Uwe Ohse
Sendedatum 2010-09-03 19:01:28
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http://www.sciencefriday.com/newsbriefs/read/201
Zitat:Lake Tanganyika in east Africa is getting warmer, say geologists from Brown University. Reporting this week in the journal Nature Geoscience, the researchers say the lake has experienced unprecedented warming, rising 2 degrees over the past 90 years, making it the warmest it has been in 1,500 years. Warming surface water will affect levels of phytoplankton upon which fish depend, as it has in the past, the researchers say.

Zitat:Lake temperatures have fluctuated in the past but this warming is unprecedented. “The warmest it’s ever gotten was 24.3 degrees Celsius. It’s never happened to the degree it is happening now,” says Tierney. Lake Tanganyika last reached 24.3 degrees Celsius during a warm period between 600 and 900 years ago. It is currently 26 degrees Celsius, or 78.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

http://www.sciencefriday.com/newsbriefs/read/131
Zitat von Aus dem Jahr 2007, aber trotzdem interessant:Ryan Danby and his colleagues report that spruce tree lines jumped as many as 85 meters in elevation on some slopes during the 1900s, in a study published in the Journal of Ecology. “What that means is that if we were to go out on the landscape in the early 20th century where there was tree line say at 1200 meters hundred altitude, it’s now at close to 1300 meters altitude,” says Danby.

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/06/01/248176/top-killed/
Zitat:How much did the weekend’s Deepwater top-kill failure hurt BP? This much:
Kursverlauf BP-Aktie

Ich vermute, einen besseren Titel für einen Artikel wird es diese Woche nicht geben. Der paßt einfach - damit ist Joseph Cotterill ein herausragendes Werk gelungen.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7778401/Mobile-phones-responsible-for-disappearance-of-honey-bee.html
Zitat:Now researchers from Chandigarh's Punjab University claim they have found the cause which could be the first step in reversing the decline: They have established that radiation from mobile telephones is a key factor in the phenomenon and say that it probably interfering with the bee's navigation senses.

They set up a controlled experiment in Punjab earlier this year comparing the behaviour and productivity of bees in two hives – one fitted with two mobile telephones which were powered on for two fifteen minute sessions per day for three months. The other had dummy models installed.

After three months the researchers recorded a dramatic decline in the size of the hive fitted with the mobile phon, a significant reduction in the number of eggs laid by the queen bee. The bees also stopped producing honey.


Interessant, daß Handys _im_ Bienenstock ein Bienensterben verursachen... aber interessanter wäre eine Erklärung für das Bienensterben von weniger technisierten Bienenstöcken.

[Nein, ich habe keinen Zweifel daran, daß genug elektromagnetische Strahlung üble Folgen haben kann. Ich habe bloß Zweifel daran, daß dieser Versuch irgendeine Aussagekraft hat - Überdosierung sagt ja selten etwas über die Wirkung niedrigerer Dosen aus]


http://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2010/html/sp100531_1.en.html
Zitat:we have some very serious problems and we need to draw some serious lessons. The supervision of fiscal policies, of developments in competitiveness in the euro area economies and of structural reforms needs to be radically improved. We are a monetary union. We now need the equivalent of a fiscal union in terms of monitoring and supervising the implementation of policies on public finances.

Der Ruf nach dem Anfang vom Ende der unabhängigen Innenpolitik.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/05/24/bloomberg1376-L2XBO60YHQ0X-3.DTL
Zitat:The European Central Bank will need to boost bond purchases to avert a "complete collapse in confidence" among foreign investors who hold about 2 trillion euros ($2.5 trillion) in Greek, Portuguese and Spanish debt, economists at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc said.

Laut RBS halten ausländische Investoren griechische, portugiesische und spanische Schulden in Höhe von rund 2000 Mrd. EUR.
Oops.

http://blogs.ft.com/brusselsbl [verkürzt] o-european-default-report-says/

Zitat:
The €2,000bn estimate is based on data compiled by the Bank of International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and the World Bank. It differs from earlier estimates in that it includes not only foreign bank exposure to Greek, Portuguese and Spanish debt, but the exposures of other institutions such as insurance companies and pension funds.

What is the breakdown? Foreign foreign institutions are estimated to have held €338bn of Greek debt at the end of 2009 - equivalent to 142 per cent of Greek GDP. In Spain’s case, the figure is €1,500bn - also 142 per cent of GDP. For Portugal, the figure is €333bn, the equivalent of twice its GDP. The combined amount for the three countries is €2,171bn, but the RBS authors think the total exposure of foreign institutions has declined a little in the first five months of this year.


