Daily Archives: 24. Januar 2014


24.01.2014 - 23:40 [ bandcamp ]

A Ride to Anywhere by Hometapes Various Artists

These are the days of weird light. The sun works half-time, its shift picked up by strings of bulbs wrapped around trees and porches, by darting headlights in freeway races, by flickering fire in all sorts of places. Stopping, sitting still, and listening are built-in themes of the season. I always think: “bring it on,” as I cycle through lists of memories and memories of lists. Let’s think about what we did. Let’s think about what we’re doing…

24.01.2014 - 23:03 [ youtube ]

Aidan Baker – Already Drowning (feat. Clara Engel)

Taken from the album Already Drowning – released via Gizeh Records 2013
Already Drowning, a song-cycle inspired by various myths & folktales about female water spirits, marks something of a departure for Aidan Baker.

24.01.2014 - 22:43 [ Ria Novosti ]

Janukowitsch will Urheber von EU-Assoziierungsabkommen entlassen

„In nächster Zeit werden wir diese ranghohen Amtsträger loswerden… Sie werden nicht mehr arbeiten, weil sie das Vertrauen verloren haben. Bildlich gesagt, hatten sie für uns ein Grab vorbereitet“, sagte der Staatschef am Freitag in Kiew bei einem Treffen mit geistlichen Würdenträgern und leitenden Mitarbeitern religiöser Organisationen.

24.01.2014 - 22:33 [ antikrieg.com ]

Der unausweichliche Antagonismus zwischen einem prosperierenden China und imperialen Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika

China hat seine Ziele sehr unmissverständlich festgestellt. „Eine angemessen wohlhabende Gesellschaft bis 2020“ ist das erste Ziel und „ein starkes sozialistisches Land bis 2049“ das zweite. Aber das ist vielleicht zu einfach: Chinas Führung möchte, dass ihr Volk einen Lebensstandard erreicht, der auf derselben Ebene liegt wie der in den entwickelten Ländern des Westens.

24.01.2014 - 20:10 [ Techdirt ]

NSA Interception In Action? Tor Developer‘s Computer Gets Mysteriously Re-Routed To Virginia

There are some possible other explanations, including just a general screwup on the part of Amazon. But given the revelations of how the NSA‘s TAO group does very targeted spying, that often involves getting access to computers being shipped to targets, combined with the fact that the NSA has made it clear that breaking Tor is a priority that has mostly stymied them, this certainly should raise multiple eyebrows.

24.01.2014 - 20:00 [ Techdirt ]

FISA Court Waited Until After Snowden Leaks To Actually Explore If Bulk Phone Record Collection Was Legal

One of the most common defenses of the NSA‘s bulk phone record collection (in which they get access to the record of basically every phone call in the US) is that the program has been reviewed and reapproved by the FISA Court every few months. Especially after the ruling by Judge Richard Leon calling the program unconstitutional, defenders of the program kept insisting that „every other judge“ who reviewed the program had found it legal, with basically all of those other judges being the FISA court. Just yesterday, for example, Attorney General Eric Holder claimed that „at least 15 judges on about 35 occasions have said that the program itself is legal.“

24.01.2014 - 19:58 [ Watts Up With That? ]

Ho Ho! BBC threatens academic – demands ‘raw data’ for study

Fascinating to see the BBC’s priorities revealed so nakedly tonight when Pacific Quay management contacted the University of the West of Scotland to object to the UWS Bias in Broadcasting report which, as far as I can see, they didn’t have the courage to broadcast.

Instead of doing what any self-confident public service broadcaster should do and producing a news item out of a critical report from one of our own universities, they seem to have hidden it from the licence-fee paying public who bankroll them and then mounted a sabotage operation against the author.

24.01.2014 - 19:47 [ Russia Today ]

Unbebiebable! MSNBC cuts Congresswoman during NSA LIVE to report… Justin Bieber

On Thursday, the MSNBC put out a report by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) slamming NSA hoarding of phone data, calling it ‘illegal.’ The privacy watchdog, established by US Congress in 2004, also urged President Barack Obama to end the NSA surveillance program.

