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		<title>Elvis Presley Dandy Attitude</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Der Welt erscheine ich, von meiner Seite absichtlich, bloß wie ein Dilettant und Dandy: es ist nicht schlau, der Welt das eigene Herz zu zeigen &#8211; und wie ernsthaftes Verhalten die Tarnung des Trottels ist, ist Narrheit in ihren exquisiten Arten von Belanglosigkeit und Gleichgültigkeit und Mangel an Sorge das Gewand des schlauen Mannes. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiram7.wordpress.com&blog=799391&post=11287&subd=hiram7&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Der Welt erscheine ich, von meiner Seite absichtlich, bloß wie ein Dilettant und <strong>Dandy: </strong>es ist nicht schlau, der Welt das eigene Herz zu zeigen &#8211; und wie ernsthaftes Verhalten die Tarnung des Trottels ist, ist Narrheit in ihren exquisiten Arten von Belanglosigkeit und Gleichgültigkeit und Mangel an Sorge das Gewand des schlauen Mannes. In solch einem geschmacklosen Zeitalter wie diesem brauchen wir alle Masken.</em> (Oscar Wilde)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dieser David mit seinem Elvis-Tick:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dieser „nervige“ David: Er kann von Glück sagen, dass ich <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/american-patriot-jew-and-freemason-elvis-aaron-presley-1935-1977/" target="_blank">Elvis Aaron Presley</a> auch mag.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Aber hier: <strong>Dandy Attitude </strong>(wirklich gut!; Wo immer er das her hat…)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Bernd Dahlenburg, Herausgeber des Blogs <em><a href="http://castollux.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Castollux</a></em></p>
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		<title>Earl Shugerman&#8217;s Corner: The English speaking community of Haifa</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earl Shugerman brings every week a serie of stories about Anglo-Saxon immigrants to Israel. This project is aimed to promote a more realistic view of life in Israel.
The Anglo-List &#8211; Bringing us together
by Suzanne Suckerman
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>The Anglo-List &#8211; Bringing us together</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>by Suzanne Suckerman</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I came to Israel from Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1989 just after I got married. My husband always wanted to live in Haifa.  We were the only Anglo-Saxon couple our age and so socially it took a long time to fit in.  It was mainly through my husband’s business that we began to meet the English speaking community and slowly acquire a social network.  Immigration from the former Soviet Union and Ethiopia was at its peak and the Jewish Agency and other Aliyah organizations were concentrating on that.  Support in Haifa, at that time, was scant and we were left to our own devices.  Over the years we plodded along, slowly making our way. Our two children were born here and attend school here and it has been through them that we have learned a great deal.  The education system, religious, parenting, military service to name but a few are all so different in South Africa.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Haifa was recently chosen to absorb the new, large wave of English speaking immigrants coming to Israel.  Over the past 2 years over 1000 English speakers have made Haifa their home and similar numbers will be arriving in the next few years.  In the course of a conversation with an ex-colleague, I identified a need for a central source of practical information on life in Israel, specifically for the English speaking immigrant community.  After some research I understood that a website was the way to go. </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Haifa also attracts foreign students, businessmen, members of the Bahai faith as well as a contingency of foreign workers from the Philippines. In order to meet their specific needs and give support to these groups, I proceeded to set up a new information website called Anglo-list.com.  This website is unique, and fulfils an important commercial and social function. We understand the English speaker&#8217;s needs, and this site has been designed, and will continue to evolve, to meet those needs. This Aliyah, business, consumer, entertainment and information website gives practical information, advice and tips and covers such issues as the medical and education systems, security issues, social services, entertainment as well as being a directory for government and official offices and Aliyah information. </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">From a community point of view, we have set up social networks and our membership is growing daily. We plan to hold social events and develop a support group. Readers are contributing their personal Aliyah stories, some humorous and some serious. The community relates strongly to this, they are inspired and comforted from other peoples experiences.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">We also now have the strength to request that provision be made for the English speaker from companies and organizations</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Potential immigrants are using the site to make crucial decisions about their future. The large Bahai community in and the Philippinos, also have access to the site and we are working on incorporating information for them as well.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">On a professional level we have a list of service providers. A condition for advertising on this site is being able to provide service in English. Various organizations are advertising on the site and have contributed information and articles on their specific service – special education, small business development and student bodies to name but a few.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Learning Hebrew, as a spoken language, can be a long and difficult process, we have also addressed this issue and provide a phonetic dictionary of useful terms, phrases and slang.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The Mayor of Haifa, Mr. Yona Yahav, has endorsed the site and we work in close cooperation with Aliyah organizations.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">It is our plan to enlarge the site and incorporate the entire country – and our vision to turn this site into the premier English site for English speakers in Israel will become a reality.</p>
<p class="NoSpacing" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&amp;" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:small;"><a href="http://www.anglo-list.com">www.anglo-list.com</a> &#8211; <em>Bringing us Together</em></span></span></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p style="text-align:justify;"> <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/earl-shugermans-corner-life-in-israel/" target="_blank"><em>Earl Shugerman</em></a><em> brings every week a serie of stories about Anglo-Saxon immigrants to Israel. This project is aimed to promote a more realistic view of life in Israel.</em></p>
<div id="attachment_11293" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 343px"><a href="http://hiram7.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/finding-faith-in-israel.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-11293" title="Finding Faith: Abraham risked all for the Promised Land" src="http://hiram7.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/finding-faith-in-israel.jpg?w=333&#038;h=485" alt="Finding Faith: Abraham risked all for the Promised Land" width="333" height="485" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Finding Faith: Abraham risked all for the Promised Land</p></div>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Many Israelis follow the age old tradition of the Friday night dinner and prayers to honour the beginning of the Sabbath. Friends and family meet to share companionship and pray together. This Friday I celebrated the start of the Sabbath with my friend Zehava and her family.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Zehava and her husband Leon are French born, old timers in Israel. They immigrated to Israel in 1980. They have two teenage sons and a six year old daughter Shira who is the &#8220;Apple of My Eye.&#8221; They also invited their American cousin Linda to join us.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Linda is a fifty’s year old single female with a 16 year old daughter. Linda was born, in France, but lived in California most of her life. We enjoyed a wonderful meal and then went to sit on the veranda to drink coffee and chat.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Linda was married to a &#8220;wonderful Christian man for 14 years.&#8221; &#8220;We respected the differences in our spiritual backgrounds and praised our daughter for exploring faiths independently&#8221;, added Linda. &#8221; I belonged to a Reformed [Jewish] Congregation when we married and my spouse was a self proclaimed agnostic”.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“However, in the course of time I found that I needed to be more in touch with my Jewish roots. I took classes in the Talmud and Torah through Chabad House and found [the] spirituality that I had been missing in life. My husband explored his Catholic heritage. I found myself, after a two-year process, even considering a life in Israel. I lived in a beautiful home, had a great job, and a fine partner but decided to risk it all to try life in Israel”.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“My husband insisted on staying in the States. We agreed to a one-year trial separation period to see how we did on our own.  [This would] allow me to taste the life in Israel”.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“Three years later, I am still in Israel, employed as a clerk in a Tel Aviv bank. We decided to end our marriage and allow our daughter to spend the school year in Tel Aviv. She stays in California during her vacations. She sees this as a great adventure, and loves learning about new cultures and languages. Arabic is her second language in school”.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“ Did I make a mistake?” I ask myself that question many times a day. “Time will tell”. “Life here has many challenges”. “We need to learn a new language, a new culture, face a less luxurious lifestyle and there is still the struggle for peace”.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">It is impossible to understand the invisible Hand that shapes our destiny. However, many Jews have felt the magnetic allure of Israel. The patriarch Abraham was the first. He left the comfortable trappings of ancient Babylonia to undertake an arduous emigration to the “ land that G-d would show him”. Evidently this demanded a great deal of faith. To mere mortals of the modern age, doubts can always surface to challenge our thinking.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"> Although Israel is not a Utopian society where the streets are paved with gold, it is an integral part of Jewish heritage. Today record numbers of Global Jewry are returning to their ancestral homeland. They are undeterred by the challenges that face them. The obstacles are merely there to be overcome. And after 60 years in the remaking, Israel continues to thrive thanks to the new found faith of Linda and many others.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><strong>About the author</strong>: Earl Shugerman is a retired American Government public relations specialist,  currently spokesperson in Haifa for The </em><a href="http://www.jewishagency.org" target="_blank"><em>Jewish Agency</em></a><em> and a writer specializing in interfaith relations. He has worked together with the Catholic and Southern Baptist Movements, the Reformed Jewish Movement and Muslim groups in interfaith activities.</em></p>
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The election of Barack Obama as the new U.S. president provides an opportunity to overcome many of the divisions that have bedeviled U.S.-European relations in recent years and give the transatlantic partnership new dynamism and vision. In the coming decade, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiram7.wordpress.com&blog=799391&post=11026&subd=hiram7&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>A Venusberg Group and Rand Corporation Project</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Report written by F. Stephen Larrabee and Julian Lindley-French</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The election of Barack Obama as the new U.S. president provides an opportunity to overcome many of the divisions that have bedeviled U.S.-European relations in recent years and give the transatlantic partnership new dynamism and vision. In the coming decade, the United States and Europe face a daunting array of challenges. These challenges are so complex and demanding that neither the United States nor Europe can manage them on their own. They require close and sustained collective action.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">To manage these challenges successfully, the transatlantic relationship needs a new mindset based on the premise that a multipolar world is emerging—one that will affect foreign policy options and consequently the ability of Americans and Europeans to shape others. To that end, a new transatlantic security partnership must be crafted that reflects both the new global realities and the political realities in Europe and the United States.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Central to such a partnership will be shared interests and values and a mutual commitment to the projection of stability and the anchoring of emerging powers in effective multilateral institutions underpinned by a strong commitment to the international rule of law. Specifically needed is a new architecture founded on a strong U.S. involvement in NATO, NATO-EU relations aimed at promoting and projecting effective civil-military security beyond the Euro-Atlantic area and an EU-U.S. security relationship that assures the protection of the home base.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">This report is aimed at furthering that goal. It seeks to define the substance and parameters of a new security partnership between the United States and Europe as well as to outline an Agenda for Action for the new partnership.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://hiram7.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/transatlantic.pdf" target="_blank">Read full story</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Je t&#8217;appartiens [i.e.: I belong to The Great Architect of the Universe]
&#8220;Hiram legend was not used when modern Freemasonry started in 1717.
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<p style="text-align:justify;">&#8220;<a href="http://www.masonictravels.com/2006/06/importance-of-legend-of-hiram-abiff.html" target="_blank">Hiram legend</a> was not used when modern Freemasonry started in 1717.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">By 1730 (just a few years later) it was the central part of the Masonic ritual. Today it remains the heart of the ritual. It is supposed to teach us Masonic lessons. But what are they?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Freemasonry (remember the period when the Hiram legend started, 1717-1730) teaches that each person is entitled to dignity and respect, freedom of thought and speech, not even our friends, or ourselves, should curtail this freedom. Hiramic legend could be about the universal struggle for freedom.</p>
<p>If so, what is this freedom?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Freedom of speech includes freedom of those who say things we hate, hurtful things that upset people. Otherwise, it is not real freedom<span style="font-family:&amp;" lang="EN-GB">.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:&amp;" lang="EN-GB">(Brother <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/besselpaulm" target="_blank">Paul Bessel</a> &#8211; Presentation at <a href="http://www.bbflodge.org/" target="_blank">Benjamin B. French Lodge</a> No.15, F.A.A.M., Washington D.C., February 17, 1999)</span></p>
<p><strong>LYRICS</strong></p>
<p><strong>Music: <a href="http://www.rfimusique.com/siteEN/biographie/biographie_6087.asp" target="_blank">Gilbert Bécaud</a> &#8211; </strong><strong>Words: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/jan/10/guardianobituaries.france" target="_blank">Pierre Delanoë</a>, 1955</strong></p>
<p>Comme l&#8217;argile<br />
L&#8217;insecte fragile<br />
L&#8217;esclave docile<br />
Je t&#8217;appartiens</p>
<p>De tout mon être<br />
Tu es le seul maître<br />
Je dois me soumettre<br />
Je t&#8217;appartiens</p>
<p>Si tu condamnes<br />
Jetant mon âme<br />
Au creux des flammes<br />
Je n&#8217;y peux rien</p>
<p>Si tu condamnes<br />
Si tu me damnes<br />
Voici mon âme<br />
Voici mes mains</p>
<p>Avec les peines<br />
L&#8217;amour et la haine<br />
Coulant dans mes veines<br />
Je t&#8217;appartiens</p>
<p>Que puis-je faire<br />
Pour te satisfaire<br />
Patron de la terre<br />
Sur mon chemin</p>
<p>Comme les anges<br />
Chanter tes louanges<br />
Mais je ne suis pas un ange<br />
Tu le sais bien</p>
<p>Je ne suis qu&#8217;un homme<br />
Rien qu&#8217;un pauvre homme<br />
Je t&#8217;aime bien<br />
Comme un copain</p>
<p>Souvent je pense<br />
Que dans ton immense<br />
Palais de silence<br />
Tu dois être bien</p>
<p>Parfois je pense<br />
Que dans ton immense<br />
Palais de silence<br />
On doit être bien</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Der britisch-deutsche Journalist Alan Posener kommentiert wöchentlich das Zeitgeschehen in Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Kultur für HIRAM7 REVIEW.

