MAO INC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ China's Terribly Successful Communist Party Turns 90 Beijing's communists are among the world's most successful capitalists, but their economic ascent is often overshadowed by its human rights violations. The Communist Party now faces a crucial test: Can it become more democratic without jeopardizing its hold on power? http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,770696,00.html#ref=nlint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHINA'S WEN JIABAO VISITS GERMANY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ World Export Leader to Meet with Runner-Up This Monday, Chinese Premiere Wen Jiabao travels to Germany for what both countries are billing as a visit of great importance. While a Chinese government document has praised the partnership with Germany as its best in Europe, Berlin is debating how to approach concerns over human rights. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,770875,00.html#ref=nlint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AFTER THE REVOLUTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Egypt's Struggle to Reinvent Itself A new state is being born in Egypt in the wake of the revolution. While the old guard is battling to preserve its influence, scores of new parties are jockeying for power, including the Muslim Brotherhood, which is resorting to shrewd tactics in a bid to cement its political clout. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,770813,00.html#ref=nlint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LICENSE TO EXPLOIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Servant Abuse Case Could Challenge Diplomatic Immunity Diplomatic immunity was originally meant to protect embassy personnel from arbitrary harrassment. But a new case in Berlin, involving the alleged abuse of a Indonesian servant, makes it clear that human rights sometimes get lost in the shuffle. The case could go to Germany's highest court. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,770685,00.html#ref=nlint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TOP ECONOMIST ON THE EURO CRISIS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'The German Government Will Pay Up' In a SPIEGEL interview, leading German economist Stefan Homburg argues that euro-zone members should not bail out Greece, discusses who is making a profit from the crisis and explains why he himself is buying Greek bonds. "I believe in the boundless stupidity of the German government," he says. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,770673,00.html#ref=nlint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HELICOPTER SHORTAGE IN THE NORTH? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Worries Grow in Berlin about US Afghanistan Pull-Out The German government is concerned about the US plan, announced by President Obama last week, to reduce its presence in Afghanistan. The German military relies heavily on US helicopters in the northern part of the country. Leaders in Berlin fear a reduction in their number could put German soldiers at greater risk. http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,770742,00.html#ref=nlint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ A GUIDING LIGHT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Simple Lines of Bauhaus Legend Wagenfeld on Display Bauhaus designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld left an indelible mark on international product design. The clean lines of his cups, plates and salt and pepper shakers have adorned tables across Germany and beyond. Now, a new exhibition charts his legacy -- which includes one of the most famous Bauhaus icons. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,770785,00.html#ref=nlint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VICTORY FOR NATURE LOVERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ German Island Votes Against Expansion Residents of Germany's Helgoland have voted against a project that some warned threatened to turn the island into a "Dubai of the North Sea." On Sunday they rejected plans to build a massive land bridge between their two islands. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,770741,00.html#ref=nlint -------------------- Photo Gallery: Helgoland Votes No on Land Bridge http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-69670.html#ref=nlint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE WORLD FROM BERLIN ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 'Greens Vote Shows Stronger, More Mature Party' Germany's Green party dropped their demand for a nuclear phaseout by 2017 and voted on Saturday to back Chancellor Angela's Merkel's timetable to shut all reactors by 2022. The vote shows pragmatism and is a sign that the Greens are getting ready to return to power, commentators say. But, they add, it also helps Merkel. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,770754,00.html#ref=nlint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FACTORY FANFARE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Modernist Icon Joins UNESCO Heritage List Walter Gropius' Fagus Factory has long been considered a frontrunner of modernist architecture. Now, a century after it was designed, the building in the German state of Lower Saxony has been added to the prestigious list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,770747,00.html#ref=nlint -------------------- Photo Gallery: German Factory Joins UNESCO List http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-69675.html#ref=nlint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE TRUTH ABOUT 88 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ New Book Reveals Secret Meaning of Neo-Nazi Codes Openly Nazi symbols such as the swastika are banned in Germany, so neo-Nazis get around the law by using coded combinations of letter and numbers such as 14 and 88. A new book explains the meaning of such codes, and reveals that far-right style is becoming increasingly diverse and hard to spot. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,770820,00.html#ref=nlint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUCCESS OR ELSE? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Pressure for World Cup Win in North Korea After the poor showing by the North Korean men's team in the 2010 World Cup, pressure on the women's team in the women's tournament in Germany this summer is high. Team trainer Kim Kwang Min says reports that the men's team trainer was punished are nothing but "evil propaganda." http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,770777,00.html#ref=nlint ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PICTURE THIS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Safe Swimming http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,770888,00.html#ref=nlint
