Anlässlich eines ihrer seltenen Auftritte vor dem Parlament, vor dem die britischen Geheimdienstchefs aussagen mussten, verbargen diese kaum ihre Empörung darüber, dass sie Fragen von Parlamentsabgeordneten über durchgesickerte Überwachungsprogramme beantworten mussten, die gravierende Bedenken an ihrem vergleichsweisen Mangel an Aufsicht äußerten.
Daily Archives: 8. November 2013
One Dead Three Wounded – Blackholes
lyrics
Black Sail by videofoam
All sound material recorded on location and processed
Snuff Box – Macs Vs PCs
The age old battle
South Africa Plans To Terminate And Renegotiate Treaties That Include Corporate Sovereignty
Despite the growing evidence that corporate sovereignty clauses in international treaties pose considerable risks to nations that sign them, such „investor-state dispute settlement“ (ISDS) mechanisms are present in both TPP and TAFTA/TTIP — at least as far as we know: it‘s hard to be sure given the obsessive secrecy surrounding them.
South Africa has experienced first hand the reality of those bland-sounding systems and the behind-closed-doors tribunals that implement them. Here‘s what happened when it set about transforming the country after apartheid, as this column on the South African Independent Online site explains:
Radical reds upset South Africa‘s political color balance
While the yellow, green and black of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) remains dominant, it is the bright red of an ultra-leftist party founded by expelled ANC youth leader Julius Malema that is making the big splash.
South Africa: Hundreds attend launch of Malema‘s Economic Freedom Fighters party
(13.10.) Outspoken young Malema, who led South Africa‘s African National Congress (ANC) Youth League until he was kicked out of the ANC, held the event in Marikana, where 34 miners were killed last year after protesting low wages, said Al Jazeera.
Gesichtserkennungssoftware in San Diego County im Einsatz
In der Datenbank befinden sich 348.000 Personen und über 1,4 Millionen Fotos. Mit Hilfe des Tactical Identification System können dann die Personen identifiziert werden.
Das Ziel war letztlich eine Niedrigwährung / Handelszone – aber erst NACH dem Zerschlagen d.Demokratien durch deflationäre Hochzinspolitik.
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..immer noch souverän sind. Um nun einen Kollaps des Euro-Systems (anstatt der Demokratien) zu vermeiden, musste die EZB die Zinsen senken.
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Kurze Anm.: meiner Einschätzung nach ist die deflationäre Strategie der Euro-Gilde gescheitert, da die Demokratien im Euro-Systembereich..
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Those Depressing Germans
Remember the China syndrome, in which Asia’s largest economy kept running enormous trade surpluses thanks to an undervalued currency? Well, China is still running surpluses, but they have declined. Meanwhile, Germany has taken China’s place: Last year Germany, not China, ran the world’s biggest current account surplus. And measured as a share of G.D.P., Germany’s surplus was more than twice as large as China’s.
DER WELTFINANZKRIEG (III): Griechenland im Würgegriff der Menschenschinder – Geostrategische Hintergründe
(09.02.2012) Allen voran in diesem Putsch marschierten sämtliche Unterparteien der “Sozialdemokratischen Partei Europas” SPE/PES, wie die SPD in Deutschland und die SPÖ in Österreich, sowie alle Unterparteien der “Europäischen Volkspartei” EVP, wie CDU und CSU in Deutschland und ÖVP in Österreich. Und Seit an Seit mit dabei: die “Europäische Liberale, Demokratische und Reformpartei” ELDR, mit ihrer Unterpartei FDP, die “Europäische Grüne Partei” mit deren Unterpartei Bündnis 90/Die Grünen und natürlich die “Europäische Linke”, mit ihrer ganz besonderen Unterunterpartei in Deutschland.
Ebenfalls eine zentrale Rolle in diesem kalten, geostrategischen Putsch spielten die Einheitsgewerkschaften, allen voran natürlich der “Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund” DGB. Nicht umsonst ist deren Vorsitzender auch der Vorsitzende des “Internationalen Gewerkschaftsbundes” IGB.
