“Stop the Presses” | Youropa’s Press Review #9
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After a short summer break our Sunday media review is back! Youropa’s editors dig in the crates of a week of EU coverage. Some of the most interesting stories from international newspapers, handpicked by Youropa. ...
Ben Jennings on the Pussy Riot trial - cartoon
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Members of Russian feminist punk band face two years in prison colony after being found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatredBen Jennings...
Finland and euro
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Parliament House, Annual Meeting of Finnish Heads of Mission 20 August 2012 (Check Against Delivery) Distinguished Ambassadors, It is once again a great pleasure to be in front of you. I would firstly like to thank you for the magnificent work you h...
Verstrickung des Bundesnachrichtendienstes in den Syrien-Konflikt
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Sollten sich die Gerüchte um die Verstrickung des Bundesnachrichtendienstes in den Syrien-Konflikt bestätigen, wären sie ein weiteres Beispiel für die machtpolitisch motivierte Doppelmoral der Bundesregierung. Denn wenn der deutsche Auslandsgehei...
Real policies for the real economy
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Real policies for the real economy And real regulations for the financial economy/matrix. NickPthinks on business, EU policy, socio-economics and systemics in Europe. North America and the world...
Julian Assange: the balcony defence | Editorial
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Miss A and Miss W are at the heart of this story, however inconvenient it may be for the WikiLeaks founder's supportersAmid the estimated 100 protesters, 50 police, a noisy helicopter and rained-on press corps gathered in Knightsbridge on Sunday afte...
Shane Koyczan: from garbage man to performance poet
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Shane Koyczan is an unlikely poet. ‘I thought I was going to be a wrestler,’ the 35 year old Canadian grins. ‘I had my whole idiotic stick planned out. My name was going to be the garbage man, my finishing move was going to be the trash compact...
From Pussy Riot, a lesson in the power of punk | John Harris
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Putin may have more serious critics, but Pussy Riot have shown the west how artistic dissent can still make a differenceThe heritage of protest and provocation on which Nadezhda Tolokonnikova was drawing was confirmed as soon as I saw her picture. Th...
Assange: bleating fantasist, groveller, hypocrite and charlatan
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“But, now that we are all at last preparing to act, a new form of social organisation is essential. In order to avoid further uncertainty, I propose my own system of world-organisation. Here it is.” He tapped the notebook. “I wanted to expo...
FTfm on AV
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Some highlights from Monday’s FTfm.Few curbs on ETPs despite food crisisThe largest providers of exchange traded products that invest in agricultural commodities have...
leader buys small cap
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Most buyers are followers where few are leaders. The stock to buy is sometimes determined by a few leaders taking a large position in a particular stock encouraging follower's to take their own large positions in the same. It could be a small cap sto...
Julian Assange addressed his supporters and the media
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Read few comments. David Lowe, Principal Lecturer, Law School, Liverpool John Moores University Clearly Assange has turned this whole affair about WikiLeaks and the USA Government wishing to interview him over it. In addition to this, Assange has has...
Julian Assange addressed his supporters and the media
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Read few comments. David Lowe, Principal Lecturer, Law School, Liverpool John Moores University Clearly Assange has turned this whole affair about WikiLeaks and the USA Government wishing to interview him over it. In addition to this, Assange has has...
Decline and Fall, Christianity Lashes Out: Political Double Standards Flourish.
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Julian Assange disclosed the use of outright murder by American forces in Iraq. For that he is not the messenger of protest and the need for change but an Enemy of the State. Pussy Riot exposed the extending brutishness and extremism over Russian int...
Barriers to freedom of movement
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The European Commission is currently conducting public consultations on EU citizenship. This is a good opportunity to draw attention to the obstacles in the freedom of movement faced by same-sex couples. Freedom of movement has always been a cornerst...
Has François Hollande gone from being Mr Normal to Mr Neoliberal? | Philippe Marlière
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Socialist President François Hollande vowed to tackle inequality, but 100 days on he is not keeping his wordAs François Hollande hits the 100-day mark, what is the verdict on the man at the top of French politics? In terms of style, his trademarks...
