Daily Archives: 25. Mai 2013


25.05.2013 - 22:34 [ The Independent ]

BBC suspends chief technology officer and ends digital plan – after a £100m bill

The BBC’s Director-General Tony Hall said: “DMI has wasted a huge amount of licence feepayers’ money and I saw no reason to allow that to continue. I have serious concerns about how we managed this project and the review that has been set up is designed to find out what went wrong and what lessons can be learned.”

25.05.2013 - 15:34 [ msnbc ]

Finally, an exit strategy to the war on terror

An American president has finally called for an exit strategy from the war that has led to human rights abuses and compromised the international standing of the United States. In so doing, he rejected the view of Defense Department official Michael Sheehan who recently testified that the war would last “at least” another 10 to 20 years.

25.05.2013 - 15:30 [ New York Times ]

For Obama’s Global Vision, Daunting Problems

It is an ambitious vision — one that eschews a muscle-bound foreign policy, dominated by the military and intelligence services, in favor of energetic diplomacy, foreign aid and a more measured response to terrorism. But it is fraught with risks, and hostage to forces that are often out of the president’s control.

25.05.2013 - 13:42 [ Guardian ]

The Wire creator David Simon on what‘s behind the US war on drugs – extended video interview

Writer and ex-crime reporter David Simon, who created HBO TV drama The Wire, speaks to John Mulholland about capitalism, Margaret Thatcher and how anti-drug enforcement has evolved into social control. Simon features heavily in Eugene Jarecki‘s documentary The House I Live In, which explores the war on drugs in the US

25.05.2013 - 11:08 [ Daniel Neun / Twitter ]

..darf ja wg „Leistungsschutzrecht“ nicht mal d.Titel der Reportage eines „öffentlich-rechtlichen“ Senders erwähnen.

http://t.co/zUqp2sNIzm

25.05.2013 - 11:07 [ Daniel Neun / Twitter ]

Gute ARD-Reportage über Elend, Kapitalismus und sozialen Widerstand in Barcelona. von Reporter, der dort seine Zwillingsschwester besucht.

25.05.2013 - 07:24 [ New York Times ]

The End of the Perpetual War

President Obama’s speech on Thursday was the most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America. For the first time, a president stated clearly and unequivocally that the state of perpetual warfare that began nearly 12 years ago is unsustainable for a democracy and must come to an end in the not-too-distant future.

25.05.2013 - 07:19 [ ABC News ]

Obama: ‘This War, Like All Wars, Must End’

ABC News’ Luis Martinez reports that the heckler, long-time Code Pink protestor Medea Benjamin, was there as a member of the press. Code Pink is an anti-war organization, and Benjamin represented herself as working for the blog Common Dreams. According to a Defense official, the White House handled the press list.

25.05.2013 - 07:11 [ USA Today ]

One of the main U.S. weather satellites fails

One of the primary weather satellites meteorologists use to forecast weather over the eastern USA and the tropical Atlantic Ocean failed late Tuesday, according to AccuWeather meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.

25.05.2013 - 06:48 [ Junge Welt ]

Alibiveranstaltung

»Bürgerbeteiligung bedeutet, daß die Bürgerinnen und Bürger umfassend mitreden und mitentscheiden können«, erklärte BUND-Geschäftsführer Olaf Bandt. Der Entwurf für das Endlagersuchgesetz sehe lediglich Informations-, aber keine Mitbestimmungsrechte für die Bürger vor. Der BUND-Vorsitzende Hubert Weiger bezeichnete das geplante Forum am Donnerstag im Deutschlandradio Kultur als »Farce«. Es sei nicht möglich, einem so komplexen Anliegen wie der Suche nach einem Atommüllager mit einer zwei- oder dreitägigen Veranstaltung gerecht zu werden.

25.05.2013 - 03:52 [ DocPatch ]

Entdecke unsere Verfassung!

Diese Webseite ermöglicht das Nachvollziehen aller Veränderungen am Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit seinem Inkrafttreten im Jahr 1949. Es enthält den vollständigen Gesetzestext zuzüglich vieler Informationen, die damit in Verbindung stehen. Somit steht ein umfassendes Werk zur Verfügung, die Entwicklung der deutschen Verfassung transparenter zu machen.

25.05.2013 - 03:48 [ Golem ]

Das Grundgesetz wird Open Data

Doc Patch heißt die Plattform, auf der das Gesetzeswerk abrufbar ist. Sie sei „ein umfassendes Werkzeug, um die Entwicklung der deutschen Verfassung transparenter zu machen“, schreibt der CCC. Der Nutzer kann auf der Plattform das Grundgesetz studieren und sich ansehen, wann und wie es geändert wurde und von wem die Änderungen stammen. Mit Hilfe einer Zeitleiste kann der Nutzer sehen, wie die politischen Verhältnisse im Land zum jeweiligen Zeitpunkt aussahen. Er kann aber auch verschiedene Fassungen des Grundgesetzes miteinander vergleichen.

Ziel des Projektes sei, „öffentliche Daten wie Verfassungen und Gesetzestexte von unfreien Formaten zu ‚befreien‘ und umfassend zu erschließen“

25.05.2013 - 03:36 [ ITAR-TASS ]

Russia, Serbia sign strategic partnership declaration

At talks within the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and within other multi-party formats, Russia and Serbia will pay due attention to the formation of a common space of legally binding guarantees of equal and indivisible security for all states on a territory from Vancouver to Vladivostok.

25.05.2013 - 03:32 [ RIA Novosti ]

Avrora May Go for Repairs in September – Russian Navy

The cruiser played a key part in the events of October 1917, famously firing a blank shell from the River Neva that was the signal for Bolshevik workers and soldiers to storm the Winter Palace in Petrograd, as St. Petersburg was then known, leading to the Communists taking power in the city, which was at that time the Russian capital.

25.05.2013 - 03:25 [ Huffington Post ]

Cave Paintings Found In Mexico: 5,000 Ancient Works Depict Humans, Animals (PHOTOS)

Mexican researchers announced a remarkable find this week: nearly 5,000 well-preserved cave paintings scattered across 11 different sites.

The 4,926 paintings were found in Burgos, in the mountainous northeastern state of Tamaulipas, in Mexico, reports the BBC. The beautiful pictures, cataloged with the help of the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), were presented by researcher Martha García Sánchez at the second meeting of Historic Archaeology, in Mexico City‘s National History Museum.

25.05.2013 - 03:17 [ Russia Today ]

Wall Street is writing its own regulation bill

Lobbyists working for Citigroup Inc., a multinational financial services corporation, wrote 80 percent of a regulation bill that was approved by the House Financial Services Committee this month. Citigroup wrote 70 lines of 85-line bill, which exempts “broad swathes of trades” from new regulation, the Times reported based on e-mails it obtained.