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1987

Jan 1 In a ten-minute New Year greeting to the Soviet Union, broadcast over Voice of America, President Reagan speaks of the new freedom for Sakharov (his return to Moscow from exile in Gorky) as helping to "strengthen the foundations for trust and cooperation between our two countries."

Jan 8 In Czechoslovakia a human rights group, Charter 77, on the 10th anniversary of its founding, calls on citizens to shake off their apathy, rid themselves of hopelessness and overcome their fears. Hope for change is said to reside in the Charter movement rather than outside influences.

Jan 8 The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches a new high, closing above 2,000 for the first time.

Jan 20 In Beirut, Terry Waite, special envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury in Lebanon, there to reason and negotiate with the kidnappers, is kidnapped.

Jan 25 In Beirut, "Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine" abducts three Americans and one Indian professor from Beirut University College: Alann Steen, Jesse Turner, Robert Polhill and Mitheleshwar Singh.

Jan 27 In the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev describes his Communist Party as stagnating and having systematic failures. He speaks of staying within Communist principles and calls for secret ballots and giving the public at large a choice of candidates in general elections to local government bodies.

Feb 22 Fawn Hall, who has been granted immunity, admits helping her former boss, Oliver North, destroy documents last November.

Feb 26 A government commission, headed by retired Republican Senator John Tower, concludes that Reagan's passive management style allowed his staff to mislead him about the illegal Iran-Contra transaction.

Mar 4 On national television, President Reagan acknowledges mistakes regarding Iran-Contra.

Mar 30 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is on a peace mission in the Soviet Union. She attracts great crowds of friendly people that surprise and challenge security, and Thatcher's visit is described as historic.

Apr 9 President Reagan describes bugging of the US embassy in Moscow as "outrageous." A journalist asks him about the US bugging of the Soviet embassy in Washington. Reagan replies that further discussion "wouldn't be useful."

Apr 13 Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement to have Macau returned to China in 1999.

Apr 15 The Soviet press agency Tass reports that Mikhail S. Gorbachev proposes ridding Europe of all short-range nuclear missiles along with medium-range missiles.

Apr 28 An engineer from the US and two Nicaraguans are killed in a Contra ambush while working at the construction site for a new dam for the nearby village of San José de Bocay in northern Nicaragua. An autopsy will show that Linder had been wounded by a grenade and then shot in the head at point-blank range.

May 1 In the Soviet Union men and women are standing in lines to a government agency to take advantage of new laws that allow the creation of small businesses.

May 5 The Assemblies of God defrocks televangelist Jim Bakker.

May 8 A photograph of US Senator Gary Hart with Donna Rice sitting on his lap aboard the yacht "Monkey Business" has been made public. Hart has been accused of an extra-marital affair with Donna Rice. He drops out of the running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

May 11 Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon, France, for war crimes committed during World War II.

May 17 A poll by the Allensbach organization, commissioned by West Germany's conservative government, reveals that 58 percent want West Germany to "cooperate equally with America and Russia'' and only 31 percent prefer the government to work closely with America only.

May 26 For the first time in seven years the Soviet Union stops jamming Voice of America radio broadcasts.

May 28 A 19-year old from West Germany flies his a small airplane from Helsinki, Finland, to Red Square in Moscow, across 400 miles of Soviet air space. Gorbachev uses the incident to start making sweeping personnel changes, beginning immediately with Defense Minister Sergei L. Sokolov and Marshal Aleksander I. Koldunov, commander of the air defense.

Jun 12 In a speech at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, President Reagan calls on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall."

Jun 17 In Lebanon, the "Organization for the Defense of the Free People" abducts an American television correspondent, Charles Glass.

Jul 31 At Mecca, a demonstration by Iranian pilgrims against the "enemies of Islam" leads to Saudi police shooting at demonstrations and a stampede by pilgrims. Saudi authorities report 402 dead: 275 Iranians, 85 Saudis including policemen, and 45 pilgrims from other countries.

Aug 1-2 In Teheran, Iranians attack the Saudi and Kuwaiti embassies, two countries allied with Iraq in war against Iran. The following day, over one million Iranians gather in Teheran and call for the overthrow of the Saud family.

Aug 7 Five Central American presidents sign the "Esquipulas II Accord," which calls for amnesty for persons charged with insurgencies, an end to all external aid to insurgents, and for reforms leading to free elections in Nicaragua. President Reagan says he also favors a negotiated settlement. The Contras, meanwhile, have taken and held no ground inside Nicaragua. Their atrocities have alienated people and they have not been gaining support within Nicaragua.

Aug 17 Hitler's old war-hero Nazi colleague, Rudolf Hess, is found dead in his cell. He was the last remaining prisoner in Spandau Prison.

