Thursday, 30 June 2011
Navigating space flight's new frontier
Geithner has told the White House he is considering leaving
Conservative-lib dem mid-term balance sheet: SHIT
Germany: Conservative-lib dem half time
Chancellor puts it like this: "SHIT"
Conservative-lib dem mid-term balance sheet is meager. No wonder because it is a list of failure. That is valid for the "ambitioned energy turn-around" as well as for foreign affairs as well as for the election law. Even the chancellor uses a description out of the toilet zone.
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Conan presents: The 'Bachmann History Channel’
Conan presents: The 'Bachmann History Channel’
and Stewart is a racist!
ox News stifled by comedia
odd faux news
bovine mammal n4cement
'Get it done,' Obama challenges GOP on debt talks
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a blunt challenge to Republicans in Congress, President Barack Obama insisted Wednesday that elimination of selected tax breaks for oil companies and the super-wealthy must be included in any deficit reduction plan.
"You stay here. Let's get it done," he all-but-lectured lawmakers, holding open the possibility of keeping Congress in Washington unless there is significant progress by week's end on a deal to cut deficits, raise the $14.3 trillion debt limit and avert a threatened financial crisis.
He said a plan must be in place by Aug. 2, a date he called "a hard deadline."
At his first White House news conference in three months, lasting a little over an hour, Obama also called on Congress to renew a payroll tax cut that took effect on Jan 1, one of several steps he said lawmakers can take quickly to help reduce 9.1 percent unemployment.
Bank of America in $8.5B mortgage settlement
NEW YORK (AP) — Bank of America and its Countrywide unit will pay $8.5 billion to settle claims that the lenders sold poor-quality mortgage-backed securities that went sour when the housing market collapsed.
The deal, announced Wednesday, comes after a group of 22 investors demanded that the Charlotte, N.C. bank repurchase $47 billion in mortgages that its Countrywide unit sold to them in the form of bonds.
The group, which includes the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Pimco Investment Management, and Blackrock Financial Management, argued that Countrywide enriched itself at the expense of investors by continuing to service bad loans while running up servicing fees.
Bank of America, which bought Countrywide in 2008 for $4 billion, has denied those claims.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan said Wednesday that the settlement would minimize "future economic uncertainty" in the banking business and "clean up the mortgage issues largely stemming from our purchase of Countrywide."
Germany
Anti-Terror-laws: ... and even more flimsy fumbling
The adjective "civil" sounds like peace, deliberation and order. But the style of the conservative-liberal government, that calls itself gladly civil, is everything but that. The tuesday was symptomatic for it - over and over . German parliament enacted the abundance of nuclear power, a package of eight hastily carpentered laws. At the same time the conservatives presented their proposal for a new election law, which they didn't coordinate with the opposition - although they had more than two years time for it.
And as if this wasn't enough, minister of justice Sabine Leutheusser Schnarrenberger (lib dems) and Minister of the Interior Peter Friedrich (CSU) presented their alleged agreement over the extension of the anti-terror laws on a spontaneously scheduled press conference.
After the conference, a speaker said, what was presented were only " corner stones" , thus the rough conception of a compromise, which has yet 2 b finalized. Written documents could not be provided 4 the hurry , unfortunately. Thus everybody has 2 feel fine about hardly sharp formulations by the two Ministers. And because the controversy is naturally still not 2 b terminated, Friedrich and Leutheusser Schnarrenberger will found a further government commission. Purpose: analyze all safety laws since September 2001. Well fine - which commission in number actually is that? And isn't it the job of the Ministers and their officials to think permanently over the law they should care about?
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
NATO helicopters end Kabul hotel siege, 7 dead
Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said six suicide bombers attacked the Inter-Continental hotel frequented by Afghan officials and foreign visitors. He said two were killed by hotel guards at the beginning of the attack and four others either blew themselves up or were killed in the airstrike or by Afghan security forces.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the rare, nighttime attack in the capital — an apparent attempt to show that they remain potent despite heavy pressure from coalition and Afghan security forces.
http://news.yahoo.com/nato-helicopters-end-kabul-hotel-siege-7-dead-011332712.html
Deputy AG
Washington (CNN) -- The Senate voted Tuesday to approve the nomination of James Cole to the powerful post of deputy attorney general, number two in the Justice Department to Attorney General Eric Holder.
The vote, largely along party lines, was 55-42.
Cole, who has been serving in the post following a recess appointment in January, was strongly opposed by most Republicans.
The long-delayed vote took place after Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, was given promises by the Justice Department that Republicans would have access to a trove of documents, including those involving a controversial illegal weapons program run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to Senate Justice Committee sources.
Under the deal with Grassley, acting ATF Director Ken Melson, who is under fire for the weapons program known as "Fast and Furious," would appear before the panel after the upcoming Fourth of July recess. The program permitted the illegal sale of weapons in order to track them, and some ended up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.
Following Cole's confirmation, the Senate by voice vote also confirmed two other high-ranking Justice Department officials -- Virginia Seitz as Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel, and Lisa Monaco as Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.
China signs $4.3b deals with Britain
China signs $4.3b deals with Britain
Trade deals worth $4.3 billion, including a $2.46 billion agreement on clean coal, were signed as Premier Wen Jiabao met British Prime Minister David Cameron Monday.
Wen's speech at Royal Society Special
Obama's signature: Is it real or is it autopenned?
Obama's signature: Is it real or is it autopenned?
WASHINGTON (AP) — It's the open secret that nobody in government wants to talk about: That cherished presidential signature that's tucked away in a scrapbook or framed for all to see might never have passed under the president's hand.
