Sobald man als Terrorist etikettiert ist, verschwinden die verfassungsmäßig garantierten Rechte und man kann dann genauso gut herumsitzen und darauf warten, bis es an die Tür klopft – oder, eher, dass die Tür eingetreten wird.

Bei dem Gespräch Merkels mit Faymann, Pedro Passos Coelho (Portugal), Fredrik Reinfeldt (Schweden) dürfte es auch um die Lage in Griechenland gehen.

Bei dem informellen Gedankenaustausch mit Pedro Passos Coelho, Fredrik Reinfeldt und Werner Faymann im Schloss Meseberg in Brandenburg standen Fragen zur Zukunft der Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion im Mittelpunkt.

Prime minister blames Labour for ‚turbo-capitalism‘ of recent decades and says Tories are best placed to lead new type of capitalism

This week BASF announced that it is moving its GMOs out of Europe. Will the English-speaking media lose its nerve and write about it? Based on past experience, my wager goes to the habitual policy of silence, and I expect that the news will continue all but unrecorded in English.

Italienische Fahnder haben Geschäftsräume von Standard & Poor‘s in Mailand durchsucht. Sie verdächtigen die Rating-Agentur, Kurse an der Börse manipuliert zu haben. Auch gegen den Konkurrenten Moody‘s ermitteln die Behörden.

Under house arrest in England, the WikiLeaks founder opens up about his battle with the ‚Times,‘ his stint in solitary and the future of journalism

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: “The charges unsealed today allege a corrupt circle of friends who formed a criminal club whose purpose was profit and whose members regularly bartered lucrative inside information so their respective funds could illegally profit. And profit they allegedly did—to the tune of more than $61 million on illegal trades of a single stock—much of it coming in a $53 million short trade. Here, The Big Short was The Big Illegal Short. We have demonstrated through our prosecutions that insider trading is rampant and has its own social network, a network we intend to dismantle.

We will be unrelenting in our pursuit of those who think they are above the law.”

Die Beteiligten wussten immer den entscheidenden Moment früher als der restliche Markt über Quartalsberichte oder interessante Fusionspläne von Schwergewichten wie IBM, Google oder Intel Bescheid.

Federal prosecutors alleged that a „criminal club“ in the hedge-fund world made tens of millions of dollars trafficking inside information, following up on a string of early morning arrests that involved employees of SAC Capital Advisors LP and other prominent financial firms.

4. The Coordinating Committee of rights and freedom of association has enormously approved solidarity and support for Greek steelworkers against the onslaught of the Greek government against workers, the Committee is to address the Greek Embassy in Egypt of the necessity to work on stop the hands of oppression on steelworkers in Greece and give workers all their legitimate rights … and that in belief of the Committee in solidarity with all oppressed workers of the world against authoritarian systems belongs to the exploited capitalism .. And in believe of necessity to unify all workers of the world against injustice and persecution.

Mit einem herzlichen Dank an die Öffentlich-Rechtlichen, die sich um breitenwirksame Aufklärung über Vorgänge in aller Welt immer bekümmern.

Stumping for president, Republican candidates have finally figured out that the public cares more about job creation than deficit reduction. But their solutions involve luring corporations back to this country from overseas by eliminating regulatory policies that could make working conditions here a lot more similar to those offshore.

China‘s Foxconn houses employees who work 35-hour shifts at 31 cents an hour, thereby saving American technology companies money.

Alte Panzer aus den USA, neue Schiffe aus Frankreich: Griechenland erhöht trotz seines Schuldendesasters die Rüstungsausgaben.