Aug 19 Mexico and Venezuela have stopped deliveries of oil to Nicaragua because of Nicaragua's inability to pay for it.

Aug 19 In Hungerford, Berkshire, England, an unemployed laborer, Michael Ryan, with two semi-automatic rifles and a handgun, kills sixteen, including his mother, wounds fifteen others and kills himself.

Aug 23 In Estonia, the first outdoor political rally since the Soviet takeover in 1940 protests Russian rule. Thousands demonstrate for independence also in Latvia and Lithuania.

Sep 6 A senior Soviet diplomat has suggested a move toward stability in Central America, that the Soviet Union stop sending oil to the Sandinistas in power in Nicaragua in exchange for the US ending its support of the "Contras."

Sep 17 At a small rally in Harlem, televangelist Pat Robertson announces his candidacy for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.

Sep 30 President Reagan complains to the Washington Times that a Soviet "disinformation campaign" has made anti-Communism in the US "unfashionable." He speaks of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee investigations of subversives. "They've done away with those committees," says President Reagan. "That shows the success of what the Soviets were able to do in this country."

Oct 10 The Reverend Jesse Jackson launches his second campaign for the presidency.

Nov 5 The cease fire that is part of the plan does not become a reality. The Reagan administration speaks of support for peace in Central America but continues to support the Contras. The Contras are still launching attacks on Nicaragua. Reagan says he will ''not accept phony democratization designed to mask the perpetuation of dictatorship.'' The Sandinista's see the Contras as largely riffraff from the old National Guard who helped keep the Somoza family dictatorship in power for 43 years.

Nov 15 In Romania people are frustrated by economic depression, food shortages and reduced wages. In Brasov, the country's industrial center, around 20,000 from a plant that manufactures trucks march to the city center and shout slogans such as “Down with Ceausescu,” and “Down with Communism.” They are joined by more than 20,000 others. The crowd sacks the local Communist Party headquarters and the city hall. A military force surrounds the city center, moves in, disperses the crowd and arrests approximately 300.

Dec 8 In Melbourne, Australia, a former law student at a Catholic college, 22-year-old Frank Vitkovic, kills 8 and injures 5 in a Post office building. His gun is taken from him on the 11th floor, and he jumps to his death.

Dec 8 An Israeli truck injures four Palestinian laborers, and rather than treating it as a traffic accident, youths begin thowing stones at Israeli soldiers. They are fed up with the Israeli occupation. It is the beginning of the rising to be known as the First Intifada.

Dec 8 In Washington D.C., Reagan and Gorbachev sign the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty to eliminate 4 percent of their nuclear arsenals. It is the first US-Soviet treaty for the destruction of nuclear weapons and includes on-site monitoring of that destruction.

Dec 17 In Czechoslovakia, Gustáv Husák, 74, resigns as General Secretary of the Communist Party in order to let younger party members participate in power.

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iasgermany-blog · 7 years

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MD Specialization in Germany. The Dream Comes One Step Closer

Yes, that’s what happens when you choose to make the smart move. ICPF-Med is a one-year course that helps qualified doctors from around the world to do their Higher Studies in Germany. This may sound like any other preparatory course but when you discover the exclusive benefits of this course, you will know that this is a unique course.

ICPF-Med is offered by IAS College and University of Allensbach to make Facharzt in Germany an achievable dream. ICPF Med is designed around the prospects of a budding medical professional. In a year’s time it will make you proficient in German language so that the first block to your masters and a brilliant career is taken off the track. Also it will familiarise you in fields that are necessary for your chosen discipline and gets you in groove with the procedures and method of working as practised by the hospitals and clinics here. Acquiring approbation, admission to your preferred universities and exposure to new learning methods and getting used to the professional atmosphere in this foreign country - these are a few of the benefits that this course gives you. In the end comes a surprise though. You get 60+ credits that you can put to use in your university. This means by the time you enter your choice of university, you are well-versed with the professional practices in your area of expertise, the German language, lifestyle, culture and people. Rarely do students enter a foreign university with all that advantage. It will definitely give you an added edge when it comes to academics. Now that’s going to come handy, isn’t it, doctors?

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marymosley · 4 years

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Biden Pushes Facebook and Twitter To Remove Trump Criticisms of Mail-In Voting

We have been discussing the erosion of free speech on social media and the Internet. This includes calls from leading Democratic leaders for years to implement private censorship of political speech, a view supported by academics who have declared that “China was right” about censorship. The latest attack on free speech comes from Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s campaign which has asked Facebook and Twitter to remove posts by Republican President Donald Trump aimed at discrediting mail-in voting. While Trump’s statements have been widely criticized as without foundation, they constitute political speech. Biden however wants these companies to help censor such statements from his opponent and many are supporting the effort.

