"If I'm dealing with chemical and biological warfare issues, I don't want to wait a day and a half for results from the lab," he said.
In a broad-brush speech, which frequently touched on the topic of freedom and Berliners' resilience, he could not fail to mention the concern felt across Europe about more modern-day encroachments on individual liberty, the recent revelations of internet surveillance and US drone warfare – issues which dominated his 25-hour visit to the German capital.
· Professor Alastair Hay writes: As an environmental toxologist, I have covered chemical and biological warfare issues since the 1970s and met David Kelly at many conferences; notably the Pugwash gatherings, which brought together scientists from many countries to talk issues through as professionals, not bound by national or political rivalries.
Paul Hamby, owner of Hamby Dairy Supply in Maysville, Mo., and a vocal opponent of the plan, said, "It is very much an economic and class warfare issue".
Coming back to the class warfare issue: my working theory is that wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing — correctly — that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but failed to realize that eventually the craziness would take on a life of its own, and that the monster they created would turn on its creators as well as the little people.
To longtime observers of HSBC, the bank would regard the idea of a boardroom appointment turning into a public battle undignified and the bank was determined to close down any suggestion of internecine warfare, issuing a statement in the early hours of the morning in Hong Kong.
Marco Rubio, the Florida senator and the most coveted candidate for the GOP's vice presidential nominee in 2012, addressed this class warfare issue in America recently on the Senate floor.
Continuing a through-line about internet technology and politics that began with his We Are The Transparent Machines™, a video that featured mechanized sound and vision with images of Edward Snowden, Beeple finds himself wading into the cyber warfare issue with his latest 3D animation, Zero-Day.
From Russian election meddling to North Korean computer warfare, cybersecurity issues have roared into the center of daily life at tremendous speed.
"I said I'd worked on chemical warfare-related issues for over 30 years, starting with work on Agent Orange, and then in 1980 became more involved with chemical warfare generally, campaigning for an international treaty to outlaw chemical warfare".
With some likening the differences of opinion to open warfare, Tsipras issued a thinly veiled warning to Zoe Konstantopoulou, a leading Syriza cadre and speaker of the House who has become the face of anger against the government U-turn.
