Herr Schäuble Sprechen

 

“Anything else is not in the best interest of Greece. If you take guarantees and then you are discussing a haircut, you are a liar.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10189235/Germany-refuses-fresh-relief-for-Greeks-as-debt-ratio-spirals-out-of-control.html

 

October 13, 2012:
" We refused to throw in the towel and do nothing. We refused to let Detroit go bankrupt. We bet on American workers and American ingenuity, and three years later, that bet is paying off in a big way."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57531867/obama-i-refused-to-let-detroit-go-bankrupt/

July 18, 2013:
"The city of Detroit filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection in federal court."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/07/18/detroit-prepares-bankruptcy-filing-friday/2552819/

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Bonnaroo 2012

The Non-PM of the Uncoup

"[E]lBaradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, had been due to be sworn in as interim prime minister on Saturday night, but the presidential office later appeared to row back, saying consultations were continuing. On Sunday, ElBaradei was reported to have cancelled an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press citing laryngitis and a fever."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/07/egypt-clashes-protests-new-government

The History of Military Dictatorship in Egypt

I'm Shocked, Shocked to Find Out Spying is Going On Here

"The monitoring of friends -- this is unacceptable. It can't be tolerated," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday through her spokesman Steffen Seibert. "We are no longer in the Cold War."
"Germany´s Chancellor, Angela Merkel has blasted the United States for spying on European citizens as well as on E.U. diplomats in Washington, New York and at the European Council in Belgium.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/merkel-furious-at-us-spying-and-eu-to-check-offices-for-bugs-a-908859.html

"[B]ut others say that the chancellor will probably be friendly to Obama during their next talk, and not because this is what diplomatic conventions call for, even amid tensions. No, it's because there is some question as to whether Berlin's dismay about the espionage by the National Security Agency (NSA) is really as great as it claims. Could some of the indignation be feigned? Did the revelations really shock the chancellor? And if it did come as a surprise, has German counterintelligence failed miserably?
The opposition doesn't believe that Merkel was unaware of the situation. In an editorial for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung this week, Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), openly aired the suspicion that Merkel was familiar with at least some of the spying activity. The government has vehemently rejected this accusation as crude campaign bluster.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/how-much-did-merkel-know-about-nsa-spying-in-germany-a-909174.html

"America's National Security Agency works closely with Germany and other Western states on a 'no questions asked'-basis, former NSA employee Edward Snowden said in comments that undermine Chancellor Angela Merkel's indignant talk of "Cold War" tactics.
"They are in bed with the Germans, just like with most other Western states," German magazine Der Spiegel quotes him as saying in an interview published on Sunday that was carried out before he fled to Hong Kong in May and divulged details of extensive secret U.S. surveillance/"
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/07/us-usa-security-germany-idUSBRE9660C020130707

U.S. National Security Agency - The Global Peeping Toms- Fuck You National Security Agency

"[A]s the headline suggests, the crux of the main article details how the NSA has, for years, systematically tapped into the Brazilian telecommunication network and indiscriminately intercepted, collected and stored the email and telephone records of millions of Brazilians. The story follows an article in Der Spiegel last week, written by Laura Poitras and reporters from that paper, detailing the NSA's mass and indiscriminate collection of the electronic communications of millions of Germans."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/nsa-brazilians-globo-spying

منافق

It appears that interim Prime minister ElBaradei is anti-Egyptian military only when they do not place him at the seat of power.

January 14, 2012
"[M]y conscience does not allow me to run for the presidency or any other official position unless there is real democracy,” Mr ElBaradei said.

Referring to last year’s protests that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, he added that “the captains of the vessel ... are still treading old waters, as if the revolution did not take place.”

