Mois : octobre 2013

Published on Left Foot Forward, by YIGAL SHTAYIM, October 2, 2013.

… The group we created, ‘Marak Levinsky’ (Levinsky Soup), embedded itself more deeply into Israeli society and the mass media than the ‘Group of 400’, which has since been almost forgotten. The Marak Levinsky venture has become an emblem for social initiatives which empower citizens to stand up and do something. For more than 500 days we have managed daily shifts in the park to distribute food and clothing for hundreds of refugees who were unemployed and arrived from prison (where they were held after crossing the border into Israel) with few clothes and sometimes barefoot or only with flip-flops.  Continuer la lecture de « The formal political process isn’t always the best way to effect social change »

Published on Russia Today RT, Oct 1, 2013. Download the full report, 21 pdf-pages.

A tiny wealthy male elite is behind most of the biggest contributions to the 2012 election cycle in the US, a new study shows. The report comes just as the US Supreme Court considers whether it should strip a ceiling on political donations. In a case the Supreme Court will begin hearing next Thursday, Shaun McCutcheon, a wealthy donor backed by the Republican National Committee, is challenging this aggregate limit on how much an individual may donate overall to candidates, parties and political action committees (PACs) over an election cycle.  Continuer la lecture de « US: Tiny white elite dominates US political donor landscape – study »

• Heute Show vom 27.09.2013, ZDF HD, 34.40 min, von HD Mediathek am 28. September 2013 hochgeladen;
• Deutschland hat sich verwählt, das dicke Ende kommt (hoffentlich) nach, auf KOPP online, von Thomas Mehner, 26. September 2013;
• Nach der Wahl, Die Qual der Wahl: phoenix Runde am 24.09.2013, 44.53 min, von phoenix am 25. September 2013 hochgeladen;
• Markus Lanz, 24.09.2013: u.a. mit Wolfgang Kubicki, Ulrich Pleitgen, Jörg Quoos [HD], 75.45 min, con HD Mediathek am 25. September 2013 hochgeladen;
• Reichtums-Uhr / Schulden-Uhr für Deutschland: siehe Linke Zeitung / Newsticker, in der rechten Kolonne;
• See also: If Elections Could Change Things, They’d Be Illegal, May 9, 2012;
• and: The Rotten Heart of Europe, June 7, 2012

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Published on Spiegel Online International, by Martin Hesse and Christoph Pauly, Sept 30, 2013 (Photo Gallery).

The European Central Bank wants to impose rigid tests on financial companies in the euro zone before it assumes its new supervisory role. But even before the tests are set to begin, the ECB is already tangling with policymakers … //

… We Will Not Make the Test Soft:   Continuer la lecture de « Last Opportunity: ECB and Politicians at Odds Over Stress Tests, Part 1 »

Aus Schweiz Magazin, Editor, 8. August 2013.

Die Katze ist in der Schweiz Haustier Nummer eins, doch was viele nicht wissen: Tausende Streunerkatzen vegetieren auf unseren Strassen dahin und führen ein erbarmungswürdiges Leben. Anlässlich des Internationalen Tages der Katze am 8. August weist die Tierschutzorganisation VIER PFOTEN auf das Leid der Streunerkatzen in der Schweiz hin. Sie führt aus diesem Grund im Oktober eine Katzenkastrations-Aktion in Poschiavo durch.   Continuer la lecture de « Internationaler Tag der Katze »