The COAS along with King of Bahrain, Crown Prince of United Arab Emirate (UAE), Prime Minister of Jordan and other military commanders from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries will witness the Exercise to be held on Tuesday (April 29).
Daily Archives: 28. April 2014
Army chief Raheel Sharif reaches Saudi Arabia
According to the state run television the army chief is visiting the Kingdom on the invitation of Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz during which he will also examine military exercises.
Ancient caribou hunt artifacts preserved deep in Lake Huron
At the time the hunters lived, the glaciers were retreating and water levels in the Great Lakes were as much as 100 metres lower than they are today. Lowlands tend to be richer hunting grounds, which means that most of the areas that people lived at that time are now underwater.
Hague: Britannien wird wirtschaftlichen Schaden in Kauf nehmen, um Russland zu sanktionieren
Hague erweckte die Vorstellung, dass es der britischen Regierung nichts ausmacht, ihre eigene Wirtschaft zu sabotieren, nur um es Russland zu zeigen, und Deutschlands Merkel-Regierung tat es ihr gleich, aber wie es mit ihrer Bereitschaft steht, sobald die politischen Folgen dieses Schadens offenkundig werden, bleibt abzuwarten.
White House ‘deeply troubled’ by mass death sentence in Egypt
The Obama administration, which recently signaled it is prepared to reinstate a billion dollar aid package for Egypt, said in a statement on Monday that the verdicts defy the most basic standards of international justice.
Turkey urges Egypt to cancel mass death penalty
„The Western countries, including the EU, must also contribute to the abolition of mass execution in Egypt,“ he added.
Cairo court bans group that helped topple Mubarak
The „Cairo Court for Urgent Matters“ that issued Monday‘s ruling was the same body that last year banned the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement that propelled Mohamed Mursi to the presidency in a 2012 election.
Some 56 foreigners detained on Iranian-Turkish border
Some 56 foreigners trying to cross the border illegally have been detained at the Iranian border checkpoint in the city of Khoy last week , said Khoy‘s regiment commander of Iran`s Border Service Hasan Muhammadzade said. The detainees are the citizens of Turkey, Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, he said, Iranian IRNA news agency reported.
Eric Holder‘s 1999 Memo Helped Set The Stage For ‚Too Big To Jail‘
In a 1999 memo entitled “Bringing Criminal Charges Against Corporations,” written when he was deputy U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder argued that government officials could take into account “collateral consequences“ when prosecuting corporate crimes.
New surveillance techniques raise privacy concerns
A report from the Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED delves into a wide-scale surveillance system being developed for police forces. How can the trade off between safety and privacy be negotiated as technology gets more and more sophisticated?
Ein ungewöhnlicher Einsatz
Bei den drei deutschen Soldaten und ihrem deutschen Übersetzer, die seit Freitag gemeinsam mit drei weiteren Offizieren aus NATO-Staaten im umkämpften ostukrainischen Slawjansk festgehalten werden – ein vierter aus dem Nicht-NATO-Mitglied Schweden ist mittlerweile freigelassen worden -, handelt es sich nicht um Mitglieder der offiziellen OSZE-Beobachtermission. Deren Entsendung in die Ukraine war am 21. März für zunächst sechs Monate beschlossen worden; an ihr sind zehn Deutsche beteiligt. Die in Slawjansk festgehaltenen Deutschen waren hingegen, wie der stellvertretende Direktor des OSZE-Krisenpräventionszentrums, Claus Neukirch, am Wochenende ausdrücklich bestätigte [1], nicht im Auftrag der OSZE, sondern als Militärbeobachter im Auftrag der deutschen Streitkräfte unterwegs. Ein internationales Mandat konnten sie zu keinem Zeitpunkt vorweisen. Ihre Aktivitäten in der Ukraine werden in der Bundeswehr als „ungewöhnlich“ bezeichnet; ihre Reise ausgerechnet in das umkämpfte Slawjansk wirft zusätzliche Fragen auf.
US-Blockade trifft Kultur- und Reisesektor in Europa
Havanna. Trotz der wiederholten internationalen Kritik an der US-Blockade gegen Kuba sind wieder aktuelle Fälle bekannt geworden, in denen Akteure aus Drittstaaten davon betroffen wurden. Erneut trifft es die Heavy Metal-Gruppe COR aus Rügen. Sie hatte Spenden für kulturelle Projekte in Kuba gesammelt, wo die Band demnächst eine Rundreise durchführt. Das Bezahlsystem Pay Pal, das mit dem Slogan „Mit einem Klick“ wirbt, hat das entsprechende Konto der Band eingefroren und das Geld an die Einzahler zurückgezahlt.