For decades, presidents of both parties have let an autopen do some of the heavy lifting when it comes to scrawling their signatures. The machine was recently put to use signing a bill into law, apparently a first.
Overseas and out of reach when lawmakers passed an extension of certain provisions of the Patriot Act, President Barack Obama employed the autopen to sign it, a step the White House has been mum about ever since.
"I always heard the autopen was the second most guarded thing in the White House after the president," says Jack Shock, who had permission to wield former President Bill Clinton's autopen as his director of presidential letters and messages.
Jim Cicconi, who oversaw the use of autopens for President George H.W. Bush, recalls that the plastic signature templates for the machines — yes, there was more than one autopen — would wear out from repeated use.
Monday, 27 June 2011
FACT CHECK: Bachmann bomblets raising eyebrows
Michele Bachmann's claim that she has "never gotten a penny" from a family farm that's been subsidized by the government is at odds with her financial disclosure statements.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michele Bachmann's claim that she has "never gotten a penny" from a family farm that's been subsidized by the government is at odds with her financial disclosure statements. They show tens of thousands in personal income from the operation.
And, on a less-substantive note, she flubbed her hometown history when declaring "John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa," and "that's the kind of spirit that I have, too," in running for president.
The actor was born nearly 150 miles away. It was the serial killer John Wayne Gacy Jr. who lived, for a time, in Waterloo.
Bachmann claims to have ‘spirit’ of John Wayne Gacy
Bachmann claims to have ‘spirit’ of John Wayne Gacy
Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was surely confused Monday when she suggested she had the “spirit” of a serial killer.
“Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That’s the kind of spirit that I have, too,” she told Fox News prior to the official announcement of her candidacy in Waterloo.
Ex-Citigroup VP arrested in fraud case
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Gary Foster, a former Citigroup executive, was arrested Monday on charges he embezzled more than $19 million from the bank.
According to a criminal complaint unsealed in New York, Foster allegedly transferred millions of dollars from various Citigroup accounts into his personal account at JPMorgan Chase on eight separate occasions between May 2009 and December 2010.
Foster, 35, is also accused of using fraudulent contracts and deal numbers to mask the transfers.
The former vice president of Citigroup's Treasury finance department was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Sunday morning when he arrived on a flight from Bangkok.
Friday, 24 June 2011
House rebukes Obama but won't halt funds for Libya
House rebukes Obama but won't halt funds for Libya
AP – Fri Jun 24, 5:28 pm ETWASHINGTON – Challenging presidential power, a defiant U.S. House voted overwhelmingly Friday to deny President Barack Obama the authority to wage war against Libya. But Republicans fell short in an effort to actually cut off funds for the operation in a constitutional showdown reflecting both political differences and unease over American involvement. Full Story »
Super-Wisch
Obama doesnt got what he wanted, but what he needed, and I got what I wanted.
(and? hehe)
The GOP-controlled House opposed a measure expressing support for the U.S. role in Libya while also nixing a John Boehner-backed bill limiting American involvement. FULL STORY
Obama was really a special offer
So, 1 thing is clear: Obama really won the vote in 08. He was a special offer for not so right Repugs.
The other point is that McCain faces more opponents than he can like to have.
The conclusion is, that MrMcCain dealt involuntarily a blow to Mr.Obama. Thus, McCain is a bad politician.
The point is that Saddam didnt cause Lockerbee and Saddam didnt cause 911, as well. Its the focus that matters. The Republican party proves anew, that they had never caught Bin Laden and are also totally inane when it comes to Ghaddafi.
HOUSE DEFEATS LIBYA MEASURE BY REPUBLICAN VOTES
The measure's defeat is seen as a symbolic vote meant to rebuke President Obama's Libya policy, which some lawmakers think violates the War Powers Resolution. FULL STORY
Samaras wants tax cuuuts
from German NTV:
Fire accelerant from Athens
Samaras playing with fire
Renitency got currently a name: Antonis Samaras. The Greek opposition leader is refusing to support the saving measures of prime Papandreou . The opposite is the case: while the state default is being fought by all means, Samaras demands tax cuuuts - thus fuels the fire
Thursday, 23 June 2011
Bulger arrested
90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China
BEIJING - China launched a series of "red" mapping services online on Wednesday to mark the revolutionary bases and historic sites across the country.
The country's surveying and mapping institutions have launched 10 national and local systems of online mapping services marking the "red" historic sites, according to a statement issued by the National Administration of Surveying, Mapping and Geoinformation Wednesday.
Historic sites and important events in China's revolution are displayed with three-dimensional animations and pictures in the systems to provide users with more direct and multi-dimensional images, said Min Yiren, deputy-director of the administration.
The services are available at the administration's website, www.sbsm.gov.cn.
Moreover, a series of printed maps focusing on the revolutionary sites and history has been published to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which falls on July 1.
Turkish Syrian hostilities possible?
Dems Displeased With Obama War Plan: 'Simply Delaying The Inevitable'
http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1578834
President Obama finally has won the support of House Speaker John Boehner. It's just turned out to come on the wrong issue, it seems. Although the Ohio Republican reportedly supports the plan Obama announced Wednesday night to withdraw 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan, with an additional 33,000 by next summer, many in the president's own party do not.
