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Schiller-Institut: Die Weltlandbrücke wird Realität
Jetzt mit Leseprobe: Vorwort: Das Ende der "freien" Marktwirtschaft: Wir brauchen Gesetze zur Rettung des Gemeinwohls!


Lyndon LaRouche: Die kommenden 50 Jahre

Das Prinzip von Entwicklung: Dynamik, nicht Statistik

Von der Ehrlichkeit gegenüber der Natur

Max Planck zum 150. Geburtstag

Überlegungen zur Klimahypothese:
Von der Physik der Atmosphäre aus gesehen, gibt es kein Klima. In der Atmosphäre spielt nur das Wetter eine Rolle.

+++ 22. Januar 2010 +++

Debate on Rationing Medical Care Relaunched in Germany

The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung featured calls for the triage of care to patients, in its Sunday, Jan. 17 edition. Health economist Friedrich Breyer of the University of Constance is quoted saying that "the discussion about rationing in the health system has to be conducted now," because economic growth is on the decline and people are living longer. "We are no longer able to finance the increase in medical knowledge and expenses with a growing economy," he argued. And Christiane Woopen, a Cologne-based medical ethics expert and member of the government ethics council, lamented that it "is taboo in Germany [to discuss] which illnesses are to be treated and with what priority."

As for the president of the German Medical Association, Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe, he indicated that "clandestine rationing" is already being done in German hospitals under the impact of budget restraints. In many hospitals, he said, cancer patients, for example, do not get the appropriate cancer therapy, but the inexpensive therapy. While the burden of decision-making now lies with the medical staff, Hoppe treaded into dangerous territory by proposing that politicians, rather than professionals, define the criteria for which treatments and patients should have priority.

This has kicked off an intense public debate in Germany. Birgit Fischer, the director of the health insurer Barmer Ersatzkasse denounced Hoppe's charges, on Jan. 19, on ARD TV, saying that he was arguing from a "medical ethic" viewpoint and was spreading panic among the insured citizens. Current practice, she said, is to find the kind of treatment that "precisely fits" the individual patient. However, as she added that "research on treatments" was required to "make truly individual treatments possible," which would then lower expenses, her arguments indeed seemed to go into the direction of rationing.

Note that a new book has been published on Karl Brandt, one of the masterminds behind the infamous T-4 euthanasia program of the Nazis. Brandt was among the seven Nazi doctors convicted and sentenced to death by the U.S. at Nuremberg, including specifically on charges of euthanasia.



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+++ 29. Juli 2010 +++

Immer deutlicher sichtbar: Obama „dreht durch“

US-Präsident Barack Obama, der schon immer eine anfällige, narzißtische Persönlichkeit war, dreht nun offenbar psychologisch durch. Er und sein engster Kreis brüsten sich zwar mit seinen „erfolgreiche... [weiter]

+++ 29. Juli 2010 +++

Budapest weist IWF zurück

Am 22.7. stimmte das ungarische Parlament mit überwältigender Mehrheit von 301:12 Stimmen (bei 386 Mitgliedern) für das Gesetzespaket von Ministerpräsident Viktor Orban für eine „nationale wirtschaftl... [weiter]

+++ 29. Juli 2010 +++

Hungary Tells the IMF to Get Lost

On July 22, the 386-member national parliament of Hungary passed the "national economic revolution" package of Prime Minister Viktor Orban with an overwhelming majority of 301 to 12 votes and one abst... [weiter]

+++ 29. Juli 2010 +++

Kesha Rogers Mounts in Polls

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+++ 29. Juli 2010 +++

Russia Funds Ambitious New Cosmodrome

While a certain faction of the Russian leadership around Anatoli Chubais clings to the illusion of creating a new nanotechnology and financial services bubble, others are moving ahead to build up the ... [weiter]

+++ 20. Juli 2010 +++

Obamas Popularität sinkt weiter, die Entscheidung rückt näher

Nach der Verabschiedung von Präsident Obamas Finanzreform in den USA am 15.7. wurde an der Wallstreet und der Londoner City gefeiert. Auch wenn sich die meisten Europäer noch Illusionen hingeben: Die ... [weiter]

+++ 20. Juli 2010 +++

Elite Russian Magazine Features LaRouche's 1995 Speech to Duma

The July 14 issue of the Russian monthly VVP published an article titled, "Endgame for Financial Globalization", written by Alexei Perochinny and other experts in the "Global Adventure" researc... [weiter]

+++ 20. Juli 2010 +++

Obama in the Bunker as Cities and States Collapse

With passage of the Obama financial reform bill on July 15, the champagne bottles were uncorked on Wall Street and in the City of London. Contrary to the illusions of most Europeans, the financial com... [weiter]

+++ 20. Juli 2010 +++

"Strategy of Tension" in Italy Was Made in London

The "unspeakable truths" of Italian postwar terrorism are presented in a new book by one of Italy's most famous prosecutors, Rosario Priore, and journalist Giovanni Fasanella. Over the past 30 years, ... [weiter]

+++ 20. Juli 2010 +++

EU-Rettungsaktionen sind verfassungswidrig -
die Bürger müssen mobilisieren

Am 7.7. stellten die vier „Anti-Euro-Professoren“ Wilhelm Hankel, Wilhelm Nölling, Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider und Joachim Starbatty in Berlin in einer Pressekonferenz ihre erweiterte Verfassungskl... [weiter]

+++ 10. Juli 2010 +++

The EU Bailout Is Illegal and Unconstitutional!
EIR at Press Conference of Anti-Euro Professors

The four “anti-euro professors” in Germany – Wilhelm Hankel, Wilhelm Nölling, Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider, and Joachim Starbatty – held a press conference in Berlin July 7, to announce that they ha... [weiter]

+++ 10. Juli 2010 +++

More Action against the Euro: “The Protective Shield from Brussels Will Not Save the Currency Union!”

The five German plaintiffs in the case against the EU bailout at the Constitutional Court — Wilhelm Hankel, Wilhelm Nölling, Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider, Dieter Spethmann and Joachim Starbatty — ... [weiter]

+++ 10. Juli 2010 +++

EIR Confronts Trichet, Who Defends
Bankers' Law against Constitutional Law

Asked by EIR, at his monthly press conference in Frankfurt, about the Constitutional challenge against the European “financial safety net” filed by the “Four anti-euro professors” in Germany, E... [weiter]

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