Von Alan Posener
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Von Alan Posener<br />
<em>Die Welt / Welt am Sonntag / HIRAM7 REVIEW</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Zu den weniger erfreulichen Seiten des Journalismus in Deutschland gehört die Praxis, Interviews vom Interviewten autorisieren zu lassen. In der angelsächsischen Welt geht man erheblich lockerer damit um. Man vertraut dem Journalisten, das Gespräch richtig wiederzugeben.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Sicher, für die Autorisierung gibt es einen nachvollziehbaren Grund: anders als im Fernsehen oder im Radio wird das Interview im Print-Medium (und online, wie wir gleich sehen werden) nachträglich bearbeitet: gekürzt, sprachlich geglättet und so weiter. Da kann es vorkommen, dass der oder die Interviewte sich falsch dargestellt findet, indem etwa ein wichtiger Nebensatz weggekürzt wird.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Und: von einem autorisierten Interview kann man sich ja nicht nachträglich distanzieren, wie das zuweilen in den USA oder Großbritannien – mit Hinweis auf die Bearbeitung durch den Journalisten – geschieht. Immer wieder erleben wir jedoch, dass gerade PolitikerInnen (oder ihre Presseleute) bei der Autorisierung das Interview bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verändern. Eindeutige Aussagen werden zurückgenommen, Kontroverses oder Interna gestrichen.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Umso erstaunlicher ist das berüchtigte Sarrazin-Interview mit seiner Diffamierung der dummen Unterschicht und der nutzlosen Zuwanderer. Man muss sich vor Augen halten: das sind nicht „unbedachte“ Äußerungen. Das sind Aussagen, die vom Interviewten (und im Falle Sarrazins auch von seinem Vorgesetzten, dem heutigen Bundesbank- und wohl künftigen EZB-Chef Axel Weber) in Ruhe nach dem Interview gelesen und autorisiert wurden.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Aber das nur nebenbei. Gut: PolikerInnen wollen sich möglichst gut präsentieren; das ist nachvollziehbar. Neulich erlebte ich zum ersten Mal den Fall, dass ein Interview nachträglich geändert wurde, um den Interviewer besser aussehen zu lassen.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/31/31468/1.html" target="_blank">Es handelt sich um dieses Interview mit mir in <em>Telepolis</em></a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Man hätte immerhin darauf hinweisen sollen, finde ich, dass das Interview per E-Mail geführt wurde; aber das nur nebenbei.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ich habe das Interview autorisiert (was tut man nicht alles, um PR für sein Buch zu machen) denke aber doch, dass das ursprüngliche Interview besser war: siehe vor allem Punkt 3:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">1) <em>Herr Posener, warum hassen Sie die Kirche?</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Was für eine schwachsinnige Frage. Ich hasse die Kirche gar nicht. Ich stehe auf dem guten, alten preußischen Standpunkt, dass jeder nach seiner Façon selig werden soll &#8211; der Christ, der Muslim, der Jude, der Atheist. Wer mich in Ruhe lässt, den lasse ich in Ruhe.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">2) <em>Sie sind ja bekannt für Ihre Frontalangriffe. In Ihrem neuen Buch „Benedikts Kreuzzug. Der Angriff des Vatikans auf die moderne Gesellschaft“ greifen Sie den Papst an. Ist Papst Benedikt ein Gegner von Demokratie und Aufklärung? Woran machen Sie es fest? Was Frontalangriffe angeht, so sind sie wohl besser als Dolchstöße in den Rücken, meinen Sie nicht auch?</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ich greife den Papst an, weil er die Demokratie und plurale Gesellschaft angreift. Er diffamiert sie als &#8220;Diktatur des Relativismus&#8221; und fordert nicht nur das Recht, etwa die Homosexualität als &#8220;objektive Ordnungsstörung im Aufbau der menschlichen Existenz &#8221; zu verurteilen, sondern eine Art Wächterrat, der die Entscheidungen des demokratischen Staates auf ihre Übereinstimmung mit der Moral überprüfen soll &#8211; eine Forderung, bei der er sich mit den Pius-Brüdern und den Teheraner Mullahs einig weiß. Ich greife den Papst an, weil er die Aufklärung angreift. Er sieht den &#8220;Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit&#8221;, wie es Kant formulierte, als Verfallserscheinung an und fordert die &#8220;Reinigung der Vernunft&#8221; durch den Glauben &#8211; was wiederum bedeutet: ich, Ratzinger, entscheide, was vernünftig ist und was nicht.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Um es klar zu sagen: ich habe nichts dagegen, wenn der Papst sagt: Homosexualität ist eine Sünde. Bitte sehr, das sollen die schwulen Katholiken, von denen es gerade in der Priesterschaft jede Menge gibt, mit ihm und ihrem Gewissen ausmachen. Das liegt auf der gleichen Linie wie das Verbot, Schweinefleisch zu essen bei Juden und Muslimen. So lange sie mir nicht verbieten, Schweinebraten und Schinken zu essen, ist es ihr Problem, wenn sie sich den Genuss entgehen lassen.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Wenn aber gesagt würde, Schweinefleisch zu essen sei eine &#8220;objektive Ordnungsstörung&#8221;, dann habe ich ein Problem. Ich habe nichts dagegen, wenn der Papst sagt, wir setzen den Glauben über die Vernunft. Bitte sehr, das sollen die mündigen Katholiken mit ihm und ihrem Gewissen ausmachen. Aber wenn er versucht, den Begriff Vernunft selbst so umzudeuten, dass er Glaube bedeutet, dann habe ich ein Problem.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">3) <em>Sie werfen Ihm in ihrem Buch vor, dass er von seinem Großonkel geprägt wurde, der antisemitische Hetzschriften verfasst habe. Wer war diese Person, und in wieweit war dieser ein Vorbild für den Theologen Ratzinger?</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Sie haben mein Buch offenbar nicht gelesen. Ich werfe ihm mitnichten vor, dass er von seinem Großonkel Georg Ratzinger geprägt wurde. Das ist Unsinn. Ich sage auch nicht, dass der bayerische Nationalist und antisemitische Publizist Georg Ratzinger ein Vorbild für Joseph Ratzinger gewesen sei. Ich lehne die Sippenhaftung ab.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">4) <em>Die Aufhebung der Exkommunizierung der Pius-Brüder und des Holocaust-Leugners Williamson wurden in der Öffentlichkeit als eine Panne des Papstes dargestellt, der in diesem Fall einfach schlecht beraten gewesen sei. War das ein Versehen, oder steht dahinter eine bestimmte Haltung</em>?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Der Versuch, die Affäre um Williamson und die Pius-Brüder als Panne abzutun, war ein dummer Schachzug der Benedikt-Verteidiger. Denn wenn der Papst nicht weiß, was er tut, ist er als Papst ungeeignet. Ratzinger weiß aber natürlich sehr genau, was er tut. Er war schon als Chef der Glaubenskongregation mit der Frage der Pius-Brüder befasst und kennt ihre Schriften. Um es deutlich zu sagen: die Pius-Bruderschaft ist keine konservative, sondern eine offen reaktionäre Vereinigung, die den kirchlichen Antijudaismus konserviert, die also mehr oder weniger institutionell antisemitisch ist.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Die Bruderschaft befürwortet eine Abschaffung des weltlichen Staats und ihre Ersetzung durch eine Theokratie ähnlich der im Iran, die Drogen, Prostitution, Pornographie, Blasphemie, Homosexualität und so weiter verbieten und die Todesstrafe wieder einführen würde. Das weiß Benedikt, und trotzdem betreibt er die Annäherung an diese Leute und kommt ihnen weit entgegen, zum Beispiel mit der Aufwertung der lateinischen Liturgie, deren Abschaffung durch das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil vordergründig zur Abspaltung der Pius-Brüder von der Kirche geführt hat. In Wirklichkeit jedoch passte den Pius-Brüdern die ganze Richtung des Konzils nicht. Und sie passt Benedikt auch nicht.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">5) <em>Von kirchlicher Seite wird Ihnen vorgeworfen, dass Sie einen „atheistischen Fundamentalismus“ vertreten würden, und somit jede andere Einstellung als böswillig hinstellen. Manfred Lütz sagt, dass der Papst ein „brillanter Intellektueller“ sei und den Islam herausfordere. Ist das ein persönlicher Kreuzzug von Ihnen gegen die Kirche? Auf was konkret stützen Sie ihre Analysen?</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ich bin zwar getaufter Anglikaner, zugleich aber Atheist, ja. Worin ein &#8220;atheistischer Fundamentalismus&#8221; bestehen soll, weiß ich nicht. Auf mich jedenfalls trifft diese Bezeichnung nicht zu. Ich stelle doch nicht jede andere Einstellung als böswillig hin, und wer mir das unterstellt, kennt mich nicht. Ich habe bekanntlich ein Buch über die Jungfrau Maria, die Mutter Jesu, geschrieben, das von allen Katholiken, die ich kenne, mein Freund Manfred Lütz eingeschlossen, gelobt wird &#8211; und in dem ich übrigens Joseph Ratzinger zustimmend zitiere. Ich habe nicht den geringsten Grund, einen &#8220;Kreuzzug gegen die Katholische Kirche&#8221; zu führen, was ohnehin ein Widerspruch in sich wäre, obwohl wir Anglikaner, wie Sie wissen, seit Heinrich VIII. unsere Probleme mit Rom gehabt haben. Hätten Sie jedoch mein Buch gelesen, und nicht nur die Rezensionen, würden Sie wissen, dass ich an keinem Punkt die Kirche als solche angreife. Meine Analyse der Ansichten und Absichten Benedikts stützt sich, das wüssten Sie, wenn Sie das Buch mit seinen 274 Anmerkungen auch nur angeschaut hätten, auf Reden, Schriften und Interviews von Joseph Ratzinger. Also auf öffentlich zugängliches Material.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">6) <em>Ist diese Feindschaft gegen die Moderne eine neuere Entwicklung unter Papst Benedikt, oder war diese auch unter Papst Johannes Paul II. Vorhanden?</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Johannes Paul II. war &#8211; im Gegensatz zu Benedikt XVI. &#8211; ein großer Mann. Er gehört, zusammen mit seinem Landsmann Lech Walesa, mit Ronald Reagan, Maggie Thatcher und &#8211; vor allem &#8211; Michail Gorbatschow, zu den Persönlichkeiten, die das reaktionäre System des Kommunismus zu Fall gebracht haben. Aber für den polnischen Papst war das westliche System nur das kleinere Übel. Von Wojtila sagte man, er wolle zwei Revolutionen rückgängig machen &#8211; die russische und die französische. Dabei war er jedoch, vielleicht wegen seiner Erfahrungen mit dem Kommunismus, nicht so radikal wie Ratzinger, den er allerdings gefördert hat. Johannes Paul II. hat Galileo Galilei rehabilitiert und den Darwinismus anerkannt. Benedikt hat den Prozess der Inquisition gegen Galileo verteidigt und propagiert die unwissenschaftliche Lehre des &#8220;Intelligent Design&#8221; gegen den Darwinismus.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">In einer Zeit, die ohnehin von Wissenschaftsskepsis und Halbwissen geprägt ist, bedeutet Benedikts Abkehr von der Vernunft eine Katastrophe.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Keren Hayesod Deutschland veranstaltet zwischen dem 14. und 23. November 2009 eine Konzertreihe mit dem Orchester der Israelischen Verteidigungsstreitkräfte (ZAHAL).</strong></p>
<p><strong> Termine in Deutschland</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">14.11.2009: Jüdische Gemeinde Dortmund</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">16.11.2009: Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">17.11.2009: Jüdische Gemeinde Kassel</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">19.11.2009: Sankt Marienkirche, Stralsund</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">21.11.2009: Jüdische Gemeinde Hamburg</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">22.11.2009: Kraftwerk e.V., Chemnitz</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">23.11.2009: Historische Rathaus, Nürnberg</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judaism is a religion of questions.

by Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
Isidore Isaac Rabi, winner of a Nobel Prize for physics, was once asked why he became a scientist. He replied: &#8220;My mother made me a scientist without ever knowing it. Every other child would come back from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiram7.wordpress.com&blog=799391&post=11191&subd=hiram7&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>by <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/uk-chief-rabbi-says-religion-important-for-society/" target="_blank">Sir Jonathan Sacks,</a> Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1944/rabi-bio.html" target="_blank">Isidore Isaac Rabi, winner of a Nobel Prize for physics</a>, was once asked why he became a scientist. He replied: &#8220;My mother made me a scientist without ever knowing it. Every other child would come back from school and be asked, &#8216;What did you learn today?&#8217; But my mother used to say, &#8216;Izzy, did you ask a good question today?&#8217; That made the difference. Asking good questions made me into a scientist.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Judaism is a religion of questions. The greatest prophets asked questions of God. <em><a href="http://www.netage.org/job.htm" target="_blank">The Book of Job</a></em>, the most searching of all explorations of human suffering, is a book of questions asked by man, to which God replies with a string of questions of His own.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The earliest sermons usually began with a question asked of the rabbi by a member of the congregation. Most famously, the <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/happy-passover-2009/" target="_blank">Passover</a> Seder begins with four questions asked by the youngest child.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">So I can identify with Rabi&#8217;s childhood memories. When I left university and went to Israel to study in a rabbinical seminary, I was stunned by the sheer intensity with which the students grappled with texts. Once in a while the teacher&#8217;s face would light up at a comment from the class. &#8220;Du fregst a gutte kashe,&#8221; he would say (you raise a good objection). This was his highest form of praise.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.gatewayrehab.org/drt.htm" target="_blank">Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski</a> tells of how, when he was young, his instructor would relish challenges to his arguments. In his broken English he would say: &#8220;You right! You a hundred prozent right! Now I show you where you wrong.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Religious faith has suffered hugely in the modern world by being cast as naive, blind, unquestioning.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The scientist asks, the believer just believes. Critical inquiry, so the stereotype runs, is what makes the difference between the pursuit of knowledge and the certainties of faith. One who believes in the fundamentals of a creed is derided as a fundamentalist. The word fundamentalist itself comes to mean a simplistic approach to complex issues. Religious belief is often seen as the suspension of critical intelligence.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">As <a href="http://www.sondheim.com/features/les_miz.html" target="_blank">Wilson Mizner</a> once put it: &#8220;I respect faith. But doubt is what gets you an education.&#8221; To me, this is a caricature of faith, not faith itself.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Questions testify to faith &#8211; the universe is not impervious to our understanding, life is not chance.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">What is the asking of a question if not itself a profound expression of faith in the intelligibility of the universe and the meaningfulness of human life? To ask is to believe that somewhere there is an answer. The fact that throughout history people have devoted their lives to extending the frontiers of knowledge is a moving demonstration of the restlessness of the human spirit and its constant desire to transcend, to climb. Far from faith excluding questions, questions testify to faith &#8211; that the world is not random, the universe is not impervious to our understanding, life is not chance.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">That, I suspect, is why Judaism encourages questions. On the phrase: &#8220;Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness,&#8221; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashi" target="_blank">Rashi</a>, the 11th-century biblical commentator, says: &#8220;This means, with the power to understand and to discern.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Critical intelligence is the gift God gave humanity. To use it in the cause of human dignity and insight is one of the great ways of serving God. When faith suppresses questions, it dies. When it accepts superficial answers, it withers.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Faith is not opposed to doubt. What it is opposed to is the shallow certainty that what we understand is all there is.</p>
<p><em>Reprinted with kindly permission of Aish HaTorah International.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Avec le soutien et la participation du CGDD (Commissariat général au développement durable),  de l&#8217;AMF (Association des Maires de France), de l&#8217;ADF (Assemblée des Départements de France) et de la SFE (Société Française de l&#8217;Évaluation)</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Problématique</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La conjonction de ces 4èmes Rencontres de Rueil-Malmaison avec la tenue de la Conférence de Copenhague sur le climat, induit à concentrer les travaux sur les engagements auxquels les différents pays s&#8217;apprêtent à souscrire. On sait que ces engagements devront être conséquents. Souscrits par les gouvernements, ils impliqueront les acteurs des territoires: entreprises, collectivités et simples citoyens.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Parmi les questions qui se posent, il y a celle de savoir si ces engagements seront bien à la hauteur des défis à relever. Il y a aussi celle de savoir si les territoires seront en mesure d’assumer la charge correspondante.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Comment apprécier «a priori» l&#8217;efficience des programmes territoriaux de réduction des gaz à effet de serre (GES)? </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La question est d&#8217;autant plus importante que les aides publiques devront aller aux programmes les plus pertinents et ne pas se diluer, alors même que, du fait de la crise économique, tous les territoires sont à la recherche d’investissements susceptibles tout à la fois d’aider l’économie à repartir, de limiter les émissions de gaz à effet de serre et de préparer l’avenir.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Sur le plan méthodologique, cette situation rejoint celle des évaluations «ex ante» auxquelles les porteurs de programmes soutenus par des fonds européens commencent à être habitués, puisqu&#8217;il s&#8217;agit dans ce cadre de faire la démonstration de la pertinence des actions programmées avant même qu&#8217;elles ne soient engagées, ce qui nous éloigne beaucoup de la culture française de l&#8217;évaluation ex post. En l’occurrence (Copenhague), la difficulté sera cependant plus grande encore, puisqu&#8217;il s&#8217;agira de pratiquer des «évaluations prospectives» portant sur des programmes ayant une portée de 10 ou 20 ans.</p>
<p>Mais comment évaluer ex ante les impacts attendus à long terme?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">En outre, la pertinence de ces programmes de limitation des émissions de gaz à effet de serre (GES), relèvera non seulement de critères techniques mais également de paramètres relatifs à la qualité des actions d&#8217;information, de communication, de concertation, de formation et de mobilisation des acteurs des territoires, en un mot de paramètres de «participation».</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Les dispositions techniques et réglementaires sont, sans doute, des dimensions importantes du sujet, mais les comportements et la participation en sont d’autres, au moins aussi importantes et qui répondent à des ressorts complexes mal repérés.</p>
<p>On voit se dégager des questions d’ordre méthodologique:</p>
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<li style="text-align:justify;">Comment évaluer une politique multidimensionnelle ciblée sur un critère dominant (la limitation des émissions de GES), mais faisant place aux critères d’efficacité économique et sociale?</li>
<li style="text-align:justify;">Peut-on concevoir des indicateurs synthétiques intégrant les paramètres propres au territoire et à ses acteurs? </li>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Enfin, on sait que parmi les activités humaines contribuant le plus fortement au réchauffement climatique, le chauffage des bâtiments et les transports se trouvent en bonne position. Les villes sont donc des acteurs de premier rang. Comment les aires urbaines vont-elles pouvoir assumer leur part de l’effort? Comment imaginer des politiques et conduire des programmes efficaces de limitation des gaz à effet de serre associant les collectivités, les entreprises et les citoyens? </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La Ville de Rueil-Malmaison, qui est engagée avec celle de Suresnes dans la construction d&#8217;une importante et emblématique Communauté d&#8217;agglomération, veut lancer la réflexion et la faire partager à ses habitants afin  d’ouvrir le chantier sans tarder.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ces Rencontres de Rueil-Malmaison, tout en s’adressant à un public de responsables et d’experts, sont également conçues pour intéresser les citoyens engagés dans la vie locale, par exemple à travers des comités de quartier, qui souhaitent s’impliquer dans les actions mises en œuvre par la collectivité pour lutter contre l’effet de serre.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Organisation et modalités pratiques</strong></p>
<p>Lieu: Médiathèque Jacques Baumel</p>
<p>15, boulevard du Maréchal Foch (Mairie) &#8211; 92 500 Rueil-Malmaison</p>
<p>Horaires Accueil: à partir de 8h15 à l&#8217;auditorium de la Médiathèque</p>
<p>Remise des documents – accueil administratif</p>
<p>Allocutions de lancement à 9h00 dans l’amphithéâtre</p>
<p>Clôture à 16h30</p>
<p>Déjeuner: Buffet bio éthique servi dans la salle des mariages de la Mairie</p>
<p>Participation: 50 euros</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Renseignements et inscriptions</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Le service du Développement Durable de la Mairie de Rueil-Malmaison est à votre disposition pour tout renseignement:</p>
<p>Par téléphone au 01 41 39 08 96</p>
<p>Par télécopie au 01 47 10 01 29</p>
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Nach zwei Wochen war die Farce vorbei. In der letzten Ausgabe des Nachrichtenmagazins Der Spiegel zog Henryk M. Broder seine Kandidatur für den Posten des Zentralrats der Juden [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiram7.wordpress.com&blog=799391&post=11139&subd=hiram7&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><em><strong><em><strong>Von </strong><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Posener" target="_blank"><strong>Alan Posener</strong></a><strong><br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Nach zwei Wochen war die Farce vorbei. In der letzten Ausgabe des Nachrichtenmagazins <em>Der Spiegel</em> zog Henryk M. Broder seine Kandidatur für den Posten des Zentralrats der Juden in Deutschland zurück.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Buchen unter eiaculatio praecox, mochte man meinen, und zu wichtigeren Dingen übergehen, wozu ziemlich alles gehört, was man sich denken kann – hätte der <em>Spiegel</em> nicht in der „Hausmitteilung“ vom 2. November 2009 behauptet, der „Meister der gezielten Provokation“ habe deshalb auf die Fortsetzung seines Wahlkampfs verzichtet, weil er bereits sein Ziel erreicht habe. Denn „die subversive Kraft der Provokation entfaltete ihre Wirkung – eine ernsthafte Diskussion über die Vertretung der Juden in Deutschland ist jetzt entbrannt.“</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ach ja? Über das Niveau dieser brennenden Diskussion, die wir so nötig haben wie die „Sarrazin-Kontroverse“ oder den „Sloterdijk-Streit“, und über ihre Nutznießer, habe ich in meinem letzten Posting geschrieben. Nun hat sich auch Henryk in meinem Sinne geäußert und damit den redaktionellen Bullshit von der „ernsthaften Diskussion“ entlarvt.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">In einem zweiseitigen Beitrag über sich selbst schreibt er im <em>Spiegel</em>:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">„Zugleich scheint der Übergang zwischen echtem Leben und virtueller Welt immer einfacher zu werden. Die Linke nominiert für das Amt des Bundespräsidenten einen TV-Kommissar, der davon träumt, Banker eigenhändig zu verhaften. Schauspieler, die in Soaps Ärzte spielen, machen in Talkshows Vorschläge zur Optimierung der Gesundheitsreform. Der FDP-Veteran Rainer Brüderle traut sich zu, den Wirtschaftsminister zu geben. Da könnte auch Boris Becker Familienminister werden und ich – Präsident des Zentralrats der Juden“</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Genau. Wobei die opportunistische Attacke auf Brüderle, um dem besserwisserischen <em>Spiegel</em>-Leser zu gefallen, typisch ist – der ausgewiesene Wirtschaftsfachmann gehört weiß Gott nicht in die Reihe Peter Sodann, Soap-Stars, Boris Becker, Henryk M. Broder. Eher fallen einem zur Ergänzung dieses Ruhmesreigens Oskar Lafontaine und Gregor Gysi ein, ebenfalls Selbstdarsteller, die immer bloß so tun, als könnten sie ein Amt ausfüllen, und die beide nach kurzer Zeit in der Verantwortung die Brocken hingeschmissen haben.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Was an Henryk seit einiger Zeit so peinlich ist – das ist die Tatsache, dass er sich zum Ausleben seiner Provokationssucht immer Objekte vorknöpft, die ihm nicht Paroli bieten können oder wollen – intellektuelle Fliegengewichte wie Frau Hecht-Galinksi; Leute, die ohnehin von der antisemitischen Meute verhasst sind wie Michel Friedman; oder Institutionen, die sich zu schade sind, sich mit ihm in der Gosse zu prügeln: das Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung etwa oder eben den Zentralrat. „Pick on someone your own size“ hieß es in meinem britischen Internat, wenn sich etwa einer der pubertierenden Rüpel einen kleinen Jungen vornahm. Der Appell an die Mannesehre verfehlte selten ihre Wirkung.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Gut, das war England. Und dennoch möchte ich an Henryk appellieren: „Pick on someone your own size“; zum Beispiel deinen Arbeitgeber, den <em>Spiegel</em>. Was kann der schon machen, hat er dich nun ganz offiziell in einer Hausmitteilung zum „Meister der gezielten Provokation“ erklärt? Nichts kann er machen, du gehörst doch zum Inventar.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Wie du weißt, vergeht kaum eine Woche, in der nicht irgendeine anti-israelische Spitze in diesem „Nachrichten“-Magazin erscheint – just in jener Ausgabe, in der deine heldenhafte Provokation des Zentralrats gefeiert wurde, endete ein Artikel, in dem es um den von Israel vereitelten Versuch Syriens ging, einen Atomreaktor zu bauen, mit dem Hinweis, „viele radikale Israelis“ wollten einen Staat, der vom Euphrat bis zum Mittelmeer reicht. Will sagen: kann man es den Syrern verdenken, wenn sie sich wehren wollen?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Pick on someone your own size, Henryk. Man überlebt es. Schau mal:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kaidiekmann.de/friendly-fire/2009/11/04/">http://www.kaidiekmann.de/friendly-fire/2009/11/04/</a></p>
<p>Und weil es so schön war, hier das Ganze noch einmal live:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.welt.de/videos/debatte/article5070626/Broders-Bullshit.html#autoplay">http://www.welt.de/videos/debatte/article5070626/Broders-Bullshit.html#autoplay</a></p>
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		<title>Ein (verfehlter) Blick in das Netzwerk der Freimaurer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eine Glosse von Narcisse Caméléon, Ressortleiter Deppologie der HIRAM7 REVIEW
In einem klischeebehafteten Artikel erschienen im Wirtschaftsteil der Tageszeitung Die Welt phantasiert Anette Dowideit im besten Boulevardstil über die bis dato von der Medienverblödung verschonten Freimaurerei. Pünktlich zur Erscheinung der neuen Dan Browns Massenverblödungswaffe &#8211; Symbol &#8211; musste ja eine Zeitung die Massen mit Verschwörungswahn futtern, um den [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiram7.wordpress.com&blog=799391&post=11116&subd=hiram7&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Eine Glosse von <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/das-7-punkte-programm-der-aedel-partei/" target="_blank">Narcisse Caméléon</a>, Ressortleiter <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/everybodys-darling-is-everybodys-depp-unzeitgemase-betrachtungen-zur-notwendigkeit-einer-streitkultur-jenseits-von-mainstream/" target="_blank">Deppologie</a> der <em>HIRAM7 REVIEW</em></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>In einem klischeebehafteten Artikel erschienen im Wirtschaftsteil der Tageszeitung <em>Die Welt</em> phantasiert Anette Dowideit im besten Boulevardstil über die bis dato von der Medienverblödung verschonten Freimaurerei. Pünktlich zur Erscheinung der neuen Dan Browns Massenverblödungswaffe &#8211; <em>Symbol</em> &#8211; musste ja eine Zeitung die Massen mit Verschwörungswahn futtern, um den grausigen Alltag in Zeiten der globalen Finanzkrise erträglicher zu machen und gleichzeitig ein entsprechendes Erklärungsmuster zur Verfügung zu stellen.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Das Springer-Blatt meldete sich freiwillig und schickte eine bis dahin unbekannte Redakteurin. Eine Praktikantin hätte in diesem Fall gereicht.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dieser Artikel ist überflüssig und noch schlimmer: er verstärkt die bereits vorhandenen Vorurteile gegenüber der Freimaurerei und Freimaurern. Zudem hat dieser Artikel im Wirtschaftsteil nichts zu suchen.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Man sollte diesen Artikel mit den Worten von <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/thus-spoke-winston-churchill/" target="_blank">Sir Winston Churchill</a> zur Kenntnis nehmen und ad acta legen: &#8220;Die Freiheit der Rede hat den Nachteil, daß immer wieder Dummes, Häßliches und Bösartiges gesagt wird. Wenn wir aber alles in allem nehmen, sind wir doch eher bereit, uns damit abzufinden, als sie abzuschaffen.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Lesenswert ist dieser Artikel dennoch: um zu erfahren wie dämmlich und ahnungslos Leserkommentare sein können.</p>
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„Nicolas Sarkozy hatte damals schon diesen Willen, sich unentbehrlich zu machen und immer dabei zu sein, war hibbelig, übereifrig und begierig, zu handeln“, schreibt Jacques Chirac in seinen Memoiren, aus denen die französische Tageszeitung Le Parisien Auszüge veröffentlichte.
