Daily Archives: 21. September 2013


21.09.2013 - 23:39 [ The Raw Story ]

Naming the Dead’ project will name and number people killed by drone airstrikes to challenge CIA claims of no civilian deaths

The website, “Naming the Dead”, is an initiative by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), a not-for-profit organisation that has won awards for its work exposing some of the realities of the covert drone wars that are being run by the US and UK militaries in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.

21.09.2013 - 23:37 [ Greek Reporter ]

Policeman Fires in Air During Protest

On September 20, during an anti-fascist protest that took place in Dafni, a suburb of Athens, for the killing of the anti-fascist hip-hop artist, Pavlos Fyssas, by the supporter of Golden Dawn, Giorgos Roupakias, a police special guard who was off duty pulled his service gun and shot in the air.

21.09.2013 - 22:49 [ Journal of Turkish Weekly ]

N Korean warship shoots at Russian fishing schooner

„After the shooting the Russian ship started drifting. Armed people from the North Korean warship got onboard the fishing schooner at 18:40 Moscow time (14:40 GMT). The fishing schooner Altai was searched through and the captain was questioned about the port of destination, cargo and the line-up of crew,“ the press service said. „Armed people left the Russian vessel at 18:50 Moscow time (14:50 GMT), the ship was permitted to sail to the destination port,“ the press service said.

21.09.2013 - 22:33 [ The International News ]

Army op to have serious implications for country: Imran

Rejecting the passage of Punjab Local Government by the Punjab Assembly, the PTI announced support for steps to challenge it in the High Court. It said the Punjab Local Government Act stood in clash with the Article-140 of the Constitution.

21.09.2013 - 21:03 [ Privacy SOS ]

FBI tells local police 9/11 Truthers may be terrorists

The FBI‘s bulletin to local cops also advises them to watch out for people who harbor „fury“ at the United States government for its actions abroad. Presumably anyone who visits Amazon or Powell‘s online to look for Chalmers Johnson‘s „Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire“ could be added to a Domestic Terror list, as well.

21.09.2013 - 20:55 [ Privacy SOS ]

NYPD attacks CUNY students protesting General David Petraeus

The following video captured a plainclothes NYPD officer delivering a series of punches to a man officers had surrounded, handcuffed on the ground. You can see the officer punching the handcuffed man at the thirty seconds mark in the clip below.

21.09.2013 - 20:49 [ antikrieg.com ]

Eric Margolis – Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ringen mit der Friedensoffensive des Iran

Präsident Obama, der gerade in der Sache Syrien auf dem falschen Fuss erwischt worden war, steht jetzt vor einer diplomatischen und Werbeoffensive des Iran, der er nur schwer widerstehen können wird. Amerikas Kriegspartei schäumt: ihre Träume von der Macht der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, die Syrien zerschmettern und dann den Iran, sind in Gefahr.

21.09.2013 - 20:49 [ Guardian ]

Major US security company warns over NSA link to encryption formula

RSA, the security arm of the storage company EMC, sent an email to customers telling them that the default random number generator in a toolkit for developers used a weak formula, and they should switch to one of the other formulas in the product.

21.09.2013 - 20:45 [ The Investigative Fund ]

America’s Afghan Victims

But when an Afghan dies in the war — especially an AfghaAmerica’s Afghan Victimsn civilian — her death is rarely noticed by the outside world. Often, it‘s not even recorded by Afghan hospitals or morgues.

21.09.2013 - 20:43 [ The Investigative Fund ]

Lethal Profiling of Afghan Men

Shortly after the Uruzgan incident, Gen. Stanley McChrystal banned the use of the term „military-age male,“ noting that it implied every adult man was a combatant. But a review by The Nation of official military documents produced since then indicates that the phrase — and the mindset behind it — lives on.

21.09.2013 - 20:35 [ The Dissenter ]

NSA Sends Letter to Its ‘Extended’ Family to Reassure Them That They Will ‘Weather’ This ‘Storm’

And, even though the NSA director built a replica of the bridge from starship Enterprise and called it the “Information Dominance Center” and that wholly perverts the values of peace and cooperation creator Gene Roddenberry intended to promote, it is not a “rogue element” but a “national treasure” that we all should shower with honor and praise.

21.09.2013 - 20:03 [ Phoenix New Times ]

Eric Harroun, Phoenix Vet Who Fought Syrian Regime, Suddenly Gets a Sweet Plea Deal

Last week, 30-year-old Phoenix native Eric Harroun faced a possible sentence of life in prison after the Justice Department accused him of fighting in Syria on behalf of Al-Qaeda.

