Daily Archives: 10. September 2013


10.09.2013 - 22:23 [ Süddeutsche Zeitung ]

USA und Russland ringen um Syrien-Resolution

In einem vom sozialen Netzwerk Google+ organisierten Onlineforum sagte der US-Außenminister, dass Lawrow „einige interessante Beobachtungen“ über die mögliche „Sicherung“ der syrischen Chemiewaffen gemacht habe. „Er wird sie uns zusenden. Sie werden im Laufe des Tages eintreffen. Wir werden die Möglichkeit haben, sie zu prüfen“, sagte Kerry.

10.09.2013 - 22:16 [ The Christian Science Monitor ]

Surprise microbes found in an Antarctic lake

In the journal Diversity, Pearce and his colleagues reported that they grew 20 cultures of microbes found in the uppermost layer of the sediment core, proving that there are viable extremophiles, or life that thrives in extreme environments, currently living in Lake Hodgson. They also found fossilized fragments of DNA from many different types of microbes that seem to have adapted to Antarctica‘s extremes over the eons.

10.09.2013 - 18:50 [ antikrieg.com ]

Paul Craig Roberts – Zu viele Jahre voller Lügen – von Mossadegh bis 9/11

Die Kriege, die Amerikas guten Ruf ruiniert haben, sind die Konsequenz von 9/11. Die Neokonservativen, die Amerikas Vorherrschaft über die Welt befürworten, riefen nach „einem neuen Pearl Harbor,“ das ihnen die Möglichkeit gab, Eroberungskriege zu führen. Ihr Plan für die Eroberung des Mittleren Ostens als Anfangsziel wurde dargelegt in dem neokonservativen „Projekt für das Neue Amerikanische Jahrhundert.“

10.09.2013 - 18:46 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

Five More Organizations Join EFF Lawsuit Against NSA Surveillance

National Lawyers Guild, Patient Privacy Rights and The Shalom Center Among 22 Groups Asserting Right to Free Association

San Francisco – Five new groups—including civil-rights lawyers, medical-privacy advocates and Jewish social-justice activists—have joined a lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) against the National Security Agency (NSA) over the unconstitutional collection of bulk telephone call records. With today‘s amended complaint, EFF now represents 22 entities in alleging that government surveillance under Section 215 of the Patriot Act violates Americans‘ First Amendment right to freedom of association.

10.09.2013 - 17:55 [ The Times of Central Asia ]

SCO member states establishes a Bank and Development Fund

„The possibilities of creating the SCO‘s Bank and the Development Fund will be one of the main topics of discussions at the forthcoming Bishkek summit. Money to be stored in these structures is meant for implementation of the projects in SCO member states,“ Beshimov said at the press conference on Monday.

Beshimov added that the regional security issues in connection with the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan in 2014, as well as Syria crisis will be also discussed at the summit.

The SCO summit will take place in Bishkek on September, 12-13. The presidents of Russia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, China, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Iran are expected to participate in the summit.

10.09.2013 - 17:52 [ regensburg-digital ]

NPD-Blockade Thema im Landtag

Die gewaltsame Auflösung der NPD-Blockade zieht weiter Kreise. Nach der Veröffentlichung des Videos einer brutalen Festnahme auf Regensburg Digital fordern die Landtags-Grünen Aufklärung.

10.09.2013 - 17:36 [ Russia Today ]

Putin: Syria chem arms handover will work only if US calls off strike

„Certainly, this is all reasonable, it will function and will work out, only if the US and those who support it on this issue pledge to renounce the use of force, because it is difficult to make any country – Syria or any other country in the world – to unilaterally disarm if there is military action against it under consideration,“ President Putin said on Tuesday.

Putin said the disarmament of Syria’s chemical weapons had been extensively discussed by experts and politicians.

10.09.2013 - 17:03 [ Radio Utopie ]

Belgische und italienische Ex-Geisel: Rebellen für Gas-Angriff am 21. August verantwortlich

Seit ihrer Ankunft in Rom fanden mehrere Gespräche mit europäischen Nahrichtenagenturen statt.

So sagte Piccinin in einem Interview mit RTL Radio Belgien, dass es seine moralische Pflicht ist, darauf hinzuweisen, dass nicht die Regierung von Bashar al-Assad Sarin oder andere Arten von Gas in den Aussenbezirken von Damaskus eingesetzt hat.

10.09.2013 - 17:03 [ IK News ]

Das laute Schweigen über die getöteten UN-Mitarbeiter in Syrien

Die Nothilfekoordinatorin der Vereinten Nationen (UN), Valerie Amos, hat auf einer weitgehend unbemerkten Pressekonferenz am 6. September erklärt, dass elf UN-Mitarbeiter in Syrien getötet und weitere entführt worden seien. Die Tötung von Mitarbeitern der UN, die für gewöhnlich medienwirksam verurteilt wird, fand in diesem Fall kein öffentliches Gehör. Der Grund für dieses merkwürdige Verhalten der UN könnten die mutmaßlichen Täter sein.

10.09.2013 - 16:45 [ Demand Progress ]

It’s now been almost a year since journalist and activist Barrett Brown was arrested—-basically for doing his job.

Brown did what all journalists do on a daily basis—shared a hyperlink to a set of documents readily available online. This case could criminalize completely normal and necessary journalistic practices and severely endanger the First Amendment.

Barrett Brown‘s intrepid journalism helped shed light on a shadowy underworld of corporate espionage, and a meticulously engineered smear campaign against anti-corporate activists, defenders of WikiLeaks, and liberal journalists like Glenn Greenwald.

10.09.2013 - 16:31 [ Strat Risks ]

Swedish spies ‘breaking surveillance laws’

“A new organization has joined the “Five Eyes” and is seen as the largest cooperating partner to [the UK‘s] GCHQ outside the English-speaking countries – and that is Sweden,” Campbell told the European Parliament committee, referring to the colloquial term used to refer to the US, UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada.

10.09.2013 - 16:26 [ Strat Risks ]

Intercepts caught Assad rejecting requests to use chemical weapons, German paper says

The German intelligence briefing to lawmakers described by Bild am Sonntag fits neither narrative precisely. The newspaper’s article said that on numerous occasions in recent months, the German intelligence ship named Oker, which is off the Syrian coast, has intercepted communications indicating that field officers have contacted the Syrian presidential palace seeking permission to use chemical weapons and have been turned down.

10.09.2013 - 16:11 [ The Jerusalem Post ]

Report: CIA believes Israel acquired chemical weapons decades ago

The author of the report also claims to have identified a possible site for the storage of chemical weapons in the Negev. After intensive research on Google Maps, the writer surmised that „imagery search found what I believe is the location of the Israeli nerve agent production facility and its associated chemical weapons storage area in a desolate and virtually uninhabited area of the Negev Desert just east of the village of al-Kilab, which is only 10 miles west of the outskirts of the city of Dimona.“

The report comes as the United States government is currently seeking domestic and international consensus for truncated military action against the Syrian regime over its alleged recent use of chemical weapons on its own population.