Latest Q&A on our Modest Proposal
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1. Is the model you suggest for the EFSF similar to the proposal to grant a banking license to the ESM? Do you see the fundamental problem with the bailouts to date that they were limited in scale – that is unlimited liquidity provide...
Latest Q&A on our Modest Proposal
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1. Is the model you suggest for the EFSF similar to the proposal to grant a banking license to the ESM? Do you see the fundamental problem with the bailouts to date that they were limited in scale – that is unlimited liquidity provide...
Il Lariosauro
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Believers in the Loch Ness Monster might be interested to know that the Lago di Como has its own version - the Lariosauro, which is a borrowing of a name of a real dinosaur that existed in the area – as does the Lago di Garda. (‘LarioR...
Net Speculative Positions , Global Markets and Outlook, week from August 20
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Currency Positioning and Outlook, week from August 20 Submitted by Mark Chandler, from marctomarkets.com The market is like expectant parents who don’t know the gender of the fetus. They know something big is around the corner, but they don&...
Ford’s Stagecoach
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Today, as a sort of homage to Monument Valley and Goulding’s (see this post), I watched John Ford’s 1939 Stagecoach. This film, regarded by Orson Welles as a budding cinematographers’ text book, launched the career of John Wayne (un...
Week in Bloggingportal: A Week of Narratives
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Are you sitting comfortably…? BY CC Abdulla Al Muhairi. We all enjoy a good story, and there have been some big ones around Europe in the last week, from a new European narrative to the one about Germany being a Eurozone scapegoat.
Week in Bloggingportal: A Week of Narratives
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Are you sitting comfortably…? BY CC Abdulla Al Muhairi. We all enjoy a good story, and there have been some big ones around Europe in the last week, from a new European narrative to the one about Germany being a Eurozone scapegoat.
Two years in prison as a compromise
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IN a sign of the current state of the Kremlin’s thinking a two-year prison term is perhaps a kind of compromise. On Friday, in a packed, sweaty courtroom in Moscow, with hundreds of protestors in the street outside, Judge Marina Syrova read out the...
It's Time for Europe to Thank Richard Lugar
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Putin's Russia is not easy to deal with but the United States and Europe have to cooperate with Moscow to continue Richard Lugar's work.
Czechs, Render Unto the Churches …
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A group of 30 intellectuals, Protestant ministers, and theologians even released a petition calling for the bill to be withdrawn, saying it would turn Christ’s teachings on their head.
The missing link to efficient European Citizen mobility
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The roadworks to establishing an efficient trans-European transport network has hit a new stumbling block - Open Data. The famously known as the TEN-T and relaunched as part of the renewed Lisbon Treaty … Continue reading →...
No more Channel to Surf as Anton goes to jail
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First there was TV Links; then there was TVShack (see Kat Posts here, here and here. Now at last there's Surf the Channel (STC), the latest in a line of cases considering the liability for operators of websites which provide links to unauthorised co...
Operation Transparency Bulletin #4
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Before discussing again European topics, here is the 4th newsletter of the Venezuelan Students Movement “Operation Transparency”. It summarizes the most important developments regarding the election process in Venezuela of the first and...
US National Science Foundation funds $5 million urban global warming brainwashing campaign
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The US National Science Foundation apparently thinks that Philadelphians - together with people in New York, Pittsburgh and Washington DC - need to be brainwashed in order to become full fledged supporters of the global warming cult. That´s why...
La Strada Dell’ Oblio: ‘The Way of Oblivion’: “Lost” by Ramzi Harrabi
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’Today the situation in Italy is changing in the direction of an even stricter control of refugees and migrants. The …Continue reading »...
Book Review: Think-Tanks, Social Democracy and Social Policy
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The question of how a policy is made or why things simply stay the same in politics has long occupied the minds of political observers. This book explores the way in which very particular political actors made a difference to … Continue reading...