Amid doubt about those allegations, Harroun suddenly agreed to a plea deal yesterday, and his sentence is quite a bit shorter than life in prison — he‘ll be released from jail, be placed on probation for three years, and has to pay a $100 fine.

21.09.2013 - 19:49 [ The Age ]

Australia‘s defence forces to be maintained at battle-ready status

In an interview with Fairfax Media, he said he plans to maintain and “augment our readiness“ for future fights, which will most likely be in the unstable region stretching from Pakistan to the Levant, including even fresh trouble in Afghanistan.

“It will be Pakistan across to Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Afghanistan. That‘s the area where there will be instability and that‘s the area that we might need to go back into at some point in the future.

21.09.2013 - 19:44 [ ACLU ]

Dragneting the Modern Media

We‘re used to talking about press freedoms in the context of the First Amendment: „Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom . . . of the press.“ But, especially in light of the ACLU‘s recent FBI report, Unleashed and Unaccountable, we could stand to reflect on the very close relationship between the Fourth Amendment, privacy rights, and press freedom.

21.09.2013 - 18:08 [ kshb.com ]

FULL VIDEO: Obama talks economic progress at Ford stamping plant in Liberty

Now, let’s put this in perspective. The Affordable Care Act has been in law for three and a half years. It passed both houses of Congress. The Supreme Court ruled it constitutional. It was an issue in last year’s elections. The guy who was running against me said he was going to repeal it. We won. So the voters were pretty clear on this.

And then, Republicans in Congress, they‘ve tried to repeal or sabotage this — more than 40 times they‘ve had these repeal votes. Every time they fail. This law that is in place is already providing people benefits. It‘s not holding back economic growth; it‘s helping millions of Americans, including some of you or your family members that you may not be aware of.

You can keep your kid on your own health insurance plan — somebody is raising their hand right here — until they‘re 26, because of the Affordable Care Act — (applause) — which is one of the main reasons why the number of uninsured among young people has gone down over the last three years.

21.09.2013 - 17:30 [ The Independent ]

Apple fingerprint tool on iPhone 5S raises ‚substantial privacy questions‘

Senior US senator address open letter to Apple over privacy concerns for users

21.09.2013 - 17:11 [ We the People ]

Repeal President Obama‘s Nobel Peace Prize

It is the belief of those committed to this petition that the Obama administration‘s support for Al Qaeda linked rebels in Syria and incessant drone strikes across the middle east substantiate the immediate repeal of President Obama‘s Nobel Peace Prize.

21.09.2013 - 16:21 [ Old-Thinker News ]

Google Wants to be Your Doctor; And its Director of Engineering Wants You to Have a Brain Chip

The U.K. Ministry of Defense published a 2006 report titled The DCDC Global Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036. The report outlined possible scenarios surrounding life extension. The report states, “The divide between those that could afford to ‘buy longevity’ and those that could not, could aggravate perceived global inequality. Dictatorial or despotic rulers could potentially also ‘buy longevity’, prolonging their regimes and international security risks.”

21.09.2013 - 15:56 [ Washington Post ]

Bahrain arrests opposition leader; U.S. shrugs

Incredibly, the State Department’s response to Mr. Marzooq’sarrest was to express disappointment with the opposition for withdrawing from the national dialogue. That myopic attitude will only encourage more repression and further political polarization in Bahrain — and endanger the very U.S. assets that the administration sees itself as protecting.

21.09.2013 - 15:34 [ Radio Utopie ]

Online-Umfrage zur Bundestagswahl

Als Parteien eigenständig aufgeführt sind die Parteien mit Aussicht in den Bundestag einzuziehen: die Christlich-Demokratische Union / Christlich-Soziale Union (C.D.U. / C.S.U.), die Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (S.P.D.), Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Die Linke, die Freie Demokratische Partei (F.D.P.), die Alternative für Deutschland (A.f.D.) und die Piratenpartei.

In unserer Online-Umfrage zur Bundestagswahl ebenfalls gefragt: die Zustimmung zum Grundgesetz und zu dessen Umsetzung durch die bisherigen Bundestagsparteien.

21.09.2013 - 14:39 [ Greenpeace Deutschland ]

Russische Regierung soll Umweltschützer freilassen

Update 20.9.13, 13:30 Uhr: Die russische Küstenwache hat das Greenpeace-Aktionsschiff Arctic Sunrise in internationalen Gewässern unter Kontrolle genommen. Laut Angaben russischer Behörden wird das Schiff nach Murmansk geschleppt. Seit über zwölf Stunden hat Greenpeace International keinen Kontakt mehr zur Crew der Arctic Sunrise. Eine offizielle Stellungnahme der russischen Behörden gegenüber Greenpeace gibt es nicht. Wir sorgen uns um die festgenommen und friedlichen Greenpeace-Aktivisten, aber wir bleiben dabei!

