Criminals protecting each other
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Today´s death toll:In Syria, activists report that at least 47 people were killed in an attack by government militia in HomsSyria´s criminal dictator Bashar al-Assad is defying international pressure to stop killing civilians. Assad is able to con...
i never noticed them before they became infrastructure
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“As you wonder (sic) between locations murmuring to your coworker about how your connection sucks and you can’t download/stream/tweet/instagram/check-in, you’ll notice strategically positioned individuals wearing “Homeless Hotspot” T-shirts...
Nathalie Arthaud (Lutte Ouvrière) : « La direction de la BNP a bien plus de pouvoir que le président du Conseil européen ! »
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1. Les Cabris de l’Europe : Nathalie Arthaud, en une phrase pourquoi êtes-vous candidate à l’élection présidentielle française de 2012 ? Nathalie Arthaud : D’abord, je pense qu’il faut une communiste présente à ce scrutin, ensuite et...
the EU propaganda video shows that EU cannot deal with the enlargement…
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It seems that those who authorized the video above has no idea about semiology or has nothing to do all studies done in Cultural Studies. With a good intention, this video depicts the imaginary of xenophobics EU citizens who imagine the EU land as...
Eurostar security absurdity, part II
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All was going so well. Eurostar 9156 departed on time from St Pancras at 1904, and arrived at around 2057 (local time, as scheduled) at Calais Frethun. Then nothing. No departure. Silence. Then the announcement that “for service reasons” we were...
The Closer
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________Round-upWall Street closed flat, in FOMC waiting mode. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 0.29 per cent at 12,959 (Reuters)Craig Donohue is leaving CME Group....
Strategic Snapshot No. 5 published
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The Group on Grand Strategy publishes the fifth in its series of Strategic Snapshots, entitled: ‘Syria: a responsibility to protect? The “just case” versus the “valid case”’. This snapshot looks the Responsibility to Protect in relations...
Sarkozy’s Seven Hurdles revisited
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At the end of 2010, I wrote this article that outlined seven hurdles that Nicolas Sarkozy would...
New UNCTAD report on the dangerous illusions of green growth
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This UNCTAD Discussion Paper "argues that growth, technological, population-expansion and governance constraints as well as some key systemic issues cast a very long shadow on the “green growth” hopes. One should not deceive oneself into beli...
How Engineering the Human Body Could Combat Climate Change
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“From drugs to help you avoid eating meat to genetically engineered cat-like eyes to reduce the need for lighting, a wild interview about changes humans could make to themselves to battle climate change” (Source: The Atlantic). Scary or just grot...
Billionaire list inadequacy: no laughing matter
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FT Alphaville has already written about Bloomberg’s billionaire list, which greatly impressed us by making the rival Forbes list seem classy by comparison.But no longer....
FOM-C you in April
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To be filed under “events notably lacking in eventfulness”.Any interesting revelations from tomorrow’s FOMC meeting probably won’t come in the statement;...
New York University professor: Humans should be genetically engineered to combat global warming
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This is what we have all been waiting for: Engineering the human body to combat global warming!A must read article in the Atlantic: The threat of global climate change has prompted us to redesign many of our technologies to be more energy-efficient.
VIDEO: London Olympics get tough on guerilla marketing
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London correspondent Sandra Gathmann filed this report on the lengths London 2012 Olympics organisers are going to to prevent brands that aren't paying, from benefiting out of exposure during this summer's Games. Some cunning firms are finding ways a...
Growth hasn’t flatlined because of the UK’s unfair dismissal regime
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With unemployment at record levels, there is a pressing need for the Government to take urgent steps to get people off the dole and into jobs. However, the Government’s proposals for weakening the right to claim unfair dismissal will only make it...
