Daily Archives: 24. August 2014


24.08.2014 - 23:20 [ Internet Archive ]

Chronopolis – An Alternative Score

This is an alternative score that we put together as a creative excercise and experiment. We both admire and respect the original score by Luc Ferrari. We hope that you enjoy our sonic interpretation of the film.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronopolis_%28film%29

24.08.2014 - 22:37 [ Truthout ]

Truthout Interviews William I. Robinson on the Israel Lobby Attacking Academic Freedom

He is a professor of sociology at U.C. Santa Barbara, and five years ago when Israel launched Operation Cast Lead in Gaza City, Professor Robinson wanted to discuss the incursion in one of his classes. He put together some newspaper articles and a photo essay and sent it to his students as part of the course‘s optional reading list for a class meeting. Two of his students launched a formal complaint about the optional readings, claiming that Robinson violated the Faculty Code of Conduct was guilty of anti-semitism.

24.08.2014 - 22:34 [ Portal amerika21.de ]

Bolivien hinterfragt Handeln der UNO im Gaza-Streifen

„Wir bedauern zutiefst, dass der Sicherheitsrat in diesem Fall keine Maßnahmen ergreift“, so Llorent. Er verwies darauf, dass die Haltung der Vereinigten Staaten dessen Entscheidungen beeinflusse. Die USA böten „Israel, der viertmächtigsten Streitmacht der Welt, erhebliche Militärhilfe.“ Der Sicherheitsrat habe bereits mehrere Treffen zu dem Thema durchgeführt, jedoch seien nur Erklärungen abgegeben und keine Resolutionen – etwa für einen Waffenstillstand – verabschiedet worden, so Llorent abschließend.

24.08.2014 - 18:18 [ Guardian ]

Israeli military retracts claim that fatal mortar bomb was fired from UN school

After the death of Daniel Tragerman outside his home in a kibbutz near the Israel-Gaza border, a spokesman for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said the mortar was fired from or near a school run by UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, which was being used to shelter Palestinians who have fled their homes because of bombing and destruction.

24.08.2014 - 17:59 [ Palestine News & Info Agency ]

Death Toll Hits 2115 as Israeli Aggression on Gaza Continues

At least 12 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli airstrikes on Gaza while dozens others were injured, raising the total death toll to more than 2115, including at least 564 children, since the beginning of the aggression on July 8, according to medical statistics.

On Sunday afternoon, WAFA correspondent said an Israeli airstrike hit a civilian car in the western part of Gaza City, killing at least one Palestinian and seriously injuring three others.

One Palestinian was also killed, and another was injured as warplanes hit a motorbike in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya.

24.08.2014 - 17:58 [ Syrian Arab News Agency ]

Mikdad: Syria is fighting terrorism to defend its sovereignty and independence

Caretaker Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad said Syria is fighting a battle against the armed terrorist groups to defend its existence and maintain its sovereignty, independence and capabilities.

Mikdad’s remarks came during a seminar organized by the General Union of Syrian Women marking the 47th anniversary of its foundation.

24.08.2014 - 17:57 [ Hassan Rohani, Präsident der Islamischen Republik Iran ]

Präsident Rohani vor den Journalisten in der Provinz Ardebil: Iran hat einen ernsthaften Willen zu einer Vereinbarung mit der G5+1

Der iranische Präsident Hassan Rohani hat den ernsten Willen Teherans zu einem endgültigen Abkommen mit der G5+1 über das iranische Atomprogramm bekundet Am letzten Tag seines Besuchs in der Provinz Ardebil im Nordwesten Irans sagte heute Dr. Rohani vor den Journalisten, eine endgültige Vereinbarung zwischen Iran und der Gruppe 5+1 im Atomstreit liege im beiderseitigen Interesse und sei ein wichtiger Schritt für den Weltwirtschaft und Weltfrieden.

24.08.2014 - 17:55 [ trend.az ]

Zarif calls for enhanced Tehran-Baghdad ties

„We hope that Tehran-Baghdad relations will be promoted under Iraq‘s new government,“ Zarif said in a meeting with Iraq‘s Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi in the Iraqi capital on Sunday.

24.08.2014 - 16:46 [ Independent ]

Ferguson violence inspires tech-savvy teenagers to create app that tracks police brutality

„Five-O” is the result; it’s an app that “empowers citizens to rate, review and store the details of their interactions with local law enforcement officers,” in once place, its creators say. The app then aggregates all the scores for a particular county or police officer and grades them on their courtesy and professionalism.

