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Written on May 19th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Published on Intrepid Report, by Jerry Mazza, May 18, 2012.
Dear Mr. CEO of JPMorgan Chase, Mr. Jamie Dimon: There you are sitting with egg on your face and $2 billion plus going deep into the red on bad bets. You, the guy who fought for less and not more regulation is now in the middle of a major mess. You, the guy who hates the Volker rule named after ex-Fed Chief, Paul Volker, and says it went too far and that “if you want to be trading, you have to have a lawyer and a psychiatrist sitting next to you determining what ‘was your intent’ every time you did something.” That was some expensive exaggeration, wouldn’t you say? Continue Reading…
Written on May 18th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Published on The Guardian, by Marcel Theroux, May 16, 2012.
… The head of Kiev’s Centre for Children’s Services is a charming former social worker called Nikolai Kulyeba. He says there are no more than 10 or 15 children under 18 living on the streets in Kiev. “Otherwise,” he says, with a certain circularity of thinking, “I would know about it.” Continue Reading…
Written on May 17th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
German growth due to exports and … a rise in government consumption – Published on REWR Blog, by merijnknibbe, May 15, 2012.
Today, Eurostat published data on first quarter GDP in the Eurozone and the EU. Some cherries:
- an increasing number of countries has slipped into a technical recession (two subsequent quarters in which seasonally adjusted GDP declines). Newcomers: Czech Republic, Spain, the UK and Romania. Continue Reading…
Written on May 16th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Even Churchill told the Empire that Britain would not stand by idly and see Poland trampled – Published on The Independent, by Robert Fisk, May 14, 2012.
… Haven’t I heard this before? Why yes, I have. Back in 2009, Robert Gates was getting very exhausted with North Korea and its nuclear weapons. And what did he tell us, on 30 May to be exact? “We will not stand idly by” as Pyongyang developed nuclear weapons. Last year, Barrack Obama said America would not “stand idly by” when a tyrant (to whit, Muammar Gaddafi) “tells his people there will be no mercy”. Continue Reading…
Written on May 15th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Judge Denies Declassification of Final Volume of CIA Official Report on Invasion of Cuba – Published on The National Security Archive, by Peter Kornbluh, May 10, 2012.
CIA Officials Defy Obama Directive on FOIA which states that the Government should not keep information confidential merely because public officials might be embarrassed by disclosure, because errors and failures might be revealed, or because of speculative or abstract fears.
Washington, DC, May 10, 2012 – More than year after the National Security Archive sued the CIA to declassify the full “Official History of the Bay of Pigs Operation,” a U.S. District Court judge today sided with the Agency’s efforts to keep the last volume of the report secret in perpetuity. In her ruling, Judge Gladys Kessler accepted the CIA’s legal arguments that, because Volume V was a “draft” and never officially approved for inclusion in the Agency’s official history, it was exempt from declassification under the “deliberative process privilege” despite having been written over 30 years ago. Continue Reading…
Written on May 14th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
- The Neuroscience of Emotions, 62.10 min, Uploaded by GoogleTechTalks on Oct 13, 2008;
- Transform Your Mind, Change Your Brain, 65.21 min, Uploaded by GoogleTechTalks on Sep 28, 2009;
- Brain Imaging between psychiatry and the law, 4.17 min, Uploaded by neuromediacorner on May 26, 2009: Interview with Amedeo Santosuosso, judge at the Milan Court of Appeal and professor at the Pavia’s University (IT) and , during the bid-workshop “brains in dialogue on brain imaging, 17-18 March 2009, Cambridge. Website: Neuromedia Corner; Continue Reading…
Written on May 13th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Despite hiccups, Egypt’s transitional phase is coming to an end – Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Dina Ezzat, 10 – 16 May 2012.
It is a very busy time in the corridors of several presidential campaign headquarters. Posters are being sent away for distribution; commercials are being finalised for airing; public speeches are being drafted; and the candidates are getting ready for the final round of the big race … //
… According to parliamentary sources, parliament speaker Saad El-Katatni acted promptly to accommodate the frustrations of the commission: he made a statement apologising for any offence that PEC might have felt from criticism made against its performance, although he also suggested that parliament, for its part, is equally offended by accusations of alleged interference levelled by PEC. Continue Reading…
Written on May 12th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Introduction and implementation, distrust and misuse, the R2P attempt failed miserably in Libya – Published on Current Concerns, by Dr h.c. Hans-Christof von Sponeck, May 8, 2012.
In a few months, the UN will be 67 years old. Initially, in 1945, there were 51 states that joined as a state community. Currently the UN includes 193 states. Southern Sudan is the youngest member. Quickly the new state has been accepted. Those in power at the moment wanted it that way. Palestine must go on waiting. Membership means acceptance of the UN Charter, which links binding covenants, conventions and other international agreements to a network.1 Continue Reading…
Written on May 11th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Published on RWER Blog, by Edward Fullbrook, May 7, 2012.
