Barack Obama delivered his only public speech during his trip abroad in Berlin, Germany. Over 200,000 people came and listened to the Senator from Illinois.

Al Gore’s speech on July 17,2008.
The speech, the reception of the challenge in the news and the YouTube video.

Torn between loyalty and an oath doctors have failed their promise to protect life in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib.

I just read in the New York Times that Google has to turn over all user data of YouTube visitors to another company (there is a lawsuit of some kind involved), but the thing that worries me most is that Google actually stored that data … ALL that data since YouTube was launched in 2005!
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Today is the election of the new mayor of Dresden. As I wrote earlier, I actually dug my way through the party programs. It was a quite short endeavor: they all look more or less the same.
In the GDR we only had one party (yes, we had things called »elections« anyway though no one was [...]