The Islamic State was not created by removing Saddam Hussein’s regime; it is the afterlife of that regime.
The incidence of interstate wars has dropped dramatically over time: The number of wars per pair of countries per year from 1950 to 2000 was roughly a 10th as high as it was from 1820 to 1949. This significant decrease in the frequency of wars correlates with a substantial increase in the number of military alliances per country and the stability of those alliances. We show that one possible explanation of this is an accompanying expansion of international trade. Increased trade decreases countries’ incentives to attack each other and increases their incentives to defend each other, leading to a stable and peaceful network of military and trade alliances that is consistent with observed data.
Myth 1: Screening saves lives for all types of cancer
Myth 2: Antioxidants are good and free radicals are bad
Myth 3: Humans have exceptionally large brains
Myth 4: Individuals learn best when taught in their preferred learning style
Myth 5: The human population is growing exponentially (and we're doomed)
Vor zwei Monaten herrschte wegen der Aufnahme von 1000 Flüchtlingen im 100-Einwohner-Ort Sumte Hysterie. Heute ist davon nichts mehr zu spüren. Die Asylbewerber fallen kaum auf, und es gibt mehr Jobs.
BLINDFOLD MUSLIM HUG
"Hug me if you trust me, I'm told I'm a terrorist", –Muslim man opens his arms to Parisians#Paris #PlacedelaRepublique #ParisAttacks #Islamophobia #MuslimsAreNotTerrorists
Posted by In the NOW on Monday, November 16, 2015
In the U.S., pharmaceuticals are shielded from competition through patents and other regulation. All countries in the TPP already provide 20 years of patent protection for traditional pharmaceuticals through previous international agreements. But in the U.S., biologics are also granted a monopoly for 12 years after they receive marketing approval, whether they have an active patent or not. Pharmaceutical companies say this is necessary to promote innovation (though the Federal Trade Commission disagrees and says it will likely hurt consumers), and the U.S. pushed hard for these same terms in the TPP.
#MigrantCrisis
"Welcome to Germany" - People applaud and greet migrants with gifts as they arrive in Munich#DesperateJourneysLive updates: http://bbc.in/1LQprLQ
Posted by BBC News on Saturday, September 5, 2015
"[Baghdad] is full of cars, including some flashy ones, and luxury shops are mushrooming everywhere as people insist they wish to live their lives “to the full.”There are concerts and fashion shows, even political satires."
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"[Iraq] is the only Arab nation so far to have changed government five times through elections and not through military coups, civil wars or assassinations."
"Science is not a magic wand that turns everything it touches to truth. Instead, “science operates as a procedure of uncertainty reduction,” said Nosek, of the Center for Open Science. “The goal is to get less wrong over time.” This concept is fundamental — whatever we know now is only our best approximation of the truth. We can never presume to have everything right."
Es braucht nicht viel für eine Hatz im Internet: Ein Thema, das jeder kennt. Und ein Opfer, das von der Meute verfolgt wird. Manchmal bis in den Tod.
The war against genetically modified organisms is full of fearmongering, errors, and fraud. Labeling them will not make you safer.
"Meine Familie hat demokratisch abgestimmt: Der Hauskredit wird nicht zurückgezahlt. Ein Sieg des Volkswillens!" Dieter Nuhr
"Kurz angemerkt, nur weil schon wieder hier im Internet ganz vielen die Birne durchbrennt (was die Denkfähigkeit stark einschränkt...Schaum vor dem Mund zeugt nicht von geistiger Tiefe): Dass es den Griechen schlecht geht, ist mir bekannt und extrem erschütternd. Aber 200 Jahre Ausbeutung und Korruption abzulösen durch primitiven Antikapitalismus ist so ziemlich das Dümmste, was man tun kann. Mein Tipp wäre: ein Finanzamt aufbauen, das den Namen verdient, und Korruption bekämpfen, anstatt die anzupissen, die genau dabei helfen wollen." Dieter Nuhr
Hey Didi,
ich hab mir gerade aus Versehen Deinen letzten Post durchgelesen und bin in Sorge: Sag mal, kann es sein, dass Jan Leyk und Til Schweiger Deine Facebook-Seite gehackt haben?
Achja, und außerdem scheint die Alternative für Deutschland einen Bundesparteitag im Kommentarbereich unter Deinem Post zu veranstalten.
Oder hast Du vielleicht einen Virus? Hast Du eine Firewall und wenn ja kennst Du Norton AntiVirus?
Ich schick Dir gerne mal 'ne Floppy-Disk nach Düsseldorf!
CU,
Janni
P.S.: Wusstest Du, dass Deutschland in Wirklichkeit kein souveräner Staat ist, sondern eine GmbH? Wirklich wahr!!!
