Daily Archives: 11. August 2014


11.08.2014 - 22:58 [ Huffington Post ]

GMO proponents pressuring Reuters to remove journalist who presents both sides of GMO debate

In an April 9th Reuters article, „Bill seeks to block mandatory GMO food labeling by states,“ Gillam wrote: „Advocates of labeling say consumers deserve to know if the food they eat contains GMOs, or genetically modified organisms.“ A paragraph later she wrote: „Makers of biotech crops and many large food manufacturers have fought mandatory labeling, arguing that genetically modified crops are not materially different and pose no safety risk.“

11.08.2014 - 22:33 [ Tech Times ]

Antarctic ‘icequakes’ were magnified by Chilean earthquake 3,000 miles away

It isn‘t exactly earth-shaking news for tectonic plates to shift in the Antarctic: hundreds of these events, known by some as „icequakes,“ can occur every hour. However, a new research study done at the Georgia Institute of Technology shows that in 2010, an earthquake as far away as Chile caused the earth to shake harder than it normally would in the Antarctic.

11.08.2014 - 22:18 [ News24 ]

Undercover cop testifies in DRC coup plot trial

An undercover police colonel who infiltrated a group of rebels allegedly plotting to overthrow Democratic Republic of the Congo President Joseph Kabila‘s government started testifying in the group‘s trial in the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Monday.

11.08.2014 - 21:28 [ Think Progress ]

Android Users Flip Out Over New Facebook Messenger Privacy Rules

Users have been denouncing the Facebook’s forced migration to the Messenger app for private conversations since the company announced the move in May. But the seemingly creepy terms to which consumers must agree — such as letting the app make unauthorized calls — has sparked outrage over privacy concerns. And Facebook isn’t taking the blame.

11.08.2014 - 21:12 [ The Independent ]

Israel-Gaza conflict: Garnier apologises after girly care packages sent to female IDF soldiers sparks boycott threats

“Shout out to the Garnier Israel|Ś’ŚšŚ Ś™Ś™Ś” for the amazing donation of facial soaps, minerals and deodorants!” The post has been shared over 22,000 times and saw many calling for an immediate boycott of Garnier products, with some posting pictures of products they were throwing away in protest.

11.08.2014 - 19:24 [ Truthout ]

Communal Lands: Theater of Operations for the Counterinsurgency

According to the May 2014 publication of the Army Manual of the United States (FM-3-24, MCWP-3-33.5), which outlines the strategic ways to break up any type of insurgency, in the section titled „Insurgencies and Counterinsurgencies,“ when certain elements within the population grow dissatisfied with the status quo and are willing to fight to change conditions to be in their favor, using both violent and nonviolent means to effect change in the prevailing authority, these are the conditions that lead to insurgencies.

11.08.2014 - 18:30 [ The Telegraph ]

Fresh evidence of how the West lured Ukraine into its orbit

When the European Commission told a journalist that, between 2004 and 2013, these groups had only been given €31 million, my co-author Richard North was soon reporting on his EU Referendum blog that the true figure, shown on the commission’s own “Financial Transparency” website, was €496 million. The 200 front organisations receiving this colossal sum have such names as “Center for European Co-operation” or the “Donetsk Regional Public Organisation with Hope for the Future” (the very first page shows how many are in eastern Ukraine or Crimea, with their largely Russian populations).

One of my readers heard from a Ukrainian woman working in Britain that her husband back home earns €200 a month as an electrician, but is paid another €200 a month, from a German bank, to join demonstrations such as the one last March when hundreds of thousands – many doubtless entirely sincere – turned out in Kiev to chant “Europe, Europe” at Baroness Ashton, the EU’s visiting “foreign minister”.

