(31.08.2014) A leaked Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) revealed last year that preliminary discussions regarding a potential US base in the Maldives had taken place.
After President Abdulla Yameen was reported in January to have opted against the SOFA agreement for fear of upsetting regional partners, pentagon officials responded by saying that a permanent base had never been considered.
The US did, however, donate the Personal Identification Secure Comparison and Evaluation System – or PISCES – border control system to the Maldives in 2013.
The documentary includes several of the dozens of technical and building experts that were interviewed and that appear in our forthcoming full length documentary – 9/11: Explosive Evidence – Experts Speak Out. Altogether of course there are more than 2000 Architects & Engineers that have signed the AE911Truth petition calling for a new investigation of the destruction of all 3 high-rises at the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Under the headline “The End of the Perpetual War,” published on May 23, 2013, the Times was vehement, calling a new Obama speech “the most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America.” The editorial added: “For the first time, a president stated clearly and unequivocally that the state of perpetual warfare that began nearly 12 years ago is unsustainable for a democracy and must come to an end in the not-too-distant future.”
The Times editorial board was sweeping in its conclusion: “Mr. Obama told the world that the United States must return to a state in which counterterrorism is handled, as it always was before 2001, primarily by law enforcement and the intelligence agencies. That shift is essential to preserving the democratic system and rule of law for which the United States is fighting, and for repairing its badly damaged global image.”
While much of our attention is focused on ISIS and the Middle East, a closer look at the news cycle during the past two days reveals the extent to which the U.S. military has expanded its presence in Africa, where it is providing support for French counter-terrorism operations against militant Islamist groups.
During his decorated military career, spanning over 36 years, Kameru has gathered a wealth of experience which will be an asset to the National Intelligence Service.
This event that is now in its third year having started in 2012, attracts business leaders, policy makers, bankers, decision makers from governments, key players and service providers in the mining sector from Uganda, the East African region and the world at large.
The ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, control large parts of Syria‘s northern territory.
“The Bahrain authority is delaying the pending visit of Mr. Juan Mendez, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, in an attempt to hide the atrocious human rights violations and escape international monitoring,” Rabea said.
Hat sich jemand von euch darauf verlassen, dass Sigmar Gabriel CETA verhindern wird? CETA ist das Testbett für TTIP, ein Abkommen mit Kanada mit im Wesentlichen den gleichen furchtbaren Paragraphen wie bei TTIP. Die Idee ist, das bei CETA unter dem Radar in Nacht und Nebel durchzuwinken und dann bei TTIP einen auf Hitchhiker‘s Guide zu machen.
Stop TTIP hält die Ablehnung ihrer Registrierung als Europäische Bürgerinitiative für rechtlich unhaltbar. Das Bündnis prüfe nun, vor dem Europäischen Gerichtshof zu klagen, hieß es in der Mitteilung.
Das Tech-Magazin Motherboard setzt sich daraufhin mit Zdziarski, der eine ausgeweitete Untersuchung der App plant, in Kontakt. Der IT-Forscher, der früher selbst in der Spionagebranche tätig war, erklärte, dass einige der von Facebook verwendeten Codefragmente selbst bei Überwachungsfirmen kaum bekannt seien.
11.09.2014 - 20:09 [ Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ]
How the hypersonic race started. In the days after the 9/11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, hypersonic weapons were sold as a form of “conventional prompt global strike,” fulfilling the supposed need for a weapon that could be launched from fortress America and strike Osama bin Laden’s lair on the other side of the world in less than an hour. That was an idea so unlikely that, unfortunately, few outside policy circles took the matter seriously, even when it was later revealed that another aim of prompt global strike was to destroy Chinese anti-satellite weapons before they could be launched.
Michel de Rosen, chief executive of Paris-based Eutelsat, punctuated the companies’ sentiments here Sept. 9 during the World Satellite Business Week conference organized by Euroconsult.
Gen. John Hyten, the commander of Air Force Space Command, said in a speech here at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference that the Air Force spent the past year defining a follow-on program to the Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) Block 10 pathfinder satellite launched into a 630-kilometer, sun-synchronous low Earth orbit in 2010 aboard an Orbital Sciences Corp. Minotaur 4 rocket. The next iteration, he said, would likely use three smaller satellites in low Earth orbit to keep tabs on objects in the geosynchronous belt. Located 36,000 kilometers above the equator, geostationary orbit is home to critical U.S. communications and missile warning satellites.
“What do we need from SBSS that we really can’t get anywhere else? We need that real-time, all-weather access,” he said. “You can do that from an equatorial orbit looking up. You don’t need a big satellite to do that. You can do that with small satellites. You can do that fairly affordably.”
