The Defence Department will pay up to $2 million to hire a private company to tell it how it’s doing saving money and cutting costs.
The bids from companies, which would also recommend further reductions at DND, are due next Monday. The work is to be done in Ottawa.
Frankreich habe zu wenig getan, um die Krise zu bekämpfen. Strukturreformen sind Fehlanzeige, die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit lässt nach. Der Bond-Markt wird in den kommenden Wochen noch einige Überraschungen erleben.
One day after thousands marched on the White House to protest the expansion of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, activists on the front lines in Texas faced pepper spray and arrests Monday as they blocked pipeline construction.
The official, who has knowledge of the case, says commanders ordered 14 officers to lie about what happened. He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case. The question is whether the commanders ordered the attack or received instructions from someone else to fire on the Toyota SUV, the official said Monday.
In the letter, the 97 GOP congressmen, who do not hold confirmation power over presidential nominations, describe themselves as „deeply troubled“ by Rice‘s potential nomination, explaining, „Though Ambassador Rice has been our Representative to the U.N., we believe her misleading statements over the days and weeks following the attack on our embassy in Libya…caused irreparable damage to her credibility both at home and around the world.“
In der syrischen Grenzstadt Ras al-Ain sei es am Montag zu Schießereien zwischen Rebellengruppen und Einheiten der syrischen Kurdenmiliz PYD gekommen, berichteten türkische Medien von der Grenze. Die Rebellenkämpfer versuchten offenbar, die Kurdenmiliz zurückzudrängen.
Ein kalifornischer Designer wurde am Fluhafen Oakland verhaftet, als er mit einer Uhr an Bord eines Flugzeuges gehen wollte, die mit Kabeln und ungewöhnlichen Knöpfen versehen war. Der Mann trug außerdem Schuhe, die nicht der Vorstellung der amerikanischen Sicherheitsbehörden entsprachen.
The combined total of the assorted minor parties rose three points, to 15%, a score that has never been bettered in the 28-year history of the Guardian/ICM series.
Just hours before the crucial Eurogroup meeting tomorrow Tuesday, Greece’s lenders – the notorious Troika -sent a fax to the government posing a new demand: the dismissal of 20,000-22,000 civil servants until 2014.
According to news portal in.gr, the government rejected the Troika demand, with finance ministry sources saying “we don’t even talk about it.”
At least one law enforcement agency in San Diego is currently using software developed by FaceFirst, a division of nearby Camarillo, California’s Airborne Biometrics Group. It can positively identify anyone, as long as physical data about a person’s facial features is stored somewhere the police can access. Though that pool of potential matches could include millions, the company says that by using the “best available facial recognition algorithms” they can scour that data set in a fraction of a second in order to send authorities all known intelligence about anyone who enters a camera’s field of vision.
„President Obama and Congress have the clout to stop a repeat of the 2009 Gaza War, in which more than 1300 Palestinians were killed, including 700 civilians, over 300 of them children. Thirteen Israelis were also killed, of whom three were civilians. This is a ‚David and Goliath‘ fight, with nuclear-powered Israel acting in disregard for international law against a dispossessed people living under siege. Israel‘s assaults on Gaza will not make Gazans go away or resolve the conflict,“ said Muhammed Malik, former co-chair of the Miami-Dade Green Party, who recently spoke at the Students for Justice in Palestine National Conference at the University of Michigan. (2009 Gaza War casualties: see…
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Time marches relentlessly forward for you and me; watch a movie in reverse, and you’ll quickly see something is amiss. But from the point of view of a single, isolated particle, the passage of time looks the same in either direction. For instance, a movie of two particles scattering off of each other would look just as sensible in reverse – a concept known as time reversal symmetry.
Lowering the orbit increases the accuracy and resolution of GOCE’s measurements, improving our view of smaller ocean dynamics such as eddy currents.
1. Israeli hawks represent themselves as engaged in a ‘peace process’ with the Palestinians in which Hamas refuses to join. In fact, Israel has refused to cease colonizing and stealing Palestinian land long enough to engage in fruitful negotiations with them. Tel Aviv routinely announces new, unilateral house-building on the Palestinian West Bank. There is no peace process.
