Daily Archives: 14. Mai 2013


14.05.2013 - 22:20 [ Food and Water Watch ]

U.S. Version – Biotech Ambassadors: How the U.S. State Department Promotes the Seed Industry’s Global Agenda

Agricultural development is essential for the developing world to foster sustainable economies, enhance food security to combat global hunger and increase resiliency to climate change. Addressing these challenges will require diverse strategies that emphasize sustainable, productive approaches that are directed by countries in the developing world.

14.05.2013 - 21:45 [ castor.divergences.be ]

Die Geologie nicht neu bewertet

Der 12. Mai 1987 war einer jener Tage in der 36-jährigen Geschichte des Endlager-Projekts in Gorleben, an denen alles eine andere Richtung hätte bekommen können.

Eine Wendung in Richtung Ende. An diesem Morgen nach 9 Uhr waren in 239 Metern Tiefe sieben Bergleute damit beschäftigt, den Schacht eins zu vertiefen. Fünf Meter über ihnen drückte einer von 34 tonnenschweren eisernen Ringen gegen die Schachtwände. Er sollte verhindern, dass Gestein in den Schacht nachdrängt. Um 9.45 Uhr gab es einen Knall.

14.05.2013 - 19:38 [ antikrieg.com ]

Nordkorea: Ankunft eines Flugzeugträgers der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ist eine rücksichtslose Provokation

Wochen der Drohungen und Gegendrohungen zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und der Demokratischen Volksrepublik Korea („Nordkorea“) waren Mitte April zu einem Ende gekommen, doch es sieht so aus, als würde die Ankunft des Flugzeugträgers USS Nimitz die Spannungen in dem Gebiet wieder entfachen.

14.05.2013 - 19:21 [ grist ]

Vermont House passes GMO-labeling law

A historic but cautious attempt to force food manufacturers to label products containing genetically modified ingredients passed the Vermont House by an overwhelming 107-37 vote last week.

14.05.2013 - 17:27 [ Space Review ]

Drawing the battle lines for NASA’s 2014 budget

Bolden kept up the sales pitch for commercial crew last week, after signing a contract modification with the Russian space agency Roscosmos to purchase six additional seats on Soyuz flights to the ISS in 2016 for $424 million. “If NASA had received the President’s requested funding for this plan, we would not have been forced to recently sign a new contract with Roscosmos for Soyuz transportation flights,”

14.05.2013 - 17:26 [ National Aeronautics and Space Administration N.A.S.A. ]

Launching American Astronauts from U.S. Soil

(30.April) Three years ago, the Administration put forward a public-private partnership plan, the Commercial Crew Program (CCP), to ensure that American companies would be launching our astronauts from U.S. soil by 2015. It‘s a plan that supports the U.S. human spaceflight program, boosts our economy, and helps create good-paying American jobs…

14.05.2013 - 17:20 [ Tech Archive ]

ISS/Shuttle were huge mistakes-NASA

(28.09.2005) The US space agency NASA lost its way in the 1970s when it focused on the space shuttle and International Space Station, NASA chief Michael Griffin told the USA Today daily.
„It is now commonly accepted that was not the right path,“ Griffin
said. „We are now trying to change the path while doing as little
damage as we can.“

14.05.2013 - 15:36 [ Heise ]

Vorsicht beim Skypen – Microsoft liest mit

Unser Fazit: Wer Skype benutzt, muss sich nicht nur damit einverstanden erklären, dass Microsoft alle übertragenen Daten quasi nach Belieben nutzt. Er muss davon ausgehen, dass dies tatsächlich geschieht und der Konzern auch nicht verrät, was genau er mit diesen Daten anstellt.

14.05.2013 - 15:29 [ Beppe Grillo ]

We are the country’s Civil Defence force

They know they won’t last. They’ve stolen time. They are stealing time. But now they no longer have a future. Things need calming down and they have to go home. Let’s send them ALL home, as we’ve always said. Here someone who is coherent is singled out as a terrorist. We we are simply being coherent. In our election campaign, we said “send them ALL home” and now that’s what we’re doing. We said no alliance. We are not making alliances. They are not going out and about. They are staying closed up inside the palaces. I’m out and about in the streets. I’m out in the streets with the people. Do you want to challenge me? OK, I’ll give you the microphone. They can’t possibly go out into the streets. They don’t know what’s out there.

