At 150 Birthday can not avoid wet eyes. So often been reminded of the great moments in the history of German social democracy this morning at the Leipzig Gewandhaus, to Otto Wels' speech against the Enabling Act, the new beginning after 1945, the under subscribed by the incarceration Kurt Schumacher, in Warsaw Willy Brandt's genuflection that an already moving party leader enters the stage. With his speech now following Gabriel puts the hard community and themselves. Still deeper into a state of emotion This became apparent in a thunderous applause from the audience, on the other hand the fact that Gabriel always has to use the gossip sequences to pick up the handkerchief. The SPD had certainly not done everything right in their history, Gabriel says, "but we have never done anything to be ashamed of what we had so much that we had to change our name SPD". The SPD was since it was founded by Ferdinand Lassalle in Leipzig "the backbone of German democracy", "democratic constant in German history."

Four months before the election, the SPD celebrates itself and it should also be remembered on this special day that it was not of course some time ago that not only befriended leaders from abroad, but also the representatives of the Federal Republic had come to honor the party. As the SPD had celebrated its centennial 50 years ago, the state representatives were missing, says Gabriel and looks like in the first row of the audience, where the representatives of the German constitutional bodies sit. Even today there are still tough battle, but no more hostility. Then he falls into his own trap, but more on that later.

Even the French president recalled in Leipzig at Godesberg. And he probably has his own reasons. How often does he hear the call in France, the French Socialists needed a Godesberg, says the man who is ground a year after taking office between rigor and pressure for reform on the one hand and the Left Party and the politics of the street on the other. Hollande committed in his speech that his party could well learn from the German Social Democrats. One can get the impression that the French use the concert in Leipzig, to maintain an internal politically motivated speech to allow his people indirectly, to a message. Godesberg as a synonym for the need to accept realities, as a synonym for the inevitability of a policy agenda? So it sounded – but not again: Because Hollande quintessence of Godesberg is: as much market as necessary, as much solidarity as possible. In the original German Karl Schiller, however, had formulated: As much market as possible, as much planning as necessary.

The Leipzig Symphony Orchestra plays a composition from the pen of the University of Music Director David Timm, of the Social Democratic songs "When we step since 'to Since'" and "brothers, to the sun, to freedom" has merged in a sort of medley of the tunes of the "Marseillaise "(in honor of the French score) and the fraternity song" Thoughts are free ", which is one of the favorite pieces of the German President. Joachim Gauck also comes in his speech not pass Godesberg. And he also connects the resort to the party program in 1959 with a barely concealed reminder: Sometimes it only possible for the parties to bear their own voters impositions, which are contrary to the short-term party interests. Such decisions were responsible decisions for the whole country.

Spared at another location Gauck the SPD, however, do not. The President is keen to present an overall assessment of the German SPD. This means that he also mentioned alongside those of Kurt Schumacher the resistance of the SPD against Hitler against the forced merger with the KPD in the east. But this also, that he even Ostpolitik occurs in the enumeration of the merits of the SPD in addition to the socio-political reforms of the seventies, but only the "first, innovative phase of Ostpolitik," which is to say well, that he, the East German pastor, the late Eastern policy of the West German state, which wanted to know from the civil rights movements behind the Iron Curtain little, does not think much. The recipient of this criticism, Helmut Schmidt, also sitting in the front row of the Gewandhaus.

The party had already started on Wednesday with celebrations. In the evening there was the Museum of Fine Arts, a festive reception with international celebrities. Among the Social Democrats and Socialists were representatives from Burma, Iraqi Kurdistan and Mexico. Steinbrueck was a much sought-after man on this evening: Even him a gentleman named Roger Liddle was presented at the pure walking. The Briton has now been knighted. Lord Liddle Steinbrueck was presented as a co-author of the Blair-Schröder paper, by the way, is called in the UK Blair-Schröder paper. "Ah," Steinbrueck said, "but is now also quite a few years ago." 14 calendar years, to be exact. Perhaps it is felt for the chancellor candidate for a few more years.

Smiling, navy suit and stole turquoise, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde arrived, Thursday, May 23 in the morning, the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR) in Paris. The former Minister of Economy (2007-2011) will have to defend their choice to have resorted in 2007 to a private and costly arbitration to settle a legal dispute regarding the resale of Adidas by Crédit Lyonnais, controlled by Bernard Tapie in 1993. She risks being indicted for "complicity in forgery and embezzlement of public funds."

