#FucktheWar

Before that, during a February 2010 speech in New York, Brennan referred to Jerusalem by its Arabic name, Al-Quds. „In all my travels the city I have come to love most is Al-Quds, Jerusalem, where three great faiths come together,“ he said.
During the same speech, Brennan also defended a 20 percent recidivism rate among Guantanamo detainees as not „that bad.“

Ex-adviser Aaron David Miller says Hagel‘s language could do with a polish but that he is voicing a truth others will not confront

Former PM announces his party‘s support for Northern League, raising fears election will yield no outright winner

Eric Schmidt ist zusammen mit US-Politiker Bill Richardson von Peking aus in die nordkoreanische Hauptstadt Pjöngjang geflogen. Es geht dabei um “eine humanitäre Mission”, aber die Teilnahme des Google-Chairmans lässt darüber hinaus Mutmaßungen über weitere politische und wirtschaftliche Zusammenhänge aufkommen.

Malnutrition is a major concern – India is self-sufficient in grain production, yet 40% of people are underweight

President Barack Obama on Monday nominated former Republican Senator Chuck Hagel as his next defense secretary and counterterrorism adviser John Brennan to head the CIA, potentially setting up a Senate confirmation battle on two fronts and establishing a tough tone to start his second term.

Wie Apple am Montag bekanntgab, konnte der hauseigene App-Marktplatz mittlerweile 40 Milliarden Downloads verzeichnen. 20 Milliarden davon wurden alleine 2012 runtergeladen, wobei der Dezember mit zwei Milliarden deutlich über dem Durchschnitt lag.

(25.07.2000) Staatsanwalt Kevin Di Gregory verteidigte das System, das deswegen nötig sei, weil sich das Internet ohne entsprechende Überwachung zu einem Tummelplatz für Kriminelle und Terroristen entwickeln würde. Und Donald Kerr vom FBI beschwor die Kriminellen, die anonym und verschlüsselt Kinderpornographie einander zusenden würden, die Hacker, die in Systeme von Finanzdiensten einbrechen und Kreditkartennummern klauen, die Betrüger, die weltweit ihre Opfer austricksen, oder die Terroristen, die ihre Anschläge im Internet planen.

While German industry has enjoyed record export and profit growth, ordinary Germans have not had much economic joy over the past 13 years. (…)
Germany today is a poorer country compared to many EU members than it was in 1998.

Inzwischen habe der IWF die Zusammenhänge allerdings besser verstanden, wird im IWF-Arbeitspapier hervorgehoben.

A response to the Syrian crisis ‚can only be political‘, Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi said on Monday after talks with his Dutch counterpart Frans Timmermans.

With this move, the number of DIMAR’s seats in the Greek parliament drops to 14, while Samaras’ coalition government now holds just 165 seats in a parliament of 300.

With PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos under challenge, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is losing support from his other coalition partner, the Democratic Left, after two of its members were ejected for saying they want an investigation of Venizelos over his mishandling of a bank list that hadn’t been checked for tax evaders.