“Global Society Destruction” and The Ukraine Crisis: Decoding its Deep Structural Meaning
The EU’s financial rule by banker mechanisms has already been almost as great a failure as the oligarch-marketization of Russia after 1990. It is a complex system of one-way powers of life deprivation and social ruin which I define in The Cancer Stage of Capitalism: From Crisis to Cure (1999, 2013). Elected governments lose all control to the new absolute and overriding imperative of European rule – to grow and multiply private transnational money sequences. In accord with the ruling formulae, the Greek economy has been slashed by 25 per cent, unemployment is an official 28 per cent excluding the unpaid, the public health system is dismantled to pay foreign banks, wages are cut by a quarter, the public sector is sacked and privatized, and jobless youth rises to 60 per cent even with mass emigration. These outcomes now await Ukraine.
Lavrov: Americans are not ready to admit they cannot run the show (FULL INTERVIEW)
(23.4.2014) As the standoff in the eastern Ukraine deteriorates into violence it‘s up to world powers to step in and calm things down. Despite tough talk from Washington, the US, EU, Russia and Ukraine have managed to reach a framework to peace in Geneva. But will it be enough to avert a civil war? Sophie asks the Russian Foreign minister himself — Sergey Lavrov is on Sophie&Co today.
Woher hatte das NSU-Trio die Mordwaffe?: Zeuge mauert und beklagt sich: Der Zeuge gilt als einer …
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Drug Raid at 4 AM Songtext
(police scanner) „I‘ve got him at gun point.“
(man) „This is your brain on drugs.“
(man #2) „Get back! Get up, you!“
(man #3) „Welcome to the glamorous world of drugs.“
(man #4) „Dr-drugs make me cool! Drugs make me cool! Drugs make me cool!“
(man #4) „Police!“
(Biafra yelling)
Stay right where you are! Get out of that bed and get down on the floor!
I don‘t care if you‘re nude, get down on the cement! I don‘t care if it‘s freezing!
Where‘s the drugs?! We know you‘ve got some drugs! Shut up, man!
Make him shut up, man! Stay right where you are! Where‘s the drugs?!
We know you got some drugs! Where you got ’em?! Where you got ’em?!
Just say you did it, man! We know you did it!
(sung)
Sheets off
Flashlight in your eyes
FREEZE!
Guns in your gut
Strip down
Body search
Cough up
Or stomach pump
To fight the war on drugs
You must give up your rights
You blink, you die
I hate you more than my job
CHORUS
Drug raid at 4 a.m.
Random neighborhood sweeps
Copters break up house parties
Zero tolerance for pot
Easier to get hard stuff
Costs over 3 times more
To keep an addict in jail
Than to treat those trying to quit
But no drug war funds for clinics
NO!
Stop!
Please!
NO!
CHORUS
(Biafria yelling)
Hey, your name isn‘t on the lease! Where are you supposed to live?!
What is this, NWA?! Turn that off!
Smash that stereo! Drugs could be inside the speaker! Smash the speakers!
Smash that TV! Start cutting open their furniture!
(sung)
Random neighborhood sweeps
Copters break up house parties
Zero tolerance for pot
Easier to get hard stuff
Costs over 3 times more
To keep an addict in jail
Than to treat those trying to quit
But no drug war funds for clinics
NO!
Stop!
Please!
NO!
CHORUS
(Biafra yelling)
Hey, what‘s this wad of bills doing here?! Why are you keeping so much cash around?!
Huh, huh, huh, huh?!
Well, your kids use drugs, same difference! We‘ll have you all out of here!
You‘re all going to wind up out on the street! Say one word and we‘re gonna get you!
Do you fuckin‘ know that?! Do you know that?!
I‘ll bet you (?)
Whoops! Sorry! Wrong house.
Lard – Drug Raid at 4AM
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What Does It Say About The US Press That The Toughest Interview Keith Alexander Has Is From A Comedian?
Last night was the debut of comedian John Oliver‘s new show on HBO called Last Week Tonight. Oliver, of course, is well known from his years on The Daily Show (though, if you‘re not familiar with it, you should also listen to his podcast, The Bugle). On his first show, Oliver was able to get former NSA boss Keith Alexander, who retired about a month ago. The resulting ten minute interview is well worth watching, not just because it‘s pretty damn funny, but because it‘s one of the few times a journalist has actually asked Alexander direct tough questions about the NSA — and it‘s not even from a journalist:
Driver Finds Himself Surrounded By Cops With Guns Out After Automatic License Plate Reader Misreads His Plate
Automatic license plate readers can scan plates at a rate of one per second. Nationwide, several hundred million plate/location records have been captured and stored by a variety of contractors. Mathematics alone says mistakes will be made. Except when mistakes are made with ALPRs, they tend to put citizens on the bad side of men with guns.
Die Australier sind kurz davor, den Quellenschutz abzuschaffen.
Dann können Behörden einfach so die Gegenstelle eines Telefonats abfragen, und brauchen dafür nicht mal einen richterlichen Beschluss.