The procedure Christine Lagarde for complicity in embezzlement and false in this case date 2011. At the time, the RGC had herself spoke of "numerous anomalies and irregularities" in this case. Excerpts from the indictment of the RGC were published Wednesday, May 22 in The Chained Duck, who calls it "ruthless": "In all these decisions systematically unfavorable to the interests of (…) the state resulting from and consistent evidence suggesting that under the apparent regularity of an arbitration procedure, in fact conceals a concerted effort to provide the spouses Tapie (…) the amounts they could not previously obtain "justice and write the prosecutor.

Intentionally just when hochfragile this state is reached, open the festival organizers, the gateway to the underworld. Then it goes into, for example, the dark Under the leadership of Gaspar Noé's "Irréversible" where rape and murder are lurking, then you fall into the night with the same filmmaker from Tokyo, "Enter the Void". Even Lars von Trier "Melancholia" and last Leos Carax with "Holy Motors" in Cannes already delivered such wild out-of-body experiences, travels into the heart of their dreams and fears, Images drug trips. And now just Nicolas Winding Refn, with "Only God Forgives".

This almost inaudible vibration of the bass speaker, so it's already happening. As if there simmering something just below the cinema seats, which is glowing lava from the earth's core, or the same hell itself In Bangkok in all its sweltering heat, a city full of dark rooms, dipped against in red and yellow and blue light, which remains a chance the realm of shadows. And not only in Cliff Martinez's music semitones of perdition condense on the fate motif: A son must bury a brother avenged, the insatiable hatred of a mother to be breastfed. Or not.

Again Gosling is at the center, this time as the boss of a Thai Boxing club in Bangkok, the only facade is the drug ring run by his brother, and especially his mother – Kristin Scott Thomas as incredible blonde Hell bride, a mix of Lady Macbeth and Donatella Versace. This world consists of mask-like men's faces and venal women in pale glass cases, slowing everything unreal, with slow motion no longer in the pictures, but equal in the movements of the actors themselves, and then again these explosions of violence, the true battle plates from human Meat leave, action paintings from the blood. Against the will of style who rules here, does "drive" like a faded-friendly video.

And once again, one wonders why sex and violence are so inextricably intertwined in the cinema of the present, especially with filmmakers who really represent is still disturbing questions. This started already in François Ozon, who has revived the "Belle de Jour" idea of ​​a prostitute who is supposedly hidden in every woman. But Claire Denis can not let them in "Les Salauds / bastards," where she gives birth to a male-capitalist Strauss-Kahn-like monsters, revenge and hate figure – but only to divert quite different. Even in the film competition for the third world rate of Chad, "Grisgris" by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, govern the Crime Lords, the most beautiful girls are commodity, and the village women respond with their own form of violence.

All this is still nothing compared to the bloody Oedipal castration furor and metaphors with the samurai sword, the Nicolas Winding Refn ascends to the raging desire again to be Lord, this can unleash a city like Bangkok. His hero, even dumber than usual, he gives hands as sexual organs, but even this may not touch anything here. The meetings with the beautiful Maï (Ratha Phongam) they are tied, each touch of a woman must be converted into violence against a man who allegedly have these hands even killed his own father – and at the end they find a bloody resting place in the mother , the hated, loved, desired demon.

At the end of shows in the second week, the true function of that wild cinema trips that are so fond placed here: One is sucked and spat out, climb into the underworld down and may yet resurface, clapping wildly and yells a Boo – as in the very divided response to "Only God Forgives". But the best thing is to discuss together with two thousand other movie fanatics who also excited about the currently viewed, you will be part of that hive-like hum and Diskursbruzzelns, which is called in the film world "buzz". Above all, it is very awake.

The reason for the extinction of the miozänischen crocodile species was mainly the change in the waterways. "The uplift of the Andes changed the courses of rivers," explained the paleontologist Marcelo Sánchez of the University of Zurich, who led the international research team together with his colleague Torsten Scheyer: "So the Amazon drains today known not in the Caribbean but in the essentially cooler Atlantic. "

The topic of brain development in dinosaurs have Stephan Lautenschlager (University of Bristol) and Tom Huebner from the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover made in the current issue of the "Journal of Evolutionary Biology". And meant here is not about the course of evolutionary history, but in the course of adolescence: Roughly speaking, they took the opportunity to look at the changes in the adolescent brain dinosaurs.

