Egyptian President - Spying EU - Gezi Park - Portuguese Government - Iraq Violence - Russian Space - CJR
Today's NEWZ of the World comes to you on the first morning of a new government in Egypt as Morsi is removed by the military. While in Europe the big news has been Snowden's flight plans and the NSA's EU spying practices. In Turkey a court has ruled to stop the development plans for Gezi park. Over in Iraq there has been a wave of violent attacks this week, some of the worst in recent history. And finally, in space news, the Russian Proton-M rocket crashed during takeoff calling into question the future of the Russian space program. This week's NEWZ Source is the Columbia Journalism Review.
Mark Fonseca Rendeiro
Tim Pritlove
Links:
- The Rise and Fall of the Egyptian President
- US-EU Trade Deal At Risk Following Spying Allegations
- Bolivian Officials Accuse France, Italy, Spain and Portugal of Blocking President’s Plane
- Turkish Court Stops Gezi Park Project
- Portuguese Ministers Resign, PM Vows to Carry on
- Wave of Attacks Continues in Iraq
- Russian Proton-M Rocket Fails to Launch and Crashes Into Spaceport
- NEWZ Source: Columbia Journalism Review
First of all I wanted to thank you both for this podcast. I enjoy every episode and hope you keep up the good work, broadcasting the NewZzz to the masses.
As a European, it is really bizarre to see a “putsch” on the democratically elected president by the military that’s being celebrated by millions of people. Strange world we live in…
Tilo Jung on “Young & Naive” had an interesting talk with Sultan Al-Qassemi, yesterday, which helped me understand the situation in Egypt better.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rB9PaYPUo4
As another European, I don’t. There is a lot more to democracy than one election. For example one could argue you don’t have a democracy if it cannot reproduce itself. Taking a pragmatic approach to democracy theory a nation’s military can be a safeguard against internal threats to its democratic nature, albeit a less than ideal and risky one.
The whole thing reminds me of the Turkish military coups. Though I don’t know enough about both Turkish history and Egypt to decide whether that’s a good comparison.
Thanks for the news about the Russian Proton-M, I think I would have missed it, otherwise.
Just FYI: GLONASS is fully productive since 2011 with 100% global coverage. So they could switch off the GPS tomorrow and if you had a moden smartphone you would still have global navigation (worse quality than using both system parallel though which new phones do).
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/07/parts-installed-upside-down-caused-last-weeks-russian-rocket-to-explode/
Nice detail about the rocket explosion
“Parts installed “upside down” caused Russian rocket to explode last week”