Ikhwan Survive.. performed by: Kazeboon campaign team
Original music — sound track:
„I Will Survive“ is a hit song first performed by American singer Gloria Gaynor,
written by Freddie Perren and Dino Fekaris
Daily Archives: 17. Mai 2013
New International Coalition to TPP Negotiators: We Demand a Fair Deal for the Internet
The TPP is a trade agreement being negotiated by Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Peru, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States. The changes to copyright required by the TPP would reduce access to information and restrict the ability to innovate, both on and offline.
Die Frauen der Klagemauer
ES GAB einmal einen israelischen Mann, der von Zeit zu Zeit ein Blatt Papier nahm und dieses in die Spalten zwischen die Steine an der Klagemauer (Westmauer) legte und Gott so um Vergünstigungen bat – wie es Juden seit Jahrhunderten taten. Sie glauben, dass die Himmelstore direkt über der Mauer sind und so die Nachricht bzw. Bitte schnell ihr Ziel erreicht.
US-Präsidentenberater Donilon trifft am 22. Mai Russlands Sicherheitsratschef Patruschew
Putin wollte den Antwortbrief von Patruschew nach Washington bringen lassen.
Am Freitag hatte Putins Sprecher Dmitri Peskow aber mitgeteilt, dass die russische Seite es möglicherweise nicht schaffen wird, die Antwortbotschaft bis Patruschews US-Visite vorzubereiten.
US-Außenamt kommentiert Abschiebung eines weiteren CIA-Mitarbeiters aus Russland nicht
Das US-Außenministerium wird laut seinem Sprecher Patrick Ventrell keine Stellung zu Informationen darüber nehmen, dass der CIA-Mitarbeiter Benjamin Dillon im Januar 2013 aus Russland ausgewiesen worden war.
Russia‘s FSB reveals identity of CIA Moscow station chief
The Daily Telegraph has decided not to name the individual because nobody was available for comment at the embassy.
Der futurologische Kongreß
Raumfahrer Ijon Tichy nimmt an einem futurologischen Kongress in der Hauptstadt des Bananenstaates Costricana teil…
Fantastischer Trailer zu The Congress, dem neuen Film von Ari Folman
The Congress ist eine lose Adaption von Stanislaw Lems Sci-Fi-Roman “The Futurological Congress” (“Der futurologische Kongreß”), einer schwarzhumorigen Utopie, in der ein Weltraum-Münchausen an einem Kongress in Costa Rica einige absonderliche Erfahrungen machen muss. Regisseur Folman nutzt den Roman als Fundament und vermischt ihn mit der echten Biografie seiner Hauptdarstellerin Robin Wright, die im Film als sie selbst auftritt.
Cannes 2013: The Congress – review
Ari Folman, director of Waltz with Bashir, mixes live action with animation in an eccentric and ambitious sci-fi drama
Don’t Expand the War on Terror
Even as ground zero burned in those first terrifying days after Sept. 11, Congressional leaders from both parties rejected a Bush administration proposal for an authorization to go to war against all international terrorists. Instead, Congress passed a tailored resolution, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, against “those who planned, authorized, committed or aided” the Sept. 11 attacks: Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Congress Must Figure Out What Our Government Is Doing In The Name of the AUMF
The hearing made clear that the Obama administration’s long insistence that it is deeply legally restrained under the AUMF is misleading and at a minimum requires much more extensive scrutiny. It also made clear that the SASC’s oversight of the basic legal regime for DOD operations has not been (until yesterday) serious.
Pentagon Spec Ops Chief Sees ’10 to 20′ More Years of War Against al-Qaida
The war in Afghanistan may be winding down. But the Pentagon’s chief of irregular warfare still sees a war against al-Qaida that will last decades, all over the world — a prospect that prompted astonishment and constitutional debate in the Senate.
Congress rethinks 9/11 law on military force; Pentagon officials say it ‚serves its purpose‘
Congress is rethinking the broad authority it gave the president to wage a war on terror after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in light of how President Barack Obama has used the power to target suspected terrorists with lethal drone strikes.
US Congress rethinks 9/11 law on military force
Twelve years after Twin Towers fell, US lawmakers question whether law granting president broad powers to target terror still appropriate
Napolitano against the crime of vilipendio
While investigations are going on all over Italy into the 22 people that left a comment about Napolitano on this blog, I’ve discovered that the President is in agreement about the abolition of article 278, laying out the crime of “vilipendio” {public insult} against the President of the Republic.