Der junge Sarkozy sei stets ein Meister der medialen Inszenierung gewesen.
„Er war immer mehr als ein einfacher Mitarbeiter“, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiram7.wordpress.com&blog=799391&post=11095&subd=hiram7&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>„Nicolas Sarkozy hatte damals schon diesen Willen, sich unentbehrlich zu machen und immer dabei zu sein, war hibbelig, übereifrig und begierig, zu handeln“, schreibt <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/abschied-eines-polit-profis-jacques-chirac/" target="_blank">Jacques Chirac</a> in seinen Memoiren, aus denen die französische Tageszeitung <em>Le Parisien</em> Auszüge veröffentlichte.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Der junge Sarkozy sei stets ein <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/nicolas-sarkozy-meister-der-medialen-inszenierung/" target="_blank">Meister der medialen Inszenierung</a> gewesen.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">„Er war immer mehr als ein einfacher Mitarbeiter“, schreibt Jacques Chirac. Sarkozys Unterstützung von Biedermann des bürgerlichen Lagers Edouard Balladur (im Hintergrund von Chiracs Erzfeind Valéry Giscard d&#8217;Estaing manövriert worden) bei der Präsidentschaftswahl gegen ihn habe ihn verletzt, gesteht <a href="http://desourcesure.com/uploadv3/ChiracSarkozy.jpg" target="_blank">der einstige politische Ziehvater von Nicolas Sarkozy, Jacques Chirac</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Der erste Band der Memoiren, der von Donnerstag an im Handel erhältlich ist, beschreibt den Beginn von Chiracs politischer Karriere bis zur Präsidentschaftswahl 1995.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Externer Link (französisch)</span>: <em><a href="http://www.leparisien.fr/politique/avec-ses-memoires-jacques-chirac-regle-ses-comptes-03-11-2009-697068.php" target="_blank">Avec ses Mémoires, Jacques Chirac règle ses comptes</a></em>, Artikel in der französischen Tageszeitung <em>Le Parisien.</em></p>
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		<title>Défense et Illustration de Jacques Chirac</title>
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Une tribune de Narcisse Caméléon
Le renvoi de Jacques Chirac devant la justice pour &#8220;détournements de biens publics&#8221; et &#8220;abus de confiance&#8221; dans le cadre de l&#8217;affaire des chargés de mission de la Ville de Paris est non seulement superflu, mais aussi et surtout moralement douteux, eu égard au fait que les délits reprochés remontent à plus [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiram7.wordpress.com&blog=799391&post=11054&subd=hiram7&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/une-lettre-de-jacques-chirac/" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11053" title="jc-jacques-chirac" src="http://hiram7.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/jc-jacques-chirac.jpg?w=425&#038;h=284" alt="jc-jacques-chirac" width="425" height="284" /></a><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/defense-et-illustration-de-jacques-chirac-2/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/UZOEB5ubwX0/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/defense-et-illustration-de-jacques-chirac-2/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/jnGxtmUirck/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Une tribune de Narcisse Caméléon</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Le renvoi de <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/une-lettre-de-jacques-chirac/" target="_blank">Jacques Chirac</a> devant la justice pour &#8220;détournements de biens publics&#8221; et &#8220;abus de confiance&#8221; dans le cadre de l&#8217;affaire des chargés de mission de la Ville de Paris est non seulement superflu, mais aussi et surtout moralement douteux, eu égard au fait que les délits reprochés remontent à plus de vingt ans et que tous les partis politiques ont eu recours à ces pratiques.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La justice devrait faire le procès de la classe politique entière au lieu de s&#8217;acharner sur un homme qui a servi la France de manière exemplaire pendant plus de quarante ans.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">C&#8217;est une constante bien française, la nation décapite le Père, celui qui incarne le mieux ce qu&#8217;elle est, en érigeant l&#8217;échafaud en place publique; observez la chose, elle est invariablement la même: la tête du monarque, bon, débonnaire, doit être donnée aux chacals qui n&#8217;en feront qu&#8217;une bouchée : Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. Comme le disait le <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/67eme-anniversaire-de-l%e2%80%99appel-du-18-juin-1940/" target="_blank">Général De Gaulle</a>: &#8220;Les Français sont des veaux&#8221;. Jacques Chirac s&#8217;en sortira, c&#8217;est une question d&#8217;honneur pour la France. Souvenons-nous des années <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mitterrand" target="_blank">Mitterrand</a>, des suicides, des scandales personnels et des dépenses royales, corruption et république bananière à tire<strong>-</strong>larigot<strong>&#8230; </strong>Oui, il ira devant les juges, il passera quelques nuits blanches, mais il se relèvera, tête haute.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">L&#8217;ancien président de la République et maire de Paris Jacques Chirac s&#8217;exprimait il y a près de deux ans sur tous les chefs d&#8217;accusation calomnieuse lancés à son encontre. <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/tribune-de-jacques-chirac/" target="_blank">Sa tribune parue dans le quotidien <em>Le Monde</em> peut être lue ici</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>NDLR: Les textes et essais publiés sur HIRAM7 REVIEW n&#8217;engagent que leurs auteurs et ne reflètent pas nécessairement l&#8217;opinion de la rédaction.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it&#8217;s a whole new social revolution — the 60&#8217;s comes from it. (Leonard Bernstein)
Elvis was an instinctive actor&#8230;He was quite bright&#8230;he was very intelligent&#8230;He was not a punk. He was very elegant, sedate, and refined, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiram7.wordpress.com&blog=799391&post=9185&subd=hiram7&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it&#8217;s a whole new social revolution — the 60&#8217;s comes from it.</em> (<a href="http://www.leonardbernstein.com/" target="_blank">Leonard Bernstein</a>)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Elvis was an instinctive actor&#8230;He was quite bright&#8230;he was very intelligent&#8230;He was not a punk. He was very elegant, sedate, and refined, and sophisticated.</em> (<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/02/nyregion/walter-matthau-79-rumpled-star-and-comic-icon-dies.html" target="_blank">Walter Matthau</a>)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Fuck those people of the </em><a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/hamburg-calls-for-a-ban-on-the-totalitarian-organization-scientology/" target="_blank"><em>Scientology Church</em></a><em>! There’s﻿ no way I’ll ever get involved with that </em><a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/hamburg-calls-for-a-ban-on-the-totalitarian-organization-scientology/" target="_blank"><em>son-of-a-bitchin’ group</em></a><em>. All they want is my name and my money.</em> (<a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/ecce-homo/" target="_blank">Elvis Aaron Presley</a>)</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9205" title="ep-piecesofmylife" src="http://hiram7.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/ep-piecesofmylife.jpg?w=425&#038;h=143" alt="ep-piecesofmylife" width="425" height="143" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9230" title="elvis7" src="http://hiram7.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/elvis7.jpg?w=425&#038;h=540" alt="elvis7" width="425" height="540" /><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/elvis-presley-pieces-of-his-life/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/UENBLchCqfA/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/elvis-presley-pieces-of-his-life/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/gZ3MOyCn66w/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><strong>Lyrics</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">(words &amp; music by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Seals" target="_blank">Troy Seals</a>)</p>
<p>A water glass full of whiskey<br />
And women that I never knew too well<br />
Lord, the things I&#8217;ve seen and done<br />
Most of which I&#8217;d be ashamed to tell</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know how it started<br />
But that&#8217;s what makes a man a man, I guess<br />
Now I&#8217;m holdin&#8217; on to nothing&#8217;<br />
Tryin&#8217; to forget the rest</p>
<p>I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; back on my life<br />
To see if I can find the pieces<br />
I know that some were stolen<br />
And some just blew away<br />
Well, I&#8217;ve found the bad parts<br />
Found all the sad parts<br />
But I guess I threw the best parts away<br />
Lord away, away</p>
<p>Playing the bars, playing like a star<br />
Anything to get a name<br />
Carryin&#8217; on, living on songs<br />
My friends wrote to me to sing</p>
<p>I&#8217;m lookin&#8217; back on my life<br />
To see if I can find the pieces<br />
I know that some were stolen<br />
And some just blew away<br />
Well, I&#8217;ve found the bad parts<br />
Found all the sad parts<br />
But I guess I threw the best parts away<br />
Away, away</p>
<p>Lord, the pieces of my life<br />
They&#8217;re everywhere, they&#8217;re everywhere<br />
And the one I miss most of all<br />
Is you and you know who</p>
<p>Lookin&#8217; back on my life, Lord<br />
To see if I can find the pieces<br />
Lookin&#8217; back on my life, today<br />
To see if I can find the pieces<br />
Lookin&#8217; back on my life<br />
God help me find the pieces</p>
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		<title>Alan Poseners Kolumne: Henryk M. Broders belangloser PR-Coup</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Der britisch-deutsche Journalist Alan Posener kommentiert wöchentlich das Zeitgeschehen in Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Kultur für HIRAM7 REVIEW.

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Es ist schon erstaunlich: Wenn man in Deutschland eine Stellungnahme zum Holocaust braucht, ruft man die Agentur Rent-a-Jew an und bekommt je nach politischer Präferenz einen Juden zugeteilt, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiram7.wordpress.com&blog=799391&post=11036&subd=hiram7&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><em><strong>Von </strong><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Posener" target="_blank"><strong>Alan Posener</strong></a><strong><br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Es ist schon erstaunlich: Wenn man in Deutschland eine Stellungnahme zum Holocaust braucht, ruft man die Agentur Rent-a-Jew an und bekommt je nach politischer Präferenz einen Juden zugeteilt, obwohl der Holocaust die Juden nicht mehr angeht als die Arier; weniger sogar, denn das Klärungsbedürftige am Holocaust liegt nicht auf der Opfer-, sondern auf der Täterseite.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Wenn es aber um <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/die-achse-der-intoleranz/" target="_blank">Henryk M. Broders</a> Kandidatur für den Posten des Präsidenten des Zentralrats der Juden gibt, dann haben plötzlich alle Gojim selbst eine Meinung, obwohl der Zentralrat eigentlich nur die Juden etwas angeht.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Und diese Meinung lautet: Gut, dass der Kerl den Zentralrat aufmischt.<br />
Das sollte einen stutzig machen.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Wenn der Zentralrat, wie Henryk meint, so ungefährlich und gestrig ist, warum sind alle Gojim so froh, dass Broder ihm zeigen will, wo der Hammer hängt?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Überhaupt: Warum tun alle so, als habe Henryks Kandidatur etwas zu tun mit einer Krise des Zentralrats, wo sie doch nur etwas zu tun hat mit einer Lebenskrise Henryk M. Broders?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ich habe mit dem Zentralrat genauso wenig zu tun wie Henryk. Weniger, denn pro forma könnte er etwas damit zu tun haben, wenn er wollte, was er aber nicht will. Ich nicht.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ich stelle nur eine Frage: Im <em>Spiegel</em> hat Henryk seine Selbsteinschätzung wiederholt, er sei der „Pausenclown“ der Deutschen. Das stimmt, und diese Rolle hat er sich hart erarbeitet.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Soll der Sprecher der Juden in Deutschland ein Clown sein? Wer könnte das wollen? Wem würde das nutzen? Außer Henryk, meine ich.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Die in HIRAM7 REVIEW veröffentlichten Essays und Kommentare geben nicht grundsätzlich den Standpunkt der Redaktion wieder.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friend from New Delhi, Sumit Lal, former Director and General Manager at ECCO INDIA, and currently Business Adviser at ECCO Asia Pacific Limited, has just started his own blog.
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Please check it out <a href="http://theubiquitousindian.blogspot.com" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Earl Shugerman&#8217;s Corner: Life&#8217;s little pleasures in Israel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Earl Shugerman brings every week a serie of stories about Anglo-Saxon immigrants to Israel. This project is aimed to promote a more realistic view of life in Israel.