Egypt National Alliance Rallies Outside ‚Privatized‘ Public Prosecution Service Sunday
The nationwide coalition of pro-democracy parties and groups holds new revolutionary demonstrations Sunday against Egypt‘s public prosecutor, who never acts against the country‘s putschists and thieves: the coup commanders and collaborators.
Wie das sich spieltheoretisch selbst beweisende Prinzip der Präventiv-Lüge in Staat und Gesellschaft neutralisiert werden kann
Es scheint der Bevölkerung immer noch nicht klar zu sein, dass Lügen von staatlichen Kadern und Funktionären keine “Schlamperei”, kein Zufall, kein Versehen, sondern quasi-religiöses Prinzip ist. Es ist das Fundament ihres Menschenbildes. Ein anderes kennen sie nicht.
Eine kurze Erläuterung, wie es dazu kommen konnte, wie das spieltheoretische Prinzip der sich auf unbestimmte Zeit selbst beweisenden präventiven Lüge funktioniert und wie es in Staat und Gesellschaft neutralisiert werden kann.
PRESS STATEMENT: African Commission Orders Egypt to Suspend Death Sentences
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (The Commission) has requested that the Egyptian Interim Authority immediately suspends the penalties of 529 people who were sentenced to death following a court hearing in Minya, Egypt on 22nd March.
Ethiopia charges nine bloggers, journalists with inciting violence
Ethiopia has charged six bloggers and three journalists with attempting to incite violence, their supporters said on Monday, prompting accusations from rights groups that the government is cracking down on its critics.
Libyan PM attacks central bank governor as political turmoil rages
„He (Elkaber) acts like the ruler of Libya and does what he wants,“ Thinni said in the interview, broadcast late on Monday. „The central bank governor is overstepping his competences.“
Gamal Heshmat: Death Sentences Coup Decisions that End Independence of Judiciary Myth
Another mass sentences farce without due process condemns to death Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Badie along with 682 other Egyptians perceived as dissidents by coup authorities.
Govt to compromise on Senate reform
there have been calls from FI and from within Renzi‘s own centre-left Democratic Party for the new Senate to remain an elected assembly. The executive decided at a meeting Monday to allow amendments to its Constitutional reform bill that would create a mechanism for Senators to be elected via the country‘s regional assemblies, the sources said.
he Guardian tries to claim global warming sank the Titanic – research says the exact opposite
Kate Ravilious makes this nutty claim at The Guardian:
Common currency agenda may elude us – Veep
These failures Mr Amissah-Arthur attributed to the pace of the implementation of the ECOWAS Monetary Co-operation Programme (EMCP), particularly the establishment of the single monetary zone, which he observed failed to match expectations.
He also alluded to a major obstacle in the area of poor policy co-ordination and the harmonisation between the Anglophone and the Francophone West African countries which belonged to the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA).
West Africa Single Currency: The Lesson To Learn From European Single Currency By Dr. Mehenou Amouzou
Western Africa states which are represented by Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a commission comprised of countries of 15 States with an equivalent of 300 million people. These numbers account for 4.5% of the world‘s population and just 0.5% of the world Gross Domestic Product (GDP). With an anticipated annual economic growth averaging approximately 5%, ECOWAS is now exploring the opportunity to create a single currency for ECOWAS member‘s states mirroring the Euro for European countries.
“Teile und Herrsche”: Attentate auf die Bevölkerungen von Nigeria und Ägypten
(01.01.2011) In zwei brutalen Diktaturen, die von den USA und ihren alliierten Staaten wie Deutschland gestützt und finanziert werden, ereignen sich am Neujahrstag obskure Attentate. Die Darstellungen der “Sicherheitsbehörden” sind absurd, widersprüchlich und wechseln blitzschnell. Die Presse folgt ohne zu fragen. Aus dem Hut gezogen werden wieder einmal die “Islamisten” und die “Al Kaida”. Betrieben wird nach der alten römischen Strategie “Teile und Herrsche” die Spaltung der unterdrückten und ausgebeuteten Bevölkerung in sich bekämpfende Christen und Muslime. In Nigeria geht es zudem um die Transformation Westafrikas zur Eco-Zone.
Nigeria can handle Boko Haram, part of ‚raw democracy‘, says minister
A bombing at a bus station this month killed at least 75 people on the outskirts of the capital Abuja, which is hosting a World Economic Forum on Africa next week.
„The WEF is still going on,“ Okonjo-Iweala said. To host the „African Davos“, which has previously been held in cities such as Cape Town and Addis Ababa, Nigeria was mounting the largest security operation it had ever staged for an international summit, deploying 6,000 soldiers and police.
Malaysia detains nine suspected of terrorist links
„Some of the individuals arrested have taken part in clandestine meetings to strengthen militant ideology, for fundraising and military-style training in preparation for violence,“ he said in a statement.