In case you have not been watching this Spring’s coming, since the spectacular Harvard development of two weeks ago, another large tree, the UK government, has bloomed. Its Minister of State for Universities and Science announced last week that beginning in the near future all UK publicly funded academic research will be available on the Web free of charge to anyone anywhere in the world. This is not a politician’s pipe dream; Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, has already been hired to set it up. Continue Reading…
Written on May 10th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Published on Spiegel Online International, by Christoph Schult, May 9, 2012. (Translated from the German by Ella Ornstein).
For years, former laborers in Nazi-era ghettos have been fighting to get the pension that German law ostensibly guarantees them. A strict interpretation of that legislation, however, has meant that a vast majority of applications have been rejected. Now, a complaint has been filed with Germany’s highest court. Continue Reading…
Written on May 9th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Published on ZNet, by Nikolas Kosmatopoulos, May 07, 2012.
… Crypto-racist and violence-prone armed gangs – aka dias and delta motorcycled police teams – roam the streets of major cities, beating up journalists and harassing and arresting those who appear “suspicious” or “rebellious”.
Guilty politicians from both major parties (the conservative/neoliberal New Democracy and the social-democratic/neoliberal PASOK) hide from an enraged people behind the walls of guarded palaces, evoking doomsday scenarios in case the citizenry dare not vote them back into office. Continue Reading…
Written on May 8th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Published on Intrepid Report, by Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D., May 7, 2012.
I’d like all of you self-righteous anti-gay crusaders to look into the eyes of fourteen year-old Kenneth Weishuhn, Jr.
Do you see any evil there? Do you see any perversion there? Do you see any threat there?
Do you see the eyes of a young man with a life of unlimited potential cut short by the anti-gay bullying your vile rhetoric fuels and encourages? No, you probably don’t see that young man. Continue Reading…
Written on May 7th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Published on Project Syndicate, by Peter Singer, May 4, 2012.
MELBOURNE – With daily headlines focusing on war, terrorism, and the abuses of repressive governments, and religious leaders frequently bemoaning declining standards of public and private behavior, it is easy to get the impression that we are witnessing a moral collapse. But I think that we have grounds to be optimistic about the future. Continue Reading…
Written on May 6th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
- Die Stoakogler: Hitmix, 2010, 7.43 min;
- Die Stoakogler: Mir san koane Scheich, 2009, 2.26 min,
- Stoakogler: Stoani Powerhits, 4.37 min;
- Stoakogler Trio: Rumpti bumpti, 3.12 min;
- Die Stoakogler: Die Verwandten kommen, 2.40 min;
- Die Stoakogler: Bier Um Bier, Bis Hell Is, 2007, 7.07 min;
- Stoakogler & Trinkspruch, 0.51 min;
- Die Stoakogler: Steirermen San Very Good [LIVE], 2008, 3.02 min; Continue Reading…
Written on May 5th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Published on The Week /First Post, by ALEXANDER COCKBURN, May 3, 2012.
Americans worry about the rise of extremism in Europe, but they aren’t overly concerned by their own ‘proto-fascist’ country … //
… But there’s another aspect to this habit of flinging the charge of fascism at Europe, and that’s the simple matter of national hypocrisy. The mobs who flooded into the streets to revel in the execution of Osama bin Laden a year ago were not exulting in America, land of the free and of constitutional propriety. Continue Reading…
Written on May 4th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
A better way of signing up for studies of your genes – Published on The Economist, April 28, 2012.
In an age where people promiscuously post personal data on the web and regularly click “I agree” to reams of legalese they have never read, news of yet another electronic consent form might seem like a big yawn. But for the future of genomics-related research the Portable Legal Consent, to be announced shortly by Sage Bionetworks, a non-profit research organisation based in Seattle, is anything but mundane. Indeed, by reversing the normal way consent to use personal data is acquired from patients in clinical trials, it could spell a new relationship between scientists and the human subjects of their research, with potential benefits that extend well beyond genomics. Continue Reading…
Written on May 3rd, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Published on The European, Interview with Juliana Rotich, by Martin Eiermann, May 1, 2012.
Can the internet empower the voices from developing countries? Martin Eiermann spoke with Juliana Rotich, executive director of Ushahidi, about information flows, local knowledge, and the relationships between activists and entrepreneurs … // Continue Reading…
Written on May 2nd, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Findings that General Zia Had “Lied” About Pakistani Nuclear Activities Conflicted with U.S. Afghanistan Priority – Published on The National Security Archive, Electronic Briefing Book No. 377, by William Burr, April 27, 2012.
Previously General Vernon Walters Had Speculated that Zia Was “The Most Superb and Patriotic Liar I Have Ever Met” – Reagan Administration Supported Sale of F-16 with Advanced Radar Technology on Nonproliferation Grounds Despite CIA Warnings that Pakistan Would Share it with China: Continue Reading…
Written on May 1st, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Deux Videos, ajoutées par Dreinach:
Written on May 1st, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Published on Dissident Voice, by Michael Cavlan RN, April 28th, 2012.
