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POPSBekenntnis zur Todesstrafe trübt deutsche "Obamania" Der außenpolitische Sprecher der Union im Bundestag, Eckart von Klaeden (CDU), warnte vor einem falschen Obama-Bild in Europa: "Bei all der 'Obamania' in Europa machen viele einen Denkfehler: Sie glauben, Obama an europäischen Maßstäben messen zu können." Ex-Justizministerin Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP) sagte: "Die Todesstrafe gehört weltweit abgeschafft. Die Todesstrafe ist genauso unmenschlich wie das ihr zugrundeliegende Verbrechen." Insgesamt haben bis jetzt fünf Bundesstaaten die Todesstrafe erlaubt, wenn das Vergewaltigungsopfer ein Kind ist. Seit 1964 ist in den Vereinigten Staaten niemand mehr hingerichtet worden, der nicht auch einen Mord begangen hat. ZDF heute
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POPSBerlin: Obama ante portas Geschichtsträchtiger Ort Nach dem Fall der Mauer schloss der damalige US-Präsident Bill Clinton 1994 vor dem Brandenburger Tor eine Rede mit den deutschen Worten: "Berlin ist frei." Geschichtsträchtiger war die Rede des früheren US-Präsidenten Ronald Reagan, der 1987 von einem Podium auf der Westseite des Tors direkt an der Mauer ausgerufen: "Herr Gorbatschow, öffnen Sie dieses Tor! Herr Gorbatschow, reißen Sie diese Mauer nieder!" 1963 hatte sich US-Präsident John F. Kennedy mit dem deutschen Satz "Ich bin ein Berliner" in die Geschichtsbücher gebracht. Kennedy sprach auf dem Balkon des Schöneberger Rathauses, dem Domizil des Senats während der Teilung. ZDF heute
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POPSPalestine: The State History Forgot Is it a joke of history that before there was the states of Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Syria, etc there was Palestine? Now they all exist and Palestine doesn't yet. You will read that there never was a Palestine from a certain quarter and how can you miss what you never had. How you know they are lying! They'll say that as they are all Arabs that there's enough room for them all. It's like saying that the Scots Welsh and Irish are all Celts and one state would do them all! Yes, there was a time when such thinking was regarded as valid. If we had the Age of Imperialism back then the Brits might validly have a claim on the USA and most of the rest of the world. In the present imperialism, if the existent holder of the gunboat diplomacy role, the USA, decided to sort out Palestine's present difficulties it could in a breath. Hopefully in a more honourable fashion that the last gunboat holder did.
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POPSHeroRATS Bericht in deutscher Sprache: Riesenhamsterratte Rosie, Landminensucherin
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POPSRiesenhamsterratte Rosie, Landminensucherin Rosie schafft es, in einer halben Stunde hundert Quadratmeter nach Minen abzusuchen. Menschen brauchten dafür mehrere Tage. Die große Frage ist nun: Was passiert, wenn Rosie direkt auf einer Mine sitzt und mit ihren Vorderpfoten herumkratzt? Gar nichts! Riesenhamsterratten sind zwar, wie der Name schon sagt, ziemlich groß. Sie werden 40 Zentimeter lang und wiegen bis zu 1,5 Kilogramm. Aber sie sind zu leicht, um eine Mine auszulösen. See also my clip HeroRATS (in English language).
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POPSPlanetary line up excites the sun The equatorial region of the sun spins more rapidly than the poles, and this differential rotation winds up the magnetic field lines like a rubber band sunspots typically appear wherever these magnetic field lines bubble to the surface. They still have to do more testing, but it makes more sense than other theories such as tidal forces, or the movement of the sun around the solar system's center of gravity, which don't seem to have a significant enough effect.
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POPSObama's missteps Obama's unnecessary promise deviates from nearly six decades of U.S. foreign policy that held Jerusalem to be occupied territory under international law. This long tradition was first broken in 2004 when President Bush acknowledged Israel's demands to keep its illegal West Bank settlements in a final peace agreement, including those around Jerusalem. Thus Obama, a Harvard-trained lawyer, would both scorn the international legal system's foundational principle -- the inadmissibility of territorial acquisition by war -- and echo President Bush, whose failed Middle East policies he has rightly deplored. If Sen. Obama's Philadelphia speech on race was a model of courage and nuance, his AIPAC talk was brimming with the pro-Israel orthodoxy that typifies this year's presidential campaign. Like presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, Obama also backed Israel's so-called right to exist as a Jewish state.
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POPSPaul Craig Roberts: Obama and the fall into tyranny Obama is too smart not to know that US foreign policy has been shanghaied by the Lobby, not in order to protect innocent Israel but to enable Israel’s territorial expansion. Obama has dispelled hope on the economic front as well. Obama has appointed two leading apologists for jobs offshoring as his economic advisors -- Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Rubin associate Jason Furman. These two are notorious for their justifications of policies that benefit Wall Street, CEOs, and large retailers at the expense of the economic well-being and careers of millions of Americans. As a result of offshoring, good jobs in America are disappearing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics job figures make it totally clear that the US economy has ceased creating net new middle class jobs in the private economy in the 21st century.
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POPSUS General: Bush committed war crimes, must be prosecuted Maj. Gen. Taguba led the US Army's official investigation into the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal and testified before Congress on his findings in May 2004. Taguba retired in January 2007, later alleging that Pentagon officials had ordered him to retire for being "overzealous" in his criticisms of the military. He writes here, in the Preface to the report "Broken Laws, Broken Lives."
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POPSUri Avnery: Apologizing for past wrongs as a part of modern political culture I BELIEVE that peace between us and the Palestinian people - a real peace, based on real conciliation - starts with an apology. In my mind's eye I see the President of the State or the Prime Minister addressing a special extraordinary session of the Knesset and making a historic speech on the following lines: MADAM SPEAKER, Honorable Knesset, On behalf of the State of Israel and all its citizens, I address today the sons and daughters of the Palestinian people, wherever they are. We recognize the fact that we have committed against you a historic injustice, and we humbly ask your forgiveness. Uri Avnery Deutsch: Frieden in Israel und Palestina - Texte von Uri Avnery
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POPSSupreme Court Rules Detainees Have Constitutional Rights Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the court majority: "The detainees in these cases are entitled to a prompt habeas corpus hearing. . . . Within the Constitution's separation-of-powers structure, few exercises of judicial power are as legitimate or as necessary as the responsibility to hear challenges to the authority of the executive to imprison a person." The court was narrowly split, 5 to 4. The dissenters accused the majority of meddling in a wartime matter better left to the president and the military. The decision "will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed," Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in a dissent. President Bush said he would abide by the decision but added: "It was a deeply divided court, and I strongly agree with those who dissented." About 270 men are still held at Guantanamo. Fewer than 20 are now facing trial before a military commission, and about 60 are in the pipeline.
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POPSHow to Outsmart Spammers Use a Disposable E-mail Service Services such as Emailias (www.emailias.com) allow you to create a different forwarding address for each site with which you register. Each of these randomly generated addresses is set to forward to your primary address, but with a to: field that allows you to identify where the message came from. If you see that a particular alias has gotten into the hands of spammers, you can turn it off without changing your primary e-mail address
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