11.08.2014 - 18:04 [ Luftpost ]

Das Recht der PalÀstinenser auf Selbstverteidigung

Kein Staat der Welt, einschließlich der islamischen Staaten, scheint dazu bereit zu sein,
die PalĂ€stinenser zu schĂŒtzen. Keine Organisation der Welt, einschließlich der Vereinten
Nationen, scheint bereit oder fÀhig zu sein, Israel durch Sanktionen unter Druck zu setzen,
damit es sich an die Normen des Völkerrechts hÀlt. Und je lÀnger die Weltgemeinschaft
zögert, einzugreifen, desto schneller wird sich die Spirale der Gewalt drehen.

11.08.2014 - 18:02 [ RIA Novosti ]

Trotz Sanktionen: Deutsche, Franzosen und Amerikaner bei Waffenausstellung in Russland dabei

„Zu den Teilnehmern der Ausstellung gehören fĂŒhrende russische RĂŒstungsbetriebe“, heißt es in der von den Veranstaltern veröffentlichten PresseerklĂ€rung. „Daran nehmen außerdem Unternehmen aus Algerien, Armenien, China, Frankreich, Deutschland, Indien, der Schweiz, Tschechien, den USA und Weißrussland teil.“

11.08.2014 - 17:36 [ Radio Utopie ]

Untergrundbahn Gaza

Als die israelische Armee in den Gazastreifen einzog und dort ein erstaunliches System unterirdischer Tunnel vorfand, griff eine Idee um sich: Warum sollte man nicht die Hamas einladen, in Tel Aviv eine Untergrundbahn zu bauen? Sie hat das Fachwissen, die Technik, die Planer und die ArbeitskrÀfte.

11.08.2014 - 15:47 [ RT ]

China to start direct sales of fruit and vegetables to Russia

China will start selling fruit and vegetables directly to Russia, and Baorong company plans to set up a special logistics center in Dongning on the border with Russia’s Far East to do it.

The 70,000 square meter wholesale market and 30,000 square meter warehouse, fitted out with refrigerators and other equipment, will be in a special cross-border customs zone, ITAR-TASS cites the head of the Association of Applied Economy of the Heilongjiang Province Zhang Chunjiao.

“Direct export of fruit and vegetables to Russia will be organized from it,“ she said.

11.08.2014 - 15:43 [ Neues Deutschland ]

CDU-Politiker: Bundeswehr-Einsatz in Nordirak denkbar

»FĂŒr den Fall eines UN-Mandats könnte sich die Bundeswehr an der Absicherung von Hilfstransporten vor Ort beteiligen«, sagte Schockenhoff am Montag zu »Spiegel Online«. »Auch sollte Deutschland dann nicht ausschließen, bestimmte Gruppen in der Krisenregion mit Waffen zu unterstĂŒtzen.« Ein UN-Mandat fĂŒr einen Einsatz im Nordirak ist nach Schockenhoffs EinschĂ€tzung derzeit nicht in Sicht.

11.08.2014 - 15:41 [ Spiegel ]

MH17-Absturz: Schwarz-Rot streitet ĂŒber Blauhelm-Einsatz

(19. Juli) Zuvor hatte schon der stellvertretende Vorsitzende der Unionsfraktion, Andreas Schockenhoff, „schnellstmöglich“ eine Friedensmission gefordert. Er hĂ€lt sogar eine Beteiligung der Bundeswehr an einem solchen Einsatz fĂŒr denkbar: „Wenn eine solche Mission zustande kommen sollte, wĂŒrde auch Deutschland gefragt sein“, sagte er der „Rheinischen Post“.

11.08.2014 - 15:30 [ RT ]

Russia and Ukraine agree on humanitarian operation – Lavrov

Moscow and Kiev have agreed on a humanitarian mission under the authority of the Red Cross, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated.

“With careful optimism, I can now say that, I think, all possible and impossible pretexts have been dismissed. I hope that in the very nearest future this humanitarian action will take place under the authority of the Red Cross,” Lavrov said.

“We’ve agreed on all details with the Ukrainian leadership,” the Foreign Minister declared.