Daily Archives: 17. Dezember 2012


17.12.2012 - 23:44 [ Guardian ]

Google close to deal with US regulators over patents dispute

Europe‘s antitrust chief is to meet Google chairman Eric Schmidt as European Commission ponders similar action

17.12.2012 - 22:09 [ Malu `Aina ]

Nuclear `Regulators` like Bank `Regulators`: The Public be Damned

On Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) held a meeting with the U.S. Army about whether to grant the Army a “License to Possess” Depleted uranium (DU) in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks on Oahu and the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) on Hawaii island. The meeting, instead of being held in Hawaii, was held in Maryland.

17.12.2012 - 22:05 [ Freedom of the Press Foundation ]

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17.12.2012 - 22:03 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

EFF Helps Freedom of the Press Foundation

Let‘s be clear — in the United States, at least, WikiLeaks has a fundamental right to publish truthful political information. And equally important, Internet users have a fundamental right to read that information and voice their opinions about it.

17.12.2012 - 21:19 [ New York Times ]

Syria Warns Palestinians Not to Aid Rebels as Camp Residents Flee

He said he was shocked on Sunday at the speed of the government assault, in which fighter planes and artillery were used to attack the area just hours after rebel fighters entered Yarmouk. One fighter said that the rebel’s goal was not to control the neighborhood but to use it as a valuable staging ground for an eventual attack on central Damascus.

17.12.2012 - 21:07 [ Guardian ]

David Cameron: withdrawal from EU is imaginable

David Cameron has broken new ground on Europe by suggesting British withdrawal from the EU is „imaginable“, aligning himself with the fiercely Eurosceptic Boris Johnson.

The prime minister stressed that he supported membership of a reformed EU, though he said Britain was „in charge of our own destiny“.

17.12.2012 - 20:19 [ Guardian ]

Syriza says attack on MP was ‚brutal assassination attempt‘

Stratoulis was set upon by three men in their 30s as he attended a football match with his son at the Olympic stadium in Athens on Sunday night. Recognising him during the half-time break, the assailants are reported to have said „now we are going to kill you“ before claiming they were members of the far-right group Golden Dawn and kicking and punching the politician in the head.

17.12.2012 - 19:35 [ United Nations Organization U.N.O. ]

Status of Jerusalem

The war of June 1967 radically changed that situation. As a result of the war, Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Since then, a number of demographic and physical changes have been introduced, and both the General Assembly and the Security Council, in several resolutions, have declared invalid the measures taken by Israel to change the status of Jerusalem.
Security Council resolution 252 (1968) in particular is explicit in this re g a rd. In it, the Council considered “that all legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, including expropriation of land and properties thereon, which tend to change the legal status of Jerusalem are invalid and cannot change that status”.

17.12.2012 - 18:03 [ Ad Hoc News ]

Bauindustrieverband fordert Systemwechsel bei Großprojekten

Jeder Insider habe gewusst, dass bei ‚Stuttgart 21‘ ein ‚politischer Preis‘ genannt worden sei, sagte Knipper. Die Politik neige leider dazu, die Baukosten ‚aus Angst vor unendlichen Diskussionen nicht ehrlich auszuweisen‘. Ursprünglich war das seit Jahren umstrittene Projekt mit rund 2,5 Milliarden Euro veranschlagt worden

17.12.2012 - 17:35 [ al-Akhbar ]

Exclusive Interview: Syrian VP Farouk Al-Sharaa Proposes Alternative to War

„The solution has to be Syrian, but through a historic settlement, which would include the main regional countries, and the members of UN Security Council. This settlement must include stopping all shapes of violence, and the creation of a national unity government with wide powers. This should be accompanied by the resolution of sensitive dossiers related to the lives of people and their legitimate demands.”