www.smh.com.au/world/israel-intercepts-jewish-activists-gaza...Der russische Präsident Dmitri Medwedew entlässt Medienberichten zufolge den umstrittenen Moskauer Bürgermeister Juri Luschkow. Medwedew habe ein entsprechendes Dekret unterzeichnet, berichten übereinstimmend russische Nachrichtenagenturen. Luschkow und seiner Frau wird Korruption vorgeworfen.
Iran dissolves reform parties
Court reportedly orders breakup of Iran's leading political opposition.
Caracas, Venezuela (CNN) -- President Hugo Chavez's ruling United Socialist Party of Venezuela won more seats than opponents in the country's parliamentary elections, but lost the supermajority that has allowed for quick passage of many of Chavez's pet projects.
The ruling party won at least 90 seats, while an opposition coalition won at least 59, said Tibisay Lucena, president of Venezuela's National Electoral Council.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVvWo33EDVowww.smh.com.au/world/pension-plans-threaten-to-make-sarkozy-...www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-222690-100-turkey-not-bound-...The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer's memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a... FULL STORY
Washington (CNN) -- The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer's memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a spokeswoman said Saturday.
"DoD decided to purchase copies of the first printing because they contained information which could cause damage to national security," Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. April Cunningham said.
In a statement to CNN, Cunningham said defense officials observed the September 20 destruction of about 9,500 copies of Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer's new memoir "Operation Dark Heart."
Shaffer says he was notified Friday about the Pentagon's purchase.
"The whole premise smacks of retaliation," Shaffer told CNN on Saturday. "Someone buying 10,000 books to suppress a story in this digital age is ludicrous."
HRE isntr satisfied with "peanuts": approximately 150 bio state guarantees on the one side, 191 bio rotten papers on the other side. at the end of sep, theyll go to a bad bank. With consequences... ...»
Today, President Obama participated in a live CNBC townhall event. Recently, Obama has been feeling the “rage of the rich,” as Paul Krugman describes it today. One top Wall Street executive recently compared Obama’s tax proposals to Hitler’s invasion of Poland. During today’s discussion, Anthony Scaramucci, a CNBC contributor who is also a hedge fund manager, stood up to represent the aggrieved “Wall Street community.”
Zwischen Moskaus Oberbürgermeister Luschkow und dem Kreml ist offener Streit um die Macht in Russlands Hauptstadt entbrannt. Aus seinem Urlaub in Österreich versucht Luschkow zu retten, was noch möglich ist....»
Beim Amoklauf einer Frau im baden-württembergischen Lörrach kommen vier Menschen ums Leben. Im Elisabethen-Krankenhaus tötet die Amokläuferin einen Pfleger und verletzt einen Polizisten schwer. Sie selbst wird von der Polizei erschossen. In einem benachbarten Haus sterben ein Kind und ein Mann....»
Westerwelle is lib dem head, German foreign minister, vice chancellor and lately he married. He will become 50 soon - time to think how the future life will look like. Obviously, Westerwelle did so and he utters thoughts about resigning. Some within his party have this idea for longer. It's currently 60:40 in the party that he'll still be party head next year.
Obama's criticism came six weeks ahead of legislative elections that will determine how much room for political maneuver the president will have in the second half of his four-year term.
In a decision announced on January 21, the US Supreme Court said that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in elections could not be limited under the First Amendment to the constitution.
London, England (CNN) -- Investigators in Britain arrested six men on suspicion of terrorism Friday and reviewed security arrangements for Pope Benedict XVI's trip to the island, authorities said.
Some news reports said the arrests involved a potential threat to the pope, who was in London on Friday, but the Metropolitan Police declined to say whether the case was directly linked to the pontiff's visit.
Police said they were satisfied the pope's security plan remains "appropriate," and the pope's itinerary did not change.
Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said the pope and his representatives were not particularly worried about the arrests.
"The police have already said that the information they have until now collected demonstrated there is no need to change anything about the program of the pope and the security," Lombardi told reporters in London.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tells NBC that country "does not need the United States whatsoever."
TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told NBC News on Wednesday that his country was justified in barring further visits by U.N. atomic inspectors and challenged other nations to fully disclose their nuclear activities.
He also rebuffed the threat of new sanctions: "Our nation does not need the United States whatsoever," he told NBC's Andrea Mitchell in Tehran. "Even if the U.S. administration increases the sanctions and — 100 times more, and even the Europeans join the United States to impose heavier sanctions, we in Iran are in a position to meet our own requirements."