Mr ElBaradei’s decision to withdraw from the contest is yet another blow to the credibility of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has been accused of numerous human rights violations since Mr Mubarak stepped down.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/9014988/Mohamed-ElBaradei-drops-Egyptian-presidential-bid.html

July 6, 2013
"[E]lBaradei is our first choice," a source close to the army said earlier this week.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/06/mohamed-elbaradei-interim-pm-opposition

"[A] military source told the AFP news agency that Mr ElBaradei, the former head of the UN nuclear watchdog, would be sworn in as prime minister later on Saturday, three days after Mohammed Morsi was ousted by the army.
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Mr ElBaradei has defended the army's intervention, saying although it was a "painful measure", Mr Morsi had "undermined his own legitimacy".
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/10164552/Egypt-Mohamed-ElBaradei-to-be-interim-prime-minister.html



 

U.S Ambassador to Egypt Anne W. Patterson and the Uncoup

Ambassador Patterson on the Uncoup:
"Of course it is challenging to be dealing with any new government. However, at the state institutional level, we are for instance still liaising with the same military and civil service personnel, and thus have retained the same long-established relations."
The Uncoup

"Instead, the U.S. president gave a wink and a nod to a military takeover in Egypt, which the State Department is now indicating may not be a coup, because the generals have not imposed a military leader. Instead, they have put in place as president Egypt’s highest judge, after he was in office but two days. Even if a figurehead, that makes the military removal of a duly-elected Egypt president not a coup, therefore legitimate?
That question has the legal minds at the State Department working overtime.

The upshot, in Egypt Obama’s principal representative, Ambassador Anne Paterson, is vilified by all sides, and the Muslim Brotherhood is likely permanently disabused of the notion that participating in democratic processes can lead to its views taking hold anywhere from Syria to Yemen."

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/america-mess-egypt-164639195.html?l=1



 

Referee Beheaded in Brazil

An amateur football match in Brazil led to two murders as a referee was beheaded by spectators after he had stabbed a player.
http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1492969/referee-beheaded-killing-player-brazil?cc=5901

Newsweek Reporter in Cairo asks, "Shouldn't the Tear Gas Have Come Before the Bullets?"

Mr. Giglio's eyewitness account states the Egyptian army fired on unarmed Morsi supporters and then used tear gas to disperse the crowd.

"standing next to me saying he saw a protester shot in the head for throwing stones, thinks he's dead."
"AFP reporting three killed in the clashes just now"
"Guy miffed as he listens to state radio (88.7fm Egyptian Radio) on his phone: "they say that there are no people dead!"


https://twitter.com/mike_giglio

Human Breast Milk has Become a New Luxury for China's Rich

"[A]dult (clients) can drink it directly through breastfeeding, or they can always drink it from a breast pump if they feel embarrassed," the report quoted company owner Lin Jun as saying.
Wet nurses serving adults are paid around 16,000 yuan ($2,600) a month -- more than four times the Chinese average -- and those who were "healthy and good looking" could earn even more, the report said"
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hi3ZdZpeoZCU8sAExgaroV2YaiMg?docId=CNG.0148ab4e6c0dcbbd7ac0ac88f1762439.4d1
 

June 24 2012

"[M]orsy defeated former general Ahmed Shafik in a run-off last weekend by a convincing 3.5 percentage points, or nearly 900,000 votes, taking 51.7 percent of the total, officials said.
The announcement ended a week of angry disputes over the count in the poll to replace Mubarak, pushed aside by his fellow officers 16 months ago to appease the Arab Spring revolution."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/24/us-egypt-election-idUSBRE85G01U20120624

Bloomberg

NEW YORK — In his nationwide effort for tighter gun control, Mayor Michael Bloomberg attributes historic crime lows in New York to strict gun laws that are strictly enforced. "If we are serious about protecting lives," he wrote in a recent newspaper editorial, "we have to get serious about enforcing our laws."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/23/bloomberg-gun-control-lower-new-york-crime-rates_n_2535522.html


Front page NY Times story, July 2, 2013:
Audit of Crime Statistics Reveals Mistakes by Police - The New York ...

www.nytimes.com/.../audit-of-crime-statistics-finds-mistakes-by-police.ht...‎

 

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By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN. Published: July 2, 2013. A long-awaited report ordered by the police commissioner in New York has found deficiencies in the Police Department's efforts to detect whether its crime statistics are being manipulated.