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Yesterday, a group of my Anglo friends and I were sitting at Lias Books sharing ideas about entertainment for the weekend. Israelis are avid readers and my favorite pastime is reading detective novels and attending book clubs. I am a particular fan of James Patterson.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Israelis also love movies. Haifa, my hometown has 22 theaters that show movies in most major languages and for all ages. Popcorn, hot dogs and cokes are usually available, but often at inflated prices. The ticket costs are comparable to those in America. Most movie theaters are located in malls, and allow the audiences to enjoy cafes, window shopping, and other mall amenities. Many cafes have outdoor terraces due to the balmy climate.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Very sadly, the revered American pastime of the Sunday afternoon drive is not part of Israeli entertainment. Driving in Israel is at best a rugged adventure. Israeli drivers are not known for their patience and in many parts of the country parking is a real nightmare. By contrast, the public transportation in the country is wonderful. In many places, bus and train services are readily available and inexpensive.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The entertainment of Haifa surely showcases a wide range of fascinating things you can do here, and in many cities in Israel. Among the large number of things to do in Haifa, you would probably first look for some eating joints in the city. Dining is one of the best forms of Haifa entertainment, with a large number of places offering everything from French, Italian, Chinese, Continental and the traditional Middle Eastern dishes. Located in some of the most convenient spots and serving delicious dishes, the popular restaurants in Haifa are surely a must try. The joy of international dining in Israel is enhanced by the number of nationalities and languages spoken by diners and staff in most houses of cuisine. One Saturday night, my American companion, Linda and I counted seven languages while dining at our favorite cafe. We strolled along the Haifa beachfront after dinner.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">After a wholesome meal at the restaurants you can also check out the scintillating nightlife of Haifa. Wonderful ambiance and great music, combined with the liquor of your choice will surely give you an excuse to party the night away. Shopping in Haifa is great. You can buy fashionable clothes, hand-blown glass, silver, enamel, pottery and also gold jewelry. Entertainment in Haifa thus includes the major shopping zones of the city on Masada Streets and also the Panorama Center. Many American products are sold in major malls.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The theaters in Haifa are popularly endorsed by both indigenous folk and tourists. They showcase the best of the local culture and traditions. Thus the major places of interest in Haifa also include the performance halls like the Haifa Auditorium and the Haifa Municipal Theater. Other than live theater, they are also known for hosting dance recitals, musical performances, orchestra and many more.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">For the family, entertainment in Haifa is not complete without Sports and Recreation. Full of fun and pleasure, the activities like tennis, bowling, basketball, skating, football, fencing, diving hiking, biking, swimming will provide you with a lot to indulge yourself in.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Israel is a small country about the size of New Jersey.  The three major cities of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa are relatively close. A road trip running north to south can embrace them all in an hour and one half. My friend Helen commented yesterday that; &#8220;it is still amazing to me that I can visit the holy sites in Jerusalem, take a short swim in the Sea of Galilee, and dine in Tel Aviv in the same day!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Israelis watch more television and play more video games per- capita than any nation in the world. I am writing this article at the University of Haifa. My computer neighbors asked me to join them in a few hands of video poker! &#8220;This is my favorite pastime&#8221;, exclaimed David, a young American Oleh! &#8220;What about your work?&#8221;, I joked. He laughed in a good natured manner and drew a losing hand.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Welcome to modern Israel!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em><strong>About the author</strong>: Earl Shugerman is a retired American Government public relations specialist,  currently spokesperson in Haifa for The </em><a href="http://www.jewishagency.org" target="_blank"><em>Jewish Agency</em></a><em> and a writer specializing in interfaith relations. He has worked together with the Catholic and Southern Baptist Movements, the Reformed Jewish Movement and Muslim groups in interfaith activities.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tribune de Gabriel Lévy
Les 4 Vérités &#8211; 20 octobre 2009
Frédéric Mitterrand au ministère de la culture: encore un mauvais choix de notre président!  Peu d’entre nous en comprennent la raison. Quelle peut-elle être?
L’effet incantatoire lié au nom de Mitterrand? 
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Les 4 Vérités &#8211; 20 octobre 2009</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><a href="http://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2009/10/08/extrait-de-la-mauvaise-vie-de-frederic-mitterrand_1251310_823448.html" target="_blank">Frédéric Mitterrand</a> au ministère de la culture: encore un mauvais choix de notre président!  Peu d’entre nous en comprennent la raison. Quelle peut-elle être?</strong></p>
<p>L’effet incantatoire lié au nom de Mitterrand? </p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Les électeurs qui ont élu M. Sarkozy en 2007 ne gardaient nullement la nostalgie d’un ancien président socialiste…. Et s’il fallait afficher un grand nom du socialisme dans la composition de son ministère, il disposait dans sa propre majorité d’un député (M. Blum, député UMP des Bouches-du-Rhône). La personnalité politique qui portait ce nom avant lui figure, de façon non contestée, au panthéon socialiste en compagnie de Jaurès. Mais pourquoi cette idée saugrenue d’aller quérir ses «fruits» dans le dessous du panier de ses opposants? Pourquoi nommer tant de ministres qui n’ont jamais reçu l’onction du suffrage universel?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Le style de l’écrivain Frédéric Mitterrand?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Assurément non. La description des déambulations nocturnes de M. Mitterrand n’a pas la légèreté, l’humour, l’autodérision de celle de M. Roger Peyrefitte sur le Zappeion d’Athènes. Les remugles de «l’avant-scène et de l’arrière scène» (sic) de la prostitution masculine donnent la nausée.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Convenons-en, nous n’étions pas obligés de les lire; mais dès lors qu’il s’agit d’un ministre de la culture de la France, et que ses «bonnes feuilles» s’impriment sur nos quotidiens, nous y sommes contraints.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">La stature du nouveau ministre?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">En déclarant, pour tenter d’excuser sa défense outrancière de M. Polanski: «J’étais dans un moment d’émotion très, très fort», il n’a pas manqué de s’attirer cette remarque: «Lorsqu’on est ministre, peut-on réagir sur le coup de l’émotion?»</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Le respect des lois françaises?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Le président, ci-devant ministre de l’intérieur, avait été l’auteur d’une loi relative à la prostitution, en créant un nouveau délit: «le fait, par tout moyen, y compris par une attitude même passive, de procéder au racolage d’autrui en vue de l’inciter à des relations sexuelles en échange d’une rémunération ou d’une promesse de rémunération est puni de 2 mois d’emprisonnement et de 3 750 euros d’amende». Un membre d’un cabinet ministériel en avait immédiatement fait les frais. Mais ce n’était pas en Thaïlande et il ne s’agissait de prostitution masculine…Dommage, il aurait été ministre.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Allez encore prétendre après cela que  «ce n’est pas le titre qui honore  l’homme, mais l’homme qui honore le titre» (Machiavel).</p>
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Legendary singer and songwriter Paul McCartney (67) &#8211; knighted Sir James Paul by Queen Elizabeth II on March 11, 1997 &#8211; unveiled his schedule for his “Good Evening Tour Europe 2009”. 
 
It will be a seven city run, that will mark his only appearance in Europe this year, starting with his “hometown” Hamburg, where The Beatles Story began.
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<div style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Legendary singer and songwriter <a href="http://www.paulmccartney.com/" target="_blank">Paul McCartney</a> (67) &#8211; knighted Sir James Paul by Queen Elizabeth II on March 11, 1997 &#8211; unveiled his schedule for his “Good Evening Tour Europe 2009”. </strong></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;"><strong> </strong></div>
<div style="text-align:justify;">It will be a seven city run, that will mark his only appearance in Europe this year, starting with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatles-Platz" target="_blank">his “hometown” Hamburg, where The Beatles Story began</a>.</div>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Good Evening Europe Tour 2009:</span></p>
<p>December 2, 2009: Hamburg, Germany – Color Line Arena<br />
December 3, 2009: Berlin, Germany – O2 World<br />
December 9, 2009: Arnhem, Holland – Gelredome<br />
December 10, 2009: Paris, France – Bercy<br />
December 16, 2009: Cologne, Germany – Koln Arena<br />
December 20, 2009: Dublin, Ireland – The O2<br />
December 22, 2009: London, England – The O2 Arena</p>
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&#8220;The West needs innovation; Israel&#8217;s got it,&#8221; write Dan Senor and Saul Singer, authors of Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel&#8217;s Economic Miracle. They argue that the Israeli economic model, based on innovation, can help the West, in particular, &#8220;get out of its economic hole.&#8221;
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>&#8220;The West needs innovation; Israel&#8217;s got it,&#8221; write Dan Senor and Saul Singer, authors of <em>Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel&#8217;s Economic Miracle</em>. They argue that the Israeli economic model, based on innovation, can help the West, in particular, &#8220;get out of its economic hole.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Start-Up Nation</em> addresses the trillion-dollar question: How is it that Israel &#8211; a country of 7.1 million people, only sixty years old, surrounded by enemies, in a constant state of war since its founding, with no natural resources &#8211; produces more start-up companies than large, peaceful, and stable nations like Japan, China, India, Korea, Canada, and the United Kingdom?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Drawing on examples from the country’s foremost inventors and investors, geopolitical experts Dan Senor and Saul Singer describe how Israel’s adversity-driven culture fosters a unique combination of innovative and entrepreneurial intensity.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">As the authors argue, Israel is not just a country but a comprehensive state of mind. Whereas Americans emphasize decorum and exhaustive preparation, Israelis put <em>chutzpah</em> first. “When an Israeli entrepreneur has a business idea, he will start it that week,” one analyst put it. At the geopolitical level, Senor and Singer dig in deeper to show why Israel’s policies on immigration, R&amp;D, and military service have been key factors in the country’s rise &#8211; providing insight into why Israel has more companies on the NASDAQ than those from all of Europe, Korea, Japan, Singapore, China, and India combined.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">So much has been written about the Middle East, but surprisingly little is understood about the story and strategy behind Israel’s economic growth. As <em>Start-Up Nation</em> shows, there are lessons in Israel’s example that apply not only to other nations, but also to individuals seeking to build a thriving organization. As the U.S. economy seeks to reboot its can-do spirit, there’s never been a better time to look at this remarkable and resilient nation for some impressive, surprising clues.</p>
<p><strong>Reviews &amp; Endorsements</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“An eye-opening look at a side of Israel that most people never think about.” (<em>The Week</em>)</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“There is a great deal for America to learn from the very impressive Israeli entrepreneurial model—beginning with a culture of leadership and risk management. <em>Start-Up Nation</em> is a playbook for every CEO who wants to develop the next generation of corporate leaders.” Tom Brokaw, special correspondent for NBC News, author of <em>The Greatest Generation</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“Senor and Singer’s experience in government, in business, and in journalism—and especially on the ground in the Middle East—come to life in their illuminating, timely, and often surprising analysis.” George Stephanopoulos, host of <em>This Week</em>, ABC News</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“In the midst of the chaos of the Middle East, there’s a remarkable story of innovation. <em>Start-Up Nation</em> is filled with inspiring insights into what’s behind Israel’s dynamic economy. It is a timely book and a much-needed celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit.” Meg Whitman, former president and CEO of eBay</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“Senor and Singer highlight some important lessons and sound instruction for countries struggling to enter the 21st century. An edifying, cogent report, as apolitical as reasonably possible, about homemade nation building.” <em>Kirkus Reviews</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">“The authors ground their analysis in case studies and interviews with some of Israel&#8217;s most brilliant innovators to make this a rich and insightful read not just for business leaders and policymakers but for anyone curious about contemporary Israeli culture.” <em>Publishers Weekly</em></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://www.startupnationbook.com/" target="_blank">To order the book, click here</a>.</strong></p>
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Something’s going on in Europe, and I don’t like it.
There’s the future German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle’s refusal to even listen to the question of a BBC correspondent, unless it’s put to him in German:

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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Something’s going on in Europe, and I don’t like it.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">There’s the future German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle’s refusal to even listen to the question of a BBC correspondent, unless it’s put to him in German:</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6886436.ece?&amp;EMC-Bltn=CHMCNB" target="_blank">There’s the BBC giving the British National Party’s Nick Griffin a nationwide TV platform for his racist and anti-Semitic views</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="www.welt.de/politik/article4923710/Was-Thilo-Sarrazin-gesagt-hat-ist-rassistisch.html" target="_blank">And there’s people not only defending German Central Banker Thilo Sarrazin’s right to make racist comments</a>, but denying that they are racist and demanding a muzzle for people who dare to say they are racist.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">You only have to look at the comments on Youtube and elsewhere to realize what it is that is going on here: the political and chattering classes have abandoned the rules governing their chatter; nationalism, racism and intolerance in general are being allowed back into polite society after spending the past 40 years out in the cold.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Political correctness – that great civilizer – is dead. Multiculturalism is under siege. And the ban on anti-Semitism – which the Catholic Church has already lifted by welcoming back <a href="http://www.thelocal.de/opinion/20090202-17155.html" target="_blank">the anti-Semitic Pius Brotherhood</a> into its ranks – will soon be as worthless as the paper on which <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/die-offene-gesellschaft-und-ihre-feinde-im-21-jahrhundert/" target="_blank">Sir Karl Popper’s great book on the Open Society</a> was written.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I mention <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/" target="_blank">Karl Popper</a>, because in the age of Totalitarianism he confronted a vexing question of democracy head-on: was the open society bound by its own philosophical, legal and political parameters to tolerate the propaganda of its enemies?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Popper said no: there was no reason to tolerate intolerance; no reason to grant freedom to the enemies of freedom; there should be no openness towards the enemies of openness. People who want one man, one vote one time should not – as they were in Gaza – be allowed to contest elections. Democracy is more important than freedom; more important than truth; more important than justice – or any one of the multitude of ideas, concepts, slogans and ideals in whose name one could (and people have tried to) suspend democracy.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">It’s always the enemies of tolerance who chafe at this seeming intolerance of democracy. One shouldn’t let oneself be fooled. People say, “If you stop people from saying what Sarrazin said, you are denying 80 percent of the population a voice.”</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Well, if 80 percent of the population are racist, which I don’t believe for a moment, but I’m saying if, then fuck them and there’s all the more reason to keep a tight lid on what is said by public figures, isn’t there?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Popper didn’t call his book “The Majority Rules”, he called it “The Open Society”. Even 99 percent of the population don’t have the right to dismantle the open society and replace it with a society in which privileges are awarded or denied according to race, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation or social background.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">That’s what Europe has been about this past half-century. Let’s keep it that way.</p>
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		<title>Earl Shugerman&#8217;s Corner: Hannah&#8217;s Aliyah to Israel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earl Shugerman brings every week a serie of stories about Anglo-Saxon immigrants to Israel. This project is aimed to promote a more realistic view of life in Israel.