Congresswoman Jane Harman was called in to discuss the recommendation of the US government privacy watchdog. But as Harman got round to urging Congress to “seriously consider discontinuing section 215”, matters of national importance were put aside.

24.01.2014 - 18:54 [ Guardian ]

Why Associated Press was right to sever ties with Narciso Contreras

The Guardian‘s head of photography explains why the photojournalist‘s seemingly small mistake in manipulating a single image from Syria could have big repercussions

• See the image before and after digital manipulation

24.01.2014 - 17:21 [ Ria Novosti ]

Ukraine: Behörden sprechen von Schusswaffen in den von Opposition besetzten Regierungsgebäuden

Während der Zusammenstöße kamen zwei Demonstranten durch Schüsse ums Leben. Die Polizei bestätigte offiziell den Tod von zwei jungen Menschen. Die Opposition und die Behörden machen einander dafür verantwortlich. Die Sicherheitskräfte behaupten, dass die bei diesem Verbrechen genutzte Munition nicht zur Standardbewaffnung der ukrainischen Polizei gehört.

24.01.2014 - 17:15 [ Programmkino Ost Dresden ]

Land in Sicht

Best of Five – Filmperlen sächsischer Festivalkultur. Preisträger des DOK Leipzig. in Anwesenheit der Regisseurinnen Judith Keil und Antje Kruska.

24.01.2014 - 17:03 [ Ladenkino ]

LAND IN SICHT (OmeU)

Mit Hartnäckigkeit und viel Empathie dringen die Regisseurinnen bis in das Herz der deutschen Bürokratie vor und brechen so auch gängige Clichées der brandenburgischen Provinz auf.

24.01.2014 - 16:14 [ Sputnik Kino ]

LAND IN SICHT am 26. Jan in Anwesenheit der Regisseurinnen

Auf Dorffesten, Ämtern und Diskotheken prallen ihre Vorstellungen von Deutschland mit den Mentalitäten der Brandenburger aufeinander. Anstelle von Betroffenheit rückt LAND IN SICHT die unfreiwillige Komik dieses Aufeinandertreffen in den Blick.

24.01.2014 - 16:09 [ Facebook ]

Land in Sicht

Nach einer Flucht um die halbe Welt sind Abdul, Brian und Farid in einem abgelegenen Asylbewerberheim im kleinen Ort Bad Belzig
gestrandet. Von hier aus suchen sie nach Wegen in die deutsche Gesellschaft. Auf Dorffesten, Ämtern und Diskotheken prallen ihre Vorstellungen von Deutschland mit den Mentalitäten der Brandenburger aufeinander. Anstelle von Betroffenheit rückt LAND IN SICHT die unfreiwillige Komik dieses Aufeinandertreffens in den Blick.

24.01.2014 - 16:08 [ Stil in Berlin ]

Discover this: Land in Sicht

We are in Belzig, a small town an hour Southwest of Berlin, where filmmakers Judith Keil and Antje Kruska have met and accompanied three men stranded at the “Asylbewerberheim” (home for asylum seekers) for different reasons. Now, there are many ways in which to put these experiences into a documentary film and Keil and Kruska decided on a mix of being embedded filmmakers and staging the journey of their protagonists. With their use of music and their filmic approach (using reverse shots in discussions and putting together a string of scenes for the flow of the narration), they recede from a type of social report and move towards exposing a rather indistinct protagonist: Germany.

24.01.2014 - 15:32 [ Aam Aadmi Party / Facebook ]

Brutality of Delhi police!

Delhi police is known to be brutal. Every now and then we hear of stories about Delhi police‘s brutality.

Here is another such video. Not only does the video clearly show Delhi police‘s inhuman behavior but also the urban legend of police extorting money is caught on camera.