into sexual details ..dailykos
Bruhahaha. They confused her with Oussama Bin Laden. Bruhahaha
Bruhahaha. They confused her with Oussama Bin Laden. Bruhahaha
updated 37 minutes ago
Iran: Neda's death may be tied to 'terrorists'
Iran said the gunman who killed Neda Agha-Soltan may have mistaken her for the sister of an Iranian "terrorist," the Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday. full story
Khamenei Vows Iran Will Not Yield ‘at Any Cost’
Khamenei Vows Iran Will Not Yield ‘at Any Cost’
By NAZILA FATHI and ALAN COWELL
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ruled out compromise on the disputed election on Wednesday after a harsh crackdown on the streets.
The Club Part II
The Club Part II
by digby
Following up on my post last week about the shall we say, friendliness between the business and national security elites, here's a story from 2006 for the wtf files:
President George W. Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, broad authority, in the name of national security, to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations. Notice of the development came in a brief entry in the Federal Register, dated May 5, 2006, that was opaque to the untrained eye.
Unbeknownst to almost all of Washington and the financial world, Bush and every other President since Jimmy Carter have had the authority to exempt companies working on certain top-secret defense projects from portions of the 1934 Securities Exchange Act. Administration officials told BusinessWeek that they believe this is the first time a President has ever delegated the authority to someone outside the Oval Office. It couldn't be immediately determined whether any company has received a waiver under this provision.
The timing of Bush's move is intriguing. On the same day the President signed the memo, Porter Goss resigned as director of the Central Intelligence Agency amid criticism of ineffectiveness and poor morale at the agency. Only six days later, on May 11, USA Today reported that the National Security Agency had obtained millions of calling records of ordinary citizens provided by three major U.S. phone companies. Negroponte oversees both the CIA and NSA in his role as the administration's top intelligence official.
by digby
Following up on my post last week about the shall we say, friendliness between the business and national security elites, here's a story from 2006 for the wtf files:
President George W. Bush has bestowed on his intelligence czar, John Negroponte, broad authority, in the name of national security, to excuse publicly traded companies from their usual accounting and securities-disclosure obligations. Notice of the development came in a brief entry in the Federal Register, dated May 5, 2006, that was opaque to the untrained eye.
Unbeknownst to almost all of Washington and the financial world, Bush and every other President since Jimmy Carter have had the authority to exempt companies working on certain top-secret defense projects from portions of the 1934 Securities Exchange Act. Administration officials told BusinessWeek that they believe this is the first time a President has ever delegated the authority to someone outside the Oval Office. It couldn't be immediately determined whether any company has received a waiver under this provision.
The timing of Bush's move is intriguing. On the same day the President signed the memo, Porter Goss resigned as director of the Central Intelligence Agency amid criticism of ineffectiveness and poor morale at the agency. Only six days later, on May 11, USA Today reported that the National Security Agency had obtained millions of calling records of ordinary citizens provided by three major U.S. phone companies. Negroponte oversees both the CIA and NSA in his role as the administration's top intelligence official.
Saudi Royal Family Extensively Involved in Financing Al-Qaeda,
Saudi Royal Family Extensively Involved in Financing Al-Qaeda, Newly Revealed Government Documents Apparently Confirm
Since shortly after 9/11, BuzzFlash.com and other progressive sites -- as well as many a book -- offered extensive information that appeared to closely link some members of the Saudi Royal family to financing and supporting Al-Qaeda. This was something that the Bush Administration went to great lengths to deny, but their deference to the Saudis (including George W. walking pinky-entwined-with-pinky with Saudi princes, for real) was really all as usual about oil.
Dick Cheney and Rumsfeld -- in particular -- saw 9/11 as an enormous "gift" to rally the public behind first securing American and British access to the Iraqi oil fields and then to the Iranian ones. In the infamous PNAC document written by the Neo-Cons at the end of the Clinton Administration, they predicted that it would take a cataclysmic event to rally the American public behind the overthrow of Saddam (and rights to Iraqi oil) -- and they got what they wished for in 9/11.
Those who read BuzzFlash in our early years know that we repeatedly harped upon this issue and identified the connection between Cheney's vision of controlling natural resources in the Middle East to feed the beast of American empire and our Afghanistan/Iraq/Iran policies of belligerence and war.
