The guy in the cheap brown windbreaker walking up the dirty tenement steps to my New York office looked like a bus driver.
Nicolas Maduro, elected President of Venezuela last Sunday, did indeed drive a bus, then led the drivers‘ union, then drove Chávez‘ laws through the National Assembly as Venezuela‘s National Assembly chief.
In December 2010, Visa, MasterCard and PayPal abruptly cut off donation payments to WikiLeaks, crippling its source of funds. Today, however, some more of those donations may be returning due to a decision at Iceland‘s Supreme Court. Last July, an Iceland court ordered Valitor — formerly Visa Iceland — to reinstate donations to WikiLeaks‘ payment processor DataCell or face a 800,000 ISK (about $6,830) per day. Today, the Supreme Court of Iceland has upheld that decision, and that fine, following Valitor‘s appeal.
George W. Bush‘s new presidential library at Southern Methodist University in Texas has opened with great fanfare, including the attendance of President Obama and former presidents Carter, Bush Sr. and Clinton. George Bush has said that the library is „a place to lay out facts.“ What facts would you like to see displayed at his library?
Book Description :
The Internet has led to revolutions across the world but a crackdown is now in full swing. As whole societies move online, mass surveillance programs are being deployed globally. Our civilization has reached a crossroads. In one direction lies a future promoting „“privacy for the weak and transparency for the powerful““; in the other is an internet that transfers power over entire populations to an unaccountable complex of spy agencies and their transnational corporate allies. Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the mass use of strong cryptography as a way protecting our basic freedoms against this onslaught. Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since the 1990s. Now, in a timely and important new book, Assange brings together a group of rebel thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyberspace to discuss whether the internet will emancipate or enslave all of us.
A shocking new study finds that glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, „…may be the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment,“ capable of contributing to a wide range of fatal human diseases.
A new report published in the journal Entropy links the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide known as glyphosate with a wide range of fatal diseases.
UK PM David Cameron has expressed concern that international action in Syria may be being held back because of fears of a repeat of the Iraq war.
More than 100 people protested outside Parliament in London calling for a ban on the use of some pesticides – which they say are harmful to bees.
From shots of the Andes to London by night, astronaut Chris Hadfield has taken a series of extraordinary images of the world from the International Space Station.
Ein wesentlicher Fortschritt bei der Kosovo-Regelung wurde am vorigen Freitag erzielt, als die Regierungsdelegationen von Serbien und Kosovo nach Verhandlungen in Brüssel einen Vertrag über die Einrichtung serbischer Munizipalitäten im Kosovo paraphierten.
Wieviel ist der Mensch und Bahnanlieger noch wert, wenn für die Wirtschaft nur noch der Gewinn zählt?
Lärm ist ein Gift, das Menschen umbringt.
Tagsüber stört Lärm die Konzentration und Kommunikation.
Nachts bringt uns Lärm um den Schlaf und löst Stress und Depressionen aus.
Als Volkswirtschaft kostet uns der Lärm mehr, als Lärmschutz kosten würde.
Massiver Bahnlärm entsteht z.B. an folgenden Strecken:
Das Versammlungsgesetzt (VersG) schränkt dieses Grundrecht ein. §2 Abs. 1 VersG besagt beispielsweise: Wer zu einer öffentlichen Versammlung oder zu einem Aufzug öffentlich einlädt, muss als Veranstalter in der Einladung seinen Namen angeben. §14 weiter: (1) Wer die Absicht hat, eine öffentliche Versammlung unter freiem Himmel oder einen Aufzug zu veranstalten, hat dies spätestens 48 Stunden vor der Bekanntgabe der zuständigen Behörde unter Angabe des Gegenstands der Versammlung oder des Aufzug
Das ist die schlichte Antwort aus dem Verkehrsministerium vom 23.4. auf eine Anfrage bezüglich der Artikel zu den illegalen Rohrverlegungen im Mittleren Schlossgarten und im Rosensteinpark (Siehe cams21 Artikel “Bahn lässt für S21 ungenehmigte Rohre verlegen” und “Blaue Rohre – schwarze Rohre – illegal?“). Nach Durchsicht der nachgereichten Dokumentation der Ingenieure 22 bleibt eben nichts anderes, als die unabweisbaren Tatsachen anzuerkennen … “die Fachabteilung bedauert ihren Irrtum”. Zwischen Recht haben und Recht bekommen liegt aber noch ein weiter Weg.
Der Aufstieg der Glückspolitik
Die Glücks-Agenda mag zwar nicht jedem augenfällig sein, aber dennoch ist ihr Einfluss kaum zu überschätzen – sie ist allgegenwärtig, von Oxfam bis zu Coca Cola, von der Weltbank bis hin zur britischen Bildungspolitik. In den 1990er Jahren gab es im Rahmen der Diskussion um das Selbstwertgefühl (engl.: self esteem) verschiedene Kampagnen, die die Bedeutung individuellen Glücks betonten. Fast jeder sozialer Missstand sei demnach durch eine Steigerung des „subjektiven Wohlbefindens“ beziehungsweise des Glücksgefühls lösbar.
Nach dem Einsturz eines achtstöckigen Gebäudes in Savar, das als Textilfabrik genutzt wurde, entlud sich am Donnerstag der Zorn der Arbeiter der Bekleidungsindustrie in einer gewaltigen Protestbewegung.