...uuuund ich nochmal, Didi. Sorry für die Störung.Ich hatte sicherheitshalber meinen letzten Post vor 10 Minuten nochmal in die Kommentarspalte unter Deinen Post geschrieben. Irgendwie scheint Dein Facebook kaputt zu sein, weil: mein Kommentar ist einfach verschwunden und irgendjemand hat außerdem direkt die Kommentarfunktion unter Deinem Post ausgeschaltet!Merkwürdig, vielleicht ein Trojaner?Wer auch immer da gerade Deine Facebookseite manipuliert, er (oder sie) hat ein seltsames Verständis von Demokratie, freier Meinungsäußerung und Diskurs.Ich habe mal sicherheitshalber einen Screenshot von dem betreffenden Post auf Deiner Seite gemacht, damit der heißblütige Demagoge, der da Deine Page gekapert hat, sich hinterher nicht rausreden kann.Mit gebührenfinanzierten Urlaubsgrüßen auf den Satiregipfel,Jan
"Sadly, it's impossible to make jokes like this any more, the Diplomatic Service has lost its sense of humour. I think that's a shame because it's through humour that you build relationships, with other departments, with other diplomats at home and abroad."
No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.
"Ich bin der festen Überzeugung, dass die menschliche Kognition und damit auch das Wissen über neurologische und psychiatrische Krankheiten nur an Primaten erforscht werden kann, denn nur Primaten haben vergleichbare Verknüpfungen der Hirnareale und dieselbe Organisation der Hirnrinde wie der Mensch. Ratten sind als Modellorganismus für höhere kognitive Prozesse vollkommen ungeeignet, da bei ihnen bestimmte Hirnstrukturen überhaupt nicht vorhanden sind."
“I am no longer willing or able to accept the never-ending stream of abuse from animal activists toward myself and my co-workers while seeing them encouraged to increase their aggressive activities by the tolerance and very slow reactions of scientific organizations. There is a clear lack of consequences for illegal actions such as infiltration, violation of privacy, theft of documents, and even intentionally caused distress to animals in order to film supposed animal torture or abnormal behavior,”
"Wenn ein auf seinem Gebiet so renommierter Forscher wie Nikos Logothetis die chronisch-invasiven Neurokognitionsexperimente an Rhesusaffen künftig für entbehrlich hält, dann stellt sich die Frage, ob nicht auch für andere vergleichbare Versuche die zwingende Notwendigkeit – also die Unerlässlichkeit, so zu forschen – überhaupt noch besteht."
"Es ist zynisch, den Rückzug von Prof. Logothetis aus den Primatenversuchen und seine dahinterstehenden Motive derart umdeuten zu wollen, als habe er damit eingeräumt, diese Versuche seien entbehrlich oder durch Versuche mit anderen Versuchstieren zu ersetzen."
But what concerns the US, and many other countries, is not China's rise, as such, but Beijing's efforts to redefine international law to suit its own interests in the sea.
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine?
"So behindert das Niedrigzinsumfeld die Vermögensbildung breiter Bevölkerungsschichten, während die geldpolitische Flutung der Finanzmärkte und der dadurch ausgelöste Boom der Vermögenspreise primär Wohlhabenden zugutekommen, die einen relativ höheren Anteil ihres Geldes in Aktien und Immobilien halten. Die Politik der tiefen Zinsen führt also zu wachsender Ungleichheit."
"Who will die for the European Union? Who would give his life for an entity that existed to promise him prosperity and peace? It is a contradiction in terms. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. There is a moral principle in the American Union. Good, bad, indifferent, however, you wanna take it. The European Union was purely prudential. It's good business. Join the European Union, make money, don't get drafted. Well, the noise from the east is deafening. And the countries on that eastern frontier, Poland, Hungary, Romania, have realized something very important: the rest of Europe doesn't care. The United States does. I mean we don't gonna miss a war just 'cuz it's far away. [...] You cannot maintain a country in which the Eastern Seaboard can't count on the Midwest to get mad. There is no country, there is no such thing as Europe. [...] [T]he blanket statement 'this is europe' is merely a geographic statement about a continent, it is not a moral statement, it is not a statement of art, it is not a statement of truth."
For example, it has been widely known that in Lee's time, Seoul and Pyongyang confidentially discussed the possibility of another inter-Korean summit. Indeed, Lee's memoirs confirmed that such contacts indeed took place in 2009, and again, in late 2010. Lee's memoirs reveal that the confidential negotiations ended in nothing because the North Korean side attached a huge price tag for its willingness to have a summit.
Again, it has long been known that inter-Korean summits are essentially commercial operations, with the South paying the North for a useful photo-op. The first summit cost $450m, while the second summit was also paid for indirectly.
"Let the strong wind of fish farming blow across the country!"
"Let us turn the whole country into a socialist fairyland by the joint operation of the army and people!"
"Should the enemy dare to invade our country, annihilate them to the last man so that none of them will survive to sign the instrument of surrender!"
"Let us turn ours into a country of mushrooms by making mushroom cultivation scientific, intensive and industrialized!"