I mean, from my personal perspective, I think it's especially the Libya mission that is very doubtful. It still has no approval of congress. Well, obviously the Republicans got used to it under Bush. But that doesn't make it any more legal. Well, to shorten the entire idea, the Afghan surge was a donation to the Republicans, as well as the Libya mission. Now, Obama is backpedalling from the Afghan mission. As I said before, I would correct the Libya mission fírst, id est getting congress approval. Then again, who cares at all about this? THe only thing that will happen, is, if you cut it dramatically, McCain will fill the airwaves and blurb something about endangerment of national security, what he is already doing anyway. So, from a more danger-regarding point of view, there simply is no danger if you do nothing, at least from the Republican side. So, do nothing. Despite, these missions waste money. But I think I stopped thinking about waste of money somewhen in 2004 when Bush was suddenly planning for Iraq forever.
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Former French minister charged with rape
Former French minister charged with rape
PARIS — A former French minister and mayor with the ruling party has been charged with rape after accusations he sexually assaulted women working for him at city hall, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Georges Tron, formerly a junior civil service minister from President Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party, is facing charges of rape and sexual assault by "a person in authority", prosecutor Marie-Suzanne Le Queau said after he appeared before judges in a court in Evry, outside Paris.
Tron was released on bail. The crimes are punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Rioting rocks Belfast for second straight night
Belfast, Northern Ireland (CNN) -- Police clashed with hundreds of rioters in eastern Belfast on Tuesday in the second straight night of sectarian violence there.
About 700 people had amassed in the streets Tuesday night, the Police Service of Northern Ireland said. Molotov cocktails, fireworks and bricks were being thrown, police said.
Police fired water cannons on the crowd and asked the media to move away from the area.
Two men suffered burns and one man was injured after shots were fired, police reported.
Greece: Papandreou survives confidence vote
Michael Link of the lib dems said that there have to be improved conditions for the creditors to make Greece credible for "larger sums."
Trittin of the ecos said that the only outcome is some time expansion of the credit frame.
Loetzsch of the leftparty said that Merkel is ducking in front of the banks (probably concerning Schaeuble's original idea 2 have banks involved).
Report: Palin quits bus tour halfway through
Report: Palin quits bus tour halfway through
European tour with start in Serbia next? ahahaha---
WASHINGTON – Amid diminishing media interest, Sarah Palin has quit her high-profile bus tour halfway through and returned to Alaska with her family, according to RealClearPolitics.
The move puts a damper on widespread speculations that Palin's "One Nation" bus tour, which launched on Memorial Day, was a potential precursor to a potential White House bid for 2012. Palin never made it to her scheduled stops in the key primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire.
Dunn's car was going faster than 100 mph.
'Blunt and thermal trauma' killed Ryan Dunn
'Blunt and thermal trauma' killed 'Jackass' star, coroner says
(CNN) -- "Jackass" star Ryan Dunn and a passenger in his car died of "blunt and thermal trauma" when the 2007 Porsche 911 GT3 crashed and caught fire on a Pennsylvania highway early Monday, according to the autopsy report released Tuesday.
Police identified Ryan's passenger as Zachary Hartwell, a 30-year-old West Chester, Pennsylvania, man who once worked in one of Ryan's movies.
West Goshen, Pennsylvania, Police Sgt. Joe Burt confirmed that accident investigators estimated Dunn's car was going faster than 100 mph.
Toxicology results, which should show if Dunn was intoxicated, will not be available for several weeks, according to the Chester County coroner's office.
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Gingrich had second line of credit at Tiffany’s
Gingrich had second line of credit at Tiffany’s
Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign acknowledged Tuesday that Gingrich had a second line of credit at the jewelry store Tiffany’s for as much as $1 million dollars.
The Washington Post reported that Joe DeSantis, a spokesman for Gingrich, said the Republican presidential hopeful's personal financial disclosure filing will show that he had a $500,000 to $1 million line of credit at Tiffany’s.
DeSantis added that all debts to Tiffany’s had been paid in full and the credit line had been closed.
Germany:leftparty: Bartsch claims understanding for Jews
Antisemitismus-Kritik gegen die Linke
I think from the perspective of the holocaust, its quite a recommandable position for a left party. THe nazis didnt care whom they gased, jews or communists.
Paulson pulls emergency break - he quits Sino-Forest
Sino-Forest Corp., the Hong Kong- based tree-plantation owner that’s plunged 89 percent since being targeted by short seller Carson Block, lost the support of its biggest shareholder after Paulson & Co. sold all its stock.
businessweek---June 21 (Bloomberg) -- Sino-Forest Corp., the Hong Kong- based tree-plantation owner that’s plunged 89 percent since being targeted by short seller Carson Block, lost the support of its biggest shareholder after Paulson & Co. sold all its stock.
