Daily Archives: 9. September 2013


09.09.2013 - 23:56 [ UPI ]

Israel‘s secret intel unit spawns high-tech tycoons

IBM announced in August that it‘s buying Trusteer, a privately owned Israeli cloud-based cybersecurity software provider whose customers include many of the largest banks in the United States and Britain.

The terms of the deal have not been disclosed. But the Financial Times reported that IBM, which will form a cybersecurity software laboratory in Israel with more than 200 researchers from both companies, is believed to be forking up $800 million-$1 billion for Trusteer.

09.09.2013 - 22:10 [ NBC ]

America‘s Christians mobilize against Syria strike ahead of Hill votes

American Christian organizations across the political spectrum are mobilizing their networks nationwide to urge Congress to oppose authorization for a U.S. strike in Syria.

The advocacy arms of the Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, United Methodist, Evangelical Lutheran and Catholic churches are among the groups in the United States urging members to contact their representatives in DC to urge a no vote on the resolution next week.

09.09.2013 - 22:02 [ Guardian ]

Stonehenge was built on solstice axis, dig confirms

English Heritage says it has discovered a „missing piece in the jigsaw“ in our understanding of Stonehenge, England‘s greatest prehistoric site. Excavations along the ancient processional route to the monument have confirmed the theory that it was built along an ice age landform that happened to be on the solstice axis, according to Professor Mike Parker Pearson, a leading expert on Stonehenge.

09.09.2013 - 21:47 [ ACLU ]

TOMORROW: NSA to Release FISA Court Opinions to ACLU

Last week, an impressive array of individuals and organizations filed briefs in support of the ACLU‘s challenge to the massive surveillance program under which the NSA keeps a record of every phone call made or received in the United States. You can read their briefs—including those from the National Rifle Association and Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner—here. A federal court in New York will hear oral argument in our lawsuit on November 1.

09.09.2013 - 21:39 [ Russia Today ]

Cyanide pollution fears: Thousands of Romanians protest ‘biggest in Europe’ gold mine

Some 15,000 people, including students and young parents, rallied across the country on Sunday in the eighth day of protests against a draft law issued by the leftist government, which would allow a Canadian miner to dig for gold and silver in the small town of Rosia Montana in Transylvania, northern Romania.

09.09.2013 - 21:06 [ Asia Times ]

The (farcical) emperor is naked

It‘s as if Dick Cheney had never left the building; paperboy Barack is Dick Cheney with a “human“ face. The only good outcome in this multi-sorrowful tale is that the real “international community“, all around the world, has seen the naked Emperor in all its (farcical) glory.

09.09.2013 - 20:59 [ Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ]

Defending the Whales and Dolphins around the Faroe Islands

On the edge of North-West Europe there are also regular drive hunts of whales and dolphins just as needless but arguably more barbaric and even more merciless in our very own ‘Taiji of the North’ – The Faroe Islands.

09.09.2013 - 20:38 [ RIA Novosti ]

GeneralsekretÀr der Arabischen Liga: Nach US-Eingreifen in Syrien wird Nahost explodieren

Wie er hervorhob, wĂ€re es falsch, die Resultate der jĂŒngsten AL-Tagung auf der Außenministerebene als Bekundung einer UnterstĂŒtzung fĂŒr solches Eingreifen auszulegen.
„Die jĂŒngsten ErklĂ€rungen der Arabischen Liga, in der wir vom Uno-Sicherheitsrat gefordert haben, sich einzumischen und adĂ€quate Maßnahmen in Bezug auf Syrien einzuleiten, dĂŒrfen nicht als unsere Zustimmung fĂŒr einen Schlag gegen Syrien zu verstehen“, sagte er.

09.09.2013 - 19:50 [ New York Times ]

Museum Identifies New Van Gogh Painting in Amsterdam

The date of the painting has been identified as July 4, 1888. In a letter van Gogh wrote to his brother the next day, he seemed to have described the scene: “Yesterday, at sunset, I was on a stony heath where very small, twisted oaks grow, in the background a ruin on the hill, and wheat fields in the valley. It was romantic, it couldn’t be more so, à la Monticello, the sun was pouring its very yellow rays over the bushes and the ground, absolutely a shower of gold. And all the lines were beautiful; the whole scene had charming nobility.”

09.09.2013 - 19:04 [ USA Today ]

USA TODAY Poll: Opposition to Syrian airstrikes surges

By more than 2-1, 63%-28%, those surveyed Wednesday through Sunday say they are against U.S. military action against the Syrian regime for its reported use of chemical weapons against civilians. In the past week, support has declined by a percentage point and opposition has swelled by 15 points, compared with a previous Pew Research poll.