"They [North Korea's detractors] clap their hands and get loud over a satellite picture of our city with not much light, but the essence of society is not on flashy lights [...] An old superpower that is meeting its sunset may put up a face of arrogance but it can't avoid its dark fate."
Perhaps more surprising, the most beneficial measure Mr Lomborg’s teams evaluated was lowering barriers to trade, which achieves far more per dollar spent than any other option [...]. Completing the treaty currently under negotiation at the World Trade Organisation, for example, would bring developing countries $3,426 for every dollar spent. A free-trade deal encompassing China, Japan, South Korea and the ASEAN countries would be worth $3,438 per dollar spent.
Japanese doesn't have feeling of strain. #ISISクソコラグランプリ LOL pic.twitter.com/Of4XO33Jv9
— OG LOW&SLOW (@r18436572) 21. Januar 2015
I like this one from #ISISクソコラグランプリ pic.twitter.com/9ZlEqNHgLa
— anthony (@xxferrari) 25. Januar 2015
Why you can’t help but love Japan
”Jihadi john = Dr. EVIL
#ISISクソコラグランプリ pic.twitter.com/4G6S8niLox”
— 東京都高校偏差値ランキング 動画 (@tokyo__koukou) 25. Januar 2015
NUMBER ONE !RT @deepquest: Japan responded to #ISIS : by turning it into a Photoshop contest. #ISISクソコラグランプリ pic.twitter.com/K0WCre9iHx
— ⌘Snip' (@Sniperovitch) 25. Januar 2015
— クソコラＧＰ、MAX！ (@kusokoragp) 22. Januar 2015
Hope I'm not too late the memefest everynyan #ISISクソコラグランプリ pic.twitter.com/J7cvlSAWQI
— 黒人 C O L D 黒人 (@immoraldigital) 21. Januar 2015
ISIS threatens to execute two Japanese hostages, becomes Photoshop meme:
#ISISクソコラグランプリ pic.twitter.com/jnLbmVx0na
— Ceiling Gallery (@tokyoscum) 21. Januar 2015
— 白井 潤 ＠ 神殺しの勇敢なる波紋 (@jstensai) 21. Januar 2015
— 湯豆腐 (@YamiYami0429) 20. Januar 2015
— temmo kun (@temmo5) 20. Januar 2015
Space ISIS #ISISクソコラグランプリ pic.twitter.com/5rg7mRe9t2
— ひろみ (@naminaminohito) 20. Januar 2015
#ISISクソコラグランプリ
#日本 #東京
#ズワイガニ
#濁点のつかないロボをあげていくタグ
#大寒 #エリザベート
#クリタワ
#フェスS
#斉藤仁
#ロドス
#Shrinkage
pic.twitter.com/zkKiCBfmNt"😂😂🔪
— #ترجمان الجزيرة (@t00_t123) 21. Januar 2015
“You can kill some of us, but Japan is a peaceful and happy land, with fast Internet. So go to hell.” Peter Payne, Twitter
Germany is joining the U.S. in these actions though the former took the lead in inflicting unspeakable misfortune, pain and disaster on humankind through two world wars.
History and humankind still vividly remember aggression, plunder and racial extermination including the massacre of Jews committed by Germany during the Second World War no matter how loudly it may talk about its postwar reparation.
Germany's attitude to allow the screening of the undesirable movie while blindly following the U.S. cannot but be a dangerous act that can repeat its shameful history.
The screening of the movie that hurts the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK and openly agitates state-sponsored terrorism has nothing to do with the "freedom of expression" touted by Germany. It is evidently agitation of terrorism quite contrary to the purpose and nature of the Berlin international film festival.
[...]
The U.S. and Germany should immediately stop the farce of screening anti-DPRK movie at the film festival.
Those who attempt at terrorist acts and commit politically-motivated provocations and those who join them in violation of the sovereignty and dignity of the DPRK will never be able to escape merciless punishment.
„Tötet ihn“, rief auch ein wilder Haufen von Studenten an der Universität von El Jadia in Marokko, nachdem der Dekan eine Vorlesung über das Werk des marokkanischen Schriftstellers Abdellah Taia gestattet hatte. Nur durch Flucht konnte der Mann verhindern, gelyncht zu werden. Abdella Taia hatte sich als erster Intellektueller Marokkos als homosexuell geoutet. Die Verfolgung der Anti-Ramadan-Picknicker, der Küssenden, der sexuelle Freiheit fordernden Journalisten, der Homosexuellen erfolgt nicht durch einen „Islamismus“, sondern aufgrund des Alltags-Islam, wie er sich in den Gesetzen Marokkos und Algeriens widerspiegelt. Überall auf der Welt, wo der Islam Macht bekommt, werden Frauenrechte und Gedankenfreiheit eingeschränkt, Minderheiten verfolgt. Darauf hinzuweisen, auf diesen gefährlichen Kern des Islam, nicht des „Islamismus“, auch hierzulande, wo er die Macht dazu Gott sei Dank nicht hat, wird von der Linken als „islamophob“ gegeißelt.