Saturday 22 June 2013

I am not worthy to talk about Adolf Hitler with a loud voice ...

And ... to any maudlin shipping companies invite his life and his work not one.

He was a fighter for humanity and a preacher of the message of justice for all nations. He was a reformist figure of the highest order and his historical fate was that he had to act in a time of unprecedented baseness, which knocked him down in the end.

(Knut Hamsun, Norwegian writer and Nobel Literature Prize winner in 1920)

"... In a large old villa on the outskirts of Vienna, there are the vineyards of Kahlenberg a nice basement, where the higher American officers gathered very happy after the Second World War in the evening. A tavern, you could have said all around painted between the rafters with ornaments.

The owner, the beautiful Princess Wittgenstein led me into it and asked me to look at the paintings critical and only then read the artfully painted in between spells. I looked at everything very carefully and said, without somehow be informed: "It seems to me that the painter at the same time a sense of architecture - especially for certain natural laws, such as the" golden section "has because everything fits so great . together "-" That's very interesting, "said the princess," and now you shall read the sayings ".

Iran conflict: Calm before the storm

Mohssen Massarrat is professor emeritus of the University of Osnabrück with scientific and policy priorities in the areas of economy and society, international relations, war and peace, Middle East and co-founder of the Initiative Conference for Security and Cooperation in the Middle East (CSCME ).

Iran conflict: Calm before the storm

It began in 2001 with the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan. They had with the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 for an excellent excuse, so had the lie of weapons of mass destruction are invented for the removal of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Immediately after the fall of the Iraqi regime in March 2003, Iran's nuclear facilities were presented as the next threat to the "free world". May in good faith to prevent a new war, the EU-3, Germany, France and England have set a goal for Iran to give up its nuclear program.


Turkey is Muslim - whether it suits the West or not!

The Turkish government has taken in recent days, with massive violence against demonstrators in Istanbul and Ankara. With water cannons and tear gas, the police moved against about thousands of people who had tried to reach the central Taksim Square. Again and again in Istanbul sporadic clashes between the police and critics of the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc threatened the demonstrators in the country with the use of the army.

Should the use of the police against the protests "are not sufficient, the armed forces can be used," said Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc on Monday on TV. In Turkey there for two weeks anti-government protests that were crushed by the police force again. Currently, the safety authority retains mainly. That could also be because Turkey slowly running out of tear gas.

"... Within three weeks, the Turkish police units have fired tear gas at protesters 130,000 cartridges. Now the authority is planning to organize on the fly more than 100,000 cartridges with the gas. Furthermore, another 60 are also water cannons to be purchased, which will be advertised. The excessive use of tear gas against peaceful protesters criticized internationally ... "Source: shortnews.de. Whether to participate in the tender for the supply of tear gas and water cannons-German company is not (yet) known!

Saturday 8 June 2013

South Africa: Mandela hospitalized with pneumonia in hospital

His condition is "serious but stable": South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela has to be re-treated in a hospital for pneumonia. For the 94-year-old is the fourth hospital stay within a few months.

Johannesburg / Berlin - The world cares about Nelson Mandela. South Africa's former president was admitted because of severe pneumonia in a hospital in Pretoria again on Saturday night. The office of the incumbent head of state Jacob Zuma announced that the state of the 94-year-old was "serious but stable".

Tuesday 19 February 2013

Court date: Murder charges against Oscar Pistorius - Commemoration of dead girlfriend


Oscar Pistorius is charged with premeditated murder of his girlfriend. That the Magistrate Court in Pretoria has ruled. This reduces the chances that the 26-year-old is free on bail. The athlete was stunned: he was "absolutely ashamed of the death of my beloved Reeva".

Pretoria - The South African Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius will be charged with "premeditated murder". This is the Magistrate Court in Pretoria ruled on lunch. The judge justified this by saying that they could not rule out that the crime was planned, the TV channel Sky reported live from the hearing in Pretoria. This significantly affected the chances of the 26-year-olds to be freed on bail.

Oscar Pistorius Affidavit


This is the affidavit of Oscar Pistorius relating to his bail application:
“I am an adult male, SA citizen and applicant in this app and seek to be released on bail. I make this affidavit of my own free will and have not been influenced. Contents are true and correct. I fail to understand how I could be charged with murder, let alone premed murder because I had no intention to kill. I had no intention to kill my girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. I have been informed I have been accused of murder – I deny the accusation. Nothing can be further from the truth that I planned the murder of my girlfriend. On 13 Feb Reeva would have gone out with her friends, me with mine. She wanted to stay at home. I was watching TV. My legs were off. She was doing yoga. At the end of the evening we got into bed. I’m acutely aware of people gaining entries to homes to commit crime, I’ve received death threats. I sleep with my 9mm under my bed. I woke up to close the sliding door and heard a noise in the bathroom. I was scared and didn’t switch on the light. I got my gun and moved towards the bathroom. I screamed at the intruder. Because I did not have my legs on I felt vulnerable. I fired shots through the bathroom door and told Reeva to call police. I walked back to the bed and realised Reeva was not in bed. Its then it dawned on me it could be her in there. I kicked the door open. Called paramedics and complex security. I tried to carry her down stairs for help. I tried to help her but she died in my arms. With the benefit of hindsight I realise that Reeva went to the bathroom when I went to close the balcony door. I am an international sports star, I will not evade my trial. After the shooting I did not flee the scene. I remained until the police arrived. I don’t know of any witnesses in this matter, and I won’t interfere with any witnesses.”

Wednesday 6 February 2013

Tsunami after earthquake on Solomon Islands Southern Pacific


Several killed in quake and tsunami in Solomon Islands
After an earthquake, a tsunami has driven thousands of people in the Solomon Islands on hills. Dozens of houses were washed away. Four people died. 781 families have been affected.

A man at the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology observed the earthquake history on the monitor

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Tuesday 5 February 2013

Paul Harvey so god made a farmer


Paul Harvey Aurandt (born September 4, 1918 in Tulsa, Oklahoma; † 28 February 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona) was an American radio host.

Harvey attended the University of Tulsa in 1933 and worked at local radio station KVOO in Tulsa. Later, he was program director of the station. He later moved to various other stations in Kansas and St. Louis. During World War II he served several months in the United States Air Force. From 1944 he worked for the station WENR in Chicago and in 1951 was his show Paul Harvey News and Comment broadcast on ABC radio for the first time. They only ended with his death in 2009 and was acquired by 1200 Radio stations and 400 channels of the U.S. armed forces. So god made a farmer speech. In 2000 he signed a € 100 million U.S. dollars ten-year contract with ABC Radio.

IRS audits more charity and insurance companies


IRS with final rules for implementation-FACTA - Insurers must disclose information of customers in the USA

The U.S. IRS published its final regulations for the implementation of FACTA. Thus insurers will be obliged to disclose the data to U.S. clients. The Tax Act contains a range of measures, must proceed according to which insurers and financial institutions that manage contracts with U.S. citizens. An intergovernmental agreement between Germany and the U.S. is still in the works.

Hostage Crisis in Alabama: Police freed five year olds from bunker


Hostage Crisis in Alabama: Police freed five year olds from bunker

The five-year-old boy rescued his captors were shot by the police: the police ended the hostage drama of Alabama because the kidnappers did not cooperate and there was a gun.