09.09.2013 - 17:01 [ antikrieg.com ]

Paul Craig Roberts – Warum versuchen Obama und Kerry so verzweifelt, einen neuen Krieg zu beginnen?

Warum bemĂŒht sich das obama-Regime so verzweifelt, ein Kriegsverbrechen zu begehen, trotz der Warnungen, die der Narr im Weissen Haus vor zwei Tagen von den wichtigsten LĂ€ndern der Erde bekommen hat? Welches mĂ€chtige Interesse drĂ€ngt das Weisse Haus, ausserhalb des Gesetzes zu handeln, ausserhalb des Willens des amerikanischen Volkes, ausserhalb der Warnungen der Weltgemeinschaft?

09.09.2013 - 16:24 [ Syrian Arab News Agency ]

Al-Moallem: Syria welcomes Russia‘s proposal to prevent U.S. aggression

Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister , Walid al-Moallem, announced that the Syrian Arab Republic welcomes the proposal of the Russian leadership based on the commitment of the Syrian leadership to ensuring the safety of its citizens and the security of its territories and based on confidence in the Russian leadership which is seeking to prevent U.S. aggression in the Syrian people.

09.09.2013 - 16:21 [ Time ]

Some U.S. Military Officers Not Happy With Syrian War Prep

At the Pentagon, they call it “shaping the battlefield.” It’s shorthand for taking steps, military and otherwise, before launching an attack. In the long drumbeat of war prior to a possible attack on Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons last month, the Obama Administration — starting with the President himself — has fumbled this critical prewar phase.

09.09.2013 - 14:08 [ Radio Utopie ]

U.S.-BĂŒrger zu McCain: ‚Ich wĂŒrde Sie wegen Hochverrats verhaften‘

Und McCain, Sie und der Rest der Staats- und Regierungschefs sind fĂŒr Ihre Handlungen verantwortlich. Es ist schade, dass jemand wie ich kein Amt inne hat um Sie zur Verantwortung zu ziehen. Denn wenn ich in einer Position der Macht oder AutoritĂ€t wĂ€re, ich hĂ€tte Sie alle verhaftet und wegen Hochverrats gegen mein Land verurteilt.”

Der Auftritt des BĂŒrgers im Rathaus von Prescott wurde gefilmt und auf Youtube gestellt:

09.09.2013 - 13:32 [ Huffington Post ]

How the White House and the CIA Are Marketing a War in the YouTube Era

Dennis J. Kucinich

We‘ve seen this movie before and it doesn‘t end well. A decade after the Bush administration used the CIA‘s „yellow cake“ tale and other faulty evidence, the government is yet again relying on the CIA to lead a domestic propaganda effort for military action abroad. If these videos can sway American public opinion, as they‘re intended to do, and influence Congress to vote to attack Syria, this could become the first YouTube war.

09.09.2013 - 10:54 [ Ria Novosti ]

Damaskus wertet US-AggressionsplĂ€ne gegen Syrien als Hilfe fĂŒr Terroristen

Nach Auffassung Syriens besteht das Ziel der von den USA geplanten militĂ€rischen Intervention darin, den im Land agierenden Terroristen zu helfen, sagte der syrische Außenminister Walid Muallem am Montag in Moskau auf einer Pressekonferenz nach Verhandlungen mit seinem russischen Amtskollegen Sergej Lawrow.

09.09.2013 - 10:53 [ Ria Novosti ]

Moskau: Ablehnung von MilitÀrschlag gegen Syrien nimmt weltweit zu

„Immer mehr Politiker und Staatsleute teilen unsere EinschĂ€tzung, laut der ein Gewaltszenario zu einem Bacchanal des Terrorismus sowohl in Syrien als auch in den benachbarten LĂ€ndern fĂŒhren und einen immensen FlĂŒchtlingsstrom zur Folge haben wird. Dies ist bereits der Fall, nachdem die USA einen Schlag gegen das syrisch-arabische Territorium angekĂŒndigt haben“, so der Minister.

09.09.2013 - 09:05 [ AntiWar ]

Can This War Be Stopped?

In the longer term, however, it won’t work, and here’s why:

„There is something going on here, a new distance between Washington and America that the Syria debate has forced into focus. The Syria debate isn’t, really, a struggle between libertarians and neoconservatives, or left and right, or Democrats and Republicans. That’s not its shape. It looks more like a fight between the country and Washington, between the broad American public and Washington’s central governing assumptions.“