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Breaking news banner at Spiegel Online. Airport assassin confesses during early inteerogations. The Hessen Interior Minister Rhein: The 21 -year old is a radical islamist. The Hessian department of the interior is saying the suspect acted alone. There is no apparent terror organization behind the attack.

The Swiss post office's bank, PostFinance, has frozen the accounts of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange {..] Meanwhile, a warrant for Mr Assange's arrest has reached the UK authorities. Article Here

My middle school son has a project due which requires a survey about gun ownership. He has a survey up here: Survey MonkeyThere are only 3 or 4 questions. You have to have a legit email address in case the teacher checks the link, but you can certainly use a fake name. If you have a throwaway email and would like to help him out we would greatly appreciate it. He needs a dozen or so more responses and has run out of people to ask,

07. April 2005 Druckversion BAVARIANPD wants to use tennis hall as "National Center"The NPD has bought an indoor tennis center in the Bavarian town of Grafenwöhr and wants to set up a "national center" for major events there. The mayor is horrified and, above all, fears the reactions of the Americans: One of the biggest military training areas of the U.S. army is right next door. DPA NPD-Convention: In the Tennis Hall in the future? Berlin - Finally, the NPD joyfully announces in a press statement, the party has a "large structure" in which it can hold party conventions,...

04. April 2005 Druckversion EU-ECONOMICAL GROWTHGermany is in Last PlaceThe European Commission has lowered its growth forecast for the Federal Republic this year from the original 1.5 per cent to only 0.8 per cent. Germany is in last place among the 25 EU states. The Red-Green government will also most likely violate the Maastricht stability pact once again. DDP German Flag: A lower spot in the EU growth statistic is no longer possible Brussels - EU currency commissioner Joaquin Almunia said at the presentation of the spring report by his commission in Brussels that he expected total new federal debt...

Alle Artikel 13. März 2005 Print Version INTERVIEW WITH BRIGITTE HAMANN"The Third Reich Can Happen Again"We must engage ourselves precisely with Hitler and the Third Reich", claims the Viennese historian Brigitte Hamann. Otherwise history could repeat itself , she warns in an interview with SPIEGEL editor-in-chief Stefan Aust and "FAZ" editor Frank Schirrmacher. SPIEGEL ONLINE is publishing an excerpt of the conversation, which is part of the joint DVD documentary "One Hundred Years Germany" Interview with Brigitte Hamann: "I believe it could happen again" Uta Rademacher Historian Brigitte Hamann in conversation with Stefan Aust und Frank Schirrmacher: "The good...

09. März 2005 Printer Version Verbal AttackKohl Accuses Government of Foolish Anti-AmericanismVon Björn Hengst, Köln Former Chancellor Kohl has attacked his successor Schröder and the coalition in an unusually sharp manner. In an anniversary celebration of the CDU in Cologne he described the ministers of the red-green government as "foolish figures". Secretary of State Joschka Fischer has "lied his way through history". DPA Kohl (l.) und Rüttgers: "What would the union be without Kohl?" Cologne - During the celebration of the 60-year existence of the CDU Helmut Kohl criticized the Red-Green Federal Government with drastic words on Tuesday evening....

05. März 2005 Printer Friendly Vrrsion Chancellor CandidatePoll Confirms Wulff's chances against SchröderGerhard Schröder must come to grips with a new opponent. According to a poll, Lower Saxony's Governor Christian Wulff would have considerable chances in a head to head election for the Federal Chancellor against the incumbent. DPA Christian Wulff: Challenger in the wings Bielefeld -- In a survey by the polling institute TNS Emnid for the news agency ddp 39 per cent of the people asked spoke for the 45-year-old CDU man Wulff. Chancellor Schröder is only five percentage points in front. In a direct election 44...

Alle Artikel 02. März 2005 Printer Friendly Version DEBATTETerminator? Demokrator!By Claus Christian Malzahn Iraq, the Palestinian areas, Lebanon: The virus of democracy is rife in the Middle East. German foreign policy must finally react to this pleasant turn of events and look the fact in the eye that liberty and democracy sometimes are brought with fire and sword. DPA Aircraft carrier "USS Abraham Lincoln" on 11. September 2002, the anniversary of the attack on the World-Trade-Center: Even the Nazi Regime wasn't ended by sit-ins in front of the Führer's main headquarters Berlin - George W. Bush - and the...

Tuesday 1 March 2005 Ailing Germany slides down economic leagueBy Kate Connolly in Berlin(Filed: 01/03/2005)Germany risks becoming the new sick man of Europe as the Continent's one-time economic giant sinks deeper into malaise and falls further behind the rest of the EU, experts warned yesterday.The country whose post-war recovery was hailed as an economic miracle is no longer basking in prosperity but increasingly languishing in poverty, especially when compared with rival nations. The turnaround is likely to prove a huge blow to a nation which prided itself on its high standards of living and looked down on the rest...