Israel presses on with 300 new settlement houses in West Bank despite U.S. efforts to restart talks
The approval came as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Israel’s chief negotiator in Rome.
Israel plans to legalize 4 settler units in occupied West Bank
In a reply to a Supreme Court petition by the Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now, the regime of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it had adopted measures in recent weeks to legalize retroactively four West Bank settlements
Westerwelle in Israel: Hoffnungsschimmer verdrängt Hilflosigkeit
Er ist bereits zum neunten Mal in seiner fast vierjährigen Amtszeit in Israel. Bedeutende Fortschritte zur Lösung des Konflikts zwischen Israel und den Palästinensern hat es in dieser Zeit nicht gegeben.
Saudi Religious Police: Anyone Using Twitter ‚Has Lost This World And His Afterlife‘
Given the problems that even China is having with controlling such services, it‘s no surprise that other nations are getting nervous. Here‘s a story from the BBC about what Saudi Arabia is doing in an attempt to counter the threat from Twitter:
Argentinien: Ex-Diktator Jorge Rafael Videla gestorben
Während seiner Regierungszeit (1976–1981) und in den darauffolgenden zwei Jahren “verschwanden” ungefähr 30.000 Oppositionelle infolge der repressiven Maßnahmen des Militärregimes
This is not the President Obama we voted for
Candidate Obama promised a different kind of culture in Washington, but it‘s looking similar to the Bush era
Rob Ford in ‚crack cocaine‘ video scandal
This photo shows Toronto Mayor Rob Ford with a man who, according to a source, is fatal gunshot victim Anthony Smith. The photo was given to the Toronto Star by the same person who later showed Star reporters a video in which Ford appears to be smoking crack cocaine.
For Sale: A Video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Smoking Crack Cocaine
Well, no. But when I emailed an acquaintance at CNN this afternoon, laying out much the same information I‘ve offered above and asking for discretion and confidentiality lest we screw up a pretty fucking great story about the mayor of the fifth-largest city in North America smoking crack cocaine on camera, he forwarded the email to his producer. The producer, in turn, asked CNN‘s Canada reporter about it. The Canada reporter—and this was a pretty fucking big mistake—called a source who used to work in Ford‘s office. Within 40 minutes, word had gotten back to me that „CNN called Ford‘s office asking about a crack tape.“
Algeria: French troops return to meet resistance fighters
This unprecedented voyage through time and memory was organized by Malika Tazairt, a Parisian-born French-Algerian whose heart beats for the African nation. „It took me two years to prepare this visit, the first of its kind, which has never been held before“, she told ANSAmed.
King of Spain gives up luxury yacht
The boat was donated to the monarch by a business group, but has led to embarrassment as it costs 20,000 euros just to refuel, according to the Spanish media.
Spain: 22 policemen charged for rubber bullets during strike
Twenty two agents with Catalonia‘s anti-riot police have been formally charged with causing serious injuries to a young man during a general strike on March 29, 2012 when they allegedly fired rubber bullets at demonstrators in Barcelona.
Interior Ministry confirms deportation of Catalan Muslim leader for “radical links”
However, Spain‘s National Intelligence Center suspects that Ziani was working for Moroccan intelligence and posed a threat to national security. The Interior Ministry signed off on the deportation order based on his promotion of radical ideology.
Constitutional Court to review contested election law
The supreme Court of Cassation on Friday called on the Constitutional Court to review Italy‘s contested election law.
Showgirl mimicked prosecutor at Berlusconi parties – Ruby
Karima El Mahrough, the former nightclub dancer known as ‚Ruby Heartstealer‘ at the center of a sex scandal involving Silvio Berlusconi, told a Milan court on Friday that during after-dinner parties at ex-premier‘s Arcore villa she saw showgirl Marystelle Polanco dressed as „Obama and as Ilda Boccassini, with a toga (magistrates robe) and red wig“.
Take action today and join our campaign to protect the Arctic
Prime Minister Harper has made it clear that he will do whatever it takes to push through dirty oil development — even if that means trampling on Indigenous rights and environmental protections while ignoring the risk of Arctic oil spills.