Therefore changed in the investigated dinosaurs not only the proportions. While elementary functions corresponded well already estimated at about three years of animals in which the adult is estimated twelve year old specimens, the researchers found some massive changes that are likely to be hung together with the growth in the changing metabolism and adaptation to environment and lifestyle. So they made a massive enlargement of the areas of the skull determined that served the perception and processing of odors – adjustments to "adult" tasks?

But what motivated our ancestors, sometimes to exert their heads and bring human culture and development in spurts but then perceptible progress? What was the engine of development?

Mariano Rajoy will not talk about the statements of Jose Maria Aznar in which opened the door to a return to the policy hipottica and where Censur the direction of the economic policy of the Government, which Remat with a "need to cut taxes now." Asked about it until half a dozen occasions, the Prime Minister escudndose rehuy each question that "does not comment jams the opinions of former presidents of the Government and, therefore, I will not do."

"You will not find any posts against a former president and less against Aznar" he repeated a hermetic Rajoy in Brussels, which has not even say if he saw yesterday wanted the interview to the former president in Antena 3. His reaction contrasts with the politician that has generated buzz in Spain.

In a press conference at the European Council trmino Brussels, Rajoy has stressed that it will continue with its economic policy. In his view, "the track record we need to keep" and will not "change the policy" because if there will be "fooling" the Spaniards. As, has stated that it will maintain "the pace and background" to achieve the creation of jobs and growth, the two main objectives, according to defined. "We had to make decisions, but we have already begun to correct these imbalances, as evidenced by indicators such as inflation, the deficit, external debt and trade balance," said.

it was the only area in which you might say that you have answered to Aznar as expressly eluded and again make a valoracin. "It will not meet any polmica" he said. And although journalists have insisted with different questions. "I beg you do not make me say the same even if in the same way," he replied again. "I have to worry about what I have to worry."

However, it has ruled that financial institutions will need ms espaolas public money, although s believed to be unnecessary ms dip into European funds, although it still remains a remainder of 60. EUR 000 million loan from the European Stability Mechanism (Mede). "In the event it was needed, not have to use the Mede. If needed, we could go out and get that money into the market." Rajoy said after that, if necessary, it is "very minor amounts." "I'm not worried about that issue" has settled.

The case begins with the publication, Tuesday, May 14, in the "opinions" of a articleintitulé "The last of the semite" (The last Semitic) by Joseph Massad, a specialist in Middle East Palestinian origin attached at the American University of Columbia. In this text, the university claims to advance even create controversy: according to him, the Zionist movement in Europe had "espoused anti-Semitic ideas to justify the creation of a Jewish state" and says that Israel relies Anti-Semitic arguments to justify its existence.

"The text immediately sparked intense debate, as Joseph Massad and his editor at Al-Jazeera had probably expected," said the British newspaper "The Guardian". For the conservative Israeli daily "Jerusalem Post" article controversy "is just another illustration of the use that is Joseph Massad Al-Jazeera to broadcast its vicious ideas about Israel and Zionism" that would worthy "of remarks on neo-Nazi websites." The University of Palestinian origin, in fact, already published several articles on the website of the Qatari highlighting the so-called "racist" policy of the Jewish state.

After six days of almost constant controversy surrounding the disputed text, Al-Jazeera decided, Sunday, May 19, to simply withdraw its site. A choice that, this time, take short defenders Joseph Massad. "This is an unprecedented act of censorship on a site – the English version of Al Jazeera – which previously enjoyed a total freedom of expression", carried away the pro-Palestinian blog Electronic Intifada. "This is proof that the dynasty of Qatar is the boot of Israel", carried away by his side the Angry Arab blog. More nuanced, the "Guardian" said the publication and the withdrawal of the article has not been for "only consequence of upsetting everyone."