Once again, we come to this dispute as a free speech matter. Ironically, the Biden campaign is citing that fact that Trump’s views have been widely discredited in calling for censorship. However, that is precisely the reason we do not need censorship. The solution to alleged bad speech is more speech, not the forced silence that the Biden campaign wants to impose through social media companies.

Trump has been tweeting that mail-in voting raises the danger of fraud, a view shared by many in the country. It is also a view roundly rejected by many. It is one of the core issues in this presidential campaign.

Biden however does not want those views to be read by others. Campaign manager Jen O’Malley Dillon declared “Our campaign has sent letters to Twitter and Facebook demanding that this disinformation, which seeks to undermine faith in our electoral process, gets taken down immediately.”

To their credit, Facebook and Twitter declined.

However, the chilling aspect to this controversy is how Biden now advocates such private censorship and wants to enlist these companies to silence his opponent — rather than engage his views in the public forum.

Censorship and speech regulation have become a regular component to Democratic messaging and demands. There was a time when the Democratic Party was a fierce advocate for free speech values. It seems that many are falling out of love with free speech, including many who now view it as a danger.

For years, we have discussed the unrelenting attacks on free speech in Europe with the expansion of hate speech laws and the general criminalization of speech, including international speech crimes. Some in the United States would like to follow down that dangerous path (and universities are reinforcing the view of the need to regulate speech). The implications of such anti-speech policies are evident in Germany where a survey, conducted by the Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach(and published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) found that only 18 percent of Germans feel free to express their views in public. It is the most vivid example of how Europeans are learning to live without free speech.

This movement has now made it to our shores as vividly demonstrated by the presumptive Democratic nominee publicly demanding that his opponent’s views be censored. This is precisely the risk that many of us warned about. Such speech regulation creates an insatiable appetite for more and more censorship, as shown in countries like France, England, and Germany. The lack of any media push back on Biden’s demand shows how resistance to such anti-free speech views are becoming more mainstream in the United States.

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Bilderberger-Treffen 2018, Turin – geheime Verschwörung?

Neuer Beitrag veröffentlicht bei https://melby.de/bilderberger-treffen-2018-turin-geheime-verschwoerung/

Bilderberger-Treffen 2018, Turin – geheime Verschwörung?

(www.conservo.wordpress.com)

Von Peter Helmes

Heute beginnt das Bilderberger-Treffen 2018 im italienischen Turin, das bis zum 10. Juni fortgesetzt wird. Die Teilnehmer zählen sich zur meinungsführenden Elite aus der oberen Wirtschafts- und Finanzwelt, aus der Politik (z. B. Bundesverteidigungsministerin von der Leyen, die nicht zum ersten Mal dabei ist) und aus führenden Medien(-gruppen).

Folgende Themen stehen u.a. heuer auf der Tagesordnung:

◾Populismus in Europa

◾Die Herausforderung der Ungleichheit

◾Die Zukunft der Arbeit

◾Künstliche Intelligenz

◾Die USA vor den Halbzeitwahlen

◾Der Freihandel

◾Russland

◾Saudi-Arabien und Iran

◾Die Welt in der Ära des „Postfaktischen“

„Too Big to Jail“

Seit ihrem Bestehen werden „die Bilderberger, wie sie kurz genannt werden, kritisch beobachtet – meist höchst massiv. Das Zusammentreffen von Hochfinanz, führenden Politikern, „Grauen Eminenzen“ (wie z. B. Henry Kissinger) und Wirtschaftsführern gibt zu allerlei Bedenken Anlaß – wobei diese nicht immer frei von Verschwörungstheorien sind.Der ehemalige BBC-Journalist Tony Goslin, der seit 20 Jahren zu den größten Kritikern der Konferenzen gehört, bezeichnet die Bilderberger als ein „kriminelles Syndikat, welches mit Krieg Geld verdient“. Aber aufgrund ihres Einflusses und ihrer Machtfülle seien sie „Too Big to Jail“ (Goslin).

Nicht wenige Kritiker meinen, die Bilderberg-Gruppe bildete eine geheime Weltregierung und würde während des Treffens wichtige politische Entscheidungen fällen. Nichts Genaues erfährt man in der Regel nicht, da sich die Teilnehmer zum Schweigen verpflichtet haben – was natürlich die Spekulationen noch mehr anheizt.

