Kopf des Tages … James Clapper

Der Koordinator der 16 amerikanischen Geheimdienste, James Clapper, hat Spähangriffe in einer Kongressanhörung auf ausländische Spitzenpolitiker verteidigt. «Die Absichten politischer Führungen, wie auch immer sie ausgedrückt werden, sind das Grundsätzliche, was wir sammeln und analysieren müssen», sagte Clapper am Dienstag in Washington.

via NZZ: Geheimdienstchefs schlagen zurück

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The Pale Blue Dot.

Via Freshome:

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of planet Earth taken in 1990 by the Voyager 1 spaceprobe from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) from Earth. The Voyager 1 spacecraft, which was leaving the Solar System, was commanded by NASA to turn its camera around and to take a photograph of Earth across a great expanse of space, at the request of Carl Sagan.

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Aufgeschnappt: A true Republican

Watching the Republican Party use the full faith and credit of the United States to try to roll back Obamacare, watching its members threaten not to raise the debt limit — which Warren Buffett rightly called a “political weapon of mass destruction” — to repeal a tax on medical devices, I so wanted to ask a similar question: “Have you no sense of responsibility? At long last, have you left no sense of responsibility?” (…) What a long way we have yet to go.

John G. Taft mit einer lesenswerten Abrechnung in der NEW YORK TIMES: The Cry of the True Republican

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