According to the data, the main purpose of the center is to develop and support the state archive of aerospace images and information. It has a positive experience of mutual cooperation with the Center for Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Vor einem Jahr hatte Patiño zu einem ersten Treffen von Vertretern aus Staaten eingeladen, die Schaden durch internationale Konzerne erlitten haben. Wie die US-Firma Chevron, die Ecuador verklagt hat, zwingen transnationale Unternehmen Regierungen auch in anderen Fällen zu Zahlungen von Schadensersatz, wenn ihre Aktivitäten reguliert werden. Im Fall Ecuadors weigert sich Chevron zugleich, Schadensersatz für entstandene Gesundheits- und Umweltschäden durch die Förderung von Erdöl im Amazonas zu zahlen.
„They just lived in a different part of the globe and are educated differently. And they need education the same way that we do, so that we can cross the great divide that we might call the wall.“
DIE LINKE. Thüringen ist eine konsequente Antikriegspartei. Wir sind gegen jegliche Kriegseinsätze der Bundeswehr sowie gegen Rüstungsexporte. Für Bund und Land fordern wir Konversionsprogramme, die beinhalten, bspw. militärisch verwendete Liegenschaften künftig zivil zu nutzen.
„Sehr zuversichtlich“ seien alle in der Parteiführung. Die Umfragen würden der Partei in beiden Ländern ein Ergebnis von „deutlich über fünf Prozent“ voraussagen. Außerdem gebe es diesmal die besonders erfreuliche Situation, dass sich einige reichere Landesverbände aus dem Westen im Osten engagieren würden.
11.09.2014 - 15:39 [ Michael Sauerbier / Twitter ]
(1. September) Die heutige Entscheidung Waffen in ein Kriegsgebiet zu liefern ist, nach der Unterstützung einer Regierung in der Ukraine, an der Faschisten beteiligt sind, der zweite Tabubruch dieser Bundesregierung binnen kurzer Zeit. Die Bundesregierung hat damit eine imperialistische Wende in der Rüstungsexportpolitik vollzogen. Wie die USA, Großbritannien oder Frankreich will sie die Entscheidung über Rüstungslieferungen allein von geostrategischen Interessen abhängig machen. Wie bei den Auslandseinsätzen der Bundeswehr, dienen auch hier die von ihr vorgebrachten Argumente des Humanismus für die Rüstungslieferung in den Irak alleine zur Rechtfertigung einer deutschen Einflussnahme mittels Waffenlieferung im Nahen Osten. Dass die Bundesregierung kein wirkliches Interesse daran hat die internationale Mörderband „Islamischen Staat“ (IS) zu bekämpfen, lässt sich an der fortgesetzten militärischen Kooperation mit seinen Unterstützern und Sponsoren, wie der Türkei, Katar und Saudi-Arabien ablesen.
11.09.2014 - 15:36 [ Sevim Dagdelen, Mitglied des Bundestages ]
(25. August) Die Bundesregierung muss die Syrien-Sanktionen sofort beenden, denn diese stärken lediglich den IS. Die verheerende Regime Change-Politik im Nahen Osten in Nibelungentreue zu den USA darf nicht weiter fortgeführt werden. Die militärische Kooperation mit den Sponsoren und Förderern des IS Katar, Saudi-Arabien und dem Erdogan-Regime muss eingestellt werden.
Tehran, SANA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Marziyeh Afkham stressed that some countries which are part of the international coalition for countering terrorism have been supporting terrorists in Syria and Iraq financially and military.
In a statement on Thursday, Afkham added that other countries in the coalitions didn’t shoulder their international responsibilities in countering the terrorist organizations, hoping that prospective political changes could occur in Syria and Iraq.
Army units, aided by the national defense forces, started entering Helfaya town in the countryside of the central province of Hama, and are currently sweeping the town
Human Rights Watch investigated 13 separate incidents and documented several in which security forces shot live ammunition through the closed doors of peoples’ homes, killing those inside. For example, military units, some accompanied by police forces, deployed to Ndeeba on September 10 and ordered people on the roads to return home. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that uniformed soldiers, some wearing the red berets of the military police, began to attack people with sticks and batons to clear the streets.
In a briefing to media, the Israeli military showed photographs of what it said were rockets hidden in and fired from school compounds. None of the photographs were from the three UN-run schools that Human Rights Watch investigated where many civilians died.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said it investigated strikes at three separate locations in the besieged enclave, noting that at least 45 people were killed in the raids on the schools.
In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, although I joined the millions of anti-war protesters around the world, I still had a hard time shaking the idea that those in charge knew better.
The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that US intelligence currently has no indications of any current planning by ISIS to actually attack the US homeland, and told Congress as much.
A US aerial bombardment of the Narang District of Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar Province, killing 11 civilians, including 2 women and 2 children, and wounding 12 others.
