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A notorious military commander, a murderer who killed thousands of innocent civilians, a disgraceful liar who betrays every solemn oath he takes, will run for Egypt‘s top post amid brutal repression and unspeakable human rights violations –the wrong man, in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in a climate certainly unsuitable for elections.

(06.06.2013) It seems Saudi Arabia, which quickly congratulated Adli Al-Mansour, is delighted, which explains why the Saudi-supported Nour Party in Egypt betray the Muslim Brotherhood.

(14.11.2013) Al-Monitor: What are the most important lessons learned from the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to power, for both the Al-Nour Party and the political Islam movement in Egypt? Does [the Brotherhood’s] failure imply the failure of the Islamic project and a religious state?

Makhioun: I do not think that the Muslim Brotherhood and these practices represent the Islamic project or the Islamic movement in any way. Their affiliation with the Islamic movement is just a slogan. It is untrue and unfounded. Let’s not blame the Islamic movement for the Brotherhood’s mistakes.

(03.03.) If this is indeed the calculation of Washington and its regional allies, the problem with it is that Zoubi’s Yarmouk Brigade — like elements of the Islamic Front in the north — has been known to collaborate with none other than Jabhat al-Nusra. Jabhat al-Nusra is not merely “al-Qaeda-inspired.” It is the jihadist faction in Syria that is officially recognized as an al-Qaeda affiliate by al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri. It was designated as a terrorist organization by the US State Department in December 2012.

The United States is ready to step up covert aid to Syrian rebels under a plan being discussed with regional allies including Saudi Arabia, according to a Washington Post report.

While Saudi Arabia, the world‘s largest oil exporter, supplies less petroleum to the United States than in the past, safeguarding its energy output remains important to Washington, as does its cooperation in combating al Qaeda.

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Sehr geehrter Herr Präsident!

In Ihrer »Rede vor der Staatsduma baten Sie um Verständnis bei den Deutschen.

Wir sind deutsche Staatsbürger, die die Nachkriegszeit mehrheitlich in der Westhälfte Deutschlands erlebt haben. Als der Kalte Krieg 1990 beendet und unser Land vereinigt wurde, ging ein Aufatmen durch die Welt, weil die stets drohende Gefahr einer nuklearen militärischen Auseinandersetzung gebannt schien, die den gesamten Globus in Mitleidenschaft gezogen hätte.
Deutschland wäre ausgelöscht worden.

Den entscheidenden Beitrag zur Befreiung Europas vom Nationalsozialismus hat, unter unvergleichlichen Opfern, die Sowjetunion geleistet. Gleichwohl war sie 1990 bereit, die deutsche Wiedervereinigung zu unterstützen, 1991 die Warschauer Vertragsgemeinschaft aufzulösen und die NATO-Mitgliedschaft Gesamtdeutschlands zu akzeptieren. Dies wurde vom Westen nicht honoriert.

Das Video, um das es geht, ist in diesem Fall auch besonders aromatisch. Es handelt sich um einen Mitschnitt eines geheimen Gespräches des Außenministers mit dem Geheimdienstchef, bei dem sie beraten haben, wie man denn einen Krieg gegen Syrien vom Zaum brechen könne. Ich bin irritiert, dass dieser Aspekt nur am Rande Erwähnung findet, und alle die Youtube-Sperrung für wichtiger halten als das Detail, dass die Türkei einen Krieg mit Syrien lostreten will. Die Türkei ist Nato-Mitglied.

Mich hat das ja neulich bei dem Jauch besonders geärgert, weil der da zur Simulation der journalistischen Integrität den Deutschlandchef von Ria Novosti da hatte, einen bulligen Russen, und den fragte er dann z.B. wie man Russland am besten für die Annexion der Krim bestrafen könne.

Japan‘s Kyodo news agency said Abe raised the issue at a G7 meeting in The Hague this month, warning that China was trying to change the status quo through coercion, and said something similar to Russia‘s seizing of Crimea could happen in Asia.

If any meeting was meant to be private, it was this one: the top spy chief, the foreign minister and his deputy, and a top military official discussing secret plans for possible military action in Syria.

Es geht offenbar um einen Mitschnitt, in dem mehrere Männer – mutmaßlich der türkische Außenminister Ahmet Davutoğlu und Vertreter von Geheimdienst und Militär – über einen Militäreinsatz in Syrien beraten. Außerdem sollen die Männer darüber sprechen, ob notfalls ein Rechtfertigungsgrund dafür geschaffen werden könnte.

Erdogan had difficulty speaking at rallies in southeast Turkey on Thursday ahead of Sunday‘s local elections.

(28.11.2009) Professor Philip Jones, the CRU‘s director, is in charge of the two key sets of data used by the IPCC to draw up its reports. Through its link to the Hadley Centre, part of the UK Met Office, which selects most of the IPCC‘s key scientific contributors, his global temperature record is the most important of the four sets of temperature data on which the IPCC and governments rely – not least for their predictions that the world will warm to catastrophic levels unless trillions of dollars are spent to avert it.

Dr Jones is also a key part of the closely knit group of American and British scientists responsible for promoting that picture of world temperatures conveyed by Michael Mann‘s „hockey stick“ graph which 10 years ago turned climate history on its head by showing that, after 1,000 years of decline, global temperatures have recently shot up to their highest level in recorded history.

Professor Richard Tol withdraws from writing team for UN climate science panel‘s report on impacts of global warming

– Prof Richard Tol said UN academics were exaggerating climate change
– Comes as a blow to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
– Panel to publish its first update in seven years on the impacts of climate change

Is the theory of man-made global warming still credible? Why do surveys show a majority of Americans and scientists do not believe global warming is man-made and a major problem?

Hundreds of the world’s most prominent “skeptics” of the claim that human activity is causing a climate crisis will converge in Las Vegas on July 7–9 to review the latest research and celebrate what they see as recent events that vindicate their opposition to what some claim is a “scientific consensus.”

Wenn Russland westeuropäische Wirtschaftssanktionen mit einer Drosselung oder einem Stopp der Gaslieferungen beantwortet, hat Deutschland gleich eine Versorgungslücke von 50 Prozent. Und auch in Frankreich oder Italien, beides überaus wichtige Handelspartner der Schweiz, würde ein Viertel des notwendigen Gases fehlen.

Ein endgültiger Beschluss sei nicht getroffen worden, so der Batkiwschtschina-Verstreter. „Es wurde vorgeschlagen, die Diskussion am Freitag in einem größeren Kreis fortzusetzen“.

Ukraine and the IMF have agreed to an aid package that will no doubt prove to be as beneficial to Ukraine as the Troika bailout (plunder) of Greece.

The Ukrainian parliament has adopted an anti-crisis bill proposed by the IMF to secure an international financial aid package. Ordinary Ukrainians will have to tighten their belts to help the coup-installed government keep the collapsing economy afloat.

It took two readings of the bill for 246 MPs out of 321 registered to approve the austerity measures outlined in the legislation dubbed “On prevention of financial catastrophe and creation of prerequisites for economic growth.”

(27.01.) The draft law proposed by the government of Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk failed to muster enough votes, but deputies continued discussions to try to find a compromise.

When Fria Tider asked Skillt about rumors that the Ukrainian opposition itself may have been behind the shootings of protestors on the Maidan, he says that he is aware of them, but puts no stock in them. However, he said he has spoken to two people who sniped at the police on the Maidan Square during the riots. “They used Saiga semi-automatic rifles equipped with telescopic sights, and were positioned on the third floor of the Trade Unions Building on Maidan Square,” Skillt said