Daily Archives: 14. April 2013


14.04.2013 - 19:50 [ Scribd ]

A Whistleblower’s Open Letter to the Citizens of Canada

(Andrew Frank is a Canadian citizen, and the former Senior Communications Manager withForestEthics Canada. He is also an instructor in the Environmental Protection Technology program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, in Surrey, British Columbia)

My name is Andrew Frank. I grew up in a small town in the Okanagan valley of BritishColumbia. My granddad taught me how to fish. My father was a well‐respected lawyerknown for his unwavering integrity, and my mother was a favourite kindergarten teacher.Both have always impressed upon me the importance of telling the truth.

14.04.2013 - 19:28 [ Sugartown Cabaret on bandcamp ]

Split LP w​/​Adorno by Sugartown Cabaret

Emotional Punk-Hardcore band since 2004. Based in Caen, France.
http://www.sugartowncabaret.org/
http://sugartowncabaret.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-a-split

14.04.2013 - 16:33 [ Telegraph ]

1,000 Germans abandon Angel Merkel for Eurosceptic party

More than 8,000 people have now joined the new party and more than 1,200 of these new members have defected either from the Christian Democrats, their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union, and the Free Democrats, who are junior partners in the coalition government. The party has also drawn support from former members of the Social Democrats, and many who had no former party affiliation.

14.04.2013 - 13:40 [ Radio Utopie ]

Schäuble will Änderung der E.U.-Verträge

Am Freitag und Samstag sondierten in Schloss Meseberg die Kanzlerin von Deutschland und der Premierminister von Großbritannien die Chancen einer Änderung der Vertragsgrundlage des Staatenbundes “Europäische Union”. Am Samstag, nach einem Treffen des E.U.-Finanzministerrates in der irischen Hauptstadt Dublin, verkündete dann der Finanzminister der Republik Deutschland, immer noch Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble:

14.04.2013 - 12:21 [ BBC ]

German anti-euro party holds founding conference

One of the party‘s founders, economics professor Bernd Lucke, told the BBC he wanted to see a „gradual dismantling of the euro as a common currency“.

„We think that Europe has big problem coping with the euro as a common currency, since there are member countries of the eurozone which have big competitiveness problems, and which actually need a devaluation and can‘t have it,“ he said, citing Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal and France as examples.

14.04.2013 - 11:12 [ Kathimerini ]

Brave new continent

the chasm between European elites and the public has never been as wide in the postwar period as it is today. The average voter in southern Europe does not feel represented by Eurocrats like Jose Manuel Barroso and Olli Rehn, German Foreign Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble or other Eurogroup officials. He has never voted for them, they have never spoken to him, he does not share their ask-no-questions mentality. The distance between elites and ordinary people was made evident by recent elections in Italy.

14.04.2013 - 11:00 [ Metro ]

Beppe Grillo: Hottest man in European politics on why he’s leading a revolution

Metro: You say you want to tear down the political system. Are you sure the people who voted for you wouldn’t instead like to see solutions to Italy’s problems?

Grillo: The destruction of the system has already started thanks to the Internet, which is demolishing the world’s corruption and fake democracy. Change is happening now, but the political class hasn’t yet understood that we’re not just another party of destruction seeking to replace the old ones. The Movement is a shift in mentality, culture and society.

14.04.2013 - 10:59 [ Hollywood Reporter ]

Italy Populist Politician Beppe Grillo Compares Italy to ‚The Truman Show‘

“The answer is that part of the Italian population is living in a gigantic The Truman Show,” Grillo said, referring to Peter Weir’s 1998 comedy about a man who discovers his life is a hit television show. “The responsibility for this is completely due to Italian journalists … [in an] outright war against reality, a war of mystification, of illusions, in which lies are spat out by news media every day.”

14.04.2013 - 10:55 [ Le Monde ]

Falsche Wahrheiten über Zypern

Die Entscheidung der politischen und ökonomischen Elite der Republik Zypern, das Land in ein regionales Finanz- und Wirtschaftszentrum zu verwandeln, wurde bereits in den 1980er Jahren getroffen. Diese wirtschaftspolitische Neuorientierung zielte schon deswegen nicht auf das russische Kapital, weil es so etwas gar nicht gab. Schließlich existierte damals noch die Sowjetunion.