Now the Obama administration has, sadly, taken the place of the Bush Administration in keeping 9/11 family members from revealing the role of the Saudi elite in financially and stratetically facilitating Al-Qaeda. This is taking place in courtroom battles involving a 9/11 family lawsuit against the Saudis that is still going on.
A June 24th New York Times article spills the beans, yet again, but via official government documents leaked to the attorneys for the 9/11 families:
Documents gathered by lawyers for the families of Sept. 11 victims provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family, but the material may never find its way into court because of legal and diplomatic obstacles.
The case has put the Obama administration in the middle of a political and legal dispute, with the Justice Department siding with the Saudis in court last month in seeking to kill further legal action. Adding to the intrigue, classified American intelligence documents related to Saudi finances were leaked anonymously to lawyers for the families. The Justice Department had the lawyers’ copies destroyed and now wants to prevent a judge from even looking at the material.
iran
Clerics join Iran protests
In major split from Supreme Leader, Iranian Mullahs take to streets.
Mousavi cut off from supporters
Iranian opposition leader under '24-hour guard,' cut off from speaking publicly.
YouTube launches focus on Iran
'Citizen Tube' aims to keep world updated on latest videos from Iran's uprising.
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Mourning Neda, who died on video
Neda Agha-Soltan 'was a beam of light,' friends say. Her slaying has made her an international symbol of the protest movement. Photos
Berlusconi makes gains in local elections
bloomberg
attempt to transform Italy into a two party system is a total failure
attempt to transform Italy into a two party system is a total failure
June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s coalition made gains in local elections, a sign that recent personal scandals haven’t damaged his popularity.
Berlusconi’s center-right forces won the elections in 34 provinces while the center-left opposition led by the Democratic Party triumphed in 28 provinces, according to results posted on the Interior Ministry’s Web site. Berlusconi and his allies picked up 25 provinces in the two rounds of voting that finished yesterday compared with the previous vote in 2004.
Berlusconi succeeded in regaining control of the province of Milan, his hometown and Italy’s second-biggest city and financial hub. He already controls Milan’s region of Lombardy, and his former education minister, Letizia Moratti, is the city’s mayor. In municipal elections, the center-right won in 16 cities while the center-left won in 14, losing control of nine cities while succeeding to hold on to Bologna.
German exports drop by 21%
Deutschlands Exporte brechen um 21 Prozent ein
Wiesbaden (AP) Die Ausfuhren des Exportweltmeisters Deutschland sind im ersten Quartal wegen der weltweiten Rezession um 21,2 Prozent eingebrochen. Nach Angaben des Statistischen Bundesamtes vom Dienstag wurden nur noch Waren im Wert von 199,0 Milliarden Euro ausgeführt. Überdurchschnittlich stark war der Rückgang mit 38,7 Prozent bei Exporten in die Türkei und nach Russland mit 31,4 Prozent. Die Versendungen in die USA verringerten sich um 26,4 Prozent. Vergleichsweise gut liefen die Ausfuhren nach China mit minus 3,3 Prozent, in die Schweiz mit minus 7,3 und nach Indien mit minus 8 Prozent. In die EU gingen Waren im Wert von 127,3 Milliarden Euro, ein Rückgang von 22 Prozent.
Wiesbaden (AP) The exports of Export world champion Germany dropped in the fourth quarter for 21,2% due to the recession. Only ware worth 199bio€were exported ue to accounts of Germanys statistical administration. Exceptionally high was the drop of exports to Turkey with 38,7% and Russia with 31,4%. The exports to the US dropped by 26,4%. The exports to China dropped by just 3,3%. Switzerland -7,3%,India -8. (exports to EU) (127bio€)(-22%)
Wiesbaden (AP) Die Ausfuhren des Exportweltmeisters Deutschland sind im ersten Quartal wegen der weltweiten Rezession um 21,2 Prozent eingebrochen. Nach Angaben des Statistischen Bundesamtes vom Dienstag wurden nur noch Waren im Wert von 199,0 Milliarden Euro ausgeführt. Überdurchschnittlich stark war der Rückgang mit 38,7 Prozent bei Exporten in die Türkei und nach Russland mit 31,4 Prozent. Die Versendungen in die USA verringerten sich um 26,4 Prozent. Vergleichsweise gut liefen die Ausfuhren nach China mit minus 3,3 Prozent, in die Schweiz mit minus 7,3 und nach Indien mit minus 8 Prozent. In die EU gingen Waren im Wert von 127,3 Milliarden Euro, ein Rückgang von 22 Prozent.
