Daily Archives: 28. Dezember 2012


28.12.2012 - 23:24 [ N-TV ]

Illegale Downloads von Filmen und TV-Serien: Datenspur führt in den Bundestag

Wer illegale Inhalte herunterlädt, hinterlässt Spuren. Feste IP-Adressen sind besonders leicht auszumachen. Eine Datensammlung enthüllt nun: US-Filmstudios laden Werke der Konkurrenz und Pornos herunter, US-Ministerien und das Repräsentantenhaus sind ebenfalls verstrickt. Wie der Bundestag.

28.12.2012 - 23:19 [ RIA Novosti ]

Iran Starts 6-Day Naval Drills

The drills, dubbed Velayat 91, will be carried out in the Strait of Hormuz, the Sea of Oman, north of the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Aden and the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait, Navy commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said.

28.12.2012 - 23:07 [ McClatchy ]

US closes embassy in Central African Republic

The U.S. Embassy „suspended its operations on December 28, 2012, and, therefore, cannot provide protection or routine consular services,“ the State Department said in a statement.

28.12.2012 - 22:57 [ CNBC ]

Greek Crisis Harms Nation‘s Mental Health

Dr Kalbari is a psychologist. Each day her couch hosts a procession of patients suffering from anxiety, sleep disorders, depression and other maladies – many of them exacerbated, she believes, by a crisis that has pushed the unemployment rate above 25 per cent while depriving Greeks of any certainty about the future.

28.12.2012 - 19:59 [ Spiegel ]

Wowereit stürzt in Umfrage ab

Die Berliner SPD und ihr Regierender Bürgermeister Klaus Wowereit rutschen wegen des Flughafendesasters in der Wählergunst immer weiter ab. Erstmals seit Jahren liegt die bisher in Umfragen immer führende Regierungspartei SPD mit 24 Prozent deutlich hinter ihrem Koalitionspartner CDU, der auf 27 Prozent kommt.

28.12.2012 - 19:59 [ Beppe Grillo ]

Grillo’s reform agenda

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

28.12.2012 - 19:58 [ Beppe Grillo ]

The Vatican and the man of Providence

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.

28.12.2012 - 19:55 [ Radio Vatikan ]

Italien: Katholiken unterstützen Monti

„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.“

28.12.2012 - 17:18 [ Uri Avnery / Counterpunch ]

A Person Called Nobody

Suddenly, I realized that a new star had appeared on the political firmament of Israel.

Until yesterday I did not even know of its existence.