John Paulson’s New York-based hedge fund, which made $15 billion in 2007 betting against U.S. mortgages, said in a regulatory filing yesterday that it sold all 34.7 million of its shares. Sino-Forest has dropped to as low as C$1.99 from C$18.21 in Toronto trading after Block, a runs Muddy Waters LLC, said June 2 that the company overstated its production
From Wikipedia:
Paulson & Co., Inc., is the manager of several hedge funds. His firm had assets under management (as of June 1, 2007) of $12.5 billion (95% from institutions), which had jumped to $36 billion by November 2008.[5] In 2007 alone his firm earned $15 billion.[6]
On May 15, 2008, Paulson & Co., which bought 50 million shares of Yahoo stock during the first quarter of 2008, said it is supporting Carl Icahn on a proxy fight to replace Yahoo's board.[7] In early 2008, the firm hired former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
Under his direction, Paulson & Co has capitalized on the problems in the foreclosure and mortgage backed securities (MBS) markets. In September 2008, Paulson bet against four of the five biggest British banks.[8] His positions included a £350m bet against shares in Barclays; £292m against Royal Bank of Scotland; and £260m against Lloyds TSB.[9] His firm eventually booked a profit of as much as £280m after reducing its short position in RBS in January 2009.[10] In December 2009, the New York Times reported that Paulson had profited during the financial crisis of 2007 by betting against synthetic collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).[11] To help protect these bets, Paulson and others successfully prevented attempts to limit foreclosures and rework mortgage loans.[12][13]
In late 2008, he decided to start a new fund that would capitalize on Wall Street's capital problems by lending money to investment banks and other hedge funds currently feeling the pressure of the more than $345 billion of write downs resulting from under-performing assets linked to the housing market. On August 12, 2009, Paulson purchased 2 million shares of Goldman Sachs as well as 35 million shares in Regions Financial.[14] Paulson has also purchased shares in Bank of America expecting the stock to double by 2011.[15] After the 2007-9 stock market crash, Paulson's fund generated $1 billion betting on the recovery of Citigroup.[16]
In November 2009 Paulson announced he was starting a gold fund focused on gold mining stocks and gold-related investments.[17]
German economical elite got doubts in Merkel
"weak, not smart, not credible"
elite booes Merkel
The majority of Germanys top managers and leading politicians is dissatisfied with the work of chancellor Merkel and her coalition govt out of Christ Dems and Lib Dems. Only remaining 18% of the top people think of Merkel as credible. The new Lib Dem head Roesler also fails the test.
Spielberg fired Megan Fox because she compared bay to Hitler
Spielberg fired Megan Fox for Hitler comment
Megan Fox and her former co-star Shia LaBeouf have each shared their views on why the actress was replaced in the upcoming “Transformers: Dark of the Moon,” and now director Michael Bay is having his say.
Monday, 20 June 2011
MV-22 Ospreys
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/17/marine.corps.exercise/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/US/06/17/marine.corps.exercise/t1larg.ospreys.file.afp.gi.jpg
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Idaho state senator arrested on suspicion of grand theft
McGee, whose blood alcohol level was .15, allegedly told authorities he was on his way to Jackpot, Nev., a city about 180 miles southeast of Boise that's known for gaming.
McGee, 38, represents District 10, an area of approximately 50,000 people in Southwest Idaho. He is the Idaho Senate GOP Caucus Chairman.
According to the senator's website, he is also the chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee and was the 2006 Idaho State Republican Legislator of the Year. Additionally, he is chairman of the Regional Substance Abuse Authority Legislative Committee.
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McGee's arraignment is scheduled for Monday afternoon.
Obama campaign adviser Axelrod needles GOP field
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's chief campaign strategist is dismissive of the Republicans who want his boss' job, saying they are eager to criticize the Democratic incumbent without offering substantive ways to help the country.
David Axelrod says it's too early to start sizing up the competition, but he took on the emerging field of candidates when asked to assess the GOP's first major debate of the campaign season last Monday in New Hampshire. Republicans at that forum condemned Obama's handling of the economy and pledged to repeal his health care overhaul.
"There seemed to be a unanimity of antipathy toward the president," said Axelrod, who left the White House this year to return to Chicago to work on the re-election campaign. "I didn't hear a lot of ideas," but rather "a lot of pat partisan platitudes," he told CNN's "State of the Union."
Axelrod seemed intent on going after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the perceived front-runner, and citing the support that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a Republican who was Obama's ambassador to China, had given the president.
Joe Scarborough let loose on Newt Gingrich
Joe Scarborough let loose on Newt Gingrich during Friday's "Morning Joe."
Scarborough was eating a bun of some kind when Mika Brzezinski played a clip of Gingrich saying in a speech that President Obama favored "the opposite of freedom." This was too much for him, and, with food still in his mouth, he went on a sarcastic rant about Gingrich.
"It's not the opposite of freedom," he said. "If you're scoring at home, kids, Barack Obama and his sort of mushy progressive but moderate, extending the Bush tax cuts and tripling the number of troops in Afghanistan, that is not left-wing Marxism or socialism. That is not the opposite of freedom. The opposite of freedom would be, oh, I don't know, Gaddafi."
McCain blames some Arizona wildfires on illegal immigrants
McCain: Illegals to blame for Ariz. wildfire
Sen. McCain slams GOP hopefuls' 'isolationism'
(CNN) -- U.S. Sen. John McCain is blaming illegal immigrants for starting some of the wildfires that have scorched hundreds of thousands of acres in Arizona.
"There is substantial evidence that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally," McCain, R-Arizona, said Saturday at a press conference. "The answer to that part of the problem is to get a secure border."
The Arizona senator, however, did not say what the evidence is, prompting a swift rebuke from Latino civil rights advocates.
"It's easier to fan the flames of intolerance, especially in Arizona," said Randy Parraz, a civil rights advocate who ran unsuccessfully against McCain as a Democratic candidate in 2010.
Parraz called McCain's remarks "careless and reckless" but not entirely surprising given the political climate in Arizona. The Latino advocate is co-founder of Citizens for a Better Arizona, a group trying the recall the legislator who authored the state's controversial anti-illegal immigration law.
Southwest states face extreme fire risk
(CNN) -- Firefighters across the southwestern United States on Sunday could face some of the worst weather conditions of the season for battling blazes currently raging across the region.
Jelena Bonner is deceased in Houston, Texas
please donate to the Sacharow foundation. there seems to be hardly any democracy.
