Merkel imposes gag order on Union regarding VAT increase:
CDU leader Angela Merkel has reportedly imposed a gag order on her party and faction regarding the topic of VAT increases.
Of course not because the Union does not want to implement a VAT increase - but because voters should not be given the idea that they are firmly planning a VAT increase and then possibly vote for other parties.
The frightening thing about so much stupidity in the strategy? It will probably work with the German voter ...
Those who believed that the meeting of the Whaling Commission was a success for animal rights activists will be proven wrong:
Japan announced that it will double the quota for scientific whaling to more than a thousand whales. In the future, not only minke whales but also endangered fin and humpback whales will be hunted. Homes describes this as a "catastrophe for species conservation."
Under the guise of alleged science, the madness will continue - regardless of whether there will eventually be no more humpback or fin whales left. The threats to small whales will also not decrease in the future - because changes in fishing will not be discussed. Regardless of whether thousands of small whales die in the process.
And of course, all of this is again only for commercial purposes. Even Norway - which certainly has its own whaling history - kills whales mainly to sell them to Japan, where there is more money to be made ...
Apple releases WebObjects 5.3 Update:
Deploys to virtually any J2EE server or the WebObjects J2SE application server
Who hosted the first WebObjects application under Linux on an OpenSource J2EE server?