“It‘s not a coincidence that black and brown people are getting killed. The sheriff needs to do better recruiting – we don‘t need war veterans shooting everything that moves,” he said, referring to the deputy who fired the fatal shots, who was a military veteran.
Organizers expected as many as 1,500 people to participate in the march, which was scheduled to end by 5 p.m. More than 1,000 people attended a service for the boy sunday.
Hours before the funeral of 13-year-old Andy Lopez, hundreds of students and other protesters marched through Santa Rosa, Calif., on Tuesday, a week after a sheriff‘s deputy killed the eighth-grader as he carried a pellet gun that resembled an assault rifle.
Sonoma County offices and some city businesses closed early in anticipation of the rally and march, which was expected to draw up to 1,500 people, some from the San Francisco area and Los Angeles, authorities and organizers said.
Legalize Democracy is a doc about Move To Amend
The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, had said an article in Le Monde that alleged 70 million French phone calls were collected from December 2012 to January 2013 was “inaccurate” and “misleading.” But he did not specify exactly what was incorrect about the coverage.
Die drei Neuzugänge in den Radio Utopie November Charts: The Gray Havens (Crystal Lake, U.S.A.) mit “Silver”. Fast wie der Soundtrack zu einem Jonny Depp Film. Singleton (Kiev, Ukraine) mit “Breathe in Breathe out”. Guter, nicht alter New Wave, wenn man das so sagen kann. Und Yury (wie kommt man bloß von Kiryat Shmona nach Arkansas?, jetzt aus Pittsburgh, USA) mit “The Chase”. Großer Hip Hop, wie man ihn irgendwie nur unterwegs machen kann, aber wenn man grad Zeit hat, und dann gleich weiter. Viel Spaß!
After KPIX 5 reported on Google’s mysterious project on a barge off Treasure Island, reports have surfaced of the tech giant building similar floating structures outside of the Bay Area.
Glenn Greenwald makes some really good points in a Guardian column (one of his last) discussing the reactions to the latest revelations about the NSA surveillance on citizens and (mainly) top politicians in other countries. The key one being, if these countries are really so outraged by these revelations, shouldn‘t they be offering Ed Snowden asylum, since they appear to be admitting that these revelations are important?
Die britisch-französische Firma Perenco beutet Erdöl im Nationalpark Laguna del Tigre aus. Die lokale Bevölkerung wird ihrer Grundrechte beraubt und von Militärs vertrieben, die durch die Erdölfirma finanziert werden. Bitte unterstützen Sie die betroffenen Gemeinden mit Ihrer Unterschrift.
Präsident Maduro kündigt Aufbau von 80.000 städtischen Gärten an. Landwirtschaftstechniker mit Hilfe der FAO ausgebildet
Navy-SEALs-Kommandeur, Admiral William McRaven, – verantwortlich für die Operation, in deren Rahmen Osama Bin Laden getötet wurde – zeigte sich besonders aggressiv, als er sich auf die Suche nach einem neuen Schauplatz für seine Truppen begab. Dabei ging es auch um Lateinamerika und die Karibik, wo sie tausende Soldaten trainieren. „Für das, was ein Helikopter kostet, lassen sich viele Menschen ausbilden“, sagte Iscason gegenüber IPS.
Spain’s public prosecutor has opened a preliminary inquiry into allegations that the US spy agency has conducted illegal surveillance operations on millions of Spanish citizens.
Hey, it’s pretty embarrassing for the 35 allied leaders whose phones have been monitored to have learned that their intelligence services can’t guarantee secure conversations. (Remember, published reports indicate that the NSA eavesdropping on Merkel traced back to 2002 when George W. Bush was president.)
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The future of the gang conflict is also set to be influenced by El Salvador’s presidential elections in February 2014. The current President Mauricio Funes (FMLN) is said to have facilitated the truce that has come under increased scrutiny as drug trafficking and other criminal activities continue.
West Texas attorney found guilty of conspiring to launder $600 million for Mexican drug cartel.
„I don‘t want to have to use injunctions or D notices or the other tougher measures.“ (..)
I guess we can forgive the prime minister not knowing that they are called DA (defence advisory) notices, and have been so for 20 years.
The statement added that Jamil‘s removal from office also came because of his involvement in activities and meetings abroad without coordination with the government and overstepping the institutional work and the state‘s hierarchy.
“I want to apologize to you that the website is not working as well as it should,” Ms. Tavenner said, in remarks addressed to the public during testimony before the House Ways Means Committee.
Egypt‘s army-backed government and the Muslim Brotherhood should seek reconciliation because only an inclusive political process, not security crackdowns, can bring stability to the country, a senior minister said on Tuesday.
UPDATED: From peaceful action to dramatic seizure: a timeline of events since the Arctic Sunrise took action September 18 (CET).
IACPDA is shocked and saddened to hear the Egyptian Kung Fu Association‘s decision to deport its champion fighter and strip him of his Egyptian nationality, gold medal & prize money.
Mohamed Youssef wore shirt with yellow Rabaa logo widely used by supporters of deposed president at medals ceremony
The head of the Kenyan Defense Forces (KDF) said two members of a special combat unit had been dismissed from the force and jailed and a third was under investigation, though he rejected reports of systematic, large-scale looting by troops.