US Government Shills for GMO Seed Companies Throughout the World, Including Monsanto, Report Reveals
The non-profit organization Food and Water Watch just released a report in which it concludes:
In the past decade, the United States has aggressively pursued foreign policies in food and agriculture that benefit the largest seed companies. The U.S. State Department has launched a concerted strategy to promote agricultural biotechnology, often over the opposition of the public and governments, to the near exclusion of other more sustainable, more appropriate agricultural policy alternatives.
Russian Television (RT) provided more insight into the basis for the Food and Water Watch findings:
Cable News Hates The Turkish Prime Minister (VIDEO)
That man happens to be Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the prime minister of Turkey. He‘s a pretty important guy in a pretty important part of the world, and he had all sorts of things to say about Middle East policy and Syria that may have been worth listening to. But, apparently, no cable news executive thought that American viewers could handle all that foreign stuff, especially when it had to be translated. Fortunately, they had a solution: ignore him completely.
Whenever Erdogan started talking, they cut away. Whenever Obama started talking, they raced back. This happened over and over again, on every network.
New Rocket Fuel Helps NASA ‚Go Green‘
It‘s a liquid, and because it has a low vapor pressure (meaning it evaporates slowly) it‘s more stable and far less flammable than fuels like hydrazine. It‘s also easy to handle — Hawkins says M315E is less toxic to humans than caffeine.
It‘s also „green“ because when combusted, M315E only throws off nontoxic gasses like water vapor, hydrogen and carbon dioxide.
More Americans Committing Suicide than During the Great Depression
Suicide rates are tied to the economy.
Russische Experten: US-Medien schüren Kriegspsychose um Syrien
Der stellvertretende Leiter des USA- und Kanada-Instituts, Pawel Solotarjow, hält es für möglich, dass der „New York Times“-Bericht eine Provokation ist.
„Wir müssen die Tatsache in Erwägung ziehen, dass wir uns ständig in einem Informationskrieg befinden. Die gelieferten Informationen können verschiedene Ziele haben. Diese Version kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden“, sagte Solotarjow.
‚US clamps down on Bitcoin, fears lack of control‘
US authorities have frozen the account of the world‘s largest Bitcoin exchange, which helps move the customers‘ cash online. The booming digital currency has hit bureaucratic blocks ever since its rapid growth came to the attention of government.
“Unser Kongress tanzt”: Daniel Neun veröffentlicht viertes Lied
Die gesamte “Musikindustrie” auf dem Planeten, die keine Musik macht, sondern das Kunstproletariat ausbeutet, wird von drei Konsortien kontrolliert: Time Warner, Vivendi und der Sony Corporation. In Deutschland vertritt die Interessen der musikindustriellen Monopole der Verein “Bundesverband Musikindustrie e.V.”, Mitglied von “Europäische Bewegung Deutschland e. V.” (…)
“Unser Kongress tanzt” steht, wie alle Titel auf der weltweit größten internationalen Plattform für Freie Musik Jamendo, unter Creative Commons Lizenz. Das Lied steht damit außerhalb der Kontrolle von Kapitalismus und Monopolen und kann legal gehört, aus dem Internet geladen, verschenkt und über das Internet versendet werden.
UK: Musikindustrie bereitet weitere Sperrung von Webseiten vor
Nach Informationen die TorrentFreak vorliegen, handelt es sich hierbei um eine gemeinsame Aktion der British Phonographic Industry (BPI), ein Repräsentant der britischen Musikindustrie, sowie der Phonographic Performance Limited (PPL), einer britischen Musiklizenzierungsgesellschaft, ähnlich der deutschen GEMA. So soll die PPL im Auftrag der BPI ein Schreiben mit einer Liste von 25 Webseiten an alle Mitglieder versendet haben.
Brand des Frachters „Atlantic Cartier”: Atomfracht an Bord – Beinahekatastrophe am 1. Mai?
Es ist eine Ungeheuerlichkeit, dass der Senat die Öffentlichkeit nicht von sich aus über die brisante Ladung informiert hat. Hier muss man schon fast von einem Vertuschungsversuch sprechen.
German Official: Up to 700 Europeans Fighting with Terrorists in Syria
The paper said that in the first disclosures of western intelligence from an EU government about Europeans fighting in Syria, senior German officials said they knew of up to 40 people who had left Germany for fighting since last summer. Most of them had German passports.