Der Kompromiss von Bund und Ländern zur Suche eines Atommüll-Endlagers war nur wenige Tage alt, da gründete sich im nördlichen Emsland ein Arbeitskreis „Kein Endlager“. Grund: der Salzstock Wahn könnte als Atomklo ausgewählt werden.
From new album ‚Cold Spring Fault Less Youth‘ out 27th May 2013 through Warp Records. ** DOWNLOAD ‚MADE TO STRAY‘ MP3 FREE: http://bit.ly/WZmmU0 **
‚Shadows turn to grey
A slave today
He cowered beyond reckless tracks of impulse
Made to stray around rough coasts
When grace is close to home‘
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Edited by – Leif Podhajsky
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Franc‘s Socialist party has once again spoken out against the Europe of austerity and rigour in a document slamming European conservatives and the ‚selfish intransigence of chancellor Merkel‘.
Demonstrators in Madrid clash with police during a protest in front of the parliament building.
The use of chemical weapons in Syria would be totally unacceptable for the European Union although Brussels is still waiting for more definitive evidence on their employment as alleged by Israel and the US, Micheal Mann, a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, said on Friday.
One of the changes that this new structure will bring is the closure of the First and the Second Army Corps. The staff control administered by the Second Army Corps, which was considered as a rapid reaction force will pass to the First Army. Both Corps will continue to exist as lesser level formations.
According to the interview of the president of the Athens Chamber of Handicrafts, Pavlos Ravanis, to the Austria Press Agency (APA) on April 25, 60,000 more small businesses in Greece are going to close in 2013.
„We can‘t expect a 100% deal but my people were very encouraged“ by meetings with acting head of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) Letta Thursday, the three-time premier and media magnate said.
Ready if needed but better this way‘ says three-time premier
Italy „must form a stable government,“ German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Thursday.
Letta is considering ministerial candidates, some from the PD and PdL, to make up his 18-strong team expected to win confidence votes early next week.
Berlusconi said he was confident the remaining issues between rival parties could be sorted out.
You may recall that after US politicians pressured Visa and Mastercard to stop processing donations to Wikileaks, Wikileaks sued in Iceland. Last year, an Icelandic court ordered Visa to start processing donations to Wikileaks again, but Visa appealed. Now, the Icelandic Supreme Court has upheld the original ruling
Barroso‘s dream is becoming the vision espoused by the Columbia professor of European history István Deák, who demanded last year in the New York Times „a new imperial construct“ as the only alternative to save the continent from a „revival of tribalism“. To Deák this new empire was „a sacred task … an almost religious goal: a new European faith that belongs to no church“.
The 5 Star MoVement has two fundamental points in its manifesto: social solidarity, with the citizen’s income, and the measures in favour of the SMEs. The whole fabric of the environment for SMEs is disintegrating like a massive spider’s web whose silken threads are breaking one by one until it’s completely destroyed. Without this network of businesses, Italy is done for. That’s what supports public finances. In recent months, M5S people have had numerous encounters with small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). They are asking us to help them survive.
The M5S has refused to cooperate with other parties, arguing that would only perpetuate a dysfunctional political system.
More than 6 million without jobs in Mariano Rajoy‘s Spain while figure in François Hollande‘s France is 3.2 million
Premier Antonis Samaras is due to pay an official visit to China in mid-May in a bid to boost bilateral ties, promote Greece as a tourism destination to the huge Chinese market and seek investment, Kathimerini has learned.
Der stellvertretende Ministerpräsident Wang Yang und der Außenminister Wang Yi trafen sich am Donnerstag in Beijing mit dem Außenminister der Schweiz, Didier Burkhalter.
Der chinesische Staatspräsident Xi Jinping und der französische Präsident François Hollande haben am Donnerstag in Beijing am Abschluss des chinesisch-französischen Handelsforums in Beijing teilgenommen.
Europa und China sollten ihre Zusammenarbeit in der internationalen Politik verstärken. Dies sagte EU-Außenbeauftragte Catherine Ashton am Donnerstag im Vorfeld ihres Chinabesuchs vor der Presse.
The president of the Portuguese Bank Association (APB), Faria de Oliveira, has acknowledged in parliament that the price of credit in Portugal was “high”, but insisted there was a lack of demand for loans by businesses.
Jobless rate moves above 27 percent despite slowing recession
Unfortunately, when it comes to debt repayment, the soundtrack that’s playing on an infinite loop in your mind is from the shower scene in Psycho.
LISBON – Visit by Greek Leftist Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras.
After months of being reluctant to address it, the White House today announced it now believes the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons in its bloody, two-year civil war.
Totalitarianism, aligned as it is with “rule by corporations”, is something that happens in incremental steps over time. Nobody actually chooses it, it just happens, and it’s happening to Canada right now.
„Das Lustige daran ist, dass sie (die CIA-Agenten – Red.) nach der Rückkehr in die USA vor Gericht kamen, weil sie sich an der Privatisierung in Russland bereichert und damit gegen das Gesetz ihres eigenen Landes verstoßen hatten.“
When college professors want students to read a small part of a book, they put that book on reserve at the library, so everyone can get access to the bit of information they need without having to buy the entire expensive work
The Iberian Peninsula has once again been engulfed in protest, as police used brute force to disperse thousands in front of the Spanish Parliament in Madrid while in Portugal citizens climbed on top of a tank to make themselves heard.