Deshalb wird die Gruppe der aktiven Politiker besonders attackiert. Goslin: „Es kann nicht sein, dass aktive Politiker an einem Treffen teilnehmen und Schweigegelübde ablegen, dass sie nichts darüber sagen werden, mit wem sie gesprochen haben, was besprochen wurde und größtenteils die Bilderberg-Konferenz nicht einmal erwähnen…“.

Vielleicht erfahren wir in diesem Jahr etwas mehr aus Turin. Die Auguren vermuten, es werde vor allem über Krieg gesprochen (z.B. gegen Russland und/oder Angriffskrieg gegen den Iran, der dann von Saudi Arabien und Israel geführt würde).

Angekündigt ist die Teilnahme von 140 Persönlichkeiten (siehe nachfolgende Liste) von A wie Paul Achleitner, Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender der Deutschen Bank; über B wie José Barroso (ehem. EU-Kommissionspräsident, jetzt Vorsitzender von Goldman Sachs), zuvor Präsident der Europäischen Kommission; über C wie Bernard Cazeneuve, bis 2017 französischer Premierminister; über D wie Mathias Döpfner, Vorstandsvorsitzender der Axel Springer SE (und Time Warner, Vodafone usw.) usw.

Eine faustdicke Überraschung: Der Vatikan ist zum ersten Mal vertreten

Seit der Wahl von Papst Franziskus 2013 findet eine Annäherung zwischen dem Vatikan und den mächtigen, formellen und informellen internationalen Institutionen statt. Die Anwesenheit des Kardinalstaatssekretärs beim diesjährigen Bilderberger-Treffen schließt diesen Annäherungsprozeß plakativ ab. Parolin bestätigte bereits seine Teilnahme.

Dabei geht es nicht nur darum, daß der Vatikan durch seinen höchsten Regierungsvertreter daran teilnimmt, sondern darum, daß die Bilderberger diese Teilnahme akzeptieren. Wo früher Unvereinbarkeit galt, scheint inzwischen ein so hohes Maß an Übereinstimmung erreicht, daß selbst eine Verschmelzung in gemeinsamen, okkulten Gremien möglich geworden ist.

Anders ausgedrückt: Die katholische Kirche unter Papst Franziskus fügt sich in die weltlichen Machtzentren ein und ordnet sich diesen unter.

Papst Franziskus scheint sich „bei politischen Themen wie Klimawandel, Masseneinwanderung, Fake News, Soziale Netzwerke…“ wohler zu fühlen. „Der Eindruck, den er vermittelt, ist der eines Menschen, dessen wirkliche Berufung mehr die zum Weltführer als zum Steuermann von Petri Schiff zu sein scheint“, so InfoVaticana (Quelle).

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CHAIRMAN STEERING COMMITTEE Castries, Henri de (FRA), Chairman, Institut Montaigne Achleitner, Paul M. (D), Chairman Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG; Schatzmeister, Foundation Bilderberg Meetings

Agius, Marcus (GBR), Chairman, PA Consulting GroupAlesina, Alberto (ITA), Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Altman, Roger C. (USA), Founder and Senior Chairman, EvercoreAmorim, Paula (PRT), Chairman, Américo Amorim Group

Anglade, Dominique (CAN), Deputy Premier of Quebec; Minister of Economy, Science and Innovation

Applebaum, Anne (POL), Columnist, Washington Post; Professor of Practice, London School of Economics

Azoulay, Audrey (INT), Director-General, UNES

Baker, James H. (USA), Director, Office of Net Assessment, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Barbizet, Patricia (FRA), President, Temaris & Associés

Barroso, José M. Durão (PRT), Chairman, Goldman Sachs International; Former President, European Commission

Beerli, Christine (CHE), Former Vice-President, International Committee of the Red Cross

Berx, Cathy (BEL), Governor, Province of Antwerp

Beurden, Ben van (NLD), CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc

Blanquer, Jean-Michel (FRA), Minister of National Education, Youth and Community Life

Botín, Ana P. (ESP), Group Executive Chairman, Banco Santander

Bouverot, Anne (FRA), Board Member; Former CEO, Morpho

Brandtzæg, Svein Richard (NOR), President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA

Brende, Børge (INT), President, World Economic Forum

Brennan, Eamonn (IRL), Director General, Eurocontrol

Brnabic, Ana (SRB), Prime Minister

Burns, William J. (USA), President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Burwell, Sylvia M. (USA), President, American University

Caracciolo, Lucio (ITA), Editor-in-Chief, Limes

Carney, Mark J. (GBR), Governor, Bank of England

Castries, Henri de (FRA), Chairman, Institut Montaigne; Chairman, Steering Committee Bilderberg Meetings

Cattaneo, Elena (ITA), Director, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology, University of Milan

Cazeneuve, Bernard (FRA), Partner, August Debouzy; Former Prime Minister

Cebrián, Juan Luis (ESP), Executive Chairman, El País

Champagne, François-Philippe (CAN), Minister of International Trade

Cohen, Jared (USA), Founder and CEO, Jigsaw at Alphabet Inc.

