Topic: History - on November 17, 2011 at 10:41:00 AM CET
The return of the neo-Nazis
Many Germans are in a state of shock after a neo-Nazi cell, which was allegedly responsible for a string of murders, was uncovered.
The group, which calls itself the National Socialist Underground, has been accused of murdering eight people of Turkish origin and one of Greek origin between 2000 and 2006 and the fatal shooting of a policewoman in 2007.
German police are uncovering chilling details about the group and the German authorities are being asked hard questions about how the group remained active for over a decade.
Is neo-Nazism a growing problem across Europe?
Inside Story, with presenter James Bays, discusses with guests: Andreas Hieronymus, the managing director of Research on Migration and Racism and a board member of the European Network Against Racism; Elis Cindik, the deputy chairwoman of the Turkish Community in Germany; and Jamie Bartlett, the head of the Violence and Extremism Programme at Demos.
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Topic: health - on November 17, 2011 at 10:30:00 AM CET
Pestizid-Einsatz belastet auch Bioproduktion
Der Einsatz von Pestiziden in der herkömmlichen Landwirtschaft erschwert nach Angaben der Biobranche eine pestizidfreie Bioproduktion. Wie der Bundesverband Naturkost Naturwaren (BNN) in Berlin erklärte, könne eine vollständige Rückstandsfreiheit nicht garantiert werden, da Bioprodukte in einer Umwelt mit vielen Belastungen produziert werden. "Eine hundertprozentige Sicherheit kann nur ein weltweites Verbot aller Pestizide bieten", erklärte BNN-Expertin Kirsten Arp.
Selbst im grönländischen Inlandeis seien inzwischen Spuren von Pestiziden nachweisbar, heißt es in einer BNN-Mitteilung. Weltweit müssten Biobauern damit leben, unverschuldet Opfer der Schadstoffbelastung zu werden. So hätten im vergangenen Jahr 300 Biobauern in Brasilien um ihr Überleben kämpfen müssen, weil in ihrer Sojaernte Endosulfan-Rückstände gefunden wurden. In Europa sei laut Erhebungen der Europäischen Union ein Fünftel aller Oberflächengewässer schwer schadstoffbelastet.
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Topic: POLITIK - on November 17, 2011 at 10:27:00 AM CET
Stop the Great Firewall of America
China operates the world’s most elaborate and opaque system of Internet censorship. But Congress, under pressure to take action against the theft of intellectual property, is considering misguided legislation that would strengthen China’s Great Firewall and even bring major features of it to America.
The legislation — the Protect IP Act, which has been introduced in the Senate, and a House version known as the Stop Online Piracy Act — have an impressive array of well-financed backers, including the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Motion Picture Association of America, the American Federation of Musicians, the Directors Guild of America, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the Screen Actors Guild. The bills aim not to censor political or religious speech as China does, but to protect American intellectual property. Alarm at the infringement of creative works through the Internet is justifiable. The solutions offered by the legislation, however, threaten to inflict collateral damage on democratic discourse and dissent both at home and around the world.
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Topic: nuclear power - on November 17, 2011 at 10:25:00 AM CET
French Nuclear Energy Firm Fined $2 Million for Hacking Greenpeace
The French utility company EDF has been fined €1.5 million (more than $2 million) for hacking into the computer networks of Greenpeace.
The world's biggest nuclear energy supplier, the mostly-state-owned EDF (Électricité de France S.A) was charged with concealing stolen documents and illegal computer intrusion after hiring a Paris-based detective agency in 2006 to snoop on Greenpeace's computers in an effort to investigate, and ultimately thwart, the environmental group's plan to block EDF from building new nuclear plants in the United Kingdom.
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