On the other hand, we apparently have MI6 and the CIA secretly bankrolling the very people in Afghanistan who produce 90 percent of the world‘s heroin. And then, of course, more scarce resources can be spent on fighting the failed ‚war on drugs,‘ and yet another pretext is used to shred our civil liberties.
This is a lucrative economic model for the burgeoning military-security complex. However, it is a lose-lose scenario for the rest of us.
AMY GOODMAN: The United States is moving closer toward directly intervening in Syria. On Monday, Democratic Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey introduced a bill to allow U.S.-provided arms, military training and supplies to be sent to some Syrian rebel groups.
Let’s see if the US and the EU condemn Israel’s air attacks. I doubt it. Which would mean, if we are silent, that we approve of them. Silence, to quote Sir Thomas More, gives consent.
So now the Iranians and Hizballah are accused of intervening in Syria – true, though not to quite extent we are led to believe – and Qatar and Saudi Arabia funnel weapons to the rebels – true, but not quite enough weapons, as the Syrian rebels will tell you – and the Israelis have joined in. We are now militarily involved.
Zur Forderung Lafontaines, man müsse die einheitliche Währung aufgeben, um Auf- und Abwertungen wieder möglich zu machen, sagte die Linke-Vizevorsitzende: »Es war eine Warnung, kein Wunsch.«
Die weltweite Rekordjagd an den Börsen geht in die nächste Runde
No official representing the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) will attend a new round of talks aimed at re-launching Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations
The new measures, which Coelho presented on Monday, include raising retirement age for 30,000 civil servants to 66.
Crowds rally and demand to see eduction minister
Video shown on Greek TV
The fifth victim was a lieutenant of the Greek Armed Forces. The father of two jumped to death from the balcony of his home. He had left a note. According to defense news portal OnAlert, the man had economic problems and used also to do several works outside the army in order to come along with the families’ expenses.
As many as 75% of Europeans think the economic crisis in their respective countries will get worse next year, according to a research carried out by the Ipsos/CGI polling institute on behalf of French group Publicis.
German constructor Hochtief sold its stakes of Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” to Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment fund for 1.1 billion euros.
Die Bundeswehr will ein neues Aufklärungssystem („AufklSys“) entwickeln, das auf Mikrohydraulik basiert. Es handelt sich dabei um eine Art Wurm aus mehrgliedrigen Zellen, die mit unterschiedlich geladenen (sogenannten elektrorheologischen) Flüssigkeiten gefüllt sind. Dadurch wird der Landroboter beweglich und soll sogar Treppen steigen können.
Die telefonische Umfrage der New York Times und von CBS beinhaltete nicht ohne Absicht eine weitere Frage über die Zustimmung oder Ablehnung zu Drohnen-Einsätzen der U.S.-Armee gegen Terrorverdächtige im Ausland. Diese psycholgisch geschickt aufgestellte Konstellation legte die Antwort förmlich in den Mund:
“Wir brauchen im Augenblick keine zusätzlichen Verluste von amerikanischen Leben”, wird demonstrativ ein Amerikaner mit Name, Altersangabe und Heimatort genannt.
Rainald Grebe erklärt auf musikalische Weise den Alltag einen Politiker, der gerne in seinem Wahlkreis gewählt werden möchte.
(16.11.2010, Neues aus der Anstalt, ZDF)
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Zur Währungsdebatte: Schon immer wurde der Euro von links kritisiert.
„I do think we‘ll be arming the opposition shortly,“ Corker said Tuesday on „CBS This Morning.“ „We‘re doing a lot more on the ground than really is known but we do have to change the equation. … The moderate opposition groups we support are not as good at fighting, they‘re not as good at delivering humanitarian aid.“
There‘s „no question“ someone from Hillary Clinton‘s circle – if not the former secretary of state herself – was involved in the „cover-up“ of any missteps by the administration following an attack on a U.S. consulate last Sept. 11 in Benghazi, Libya, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., told CBS News on Monday.
On the night of Sept. 11, as the Obama administration scrambled to respond to the Benghazi terror attacks, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and a key aide effectively tried to cut the department‘s own counterterrorism bureau out of the chain of reporting and decision-making, according to a „whistle-blower“ witness from that bureau who will soon testify to the charge before Congress, Fox News has learned.
