More than 1,000 people gather in the eastern Chinese port city of Ningbo on Saturday in a protest denouncing the expansion of the Zhejiang chemical plant by a subsidiary of the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation.

Er arbeitete bei der Investmentbank Goldman Sachs – jetzt berichtet Greg Smith, wie dort den Kunden Schrottpapiere angedreht wurden. Oberstes Ziel: Goldene Gänse ausnehmen.

The original content given to Greeks on a CD has been copied on a usb-stick and apparently travelled from minister to minister and from prosecutor to prosecutor with the effect that nobody seems to know exactly who has the original data. Or “that nobody wants to give the names on the list” as the austerity-ridden and recession-hit public opinion believes.

Urging Greece’s European peers to respect the country’s history and dignity, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church warned that recent developments “marked a deviation from the roots and principles of the European Union.”

Greece‘s government plans to put labor reforms demanded by foreign lenders to a parliamentary vote despite a junior coalition partner‘s refusal to back them, the finance minister said on Saturday.

Today’s Italy is littered with rubbish just as Berlin was in Roberto Rossellini’s „Germania anno zero“ {Germany Year Zero} The rubble exists, but only apparently. What’s invisible is the moral rubble in politics, in industry, and in the social, human, and environmental spheres. It’s everywhere, like a metastasis that has been ignored for too long. The scalpels of the magistracy make incisions and remove elements, but it’s like being faced by a monster with a thousand heads.

Über den stärksten Zulauf kann sich indes Komiker Beppe Grillo freuen. Der 63-Jährige durchschwamm im Wahlkampf die drei Kilometer breite Meerenge von Messina und hielt eine Rede auf dem Ätna. Seine Fünf-Sterne-Partei könnte mit über zehn Prozent ihr bisher bestes Ergebnis bei Regionalwahlen erzielen.

Italian protesters clash with police during anti-austerity march. Rough Cut (no reporter narration)

The elderly arm of the Spanish indignados movement demonstrates against government cuts in Barcelona with some brawling with police. Sunita Rappai reports

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Unter dem Motto „Vereint mit einem rebellierenden Europa – jagen wir die Regierung Monti davon“ wandten sie sich gegen die Politik des früheren EU-Kommissars.

„(A haircut) is a discussion that has little to do with the reality in the member states of the euro zone,“ Schaeuble said in an interview to be aired on Deutschlandfunk radio on Sunday.

A day after Supreme Court deputy prosecutor Nikos Pantelis asked for Parliament to be briefed regarding any politicians on the so-called “Lagarde list” -– a list of some 2,000 Greeks with Swiss bank accounts given to Greece by French authorities in 2010 to be probed for tax evasion -– a magazine published what it said was the original version of the list.

„Ich warne Unvorsichtige“, sagte der CDU-Politiker der „Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung“ laut Vorabbericht. „Niemand sollte sich Illusionen darüber machen, dass es einen Weg am Bundestag vorbei geben könnte.“

Die Sklaverei wurde niemals abgeschafft. Es wurde nur die Methodik geändert. Seit Jahrzehnten findet auf der Welt eine hemmungslose Umverteilung statt. Am Mittwoch, 31.10.2012, bringt ZDFlogin hierzu eine Sondersendung. Kommen auch die wahren Hintergründe zur Sprache oder labert man wie immer nur um den heißen Brei herum?

(16.10.) Merkwürdig vages Gestammel der Bundesregierung über „Staatsbankrott“ und „Schockzustände“: Verschleiern Merkel und Schäuble mit ihren delphischen Bemerkungen zu Griechenland den bereits angelaufenen Countdown der Hellenen zurück zur Drachme? Oder irrlichten sie tatsächlich nur durch den Euro-Dschungel?

(18.10.) Einen Tag später rudert zwar niemand offiziell zurück, aber ganz so brandheiß erscheint der Vorstoß des überzeugten Europäers nun doch nicht mehr.

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has called an emergency meeting on Saturday morning with the ministers in his cabinet who are responsible for crucial sectors that are due to undergo significant changes under Greece‘s fiscal adjustment program.

Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore said his country aimed to be the first ailing euro nation to exit a bailout programme as his German counterpart hailed Ireland as „an excellent example“ of what „hard work“ can achieve.

Stoiber: Wir sind eine überregulierte Gesellschaft, ohne Zweifel. Das aufzulösen braucht Kraft und Entschlossenheit. Es ist halt bequemer, nichts zu tun.

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(24.10.) „Für die Opposition wäre das doch auch eine Chance, zu zeigen, ob sie ihrer Verantwortung gerecht werden will,“ erklärte der Finanzminister.

(26.10.) Germany and the Netherlands signaled that Greece’s future in the euro is not yet assured, as the northern neighbors sought to maintain pressure on Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to hold to agreed reforms.

Speaking on a documentary about the eurozone crisis due to air on public broadcaster ZDF next Tuesday, German finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble said: „We want Greece to stay in the eurozone. But Greece has a lot of things to do. That has not yet been decided.“

Net profit falls 66 percent in first nine months and 94 percent in third quarter alone

Nationalized bank Bankia has suffered the biggest loss ever posted by a Spanish lender as a result of its ill-fated exposure to the sclerotic real estate sector.

It was in the red to the tune of 7.053 billion euros in the first nine months of the year and posted a loss in the third quarter alone of 2.605 billion

Greece‘s opposition leader denounced international lenders‘ demands as dealing the «final blow» to a devastated economy but said on Friday he would not seek to bring down the government.

Können die Deutschen bald günstiger iPhones, Schmuck und Kleidung aus den USA einführen?

Die BBC-Filmreihe “The Trap – What happened to our Dream of Freedom” (“Die Falle – Was mit unserem Traum von Freiheit geschah”) aus dem Jahre 2007 umschreibt Ursprung und Aufstieg von Psychologie und Menschenbild des heutigen Kapitalismus. Die Dokumentation beleuchtet akribisch, wie zu Zeiten des Kalten Krieges von Mathematikern und Psychologen aus deren zutiefst düsteren Menschenbild heraus entwickelte Theorien Jahrzehnte später benutzt wurden um ganze Staaten und Gesellschaften nach diesem Menschenbild zu transformieren.

Mr Yongyos said he is disappointed the Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) Ministry and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission have no position on the draft by the International Telecom Union (ITU).

The government needs to study it thoroughly before agreeing to it, he said.

The new draft on International Telecommunication Regulations (ITR) has been proposed and drafted by the ITU, the UN‘s telecommunications arm.

THERE are two forthcoming international events that have created a huge debate on who will control the internet in the future. These events are the 8th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), to be held in Baku from November 6 to 9, and the World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) which will meet from December 3 to 14, 2012 in Dubai.

The desire to protect national sovereignty amid world developments in Internet world and information technology is among the focus of Malaysia at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) World Telecom 2012 Conference and Exhibition starting here on Sunday.

The WCIT meeting in December could have a lasting impact on network operators and other Internet companies, the experts say

You may remember that, a year ago, Pakistan announced they were banning encryption online. Not that any such ban would likely to be effective, but it seems to fit in with the claim that the government has told PTCL, the Pakistani telco, that within 90 days it must monitor basically all communications that go across the Pakistani border:

Nach einem Bericht über das enorme Vermögen der Familie von Chinas Regierungschef Wen Jiabao in der „New York Times“ haben die Behörden alle Kommentare dazu in Foren gelöscht. Die Website der Zeitung wurde gesperrt.

Ah, the UN. As highlighted by Declan McCullagh, a new report from the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force, clocking in at an unwieldy 158 pages (pdf) warns that this old internet of ours is just too damn open, and that means terrorists can use it.

Mit einem eindeutigen Ergebnis der sizilianischen Wahlen kommenden Sonntag ist kaum zu rechnen. Dennoch ist der Ausgang der regionalen Wahl im Hinblick auf die kommende Parlamentswahl entscheidend.