A400M: Your life support is making me itch
New Problems with A400M
Gear damage denies premiere
I mean its an antagonism for me anyway to use a plane with some standard gear in the 21st century anyway.Everyone knows that turbines adapt to diffrent loads much easier because their rotation speed can be adjusted much easier and with less resistance. I mean its total bullshit to keep a certain rotation speed by some diffrent transmission in modern planes. Despite that its loud, and modern missiles will find their target easily with some audio or heat seeker. THis plane is for me the deadest duck Ive seen in 20 years, and it keeps getting worse.
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Video: planes of the future - my cheap jump starter
Das Flugzeug der Zukunft
Kreative toben sich aus
my future plane is a plane with diagonal wings. Id screw turbines below them. furthermore you should be able to rotate them 90 degrees so you can use them at the start like a sea harrier. of cuz, the plane should land on the wings.
furthermore id place a third turbine at the back so the gravity should be at the back anyway. but then, the plane would bend over at the start backwards. so, you simply use the third turbine at the start also. You would need some electronic to get correct throttle at the start.
perhaps u simply place some ski at the lower end of the wings to guarantee it stands firm after landing.
btw, the turbines dont need to be rotatable. Simply keepem pointing downwards. U could use them inflight for some fast climb.
South Korean troops mistakenly shoot at passenger jet
shit I thought they do it out of intention
Friday, 17 June 2011
U.S. considers charging Syria with war crimes
U.S. considers charging Syria with war crimes Frustrated by regime's intransigence, Obama administration considers bringing pressure with oil and gas sanctions or war crimes charges.
New era for Sino-Russian ties
New era for Sino-Russian ties
China and Russia deepened their strategic ties by vowing to support each other on core security issues.
Consensus has been reached concerning Greece aid
This means that
mother Theresa
Nelson Mandela
Tepco
Dresdner Bank
SS
Mr.Draghi, personally
Mafia
wont finance the Greece aid.
I mean I see Schaeubles dilemna. You cant step in front of the cameras as a conservative politician and say " I want hedge funds to finance the crisis because they are guilty of causing it." So he kept it more general - qua' ete inefficace.
yahoo.de
yahoo.de
yahoo.de
* French, German leaders say in agreement on Greece aid
* Market talk of larger bailout boosts single currency
* Greek govt vote of confidence looms after reshuffle (Recasts, updates prices, adds details and quote)
NEW YORK (Xetra: A0DKRK - news) , June 17 (Reuters) - The euro rallied for the second straight day on Friday as hopes for a new Greek aid package rose after Germany and France pulled together on a rescue approach, although the currency remained vulnerable absent a concrete solution.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicholas Sarkozy said on Friday that they were united on an aid package for Greece that would include voluntary private sector participation.
Christian College Bans National Anthem
Christian College Bans National Anthem
omnipotentpoobah.com/2011/06/16/christian-college-bans-natio...sent by omnipotentpoobah since 16 hours 43 minutes, published about 8 minutes
The small minded, spiritless efforts to diminsh the character of Jesus into some garant for minor ideals or nefarious intentions should stop. And, because I like the US anthem, the complete text :
O! say can you see by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
’Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion,
A home and a country, should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation.
Blest with vict’ry and peace, may the Heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust;”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
Syrian forces open fire on protesters; 16 killed
Syrian forces open fire on protesters; 16 killed
AP – 22 mins agoBEIRUT – Syrian security forces fired on thousands of protesters Friday, killing a teenage boy and at least 15 other civilians as accounts emerged of more indiscriminate killing and summary executions by the autocratic regime of President Bashar Assad, activists said. Full Story »
Cruel pictures from Syria as soldiers shoot in crowds.
Cruel pictures from Syria as soldiers shoot in crowds. In Syria, the troops of the government attack villages close 2 the rebel center Jisr Al-Schugour again. According to data of eye-witnesses. the army utilizes tanks . The soldiers fired " on everyone " , an inhabitant said. There are no independent observers in the region no more, sources r private Handy videos.
TIme-machine combo! extensifying!
The UK Is Preparing To Return To "Glass-Steagall"
www.zerohedge.com/article/uk-preparing-return-glass-steagallsent by Giovanni since 8 hours, published about 3 hours 34 minutes
Germany:yeehah. Another Merkel first! Ecos agree to restore their own old nuclear power law
Zustimmung zum Atomgesetz
Grünen-Spitze folgt Merkel
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Germany:Chaos-cult Merkel: Merkel stops her own modification of Solar panel law
Solar-roof-installations drop
Govt stops cuts of solar panel installation subsidies
The cuts in solar panel subsidies enacted by the conservative government will be stopped again. The reason are drops in investment into solar power. Too few installations were recently mounted onto roofs. The consumer needs the subsidies, obviously.Al Qaeda names a new leader
Ayman al-Zawahiri has played a defining role in al Qaeda for more than a decade as Osama bin Laden's deputy. FULL STORY
Issa: DoJ should be ‘ashamed’
Issa: DoJ should be ‘ashamed’
- 06/15/11 08:55 PMRep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Wednesday escalated his standoff with the Department of Justice over a gun-tracking program that might have contributed to the death of federal agent.
As the family of slain ATF agent Brian Terry pleaded for justice, Issa said officials should be "ashamed" for handing over heavily redacted documents about the program.