Beeindruckend.

http://www.welt.de/die-welt/wirtschaft/article7866358/Aerzte-streiken.html
Zitat:Im Ärztestreik an den kommunalen Kliniken ist kein Ende in Sicht. Die Ärztegewerkschaft Marburger Bund sprach am Montag von 200 bestreikten Kliniken. Man werde den Druck in dieser Woche mit Protestkundgebungen weiter erhöhen.

http://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/rumaenien168.html
Zitat:Mit Krediten des IWF hält sich Rumänien über Wasser - zu knallharten Bedingungen. Die Regierung sieht sich zu radikalen Lohnkürzungen im öffentlichen Dienst gezwungen. Deshalb sind viele Staatsbedienstete in den Streik getreten.
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Denn ab Ende Juni sollen alle Gehälter im öffentlichen Dienst in Rumänien um 25 Prozent gekürzt werden – egal ob jemand bisher 600 oder 6000 Lei im Monat verdient hat.

http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/0,1518,697736,00.html
Zitat:Die Flugbegleiter von British Airways (BA) haben am Sonntag einen weiteren fünftägigen Streik begonnen, nachdem Gespräche über ein Verhandlungsangebot der Geschäftsführung gescheitert sind.

http://www.wedel-schulauer-tag [verkürzt] reik-ist-das-denn-erlaubt.html
Zitat:Schleswig-Holsteins Lehrer wollen am Donnerstag für eine höhere Bezahlung und gegen die hohe Arbeitsbelastung streiken. Um die Zulässigkeit der Aktion gibt es Streit

http://de.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idDEBEE64U0GV20100531
Zitat:In Frankreich haben die führenden Gewerkschaften erneut zum Streik gegen die Rentenreformpläne der Regierung aufgerufen.
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Bereits vergangenen Donnerstag waren Hunderttausende Franzosen auf die Straße gegangen, um ihrem Ärger über die Pläne Luft zu machen.

http://www.chinacartimes.com/2 [verkürzt] t-back-to-work-with-24-payrise/
Zitat:Honda strike is over, workers get back to work with 24% payrise

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/10196161.stm
Zitat:Museum and library workers in Glasgow have staged their fourth day of strike action in a month.

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=406269
Zitat:FERRIES and cruise ships were stranded at Greek ports yester day as seamen staged a 24-hour strike against a government decision to lift restrictions on vessels docking with foreign crews, port officials said.

http://www.businessday.co.za/articles/Content.aspx?id=110513
Zitat von Südafrika:A THREE-week passenger train strike ended yesterday after workers accepted a new wage deal.
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Meanwhile, a one-day strike at Rea Vaya’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system ended yesterday afternoon.

http://nachrichten.sardinien.c [verkürzt] der-italien-und-sardinien.html
Zitat:Streikkalender Italien und Sardinien für Juni 2010

Bis jetzt 6 geplante Streiks alleine im Transportbereich.
http://derstandard.at/12713778 [verkürzt] 0-oeffentliche-Stellen-kuerzen
Zitat:Gegen die Einschnitte im öffentlichen Bereich reagieren die Gewerkschaften empört. Italiens stärkster Gewerkschaftsverband CGIL plant am 25. Juni einen vierstündigen Generalstreik, um gegen die Maßnahmen der Regierung zu protestieren.

http://preview.bloomberg.com/n [verkürzt] clear-backlog-from-strike.html

Zitat:South Africa’s port and rail operator said it may take 30 to 60 days to clear a backlog following the end of a strike that crippled exports of metals, wine and fruit.

The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union yesterday signed an agreement with state-owned Transnet Ltd. for an 11-percent wage increase and a once-off payment of 1 percent of workers’ salaries. The deal added 1 billion rand ($132.4 million) to Transnet’s wage bill, the company said.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/may/25/afghans-believe-us-funding-taliban
Zitat:It's near-impossible to find anyone in Afghanistan who doesn't believe the US are funding the Taliban: and it's the highly educated Afghan professionals, those employed by ISAF, USAID, international media organisations – and even advising US diplomats – who seem the most convinced.

One Afghan friend, who speaks flawless English and likes to quote Charles Dickens, Bertolt Brecht and Anton Chekhov, says the reason is clear. "The US has an interest in prolonging the conflict so as to stay in Afghanistan for the long term."

Zitat:
It's not just the natural assets of Afghanistan but its strategic position, the logic goes. Commanding this country would give the US power over India, Russia, Pakistan and China, not to mention all the central Asian states.

"The US uses Israel to threaten the Arab states, and they want to make Afghanistan into the same thing," he says. "Whoever controls Asia in the future, controls the world."

"Even a child of five knows this," one Kabuli radio journalist tells me, holding his hand a couple of feet from the ground in illustration. Look at Helmand, he says; how could 15,000 international and Afghan troops fail to crush a couple of thousand of badly equipped Taliban?


http://www.africa-investor.com/article.asp?id=6979
Zitat:Angola's parliament on Thursday unanimously approved a law that downgrades the status of the central bank, giving the government a major say in setting monetary policy.
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According to a copy of the text obtained by Reuters, the central bank's "operational autonomy" will be safeguarded.

But the bank will also in future "stop setting the country's monetary, financial and foreign exchange policy", merely "participating" in interest rate decisions, overseeing the oil producing country's foreign exchange reserves and organising the currency auctions that determine the value of the kwanza.


Die Zentralbank Angolas verliert ihre Unabhängigkeit.

Frage: Ist das die Letzte?


http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2010/06/02/249331/to-brazil-from-europe-with-love/
Zitat:On Tuesday, the emerging-markets powerhouse experienced what basically amounts to a failed bond auction. Brazil’s Treasury cancelled the sale of $81m of fixed-rate notes due in 2021:

And not for the first time either.

That’s the third scrapped auction of Brazilian fixed-rate bonds maturing in 2021 in the past month. The first cancellation was on May 6 and the second on May 27.


Brasilien bekommt 10 Jahre laufende Staatsanleihen nicht an den Mann.

Hm.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100527/ap_on_re_ca/cn_canada_g20_security_costs_4
Dies ist eine Nachricht aus einem parallelen Universum ohne irgendeine Form von Geldmangel:
Zitat:Canada's Conservative government says the nearly $1 billion it plans to spend on security at the G-8 and G-20 summits next month is worth it.

Canada has budgeted up to $930 Canadian (US$885 million) for the summits. By comparison, the stated amount spent by Pittsburgh on security for last September's G-20 summit was US$12.4 million. London's stated amount for the G-20 last year was US$10.9 million.


http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/banken-versicherungen/agricultural-bank-of-china-bei-weltgroesstem-boersengang-fehlen-investoren;2591796
Zitat:Die vor dem größten Börsengang aller Zeiten stehende Agricultural Bank of China (AgBank) ist einem Zeitungsbericht zufolge händeringend auf der Suche nach Investoren.
[...]
Das Geldhaus führe derzeit Gespräche mit diversen Staatsfonds aus dem Nahen Osten, berichtete "China Business News" am Montag unter Berufung auf Konsortialkreise.

http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCATRE64R35J20100530?sp=true

Zitat:
Budget Minister Francois Baroin indicated on Sunday that France should not take for granted its AAA rating, which allows Paris to borrow relatively cheaply on international markets and finance its big budget deficit.

"The objective of keeping the AAA rating is an objective that is a stretch, and it is an objective that, in fact, partly informs the economic policies we want to have," Baroin said.

"We must maintain our AAA rating, reduce our debt to avoid being too dependent on the markets, and we must do this for the long term," he told Canal+ TV in an interview.


Frankreich fürchtet um das AAA-Rating.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/india-heatwave-deaths
Wo wir hier doch das kälteste Frühjahr seit Menschengedenken und der letzten Eiszeit haben, sei hiermit ein Gegenindiz zur These, daß wir eine globale Abkühlung erleben, gegeben:
Zitat:Record temperatures in northern India have claimed hundreds of lives in what is believed to be the hottest summer in the country since records began in the late 1800s.

The death toll is expected to rise with experts forecasting temperatures approaching 50C (122F) in coming weeks. More than 100 people are reported to have died in the state of Gujarat where the mercury topped at 48.5C last week. At least 90 died in Maharashtra, 35 in Rajasthan and 34 in Bihar.
[...]
Even India's northern hill stations – historically a refuge from the heat – have not escaped. Temperatures in Shimla, recorded a peak temperature of 32.4 Celsius, eight degrees hotter than the seasonal average.
[...]
Mean temperatures for both March and April were the highest in more than 100 years.


http://derstandard.at/1271377849518/Bis-2013-Italien-will-400000-oeffentliche-Stellen-kuerzen
Zitat:Das Sparprogramm der Regierung Berlusconi mit Einsparungen in Höhe von 24 Milliarden Euro setzt den italienischen Staat auf Entschlackung. In den nächsten drei Jahren Jahren sollen 400.000 Jobs in der zentralen und in der lokalen Verwaltung reduziert werden, geht aus dem Plan hervor. Nur jeder fünfte Beamte, der in Pension geht, soll nachbesetzt werden. Damit solle die Zahl der Staatsbediensteten im Land von den heutigen 3,3 Millionen auf 2,9 Millionen reduziert werden, berichtete die Mailänder Wirtschaftszeitung "Sole 24 Ore" am Montag. Dies entspricht einer Personalkürzung von 12 Prozent.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/italian-young-people-lost-generation
Zitat:The ranks of idle Italians accounts for more than a fifth of all 15- to 29-year-olds, thanks mainly to a surge in the industrial north, where the job market shrivelled last year as national GDP dropped 5%. "Young people with more qualifications and with a well-off family behind them go abroad, and get along; all the others are left behind," said sociologist Chiara Saraceno.

With so many people kicking their heels, the number of 18-34-year-olds still living with their parents rose to almost 60% last year, up from 49% in 1983. Among those between 30 and 34, a third are still enjoying home-cooked pasta. Releasing the figures, the national statistics agency Istat said the stay-at-home generation could no longer be derided as lazy "bamboccioni", or big babies, since those actively seeking to flee the nest had tripled since 1983. The downturn turned them into hostages in their own homes.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/01/pakistan-record-temperatures-heatwave
Zitat:Mohenjo-daro, a ruined city in what is now Pakistan that contains the last traces of a 4,000-year-old civilisation that flourished on the banks of the river Indus, today entered the modern history books after government meteorologists recorded a temperature of 53.7C (129F). Only Al 'Aziziyah, in Libya (57.8C in 1922), Death valley in California (56.7 in 1913) and Tirat Zvi in Israel (53.9 in 1942) are thought to have been hotter.

Temperatures in the nearest town, Larkana, have been only slightly lower in the last week, with 53C recorded last Wednesday. As the temperatures peaked, four people died, including a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder and an elderly woman. Dozens are said to have fainted.


gut, hier ist heute ein wenig kalt, aber tauschen möchte ich trotzdem nicht Bild: Skeptisches Gesicht

Zitat:The extreme heat was exacerbated by chronic power cuts which have prevented people from using air-conditioning. The electricity has cut out for eight hours each day as part of a severe load-shedding regime that has caused riots in other parts of Pakistan where cities are experiencing a severe heatwave with temperatures of between 43C and 47C.

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/european-crisis-offers-a-blessing-for-medvedev/407129.html
Zitat:The euro meltdown is presenting President Dmitry Medvedev with a strategic opportunity that he needs to seize to lay an unquestionable claim to history.
[...]
The euro may not be dead yet, but the European Union enlargement process definitely is. That is particularly bad news for Turkey, Ukraine, Serbia and Moldova. The crisis is changing the mood in nations across the former Soviet Union as far as EU membership is concerned. Suddenly, the EU is no longer a source of prosperity and growth but of hardship and stagnation.

For the first time in 20 years, the gravitational pull of the EU is abating. Herein lies a geopolitical opportunity for Moscow to push for an economically viable form of integration in the former Soviet space — and even in parts of Eastern Europe — that would spark economic growth in the region and provide a boost, not a drag, to Russia’s economy.


Die Schwäche der EU: Eine historische Chance für Medvedev.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126806429
Zitat: For decades, illegal marijuana cultivation has been an economic lifeblood for three counties in northern California known as the Emerald Triangle.

The war on drugs and frequent raids by federal drug agents have helped support the local economy — keeping prices for street sales of pot high and keeping profits rich.

But high times are changing. Legal pot, under the guise of the California's medical marijuana laws, has spurred a rush of new competition. As a result, the wholesale price of pot grown in these areas is plunging.
[...]
With the Reagan crackdown, Custer recalls, wholesale prices shot up — to as high as $5,000 a pound. That sudden and ironic windfall for those growers willing to risk prison time transformed the community.
[...]
"Outdoor growers are having a hard time unloading their fall harvest," Custer says. "And this is six months later and when some people do move it, they don't get nearly the price they were hoping for."

That goes for both legal growers who cultivate limited quantities of pot under the medical marijuana laws and illegal operators who often grow larger amounts.

Prices are now much less than $2,000 a pound, according to interviews with more than a dozen growers and dealers. Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman says some growers can't get rid of their processed pot at any price.


Frage: sind fallende Drogenpreise inflationär oder deflationär?

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201005281127dowjonesdjonline000503&title=german-econ-minusfed-is-also-active-in-currency-markets
Momentan schläft die Zensur wohl:
Zitat:The U.S. Federal Reserve is also active in currency markets, German Economics Minister Rainer Bruederle said Friday.

His comments come on the heels of remarks made by his Swiss counterpart who said that the Swiss National Bank purchased euros to buttress the single currency.

"It is a regular procedure of central banks," to intervene in currency markets, Bruederle said. "It is not a secret," that central banks have a foreign exchange rate target, he added.

Bruederle said "eruptive" movements have to be avoided. He previously said that China holds 25 percent of its foreign exchange reserves in euros.


http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Owners-Stop-Paying-Mortgage-nytimes-4276925797.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=7&asset=&ccode=
Zitat:The average borrower in foreclosure has been delinquent for 438 days before actually being evicted, up from 251 days in January 2008, according to LPS Applied Analytics.

Etwas mehr als 14 Monate kostenfreier Wohnung genießt der typische amerikanische Hypothekennehmer, der nicht mehr zahlungsfähig oder -willig ist, bevor er aus "seinem" Heim geworfen wird.
Gruß, Uwe

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