 

 

 

Evo Morales

...whose plane was forced to land after Portugal and France refused him access to their airspace.

 

 

"[I] know that the empires have an espionage network and are against the so-called developing countries. And in particular, against those which are rich in natural resources."

Oliver Wyman, 7 Billion Euro's Pulled From A Banker's Ass and the German National Anthem

"Ireland’s central bank will investigate whether tapes of senior bankers laughing at regulators contain evidence rules were broken during the 2008 rescue of failed lenders that eventually led to the country’s EU bailout.
/
Public outrage is growing in Ireland after a newspaper published transcripts of taped telephone conversations between executives of the now-defunct Anglo Irish Bank, wrecked when a property bubble burst in 2008 after years of reckless lending.
/
In the tapes published by the Irish Independent, Anglo’s then-head of capital markets John Bowe was asked how it had come up with a figure of €7-billion for a rescue. He responded that he had “picked it out of my arse.”
In another tape recorded as the crisis unfolded, executives sang the German national anthem and laughed as they discussed money flowing in from other countries after a guarantee of deposits held in Irish banks."
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/european-business/irish-central-bank-probes-whether-tapes-show-rule-breaking/article12834559/

What does the Anglo Irish Bank and the entire banking sector of Spain have in common?

Obama Speaks to Poverty in Africa

“I’m calling for America to up our game when it comes to Africa,” Obama said. “There’s no question Africa’s on the move, but it’s not moving fast enough for the child still languishing in poverty in forgotten townships.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-30/obama-announces-plan-to-boost-power-in-sub-saharan-africa.html

Meanwhile in the United States during Obama's presidency:

2009-2011: Uneven recovery from the Great Recession. Hence the top 1%captured 121% of the income gains in the first two years of the recovery.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/125269359/Getting-Richer-Edmund-Saez

Must Spread Demokracy

I am Barack W. Obushma

"Despite Bahrain’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, the U.S. has continued to provide weapons and maintenance to the small Mideast nation.
/
The Obama administration has stood by Bahrain’s ruling family, who are Sunni, during nearly two years of protests by the country’s majority Shia population. Bahrain is a longtime ally and the home to a large American naval base, which is considered particularly important amid the current tensions with nearby Iran."
http://www.propublica.org/article/americas-arms-sales-bahrain-crackdown

and today in Bahrain:
"A lower criminal court in Bahrain, headed by a member of the ruling family, has sentenced a 17-year-old boy to a year in jail for insulting the Gulf island's king on Twitter."
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2013/06/2013629164825184368.html

Mind the Gap

"Since his first day in office, President Barack Obama's foreign policy has rested on outreach: resetting ties with Russia, building a partnership with China and offering a fresh start with antagonistic leaders from Iran to Venezuela.
But the global travels on Sunday of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden highlight the limits of that approach. Leaders Obama has wooed - and met recently - were willing to snub the American president."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/24/us-usa-security-obama-analysis-idUSBRE95M0HL20130624

"[A] State Department official said Washington has told countries in the Western Hemisphere that he should not be allowed to proceed in any further international travel, other than is necessary to return him to the United States."
/
"In a major embarrassment for U.S. President Barack Obama, an aircraft thought to have carried Snowden landed in Moscow on Sunday, and Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino tweeted that Ecuador had received an asylum request from Snowden."
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/24/us-usa-security-flight-idUSBRE95M02H20130624

Beijing made the final decision in allowing fugitive intelligence leaker Edward Snowden to leave Hong Kong on Sunday, as the United States was disappointed by Hong Kong’s “troubling” failure to arrest Snowden before he fled the territory.
http://www.scmp.com/