Topic: ART - on June 4, 2004 at 5:46:00 PM CEST
Why Stalin loved Tarzan and wanted John Wayne shot
The Soviet dictator was also a film buff who'd teach Eisenstein how to make movies. Simon Sebag Montefiore delves into the newly opened Politburo archives
Every one of Stalin's houses had its own private cinema, and in his last years, the cinema became not only his favourite entertainment but also a source of political inspiration. It was one of the venues from which he ruled the Soviet Empire: this was cinematocracy - rule by cinema.
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Topic: POLITIK - on June 4, 2004 at 5:33:00 PM CEST
Photoshop for Democracy
In New Media and Old, groups are using parody to try to mobilize young voters to participate more actively in the 2004 elections.
This is the story of how "The Donald" (Trump, that is) fired George W. Bush and made the world safe for democracy. Of course, it is a fantasy—the kind of fantasy that sustains political activism in an era where the roles of fan, consumer, and citizen are intertwined.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 4, 2004 at 5:20:00 PM CEST
Toxic dust found lurking in tech kit
A study conducted by environmental groups in the US has found yet another way our computers are trying to kill us.
The research found that dust on computer processors and monitors contains several chemicals that have been linked to neurological and reproductive disorders. The source? Brominated fire retardants, such as polybrominated diphenyl (PBDEs).
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Topic: Terror - on June 4, 2004 at 5:16:00 PM CEST
Taliban Told U.S. It Would Give Up Osama - Middleman
U.S. and Taliban officials met secretly in Frankfurt almost a year before the Sept. 11 attacks to discuss terms for Afghanistan to hand over Osama bin Laden, according to a German television documentary. But no agreement was reached and no further negotiations took place before the suicide hijackings in 2001. ZDF television quoted Kabir Mohabbat, an Afghan-American businessman, as saying he tried to broker a deal between the Americans and the purist Islamic Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, who were sheltering bin Laden and his al Qaeda network.
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Topic: Terror - on June 4, 2004 at 5:08:00 PM CEST
Taliban wollten Osama bin Laden ausliefern
Schon Ende 2000 wollten die Taliban den Terroristenführer Osama bin Laden ausliefern. Mittelsmänner verhandelten mit der US-Regierung – die aber lehnte ab.
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Topic: W A R - on June 4, 2004 at 5:05:00 PM CEST
Bush's nuclear "football" enters Vatican
Dubya brings 'nucular' launch codes into the vatican
While George W. Bush and the pope talked peace in the Vatican, a military aide held a bulky black attach case containing the codes the U.S. president would need in order to launch a nuclear war.
It is known as "the football". It has been all over the world and on Friday it entered the hallowed halls of the Vatican.
It was never very far from the president. While he and the pope were speaking alone in the pontiff's private study, it was in the next room.
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Topic: NEWS - on June 4, 2004 at 5:04:00 PM CEST
Guess who's at super-secret Bilderberg meeting today
Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory
The 50th anniversary conference of the elite Bilderberg group – which many believe conspires semi-annually to foster global government – is under way in Stresa, Italy.
The conference, which began yesterday and will run through Sunday, is being hosted at the Grand Hotel des Iles Borromees.
Since 1953, the Bilderberg group has convened government, business, academic and journalistic representatives from the U.S., Canada and Europe with the express purpose of exploring the future of the North Atlantic community.
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Topic: 911 - on June 4, 2004 at 5:01:00 PM CEST
Did al-Qaida trainee warn FBI before 9/11?
More than a year before 9/11, a Pakistani-British man told the FBI an incredible tale: that he had been trained by bin Laden’s followers to hijack airplanes and was now in America to carry out an attack. The FBI questioned him for weeks, but then let him go home, and never followed up. Now, the former al-Qaida insider is talking. In March, 2000, Niaz Khan said he was down and out, waiting tables in a curry house north of London, overwhelmed by gambling debts and increasingly drawn to the message of a radical local imam. The imam extolled Osama bin Laden and the rewards of dying for jihad.
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Topic: S T A R S - on June 4, 2004 at 4:54:00 PM CEST
Maradona unterzieht sich nur einer Kur, wenn die Reha eine Golfanlage hat
Diego Armando Maradona will sich in der Reha-Klinik bei Sao Paulo einer Entziehungskur unterziehen. Noch vor der Anreise hat das argentinische Fußball-Idol Ansprüche an die Anlage gestellt.
Demnach muss das Gelände eine Golfanlage besitzen, so ein Krankenhaussprecher. Der Bau würde jedoch 20 bis 30 Tage in Anspruch nehmen.
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Topic: VIDEO - on June 4, 2004 at 4:38:00 PM CEST
Drei Kinogänger beim Abfilm-Versuch von "Day after Tomorrow" erwischt
In Kinos der USA und Kanada wurden drei Kinogänger beim Versuch erwischt, 'Day after Tomorrow' mit Videokameras abzufilmen.
Zwei der Videopiraten wurden in Los Angeles und Kanada festgenommen. Ein dritter Täter floh in Los Angeles, als das Kino-Personal sich ihm näherte.
Durch die Camcorder schafft man es, die Filme mit relativ hoher Qualität abzufilmen und sie wenige Stunden später zu verbreiten. Daher seien Kinobetreiber gezwungen, mit Metalldetektoren und Nachtsichtgeräten gegen Videopiraten vorzugehen.
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Topic: Terror - on June 4, 2004 at 4:30:00 PM CEST
US advised freeing of Khobar gunmen says Saudi
THE United States advised Saudi authorities to give safe passage to three suspected al-Qaeda gunmen after they killed ten of the hostages they were holding at a hotel in the oil hub of Khobar, a senior Saudi security official has claimed.
The official said that on hearing hostages had been killed during the standoff last weekend, US officials advised the Saudis that letting the militants go would avert a bigger catastrophe.
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Topic: Terror - on June 4, 2004 at 4:27:00 PM CEST
'Dirty bomb' terrorist attack a growing risk
A DRAMATIC rise in the level of smuggling of radioactive material has increased the risk of a "dirty bomb" attack by terrorists, atomic experts warned yesterday.
Evidence from the United Nation’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) shows there were 51 smuggling incidents last year compared with just eight in 1996. Most cases are believed to have occurred in Russia and elsewhere in Europe.
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