Daily Archives: 3. April 2013


03.04.2013 - 20:42 [ Tibor Fischer / Guardian ]

What on earth is this ignorant nonsense being spread about Hungary?

What, I wonder, would be the reaction if a Hungarian who had no English, who had never visited the country, were to write an editorial savaging the United Kingdom for not being a real democracy as it has no proper constitution, decrying that the head of state is the result of a coitus, not an election, and the little freedom of speech left is being destroyed by David Cameron through a royal charter (a royal charter, not even the fig leaf of a law, I mean how fascistic and anachronistic can you get?)

03.04.2013 - 20:39 [ techdirt ]

Homeland Security ‚Fusion‘ Center Director: We‘re Not Spying On Americans… Just Anti-Government Americans

You may recall that, last fall, a Congressional investigation completely slammed Homeland Security‘s „Fusion Centers“ — noting that despite DHS insisting that they were critical to „fighting terrorism,“ the actual evidence showed that they had done nothing helpful in the fight against terrorism, but were instead chock full of wasteful (possibly fraudulent) spending… and with an added dose of civil liberties violations (just for fun).

03.04.2013 - 19:03 [ The Center for Public Integrity ]

Air show lobbyists to buzz Capitol Hill

The move to hire lobbyists is necessary because the freeze on military aircraft demonstrations, such as those conducted by the Air Force‘s Thunderbirds and Navy‘s Blue Angels, „represents a threat to our existence as an industry,“ said John Cudahy, the council‘s president.

03.04.2013 - 18:58 [ AntiWar ]

How the Pentagon Corrupted Afghanistan

America’s post-9/11 conflicts have been wars of corruption, a point surprisingly seldom made in the mainstream media. Keep in mind that George W. Bush’s administration was a monster of privatization. It had its own set of crony corporations, including Halliburton, KBR, Bechtel, and various oil companies, as well as a set of mercenary rent-a-gun outfits like Blackwater, DynCorp, and Triple Canopy that came into their own in this period.

03.04.2013 - 17:34 [ The Daily Bail ]

Congressman Who Created The TSA Flips Out Over Waste

The Oversight Committee hearing examines the excessive and wasteful spending in the face of sequestration. Janet Napolitano gets busted, jobs are threatened, Mica gets seriously pissed by the end. Hearing took place March 19.

03.04.2013 - 16:16 [ Roots Action ]

Revoke Obama‘s Nobel Peace Prize

Today, there are more U.S. troops in Afghanistan than when Obama took office. His presidency has widened the use of drones and other instruments of remote killing in several countries.

Please sign this petition to the Norwegian Nobel Committee:

03.04.2013 - 15:54 [ regensburg-digital ]

Deutschlands führende Homophobe war in Donaustauf

Herr Albertin filmt und fotografiert

Dass nicht alle Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörer unkritisch an dieser „Wahrheit“ interessiert sind, bemerkt der Geschäftsführer der „Katholische Erwachsenenbildung“ recht früh. Bereits vor der Veranstaltung filmt und fotografiert Thomas Albertin gezielt vermeintliche „Störer“. Beraten lässt er sich dabei von einem Neonazi aus dem Dunstkreis der NPD.

03.04.2013 - 15:40 [ Counterpunch ]

Neoliberal Overload

According to leaked draft texts, the TPP would also impose investor protections that incentivize offshoring jobs through special benefits for companies – the TPP stifles innovation by requiring internet service providers to police user-activity and treat small-scale individual downloads as large-scale for-profit violators.

03.04.2013 - 14:59 [ Radio Utopie ]

“The White City” Nr.1 in den Radio Utopie Musik Charts

Für die ausgeschiedenen Musiker und Bands auf den letzten drei Plätzen gibt es nun in den April Charts interessante Neueinsteiger aus der weltweiten Szene der Freien Musik ohne “Verwertungsgesellschaften” und Industrie

03.04.2013 - 14:50 [ The Australian ]

Chance of Julian Assange going to US

A TOP Swedish judge has conceded it was possible that his government may send Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the US if it successfully extradited him over a sex crime investigation.

Supreme court judge Stefan Lindskog, speaking about the legal questions surrounding Mr Assange‘s case at the University of Adelaide last night, said it should never be presumed that a „state, or any part of it, is always good“.

03.04.2013 - 14:28 [ WikiLeaks ]

WIKILEAKS RELEASE Austria: 21,801 emails from US intelligence contractor Stratfor

As a side note: You have to admire the Austrians… They‘re like the
„little engine that could“ of imperialism… I mean they are working so
hard at recreating their imperial reach in the Balkans and Central Europe,
even though they are the size of (and equal in terms of geopolitical
importance) to Connecticut. Their efforts are inspirational… like
watching Rudy.

03.04.2013 - 12:37 [ Informationsstelle Militarisierung e.V. ]

Dschibuti: Proteste im Land der Militärbasen

Der Westen unterstützt Ismaïl Omar Guelleh nahezu bedingungslos und hat gute Gründe dafür: Dschibuti ist trotz seiner geringen Größe sowohl für die Europäische Union als auch für die USA nicht nur für die Kriege in Afrika von enormer strategischer Bedeutung.

03.04.2013 - 12:27 [ Süddeutsche.de ]

Musikdateien und E-Books- Stillschweigende Enteignung

2009 bemerkten Kindle-Besitzer in den USA, dass ausgerechnet „1984“ von ihren Lesegeräten verschwunden war – Orwells berühmtes Buch über einen totalen Überwachungsstaat.