Aliyah is the word that describes the return of the Jewish People from the exile in the Diaspora back to the Land of Israel. The word Aliyah is derived [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiram7.wordpress.com&blog=799391&post=10927&subd=hiram7&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Aliyah is the word that describes the return of the Jewish People from the exile in the Diaspora back to the Land of Israel. The word Aliyah is derived from the verb &#8220;laalot&#8221; which means &#8220;to go up&#8221;, or &#8220;to ascend&#8221; in a positive spiritual sense. A person who makes Aliyah is called an Oleh, meaning &#8220;one who goes up&#8221;. Making Aliyah heralds a new dawn. People redefine their aspirations and focus on a positive future. Finding a meaningful and loving relationship is an inherent feature of Israeli culture. As Hannah discovered, help was close at hand</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">When I came to Haifa for a family Seder in 2006, I decided I could retire here.  I had wanted to retire for some time but didn&#8217;t know where.  I had lived in Massachusetts for 28 years but couldn&#8217;t imagine spending my winters there as a retiree.  When I got to Haifa, a very big light bulb came on!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I had a very good life in the States but there was one goal I hadn&#8217;t been able to reach.  I wanted to meet a kind, intelligent, sexy, fun Jewish male around my age and for years I put this goal on my &#8220;top goals list&#8221; but never reached it.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">When I got to Haifa, one of the first things I did was to attend services at Or Hadash, a reform synagogue in my neighbourhood.  I met a very kind Israeli woman called Pnina there and she made me feel very welcome and introduced me to many members of the congregation. I immediately felt very comfortable and &#8220;at home&#8221; and Or Hadash became my shul.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">One day Pnina and I were looking over at the male congregation and every man I asked about was married. She asked me if I wanted to meet someone and I said yes.  She arranged for me to meet the father of one of her friends &#8211; an Australian widower, a year older than me. We had a blind date and continued seeing each other on an irregular basis. After seven months of getting to know each other, we began a more serious relationship and now, just over a year later, we are very happy doing many things together. He has introduced me to his children and grandchildren and has met my mother, sister, brother-in-law and various friends. In October we are planning to travel to Australia together to welcome his son&#8217;s first child there.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I was already enjoying my Aliyah here and meeting Shmuel was the &#8220;icing on the cake.&#8221;<span id="_marker"> </span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s emergency United Nations Human Rights Council debate in Geneva on the Goldstone Report predictably saw a line-up of the world&#8217;s worst abusers condemn democratic Israel for human rights violations.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Today&#8217;s emergency <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/obama-administration-to-join-anti-israel-un-human-rights-council/" target="_blank">United Nations Human Rights Council</a> debate in Geneva on the <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/american-jewish-committees-letter-in-ny-times-on-goldstone-report/" target="_blank">Goldstone Report</a> predictably saw a line-up of the world&#8217;s worst abusers condemn democratic Israel for human rights violations.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/the-targeting-of-israel-and-darfur-by-the-arab-world/" target="_blank">In a heated lynch mob atmosphere</a>, Kuwait slammed Israel for “intentional killing, intentional destruction of civilian objects, intentional scorched-earth policy”, saying Israel “embodied the Agatha Christie novel, &#8216;Escaped with Murder&#8217;. Pakistan said the “horrors of Israeli occupation continue to haunt the international community’s conscience.” The Arab League said, “We must condemn Israel and force Israel to accept international legitimacy.&#8221; Ahmadinejad’s Iran said “the atrocities committed against Palestinians during the aggressions on Gaza should be taken seriously” and followed up by the international community “to put an end to absolute impunity and defiance of the law.”</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">What the world&#8217;s assembled representatives did not expect, however, was the speech that followed (<em>see video and text below</em>), organized by UN Watch. The speaker is a man who repeatedly put his life on the line to defend the democratic world from the murderous Saddam Hussein, Al Qaeda, and the Taliban. The moment he began his first sentence, the room simply fell silent. Judge Goldstone, author of the biased report that prompted today&#8217;s one-sided condemnation, had refused to hear Colonel Kemp&#8217;s testimony during his &#8220;fact-finding&#8221; hearings.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">But UN Watch made sure today that this hero&#8217;s voice would be heard &#8211; at the United Nations, and around the world.</p>
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<p align="center"><em>UN Human Rights Council, 12th Special Session</em><em><br />
</em><em>Debate on Goldstone Report &#8211; </em><em>Geneva, October 16, 2009</em></p>
<p align="center"><strong>Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Did More to Safeguard Civilians Than Any Army in History of Warfare</strong></p>
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<dt class="wp-caption-dt"><img class="size-full wp-image-10900" title="Colonel Richard Kemp served in the British Army from 1977 - 2006." src="http://hiram7.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/colonel-richard-kemp-cbe-served-in-the-british-army-from-1977-2006.jpg?w=425&#038;h=583" alt="Colonel Richard Kemp served in the British Army from 1977 - 2006." width="425" height="583" /></dt>
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<p><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/british-army-hero-tells-un-human-rights-council-israeli-defense-forces-most-moral-army-in-history-of-warfare/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/NX6vyT8RzMo/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Thank you, Mr. President.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">I am the former commander of the British forces in <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/u-s-marines-launch-major-afghan-offensive/" target="_blank">Afghanistan</a>. I served with NATO and the United Nations; commanded troops in <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/loyalists-lay-down-arms-in-north-ireland/" target="_blank">Northern Ireland</a>, Bosnia and Macedonia; and participated in the Gulf War. I spent considerable time <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/05/02/war-of-necessity-war-of-choice-a-memoir-of-two-iraq-wars/" target="_blank">in Iraq since the 2003 invasion</a>, and worked on international terrorism for the <a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/security_and_intelligence/community/central_intelligence_machinery/joint_intelligence_committee.aspx" target="_blank">UK Government’s Joint Intelligence Committee</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Mr. President, based on my knowledge and experience, I can say this: During <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/the-moral-battleground-myths-facts-about-the-gaza-war/" target="_blank">Operation Cast Lead</a>, the Israeli Defence Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Israel did so while facing an enemy that deliberately positioned its military capability behind the human shield of the civilian population.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Hamas, like Hizballah, are expert at driving the media agenda. Both will always have people ready to give interviews condemning Israeli forces for war crimes. They are adept at staging and distorting incidents.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The IDF faces a challenge that we British do not have to face to the same extent. It is the automatic, Pavlovian presumption by many in the international media, and international human rights groups, that the IDF are in the wrong, that they are abusing human rights.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The truth is that the IDF took extraordinary measures to give Gaza civilians notice of targeted areas, dropping over 2 million leaflets, and making over 100,000 phone calls. Many missions that could have taken out Hamas military capability were aborted to prevent civilian casualties. During the conflict, the IDF allowed huge amounts of humanitarian aid into Gaza. To deliver aid virtually into your enemy&#8217;s hands is, to the military tactician, normally quite unthinkable. But the IDF took on those risks.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Despite all of this, of course innocent civilians were killed. War is chaos and full of mistakes. There have been mistakes by the British, American and other forces in Afghanistan and in Iraq, many of which can be put down to human error. But mistakes are not war crimes.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">More than anything, the civilian casualties were a consequence of Hamas’ way of fighting. Hamas deliberately tried to sacrifice their own civilians.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Mr. President, <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/operation-cast-lead-israel-under-attack/" target="_blank">Israel had no choice apart from defending its people</a>, to stop Hamas from attacking them with rockets.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">And I say this again: the IDF did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.</p>
<p>Thank you, Mr. President.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Der britisch-deutsche Journalist Alan Posener kommentiert wöchentlich das Zeitgeschehen in Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Kultur für HIRAM7 REVIEW.

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Vorneweg, ceterum censeo:
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Der britisch-deutsche Journalist Alan Posener kommentiert wöchentlich das Zeitgeschehen in Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Kultur für <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/about/" target="_blank">HIRAM7 REVIEW</a>.</em></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><em><strong>Von </strong><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Posener" target="_blank"><strong>Alan Posener</strong></a><strong><br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Vorneweg, ceterum censeo</strong>:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.welt.de/videos/debatte/article4835598/Sarrazins-Rassismus-bleibt-Bullshit.html">www.welt.de/videos/debatte/article4835598/Sarrazins-Rassismus-bleibt-Bullshit.html</a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Aber darum soll es hier nicht gehen, sondern um einen Telefonanruf.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Eine junge Frau ruft bei ihrer Frauenärztin an. Sie braucht einen Termin. Die Sprechstundenhilfe, nach einigem Hin und Her, im leicht genervten Ton: „Also, ich kann Ihnen frühestens am 2. Dezember einen Termin anbieten.“ Also in SECHS WOCHEN. Die junge Frau sagt zu, die Sprechstundenhilfe klickt ein bisschen in ihrem Computer herum, und plötzlich ertönt Warteschleifenmusik. Die junge Frau wartet. Dann ist eine völlig umgewandelte Sprechstundenhilfe dran: „Aber Frau P., Sie haben ja gar nicht gesagt, dass Sie Privatpatientin sind! Da hätten wir einen Termin für Sie, am 21.“ „November?“ „Wo denken Sie hin? Oktober!“ Also in EINER WOCHE.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Man hört immer, besonders von SPD-Seite, es gehe darum, „eine Zweiklassenmedizin in Deutschland zu verhindern“. Hallo? Wir haben längst eine Zweiklassenmedizin.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Und es geht nicht nur darum, dass eine Kassenpatientin sechs Wochen, eine Privatpatientin eine Woche auf einen Termin warten muss, obwohl das schlimm genug ist und in manchen Fällen den Unterschied zwischen einer gerade noch rechtzeitig erkannten und einer zu spät erkannten Krankheit bedeuten kann. Die praktizierte Medizin ist auch verschieden für Ober- und Untermenschen.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ein Beispiel: Meine Frau ist als Beamtin privat versichert; ich bin als Angestellter freiwillig in der gesetzlichen (ich weiß… selber schuld… lange Geschichte.). Zufällig hatten wir in der letzten Zeit kurz hintereinander die gleichen Beschwerden entwickelt (das Phänomen nennt man bei langjährigen Ehepaaren oder Hundehaltern Anähnelung), und darum empfahl mir meine Frau auch ihren Orthopäden, der tatsächlich auch exakt die gleiche Diagnose stellte. Freilich war die Therapie völlig verschieden, was die verschriebenen Medikamente, Schmerz- und Hilfsmittel betrifft. Und zwar schlicht und einfach derart, dass ich weniger oder nichts bekam.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Vielleicht gibt es Ärzte, die keinen Unterschied zwischen Kassen- und Privatpatienten machen; aber man darf annehmen, dass das die Ausnahmen sind. Die Dummen.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Noch einmal: wir haben längst eine Zweiklassenmedizin. Man kann sagen: das ist nun einmal so; alles, was über die Basisversorgung hinausgeht, muss eben privat versichert sein, und das können dann eben nur die Besserverdienenden – und dann ist jeder Besserverdienende, der wie ich in der gesetzlichen Versicherung bleibt, eben dumm.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Man kann leugnen, dass das so ist, wie die meisten Parteien, die Ärzteorganisationen und Versicherungen, die behaupten, es gehe ihnen darum, für jeden Patienten eine optimale Versorgung sicherzustellen. Wer ihnen glaubt, ist selber schuld.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Man kann wie in Großbritannien das System verstaatlichen, so dass es alle gleich schlecht haben – mit  Ausnahme der ganz Reichen, die sich in Abu Dhabi behandeln lassen, wohin auch die guten Ärzte auswandern.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Oder man kann eine private Gesundheitsfürsorge für alle einführen, mit kostendeckenden Beiträgen einerseits und Versicherungszwang andererseits – und die wirklich Bedürftigen, sagen wir Arbeitslose und Rentner, durch Zuschüsse staatlicherseits instand setzen, ihre Beiträge zu zahlen. Ich befürworte den letzten Vorschlag.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Und deshalb: Weg mit dem Gesundheitsfonds und der Einteilung von Menschen in Patienten erster und zweiter Klasse. Telefongespräche wie das eingangs geschilderte sollten so schnell wie möglich der Vergangenheit angehören. </p>
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The most pressing issue on the U.S. president’s agenda today is whether he will commit more troops to Afghanistan – the “good war.”
In an article published in the November issue of Commentary Magazine, military historian Max Boot brings all his expertise to bear on explaining how the U.S. can win in that Taliban-plagued country.