Wiesbaden (AP) The exports of Export world champion Germany dropped in the fourth quarter for 21,2% due to the recession. Only ware worth 199bio€were exported ue to accounts of Germanys statistical administration. Exceptionally high was the drop of exports to Turkey with 38,7% and Russia with 31,4%. The exports to the US dropped by 26,4%. The exports to China dropped by just 3,3%. Switzerland -7,3%,India -8. (exports to EU) (127bio€)(-22%)
Monday, 22 June 2009
Russia supports Akmaydjinedjad
Unlike China (previous thread) Russia is supporting iran. Putin fog bubble is extending again. Unclear positions. Undefined positions
Russland stützt Ahmadinedschad
Während der Westen den Protesten im Iran eher hilflos zusieht, stellt Russland sich auf die Seite des Regimes. Derweil verdichten sich die Anzeichen für einen Machtkampf in der iranischen Führungselite. Die bei in Teheran getötete 19-jährige Neda wurde mittlerweile nach unbestätigten Informationen beigesetzt....»
California
States Turn to Last Resorts in Budget Crisis
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
With revenues in free fall, states are approving measures that were once unthinkable. In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is confronting a $24 billion deficit.
Guardian council admits to grave failures during vote
German NTV
The reported number of votes was in some cities higher than the number of eligible voters. There eem to have been further substantial faiures.
Iranian media calls Mousavi a criminal
msnbc: oppression intensifies
The reported number of votes was in some cities higher than the number of eligible voters. There eem to have been further substantial faiures.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard warns protesters
Iranian protesters who "disturb the peace and stand up to security forces" will be considered a threat to the regime and will be met with a strong response, the country's Revolutionary Guard warned Monday. A statement purportedly from opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi on Sunday called on Iranians to use "self control" during protests while still supporting their right to demonstrate. full story
'Neda' becomes rallying cry |Iranian media calls Mousavi a criminal
msnbc: oppression intensifies
Iran Admits Possible Discrepancy in 3 Million Votes
By NAZILA FATHI and ALAN COWELL
Iranian authorities have acknowledged that the number of votes cast in 50 cities exceeded the actual number of voters, state television reported Monday.
Sunday, 21 June 2009
One night in Silvio Berlusconi’s 'harem'
Former escort girl tells of dinner party at Italian premier's home, where he showed off to female guests then took her to bed
cookz
You have been pushing this Berlusconi thing for awhile now. Does it have a particular close to the heart thing with you?
Just wondering...
no its just interesting - the pile of details that come out and out. its not very interesting in particular, because berlusconi did so for several years. But its so nice obscene that he did so on the day of the US election - and that he didnt visit the US - ITALY foundation.
I mean I dont want to insinuate anything to Mr.berlusconi - but I think hed more like to see some kind of a fxxx shop than the US election. never mind though
ON the night of Barack Obama’s election as US president last November, Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, threw a candlelit dinner party for three beautiful women at Palazzo Grazioli, his luxurious residence in Rome.
One of the guests, a former actress and escort girl called Patrizia D’Addario, 42, says he then asked her to stay the night. Not only that, but she claims to have taped the conversation that followed.
“Go and wait for me in the big bed,” the 72-year-old billionaire is said to have told her. He was going to have a shower and change into a bathrobe.
An extract from D’Addario’s tape that was leaked to an Italian newspaper and published yesterday shows that she replied: “Yes, the big bed.”
According to D’Addario, Berlusconi’s staff reminded him that he was expected at an election night rally organised by the Italy-USA Foundation, but the prime minister stayed at home. Officials informed him later of Obama’s victory.
The next day, D’Addario says, she and Berlusconi breakfasted together and he gave her a multicoloured tortoise encrusted with precious stones, declaring: “The tortoise is a special gift I give only to you.”
