... so ist seit 1998 der Schwangerschaftsabbruch wieder nur aus streng medizinischen Gründen sowie wegen Vergewaltigung oder Missbildung des Fötus erlaubt. | abtreibung in polen

women on wave

kleine, aber nicht unwesentliche zusatzinfo zu dem polnischen sex-skandal.

after the legislation comes the budget.

29 09 2006: pentagon's all time high budget for 2007 went through the senat: with an extra of 70b=$448 billion in total | wp

still not all generals are satisfied as they are debating already 2008 budget plans.

"Schoomaker refused to give Rumsfeld a detailed Army budget proposal for the fiscal year 2008 ... There is no sense in us submitting a budget that we cannot execute … a broken budget." | slate, how bush wrecked the army, 25 09 2006

However, a good portion of the new money the Army seeks is not directly tied to the war, Kosiak cautioned, but rather to new weapons it wants — particularly the $200-billion Future Combat System, a family of armored vehicles that is eventually to replace nearly every tank and transporter the Army has. | latimes

a lot of times when i look up a general, i get a glimps into his stockmarket portfolio.

sometimes i am wondering what others might have heard. sitting at the same event, listening to the same persons, but being surprised by the questions from the others: where i hear critizism, they hear laud ...

galtung is hard to listen to anyhow, because of his strange singsang. in the end he likes his visions, he likes zapatero and he - as many elders like to say - is optimistic that the young ones will find the solution: he likes the future, too.

for palestine he suggests a 6 state solution: according to the formular: if israel wants peace, they need to be nice to their neighbours and talk with them.
at the end of the day facts and history won't lead anywhere - most needed are: imagination and visions as using no man's land between new borders as national parc. (¿eritrea?)

the word asymmetric has made it somehow from war/conflict/turmoil to asymmetric history, asymmetric peace, ... what they mean by that, they didn't tell.

Etymology: Greek asymmetria lack of proportion, from asymmetros ill-proportioned, from a- + symmetros symmetrical | webster