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>The most pressing issue on the U.S. president’s agenda today is whether he will commit more troops to Afghanistan – the “good war.”</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">In an article published in the November issue of <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commentary_(magazine)" target="_blank">Commentary Magazine</a></em>, military historian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Boot" target="_blank">Max Boot</a> brings all his expertise to bear on explaining how the U.S. can win in that Taliban-plagued country.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">But first we have to win the battle at home – the battle to convince Barack Obama to learn the right lessons from history and to heed the wise counsel of <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/general-stanley-a-mcchrystals-military-strategy-in-afghanistan/" target="_blank">his own general, Stanley A. McChrystal.</a></p>
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Konservative sind stolz darauf, die besseren Menschen zu sein. Andere mögen bessere Ideen haben; sie mögen moralisch anspruchsvoller sein (dann werden sie von den Konservativen verächtlich „Gutmenschen“ genannt), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=hiram7.wordpress.com&blog=799391&post=10855&subd=hiram7&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><em><strong>Von </strong><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Posener" target="_blank"><strong>Alan Posener</strong></a><strong><br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Konservative sind stolz darauf, die besseren Menschen zu sein. Andere mögen bessere Ideen haben; sie mögen moralisch anspruchsvoller sein (dann werden sie von den Konservativen verächtlich „Gutmenschen“ genannt), aber weil der Konservative seinen privaten Anstand über die Ideen der Menschheitsbeglücker stellt, ist er am Ende eben der wahre Gutmensch.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/alan-poseners-kolumne-benedikts-kreuzzug-der-angriff-des-vatikans-auf-die-moderne-gesellschaft/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/kA8DzT3b1nI/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">In den letzten Tagen hatte ich zwei Mal die Möglichkeit, dieses konservative Selbstbild zu überprüfen. Zwei Konservative, mit denen ich bekannt, ja beinahe befreundet bin, haben <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/alan-poseners-kolumne-papst-benedikt-und-die-deutsche-anti-israel-lobby/" target="_blank">mein Buch über Benedikt XVI</a> besprochen: der katholische Arzt, Psychiater und Theologe <a href="http://www.kathpedia.com/index.php/Manfred_L%C3%BCtz" target="_blank">Dr. Manfred Lütz</a>, und der CDU-nahe Publizist <a href="http://www.br-online.de/content/cms/Universalseite/2009/01/19/cumulus/BR-online-Publikation--273923-20090119155305.pdf" target="_blank">Dr. Alexander Gauland</a>.</p>
<p>Hier sind die Besprechungen:</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/2009102_Debatte-Der-liebenswuerdige-Papst.html" target="_blank"><strong>Dr. Manfred Lütz</strong></a>, <em>Frankfurter Rundschau</em>, 12.10.2009</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.dradio.de/dkultur/sendungen/lesart/1044655/" target="_blank"><strong>Dr. Alexander Gauland</strong></a>, <em>Deutschlandradio Kultur</em>, 04.10.2009</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Niemand hat sie gezwungen, das Buch zu besprechen – sie wurden von den Redaktionen darum gebeten, und auch Konservative sind nur Menschen. Beiden war ein wenig unwohl bei der Sache. Das weiß ich, weil der eine mich vorher angerufen hat, ums sich sozusagen von vornherein Absolution erteilen zu lassen für den beabsichtigten Verriss; der zweite rief mich danach an und fragte als erstes: „Na, reden Sie überhaupt noch mit mir?“ Beiden war natürlich klar, dass ich die Absolution erteilen würde, dass ich nicht vorhabe, öffentlich ausgetragene Meinungsverschiedenheiten persönlich zu nehmen. Ich heiße ja nicht <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/die-achse-der-intoleranz/" target="_blank">Henryk M. Broder</a> oder <a href="http://debatte.welt.de/kommentare/56609/ingo+langner" target="_blank">Ingo Langner</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Ich bin meinen konservativen Freunden schon deshalb nicht böse, weil ich von dem Grundsatz des großen Sam Goldwyn überzeugt bin: „There is no such thing as bad publicity.“ Jedenfalls hat mein Buch bei Amazon.de einen Sprung gemacht, der vielleicht auch auf die Intervention der beiden zurückzuführen ist. Ein weiterer Grund ist: ich bin eben ein netter Mensch.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Wie gesagt, ich bin nicht böse über böse Kritiken; verstört bin ich darüber, dass beide Kritiker es nötig fanden, ad hominem zu argumentieren, also ein Mittel zu verwenden, das sie selbst zu verabscheuen vorgeben, und das nach konservativem Selbstverständnis auch nicht statthaft ist. Nein, Quatsch, ich bin nicht verstört; denn ich habe selten erlebt, dass sich Konservative an ihre eigenen Grundsätze gehalten hätten. <a href="http://hiram7.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/die-verlorene-ehre-des-jorg-h-homosexueller-faschist-und-alkoholisierter-raser/" target="_blank">Die größten Vertreter von Familienwerten sind notorische Ehebrecher, die größten Schwulenfeinde sind heimliche Schwule</a>, und so könnte man den Katalog konservativer Werte durchdeklinieren, einschließlich des Faktums, dass die drei größten „Konservativen“ der Nachkriegszeit – Adenauer, Reagan und Thatcher – ja nicht konservativ waren, sondern revolutionär. Was mich mit ihnen versöhnt. Aber nun zu unseren Autoren.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Beide müssen mich unbedingt als eifernden Konvertiten hinstellen: Lütz stellt mich als „Jünger“ Richard Dawkins’ hin, als hätte ich Dawkins’ „Gotteswahn“ gebraucht, um Atheist zu werden; Gauland kommt „leider nicht umhin, auf die linksradikale Vergangenheit des Autors hinzuweisen“, die er zwar überwunden habe, aber „wie so oft bei großen Konversionen“ leider „im Sinne des leidenschaftlichen Umarmens von Kapitalismus, Liberalismus, Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft“. Diese seien dessen „neue Götter“.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Man erkennt die Absicht und ist verstimmt: Atheist zu sein, und gar Dawkins zu mögen, gilt in Deutschland – anders als in England, wo es sogar innerhalb der Staatskirche eine agnostische Tradition gibt, und wo Dawkins zu den angesehensten Professoren der Universität Oxford gehört – immer noch als irgendwie anrüchig. Ein „Jünger“ ist jemand, der nicht selbst denkt. Kapitalismus, Liberalismus, Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft zu „umarmen“, ist fast noch schlimmer als Atheist und Darwinist zu sein, und eine „linksradikale Vergangenheit“ – in England Ausweis selbstständigen Denkens, siehe Orwell, Koestler, Berlin, Popper usw. usf. – gilt hier als Beweis von Charakterschwäche und macht einen des Achtundsechzigerturms verdächtig. Nein, man sollte möglichst immer in der Jungen Union gewesen sein, immer irgendwie an den christlichen Gott geglaubt haben, immer irgendwie skeptisch gegenüber „Kapitalismus, Liberalismus, Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft“ gewesen sein (aber nicht linksradikal, gell): sonst ist man irgendwie nicht ganz koscher.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Womit ich bei Alexander Gauland bin, dessen Text mich mehr geärgert hat als jener von Manfred Lütz. Dass mich Gauland mit Heine und Harden vergleich, schmeichelt natürlich. Ist es aber Zufall, dass diese beiden Juden sind? Der Artikel ist illustriert mit einem Bild, auf dem Papst Benedikt XVI dem israelischen Staatspräsidenten Schimon Peres die Hand gibt: Was, bitte sehr, hat das mit meinem Buch zu tun? Es sei denn, man will „dem Juden“ Posener zeigen, dass auch „sein“ Staatspräsident dem Papst wohl gesonnen sei. Nun gut, vermutlich hat Alexander Gauland mit der Illustration nichts zu tun; das war die Redaktion von DeutschlandRadio Kultur. Die jedenfalls auch den Eindruck bekommen haben muss, hier ginge es darum, den deutschen Papst gegen einen jüdischen Angriff zu verteidigen. Und dann: Alexander Gauland und ich kennen uns lange genug, um wenigstens unsere Namen richtig schreiben zu können; er schreibt aber durchweg „Posner“. Immerhin steht „Posener“ auf dem Buchdeckel. Wie genau hat er also gelesen, bevor er seinem Zorn freien Lauf ließ?</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Nichts für Ungut. Mit Manfred Lütz bin ich auf der Buchmesse zum Kaffee verabredet; mit Alexander Gauland werde ich sicher bald wieder in der Potsdamer „Ratswaage“ essen gehen. Die andere Wange, nicht wahr. Christen halten sie selten hin, Nichtchristen dafür umso öfter. Und meine Kritik an Benedikt war konservativer – im Sinne des konservativen Anspruchs, anständig zu sein – als diese konservative Kritik jener Kritik.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Link</strong>: <a href="http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/panorama/1993962_Debatte-Der-anmassende-Papst.html" target="_blank"><em>Der anmaßende Papst, von Alan Posener, Frankfurter Rundschau, 15.10.2009</em></a></p>
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Elizabeth Economy &#8211; Director, Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Statement Prepared for the Congressional-Executive Commission on China
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Elizabeth Economy, expert on China-U.S. relations and Chinese domestic and foreign policy, testified before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. She discussed China&#8217;s current environmental challenges and implications for U.S.-China relations.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Elizabeth Economy &#8211; Director, Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Statement Prepared for the Congressional-Executive Commission on China</strong></p>
<p>October 7, 2009, Room 628 Dirksen Senate Office Building, 2:00 pm</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Mr. Chairman and distinguished Members of the Commission, it is my pleasure to have the opportunity to discuss China’s efforts in the realm of human rights, the rule of law and the environment and the prospects for U.S.-China cooperation on this critical issue.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><strong>Introduction</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Over the past five to seven years, China’s leaders have become increasingly concerned about the impact of the environment on the country’s future. Twenty of the world’s thirty most polluted cities are in China; over half of the country’s population drinks contaminated water on a daily basis; and more than twenty-five percent of the land is severely degraded or desertified. As China’s Minister of Environmental Protection Zhou Shengxian acknowledged in 2007, “Pollution problems have threatened public health and social stability and have become a bottleneck for sound socio-economic development.”</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Much of China’s environmental challenge stems from the very rapid and unfettered growth of the past thirty years. The “growth at all costs” model of development has exerted a profoundly negative impact on the country’s air, water and land quality and further transformed China into a major global polluter. The country now ranks as the world’s chief contributor to global climate change, ozone depletion, the illegal timber trade, and pollution in the Pacific.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Yet the inability of China’s leaders to turn this devastating environmental situation around—and the environment is frequently mentioned as a “top” priority by President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao—has as much to do with failings in governance as with economic interests. China has passed well over 100 environmental laws and hundreds of regulations. The challenge rests in effectively implementing these laws and regulations, a process that is seriously impeded by a lack of transparency, rule of law and official accountability.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Whether China’s leaders are able to incorporate better governance practices into their system matters enormously not only for the health and welfare of the Chinese people but also for the rest of the world. If China cannot enforce its current environmental laws and regulations, there is little reason to believe that it will be able to respond effectively to a challenge such as global climate change.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><strong>The Nature of the Challenge</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">China’s leaders are concerned about the country’s environment above all because it is limiting opportunities for future economic growth, harming the health of the Chinese people, and has become one of the leading sources of social unrest throughout the country.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">The economic challenges are most direct. Over the past several years, the Chinese media have reported on a number of environment-induced annual economic losses: desertification costs the Chinese economy about $8 billion, in addition to water pollution costs of $35.8 billion, air pollution costs of $27 billion and weather disaster and acid rain costs of $26.5 and $13.3 billion respectively.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">All told, the Ministry of Environmental Protection estimates that environmental pollution and degradation cost the Chinese economy the equivalent of ten percent of GDP annually. Regionally, the impact is even more devastating. The prawn catch in the Bohai Sea, for example, has dropped by ninety percent over the past decade and a half as a result of pollution and overfishing. In Qinghai, over two thousand lakes and rivers have simply dried up over the past two decades, contributing to significant lost opportunities for industrial growth.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">These economic costs are compounded by a set of mounting public health problems. In a survey of thirty cities and seventy-eight counties released in spring 2007, the Ministry of Health blamed worsening air and water pollution for dramatic increases in the incidence of cancer throughut the country: a nineteen percent rise in urban areas and a twenty-three percent rise in rural areas since 2005.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">About 700 million people in China drink water that is contaminated with human or animal waste, and according to the Ministry of Water Resources, 190 million drink water that is so contaminated that it is dangerous to their health.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Taken together, these economic and health problems are at the root of the rapidly rising public discontent and unrest over the state of the environment. According to Minister Zhou, in 2005, the number of environmental protests topped 50,000.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">While some pollution-related protests are relatively small and peaceful, others become violent, even <span style="font-size:small;">deadly, when demands for change are repeatedly ignored. </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="text-decoration:none;">In August 2009, for example, several thousand villagers in Shaanxi Province stormed a lead and zinc smelting plant after hundreds of children living near the plant tested positive for excessive levels of lead in their blood.Of these, 154 were so sick that they had to be admitted to the hospital. The villagers had been complaining for three years about the </span>plant, and although the local government has promised to relocate the affected families, villagers in the relocation sites have noted that their children are similarly afflicted with lead poisoning.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Environmental protest has also been spurred by the Internet. In May 2009, in Shandong Province, a group of residents posted an online petition calling for an investigation of four cyclohexanone chemical plants. The petioners believed that the factories, which had been in operation since a year earlier, were polluting the air and water and contributing to an unusually high number of thyroid cancer cases. The county government initially ignored the petition, arguing that the factories were not allowed to drain wastewater until they met provincial standards and had passed official water quality tests. Over the next month, the petition circulated on web portals such as Baidu and Tianya, collecting an estimated 1,400 signatures.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">In an open letter published on Internet forums, one resident even called for a broader “uprising” that might not be successful but would “mark the start of a revolution against a crude regime” and even called for the killing of the Communist Party chief and county director. The author later claimed that more than 5,000 people had signed up for the protest. On June 29, 2009, Premier Wen Jiabao ordered the Shandong officials to investigate the claims and respond to the public.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">In addition, the Internet and other forms of telecommunication such as texting have facilitated mobilized protest in urban areas, a phenomenon of only the past two years. There have been significant protests—with up to 10,000 people—in major cities such as Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Chengdu over the planned siting of various large-scale chemical and petrochemical plants. Here, too, violence has occurred in some cases. Notably, in a few of these instances of urban protest, public opposition has been strong enough to lead to a reversal in a government decision. The significance of the urban, middle class protest is that it erupts not “after the fact” in response to a devastating environment-induced economic or public health crisis, but rather in advance of something likely to cause significant public health damage. In a small, but potentially significant, way, therefore, urban protestors have influenced Chinese government policy.