21.09.2013 - 14:38 [ Greenpeace ]

SAVE THE ARCTIC – FREE OUR ACTIVISTS

On the morning of September 18, two Greenpeace International activists were arrested as they protested Arctic oil drilling on the Gazprom platform, Prirazlomnaya, in the Pechora Sea off the Russian coast. They were held overnight without charges or legal representation aboard a Russian Coast Guard vessel.

The following day, September 19, the Russian Coast Guard then illegally boarded the Greenpeace International ship Arctic Sunrise while in international waters and is now holding 30 of our activists under armed guard. We are demanding the urgent release of all activists, the immediate withdrawal of the Coast Guard from our ship, and an end to offshore oil drilling in the Arctic for good.

21.09.2013 - 14:30 [ taz ]

OECD-Studie in den USA: Wenig Geld ist ein Todesurteil

(14.09.2011) Die Armut durch die von der Finanz- und Immobilienkrise ausgelöste Rezession komme für viele US-Bürger einem Todesurteil gleich. Nach wie vor könnten sich nämlich 49,9 Millionen Amerikaner keine Krankenversicherung leisten.“ Nach einer Studie der Harvard-Universität stirbt deshalb alle zwölf Minuten ein Mensch in den USA.

21.09.2013 - 14:00 [ Craig Murray ]

The Troodos Conundrum

I should state that I have actually been inside all of this facility and been fully briefed on its operations and capabilities, while I was head of the FCO Cyprus Section in the early 1990s. This is fact, not speculation.

It is therefore very strange, to say the least, that John Kerry claims to have access to communications intercepts of Syrian military and officials organising chemical weapons attacks, which intercepts were not available to the British Joint Intelligence Committee.

On one level the explanation is simple. The intercept evidence was provided to the USA by Mossad, according to my own well placed source in the Washington intelligence community.

21.09.2013 - 13:24 [ Radio Utopie ]

‘Shut It Down’: weisshaarige Damen zwischen 65 und 94 Jahren ketten sich am AKW Vermont Yankee-Tor an

Im U.S.-Bundesstaat Vernon gründete sich im Jahr 2005 die Gruppe “Shut It Down” mit dem Anspruch, solange gegen die Erzeugung von Energie aus dem uralten, sich seit einundvierzigen Jahren in Betrieb befindenen maroden Kernkraftwerk Vermont Yankee des zweitgrössten Atomstromproduzenten der U.S.A., dem Energiekonzern Entergy, zu protestieren, bis sich an diesem Ort wieder eine unkontaminierte grüne Wiese befindet.

Am Mittwoch, dem 18. September 2013 fand die jüngste Protestaktion statt. Neun Frauen im Alter von 65 bis 94 Jahren ketten sich an dem Tor des Geländes fest

21.09.2013 - 13:18 [ Radio Bulgarien ]

Ein Jahr nach dem Attentat von Burgas gibt es noch viele offene Fragen

Heute vor genau einem Jahr wurde auf dem Parkplatz vor dem Flughafen Burgas ein Bus in die Luft gesprengt. Bei dem Anschlag kamen der bulgarische Busfahrer und fünf israelische Touristen ums Leben. Trotz der fortgeschrittenen Ermittlungen der bulgarischen Dienste in Unterstützung ihrer internationalen Partner gibt es um den Terroranschlag noch viele offene Fragen.

21.09.2013 - 13:06 [ Ria Novosti ]

Präsidialamtschef Iwanow: Russland gegen Teilung Syriens

Russland werde von seinem Vetorecht im Weltsicherheitsrat nicht immer „nur aus dem Prinzip“ Gebrauch machen. „Sollte der Schuldige am Kampfstoffeinsatz in Syrien unwiderlegbar festgestellt werden, wird die Frage dann ganz anders formuliert. Solange aber keine Beweise vorliegen, wird sich unsere bisherige Position nicht ändern“, sagte Iwanow.

21.09.2013 - 13:02 [ Yonhap ]

N. Korea abruptly postpones family reunions with S. Korea

North Korea on Saturday abruptly postponed the planned reunions for families separated for six decades since the Korean War, accusing the South of seeking confrontation with it and dealing a blow to the recent warming of relations between the two sides.