14.05.2013 - 15:20 [ Landtag Schleswig-Holstein ]

Kleine Anfrage des Abgeordneten Dr. Patrick Breyer (Piraten) und Antwort der Landesregierung – Innenminister: Reichweite der Bestandsdatenauskunft

1. Sind nach Ansicht der Landesregierung die folgenden Arten von Internetdiensten als Telekommunikationsdienst bzw. Telekommunikation einzuordnen, so dass u. a. die Regelungen über die Bestandsdatenauskunft anzuwenden sind:
a) soziale Netzwerke wie von Facebook oder wer-kennt-wen.de angeboten
b) Microbloggingdienste wie von Twitter oder bka.li angeboten
c) Bloggingdienste wie von blogsport.de oder blogg.de angeboten
d) Hostingdienste wie von all-inkl oder 1&1 angeboten
e) Speicherdienste wie von Flickr oder Rapidshare angeboten
f) DE-Mail-Dienste sowie der ePostbrief-Dienst
g) Anonymisierungsdienste wie TOR oder von Jondonym angeboten
h) anonyme Hinweisgebersysteme wie vom Bundeskartellamt oder vom LKA Niedersachsen angeboten?

Antwort:
(…) Im Einzelfall obliegt die rechtliche Einordnung der Arten von Internetdiensten als Telekommunikationsdienst bzw. Telemediendienst im Bereich des Strafrechts den justiziellen, für die Gefahrenabwehr den polizeilichen Behörden und im nachrichtendienstlichen Aufgabensegment dem Verfassungsschutz, nicht der Landesregierung.

14.05.2013 - 14:43 [ Keep Talking Greece ]

Court rules Finland’s gov must reveal secret “collateral deal” with Greece

Some KTG-readers may can still recall the secret collateral agreement between Greece and Finland in exchange for the Nordic nation to provide funds for the second bailout for the debt-ridden country. That was back in February 2012. The deal was signed by the finance ministers of Greece, Evangelos Venizelos, and of Finland, Jutta Urpilainen.

14.05.2013 - 14:22 [ Sueddeutsche.de ]

NSU-Ausschuss des Bundestages: Das Schweigen der Dienste

Stiften Beamte zu einer Straftat an, wenn sie V-Leute in verbotene Organisationen schicken?

Die Bund-Länder-Expertenkommission zum Rechtsterrorismus, die sich mit dem Problem ebenfalls befasst, will den Staatsanwaltschaften künftig einen größeren Spielraum einräumen, solche Verfahren einstellen zu können.

14.05.2013 - 11:37 [ Cyprus Mail ]

EU releases first two billion euros in bailout aid

Both disbursements will be made in cash, and will be used for the general financing needs of the public sector, including the considerable sum of maturing debt the government is expected to pay next month, and the country’s fiscal needs.
“The loans granted by the ESM help to maintain financial stability in the euro area and buy time for Cyprus,” Klaus Regling, Managing Director of the ESM said.

14.05.2013 - 11:24 [ Keep Talking Greece ]

Public servants on solidarity strike for the teachers … without the teachers, May 14/2013

Public sector union ADEDY decided on Monday to launch a 24-hour strike to support secondary education teachers who will be forced to work with civil mobilization orders. However, ADEDY and teachers’ union OLME disagreed on the day of the strike. OLME wanted ADEDY to launch the strike together with the teachers on upcoming Friday. However ADEDY argued it did not want to disrupt the students’ university entrance exams.

14.05.2013 - 09:19 [ The College of William & Mary ]

Robert Mueller‘s 2013 Commencement remarks

As I reflect upon where I have come since I myself graduated, I will say that I never would have expected to end up where I have. And I consider myself most fortunate to have been given the opportunities I have had over the past 30 years – both personally and professionally.

14.05.2013 - 09:17 [ Think Progress ]

Why The Department Of Justice Is Going After The Associated Press’ Records

Why that drew the attention of the Justice Department, however, is that the CIA was the one who foiled the plot, which the AP report made clear:

„The FBI is examining the latest bomb to see whether it could have passed through airport security and brought down an airplane, officials said.(..) The would-be suicide bomber, based in Yemen, had not yet picked a target or bought a plane ticket when the CIA stepped in and seized the bomb, officials said.“

14.05.2013 - 07:49 [ Pew Research Global Attitude Project ]

The New Sick Man of Europe: the European Union

The favorability of the EU has fallen from a median of 60% in 2012 to 45% in 2013. And only in Germany does at least half the public back giving more power to Brussels to deal with the current economic crisis.

The sick man label – attributed originally to Russian Czar Nicholas I in his description of the Ottoman Empire in the mid-19th century – has more recently been applied at different times over the past decade and a half to Germany, Italy, Portugal, Greece and France.

14.05.2013 - 07:40 [ Syrian Arab News Agency ]

Al-Zoubi : We Will Not Be Part in Any Political Efforts or Meeting Affect Syrian Sovereignty

The Minister clarified that there are political and military events linked to the concept of the political solution and the Russian-US meeting, including the Israeli aggression on some sites in Syria and the bombings of al-Rihaniya city in Turkey where the Turkish officials rushed to accuse Syria, and that imposes a question about the Turkish, Qatari and the others‘ involvement in the idea of the political solution and whether they are ready to lose all the funds and weapons they offered to undermine Syria in vain.

He pointed out that the final decision is linked to the decision center, which is the USA but not its Arab and regional tools.