Colao, Vittorio (ITA), CEO, Vodafone Group

Cook, Charles (USA), Political Analyst, The Cook Political Report

Dagdeviren, Canan (TUR), Assistant Professor, MIT Media Lab

Donohoe, Paschal (IRL), Minister for Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Döpfner, Mathias (D), Chairman and CEO, Axel Springer SE

Ecker, Andrea (AUT), Secretary General, Office Federal President of Austria

Elkann, John (ITA), Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles

Émié, Bernard (FRA), Director General, Ministry of the Armed Forces Enders, Thomas (DEU), CEO, Airbus SE

Fallows, James (USA), Writer and Journalist

Ferguson, Jr., Roger W. (USA), President and CEO, TIAA

Ferguson, Niall (USA), Milbank Family Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Fischer, Stanley (USA), Former Vice-Chairman, Federal Reserve; Former Governor, Bank of Israel

Gilvary, Brian (GBR), Group CFO, BP plc

Goldstein, Rebecca (USA), Visiting Professor, New York University

Gruber, Lilli (ITA), Editor-in-Chief and Anchor „Otto e mezzo“, La7 TV

Hajdarowicz, Greg (POL), Founder and President, Gremi International Sarl

Halberstadt, Victor (NLD), Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Chairman Foundation Bilderberg Meetings

Hassabis, Demis (GBR), Co-Founder and CEO, DeepMind

Hedegaard, Connie (DNK), Chair, KR Foundation; Former European Commissioner

Helgesen, Vidar (NOR), Ambassador for the Ocean

Herlin, Antti (FIN), Chairman, KONE Corporation

Hickenlooper, John (USA), Governor of Colorado

Hobson, Mellody (USA), President, Ariel Investments LLC

Hodgson, Christine (GBR), Chairman, Capgemini UK plc

Hoffman, Reid (USA), Co-Founder, LinkedIn; Partner, Greylock Partners

Horowitz, Michael C. (USA), Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

Hwang, Tim (USA), Director, Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative

Ischinger, Wolfgang (D / INT), Chairman, Munich Security Conference

Jacobs, Kenneth M. (USA), Chairman and CEO, Lazard

Kaag, Sigrid (NLD), Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation

Karp, Alex (USA), CEO, Palantir Technologies

Kissinger, Henry A. (USA), Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.

Kleinfeld, Klaus (USA), CEO, NEOM

Knot, Klaas H.W. (NLD), President, De Nederlandsche Bank

Koç, Ömer M. (TUR), Chairman, Koç Holding A.S.

Köcher, Renate (D), Managing Director, Allensbach Institute for Public Opinion Research

Kotkin, Stephen (USA), Professor in History and International Affairs, Princeton University

Kragic, Danica (SWE), Professor, School of Computer Science and Communication, KTH

Kravis, Henry R. (USA), Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, KKR

Kravis, Marie-Josée (USA), Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute; President, American Friends of Bilderberg

Kudelski, André (CHE), Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group

Lepomäki, Elina (FIN), MP, National Coalition Party

Leyen, Ursula von der (D), Federal Minster of Defence

Leysen, Thomas (BEL), Chairman, KBC Group

Makan, Divesh (USA), CEO, ICONIQ Capital

Massolo, Giampiero (ITA), Chairman, Fincantieri Spa.; President, ISPI

Mazzucato, Mariana (ITA), Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London

Mead, Walter Russell (USA), Distinguished Fellow, Hudson Institute

Michel, Charles (BEL), Prime Minister

Micklethwait, John (USA), Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP

Minton Beddoes, Zanny (GBR), Editor-in-Chief, The Economist

Mitsotakis, Kyriakos (GRC), President, New Democracy Party

Mota, Isabel (PRT), President, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Moyo, Dambisa F. (USA), Global Economist and Author

Mundie, Craig J. (USA), President, Mundie & Associates

Netherlands, H.M. the King of the (NLD),

Neven, Hartmut (USA), Director of Engineering, Google Inc.

Noonan, Peggy (USA), Author and Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

Oettinger, Günther H. (D / INT), Commissioner for Budget & Human Resources, European Commission O’Leary, Michael (IRL), CEO, Ryanair D.A.C.

O’Neill, Onora (GBR), Emeritus Honorary Professor in Philosophy, University of Cambridge

Osborne, George (GBR), Editor, London Evening Standard

Özkan, Behlül (TUR), Associate Professor in International Relations, Marmara University

Papalexopoulos, Dimitri (GRC), CEO, Titan Cement Company S.A.