Hintergrund des Projekts „Review 2014“ wie auch weiterer Maßnahmen Berlins sind Differenzen zwischen der immer aggressiveren deutschen Weltpolitik und der Stimmungslage in der deutschen Bevölkerung. Kürzlich hat Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) darauf hingewiesen, dass einer Umfrage zufolge in der Bundesrepublik nur etwa 30 Prozent der Menschen „offen dafür“ sind, „dass unser Land mehr Verantwortung übernimmt“. Der Begriff „Verantwortung“ dient dabei wie üblich als Chiffre für stärker ausgreifende weltpolitische Aktivitäten.[1] Die Umfrage ist Steinmeier zufolge vom Auswärtigen Amt in Auftrag gegeben worden. Dort wird, wie eine Abteilungsleiterin berichtet, die Auffassung vertreten: „Eine Außenpolitik, die keine breite Unterstützung hat, ist keine gute und auch keine nachhaltige Außenpolitik“.[2] In der Tat hat sie mit Widerständen und deshalb mit Reibungsverlusten zu rechnen. Außenminister Steinmeier plädiert nun dafür, die „eklatante Lücke“ zwischen der „Bereitschaft“ der Bevölkerung und den bestehenden „Erwartungen“ an eine aggressivere Außenpolitik zu schließen. In diesem Sinne ist das Auswärtige Amt seit fast zwei Jahren aktiv.
Eine der entscheidenden Frage bezüglich der Attentate des 11. Septembers 2001 ist nun: war die Regierung der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, nach Jahrzehnten der Aufrüstung, der permanenten Gefahr eines Atomkrieges und eines Luftangriffs, an diesem Tage nun so hilflos und überfordert wie sie es nachher darstellte? Oder gab es sehr wohl eine funktionierende Kommandokette? Und wenn ja, wo hatte diese ihre Zentrale?
With the president continuing to try to pretend this isn’t taking the US straight down the road to a new ground war in Iraq (and Syria), the policy continues to be sneaking as many ground troops in under the radar as quickly as possible, while continuing to scare the public about the ISIS threat so that when the ground war begins in earnest, they are too frightened to object.
He stressed that Moscow has to undertake all kinds of measures only in response to external threats, including the theory of preemptive global strike advocated by NATO, deployment of the U.S. anti-missile defense in Europe and Alaska, as well as the militarization of space.
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said later that Russia will respond to the preemptive global strike theory by modernizing its Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), airspace force and warfare commanding systems.
They were traced to English, Russian and Spanish users of the service. News of the list was reported by Russian news outlet CNews, which said that 4.93 million addresses and passwords were posted to the forum in plain text for all to see.
The SCO countries „advocate Afghanistan being an independent, neutral and peaceful state and support the United Nations central and coordinating role in efforts for settlement in Afghanistan and assistance for Afghan people.”
The last conference on Afghanistan under the SCO aegis took place in Moscow in March 2009.
“Asian investors have a very comprehensive approach to any complicated project. They carefully study all aspects, including the moral one,” Shuvalov said in conclusion.
The upcoming space expedition will take off on September 26 from the Baikonur space centre onboard a Soyuz TMS-14M spaceship. The crew will include Russian cosmonauts Yelena Serova, Aleksandr Samokutyayev and NASA astronaut Barry Wilmore.
Getragen vom Kontrast zwischen Regenwald und urbanem Amerika, einem faszinierenden Soundtrack und den ruhigen und intimen Bildern des Films verweben sich leise Geschichten zum berührenden Portrait eines außergewöhnlichen Mannes.
Ein modernes Epos zwischen Urwaldriesen und Wolkenkratzern.
11.09.2014 - 03:02 [ Robert Greenwald / Facebook ]
„My time as secretary of defense reinforced my belief that in recent decades, American presidents, confronted with a tough problem abroad, have too often been too quick to reach for the a gun-to use military force… Too many ideologues call for the use of the American military as the first option rather the a last resort to address problems. War is inevitably tragic, inefficient and uncertain… Our foreign and national security policy has become too militarized, the use of force too easy for presidents“
Graeme MacQueen, now retired, is a former Director of the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. This essay is adapted from his new book published by Clarity Press, The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for a Domestic Conspiracy.
2014 has welcomed Kevin Saunderson and Damon Albarn to the FACT Mix controls – but the man behind mix 459 is arguably the most storied mixer of the year so far…
The ISIS is a 100 percent product of the U.S. proxy destabilization policy against Syria, and their command of Iraq’s oil fields in Mosul, along with this group’s beheading of journalists, both function as convenient war propaganda to anger the American public and fuel the U.S. airstrike machine that benefits the capitalist armaments industry since Americans subconsciously believe as a result of their national security indoctrination that the petroleum of the Middle East is U.S. property serving “core interests” and protecting their “way of life.”…
Ken Gude of the liberal Center for American Progress, a thinktank close to the administration, tweeted that he was “utterly shocked” the administration would contend the 2001 authority applied – an argument he had earlier in the day called “laughable.”