14.04.2013 - 09:15 [ Radio Utopie ]

Grundgesetz: “Wahlen und Abstimmungen”. S.P.D.: Verfassungsänderung “notwendig”.

Die “Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands” fordert in ihrem Wahlkampf-Programm für die Bundestagswahl 2013 (“Das Wir entscheidet”) eine angeblich “notwendige Grundgesetzänderung”, um “Volksinitiativen, Volksbegehren und Volksentscheide” in der Republik “einzuführen”. Den Begriff Volksabstimmung vermeidet die Verräterpartei peinlichst. So ein Zufall.

14.04.2013 - 07:20 [ Jenny´s Blog ]

Man nennt es Enteignung

Als Enteignung bezeichnet man umgangssprachlich den Entzug des Eigentums durch den Staat. Nun sollen Bankkunden für ihre Banken haften, Steuerzahler werden geschröpft und Sparer haben negative Renditen. Enteignung durch Ausübung von Gewalt könnte man sogar Raub nennen.

14.04.2013 - 07:15 [ Support Assange Wikileaks Coalition ]

Carr and Beazley: Allies of the United States, Traitors to #Assange

The cable also reports that Beazley said that Australia would support the war in Afghanistan “until Hell freezes over”. The illegal and unjust Afghan war has cost 39 Australian lives and more than seven billion taxpayer dollars, not to mention the tens of thousands of Afghan civilians who have been killed or displaced .

14.04.2013 - 07:04 [ American Civil Liberties Union ]

Detention

While the government has the right, under the laws of war, to detain prisoners captured on the battlefield until the end of hostilities, no president should have the power to declare the entire globe a war zone and then seize and detain civilian terrorism suspects anywhere in the world — including within the United States — and to hold them forever without charge or trial.

14.04.2013 - 07:00 [ Guardian ]

The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent?

The killings that took place in the early hours of that morning and their protracted aftermath have cast an ever-lengthening shadow over not just America‘s criminal justice system – it is the longest-running criminal case in US history – but also its national media. A small library of books, a TV mini-series, countless documentaries and a forest of newsprint have all tried to explain what happened 43 years ago inside the home of Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, then 26 and a promising surgeon in the Special Forces.

14.04.2013 - 06:13 [ Fixpoetry ]

Die KI, elffriede und ich

„Ein paar Seiten weiter: „am ende / wächst / das ende / ohne ende / zuende // um keines zu finden“. Klar, die Signifikanten scharwenzeln umher, ohne jemals zum Signifikat zu finden. Semantisches Zwiebelhäuten. So soll es. Aber ich kann mich so furchtbar einfach damit zufrieden geben, mit der ungefähren Idee davon, was hier veranstaltet werden soll, zu leben. Meta-sprachlicher Murks, graue Theorie. Praxis ist nicht. Oder liegt das einfach nur an mir?“
Gefunden bei Lyrikzeitung & Poetry News

14.04.2013 - 01:05 [ Hindustan Times ]

Wikileaks: when India wanted Swedish subs with development funds

A secret US diplomatic cable dated May 8, 1974 talks about a proposed submarine deal between India and Sweden left the Swedes deeply embarrassed when India wanted the SJEE-ORM (Seasnake) subs to be funded from the Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA) aid programme.

14.04.2013 - 01:02 [ Ninemsn ]

WikiLeaks names Bob Hawke as US informant

Secret cables released by WikiLeaks have revealed that Bob Hawke was the United States‘ most valuable informant during the years of the Whitlam government.

14.04.2013 - 00:54 [ The Sydney Morning Herald ]

Australia closely monitoring Manning prosecution

Foreign Minister Bob Carr thinks the idea the United States wishes to extradite Julian Assange is “sheer fantasy”. Despite this the Australian embassy in Washington has continued to closely monitor the prosecution of US Army private Bradley Manning for leaking to the WikiLeaks publisher.