„I want to say that Mongolia is ready to cooperate with the new leader of the DPRK and continue the traditional friendly relationship,“ Enkhbold said, hoping the two countries can cooperate in trade, information technology, exchange of workforce and lease of ocean ports as Mongolia is a landlocked country without ocean ports.
Die Zentralregierung in Madrid hat gedroht, dass sie das Verfassungsgericht anrufen werde, um die Volksbefragung zu unterbinden. Denn nach der spanischen Verfassung hat nur die Regierung in Madrid die Befugnis, ein Referendum einzuberufen.
In der nordspanischen Mittelmeerregion Katalonien hat der nationalistische Regierungschef Artur Mas (CiU) am 25. November vorgezogene Neuwahlen ausgerufen, nachdem ein erneuter Fiskalpakt mit der spanischen Zentralregierung von Mariano Rajoy (PP) gescheitert ist.
(09.11.) Nach den Wahlprognosen kann auch die Republikanische Linke Kataloniens (ERC) darauf hoffen, zu ihren derzeitigen zehn Mandaten vier bis sieben weitere Sitze dazuzugewinnen. Zwei weitere linksnationalistische Gruppen, die Katalanische Solidarität für die Unabhängigkeit (SI), die derzeit vier Mandatare stellt und die neu antretende Kandidatur für die Volkseinheit (CUP) fischen ebenfalls im Lager der Unabhängigkeitsbefürworter.
With two legislative actions and fourteen ministerial decisions the Greek government caused serious damage to two state powers of a sovereign state: the Legislative and the Executive. Bypassing the Parliament, the government drafted legislative actions that give the Finance Minister super powers.
The use of autonomous drones – „killer robots“ that could fire weapons with no human control – must be prohibited by international treaty, human rights campaigners and lawyers have said.
No reaction has been seen to this report across asset classes as markets tentatively await the results out of tomorrow‘s Eurogroup meeting.
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„Citizens! Forgive us for not arresting those truly responsible for this crisis: bankers and politicians.“
Die deutschen Patriot-Raketen, die in den nächsten Wochen an der türkisch-syrischen Grenze installiert werden sollen, reichen etwa 160 Kilometer weit. Ihr tödlicher Einsatz wird den lange formulierten Wunsch der Türkei nach einer Flugverbotszone erfüllen. Die „Patriot“ sollen jene Flüge der türkischen Luftwaffe schützen, die bis tief im syrischen Gebiet zugunsten der Aufständischen operieren. Zum Schutz der Waffenlieferung aus der Türkei, aber auch zur operativen Unterstützung der Rebellen. Deutsche Soldaten, immerhin rund 170 Mann, und deutsche Waffen wären dann unmittelbar in den Krieg verwickelt. Gleich, was das Berliner Kriegsministerium auch immer erzählen mag.
Dozens of Israeli intellectuals and leading artists are calling on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers to work to obtain a ceasefire and dialogue which will lead to a peace agreement.
In Israel regt sich Protest gegen eine Militäroperation in Gaza. 90 israelische Intellektuelle und Künstler, darunter Yoram Kaniuk und Amoz Oz, warnen in einer Petition vor einem erneuten Einmarsch. Auch 100 Reservistinnen appellierten an die Regierung Netanjahu, auf eine Bodenoffensive im Gazastreifen zu verzichten.
I have interviewed many people over the years of doing documentaries. Currently in Pakistan filming with victims of drone attacks (ahead of the film, follow my trip at warcosts.com, Facebook and Twitter), I have never had a more haunting and harrowing experience than looking into the eyes of person after person, children and adults, and hearing them talk about their homes, villages and families destroyed by drone attacks. The pain is palpable, their fear still radiates. And even a question about the CIA sets off terror alerts in peoples‘ eyes.
There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement. It’s a secret war being waged in the shadows while you go about your everyday life.
Feinstein, speaking Sunday on NBC‘s „Meet the Press,“ defended Rice against the accusations that she had deliberately misled the American people – as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., has previously suggested — and decried what she called the „politicization of a public statement that was put out by the entire intelligence committee.“
How the FBI‘s investigation unfolded — especially its decision not to alert the White House, the director of national intelligence or Congress about its discovery of Petraeus‘s sexual affair until Election Day — is under scrutiny, especially because there is no indication so far that any criminal charges will be filed.
Democrats say CIA and other intelligence officials signed off on the final talking points.