Gegen den ehemaligen griechischen Finanzminister George Papaconstantinou wurden am Freitag Vorwürfe laut, er habe die Lagarde-Liste manipuliert, um Verwandte zu schützen.

Dabei werde das Schiff selbstständig handeln.

„Wir denken derzeit nicht darüber nach, die Europäische Zentralbank darum zu bitten, dass sie interveniert und am Markt Anleihen kauft“, sagte Rajoy. „Aber wir können das für die Zukunft nicht ausschließen.“

1 – Anti-corruption Law
2 – Citizen‘s income
3 – Abolition of public contributions to the parties (retroactively starting with these elections)
4 – Immediate abolition of direct and indirect financing of newspapers
5 – Introduction of the possibility of having a referendum that puts forward a proposal and doesn’t need a quorum
6 – Referendum about staying in the euro

When Cavalier Benito Mussolini signed the Lateran Pacts with the Vatican in 1929, Pope Pius XI made a public speech and called him a „Man of Providence“:

„And perhaps we needed a man like the one whom providence has sent us: a man without the worries of the liberal school, for the men for whom all these laws, all these regulations, or rather these “disorderly regulations”, let’s say, all those laws, and all those regulations were just fetishes, like the fetishes that are just as intangible and venerated as they are ugly and deformed.“

83 years have gone by and Rigor Montis, another man of Providence has been revealed to the world.

„Ich glaube dass Monti in dieser seiner Agenda eine Politik wiederherstellt, die die Probleme der Personen, Familien und Unternehmen im Sinne des Gemeinwohls zu lösen versucht. Endlich sprechen wir wieder über das Allgemeinwohl, über das Land, über Fragen, die gelöst werden müssen, damit es wieder Wachstum gibt.“

Die Tageszeitung des Vatikans hat dem bisherigen italienischen Ministerpräsidenten Mario Monti Respekt gezollt

Taxi drivers from that airport are defending the former textile salesman who lost his stores, his house, and then buried his wife.

„Wir wollen uns nicht in die inneren Angelegenheiten Syriens und in die Beschlussfassung einmischen. Und wir unterstützen die Entscheidungen (der Arabischen Liga und des UN-Sicherheitsrates) nicht, die gegen die Syrische Arabische Republik gerichtet sind“

This brings yesterday‘s Palestinian fatalities in Syria to 32, including six people killed by mortar fire in the al-Yarmuk camp, according to al-Quds

The percentage of Greek workers who are employed without social insurance rose to 35 percent last year

Yesterday, we covered the rushed last-minute debate over the FISA Amendments Act, after which three critical amendments that would have brought some accountability to the NSA‘s spying program were all struck down. This morning, the fourth and final such amendment from Senators Wyden and Udall was also rejected, in a vote of 52 to 43, meaning FISA will now move forward in its current (and likely unconstitutional) form.

The Madrid assembly on Thursday approved the Fiscal and Administrative Measures Law, which paves the way for the privatization of healthcare in the region. As of January 1, tenders can be submitted for healthcare services at six hospitals and 27 clinics. Also included in the legislation is a new and controversial supplementary charge of one euro per prescription.

Vinci had offered the highest sum for the purchase of ANA. Present in more than 100 countries, through road, rail and car park management companies, the group also manages nine airports in France and three in South East Asia.

Portugal’s government agreed to sell state-owned airport operator ANA-Aeroportos de Portugal SA to Vinci SA (DG) for 3.08 billion euros ($4.07 billion), raising money for the debt-strapped country.

Institut soll über Wertpapiere falsch informiert haben

They refused to give the generals‘ identities or say how they escaped from Syria. They spoke anonymously as they were not authorized to talk to the press. The defection comes days after the commander of Syria‘s military police Maj. Gen. Abdul-Aziz Jassem al-Shallal defected to Turkey.

The Perfect Citizen files obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and provided to CNET shed more light on how the agency aims to defend — and attack — embedded controllers. The NSA is reported to have developed Stuxnet, which President Obama secretly ordered to be used against Iran‘s nuclear program, with the help of Israel.

First, some background.

As we noted yesterday, there was a „debate“ in the Senate concerning the FISA Amendments Act renewal, and four specific amendments that some Senators tried to add to it to make the renewal less problematic. If you haven‘t been following this whole mess, you can read back through our FISA Amendments Act stories here, but the short version is that this is the bill that „legalized“ warrantless wiretapping

Er, der NSA-Spion, fürchtet sich inzwischen vor Politikern, die fordern, dass der Staat alles wissen müsse. „Der Krieg gegen den Terror sollte kein Krieg gegen ethische Grundsätze und Menschenrechte sein“, sagte er. Und dass die USA nach dem 11. September ohne Grund Bürgerrechte und Freiheit geopfert hätten. „There was no, I repeat, no need to go to the dark side.“ (Es gab keinen, ich wiederhole: keinen Grund, zur dunklen Seite zu wechseln.)

Forderungen nach einem Rücktritt des syrischen Präsidenten Baschar al Assad lehne Moskau weiterhin ab. Der im Juni in Genf verabschiedete Plan sieht eine Waffenruhe, die Bildung einer Übergangsregierung und eine neue Verfassung vor.