Hicks told congressional investigators that as the Benghazi attack unfolded in two waves over eight hours, he repeatedly called defense officials to ask if they could „scramble a fighter…or two over Benghazi“ to scare the insurgents away.
„The answer,“ he said, „was it‘s too far away…there is nothing.“
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who chairs the House Oversight Committee, said, „He was basically shut down and ostracized.“
The Ansar al Sharia Brigade, the Islamist terror group linked to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, continues to operate freely in that Libyan city, according to U.S. military officials.
A small team of Special Forces operatives was ready to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi last year after Libyan insurgents attacked the U.S. mission there, but was told it was not authorized to board the flight by regional military commanders, according to a career State Department official scheduled to testify before Congress on Wednesday.
Hours later, according to excerpts of the account by the U.S. diplomat, Gregory Hicks, American officials in the Libyan capital sought permission to deploy four U.S. Special Operations troops to Benghazi aboard a Libyan military aircraft early the next morning. The troops were told to stand down.
Weil die von der NATO unterstützte Terroristenfront in Syrien bröckelt, versuchen die USA mit den bekannten Lügen über Massenvernichtungswaffen eine Militärintervention zu rechtfertigen.
Finance minister admits austerity measures hit where it hurts, but urges awareness of bigger picture
Prof. Shlomo Mor Yosef says Treasury‘s economic plan will prove disastrous for families living below poverty line. ‚With the planned cuts in child benefits, the increase in VAT and the removal of other social services, these families won‘t survive,‘ he warns
Der DK-Radioplayer mit weit über 100 Stücken von allen Künstlern aus dem digitalen Kunstrasen-Universum. Einfach auf das alte Radio klicken und der Player öffnet sich im separaten Fenster.
Umfrage: 65 % gegen Beteiligung Deutschlands an Syrien-Invasion
Secretary Kerry will travel to Moscow, Russia on May 6, where he will meet with senior Russian government officials to discuss Syria, North Korea, Afghanistan, and other bilateral and global issues. Secretary Kerry also plans to meet with representatives from civil society.
On May 8, Secretary Kerry will travel to Rome, Italy, where he will meet with senior Italian government officials to discuss the full range of bilateral and global issues, including events in Afghanistan, Syria, and elsewhere in the Middle East.
.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who has special responsibility for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, in Rome on Wednesday, the U.S. State Department said on Monday.
Kerry‘s next meeting with Livni, as well as with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, will take place in Rome.
Kerry arrived Tuesday in Moscow for talks with the most powerful ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad‘s regime.
Officials said Kerry hopes to change Moscow‘s thinking on Syria with two new angles: American threats to arm the Syrian rebels and evidence of chemical weapon attacks by the Assad regime.
„Holding important posts for decades and leading the government many times, he gave a great contribution to the country‘s development“.
Lawson said the profoundly misguided aim of the EU was to create a federal European superstate – a United States of Europe – and concluded „that is not for us“. The EU, he said, has passed its sell-by date and has become „a bureaucratic monstrosity“ from which the UK should break free. After an association with Brussels of 40 years, he said, „the case for exit is clear“.
At least 22 people have been probed for allegedly „offending the honor and prestige of the president of the republic“ with comments posted on anti-establishment M5S leader Beppe Grillo‘s blog in May 2012, investigators said on Monday.
Bersani resigned that night, after railing against around 100 „traitors“ who voted against Prodi, and was the first to make the pilgrimage to Napolitano.
Sources with knowledge of the meeting say Napolitano‘s determination not to remain was weakened by the sorry sight of the broken Bersani.
Bahraini lawmakers have urged the government to stop the U.S. ambassador in Bahrain from „interfering in domestic affairs“ and meeting government opponents, newspaper reports and a lawmaker in the U.S.-allied Gulf state said on Monday.
As president of Somaliland I wish the conference well, but we cannot attend an event that ignores our history and our reality
The British military now has 500 drones and has been looking for ways to increase the amount of UK airspace in which to fly some of them, the Guardian can reveal.
Die investigativen Zeichnungen Mark Lombardis sind in der Zusammenstellung von Zusammenhängen einzigartig. Den Verflechtungen von Personen, Konzernen, Banken, Politikern, Geheimdiensten, Militär, Attentate, Geldwäsche, Drogenkriege, politische und wirtschaftliche Skandale, Korruption ging der U.S.-Amerikaner jahrelang bis zu seinem vorzeitigen Tod im Jahr 2000 akribisch nach.