Ökonomisches Konzept ist hierbei die Kontrollgewinnung über möglichst viele Volkswirtschaften in Europa, die Schaffung einer Einheitszone und nachfolgend die strategische Absenkung aller Löhne und Sozialstandards auf möglichst niedriges Niveau, um von China im Zuge dessen Aufstiegs zur Tributzone des Währungszentrums USA die Rolle der Handelszone zu übernehmen. Soll heissen: niedrige Währung, niedrige Löhne, niedrige Standards, ergo niedrige Produktionskosten im weltweiten “Wettbewerb”, maximale Gewinne für die exportierenden Konzerne und Handelskammern bei Verkauf bzw Lieferung in Währungszentrum und Tributzone. Der Zusammenbruch der Binnennachfrage wird hierbei gezielt in Kauf genommen und ist Teil des Konzepts.
Kapitalismus 4.0: Die Geburtsstunde einer neuen Wirtschaftsordnung
Die Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise hat Menschen, Banken, Firmen, ja, ganze Staaten ruiniert. Dennoch: Auch diese folgenschwere Erschütterung ist kein Anlass, den Abgesang auf das System an sich anzustimmen. Die letzte Krise war nicht die erste und wird auch nicht die letzte sein. Von jeher hat sich der Kapitalismus anglo-amerikanischer Herkunft aus der Krise befreit und selbst geheilt.
Mommy, I Promise We Will Never Be Hungry Again!
„Mommy, take us home and we will never ask for food again!“ With this heartbreaking cry, a girl residing at a nursery in the Kallithea area of Athens tugs on her mother‘s skirt and begs her to take her and her two siblings back home. The mother, visiting to cuddle and play with her children at the nursery that is providing them with food and shelter, runs away crying as she can not afford to take her children with her.
„But, sweetheart, we have nothing to eat at home,“ she replies. Undaunted, the child continues with a seriousness way beyond her years, „Mommy, take us home and we will never be hungry again, I promise you!“
UNICEF: 600,000 Children Below Poverty Line in Greece
President of UNICEF in Greece, Lambros Kanellopoulos noted that approximately 597,000 children are currently living in poverty, compared to 439,000 a year ago. Out of that number, 322,000 lack the basic daily nutritional needs.
According to the report, the proportion of children in Greece living in poverty or social exclusion rose 9.2 percent in 2011 to reach 30.4 percent.
Rep. Alan Grayson Asks Eric Holder If US Citizen Glenn Greenwald Will Actually Be Allowed Back Into The US Without Arrest
It‘s a sad and shameful comment on the state of the US government today that this question needs to be asked, no matter what the eventual answer is. We‘ve strayed very very far from the ideals that this country is supposed to embrace.
Women lead huge #AntiCoup march in #Fayoum today. #Egypt
#FreeWomenOfEgypt
Anti-Coup Alliance Calls Friday Protests Against Regime Attacks on Egyptian Women, Rights Violations
During the four months since the beginning of the military coup, Egypt lived through the worst repression and murderous military tyranny in its entire history, even worse than periods of oppression under occupation forces and the worst totalitarian regimes, especially with regard to public and private rights and freedoms of women and children, in particular.
The worst of the junta’s repressive practices is the involvement of the judiciary in order to cast a legal shadow on the coup commanders and collaborators’ bloody and brutal atrocities, like the arbitrary arrest and detention of more than 15,000 people, many of whom minors and children, using flawed legal grounds and procedures and false evidence.
Moreover, the Interior Ministry and police apparatus have been transformed from the protector of security, responsible for upholding justice, to a department dedicated to organized and systematic use of armies of thugs to kill, terrorize and arrest citizens, as documented in many videos and photographs, in a phenomenon devised by the Mubarak regime that has become a feature of all totalitarian regimes..
Morsi‘s wife visits him in prison in first face-to-face contact since ouster
The family of Egypt‘s toppled president visited him in prison on Thursday, their first face-to-face contact with him since a popularly-backed military coup ousted him from power four months ago, his wife said.