Angela Merkel hilft Nicolas Sarkozy
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Angela Merkel hilft Nicolas Sarkozy in seinem Versuch, die französischen Präsidentschaftswahlen zu gewinnen. Ihre Partei, die CDU, ist in Wahlkampfstimmung, so als ob es darum gehe, eine Landtagswahl zuhause in Deutschland zu gewinnen. Sollten wir...
güzel bir an: Ahmet Şık, Nedim Şener, Coşkun Musluk ve Sait Çakır tahliye edildi. #ahmetnedimozgur
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[View the story "güzel bir an: Ahmet Şık, Nedim Şener, Coşkun Musluk ve Sait Çakır tahliye edildi. " on Storify] Related posts: Twitter photos: Registering the first year in Jail. Taksim march to protest Ahmet Şık and Nedim ŞenerR...
Slovakia's left emerges triumphant from the ashes of the right | Thomas Nicholson
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A corruption scandal and quarrels over the euro bailout have handed a sweeping election victory to Slovakia's leftThere was a startling life-imitates-politics moment during Saturday's parliamentary elections in Slovakia, when the Krásna Hôrka castl...
FairRoaming reaches first goal, gets more support
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Last week, the European Parliament’s ITRE committee voted for lowering roaming costs within the EU. This marked a big success and step forward for our campaign. The Parliament’s vote followed a proposal of the European Commission from las...
The foreclosure settlement — the docs
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Released by the Justice Dept on Monday. First — the Complaint by US government agencies against Bank of America Corporation, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo and Company,...
Angela Merkel´s two great failures
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We have said it before on this blog: Angela Merkel is a failed politician, in spite of still being rather popular in Germany and fairly highly regarded in many other EU countries. This reason is quite simple: Merkel´s two most important p...
“The European public sphere is an elite”
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Lucy Duggan, editor and author at the online magazine Europe&Me, on transnational media coverage and mixing languages. - 1. The Euros' guest / Media & the Information Society, Euro-politics, Culture & Education...
Syrian citizen journalists and activists capture Netizen Prize
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For the past year, Syrian citizen journalists have continued to collect and disseminate information on the uprising wracking their country. Reporters Without Borders tonight honored these courageous activists, awarding them the 2012 Netizen Prize. J...
Fortified churches damaged through renovation
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WHERE & WHAT? In the Southern part of Transylvania 18 socalled “Fortified churches” (out of 200) of the Transylvanian-Saxon community are being renovated between summer 2011 and winter 2012 in order to protect them from decay as wel...
The tale of Wu Ying, and what it means for China
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First arrested in 2007, the story of Wu Ying, a millionaire Chinese businesswoman sentenced to death for financial fraud has captivated the nation. The rejection of her final appeal earlier this year led to an outpouring of sympathy among the Chinese...
Another Reason to Say: “Atomkraft, ja Bitte!”
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In Europe they actually call this wierd emotive crap business writing:The worst-possible scenario for the "Atlantic elites" is that Germany hands itself over to Russian dominance in return for a few barrels of oil, tons of coal and shipments of gas:...
David Cameron will regret snubbing US conservatives
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As The Telegraph’s political editor Robert Winnett reports, US Republicans are not on David Cameron’s itinerary this week as he prepares to fly to Washington tomorrow. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, as the prime minister’s schedule has be...
Now that even EP gives up on transnational lists – what hope for European democracy?
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The European Parliament (EP) has again decided to delay the vote on the creation of transnational lists -a single EU-wide constituency for 25 MEPs to be elected next to national MEPs-. The vote on the Duff Report was scheduled to take place Wednesday...
Supermarket sweep Athens, or not keeping appearances during a crisis
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Her country was degraded, mocked, despised, then forgotten. What does it mean for 25-year-old student Katerina Tzekouand and Costa Andreotis, who works in a museum, to live with the crisis in Athens today?
Can Labour cope with the changing nature of the internet?
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The internet is changing the way we view the world in astonishing ways – both obvious and insidious. The recent debate over Google’s privacy policies has largely avoided discussion of one very important way Google and other Internet compa...
Looking for something? Last week's Katposts
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"Looking for something?" This post gives you a chance to check what you've missed on this weblogs (apart from the usual Monday, Wednesday and Friday features, that is). There's a poll on the IPKat's home page side bar in which you can express y...