Iran has already allowed the inspectors several visits and other western nuclear powers should allow the same kind of access to their facilities, Ahmadinejad said in a wide-ranging exclusive interview that included comments on the recent release of American Sarah Shourd from a Tehran prison. "We have gone beyond the law, and we have cooperated with them," he said.
Alles für den Yen: Der Rekordeingriff Japans in den Devisenmarkt könnte erst der Anfang einer langen Serie von Interventionen gewesen sein. Zwar zweifeln Analysten am Erfolg des Vorgehens der japanischen Regierung. Ministerpräsident Kan behält sich aber weitere Schritte vor - zum Schutz der heimischen Exportwirtschaft....»
The US defence department is scrambling to dispose of what threatens to be a highly embarrassing exposé by the former intelligence officer of secret operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and of how the US military top brass missed the opportunity to win the war against the Taliban. The department of defence is in talks with St Martin’s Press to purchase the entire first print run on the grounds of national security. The publisher is content to sell the books but the two sides are in a grinding dispute over what should appear in a censored version and when it should be released.
Now St Martin’s Press says it will put the partly redacted manuscript on sale next week whether or not the defence department likes it—and there doesn’t appear much the authorities can do. The army had cleared the book by Lieutenant Colonel Shaffer, about “black ops” in the Afghan war when he was based at Bagram in 2003, for publication after relatively minor changes. But when the intelligence services and defence department officials saw it they were alarmed.
This account leaves a key player in the shadows. JSOC, the Joint Special Operations Command, has become a power unto itself within the Pentagon. In essence, Shaffer’s book went through the regular review and clearance process, was approved for publication, and then JSOC had a temper tantrum. The thrust of their objection was simple: “Our people don’t talk about JSOC operations, period.” In their view, special forces officers are subject to a code of silence. This view would seem to clash with the U.S. Constitution, and the notion of a duty to be silent also seems odd in a Pentagon headed by Robert Gates, who built his Washington comeback on a tell-all bestseller, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story.
Brüssel/Paris (AFP) - Im Streit um die Gruppenabschiebungen von Roma droht die Europäische Kommission Frankreich mit juristischen Konsequenzen. Mehr »
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Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed the passage of a wide-ranging package of constitutional amendments as a "milestone for democracy" after voters approved the measures in a Sunday referendum.
In a resounding victory for Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), voters approved the 26 amendments by a wide margin Sunday. The country's current constitution was enacted after a military coup that took place on September 12, 1980, 30 years to the day before Sunday's vote.
"Our nation has said from now on, we go forward," Erdogan told supporters Sunday night. "Yes to freedom. Yes to rule of law. No to the law of the rulers. The tutelage of the coup regime is over."
But with more than 96 percent of the votes counted, 58 percent of voters favored the referendum, while 42 percent were opposed, Turkey's electoral board reported.
Ichiro Ozawa, a powerful, divisive figure, announced last week that he would run to become his party’s president, and thus the country’s prime minister.
. She was a central figure of the peacy revolution in 1989. She belonged 2 the founders of the new forum 21 year ago. Bohley became 65.....»
Announcing her ministry in Melbourne Saturday, Gillard named Kevin Rudd as foreign affairs minister.
Gillard, who was Rudd's deputy prime minister in June, toppled him from the top job during a power struggle within the Labor government. At the time Rudd's popularity had been tumbling.
Soon after, Gillard called an election for August -- the outcome of which was decided only this week when the support of two independent members of parliament enabled Labor to retain government with a 76-74 majority.
Although relations between them have been obviously strained, Rudd supported Gillard during the election campaign and retained his own seat in the parliament.
Voices within the conservatives are numerous who fear the new foundation of a party right to it.
There are obviously politicians who speak like Erika Steinbach of "Desintegration."As of such Berlins former representative Stadtkewitz presents plans for a new party "because the conservatives sublime the problems about integration of Muslim immigrants"....»
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticised the tactics of his political opponents ahead of a referendum on constitutional reform.
Speaking to the BBC ahead of Sunday's vote, Mr Erdogan accused them of using "disinformation and black propaganda".
The proposed reforms include controversial changes to Turkey's judiciary.
Opposition parties say the changes will give the government more control over the appointment of senior judges.
www.nytimes.com/2010/09/08/us/politics/08obama.html?_r=1&emc=naFidel to Iran: 'Stop slandering Jews'
Atlantic journalist gets rare invite, has 'three day' conversation with Castro.
ccoaler.blogspot.com: I painted this cartoon some days ago: Sarazzin made a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's clear that if I criticize certain groups of the society, they will turn away