Sailor and silk scarf in a navy blue jacket, the wife of the former head of state who was mayor of Paris between 1977 and 1995 has been generous with advice and anecdotes, to the attention of those who recently just celebrated its fortieth anniversary, and the meeting of activists, rather old for the occasion, crammed into a few square meters. "I've known her grandparents, charming people. His grandfather, the former diplomat Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet, has really helped my husband, "she slipped them on reassuringly about the ancestry of NKM, she praised the physical and intelligence …

To the delight of her audience, she went back to the earliest campaigns in Corrèze, telling how Hollande had learned by watching her husband. "It was presented to the parliamentary elections in Haute-Corrèze and he did not knew how to reach the owners of the animals! Is that you have knowledge of kindness, know a little the case, namely petting the animals, say nice things … It was obvious that he had never done that. What fun! "

ROME – No to the widespread use of webcams in nurseries: he established the guarantor of the Policy which has banned the use of webcams installed in a private nursery school in Ravenna. The guarantor for the protection of personality and privacy of children must take precedence over the needs of parents and school facilities. In its decision the Court noted, first guarantor – in reference to what is stated by the European Commission – that the use of video surveillance systems must be actually necessary and proportionate to the objectives to be pursued, the more so when it comes to devices particularly invasive such as webcams. The installation of webcam's own admission of the nursery was aimed at meeting the tranquility of the parents rather than to protect the safety of children. But even assuming that the objective was to protect the incolumit of minors, such finalit – according to the guarantor – this should be pursued balancing it with other fundamental interests of the child, such as its confidentiality and the free development of his personality. There is no indication, however, even in the arguments from kindergarten, elements that justify the use of the installation for security purposes. The electronic connection – according to the authorities – did not ensure sufficient protection to children: First, the view from parents was not limited to the activities of their child, but of course also extended to those of other children and teachers, and secondly, the system did not guarantee that others, besides parents provided with access credentials, they could view the images: a circumstance which opened to the possible risk that the images could be recorded and then used also for purposes wrongdoing. The guarantor has therefore declared unlawful data processing work and banned kindergarten further processing of the images. Bribes Sixth, prescription for household gods do not want it, have recourse to the Supreme Court

At his home in Vailima, near the capital Apia, he has spent the last four years of his life. It is nicely decorated as a museum. One might almost think, Stevenson still live here: Since family photos hanging on the wall, the author with severe vertex in a white suit or on his favorite horse, Jack. "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen lies open on a table. On display are first editions of "Treasure Island" and "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". In the nursery, there are puzzles and dominoes on the floor, as are his step-children Isobel and Lloyd come down only briefly.

Visitors marvel at the tropical variety on the market Maketi fou: Lots of varieties of bananas, coconuts, taro, taro the tasty and seasonal pineapple and papaya – vegetables and fruits come in all colors and shapes. Palusami is a delicious snack: Taroblätter, spinach and coconut juice, wrapped in banana leaf and baked in the oven, there are around every corner.

Likewise Oka: raw fish marinated in lemon juice with coconut, onions, cucumbers and tomatoes. Banquets are baked in a traditional Samoan Umu-furnace: in the earth with fire and hot stones. The ingredients come in banana leaves on the stones, leaves are placed over it. The cooking takes hours.

For refreshment there Niu, cooled coconut. In the shell there is only one place where the hole for the straw can be easily pressed. There is a legend: Sina was a beautiful girl, and she had a small eel. As the eel was bigger, he fell in love with it. Sina got scared, ran away, and her roommate killed the eel.

Apia, the capital, on Sunday morning. Everywhere chic dressed families go to church, women are often Sunday hats. A house of worship follows the other on the promenade of Beach Road, all are packed. From each penetrates the melodic music of sangesstarken Samoans: Here, life is celebrated with fervor.

According to the "Wall Street Journal," China is speeding up its diversification strategy in terms of foreign exchange reserves. At the head of three. 400 billion of assets, Beijing would have, in particular, 1. $ 250 billion of U.S. Treasuries. It is vis-à-vis the asset class that China seeks to distance. As the possible end of the quantitative easing policy may depreciate these government bonds. To this end, China's foreign exchange administration, called SAFE (State Administration of foreign exchange) have opened in New York, a new office of a dozen people, whose mission is to select investments on U.S. soil in the "private equity", real estate and other asset classes. This entity would not have a specific budget, but would be allocated by the SAFE cash on a case by case basis. The same agency has also adopted a similar strategy in the UK, where it invested more than $ 1.6 billion in at least four investment, particularly in infrastructure and real estate. Able to assign its reserves to asset managers, SAFE seems increasingly tempted to invest itself. A strategy reminiscent of what the Chinese sovereign wealth fund CIC, which also diversifies its investments and takes particular share in industrial projects, as he did with GDF-Suez.