April 11th there was an amazing event at the University Club in St Paul, Minnesota. Occupy Minnesota sat down at a table and had a discussion with the Minnesota Tea Party.
Before we get into how it went, an explanation on how it transpired is in order. Members of the Minnesota Tea Party were attempting to contact the Occupy Minnesota Movement. However, since we had been booted out of the “People’s Plaza” outside of Minneapolis City Hall in December by the “liberal progressive” Minneapolis City Council, we had become difficult to locate. It must be noted here that this “progressive” City Council had passed Resolutions in support of Occupy — right before they initiated their crackdown on us. Continue Reading…
Written on April 30th, 2012 in Monthly Index by Heidi
2012-04-01: IRAQ … reflections, views, shames;
2012-04-02: Germany’s Best-Loved Cowboy;
2012-04-03: Noam Chomsky speaks to Dutch activists on various topics;
2012-04-04: Treacherous Treaties: American Imperialism, World Government and the Bilderbergers;
2012-04-05: The Zelikow Memo: Internal Critique of Bush Torture Memos Declassified;
2012-04-06: London deserves a better mayoral campaign;
2012-04-07: East Timor: A Lesson in Why the Poorest Threaten the Powerful;
2012-04-08: UNDERSTANDING YUGOSLAVIA: Remembering Mihajlo Mihajlov;
2012-04-09: The Choice for Greece: a Post-Modern Coup or a new kind of society?
2012-04-09: Inculture2: l’éducation nationale, par Franck Lepage;
2012-04-10: two day teaching given in New Delhi, India, on March 23-24, 2012;
2012-04-11: sounds of the nature;
2012-04-12: The SOLO File, Declassified Documents Detail The FBI’s Most Valued Secret Agents of the Cold War;
2012-04-13: Scaramouche, a Romance of the French Revolution;
2012-04-14: Social status and health: Misery index;
2012-04-15: Egypt: new kids on the block;
2012-04-16: Banyan: Rewriting the rules;
2012-04-17: Chomsky: How the Young Are Indoctrinated to Obey;
2012-04-18: Organize, Organize, Organize;
2012-04-19: video conferences about human trafficking;
2012-04-20: USA: Job losses, Women out of work;
2012-04-21: Crisis in Mali: fundamentalism, women’s rights and cultural resistance;
2012-04-22: The Third Generation, Part 1: Young Israel’s New Love Affair with Germany;
2012-04-23: Locking Down an American Workforce;
2012-04-24: From anti-war to anti-imperialism;
2012-04-25: William Shakespeare and the New World Order: Hell is Empty and all the Devils are Here;
2012-04-26: HOW LIBERTY WAS LOST;
2012-04-27: Occupy and Nonviolence;
2012-04-28: Peter Sloterdijk on YouTube;
2012-04-28: Armchair Warriors: Why Are Conservatives the Biggest Warmongers? Part 2;
2012-04-29: Panel talks social policy, justice;
2012-04-30: The sheikh president.
Written on April 30th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Even if he cannot run for the presidency, Hazem Salah Abu Ismail represents a new and deep-running trend in Egyptian social and political life – Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Khalil El-Anani, 25 April – 1 May 2012.
The Egyptian revolution overturned the political soil in the country and one of the fruits is that dozens, if not thousands, have ventured into the fields of politics. However, the overall harvest of the revolution is still poor, whether because of divisions and divergences created by the conflict over power, or as a consequence of the personalisation of politics in Egypt. Continue Reading…
Written on April 29th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Published on Mc Donough Voice, by Lainie Steelman, April 27, 2012.
… The panel discussion, “A Broader Critique of Social Policy, of Legislation, of Social Justice, and of Media Influence,” was moderated by Associate Professor Pearlie Strother-Adams, Department of English and Journalism, and Dr. Anthony McBride, Department of Law Enforcement and Justice. Panelists were Dr. Mohammad Siddiqi, Department of English and Journalism; Dr. Peter Cole, Department of History; Dr. C.S. West, Department of Women’s Studies; Dr. Oswald Warner, Department of Sociology; and Dr. Audrey Watkins, Department of African-American Studies. Continue Reading…
Written on April 28th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Conservatives in government have fetishized violence. Why? – Published on AlterNet, by Corey Robin, April 23, 2012. (see also Part 1).
What is it about being a great power that renders the imagining of its own demise so potent? Why, despite all the strictures about the prudent and rational use of force, are those powers so quick to resort to it? Continue Reading…
Written on April 28th, 2012 in Humanitarian text by Heidi
Peter Sloterdijk und Rüdiger Safranski empfangen Gäste – uploader vonundzuMierendorff, March 27, 2012: