While the BBC highlights China's concern its Deutschlandfunk presents the facts, i.e. China catches up with US as climate emitter No 1.
China holt USA als größten Klimasünder ein
China hat die USA als größten Produzenten von Treibhausgasen eingeholt. Das geht aus dem Weißbuch zum Klimaschutz hervor, das die Regierung in Peking heute vorlegte. Danach haben die Emissionen der Volksrepublik inzwischen das amerikanische Niveau erreicht. Dieses lag im Jahr 2005 bei knapp 1,6 Milliarden Tonnen Kohlenstoff. - Experten befürchten, dass sich der Ausstoß von Kohlendioxid in China durch das rasche Wirtschaftswachstum in dem Land bis 2030 verdoppelt.
dradio-newsletters: Deutschlandradio 20 Uhr Nachrichten, 29 Oct 2008
And the BBC:
China warns on emissions control
File photo of a man squatting near a power plant in Beijing, October 2007
Economic growth is sure to remain China's top priority
China has admitted that controlling greenhouse emissions is a "difficult task" and warned that there is little prospect of an early improvement.
In its first policy paper on climate change, Beijing acknowledges for the first time that its greenhouse gas emissions are equal those of the US.
China's reliance on coal to ensure economic growth makes pollution control difficult, the paper says.
It adds that the developed world should do more on the issue.
Thursday 30 October 2008
Friday 17 October 2008
Deutschlandreise
Ich war ja daran gewoehnt, in Reisefuehrern zu lesen, dass man als auslaendischer Tourist, zumal noch als Schwarzer, nicht unbedingt den Osten der Republik besuchen soll. Aber Verhaltensregeln dieser Art kommen mir Spanish vor, oder wie der Englaender sagt "It all sounds Greek to me".
Gammelfleisch? Koennen wir auch
Es ist doch immer wieder schoen, wenn man voneinander lernen kann. Nachdem es nun auch in Deutschland weit reichende Datendiebstaehle gibt , macht sich postwended der Englaender auf, die Teutonen zu kopieren. In Sachen Lebensmittelhygiene.
So berichtet der Guardian am 15. Oktober:
Caterer prepared kebabs close to dead body
A catering company boss prepared kebabs feet away from a dead man lying on a sofa, a court was told. Jaswinder Singh, 45, was cooking opposite the body at the Pappu Sweet Centre in Wolverhampton as it was discovered by police, city magistrates heard. The sudden death of a worker on August 27 was not treated as suspicious, West Midlands police said. At the court hearing yesterday, Singh was fined £3,846 including costs and banned from managing a food business. The court was also told that a dead rat had been found under a cooking pot and rat droppings were discovered during a health inspection.
Press Association
Der Begriff "Gammelfleisch" hat uebrigens schon Einzug in einschlaegige Online-Enzyklopaedien gefunden.
Bleibt mir nur, allseits Guten Appetit zu wuenschen. Ich gehe gleich mal zum Doenermann um die Ecke, kommt jemand mit?
So berichtet der Guardian am 15. Oktober:
Caterer prepared kebabs close to dead body
A catering company boss prepared kebabs feet away from a dead man lying on a sofa, a court was told. Jaswinder Singh, 45, was cooking opposite the body at the Pappu Sweet Centre in Wolverhampton as it was discovered by police, city magistrates heard. The sudden death of a worker on August 27 was not treated as suspicious, West Midlands police said. At the court hearing yesterday, Singh was fined £3,846 including costs and banned from managing a food business. The court was also told that a dead rat had been found under a cooking pot and rat droppings were discovered during a health inspection.
Press Association
Der Begriff "Gammelfleisch" hat uebrigens schon Einzug in einschlaegige Online-Enzyklopaedien gefunden.
Bleibt mir nur, allseits Guten Appetit zu wuenschen. Ich gehe gleich mal zum Doenermann um die Ecke, kommt jemand mit?
Monday 13 October 2008
"Ministers shelve 42-day detention"
What a great day for human rights!
From the BBC website.
It follows a heavy defeat for the government in the House of Lords, which threw out the plan by 309 votes to 118.
Ms Smith said instead the measure would be in a separate piece of legislation to be brought to Parliament if needed.
The Tories said she should just say she was abandoning 42 days. The Lib Dems said it was a "humiliating retreat".
The government's plan to extend the period for which police can hold terrorist suspects before charging them squeezed through the Commons in June by just nine votes.
'Biggest defeat'
Earlier on Monday it was defeated by a majority of 191 votes in the Lords, described by the Conservative former shadow home secretary David Davis as "the biggest defeat in the Lords in living memory".
In a forceful statement to MPs less than two hours after the vote, Ms Smith said: "I deeply regret that some have been prepared to ignore the terrorist threat, for fear of taking a tough but necessary decision."
She said she had prepared a new bill which would allow the director of public prosecutions to apply to the courts to question a terrorist suspect for up to 42 days "should the worst happen".
She said Britain still needed to "be prepared to deal with the worst", adding: "My priority remains the protection of the British people.
"I don't believe as some honourable members clearly do that it's enough to simply cross our fingers and hope for the best. That is not good enough."
'Political posturing'
Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve said the prime minister's "spin doctors" had stopped Ms Smith from "saying in straightforward terms that she is abandoning 42 days".
He told Ms Smith: "You somewhat demean yourself when you, yet again, come back to this argument that those who oppose the government's measures are weak on terrorism."
He said the Conservatives were "perfectly prepared to be firm on terrorism" and pass difficult bills.
"But they have to be credible, they have to be based on evidence and they must not be put forward in a way that smacks of mere political posturing and gimmicks."
He questioned the need for the new bill, asking why the government could not simply use existing civil contingency powers.
Mr Davis, who resigned his seat in protest at the Commons vote on 42 days in June, described the move as a "spectacular climbdown".
Liberal Democrat spokesman Chris Huhne said the government had "comprehensively lost the argument" and was now in "humiliating retreat".
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg added: "The decision to prepare emergency legislation instead is merely a fig leaf which does little to disguise their defeat."
He added: "The push for 42 days' detention was more about ministers posturing and looking tough than it ever was about fighting terrorism."
From the BBC website.
 Ms Smith told MPs her priority was protecting the British peopl |
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said that plans to extend terror detention to 42 days will be dropped from the Counter-Terrorism Bill.
Ms Smith said instead the measure would be in a separate piece of legislation to be brought to Parliament if needed.
The Tories said she should just say she was abandoning 42 days. The Lib Dems said it was a "humiliating retreat".
The government's plan to extend the period for which police can hold terrorist suspects before charging them squeezed through the Commons in June by just nine votes.
'Biggest defeat'
Earlier on Monday it was defeated by a majority of 191 votes in the Lords, described by the Conservative former shadow home secretary David Davis as "the biggest defeat in the Lords in living memory".
In a forceful statement to MPs less than two hours after the vote, Ms Smith said: "I deeply regret that some have been prepared to ignore the terrorist threat, for fear of taking a tough but necessary decision."
 |  The decision to prepare emergency legislation instead is merely a fig leaf which does little to disguise their defeat  Nick Clegg Lib Dem leader  |
She said Britain still needed to "be prepared to deal with the worst", adding: "My priority remains the protection of the British people.
"I don't believe as some honourable members clearly do that it's enough to simply cross our fingers and hope for the best. That is not good enough."
'Political posturing'
Shadow home secretary Dominic Grieve said the prime minister's "spin doctors" had stopped Ms Smith from "saying in straightforward terms that she is abandoning 42 days".
He told Ms Smith: "You somewhat demean yourself when you, yet again, come back to this argument that those who oppose the government's measures are weak on terrorism."
He said the Conservatives were "perfectly prepared to be firm on terrorism" and pass difficult bills.
Lords reject 42-day detention plan
"But they have to be credible, they have to be based on evidence and they must not be put forward in a way that smacks of mere political posturing and gimmicks."
He questioned the need for the new bill, asking why the government could not simply use existing civil contingency powers.
Mr Davis, who resigned his seat in protest at the Commons vote on 42 days in June, described the move as a "spectacular climbdown".
Liberal Democrat spokesman Chris Huhne said the government had "comprehensively lost the argument" and was now in "humiliating retreat".
Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg added: "The decision to prepare emergency legislation instead is merely a fig leaf which does little to disguise their defeat."
He added: "The push for 42 days' detention was more about ministers posturing and looking tough than it ever was about fighting terrorism."
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