CARACAS (AFP) — Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez on Saturday cancelled the broadcast of his promised show, presidential sources told AFP, thus interrupting a four-day marathon of himself talking, singing, and haranguing detractors. … For Saturday, a debate had been scheduled between Chavez and conservative Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, a novelist who ran for president in [...]
When talking about banking I usually point out that there is no need for a government controlled central bank. “It would be total chaos!” is an usual response. This of course is utterly ignorant to history, the existence of different forms of payment (just think of credit cards), foreign currencies and local currencies. Local currencies [...]
“Mehr als 47 Milliarden Euro – das Kabinett hat die höchste Neuverschuldung in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik beschlossen. Finanzminister Steinbrück verteidigt seinen Etatentwurf – und schließt nicht aus, dass das Haushaltsloch sogar noch größer ausfällt.” Wir machen uns Gedanken, was für eine Natur wir der nächsten Generation hinterlassen, investieren in zahlreichen Umweltprojekten. Gleichzeitig versklaven wir [...]
Gast: “Zahlen, bitte!” Wirt: “Das macht dann zusammen… (murmelt vor sich hin und schreibt) 2 Weizen, 1 Wasser, 1 kleine Cola, 5 Pils, 2 Korn, 1 Hütchen, 1 Bitter Lemon, 1 Tomatensaft, 1 Limo, 2 trockene Weißwein. Dazu 2x Schnitzel nach Art des Hauses, gemischter Salat, 3 Steaks, 2x der Lachs…” Gast: “Moment mal, was [...]
A Saudi inventor’s proposal to insert semiconductors subcutaneously in visitors and remotely kill them if they misbehave will not be patented in Germany. … the system would contain a poison such as cyanide, which could be released by remote control to “eliminate” people if they became a security risk. The document said this could be [...]
Venezuelan Socialist Dictator Hugo Chavez declared on his weekly radio address last Sunday that “rich men are not human beings” and ordered the expropriation of more than 10,000 hectares (24,710 acres) of privately-owned land. “Rich men are not human beings, but animals with human aspect,” Chavez told the nation on his broadcast Aló Presidente (Hello, [...]
Auf wahl-o-mat.de kann man 30 Fragen beantworten und es werden Ähnlichkeiten zu bestehenden Parteien dargestellt. Spaßeshalber habe ich es mal gemacht, mit folgendem überraschenden Ergebnis: FDP. Im Detail möchte ich kurz auf einige Fragen eingehen: Übersprungen habe ich die Fragen, die von einer falschen Prämisse ausgehen: – Beispielsweise nach der bevorzugten Förderung der Familie… GAR [...]
Police in the UK are encouraging citizens to report people who drive nice cars or buy expensive items to the authorities in a new campaign entitled, ‘Too Much Bling? Give Us a Ring’. Police’s latest brainwave: Report people who wear too much ‘bling’ to Crimestoppers oh my…
The Armed Forces will be drafted in to run state schools under plans to drive up discipline and respect in classrooms. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178508/Right-fall-line-orrible-little-pupils-Government-wants-military-run-state-schools.html I wonder when they propose the Battle Royale Act…
Local government officials in China have been ordered to smoke nearly a quarter of a million packs of cigarettes in a move to boost the local economy during the global financial crisis. Quelle lol
