Daily Archives: 27. August 2014


27.08.2014 - 23:16 [ Bandcamp ]

Progstravaganza: Selections II (Best Of) by Prog Sphere Promotions

Prog Sphere Promotions is a boutique agency providing bands representation and public relations in the music industry, with a tendency of supporting up-and-coming bands from all around the world.

27.08.2014 - 22:43 [ Youtube ]

Drones of Upstate New York

Mary Anne Grady Flores, a 58-year-old grandmother of three, was sentenced to a year in jail after photographing an anti-drone protest outside a military base near her home. While she waits on appeal, Grady Flores and her fellow protestors speak on the dangers of drone warfare, the right to dissent, and what she’ll do next.

27.08.2014 - 19:46 [ RIA Novosti ]

Russian Attempts to Tackle Global Threats Hampered by US, EU Actions – Lavrov

“However our collective steps on the world arena on tackling all of these challenges and threats are being hampered by attempts by the United States and the West and are as a whole holding their dominating position in global life, a position to which they are accustomed to over several centuries and are artificially holding back the realization of a multi-polar and politically centralized world that reflects objective tendencies of world development,” Lavrov said at an all-Russian youth forum.

27.08.2014 - 19:31 [ Vice ]

Leading Anti-Marijuana Academics Are Paid by Painkiller Drug Companies

VICE has found that many of the researchers who have advocated against legalizing pot have also been on the payroll of leading pharmaceutical firms with products that could be easily replaced by using marijuana. When these individuals have been quoted in the media, their drug-industry ties have not been revealed.

27.08.2014 - 17:42 [ RT ]

IMF chief confirms she faces ‚negligence‘ charges in multi-million euro fraud case

IMF chief Christine Lagarde has confirmed that she is being investigated for alleged „negligence“ in a corruption probe when she was French Finance Minister in 2008, she told AFP.

“The investigating commission of the Court of Justice of the French Republic has decided to place me under formal investigation,” Lagarde told AFP.

27.08.2014 - 17:33 [ Daily Mail ]

Lockdown in Cardiff: City turned into high security prison with 10 mile ring of steel ahead of Nato conference

Police have erected nine feet high security fencing around Celtic Manor resort in Newport and Cardiff city centre

150 world leaders including Barack Obama and David Cameron will meet in South Wales on September 4 and 5

Kim Howells, former foreign office minister, fears that home grown Islamic State terrorists could be planning to attack

More than 9,000 officers from across the UK have been drafted in to police event and traffic disruptions are likely

The total cost for security is not yet known and is expected to be published after the summit by the Government

27.08.2014 - 17:24 [ Motherboard ]

Here‘s More Evidence That NSA Fears Are Chilling Online Discussions

French media theorist Jean Baudrillard hypothesized in a 1980 essay titled „The Implosion of Meaning in the Media and the Implosion of the Social in the Masses“ that modern communication technologies are set up to facilitate as much discussion and interaction among the populace as possible—this much is self-evident in the case of social media like Twitter and Facebook—but with an ulterior motive, or at least overriding side effect: widespread information collection and the eventual silencing of the masses.

27.08.2014 - 17:06 [ Motherboard ]

Inside SS7, the Insecure Global Cell Network That‘s Used to Track Phones

“Understand that the probability that, with an SS7 link to operator-A, you will be able to locate operator-B is totally random, because it depends on how, contractually and technically, the operator-A and operator-B are interconnected,” Pietrosanti wrote in an email.

27.08.2014 - 15:37 [ Radio Utopie ]

Unfassbares Versagen der “Linksfraktion” bei parlamentarischer Aufklärung über Schattenarmee “IS”

Waffenlieferungen in den Irak bzw nach Kurdistan: Versagt “Die Linke” im Bundestag bei der parlamentarischen Aufklärung über die Schattenarmeen unter dem Label “Islamischer Staat” bwz bei der Aufklärung und Kontrolle der Aktivitäten der Geheimdienste, vorneweg dem Bundesnachrichtendienst B.N.D.? Oder ist das bereits aktive Selbstsabotage und Kollaboration?

Urteilen Sie selbst.

27.08.2014 - 14:40 [ Counterpunch ]

The Latin Americanization of U.S. Police Forces

But militarized police are not the only problem. Since the 1980’s, government, from Washington D.C. to the states and cities, has been poisoned with inept and cynical politicians who play a racist card to keep Americans divided. And this is a necessary part of a militarized state equation. In fact, 21st century United States politics follows a developing path in place in much of Latin America for half a century. I call it the Latinamericanization of the United States.

27.08.2014 - 14:34 [ Prof. Edward Curtin / Global Research ]

Lies, Propaganda and “Political Brainwashing”. Remembering and Forgetting

I would suggest that the answer lies not just with the specific issues themselves and the lies and propaganda used to befuddle the American people, but with the cultural and social background that frames Americans’ thinking. The latter serves to cut to the root people’s belief in their own power to think freely and clearly about the former. Invade people’s minds over many years with an ongoing series of interconnected memes, occupy their minds with alleged facts that induce a frenzied depression, and then fooling them on specific issues — e.g. Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, etc. – becomes much easier.