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In un'intervista il ministro dell'Ambiente ribadisce l'intenzione del governo di non abbandonare la ricerca sul nucleare
Dopo
un'accesa discussione interna, il partito ecologista tedesco ha scelto
di approvare il piano Merkel che prevede la chiusura delle centrali
entro il 2022
Il
fotovoltaico supererà sia in potenza installata sia in energia prodotta
l'eolico. Si tratta del risultato del Quarto Conto Energia e dei tagli
ai finanziamenti sull'eolico
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causa dei roghi tossici di rifiuti risultano molto più diffuse tosse,
asma e faringiti tra i più piccoli. I medici consigliano: portate i
bimbi al mare e mangiate cibi ben cotti
L'asteroide
Asteroid 2011 MD sfiorerà la terra alle 19 ora italiana, nessun
pericolo per il nostro Pianeta rassicurano dalla NASA
Le proposte di finanziamento per il fotovoltaico e altre forme di Green Energy da parte di Banca Etica
L'ipotesi
di costruzione di un impianto eolico off-shore in Sardegna è stato
criticato dalle associazioni ambientaliste e dal governatore Cappellacci
Come
previsto, al via stamani lo sgombero del presidio No TAV a Chiomonte, in
Val di Susa. I manifestanti resistono, ma la polizia avanza
Maxi
concerto il 30 giugno per dire no alle trivellazioni nei fondali delle
Isole Tremiti. Tra i big Lucio Dalla, Renato Zero e Gigi D'Alessio
In un'intervista il ministro dell'Ambiente ribadisce l'intenzione del governo di non abbandonare la ricerca sul nucleare
Dopo
un'accesa discussione interna, il partito ecologista tedesco ha scelto
di approvare il piano Merkel che prevede la chiusura delle centrali
entro il 2022
Il
fotovoltaico supererà sia in potenza installata sia in energia prodotta
l'eolico. Si tratta del risultato del Quarto Conto Energia e dei tagli
ai finanziamenti sull'eolico
A
causa dei roghi tossici di rifiuti risultano molto più diffuse tosse,
asma e faringiti tra i più piccoli. I medici consigliano: portate i
bimbi al mare e mangiate cibi ben cotti
L'asteroide
Asteroid 2011 MD sfiorerà la terra alle 19 ora italiana, nessun
pericolo per il nostro Pianeta rassicurano dalla NASA
Le proposte di finanziamento per il fotovoltaico e altre forme di Green Energy da parte di Banca Etica
L'ipotesi
di costruzione di un impianto eolico off-shore in Sardegna è stato
criticato dalle associazioni ambientaliste e dal governatore Cappellacci
Come
previsto, al via stamani lo sgombero del presidio No TAV a Chiomonte, in
Val di Susa. I manifestanti resistono, ma la polizia avanza
Maxi
concerto il 30 giugno per dire no alle trivellazioni nei fondali delle
Isole Tremiti. Tra i big Lucio Dalla, Renato Zero e Gigi D'Alessio
06/27/11
What Canada Can Learn From Brazil About Its Obligation to Protect the Planet Bill McKibben
In 1986, the then-editor of The New Republic,
Michael Kinsley, famously asked whether anyone could find a headline more boring
than “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative,” which had recently appeared on the
Times op-ed page. The jibe was really a backhanded compliment, of
course—Canada’s virtue was so automatic it could just be assumed. It was big
news in Canada when, in 2008, the country slipped from the top-ten list of the
world’s most peaceful countries (all the way to eleventh). By this year, it was
back in eighth, 74 places above the U.S. and, when liberals in the U.S. feel
despairing, what dominates their fantasy life but “moving to Canada”?And yet, today, you could make an argument that Canada has actually become one of the earth’s more irresponsible nations—namely, when it comes to the environment. Indeed, you could argue that the world would be better off if the government in Ottawa was replaced by, say, the one in Brasilia, which has made a far better show of attending to the planet’s welfare. It’s a tale of physics, chemistry, and most of all economics, and it all starts in the western province of Alberta.
Continue reading "What Canada Can Learn From Brazil About Its Obligation to Protect the Planet" |
The Busts Keep Getting Bigger: Why?
Paul Krugman and Robin Wells
The great financial crisis of 2008–2009,
whose consequences still blight our economy, is sometimes portrayed as a
“black swan” or a “100-year flood”—that is, as an extraordinary event
that nobody could have predicted. But it was, in fact, just the most
recent installment in a recurrent pattern of financial overreach,
taxpayer bailout, and subsequent Wall Street ingratitude. And all
indications are that the pattern is set to continue.
The Illusions of Psychiatry
Marcia Angell
The pharmaceutical industry influences
psychiatrists to prescribe psychoactive drugs even for categories of
patients in whom the drugs have not been found safe and effective. What
should be of greatest concern for Americans is the astonishing rise in
the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness in children. Ten percent
of ten-year-old boys now take daily stimulants for ADHD, and 500,000
children take antipsychotic drugs.
- The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? (June 23, 2011)
The Variety of Movie Experience
Geoffrey O’Brien
Terrence Malick has never shied from grandiosity, and in The Tree of Life more than ever before he risks the humorless and overblown. But he has made an audacious and magnificent film.
Obama: His Words and His Deeds
David Bromwich
Being president of the world has sometimes
seemed a job more agreeable to Barack Obama than being president of the
United States. Obama has always preferred the symbolic authority of the
grand utterance to the actual authority of a directed policy.
Egypt: The Victorious Islamists
Yasmine El Rashidi
Widespread and escalating crime has gripped
Egypt. But the campaign against the Coptic Christian community has stood
out as by far the most egregious violence in the months since President
Hosni Mubarak stepped down.
What Drove the Terrible War?
James M. McPherson
Five new books on the American Civil War.
Recalculating: A Story
Deborah Eisenberg
Plus: Adam Thirlwell on
Milan Kundera, Meghan O’Rourke on Ann Beattie, Freeman Dyson on Richard
Feynman, Edmund White on Paul Bowles, Francine Prose on David Bezmozgis,
Cathleen Schine on Sigrid Nunez’s memoir of Susan Sontag, an exchange
on Goldstone and Gaza, and more.
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