Saturday, 20 June 2009
Iran
updated 42 minutes ago
At least 19 dead after clashes in Tehran
At least 19 people died after clashes erupted Saturday in Tehran as Iran's security police used tear gas and clubs to beat back demonstrators. Unconfirmed reports put the death toll as high as 150. Videos posted on social networking Web sites appeared to show demonstrators who had been shot. full story
Iran
Witnesses report fierce clashes on Tehran streets
AP – 3 mins agoTEHRAN, Iran – Police beat protesters and fired tear gas and water cannons at thousands who rallied Saturday in open defiance of Iran's clerical government, sharply escalating the most serious internal conflict since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Full Story »
Germany: leftparty summit
Lafontaine treated several tropics. He stressed that the costs for the crisis cannot be socialized while future gains of banks are dedicated to a handful of people.
Another topic was social dem's scholz who announced in march that there won't be an increase of fees every worker has to pay into retirement funds. Instead, the fee was lifted recently for about 19,9% effective from 2010. The average worker pays 200€ more. Scholz wanted furthermore a weekly working time of 75h. Anyway, Lafontaine decried mostly that retirement funds dont pay more, that workers laid off dont get unemployment after a short while anymore but only social welfare and that the hourly wage is low while the working time is extended permanently.
He decried tax cuts for rich. he said people like to mention that rich people pay a lot income tax. But instead, states most income results out of sales tax, fuel tax and other taxes.
Mass taxes make most of the money and tax paybacks on income tax reach often 100% with the very rich. So Lafontaine didnt like the burden on the average worker but wanted to see the load directed at the rich.
(Before the EU vote) A party advertised with a woman (Koch Mehrin) who is mainly reknown for her absence in the European parliament with the text "work has to pay again."
A party, that declines the minimum wage! A party where bonework's taxed higher than bankers income what should be taxed with 25 percent according 2 the lib dems.
We want a lift of the maximum tax rate to 43% (for bankers and so on).
We want to kill cold progression! (It cant be like this that) with a small wage u pay a higher percantage of your income as taxes than (thru tax paybacks) rich people.
(FOREIGN POLICY)
Jean Jauress made the point that capitalism bears war as the cloud carries water.
25sep1913 said Rosa Luxemburg "we dont like to attack our French brothers."
The social dems and ecos sent Germany back to war.
It serves imperial push thru of capitalist interests.
Iraq and Afghanistan wars are imperial wars about the oil fields (there).
War is the worst form of ecological destruction. The ecos lost their innocence
for accepting these wars.
(...)
"It is incredible if (some fucked up) unionists (who are sitting here) dont support our demand to
abolish the anti-strike-law.
(...)
We are the party of freedom."
wagenknecht said that privatization and wagedumping prepared the way for the current form of capitalism that is currently thrashing the social situation of many.
people who waffled for years about empty state accounts and suddenly got 480bio euros for bankrupt banks (and regard 540 € social welfare as immoral) only show in whose duty they do their job.
Another topic was social dem's scholz who announced in march that there won't be an increase of fees every worker has to pay into retirement funds. Instead, the fee was lifted recently for about 19,9% effective from 2010. The average worker pays 200€ more. Scholz wanted furthermore a weekly working time of 75h. Anyway, Lafontaine decried mostly that retirement funds dont pay more, that workers laid off dont get unemployment after a short while anymore but only social welfare and that the hourly wage is low while the working time is extended permanently.
He decried tax cuts for rich. he said people like to mention that rich people pay a lot income tax. But instead, states most income results out of sales tax, fuel tax and other taxes.
Mass taxes make most of the money and tax paybacks on income tax reach often 100% with the very rich. So Lafontaine didnt like the burden on the average worker but wanted to see the load directed at the rich.
(Before the EU vote) A party advertised with a woman (Koch Mehrin) who is mainly reknown for her absence in the European parliament with the text "work has to pay again."
A party, that declines the minimum wage! A party where bonework's taxed higher than bankers income what should be taxed with 25 percent according 2 the lib dems.
We want a lift of the maximum tax rate to 43% (for bankers and so on).
We want to kill cold progression! (It cant be like this that) with a small wage u pay a higher percantage of your income as taxes than (thru tax paybacks) rich people.
