Seit Monaten hat sich aufgrund der Informationen von Edward Snowden herausgestellt, dass der Schnüffelapparat der NSA den Planeten umspannt, mit großen Teilen des Internets und praktisch allen Telefongesprächen unter seiner Kontrolle. Offenbar hat das noch nicht gereicht.
Daily Archives: 10. Dezember 2013
9/11 Link To Saudi Arabia Is Topic Of 28 Redacted Pages In Government Report; Congressmen Push For Release
„I was absolutely shocked by what I read,“ Jones told International Business Times. „What was so surprising was that those whom we thought we could trust really disappointed me. I cannot go into it any more than that. I had to sign an oath that what I read had to remain confidential. But the information I read disappointed me greatly.“
Das fällt langsam wirklich unter Kunst, was der da macht. #Gabriel
Vorratsdatenspeicherung #VDS #Groko
Mehr als 560 Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller aus aller Welt haben in einem Appell dazu aufgerufen, den millionenfachen Verstoß gegen elementare Grund- und Freiheitsrechte durch die NSA und andere Geheimdienste nicht länger zu tolerieren.
Ich habe hier auf Facebook geschrieben, dass ich diesen Appell fĂĽr eine gute Sache halte.
In sehr vielen Kommentaren wird mir jetzt – mal höflicher, mal weniger höflich – vorgehalten, das passe nicht zu meiner Haltung zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Ehrlich gesagt: Mich verblüfft diese Argumentation.
Drei Millionen Griechen leben ohne Krankenversicherung
So können sich mittlerweile etwa drei Millionen Menschen keine Krankenversicherung mehr leisten. Das entspricht bei einer Einwohnerzahl von 10,8 Millionen Bürgern, einem Anteil von knapp 30 Prozent. E
Untersuchungsausschuss zu S21: Neue Fragen zum „Schwarzen Donnerstag“
In Stuttgart wird es erneut einen Untersuchungsausschuss zum umstrittenen Bahnprojekt S21 geben. Dabei geht es um den brutalen Wasserwerfer-Einsatz im September 2010. Grund sind bislang unbekannte Unterlagen zum „Schwarzen Donnerstag“ – und ein Anruf aus dem Kanzleramt.
Ermittlungen gegen den NSU: „Kriegen Sie da bloĂź nichts raus“
Ganz oben – das soll angeblich der damalige Ständige Vertreter des Präsidenten im Landeskriminalamt, Werner Jakstat gewesen sein. Jakstat ist seit dem 1. Oktober 2010 Präsident der Behörde. Er „kann dazu nichts sagen. Ich kenn‘ das nicht, was sie da sagen, es gibt kein Interview. Das ist nicht autorisiert“, stotterte er am 5. Dezember vor einem Zeugenauftritt vor dem ThĂĽringer NSU-Untersuchungsausschuss in die Kamera von Report Mainz.
Während Kanadas Regierung Austerity predigt, bauen sie hinten milliardenschwer ein neues Geheimdiensthauptquartier, das von der Presse als „Palast“ bezeichnet wird und in internen Papieren „Camelot“ heiĂźt.
Hey, das ist ja fast genau wie bei uns mit dem BND!
Rights groups demand Egypt probe killings of Mursi supporters
Rights groups urged Egypt‘s army-backed government on Tuesday to investigate mass killings of protesters by security forces during the dispersal of Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in August after Islamist president Mohamed Mursi was deposed.
Riot Police Remove Their Helmets in Solidarity With Italian Protesters
In italy during a demonstration against government measures and impotent politics, riot police undestand the gravity of actual italian situation and decide to follow another people.
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE AFI AWARDS 2013 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS: 10 Outstanding Motion Pictures and Television Programs Inducted into the AFI Almanac of the Art Form
12 YEARS A SLAVE
AMERICAN HUSTLE
CAPTAIN PHILLIPS
FRUITVALE STATION
GRAVITY
HER
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
NEBRASKA
SAVING MR. BANKS
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Greek doctors strike as government moves to tackle healthcare debt
National health agency reorganisation as part of public-sector austerity measures will reduce patients‘ access to services
Italy‘s Grillo urges police to join „pitchfork“ protests
Grillo, whose movement has no direct connection with the protests, welcomed reports that several police officers took off their riot helmets and expressed sympathy with demonstrators on Monday.