Boston Bruins won their first Stanley Cup in 39 years
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
US Rep. Giffords released from Houston hospital
US Rep. Giffords released from Houston hospital
HOUSTON – Rep. Gabrielle Giffords returned home to her astronaut husband on Wednesday, leaving behind a Houston hospital where she began to rebuild her life after a gunman shot her in the head five months ago.
Black holes
U.S. lawmakers file suit against Obama over Libya war
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of US lawmakers filed suit against President Barack Obama on Wednesday, saying US military operations in Libya are "illegal" because they do not have congressional approval.
Democrat Dennis Kucinich of Ohio and nine other members of the House of Representatives signed the lawsuit challenging what they described as Obama's circumvention of Congress in authorizing the use of military force in a protracted effort to oust longtime Libyan ruler Moamer Kadhafi.
"With regard to the war in Libya, we believe that the law was violated. We have asked the courts to move to protect the American people from the results of these illegal policies," Kucinich said in a statement as the lawmakers filed their suit in a federal court in Washington.
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Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Pakistan Arrests C.I.A. Informants in Bin Laden Raid
Pakistan Arrests C.I.A. Informants in Bin Laden Raid
By ERIC SCHMITT and MARK MAZZETTI
Pakistan’s detention of five C.I.A. informants, including a Pakistani Army major, is the latest evidence of the fractured relationship between the United States and Pakistan.
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American officials said Mr. Panetta presented satellite photographs of two bomb-making factories that American spies several weeks ago had asked the ISI to raid. When Pakistani troops showed up days later, the militants were gone, causing American officials to question whether the militants had been warned by someone on the Pakistani side.
Shortly after the failed raids, the Defense Department put a hold on a $300 million payment reimbursing Pakistan for the cost of deploying more than 100,000 troops along the border with Afghanistan, two officials said. The Pentagon declined to comment on the payment, except to say it was “continuing to process several claims.”
Looks like the Pakistanis give a damn, regardless whether they get 300 mio $ or not. Perhaps it was one very last chance to get Bin Laden. The Pakistanis are distancing themselves pretty fast. They dont put up some minutemen on the Afghan border anymore. In other words, it might work in a very discomforting way for certain troops in Afghanistan if Pakistan enters the conflict.
Germany-ECB:Schaeuble wants private banks to participate in Greece rescue
Well, Schaueble and Germanys right press put it for some days like they were inventing hillarious ways to funnel extra funds to Greece. This apparel was thrashed since Greece got rated 'CCC' recently.
So, Schaeuble is pretty much the falcon in between some doves.
As of such, the non-commitment of Weber for ECB head may be viewed with diffrent eyes.
Merkel wanted to take a diffrent, less responsible path. Weber was obviously not willing to put up his candidacy under such conditions.
Florida Police Leave The Republican Party In Mass Exodus
Florida Police Leave The Republican Party In Mass Exodus
www.politicususa.com/en/florida-police-gop?utm_source=feedbu...sent by Giovanni since 9 hours 54 minutes, published about 1 time 47 minutes
Gates reads the riot act to Europe
Gates reads the riot act to Europe
Report: Bulk of Mexico's drug cartel guns are from U.S.
U.S. lawmakers are calling for tougher firearms laws after a report showed more than 70 percent of Mexico's drug cartel weapons originated in the United States. FULL STORY
Report: Many weapons used by Mexican drug gangs originate in U.S
(CNN) -- A trio of Democratic U.S. senators called for tougher firearms laws and regulations after releasing a report that showed a large number of weapons used by Mexico drug gangs originating north of the border.
More than 70 percent of 29,284 firearms submitted to the U.S. Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for tracing by the Mexican government during 2009 and 2010 originated in the United States, according to the report.
"Congress has been virtually moribund while powerful Mexican drug trafficking organizations continue to gain unfettered access to military-style firearms coming from the United States," said Sen. Diane Feinstein of California.
Monday, 13 June 2011
Rotten propaganda
paraphrasing:
through an unfathomable incident our social networking was exposed to yet another minus in terms of employed people. They are so hard to get. Sniff.
57% take part in Italian referendum
If I understand this right Berlusconi lost in all three questions -nuclear power, abstinence from court and privatization of water supply- with 95% respectively.
Italy's Berlusconi faces referendum humiliation
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Religious satire wins big at the Tony awards
NEW YORK — Satirical musical "The Book of Mormon" and spectacular production "War Horse" were among big winners at an annual Tony Awards ceremony celebrating the best of American theater.
"The Book of Mormon", a satire about two young Mormon missionaries sent to a remote village in Uganda, scooped nine awards, having been nominated in 14 categories.
They included best musical, best director for a musical for its creators Casey Nicholaw and Trey Parker, best screenplay and best original music.
"War Horse", based on Michael Morpurgo's children book, took five awards, including best play and best director for a drama, which went to Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris.
Republican presidential contenders to debate
Republican presidential contenders to debate
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Erdogan gets deleted: 49,9%
Erdogan dropped even below the three-fifth mark in terms of seats. His AKP will hold 326 of 550. It is a minus of 15 seats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_general_election,_2011
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http://articles.cnn.com/2011-06-12/world/turkey.elections_1_akp-justice-and-development-party-new-constitution?_s=PM:WORLD
The party of Turkey's ruling prime minister sailed to an easy victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday, winning a third term in office with 49.9% of the vote with 99.9% of the votes counted.
http://www.ruhrnachrichten.de/nachrichten/politik/ausland/art29858,1316637
http://www.morgenpost.de/politik/article1669845/Ein-Wahlsieg-fuer-Erdogan-der-nicht-komplett-ist.html
Berlin's Morgenpost writes "Erdogan's victory is incomplete."Obviously, Berlin's thriving for a dictatorship in Turkey was betrayed by traitors.