(FOREIGN POLICY)
Jean Jauress made the point that capitalism bears war as the cloud carries water.
25sep1913 said Rosa Luxemburg "we dont like to attack our French brothers."
The social dems and ecos sent Germany back to war.
It serves imperial push thru of capitalist interests.
Iraq and Afghanistan wars are imperial wars about the oil fields (there).
War is the worst form of ecological destruction. The ecos lost their innocence
for accepting these wars.
(...)
"It is incredible if (some fucked up) unionists (who are sitting here) dont support our demand to
abolish the anti-strike-law.
(...)
We are the party of freedom."
wagenknecht said that privatization and wagedumping prepared the way for the current form of capitalism that is currently thrashing the social situation of many.
people who waffled for years about empty state accounts and suddenly got 480bio euros for bankrupt banks (and regard 540 € social welfare as immoral) only show in whose duty they do their job.
Toyota gets 180,000 orders for new Prius hybrid within a month in Japan alone
BAM! PROOF! GAS GUZZLERS ARE A HARD SALE!
USA Today
USA Today
TOKYO — Toyota got 180,000 orders for the new Prius hybrid in Japan in just a month, far surpassing its target of 10,000 vehicles in monthly sales, the automaker said Friday.
The third-generation Prius, which rolled out a month ago, has been a big hit here, partly because of tax-breaks and other new government incentives that are meant to perk growth during the nation's downturn.
Atrios "Eaten" report
First National Bank of Anthony, Anthony, KS gets EATED
Cooperative Bank, Wilmington, NC gets EATED
Southern Community Bank, Fayetteville, GA gets EATED
Cooperative Bank, Wilmington, NC gets EATED
Southern Community Bank, Fayetteville, GA gets EATED
GM faces $250M past due notice
friday,3:30pm: The bankrupt automaker can pay most parts suppliers. But HP, AT&T and ad agencies not on 'critical vendor' list shouldn't expect GM checks in the mail. More
Friday, 19 June 2009
Italy
A forty two year old formerly prostitute maintains to have been ordered into Berlusconi's private hosuse for partys for a payment of 2000 euros. Furthermore money was paid for stay and expenses and meals She also maintains she stayed 1 time at Berlusconi's private house overnight. The woman reports of several young girls who accumulated at
berlusconis private villa. She claims she has proofs id est video cuts on her portable.She was hooked up by some of berlusconis friends who is a
businessman an investigation is under way against this man for thriving prostitution a paper reports the prime refuses all accusations
He calls them a conspiracy, lies and lopsided deals or intrigues the opposition intends to topple him like with several other scandals before
for example with a newyears party with several only barely clothed young girls or the meetings with several women who were underage
this time though berlusconi could have serious problems: the state attoney already has statements of five women who all claim they met berlusconi for money.
link
Times Online: Eyes turn on Bari
Sydney Morning Herald
UPI: ROME, June 19 (UPI) -- A former escort and model says she secretly videotaped trysts with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Patrizia D'Addario, who ran for the European parliament as a candidate for Berlusconi's People of Liberty Party, said she has given audiotape to police, The Independent reported Friday. She said she also has videotapes.
D'Addario gave an interview to the Italian daily Corriere delle Serra, which was published Thursday.
The Italian newspaper "Republica" published information about an "overheard" cynical remark of Italian PM, Silvio Berlusconi, to his Bulgarian counterpart, Sergey Stanishev.
The Bulgarian information agency, BTA, reports Saturday that according to the "Republica" article, a camera of the TV channel Sky caught a conversation between Stanishev and Berlusconi during a break at the EU leaders' summit in Brussels Friday.
The two, allegedly, talk about Dorina (the actual name is Darina) Pavlova - "the mysterious Bulgarian woman, one the wealthiest Eastern Europeans, who is said to be in intimate relations with Berlusconi, according to publications in Bulgarian media." (Darina Pavlova is the widow of Ilia Pavlov, one of the wealthiest Bulgarians, murdered in the murky times after the fall of Communism.)
"The truth is, Berlusconi, allegedly, told Stanishev, Pavlova has a fantastic daughter. And you know my interest in minors."