Serbia‘s new prime minister expects IMF deal by July
Presenting his program to the parliament on Sunday, Vucic promised to cut the cost of the bloated public sector, an overhaul his predecessor had fudged fearing social unrest.
French PM appeals to rebel Socialist lawmakers on savings plan
Several lawmakers in the Socialist majority threatened last week to vote against the savings plan or abstain unless the government made a gesture for the poor.
Hague besucht nächste Woche Ukraine, Moldawien und Georgien
Der britische Außenminister William Hague wird nächste Woche nach eigenen Angaben die Ukraine, Moldawien und Georgien besuchen.
„Ich plane, in der kommenden Woche unter anderem auch in diese Länder zu reisen“, sagte Hague am Montag in London.
Radikale blockieren Präsidentenkandidaten auf Flugplatz – Treffen mit Wählern geplatzt
Die jüngste Entwicklung in der südukrainischen Stadt Cherson zeugt nach Ansicht des russischen Außenamtes davon, dass die Wahlkampagne in der Ukraine entgegen den Beteuerungen Kiews alles andere als „friedlichen Charakter“ hat.
Obama verliert Schritt für Schritt Rivalität gegen Putin – Zeitung
Eben deshalb kann Jazenjuk nicht länger als verlässlicher Partner von Obama angesehen werden. Es wird immer offensichtlicher, dass Kiew den Konflikt mit dem Osten des Landes absichtlich schürt, um die USA und Europa zu aktiveren militärischen Aktionen zu bewegen.
Obama rolls out new sanctions on Russia, Moscow says it won‘t hurt
“The goal is not to go after Mr. Putin personally; the goal is to change his calculus, to encourage him to walk the walk, not just talk the talk“ on diplomacy to resolve the crisis, Obama said in Manila during a trip to Asia.
Martin Schulz, das ist zu wenig
Heute hat Martin Schulz sich dem TTIP-Widerstand gestellt und die über 460.000 Unterschriften von Bürger/innen entgegen genommen. Seine Versprechungen allerdings blieben vage. Glaubt er, dass er damit durchkommt?
British troops will not fight in Ukraine if Russia invades says defence boss
Tory Defence Secretary Philip Hammond has told top army brass that it‘s not worth getting involved in Ukraine even if Moscow invades
Ost-Ukraine: Bürgermeister von Charkow bei Attentat verletzt – MEHR
Der ukrainische Übergangspräsident Alexander Turtschinow hat das Innenministerium und den Geheimdienst SBU mit Ermittlungen zu dem Attentat auf Kernes beauftragt.
Mayor of Kharkov, Ukraine shot in back, hospitalized – press service
At about 11:30 am (8:30 GMT) local time Kernes was taken to the local hospital. The City Hall‘s website says that doctors are fighting to save his life.
“They shot him in the back from the forest,” Kernes’s friend Yury Sapronov told Vesti Ukrainy news outlet. “The injury is serious. His lung is pierced and his liver pierced all the way through.”
Fierce football ultras attack anti-govt protesters in eastern Ukraine
Peaceful rallies in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov turned violent as a crowd of several thousand football ultras attacked a crowd of some 300 anti-government protesters
Neo-Nazi march video: Lvov remembers Ukrainian Waffen SS division
Members and supporters of the Svoboda party joined a march in Lvov on Sunday in commemoration of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, initially formed from Ukrainian volunteer fighters.
Russian and German diplomats discuss detention of OSCE military observers in Ukraine
The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Germany initiated the conversation.
Press Stress: Journos ask for help over threats & beatings in Ukraine
There is growing pressure on Russian journalists in Ukraine, as there have been numerous reports of detentions, deportations, threats and physical violence. It‘s gotten so bad that major TV networks are now urging international organisations to step in.
#Russia FM #Lavrov met with First Deputy of Prime-Minister of Bahrain Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa
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Dr. Bashar Hafez al-Assad submits presidential candidacy application to Supreme Constitutional Court
Dr. Bashar Hafez al-Assad submitted on Monday a presidential candidacy application to the Supreme Constitutional Court.
Speaker of the People‘s Assembly, Mohammad Jihad al-Laham, announced that the Assembly received a notification from the Supreme Constitutional Court stating that Mr. Bashar Hafez al-Assad, born in Damascus in 1965 and his mother‘s name is Anisa Makhlouf, submitted an application on April 28th, 2014 for presidential candidacy and he also submitted the required documents according to article 21st of the Supreme Constitutional Court‘s law.
Monsanto and Big Food Losing the GMO and ‚Natural‘ Food Fight
After 20 years of battling Monsanto and corporate agribusiness, food and farm activists in Vermont, backed by a growing movement across the country, are on the verge of a monumental victory — mandatory labels on genetically engineered foods and a ban on the routine industry practice of labeling GMO-tainted foods as „natural.“