Al-Kaida chief Abdullah aka Harun got killed
FULL STORY
(CNN) -- At midnight last Tuesday, two men were traveling in a black four-wheel drive through the Somali capital, Mogadishu. One was Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, the most wanted terrorist in Africa. Mohammed had survived more than a decade on the run, at least one attempt on his life, and a $5 million price on his head for planning the 1998 attacks on the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
But his luck was about to run out in the chaos of Mogadishu, where the frontlines in the battle between the weak transitional government and al Qaeda affiliate al-Shabaab shift almost weekly. His vehicle headed toward a government checkpoint, possibly after taking a wrong turn. According to several accounts it tried to speed through, setting off a firefight with police.
Mohammed was killed, but to begin with the Somali security forces had no idea who he was. Only when they discovered cell phones, a South African passport, a substantial amount of cash and a laptop did they realize this was someone of significance. So his body -- which had been rapidly buried -- was exhumed, according to Somali military officials. A sample of his DNA was sent to Nairobi, where U.S. officials confirmed it was Mohammed. They had taken DNA samples from his wife and children some years ago.
Friday, 10 June 2011
Top 10 Things Texas Gov. Rick Perry Doesn’t Want You To Know About Him
Top 10 Things Texas Gov. Rick Perry Doesn’t Want You To Know About Him
(1) PERRY ALLOWED THE EXECUTION OF A LIKELY INNOCENT MAN, THEN IMPEDED AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE MATTER: In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in Huntsville, Texas after being convicted of arson and the murder of his three children. Even after significant evidence emerged showing that arson had not caused the fire (thus exonerating Willingham), Perry refused to grant a stay of execution. Five years after Willingham was executed, a report from a Texas Forensic Science Commission investigator found that the fire could not have been arson. As the commission prepared to hear testimony from the investigator in October 2009, Perry quickly fired and replaced three of its members, forcing an indefinite delay in the hearing.
(2) PERRY WANTS TO REPEAL THE 16th AND 17th AMENDMENTS, ENDING DIRECT ELECTION OF U.S. SENATORS AND THE FEDERAL INCOME TAX: In his 2010 book Fed Up!, Perry called the 16th and 17th Amendments “mistaken” and said they resulted from “a fit of populist rage.” The 16th Amendment allows the federal government to collect income taxes, which is the single biggest source of revenue, accounting for 45 percent of all receipts. The 17th Amendment took electing U.S. senators out of the hands of political insiders and allowed the American public to decide their representation instead. If Perry had his way, the federal government would be stripped of its current ability to fund programs like Social Security, Medicare, and the military, and the American public would not even be permitted to elect their own senators.
(3) PERRY PROPOSED LETTING STATES DROP OUT OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICAID: Despite the programs’ importance and popularity, Perry has argued that states like Texas should be allowed to opt out of Social Security and Medicaid. Were Perry to have his way on Social Security, “the entire system would collapse under the weight of too many Social Security beneficiaries who had not paid into the system,” notes Ian Millhiser. On Medicaid, in addition to stripping 3.6 million low-income Texans of their health care, Perry’s proposal would actually hurt, not help, the state’s budget deficit. This is because, as Igor Volsky writes, opting out of Medicaid would take “billions out of the state economy that goes on to support hospitals and other providers,” while forcing hospitals “to swallow the costs of caring for uninsured individuals who will continue to use the emergency room as their primary source of care.”
(4) TEXAS IS THE COUNTRY’S BIGGEST POLLUTER, BUT PERRY SUED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR DISAPPROVING OF THE STATE’S AIR QUALITY STANDARDS: Texas is the biggest polluter in the country, leading the nation in carbon dioxide emissions. However, when the EPA published its “disapproval” of the state’s air quality standards for falling short of the Clean Air Act’s requirements, Perry sued the federal government to challenge the ruling. Perry’s environmental record doesn’t end there. He is a global warming denier who called the 2010 BP oil spill an “act of God” while speaking at a trade association funded by BP.
(5) PERRY DESIGNATED AS “EMERGENCY LEGISLATION” A BILL REQUIRING ALL WOMEN SEEKING ABORTIONS TO HAVE SONOGRAMS FIRST: In January, Perry proposed requiring all women seeking abortions to have a sonogram at least 24 hours before the procedure. Under the bill, doctors would be required to “tell a woman the size of her fetus’ limbs and organs, even if she does not want to know.” Before a woman is permitted to have an abortion, physicians are also forced to provide an image of the fetus and make the woman listen to the sound of its heartbeat. Perry designated his proposal as “emergency legislation,” allowing the bill to be rushed through the legislature. He signed it into law last month.
(6) PERRY GUTTED CHILDCARE SERVICES EVEN AS TEXAS CHILDHOOD POVERTY HIT 25 PERCENT: Facing a $27 billion budget deficit this year, Perry decided to gut child support services, despite a report from the Center for Public Policy Priorities that found nearly one in four Texas children lived beneath the poverty line. Instead of raising revenue like California, a state facing a similarly sized deficit, Perry scaled back more than $10 billion of child support over two years. As Think Progress’ Pat Garofalo noted, these cuts were proposed despite Texas’ possession of a $8.2 billion rainy day fund.