David's Medienkritik....Bush´s Visit to Mainz: A Demonstration of Success David's Medienkritik organized a successful rally for President Bush in Mainz, Germany yesterday. There are more pictures and descriptions at the site, and many links to sites with even more reports and pictures as well. David's Medienkritik has been getting a lot of well-deserved links from the Blogosphere. David's Medienkritik is an English language blog about Media reports in Germany. It's a great place for non-German readers to read what's happening in the German press. longjack

Danke, Amerika!by PETER BOENISCH A Two-Thirds-Majority will always be right.Think again!Two Thirds of the germans don't want to be thankful to the Americans.So short a memory can't be permitted.Without the Amis Berlin would be KhrushchevgradWithout the Amis there would still be the Wall and barbed wire.Without the Amis we'd still have the Nazis at our throats.Without McDonald's and without Coca-Cola, we Germans could live, but life wouldn't be worth as much without the American freedom to say what you want, what you think is good or bad, what you would like to have, and having the ability to ctiticize...

23. Februar 2005 Print Version | BUSH IN GERMANYDéjà-vu in MainzBy Claus Christian Malzahn Once before, a generally unpopular U.S. president visited the Federal Republic under heretofore unseen security measures. His name was Ronald Reagan and when he demanded the tearing down of the wall in the summer of 1987, Germany experts declared him insane. Could it be that history repeats itself?Berlin - The American president was rather unpopular in Europe , he was regarded as a war-monger and one liked to insinuate that his aggressive foreign policy was driven by a defuse illusion of religious revelation. We're not...

Schröder for NATO-Reform - Struck:Germany Ready for the Near East Großansicht Munich (dpa) -- Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's proposal for a reform of transatlantic relations has met with scepticism in the USA and at NATO. Meanwhile, Minister of Defense Peter Struck announced Germany's readiness to participate in a possible NATO mission in support of the peace process in the Middle East Saturday during the security conference.UN-Secretary General Kofi Annan was to have been honored at a meeting in the evening in with a peace medal. More than 3500 people demonstrated against the conference of 250 Politicians and Military from around...

  11. Februar 2005 Print Version NEO-NAZISRebellion of the CluelessBy Henryk M. Broder Twelve right-wing MPs are stirring the Republic up. The Democrats are in panic and are blaming each other - yet zero-tolerance would be the correct approach. AP Neo-Nazis at a parade in Brandenburg: Political elites caught napping In Reality TV this would be a case for Super Nanny: Desperate parents of spoiled brats who lead them around by their noses and spit in the soup, turn to an expert for the pedagogically borderline. Mommy and Daddy have already mutually blamed themselves for the disaster at home,...

"Spiegel-Online"....DLR/Space Imaging....Satellitenbilder zeigen gewaltige Zerstörungen The article mentions Internationale Charta "Space and Major Disasters" as the source of the photos. Indian island of Trinkat: parts of the island swallowed completely by the sea. This is a slide show, click the the picture or the link, then follow the arrows. I don't have time to translate, but some tips: Indien = India Indische = Indian Insel = Island Meer = Sea longjack

 |  Übersicht Home > Panorama > Flutkatastrophe in Südostasien 04. Januar 2005 Druckversion | Versenden | Leserbrief HELICOPTER-MISSIONS IN ACEH The last hope are the Seahawks From Banda Aceh reports Andreas Lorenz For many people they are the last hope: US-Helicopters that can get to the flood victims by air who, so far, have been cut off from the outside world. The soldiers bring food by the ton into the hardest hit areas. The aid mission is for the Americans a PR-campaign as well. REUTERS US-Soldier with an injured child: The last hope for the victims. Huge pools of...

SPIEGEL ONLINE - 03. Januar 2005, 14:13 URL: http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,335304,00.htmlTsunami Catastrophe US-Navy flying aid missions, Bundeswehr still looking things over From Banda Aceh reports Andreas Lorenz While advance teams of the Bundeswehr are still camping in three tents at the Banda Aceh airport , Americans, Australians and New Zealanders have already flown tons of aid packages into the disaster areas. Most places are hard to reach, however, the survivors wait desperately for drinking water and rice. REUTERS US-Soldier, child saved: "The best day of my flying career" Gray helicopters of the U.S. Army take off non-stop towards remote coastal villages to deliver food and medicine....

SPIEGEL ONLINE - 01. Januar 2005, 18:59 URL: http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,335207,00.html Hygiene Emergency Doctors Confirm Cholera Outbreak Many remote areas are still without help on the sixth day after the flood catastrophe. US-Helicoptors reached the region for the frist time today, and they are now distributing food and medicine from the air. Meanwhile, Cholera has broken out in a refugee camp in Sri Lanka. AP Aid delivery: Packages are thrown out above the crisis areas Galle/Banda Aceh - A doctor has diagnosed the gastro-intestinal disease cholera in four families in a reception camp in the city of Galle, Sri Lanka. The spokesperson for the relief organization...

SPIEGEL ONLINE - 30. Dezember 2004, 11:37 URL: http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,334939,00.htmlThailand Flood Child Hannes Finds His Father Again Hannes Bergström was lucky: He survived the natural disaster, and his father too. Tourists found the two-year-old Swede near Khao Lak on Sunday. There was no trace of his parents DPA Flood Victim Hannes: At least father and Grandfather have survived Phuket - It was a reunion in the midst of the injured. Yesterday, little Hannes Bergström was finally brought to to his father Marko Karkkainen, who is laying in the hospital in Phuket. The two-year-old boy had been in a hospital himself since Sunday because none of...