Italians flocking abroad soars 70% in two years
The number of Italians leaving the country rose 70% in two years, from 40,000 in 2010 to 68,000 in 2012, an Italian foundation for multi-ethnic studies reported on Tuesday.
Italy‘s kids stunted by recession, says Save the Children
Italy‘s children are growing up physically, emotionally, and intellectually stunted by the recession, which has brought poverty, unemployment, and a lack of emotional, psychological, and environmental support in its wake, according to a new Save The Children report issued Tuesday.
Portugal offers golden visas to rich foreigners
Buying a property for €500,000 or more qualifies the owner for a five-year stay in the European Union
Colony of 80,000 bats driven out of city of Charters Towers in Australia – video report
Some 80,000 bats are driven out of Australia‘s Charters Towers city in north Queensland using helicopters, gun blasts, smoke machines and hose pipes.
US prison population jumps 27% in a decade over harsh drug sentencing
“The Department of Justice‘s (OJ) Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is responsible for the custody and care of over 219,000 federal inmates – a population that has grown by 27 percent in the past decade,” the GAO report states. “BOP is composed of 119 institutions, 6 regional offices, 2 staff training centers, 22 residential reentry management offices (previously called community corrections offices), and a central office in Washington DC.
Oppositionsrechte: Linke schlägt sich auf die Seite von Schwarz-Rot
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Italian farmers stage nationwide protest
Thousands of demonstrators joined the strike proclaimed by the so-called „Pitchforks Movement“ against austerity measures implemented during the economic crisis, the rise in fuel prices and taxes, and the tough living conditions of labor workers and young people.
Passaparola – The Italian Central Bank sell-off – Lucio di Gaetano
„My name is Lucio Di Gaetano and I have always worked in the banking world. I worked for the Italian Central Bank for five years, plus another seven years in the private sector and now I am a company consultant.
I’m here today to tell you about the rip-off that the Letta Government has been perpetrating on all the Italians, all hush-hush while Berlusconi’s impeachment was being announced, via the decree concerning the revaluation of the Italian Central Bank shares so as to get its hands on 900 million Euro without overshooting the three percent deficit level. 450 million of that will be gifted per annum to the Italian Central Bank shareholders, which as you know, are private parties.
But let’s take a step back here. Why does the Italian Central Bank have private shareholders anyway, you ask? How have we landed up in this land of Oz where a public institution is partly owned by private banks that are owned by foundations controlled by the political parties?“
Ι started to blog… again!
Anyway, my weapons are loaded: a package of cigarettes, a cup of coffee, a fluffy flokati rug under my feet, two pullovers. All heat producing means are generously… turned off.
Israel approves detention without charges for African migrants
The new regulations, which opponents predicted would also be challenged in the Supreme Court, enables authorities to send migrants, now living illegally in Israeli cities, to what the government describes as „open facilities“.
Under the law, their detention would be open-ended, pending resolution of their asylum requests, implementation of deportation orders or voluntary repatriation.
Truckers continue second day of wildcat strikes in Italy: Pitchfork Movement draws outcry, while police doff helmets
„We share and applaud the gesture of those policemen who took off their helmets in a sign of solidarity with demonstrators who peacefully showed their malaise at the grave crisis that Italy is going through,“ said Valter Mazzetti, national secretary of the state police union UGL.
‚Don‘t protect politicians any more‘ says Grillo
A rising anti-capitalist, anti-euro and anti-austerity movement called Forconi (Pitchforks) on Monday caused chaos across Italy, blocking roads and railways and rampaging through city streets.
In Turin police showed solidarity by taking off their riot helmets after quelling a protest.
