links vom 10.09.2012
berliner-zeitung.de: Bettina Wulff Biografie: Im falschen Leben #
holger schmale hat offenbar schon das neue wulff-buch gelesen. bettina wulff muss in der amtszeit ihres mannes wahnsinnig gelitten haben. unter anderem war die dienstvilla in keiner weise „warm und kuschelig“, ein grosses stück selbstbestimmung hat sie in der zeit auch verloren und teilweise wurde sie mit ihrem mann „über einen kamm geschoren“.
sueddeutsche.de: Bestseller "Digitale Demenz" von Manfred Spitzer - Krude Theorien, populistisch montiert #
werner bartens über manfred spitzers buch:
Nun weiß Spitzer zweifellos eine ganze Menge, nur kann er diesen Informationswust nicht kohärent ordnen und strukturieren. Damit zeigt er in seinem Buch aufs anschaulichste jene dissoziativen Symptome, die seiner Theorie zufolge durch übermäßigen Medienkonsum drohen: Oberflächlichkeit und fehlende Orientierung.
damit deckt sich werner bartens analyse weitgehend mit der von martin lindner.
rollingstone.com: Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital #
matt taibbi:
By making debt the centerpiece of his campaign, Romney was making a calculated bluff of historic dimensions - placing a massive all-in bet on the rank incompetence of the American press corps. The result has been a brilliant comedy: A man makes a $250 million fortune loading up companies with debt and then extracting million-dollar fees from those same companies, in exchange for the generous service of telling them who needs to be fired in order to finance the debt payments he saddled them with in the first place.
That same man then runs for president riding an image of children roasting on flames of debt, choosing as his running mate perhaps the only politician in America more pompous and self-righteous on the subject of the evils of borrowed money than the candidate himself. If Romney pulls off this whopper, you'll have to tip your hat to him: No one in history has ever successfully run for president riding this big of a lie. It's almost enough to make you think he really is qualified for the White House.
Take a typical Bain transaction involving an Indiana-based company called American Pad and Paper. Bain bought Ampad in 1992 for just $5 million, financing the rest of the deal with borrowed cash. Within three years, Ampad was paying $60 million in annual debt payments, plus an additional $7 million in management fees. A year later, Bain led Ampad to go public, cashed out about $50 million in stock for itself and its investors, charged the firm $2 million for arranging the IPO and pocketed another $5 million in "management" fees. Ampad wound up going bankrupt, and hundreds of workers lost their jobs, but Bain and Romney weren't crying: They'd made more than $100 million on a $5 million investment.