Royal Marine found guilty of ‚executing‘ Afghan insurgent
A few moments later A is picked up telling colleagues: „Obviously this doesn‘t go anywhere fellas. I‘ve just broken the Geneva convention.“ Marine B laughs and suggests that if the round was heard they claim it was a warning shot.
The video was found by chance a year later when one clip was found on another marine‘s laptop during an unrelated investigation. Military SIB (special investigation branch) officers subsequently found a diary kept by Marine C in which he wrote he had been disappointed not to shoot the man.
Video of marine shooting insurgent suppressed to protect defendants
The Ministry of Defence considered trying to argue that part – or even the whole – of Marines A, B and C‘s court martial should be held behind closed doors because it was likely to be so damaging and potentially dangerous for British personnel. In the end it decided it was right that a trial of such public interest and concern be conducted in open court.
Nonetheless there have been stringent restrictions on media reporting.
Egyptian court upholds Brotherhood ban
A court in September had outlawed the Brotherhood after the army overthrew President Mohamed Morsi in July following mass protests against his rule.
The case against Brotherhood was brought by a lawyer from the leftist Tagammu party, which cited the need to protect Egyptians from violence.
Egypt to hold parliamentary vote in Feb/March: foreign minister
Egypt said on Friday it would hold parliamentary elections in February or March, with presidential polls in early summer, and that the political arm of ousted president Mohamed Mursi‘s banned Muslim Brotherhood could participate.
U.S., Israel lose voting rights at UNESCO over Palestine row
UNESCO has suspended the voting rights of the United States and Israel, two years after both countries stopped paying dues to the U.N.‘s cultural arm in protest over its granting full membership to the Palestinians.
Syrian army closes in on Aleppo after dawn attack
The advance into Base 80, a large military position which rebels have held since February, will help Assad‘s forces move towards rebel-held areas of Aleppo city and follows a string of successful offensives this month.
Atomgespräche: Lawrow folgt seinen westlichen Amtskollegen nicht nach Genf
US-Außenminister John Kerry sowie seine europäischen Kollegen Laurent Fabius (Frankreich), Guido Westerwelle (Deutschland) und William Hague (Großbritannien) hatten überraschend beschlossen, sich am Freitag den Gesprächen zwischen dem iranischen Außenminister Mohammed Dschawad Sarif und Unterhändlern aus der Sechsergruppe in Genf anzuschließen.
Italy‘s centre left still leads in voter survey at 28.2%
Ex-comedian Beppe Grillo‘s anti-establishment 5-Star Movement was second most popular, rising to 24.5% from 24.1% last week.
Second instalment of IMU cancelled, Letta confirms
The government will find the money to cover scrapping this year‘s second instalment of property tax IMU, Premier Enrico Letta said Friday.
Mythen der Arbeit: Mindestlöhne vernichten Arbeitsplätze – stimmt‘s?
Keine gesellschaftlich relevante Gruppierung in Großbritannien verlangt heute die Abschaffung des Mindestlohns. Vor der Einführung, in der zweiten Hälfte der neunziger Jahre, gab es allerdings ähnlich hitzige Debatten wie derzeit in Deutschland.
Merkel: Große Koalition scheitert nicht an #Mindestlohn. Gabriel: Wir können nicht alles oder nichts sagen
(03.11.) http://t.co/80q3DvpESi
Die niedrigen Gehälter der taz
Nachdem wir heute die Stellenanzeige für ein Volontariat auch auf der Facebook-Seite der taz gepostet hatten, kamen dort und in diversen emails empörte Kommentare über die niedrige Bezahlung von 903,15 EURO/Monat an: “Beschämende Bezahlung!” – “Als linke Tageszeitung sollten sie sich doch einen Stundenlohn überlegen, der über 5,39 liegt.
Wer unter 8.50€ zahlt, wirtschaftet auf Kosten der Steuerzahler. #groko #mindestlohn „Land der Aufstocker“
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