"Republica" presents the conversation as a sensational intimate confession Berlusconi made to Stanishev at times when the Italian PM is suffering daily attacks in the media about his preferences towards "young girls from the show business and politics."
Scandinavia/Germany: Fehmarnbelt-bridge coming
German NTV
The German parliament has approved the Baltic Sea bridge across the Fehmarnbelt
despite the protests of environmentalists and neighbors. The German Deputees also approved the corresponding state contract between the two countries hardly three months after the Danish parliament has approved the construction.
The German parliament has approved the Baltic Sea bridge across the Fehmarnbelt
despite the protests of environmentalists and neighbors. The German Deputees also approved the corresponding state contract between the two countries hardly three months after the Danish parliament has approved the construction.
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Key jobless number shows biggest drop in 7 years
Key jobless number shows biggest drop in 7 years
But its more or less a statistical point:
Initial claims rose by 3,000 to a seasonally adjusted 608,000 in the week ending June 13, above analysts’ expectations. The four-week average, which smooths fluctuations, fell by 7,000 to 615,750. Continuing claims data lags initial claims by one week.
But its more or less a statistical point:
Initial claims rose by 3,000 to a seasonally adjusted 608,000 in the week ending June 13, above analysts’ expectations. The four-week average, which smooths fluctuations, fell by 7,000 to 615,750. Continuing claims data lags initial claims by one week.
Prisoner dies after heat-torture in open cage
yahoo.de
Arizona - She stayed in the cage at 42 degree C. She was waiting to be transported into a madman's asylum.
Arizona - She stayed in the cage at 42 degree C. She was waiting to be transported into a madman's asylum.
Wiedekings benighted bullshit goes into the second round: Piech damaged Porshes business
German NTV
Well, Piech had his doubts about a deal with Katar. Well, the reasons are obvious: if u r owned by an oil-producer, it's clear you don't produce fuel saving cars anymore. We had the GM and Chrysler examples not long ago and it's kinda surprising that Wiedeking intends to take the same route after his failed takeover of VW. Well, perhaps Piech put the truth a bit plain but truths don't damage ur business. The only thing is that the manager of the company (wiedeking) is a dispicable liar in public. But I knew so b4.
Well, Piech had his doubts about a deal with Katar. Well, the reasons are obvious: if u r owned by an oil-producer, it's clear you don't produce fuel saving cars anymore. We had the GM and Chrysler examples not long ago and it's kinda surprising that Wiedeking intends to take the same route after his failed takeover of VW. Well, perhaps Piech put the truth a bit plain but truths don't damage ur business. The only thing is that the manager of the company (wiedeking) is a dispicable liar in public. But I knew so b4.
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
breaking: 15 subsidaries of Arcandor (formerly Karstadt) are totally bankrupt
The shopping centers are solvent and made gains in the last 6 months how we got to know last week. but the gbunch of mail-order firms MIDDELHOF bought when he went on a shopping spree starting 2005 seem all 2 b TOTALLY INSOLVENT. (breaking news http://www.n-tv.de )
Iran seems to prepare suicide attacks against "hostile" web-sites
yahoo
Military targets Web as protests go on
As protesters plan a fifth day of demonstrations against last week's disputed presidential election, Iran's elite military unit, the Revolutionary Guard corps, says it will pursue legal action against Web sites it claims are inciting people to riotObama to pitch overhaul of financial regulation
Obama to pitch overhaul of financial regulation
Romer, Boehner, debate new financial regulations
at AP – 5 mins ago WASHINGTON - White House adviser Christina Romer says President Barack Obama's proposal to overhaul the financial regulatory system in this country must be accepted because "the status quo is not an option."
OBAMA FINANCE PLAN 'CUTS NUMBER OF US BANK REGULATORS,' EMPOWERS FED
Iran has formally ordered some ambassadors to (some state institution) to formally protest the media coverage in several countries
Iran protests media coverage
German ambassador ordered in
Meanwhile the US is lowering expectations that there will be a principal shift in policies even if Moussawi gains power.
The Iranian leadership has ordered in a couple of foreign ambassadors to protest the so-called "hostile" reactions of the respective governments concerning the outcome of the presidential elections.