Ich glaub ihr versteht das Problem einfach nicht. Der Mann hat keine Ahnung von was er redet und was ĂĽberhaupt die VDS ist.
Die Polizei sagt sie braucht es, also findet der Herr Gabriel das gut. Die „Intellektuellen“ sprechen sich gegen Ăśberwachung aus, also findet der Gabriel das gut. Der Weiss garnicht worum es bei dem Thema ĂĽberhaupt geht. Das das ist ihm auch völlig egal, hauptsache er Stimmt der Polizei und den Schriftstellern zu.
Diese Menschen haben gegen DEINE POLITIK gezeichnet, Du Pfeife!
Nico Lumma: nanana, wo ist denn Deine gute Kinderstube hin?
Emrah Cekinmez: Wer hat denn angefangen?
560 Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller aus der ganzen Welt, darunter fünf Literaturnobelpreisträger, protestieren mit einem internationalen Aufruf gegen die systematische Überwachung im Internet durch Geheimdienste.
Das ist eine wunderbare und beeindruckende Aktion. Ich kann mich nicht erinnern, dass sich Intellektuelle jemals global in dieser Form zusammengeschlossen haben. Der Kampf um bürgerliche Freiheiten hat einst national begonnen, jetzt findet er erstmals international gemeinsam statt. Ein tolles Zeichen! Ich werde die deutschen Unterzeichnerinnen und Unterzeichner Anfang des Jahres zu einem Gespräch einladen.
Ein solcher Aufruf darf in der Politik nicht ungehört bleiben!
Sigmar Gabriel lobt auf Facebook den FAZ-Appell der Schriftsteller und kriegt dafĂĽr aber sowas von voll auf die Fresse von einmal allen Kommentatoren, dass es eine Freude ist.
Achtung: Link geht zu Facebook!
Barack Obama‘s address at Nelson Mandela‘s memorial service – in full
Like Gandhi, he would lead a resistance movement – a movement that at its start held little prospect of success. Like King, he would give potent voice to the claims of the oppressed, and the moral necessity of racial justice. He would endure a brutal imprisonment that began in the time of Kennedy and Khrushchev, and reached the final days of the Cold War. Emerging from prison, without force of arms, he would – like Lincoln – hold his country together when it threatened to break apart. Like America‘s founding fathers, he would erect a constitutional order to preserve freedom for future generations – a commitment to democracy and rule of law ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power.
Knesset approves Infiltration Prevention Bill
Bill passes second, third readings with 30 MKs voting in favor, 15 against. Vote preceded by heated debate. “Would you put Nelson Mandela in confined facility‘, Meretz members ask MK Regev
Father tells Arabic teacher: ‚My blood is pure, yours isn‘t‘
The student purportedly received permission to do the project on a different topic, but the teacher wasn‘t aware of this, and she refused to accept the new project. On Monday night, the father returned to the school, met with the coordinator, and began yelling at her. „You Arab, who do you think you are that you‘ll decide what to do with my son.“
The father told his son „not to listen to this Arab or the second Arab.“
Pakistan, Iran agree to speed up gas pipeline project
Pakistan announced on Tuesday it had agreed with Iran to speed implementation of a much-delayed gas pipeline project designed to link Iran‘s giant South Pars gas field with consumers in South Asia.
Rare Singapore riot forces soul searching over foreign workers
Founded by Lee Kuan Yew, the father of the current prime minister, the PAP is credited with transforming Singapore from a colonial outpost in the 1960s into a global financial hub with world-class infrastructure, safe streets, an efficient civil service and the world‘s highest concentration of millionaires.
Part of that success is built on cheap foreign labor, which makes up nearly 20 percent of the population.
Insight: Sweden rethinks pioneering school reforms, private equity under fire
School shutdowns and deteriorating results have taken the shine off an education model admired and emulated around the world, in Britain in particular.
„I think we have had too much blind faith in that more private schools would guarantee greater educational quality,“ said Tomas TobĂ©, head of the parliament‘s education committee and spokesman on education for the ruling Moderate party.