27.08.2014 - 11:43 [ Pentagon ]

Campbell Takes ISAF Command in Afghanistan

(26. August) Army Gen. John F. Campbell assumed command of the NATO International Security Assistance Force from Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., during a change of command ceremony held here today.

The ceremony was attended by senior Afghan, NATO and U.S. officials, including Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Gen. Hans-Lothar Domröse, Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum Commanding General; Air Force Gen. Philip M. Breedlove, Supreme Allied Commander Europe; Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of U.S. Central Command; Minister of National Defense of Afghanistan Gen. Besmillah Mohammadi, and many others.

27.08.2014 - 10:58 [ SPD Berlin ]

SPD-Landesvorstand dankt Klaus Wowereit

Der Landesvorstand der Berliner SPD sprach sich einstimmig für ein verbindliches Mitgliedervotum zur Bestimmung des Nachfolgers oder der Nachfolgerin von Klaus Wowereit aus. Dazu wird ein geordnetes und transparentes Verfahren festgelegt, über das auf der regulären Sitzung des SPD-Landesvorstands am 1. September entschieden werden soll. Ihre Kandidaturen erklärten in der Sitzung des Landesvorstands der SPD-Landesvorsitzende Jan Stöß und der SPD-Fraktionsvorsitzende Raed Saleh. Der Landesparteitag am 8. November 2014 wird dann auf Basis des Mitgliedervotums endgültig über die Kandidatin / den Kandidaten bestimmen

27.08.2014 - 10:23 [ Büro des Hohen Kommissars der Vereinten Nationen für Menschenrechte ]

New UN Special Rapporteur requests access to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory

The new United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Makarim Wibisono, has formally requested the Israeli Government to allow him access to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory – to gather first-hand information on the impact of current hostilities on the human rights situation.

“As a newly appointed Special Rapporteur, it is my priority to see with my own eyes the situation on the ground, to listen and to speak face-to-face with victims and witnesses, and to discuss issues of concern with officials on both sides,” said the independent expert tasked by the UN Human Rights Council to monitor and report on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967.

27.08.2014 - 10:19 [ Wikipedia ]

Blaue Linie (Libanon)

Am 15. März 1978 hat die libanesische Regierung den Vereinten Nationen einen scharfen Protest gegen die israelische Invasion übermittelt. Sie stellte darin fest, dass sie keine Verbindung zu den palästinensischen Operationen hatte. Am 19. März 1978 nahm der Sicherheitsrat die Resolution 425 an, in welcher er Israel aufrief, unverzüglich seine Militäraktion einzustellen und seine Truppen von libanesischem Gebiet abzuziehen. Der Rat entschied außerdem über die sofortige Bildung der United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). Die ersten UNIFIL-Truppen trafen in dem Gebiet am 23. März 1978 ein.

Die Blaue Linie basiert auf den Positionen der Tzahal (Israel Defence Forces, Israelische Armee) vor dem 14. März 1978. Sie stimmt überein mit der ‚Purpurnen Linie‘, das ist die Waffenstillstandslinie des Sechstagekrieges (1967) – als auch der ‚Grünen Linie‘ (1949 festgelegt), welche die Waffenstillstandslinie des Palästinakrieges von 1948 darstellt

27.08.2014 - 10:16 [ Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen ]

Security Council, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2172 (2014), Authorizes Operation of United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon for another Year

Determining that the situation in Lebanon continues to constitute a threat to international peace and security,
1. Decides to extend the present mandate of UNIFIL until 31 August 2015; (..)
5. Strongly calls upon all parties concerned to respect the cessation of hostilities, to prevent any violation of the Blue Line and to respect it in its entirety and to cooperate fully with the United Nations and UNIFIL;

27.08.2014 - 10:04 [ NBC ]

What‘s in the Interim Gaza Peace Deal Between Israel and Hamas?

Immediate steps:

– Both sides to end military action
– Israel agrees to open more border crossings with Gaza to allow the easier flow of goods
– Egypt to open its border with Gaza at Rafah
– The Palestinian Authority (PA), which is headed by President Mahmoud Abbas, will take over operation of Gaza‘s borders from Hamas – a bid to reduce weapons smuggling
– The PA will lead the internationally funded reconstruction effort in Gaza
– Israel to narrow the security buffer along the inside of the Gaza border, to allow Palestinians more access to farm land
– Israel will extend fishing limits off Gaza‘s coast

27.08.2014 - 09:58 [ Wikipedia ]

Waffenstillstandsabkommen von 1949

Waffenstillstandsabkommen von 1949 werden die im Jahre 1949 geschlossenen Abkommen zwischen Israel und seinen Nachbarn Ägypten, Jordanien, Libanon und Syrien genannt. Die Abkommen beendeten den Palästinakrieg und umreißen die De-facto-Grenzen des Staates Israels, wie sie bis zum Sechstagekrieg von 1967 bestanden (auch bekannt als die Grüne Linie)

Das Abkommen mit Ägypten wurde am 24. Februar unterzeichnet. Die wichtigsten Punkte waren:

Die Waffenstillstandslinie wurde entlang der internationalen Grenzen (von 1906) gezogen. Davon abweichend blieb Ägypten im Besitz eines Streifen entlang der Küste zum Mittelmeer, der als Gazastreifen bekannt wurde.