How official Iranian media reported, the ambassadors of the UK, the Netherlands, Italy, and Czech were ordered into (Iranian state dept.) besides the German ambassador. Czech is currently head of the European council. Western govts. were demanded to respect the outcome of the vote and they were demanded (non-intrusion) into internal affairs of Iran
Piech blocks big entry of Katar at Porsche
German ntv
I was already befuddled by the entire scheme because Wiedekings "mission" for full control of VW only started out at the start of 2009. Now, the hazaardous connsequences for Porsche are ever mounting. its nice Piech wants to keep it clean, but Im already wondering because Piech isnt necessarily the German welfare system. Got Wiedeking some corpses in his cellar?
I was already befuddled by the entire scheme because Wiedekings "mission" for full control of VW only started out at the start of 2009. Now, the hazaardous connsequences for Porsche are ever mounting. its nice Piech wants to keep it clean, but Im already wondering because Piech isnt necessarily the German welfare system. Got Wiedeking some corpses in his cellar?
French sanitation enforcement
ntv
Frances head of state Sarkozy seems to have acted in the interest of the family of his wife. The prefect of a region in south france was sent to another position after he didnt connect the villa of the family to the local sewer system.
Frances head of state Sarkozy seems to have acted in the interest of the family of his wife. The prefect of a region in south france was sent to another position after he didnt connect the villa of the family to the local sewer system.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards issue warning to media
Revolutionary guard, eh? very revolutionary. (stinking napping surprised bastards)
Iran's Revolutionary Guards issue warning to media
at AP – 9 mins agoTEHRAN, Iran – Iran's most powerful military force is warning online media of a crackdown over their coverage of the country's election crisis. Full Story »
- Video: Iran ready to recount disputed vote at Reuters
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
German Social Dems Systemic Failures worsening
Yeah, Im leftparty and the point is the following: the social dems are for longer in the desire to present themselves as a caretaker for big issues or maybe their statesmanship. Now at current theey are in a grand coalition with the consevatives and are completly unable to bind protest voters which are wandering to the lib dems what is astonishing to me cause free enterprise philosophies caused the current crisis. Anyway, Lib Dem head Westerwelle presents himself as opposition and Mr.Baum is still alive as far as I know. Furthermore, ecos and social dems pushed thru Hartz 4. The simple truth is thqat the worst reduction of German welfare wasnt dont done by the conservatives but by the social dems. The big percentage of no voters during the last election clearly proves that people think a shit will change. Now, its our duty to mobilize those voters and to make clear that the social dem attitude to presnt themselves as a party that is obviously in no need for left compromises is a wrong position. There are many facts right now which are pretty contra-current to current social dem positionss and I think we should take the chance to make clear that simply oversleeping a crisis is no guarantee for new left truths just because the social dems are at current in government. leftparty isnt, and that is completly sufficient for me.
(cnn breaking news) IRAN
Iran bans foreign media from covering rallies on streets of Tehran following last week's disputed presidential vote.
Obama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright says 'Jews' keeping him from president, later apologizes
The force is strong in u,Luke.- Dark jedi knight Wright is nerved by current proceedings
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, blamed "them Jews" in an interview this week for keeping him from speaking to the president, but later apologized.
Wright, the former pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, said he hasn't spoken to Obama since he became president.
"Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office," Wright told the Daily Press of Newport News following a Tuesday night sermon at the 95th annual Hampton University Ministers' Conference.
"They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. ... I said from the beginning: He's a politician; I'm a pastor. He's got to do what politicians do."
Wright issued a statement Thursday that he was "disturbed and deeply saddened" that his comments were stirring discussion again.
HAMPTON, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama's controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, blamed "them Jews" in an interview this week for keeping him from speaking to the president, but later apologized.
Wright, the former pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, said he hasn't spoken to Obama since he became president.
"Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter that he'll talk to me in five years when he's a lame duck, or in eight years when he's out of office," Wright told the Daily Press of Newport News following a Tuesday night sermon at the 95th annual Hampton University Ministers' Conference.
"They will not let him to talk to somebody who calls a spade what it is. ... I said from the beginning: He's a politician; I'm a pastor. He's got to do what politicians do."
Wright issued a statement Thursday that he was "disturbed and deeply saddened" that his comments were stirring discussion again.
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