Parolin, H.E. Pietro (VATIKAN), Cardinal and Secretary of State

Patino, Bruno (FRA), Chief Content Officer, Arte France TV

Petraeus, David H. (USA), Chairman, KKR Global Institute

Pichette, Patrick (CAN), General Partner, iNovia Capital

Pouyanné, Patrick (FRA), Chairman and CEO, Total S.A.

Pring, Benjamin (USA), Co-Founder and Managing Director, Center for the Future of Work

Rankka, Maria (SWE), CEO, Stockholm Chamber of Commerce

Ratas, Jüri (EST), Prime Minister

Rendi-Wagner, Pamela (AUT), MP (SPÖ); Former Minister of Health

Rivera Díaz, Albert (ESP), President, Ciudadanos Party

Rossi, Salvatore (ITA), Senior Deputy Governor, Bank of Italy

Rubesa, Baiba A. (LVA), CEO, RB Rail AS

Rubin, Robert E. (USA), Co-Chairman Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Treasury Secretary

Rudd, Amber (GBR), MP; Former Secretary of State, Home Department Rutte, Mark (NLD), Prime Minister

Sabia, Michael (CAN), President and CEO, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec

Sadjadpour, Karim (USA), Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Sáenz de Santamaría, Soraya (ESP), Deputy Prime Minister

Sawers, John (GBR), Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners

Schadlow, Nadia (USA), Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy

Schneider-Ammann, Johann N. (CHE), Federal Councillor

Scholten, Rudolf (AUT), President, Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue

Sikorski, Radoslaw (POL), Senior Fellow, Harvard University; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Poland

Simsek, Mehmet (TUR), Deputy Prime Minister

Skartveit, Hanne (NOR), Political Editor, Verdens Gang

Stoltenberg, Jens (INT), Secretary General, NATO

Summers, Lawrence H. (USA), Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University

Thiel, Peter (USA), President, Thiel Capital

Topsøe, Jakob Haldor (DNK), Chairman, Haldor Topsøe Holding A/S

Turpin, Matthew (USA), Director for China, National Security Council

Wahlroos, Björn (FIN), Chairman, Sampo Group, Nordea Bank, UPM-Kymmene Corporation

Wallenberg, Marcus (SWE), Chairman, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB

Woods, Ngaire (GBR), Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University

Yetkin, Murat (TUR), Editor-in-chief, Hürriyet Daily News

Zeiler, Gerhard (AUT), President, Turner International

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Bilderberg 2018 Turín - Italia

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Bilderberg 2018 Turín - Italia

El Club Bilderberg 2018

Realizará su reunión anual entre el 7 y el 10 de junio en Turín, Italia. Entre los participantes de este año se encuentran: el ex secretario de Estado de los EEUU, Henry Kissinger; el rey Guillermo de Holanda; el Secretario General de la OTAN, Jens Stoltenberg; miembros de juntas directivas de Google y Facebook; presidentes de corporaciones petroleras (Shell, British Petroleum, Total); primeros ministros; presidentes de bancos internacionales (Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Santander, Lazard, KBC); el presidente del Foro Económico Mundial de Davos; ex-directores de la CIA y del servicio de inteligencia MI6 británico; el director de la UNESCO, CEO’s de medios de comunicación globales (Turner, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Economist, Bloomberg, PRISA).

Por primera vez en 66 años, fue invitado el Secretario de Estado del Vaticano, el cardenal Pietro Parolin.

En total serán 128 participantes de 23 países.

Agenda de 12 temas:

El populismo en Europa: la amenaza de gobiernos «populistas» en Europa a las intenciones de Bilderberg.

El desafío de la inequidad: invitado especial, el Vaticano.

El futuro del trabajo: se hablará de la robotización

Inteligencia Artificial: uso de esta tecnología en lo civil y en lo militar (a cargo de la empresa Google Deep Mind)

EEUU ante las elecciones de medio término: En noviembre de 2018 se realizarán las elecciones legislativas para remplazar la Cámara de Representantes y un tercio del Senado norteamericanos. Para la élite liberal-financiera será una oportunidad crucial para intentar restarle poder a Donald Trump.

El libre comercio: En el nuevo mundo de Trump y el brexit, la emergencia de los proteccionismos y nacionalismos.

El liderazgo mundial de los EEUU

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Computación Cuántica: es el nuevo paradigma de computación distinto al de la computación clásica basada en el binarismo de unos y ceros.

Arabia Saudita e Irán: El enfrentamiento entre estos dos países podría devenir en la próxima gran guerra en Medio Oriente.