(7) PERRY WAS A STRONG SUPPORTER OF TEXAS’S ANTI-SODOMY LAWS: Perry was a strong proponent of Texas’s anti-sodomy law that was struck down in 2003 by the Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas. Calling the law “appropriate,” Perry dismissed the Court decision as the result of “nine oligarchs in robes.” Even after being struck down, Perry supported the Texas legislature’s refusal to remove the law from its books.
(8) PERRY IS A STIMULUS HYPOCRITE WHO LOUDLY CRITICIZED FEDERAL RECOVERY MONEY BUT USED IT TO BALANCE HIS STATE’S BUDGET: As the nation struggled to avoid economic collapse in 2009, Perry was a vocal critic of Congress’s recovery package, even advocating that Texas reject the money because “we can take care of ourselves.” Months later, after Perry was able to balance the state’s budget only with the aid of billions in federal stimulus dollars, Perry again repeated that he would reject federal funding, arguing that the government “spends money they don’t have.” Five months later, Perry again took advantage of federal funding to issue $2 billion in bonds for highway improvements in Texas. Even so, the state faces a $27 billion budget deficit.
(9) PERRY SAID THAT TEXAS MIGHT HAVE TO SECEDE FROM THE UNITED STATES: One hundred and fifty years ago, Texas and other southern states seceded from the Union, resulting in a bloody Civil War. 148 years later, Perry floated the idea that Texas may again have to secede because of a federal government that “continues to thumb their nose at the American people.” Perry was roundly criticized for his proposal, yet he repeated his threat the next month on Fox News, telling host Neil Cavuto, “If Washington continues to force these programs on the states, if Washington continues to disregard the tenth amendment, who knows what happens.”
(10) DESPITE HAVING THE WORST UNINSURED RATE IN THE COUNTRY, PERRY CLAIMS THAT TEXAS HAS “THE BEST HEALTH CARE IN THE COUNTRY” : On Bill Bennett’s radio show last year, Perry claimed that “Texas has the best health care in the country.” In reality, Texas has the highest rate of uninsured residents of any state. More than one in four Texans lack coverage; the national average is just 15.4 percent. As such, there are more uninsured residents in Texas than there are people in 33 states. Despite Texas’s low coverage rates, the state has some of the most restrictive Medicaid eligibility thresholds, and Perry has even proposed dropping out of the program. Texas also has an inordinately high percentage of impoverished children, yet Perry opposed expanding the successful State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
Jisr-Al-Shogour:Turkey ruling party eyes victory in Sunday vote
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110610/ts_nm/us_syria_turkey_1
GUVECCI, Turkey (Reuters) – More than 3,000 Syrians have fled into Turkey to escape a military crackdown and authorities are preparing to open a third camp to shelter thousands more, a spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday.
New arrivals mounted as the Syrian army swept into a town near the border where clashes raged earlier in the week and began to arrest what state television described as armed opponents.
"Overall arrival numbers are quickly increasing," said Metin Corabatir, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
He said more than 3,000 people had registered with the Turkish government and he expected many more to come.
A leading newspaper, Hurriyet, said Turkish officials were considering drastic contingency plans. "Foreign Ministry officials said that among scenarios that had been discussed was the creation of a buffer zone if hundreds of thousands want to seek refuge in Turkey," it reported.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110609/ap_on_re_eu/eu_turkey_elections_1
ANKARA, Turkey – Such is the confidence of Turkey's ruling party ahead of elections Sunday that its campaign posters show the prime minister, eyes raised skyward, next to slogans referring to the centenary of the Turkish republic, still more than a decade away.
"Turkey is ready, the goal is 2023," the billboards proclaim.
Never mind that another election victory would mean a third consecutive term of just five years in power. The government is thinking big, setting a long-term deadline for a raft of ambitious policy goals.
It's an attitude that has carried Turkey, a NATO ally with a mostly Muslim population, far in the past decade, raising its diplomatic profile in a conflict-prone region, boosting economic growth and invigorating its democratic credentials after years in the political shadow of the military.
Yet the prospect of another resounding victory for the headstrong prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, coupled with allegations that an autocratic streak is creeping into his leadership, have fed concerns that the government's consolidation of power is undermining vows to strengthen Turkish democracy.
Integrated North American Command
Increasingly, the Canadian government’s foreign policy is becoming more aggressive as it further embraces the U.S. pro-war agenda. Military spending is at its highest point since the second World War. There are reports that Canadian Forces are looking to establish bases overseas. In an effort to gain more influence in Washington and elevate its status in NATO, Canada has taken on a key role in military operations in Libya. It has extended its mission in Afghanistan which has transitioned from a combat role to a training capacity. There are also growing concerns over its decision to purchase 65 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets which is tied to plans for a North American security perimeter. The end results of a fully integrated continental security perimeter could sacrifice what is left of Canadian sovereignty and independence. This could bring its military, security and foreign policy under the umbrella of a single, U.S.-dominated North American Command."
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Gingrich staying in the race as wave of key 2012 staffers resign
Gingrich staying in the race as wave of key 2012 staffers resign
WASHINGTON – Republican 2012 presidential candidate New Gingrich faced a momentous setback Thursday as a wave of his top staffers resigned together.
The Associated Press reported that "Rick Tyler, Gingrich's spokesman, said he, campaign manager Rob Johnson and senior strategists had resigned, along with aides in the early primary and caucus states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina."
The former House speaker showed no signs of bowing out of the race after the news broke.
"I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring," he wrote on Facebook late Thursday afternoon. "The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles."
NRW finds EHEC on sprouts
http://www.n-tv.de/panorama/NRW-findet-EHEC-auf-Sprossen-article3546631.html
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