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><strong>Reform in Environmental Governance</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">There are a number of reasons for China’s worsening environmental situation and the related proliferating social and economic challenges: a continued priority on economic growth, the pricing of resources that doesn’t support conservation or efficiency, a dearth of political and economic incentives to do the right thing and, most critically, a lack of transparency, official accountability and the rule of law. There is no reliable mechanism for uncovering and dealing with environmental wrongdoing.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">To begin with, accurate environmental data are often difficult to obtain. Sometimes it is a matter of capacity. Local environmental officials may simply not have the manpower, transportation or funds to monitor pollution levels at all the sites for which they are responsible. In addition, local officials are often reluctant to provide information that reflects poorly on their leadership, and there is no institutionalized check on the statistics that are provided. One significant central government campaign to evaluate local officials on their environmental performance—the Green GDP campaign—failed in large measure because the Ministry of Environmental Protection could not access the necessary environmental data from a number of recalcitrant provincial leaders. In a few places, such as Jiangsu Province, there are experiments underway with interntational partners to scorecard factories and make the information available publicly. However, ensuring the transparency element of the process has apparently been quite difficult.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Corruption is also a serious problem. Many local officials often ignore serious pollution problems out of self-interest. Sometimes they have a direct financial stake in factories or personal relationships with factory managers. In recent years, the media have uncovered cases in which local officials have put pressure on the courts, the press, or even hospitals to prevent pollution problems and disasters from coming to light. Moreover, local officials often divert environmental protection funds to other endeavors. A recent Ministry of Environmental Protection-supported study, for example, found that fully half of the environmental funds distributed from Beijing to local officials for environmental protection made its way to projects unrelated to the environment.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Recognizing the potential of local officials to subvert or ignore environmental laws and regulations, Beijing has opened the door to the media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to act as unofficial environmental watchdogs. China’s first environmental NGO, Friends of Nature, was established in 1994, and it was devoted to environmental education and biodiversity protection. Fifteen years later, China has over 3,000 environmental NGOs that play a role in virtually every aspect of environmental protection. Above all, they help bring transparency to the environmental situation on the ground.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">These groups help expose polluting factories to the central government, launch internet campaigns to protest the proliferation of large-scale hydropower projects, sue for the rights of villagers poisoned by contaminated water or air, provide seed money to smaller, newer NGOS throughout the country, and go undercover to expose multinationals that ignore international environmental standards. The media are an important ally in this fight: educating the public, shaming polluters, uncovering environmental abuse and highlighting environmental protection successes.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Environmental NGOs are also at the forefront of advancing the still nascent rule of law in China’s political system. In 1998, Wang Canfa, a professor of law at the China University of Politics and Law, established the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims (CLAPV). The center trains lawyers to engage in enforcing environmental laws, educates judges on environmental issues, provides free legal advice to pollution victims through a telephone hotline, and litigates cases involving environmental law. Between 2001 and 2007, the center trained 262 lawyers, 189 judges and 21 environmental enforcement officials in environmental law.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">In addition, Wang has been advising the Chinese government on the establishment of a system of specialized environmental courts. Beginning in late 2007, the Supreme People’s Court established a network of courts that are responsible only for cases regarding environmental protection and the enforcement of environmental regulations. These environmental protection courts seek to address the weak capacity of judges to solve environmental disputes due to lack of expertise and experience, eliminate the challenge faced by plaintiffs in bringing environmental lawsuits, and strengthen the enforcement of judgements against defendants who are influential in local economic matters. Thus far, these courts have been established in three provinces: Guizhou, Jiangsu and Yunnan. The courts have already heard a number of cases: the Kunming Court in Yunnan Province heard twelve environmental law violation cases during the first half of 2009, while the Guiyang court in Guizhou accepted forty-five environmental cases (and ruled on thirty-seven of them) in its first six months.These environmental courts also have the authority to enforce the judgments they issue. More environmental courts are expected to open throughout China as the success of established courts becomes determined. The biggest problem currently confronting the courts is that they do not have enough cases to consider.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;"><span style="text-decoration:none;">Despite the important role that environmental NGOs and the media have come to play in China’s environmental protection effort, many Chinese leaders remain wary of the intentions of these non-governmental actors. Above all, </span>China’s leaders fear the potential that the environment might become a lightning rod for a broader push for political reform. They thus have put in place a byzantine set of financial and political requirements to confine NGO activities within certain boundaries and to enable their close monitoring by authorities.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">Misjudging these boundaries can bring severe penalties. Wu Lihong worked for sixteen years to address the pollution in Tai Lake, gathering evidence that forced almost two hundred factories to close. In 2005, Beijing honored Wu as one of the country’s top environmentalists, but in 2006, one of the local governments Wu had criticized, arrested and jailed him on dubious charges of blackmail and fraud. Yu Xiaogang, the 2006 winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize and 2009 winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award, both for grassroots environmental activism, has been forbidden to travel abroad in retaliation for educating villagers about the potential downsides of a proposed dam relocation in Yunnan Province. A third environmental activist, Tan Kai, has been in jail since 2006. In 2005, Tan established the NGO Green Watch in his home province, Zhejiang, to monitor local officials’ compliance with orders to shut down several polluting factories that had been the sites of serious protests.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;"><strong>Implications for the United States</strong></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;">For the United States, the capacity of China to meet its environmental challenges is only becoming more pressing. If China does not have transparency, accountability or the rule of law within its domestic environmental system, it cannot be relied upon to be a responsible partner to meet the challenge of a global issue such as climate change. It will not possess the capacity to enforce the regulations that will arise from domestic climate legislation nor the transparency to ensure accurate measurement of emissions and emissions reductions. Nor will China be able to devise and implement a system that will ensure that officials who attempt to subvert the legislation will be held accountable. This does not mean that the United States should not move forward to assist China in setting and meeting targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. It does suggest, however, that building capacity within China’s system of environmental governance should be a top priority for bilateral cooperation.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">There are small-scale efforts already underway within the United States to help China develop such capacity. Over the past two years, the U.S. government has provided $5-$10 million in Development Assistance for programs and activities in the PRC related to democracy, rule of law and the environment. With support from the U.S. government, for example, the American Bar Association has supported both Wang Canfa’s Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims as well as various universities to train public interest lawyers to specialize on the environment and provide expertise to the new environmental courts. Vermont Law School similarly engages partners such as SunYat-sen University to help improve China’s environmental policies, systems and laws. Climate change is also garnering growing interest as an area of cooperation.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;">The state of California is already pushing forward on several fronts, including enhancing transparency in energy use in Jiangsu Province and fostering interagency cooperation at the local level to address climate change. Still, the majority of interest and attention in the United States and China is focused on the opportunity for technology cooperation and transfer. This technology will only be effective, however, if China has the appropriate political environment to support its use. To tackle an issue of the magnitude of climate change, will require far more of a concerted and coordinated international effort by the United States and its partners to bolster the rule of law, transparency and accountability within China.</span></p>
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General Stanley A. McChrystal&#8217;s review of U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan, in which the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan calls for an increase in troops, can be read here.
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<div><strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_A._McChrystal" target="_blank">General Stanley A. McChrystal</a>&#8217;s review of U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan, in which the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan calls for an increase in troops, <a href="http://hiram7.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/mcchrystals-review-of-u-s-military-strategy-in-afghanistan.pdf" target="_blank">can be read here</a>.</strong></div>
<p style="text-align:justify;">The <em>Washington Post</em> also reports on the military debate over whether to withdraw from isolated rural parts of Afghanistan where U.S. troops are more vulnerable to attack and refocus on urban centers.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/05/AR2009100503799.html?hpid=topnews&amp;sid=ST2009100401053" target="_blank">Read full story</a>.</p>
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Buch: Mirko Bott und Christian Berg
Regie: Christian Berg · Musik: Rainer Bielfeldt
Die kleine Alice traut ihren Augen nicht. Da läuft doch tatsächlich ein Kaninchen, das auf seine Uhr schaut. Wo gibt es denn so was? Neugierig geworden, verfolgt Alice das Tier heimlich und landet &#8230; im Wunderland.
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Buch: <a href="http://www.xing.com/profile/Mirko_Bott" target="_blank">Mirko Bott</a> und <a href="http://www.bergs-welt.de/" target="_blank">Christian Berg</a><br />
Regie: Christian Berg · Musik: <a href="http://www.bielfeldt-music.de/" target="_blank">Rainer Bielfeldt</a></strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Die kleine <a href="http://www.zeno.org/Shop/F/0325-00685233-isbn-3458317422-carroll-lewis-alice-wunderland.htm" target="_blank">Alice</a> traut ihren Augen nicht. Da läuft doch tatsächlich ein Kaninchen, das auf seine Uhr schaut. Wo gibt es denn so was? Neugierig geworden, verfolgt Alice das Tier heimlich und landet &#8230; im Wunderland.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Hier ist nichts wie es sein soll. Es gibt Pilze und Kekse, die einen auf wundersame Weise wachsen und wieder schrumpfen lassen. Eine Grinsekatze, die alles besser weiß. Eine Raupe, die so gern ein Schmetterling wäre. Und natürlich die böse Herzkönigin, die allen an den Kragen will. Auf ihrer abenteuerlichen Reise durch das Wunderland erlebt Alice die unglaublichsten Geschichten und begegnet zauberhaften Gestalten aus einer Welt der Phantasie.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Das neue Familienmusical aus der Schmidt &amp; Berg-Werkstatt hat im September 2009 seine Uraufführung im Schmidt Theater Hamburg gefeiert und wird ebendort anschließend noch bis Ende Dezember laufen. Christian Berg erzählt die weltberühmte Geschichte von „<a href="http://www.zeno.org/Shop/F/0325-00685233-isbn-3458317422-carroll-lewis-alice-wunderland.htm" target="_blank">Alice im Wunderland</a>“ nach der Vorlage von <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Carroll" target="_blank">Lewis Carroll</a> auf seine ganz eigene Weise.</p>
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<div>Vom 21.11.2009 bis zum 30.12.2009 im Hamburger Schmidt Theater</div>
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		<title>French-Israeli Soldier Gilad Shalit seen for the first time in a Hamas videotape</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following Gilad Shalit family&#8217;s authorization, video of Gilad Shalit received from Hamas in exchange for prisoner release distributed to news agencies as sign of life, more than three years since soldier captured.
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		<title>17. Filmfest Hamburg verleiht Ehrenpreis Hamburg Filmfestbesteck 2009</title>
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Am 1. Oktober 2009 wird das 17. Filmfest Hamburg einen neuen Preis vergeben: Das Hamburg Filmfestbesteck 2009.
Den ersten Ehrenpreis, der in unregelmäßigen Abständen an besonders treue Filmfest-Teilnehmer während des Festivals verliehen werden wird, erhält der deutschen Regisseur und Drehbuchautor Lars Becker („Nachtschicht“, „Rette deine Haut“, „Kanak Attack“).
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Am 1. Oktober 2009 wird das 17. Filmfest Hamburg einen neuen Preis vergeben: <em>Das Hamburg Filmfestbesteck 2009</em>.</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_10773" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 455px"><img class="size-full wp-image-10773" title="Albert Wiederspiel und Lars Becker" src="http://hiram7.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/albert-wiederspiel-und-lars-becker.jpg?w=445&#038;h=299" alt="Albert Wiederspiel und Lars Becker" width="445" height="299" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Albert Wiederspiel und Lars Becker</p></div>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Den ersten Ehrenpreis, der in unregelmäßigen Abständen an besonders treue Filmfest-Teilnehmer während des Festivals verliehen werden wird, erhält der deutschen Regisseur und Drehbuchautor <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Becker" target="_blank">Lars Becker</a> („Nachtschicht“, „Rette deine Haut“, „Kanak Attack“).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Wiederspiel" target="_blank">Filmfestleiter Albert Wiederspiel</a> wird Becker mit dem Ehrenpreis heute um 21.15 Uhr vor der Premiere von „Nachtschicht: Wir sind die Polizei“ im Hamburger Cinemaxx Dammtor überraschen.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">„Nachdem Lars Becker fast jedes Jahr mit einem neuen Film bei uns vertreten ist, möchte ich ihm für seine kontinuierliche Treue gegenüber dem Filmfest und dem Spielort Hamburg danken“, so Widerspiels Begründung zur Preisträgerentscheidung.</p>
<div id="attachment_10774" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 449px"><img class="size-full wp-image-10774" title="Lars Becker" src="http://hiram7.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/lars-becker.jpg?w=439&#038;h=656" alt="Lars Becker" width="439" height="656" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Lars Becker</p></div>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Das Hamburg Filmfestbesteck 2009 beinhaltet vier Silber-Löffel von Robbe und Berking. Jeder Löffel ist mit einem Wort graviert. Zusammen ergeben die Gravuren auf den vier Löffeln die persönliche Widmung „Das Gelbe vom Ei“, welche sich auf den Film von Lars Becker aus dem Jahr 1999 bezieht.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Für Rückfragen wenden Sie sich bitte an das Presseteam im Pressezentrum in der Pony Bar, Allende Platz 1, Hamburg, Telefon 040 – 441 957 46, E-Mail: <a href="mailto:presse@filmfesthamburg.de">presse@filmfesthamburg.de</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Weitere Informationen unter <a href="http://www.filmfesthamburg.de/">www.filmfesthamburg.de</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Das 17. Filmfest Hamburg findet vom 24. September – 3. Oktober 2009 im Abaton Kino, Cinemaxx Dammtor, Metropolis Kino, 3001 Kino und in den Zeise Kinos statt.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">I&#8217;ve recorded a short video to introduce our inaugural online newsletter, and tell you a little bit about the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative, which wrapped up in New York last week.</p>
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