El mundo de la “posverdad”: Tema que comenzó a ser estudiado cuando la emergencia de las redes sociales posibilitó la multiplicación de sitios, blogs y portales alternativos que rompieron el cerco mediático tradicional.

“Acontecimientos actuales”: Espacio para el debate de temas misceláneos que siempre tienen su lugar en la agenda de Bilderberg.

Lista completa de participantes a Bildeberg 2018:

CHAIRMAN STEERING COMMITTEE

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4 Backwards Medical Beliefs In Otherwise Developed Countries

America is currently suffering from a mass outbreak of bullshit. Long-eradicated diseases are kicking off a comeback tour because people choose to take their medical advice from a washed-up actress and a guy who literally talks out of his ass. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary, less than half of U.S. adults believe human activity has affected climate change, while a fifth say that global warming isn’t even a thing. It’s almost as if a significant portion of the populace has chosen to flip science the bird and go back to the good old days of drowning uppity women to find out if they’re witches. But lest you think this is strictly an American phenomenon …

Sweden Has A Debilitating Case Of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity is a supposed allergy of sorts to the electromagnetic radiation incessantly emitted by newfangled technologies such as power lines, cell phones, and WiFi routers. Blind studies have found zippo evidence that the symptoms described by EHS sufferers are in any way related to the presence of an electromagnetic field, but that data’s done precisely nothing to staunch the steady flow of folks claiming that walking into a Starbucks is like reenacting a scene from Scanners.

Nowhere is the condition more prevalent than in Sweden, where a full 5 percent of the population believe they are, to some degree, hypersensitive to electromagnetic waves (that’s a more than 200 percent increase since 2002). Those hundreds of thousands of cases are probably why Sweden is currently the only country to acknowledge electromagnetic hypersensitivity as an official functional impairment, meaning Swedish citizens can receive financial compensation for the negative effects resulting from the condition. Swedish social services sometimes pay to electrically “sanitize” homes via the installation of metallic shielding, or even rent out remote cabins to the most severe cases of those who cannot stomach populated areas. Expensive, EHS-friendly healthcare facilities have been made available to the public, and there’s even talk in Stockholm of constructing an entire EMF-free community, which we’re going to go ahead and assume would be the village from The Village.

All this for a condition that is entirely self-diagnosed, mostly because there’s not one damned bit of scientific evidence that it truly exists. One thing we can say for certain about the Swedish government: They have no shortage of faith in their citizens.

Now, none of this is to say that sufferers of EHS aren’t really suffering — with the exception of the occasional chronic hooky-player, they’re most definitely experiencing all manner of uncomfortable symptoms, ranging from headaches to fatigue to nausea to nosebleeds. However, studies have demonstrated that cognitive behavioral therapy (of the same type used to treat conditions such as depression, stress, and anxiety) can significantly reduce so-called EHS symptoms after a mere six months of treatment. So while we’re not downplaying the plight of hypersensitive Swedes, we are saying that maybe, just maybe, constructing a goddamned Sweden-sized tinfoil hat isn’t the answer.

Germans Are Deathly Afraid Of Drafts

In a telephone survey conducted by Germany’s Allensbach Institute, more than a third of those interviewed said that a warm midwinter wind commonly known as the foehn — pronounced “fern,” like the houseplant — caused noticeable changes in their health, while one in five said it was the meteorological equivalent of a kneecapping. But that’s pretty standard stuff. After all, there’s a good chance your mom once had you convinced that the common cold was so named because it was caused by actual cold.

bowdenimages/iStock “Well, why do I get colds during the summer sometimes?” “Because you’re an abomination.”

Odder is the fact that opening a window on a sweltering bus in Germany is likely to earn you irritated shouts of “Es zieht!” and a swift smack with the riding crop we imagine every German carries. Directly translated, that means “It pulls” — because the draft supposedly pulls the health and well-being straight out of you. So fearful of air currents are some Germans that they blame them for conditions ranging from migraines to insomnia to kreislaufzusammenbruch. No, we didn’t kick our laptop down the stairs and into a passing thresher; that monstrous word translates to “circulatory collapse,” and while in most places such a condition would get you good and dead, in Germany it gets you a day off work if you’re lucky. Because what’s a little organ system failure to a people who consume their beer by the liter?

Interestingly, there is one real, measurable effect of the much-feared German drafts: When the aforementioned foehn blows in, it brings with it an uptick in traffic accidents and crime. Perhaps because everyone is convinced it’s a sign that their days are numbered. In neighboring Austria and parts of Switzerland, the foehn is even recognized as a mitigating factor in criminal proceedings, making this quite possibly the only circumstance in which the Swayze defense is a viable strategy.