Filin was not present during the hearing. His lawyer said he was in Germany for more medical treatment on his eyes after more than 20 surgeries to save his sight and treat his face.
The three presiding judges have stepped down at Egypt‘s trial of Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and his two aides, halting the proceedings.
Judge Mohammed Fahmy al-Qarmuty said he and his colleagues were retiring from the case for „reasons of conscience“
Silvio Berlusconi has said it would be a „stain on Italian democracy“ if he were ejected from the Senate after the supreme court upheld a tax-fraud conviction against the ex-premier.
Der Prozess gegen die Führungsriege der Muslimbrüder ist vorerst geplatzt. Das zuständige Gericht in Kairo zog sich aus „Gewissensgründen“ zurück. Die Niederlegung des Verfahrens überschattet auch den Prozessauftakt gegen den Ex-Präsidenten Mohammed Mursi.
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Innenminister Hans-Peter Friedrich hatte heute morgen das Pech, im Morgenmagazin mit Dunja Hayali einer fast schon angemessen kritischen Journalistin gegenüberzustehen.
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The U.N. nuclear watchdog and Iran held „very productive“ talks this week on how to advance a long-blocked investigation into Iranian atomic activities and will meet again in Tehran next month, they said in a rare joint statement on Tuesday.
Und DIE wollen anderen Ländern Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit bringen!?
Dianne Feinstein, the NSA‘s biggest defender in the Senate (which is ridiculous since she‘s also in charge of „oversight“) has finally had enough. It‘s not because she finally understands how crazy it is that the NSA is spying on every American, including all of her constituents in California. It‘s not because she finally realized that the NSA specifically avoided letting her know about their widespread abuses. No, it‘s because she just found out that the NSA also spies on important people, like political leaders around the globe. It seems that has finally ticked off Feinstein, who has released a scathing statement about the latest revelations:
Alliierten-Spionage? Können wir auch – sagt Griechenlands Ex-Außenminister Pangalos. Über die Mitschnitte von Gesprächen zwischen US-Diplomaten habe er sich in seiner Amtszeit „sehr amüsiert“, verrät er in einem Interview. Die Inhalte seien mitunter nicht jugendfrei gewesen.
PS despite the generous EU funding, we cannot say that cows lived happily ever after.
Half of Israel‘s elderly would be living below the poverty line if they were dependent only on their market income, while 15 of the 21 other states would have more than 75% of the elderly living in poverty if they did not give government intervention. This means a smaller part of Israel‘s elderly would live in poverty without the intervention of a social safety net.
The Bank of Italy said Tuesday that the government must tightly control its costs and trim spending if it is to remain within European-mandated targets of a 3% ratio of deficits to gross domestic product (GDP).
The explanation added that the supreme court ruling established that Berlusconi was the architect of a system that used offshore companies to collect funds and dodge taxes. It added that there was „no proof“ Berlusconi had settled his debt with the Italian tax authorities.
The Camorra mafia clan was exposed by writer and anti-mafia campaigner Roberto Saviano, who has been under round-the-clock police protection since his 2006 book Gomorrah brought down death threats from the Casalesi.
Close to half in south, including over one million children
Istat forecasts 1.8% fall in GDP for 2013
MPs are currently considering proposals to go to voters in 2017 asking: „Do you think that the United Kingdom should be a member of the European Union?“
But the Electoral Commission said a more neutral alternative would be „Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?“.
Das haben ja selbst bei uns im Inland noch nicht alle kapiert, dass die Merkel eine Bedrohung ist, vor der man das Land schützen muss.
James Clapper has declassified another batch of documents on the NSA activities. We‘ll probably write about a few of them, but let‘s start with one that‘s getting a lot of initial attention: the document that discusses the „test“ of collecting location info from the telcos based on where your mobile phone was. The short version? Do you know where you were on April 26, 2010? Because the NSA probably does.
Five leaders of a „Boer Army“ white supremacist plot in South Africa to assassinate Nelson Mandela and drive blacks out of the country were sentenced to 35 years in prison on Tuesday after a trial lasting more than 10 years.
November‘s presidential vote is a key test of whether Honduras can return to democracy after the US-supported 2009 coup
The White House informed a leading Democratic lawmaker, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, of its plans, which grew out of a broader internal review of intelligence-gathering methods, prompted by the leak of N.S.A. documents by a former contractor, Edward J. Snowden. (…)
“She believes the committee was not adequately briefed on the details of these programs, and she’s frustrated,” said a committee staff member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “In her mind, there were salient omissions.”
Der Reagan hatte wenigstens Berufserfahrung!
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Her conservative party, now in talks with the opposition Social Democrats on forming a new governing coalition after the September 22 election, said it would not stand in the way of any parliamentary committee investigating the espionage affair.
I want to stress one really important thing here. The automatic background updates for WordPress are for minor updates only. We’re not talking about auto-upgrading people from 3.7 to 3.8, but just 3.7 to 3.7.1 – These are small, minor, updates. When someone comes to me and complains that major releases don’t always work, I have actually said, “So? We’re not talking about major releases.” And of course, “You are making good backups on these super important websites, right? Right?”
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