…the fighters could not be stopped from leaving Germany because it could not be proved that they were going to Syria, the officials said.
Vorbereitungen für Syrien-Konferenz kommen nur langsam voran
Die Organisation der für Anfang Juni vorgesehenen internationalen Syrien-Konferenz kommt laut Frankreichs Außenminister Laurent Fabius nur sehr mühsam voran.
Russische Experten: US-Medien schüren Kriegspsychose um Syrien
Die neuerliche Meldung der Zeitung „New York Times“, Russland habe die syrische Armee mit neuartigen Schiffsabwehraketen ausgestattet, ist nach der Einschätzung russischer Militärexperten nichts weiter als ein Versuch, Emotionen anzustacheln und einen Vorwand für eine mögliche Invasion zu finden.
Bundeskanzlerin Merkel empfängt den Ministerpräsidenten der Volksrepublik China, Li Keqiang
Am Sonntag, den 26. Mai 2013, empfängt die Bundeskanzlerin den neuen chinesischen Ministerpräsidenten Li Keqiang um 16:00 Uhr mit militärischen Ehren im Bundeskanzleramt.
Bei den anschließenden Gesprächen werden die bilateralen Beziehungen, die Entwicklungen in China sowie wirtschafts- und außenpolitische Themen im Mittelpunkt stehen.
Joint Press Conference by President Obama and Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey
At the same time, we‘re going to keep increasing the pressure on the Assad regime and working with the Syrian opposition. The Prime Minister has been at the forefront of the international effort to push for a transition to a democratic Syria without Bashar Assad. And Turkey is going to play an important role as we bring representatives of the regime and opposition together in the coming weeks.
Vladimir Putin will meet with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
On May 16-19, Ban Ki-moon will be in Russia on a working visit.
Russland liefert Syrien Schiffsabwehrraketen
Außenminister Lawrow weist Kritik zurück: „Wir liefern in erster Linie Verteidigungswaffen“
Meeting with Defence Ministry officials
The meeting addressed the state of affairs, prospects and key development areas of the Russian Navy, including its assets both under and above water.
Heiner Flassbeck, Costas Lapavitsas: The systemic crisis of the euro – true causes and effective therapies
Many people still dream of a politically fully unified Europe that would help overcome the difficulties currently faced by EMU. In our view that dream should not guide politics. Given the obvious inability of the European institutions to appropriately manage the currency union, realistic observers have to admit that currency union was too ambitious a goal. The attempt to advance more rapidly on the way towards political union by means of a currency union has not worked out.
Now, paradoxically, Europe has to retreat if it is to progress again.
Flassbeck: Letzte Chance zur Euro-Rettung nutzen
Früherer Finanzstaatsekretär plädiert dafür, Ausstieg aus dem Euro als Option zu tolerieren / Studie der Luxemburg-Stiftung vorgelegt
Man burns self to death in northwestern Italy: Latest in wave of ‚economic‘ suicides
A man in the Sicilian town of Vittoria, near Ragusa, set himself on fire Tuesday after his home was put up for auction.
Govt popularity down 5% to new low of 34%
Letta close to lowest point hit by previous govt
Qatar buys 40% stake in Milan‘s Porta Nuova
Qatar is buying 40% of Porta Nuova, an ambitious renovation project involving a vast area of Milan whose buildings and skyscrapers, including the new headquarters of bank Unicredit, are changing the skyline of Italy‘s financial capital.
Syrien-Konflikt: Kurdische Karte wird ausgereizt
Irakische Kurden verkaufen ihr erstes Rohöl auf dem internationalen Markt unter Umgehung der Regierung in Bagdad – Türkei kauft Öl vom Taq Taq-Feld und baut Pipeline
Erdogan in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika
Obama, Erdogan und zwei Marines stehen im Regen
Die gemeinsame Pressekonferenz Präsident Barack Obamas und seines türkischen Amtskollegen Recep Tayyip Erdogan stellte US-Journalisten am Dionnerstag vor nicht zu unterschätzende Probleme
Pope Francis attacks ‚cult of money‘ in reform call
Pope Francis has hit out at unbridled capitalism and the „cult of money“, calling for ethical reform of the financial system to create a more humane society.