France Is Suffering An Ongoing Epidemic Of “Heavy Legs”

Have you ever had one of those days when your legs simply do not wish to carry your ass to work? Well, so has the entirety of France. They’ve even coined a special term for the condition: heavy legs syndrome.

skeeze/Pixabay Heavy-feeling legs, in a nation where 80 percent of the diet is wine, cheese, and bread? You don’t say …

Unique to France (aka the place with more pharmacies than any other European country), heavy legs syndrome has no concrete medical definition, probably because it’s not recognized as a condition at all anywhere else. Rather, it’s vaguely described as an “unpleasant sensation of pain and heaviness” in the lower extremities. It’s generally treated with a variety of topical creams, a veritable cornucopia of pain medications, and presumably millions upon millions of dollars in lost productivity.

The thing is, all those French people calling in sick to work because their calves have gone up a weight class likely don’t realize that they’re contributing to an epidemic of an entirely different variety. You see, assigning a set of symptoms their own “syndrome” could be more damaging than anyone realizes. The symptoms of so-called heavy legs syndrome, for instance, align nicely with real, treatable conditions, such as varicose veins — which more than half of French women and one third of French men suffer. By apathetically tossing drugs at the symptoms, however, you’re never getting to the root cause of said symptoms.

Kajdi Szabolcs/iStock “They pair perfectly with brie and a nice Chardonnay.”

That’s how you wind up with a heavy drug consumption culture in which nearly a quarter of men under 35 fear that they’re suffering from some medical boogeyman, even when experiencing no symptoms whatsoever. Luckily, there are over 5,000 drugs readily available in France, more than half of which “serve no useful purpose” other than shooting their social medical system budget straight to shit.

In India, Homeopathy Is A Legitimate Medical Practice

In 1796, German physician Samuel Hahnemann had an idea. Building upon his principle of “like cures like,” he developed an approach to medicine positing that substances which would normally induce negative effects on the human body could, when diluted to such a degree that they were no longer even the substances in question, be used to treat ailments whose symptoms resembled the aforementioned negative effects. (Stomach cramps and convulsions? Here, have a trace amount of arsenic!) He called this newly minted field homeopathy, and it’s been causing physicians worldwide to roll their eyes ever since.

Except in India, where a homeopathy practitioner can hang their fancy Homeopathy Practitioner Certificate on the wall of their honest-to-god medical practice. Indeed, it’s the second most popular form of medical treatment in India behind allopathy (better known to most of the world as “non-bullshit medicine”), with around 10 percent of the population putting their trust in flower petals and crossed fingers to cure everything from swine flu to cancer. And they’re doing so with the backing of the government — India is home to hundreds of homeopathic medical colleges and university programs, with state councils training and registering thousands of new practitioners at a growing rate each year.

More horrifying yet is the fact that the Maharashtra state government, in response to an ongoing shortage of science-based medical practitioners, is all set to promote hundreds of homeopathic placebo peddlers to actual doctors, citing the oft-ignored “good ’nuff” school of medical training. That’s sort of like if Florida had a shortage of plumbers, so they handed out plumbing certifications to everyone who’d ever played Super Mario Bros. Either scenario involves disturbing levels of both shit and random mushrooms.

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4 Backwards Medical Beliefs In Otherwise Developed Countries

Sweden Has A Debilitating Case Of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

Germans Are Deathly Afraid Of Drafts

bowdenimages/iStock “Well, why do I get colds during the summer sometimes?” “Because you’re an abomination.”

France Is Suffering An Ongoing Epidemic Of “Heavy Legs”

skeeze/Pixabay Heavy-feeling legs, in a nation where 80 percent of the diet is wine, cheese, and bread? You don’t say …

Kajdi Szabolcs/iStock “They pair perfectly with brie and a nice Chardonnay.”

In India, Homeopathy Is A Legitimate Medical Practice

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4 Backwards Medical Beliefs In Otherwise Developed Countries

Sweden Has A Debilitating Case Of Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

Germans Are Deathly Afraid Of Drafts

bowdenimages/iStock “Well, why do I get colds during the summer sometimes?” “Because you’re an abomination.”

France Is Suffering An Ongoing Epidemic Of “Heavy Legs”

skeeze/Pixabay Heavy-feeling legs, in a nation where 80 percent of the diet is wine, cheese, and bread? You don’t say …

Kajdi Szabolcs/iStock “They pair perfectly with brie and a nice Chardonnay.”

In India, Homeopathy Is A Legitimate Medical Practice

Also check out 6 Mental Illnesses That Only Happen in One Place on Earth and 6 Unexplained Things That Only Happen In A Few Places On Earth.

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