03.04.2013 - 12:17 [ Radio Utopie ]

Störsender.TV Episode I: Finanzkasinokapitalismus

Radio Utopie ist spät dran und entschuldigt sich förmlich. Hier also die am 31. März ins Netz gestellte erste Folge des genossenschaftlich und sozial, äh, Moment Mal, via crowdfunding auf startnext finanzierten unabhängigen Fernsehprojekts Störsender.TV als mediale Schutz- und Trutzburg fundamentalistisch-zivilistischem Kabarettismus zur Aufhellung mental verdunkelter gesellschaftlicher Zustände. Von und mit Dieter Hildebrandt, den wir als einen der vielen intellektuellen Grafen von Monte Christo dieser Schwachsinnsrepublik gefühlt 20 Jahre schmerzlich vermisst haben.

03.04.2013 - 11:30 [ Störsender.tv / you tube ]

Der Anstaltsleiter persönlich: Urban Priol ist verrückt nach dem Störsender!

„Mir g‘frein uns scho!“ Für den Störsender wird Urban Priol nicht nur „netzaffin“, er redet freiwillig bayerisch!

03.04.2013 - 10:48 [ Unser Politikblog ]

Macht und Menschenrechte am 04.04.2013 – im Interview mit Jim Tucker zu Bilderberg und mit Marina Spanos zu Zypern

Morgen am 04.04.2013 geht es um 19.00 in der Sendung „Macht und Menschenrechte“auf Radio Jungle Drum (www.jungle-drum.de) um das Bilderberg-Netzwerk. Der amerikanische Journalist Jim Tucker ist den Bilderbergern schon seit 1975 auf der Spur – lange bevor das Netzwerk ins Rampenlicht der alternativen Medien geriet. Vieles davon hat er in seinen „Bilderberg Diaries“ (Bilderberg Tagebücher) veröffentlicht. Für manch einen Politiker ging die Karriere erst nach seinem Bilderberg-Besuch richtig nach oben. Und nicht selten haben Politiker genau die Themen später aufgegriffen, welche auf der Tagesordnung standen, als sie Bilderberg besucht haben. Besonders aktuell sind heute die Bilderberg-Konferenzen 1989 und 2011, in denen es um den Euro ging. Sogar eine der Hauptpersonen der Verfassungsklagen zum ESM werden wir dort wieder sehen……

03.04.2013 - 10:26 [ Muse ]

„Animals“ Video Competition: Gewinner bekannt gegeben

(20.03.) Ihr habt eure Votes abgegeben, die Band hat sich beraten – und wir scheinen uns allesamt einig zu sein:

Die exzellente „Animals“-Version von Inês Freitas und Miguel Mendes (onenessteam) aus Portugal ist der Gewinner der „Animals“ Video Competition in Kooperation mit genero.tv!

03.04.2013 - 10:21 [ Genero.tv ]

Muse – Animals: Winner

The video with the highest votes was also the video Muse had selected as the winner! Congratulations to onenessteam (Inês Freitas and Miguel Mendes) who receive $5,000 and have their video published on Muse’s website and their YouTube channel! They also get an invite to one of Muse’s summer Stadium shows, where the video will be aired live!

03.04.2013 - 10:13 [ Beppe Grillo ]

Story of a taxi-driver

„Greetings to all the friends of Beppe Grillo’s blog. I’m here to denounce what has been happening to me in the last few years causing me to have issues with the tax collection agency.
A few years ago the tax collection agency made me pay a penalty for two years and they asked me to pay nearly 80 thousand Euro to cover taxes and penalties and after negotiations with tax specialists they ended up asking me for 40 thousand.
I just don’t have that amount of money and in the end I made the decision to give up my work and use the money I’d been earning to pay these taxes.“

03.04.2013 - 09:42 [ CNN ]

Palestinian prisoner‘s death sparks protests in Israel, West Bank

Abu Hamdiya had been suffering from throat pain since August 2012 and was diagnosed with cancer in January, the Palestinian Authority said. During a news conference about Abu Hamdiya‘s death, Issa Qaraqe, the Palestinian Authority‘s minister of prisoner affairs, said Abu Hamdiya died due to „deliberate Israeli medical negligence.“

03.04.2013 - 09:35 [ Wikipedia ]

SWIFT

Die Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, abgekürzt S.W.I.F.T. oder meist nur SWIFT, ist eine 1973 gegründete, internationale Genossenschaft der Geldinstitute, die ein Telekommunikationsnetz (das SWIFT-Netz) für den Nachrichtenaustausch zwischen den Mitgliedern betreibt.

03.04.2013 - 02:18 [ Xinhuanet ]

Uganda, US suspend search for warlord Joseph Kony

The United States and Uganda have suspended operations to hunt down warlord Joseph Kony in the Central African Republic. The Chief Political Commissar of the Ugandan Army says the order came from the African Union. That’s because the rebel forces known as Seleka, who now hold power, are not recognized.

03.04.2013 - 02:01 [ Revelstoke Times Review ]

Federal government revokes physicians‘ group‘s charitable status

The CRA audit determined that PGS was guilty of using 26 per cent of its resources for political activities, which included a letter-writing campaign to the Prime Minister and MPs to support a ban on nuclear weapons.

“All charitable definitions are based on a document from 1601 called the Statute of Elizabeth, that’s when charitable targets were identified,” says Bell. “The law was repealed several centuries later but still forms the bias in all common law for how a charitable purpose is defined.”

03.04.2013 - 01:44 [ Think Progress ]

Exxon’s Duck-Killing Pipeline Won’t Pay Taxes To Oil Spill Cleanup Fund

A 1980 law ensures that diluted bitumen is not classified as oil, and companies transporting it in pipelines do not have to pay into the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund. Other conventional crude producers pay 8 cents a barrel to ensure the fund has resources to help clean up some of the 54,000 barrels of pipeline oil that spilled 364 times last year.