24.08.2014 - 15:25 [ ZMag ]

Plane Shootdowns in the Propaganda System

The U.S. media treatment of the destruction of the civilian airliner Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, effectively blamed on the East Ukraine “separatists” and especially Putin and Russia, follows a long-established pattern of rapid and indignant acceptance of politically serviceable official claims, despite a long record of official deception on such matters.

24.08.2014 - 15:16 [ Radio Utopie ]

Drei Beispiele wo Geheimdienste, Presse und Partei-Funktionäre uns zu früh abschrieben oder zu spät von uns

Beispiel 1: der gescheiterte Putsch gegen Bashir Assad und die Invasion von Syrien durch Proxy-Armeen wie den “Islamischen Staat”. Beispiel 2: die “Neurussland”-Falle für die Russische Föderation nach einem diesmal erfolgreich vom Westblock inszenierten Putsch in der Ukraine. Beispiel 3: Die Geschichte von drei Nazis im Campingmobil, die jahrzehntelang von Spionen und Polizei ungefunden Banken ausrauben und Polizisten und Einwanderer ermorden konnten und dann am 12. November 2011 vom amtierenden Generalbundesanwalt Rainer Griesbaum, kurz vor Amtsantritt von Harald “Professor Hastig” Range, als “Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund” N.S.U. ausgerufen wurden, wegen dem anschließend ein Untersuchungsausschuss unter Sebastian Edathy großes leistete.

24.08.2014 - 15:12 [ Albawaba ]

Did Kurdistan just ship oil to Israel, again?

It was not possible to determine who bought the oil or where it was sent to, but crude originating from Iraqi Kurdistan was delivered to Israel in June even though many Middle Eastern states refuse to trade with the country.

A spokesman for the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry of Natural Resources did not respond to phone calls and e-mails seeking comment.

24.08.2014 - 15:10 [ Stimme Russlands ]

Kurdistan: Was kostet die Unabhängigkeit der Ölregion?

(14. August) Schon jetzt verkauft die kurdische Regierung Öl an Israel, obwohl es ungesetzlich ist. Nicht nur Israel, sondern auch andere Staaten unterstützten das kurdische Streben. Einige Abgeordneten des Europäischen Parlaments sagten, dass Kurdistan als unabhängiger Staat anerkannt werden soll, weil nur die kurdische Regierung effektiv ist, gegen die IS-Terroristen zu kämpfen.“

24.08.2014 - 15:00 [ Regjonalregierung der Autonomen Region Kurdistan ]

Prime Minister Barzani tells Christian leaders that international coalition is needed to defeat ISIS

Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani yesterday received a delegation of Christian patriarchs to discuss the situation in Kurdistan and Iraq and the plight of internally displaced people.

The delegation was led by Patriarch Cardinal Mar Beshara Boutros al-Rahi, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the East, and included several Catholic and Assyrian patriarchs, bishops, and Christian officials representing the Kurdistan Region, Iraq, and global communities.

24.08.2014 - 14:57 [ Idea.de ]

Kauder im Nordirak: Schnelle Hilfe für Flüchtlinge

Kauder und Schockenhoff hatten in der St. Josefs Kathedrale in Ankawa, einem Vorort Erbils, zunächst an einem Gottesdienst teilgenommen. Es schlossen sich Gespräche mit den Flüchtlingen an, die auf dem Kirchengelände und in anderen Gebäuden Zuflucht gefunden haben. Die Delegation wurde von dem chaldäischen Erzbischof Bashar M. Warda begleitet.

24.08.2014 - 14:47 [ International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network ]

Over 300 Survivors and Descendants of Survivors of Victims of the Nazi Genocide Condemn Israel’s Assault on Gaza

As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine. We further condemn the United States for providing Israel with the funding to carry out the attack, and Western states more generally for using their diplomatic muscle to protect Israel from condemnation. Genocide begins with the silence of the world.

We are alarmed by the extreme, racist dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli society, which has reached a fever-pitch. In Israel, politicians and pundits in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post have called openly for genocide of Palestinians and right-wing Israelis are adopting Neo-Nazi insignia.

24.08.2014 - 13:41 [ Veterans News Now ]

The Mainstream Media, ISIS, and Iraq War Déjà Vu

Moreover, as the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) radical jihadists sweep through Iraq, who should appear in the mainstream media providing advice on proper US Middle East policy but the neocons who masterminded the war on Iraq that created the very conditions for the success of ISIS. Once again they are arguing for American military intervention in that country. Ignored is the fact that the neocons managed to be uncannily wrong in virtually all of their prognostications made during the run-up to the war on Iraq.