Diese mafiösen Strukturen ziehen sich wie ein roter Faden bis hin zum heutigen Zeitpunkt. Die Ereignisse der daraufolgenden dreizehn Jahre liefern ein beredtes Zeugnis über die Gewaltspirale im Interesse diverser Gruppen ab: 9/11, Mumbai, Irak, Aghanistan, die Bankenkrise, die Europäische Union, Mexiko, Lybien, Iran, Syrien – nichts hat sich zum Guten gewendet.
Among many other cases against him, Andreotti was convicted and then acquitted on appeal of ordering the 1979 Mafia hit on muck-raking journalist Mino Pecorelli.
Di Pietro was echoed by anti-Mafia prosecutor and politician Antonio Ingroia, from the leftist Civil Revolution (RC) coalition.
The late Giulio Andreotti was a longtime friend of the Palestinians and a consummate diplomat who brokered crucial, previously unthinkable meetings, a top adviser to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told ANSA on Monday.
‚We are eternally grateful for role in Libya‘ says head of state
Ich bin Historiker und wohne in Duisburg. Die Fakten über die ich berichte stammen allesamt von meinem Vater Johannes Karl KRAMER, ehemaliger Soldat im Rang eine Hauptmanns im Verteidigungsministerium in Bonn (Streitkräfteamt der Bundeswehr) Abteilung G4 und zusätzlich war er Agent des BND, Abteilung IV in München-Pullach.
Unter dem Code-Namen „Cello“ war er Operationsleiter der Gladio-Stay Behind des BND und koordinierte Einsätze in Deutschland, den Beneluxstaaten und der Schweiz (P26). Seit seiner Enttarnung 1973 durch den KGB, mittels Verrat seiner Sekretärin Heidbrun HOFER, lieferte er an KGB General Yuri DROSDOV als Doppelagent Informationen über die verbündeten Agenten in Stay Behind an Moskau.
Niemand sollte glauben, es gehe in der Affäre um Uli Hoeneß vor allem um Recht und Moral. Es geht um den letzten Akt in einem Schulden-Drama, das nach Millionen schuldbewußten kleinen Büßern verlangt.
No universally applied principle justifies the Israeli attack on Damascus. Only self-flattering tribalism does that
„The Assad regime has crossed a red line that forces us to consider all options,“ Menendez said in a written statement.
“We are highly skeptical of suggestions that the opposition could have or did use chemical weapons,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters on Monday. (…)
„We do not have confirmed, consolidated information as to who might have used“ chemical weapons, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Brussels on Monday.
After a concerted effort to walk back — or at least soften — its „red line“ on the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime, it looks as if the Obama administration may have just gotten off the hook. According to Reuters, U.N. human rights investigators now have evidence that rebel forces used sarin gas — a revelation that, if confirmed, would vindicate the president‘s studied approach to the Syrian conflict and reduce the political pressure on him to act immediately.
Es geht dabei um antikommunistische verdeckte Einheiten, welche nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg von CIA und MI6 aufgebaut wurden und sich darauf vorbereiteten, im Falle einer sowjetischen Invasion von Westeuropa hinter den feindlichen Linien als Guerilla zu kämpfen um die besetzten Länder wieder zu befreien.
Als die italienische Geheimarmee unter dem Namen „Gladio im Jahre 1990 vom italienischen Premierminister Giulio Andreotti enttarnt wurde, folgte die Entdeckung von ähnlichen bewaffneten Netzwerken in Frankreich, Deutschland, Griechenland, Holland, Belgien, Spanien, Portugal, Norwegen, Luxemburg, Dänemark, Österreich, Finnland, Schweden und der Schweiz.
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Die Loge wurde mit gleichem Ziel, der Aquisition von einflussreichen Leuten , 1887 unter dem Namen Propaganda Due (P2) neu gegründet. Sie sollte das maurerische Gegenstück zur römischen Kurienkongregation Propaganda Fide bilden. 1944 ging sie angesichts des Faschismus unter und wurde nach 1944 neu begründet.
The 94-year-old politician who died on Monday was „a friend to the United States and a great supporter of the Atlantic and European vision of Italy,“ Thorne said.