Daily Archives: 24. September 2014


24.09.2014 - 17:39 [ Agentur Radio Utopie / Twitter ]

Da wir derzeit zuwenig oder keine Nachrichten finden, die uns nicht anwidern, machen wir bis morgen Donnerstag 24.00 Pause.

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24.09.2014 - 17:17 [ r. Willie Soon, Christopher Monckton of Brenchley / Watts Up With That? ]

It’s time to stop the climate scare stories

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi sensibly refuses to attend yet another climate summit – this one called by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon in New York for September 23, under the auspices of the United Nations, which profits handsomely from the much-exaggerated climate scare.

24.09.2014 - 17:16 [ Mondo Weiss ]

US elites are vulnerable to donor pressure on Israel question

Several recent articles have highlighted the importance of pro-Israel donors in influencing the political discourse at universities, in synagogues, and in U.S. elections. Two pro-Palestinian voices have lost their jobs at campuses in part because of such pressure (Steven Salaita, Bruce Shipman). Here are several stories/incidents that underline the importance of pro-Israel money and even blackmail threats. I’m ranging over several years, but the pattern is clear; and as Lawrence Davidson points out near the end of these items, elites are particularly vulnerable to donor pressure, and elites are crucial to the lobby because Israel has lost the grass-roots. In fact, the battle is now raging inside elite opinion, which makes donors crucial.

24.09.2014 - 17:15 [ Techdirt ]

FUD: Former FBI Guy Lies, Claiming New Mobile Encryption Would Have Resulted In Dead Kidnap Suspect

Yesterday, we wrote about law enforcement freaking out over the announcements from both Apple and Google that they‘d start encrypting phones by default, better protecting data on those phones from anyone who wants it — whether government/law enforcement or hackers. We noted, oddly, that former FBI guy Ronald Hosko had showed up in articles in both the Washington Post and the WSJ spewing a bunch of FUD about it. In the WSJ:

24.09.2014 - 14:30 [ Mondo Weiss ]

West Bank settlers exporting dates labelled as ‘Made in Palestine’

Along one of the roads in the city of Ariha in the north of the occupied West Bank, merchants Khaldoun and Hassan regularly receive 30 tons of dates produced in the neighbouring Israeli agricultural settlements, in preparation for their transfer to one of the packaging factories built on the outskirts of the city, Anadolu news agency reported. Inside the factory, about 13 miners are working on “screening” the dates and repackaging them in bags that read “dates of the Holy Land” in both Arabic and English and “Made in Palestine” in order to market them locally, in the Arab states and in Europe.

24.09.2014 - 14:26 [ Techdirt ]

Is The UK Government Trying To Sneak Through Its Own Corporate Sovereignty Rules?

As their name suggests, corporate sovereignty chapters in trade deals are problematic in part because they place corporations on the same level as nations, allowing the former to sue the latter in special tribunals outside national courts. What‘s particularly troubling is that companies are now claiming that basic democratic functions, like passing laws promoting health, should be considered a form of „expropriation“, because future corporate profits are reduced. That effectively turns investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) into a downward regulatory ratchet that makes it very difficult — or at least very expensive — to bring in any new regulations that reduce profits for some business sector.

24.09.2014 - 12:47 [ PressTV ]

Yemen deal vital for national consensus: Iran SNSC

A landmark peace deal between the Yemeni government and Ansarullah fighters will be instrumental in the establishment of national consensus in the country, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says.

24.09.2014 - 12:42 [ ceiberweiber.at ]

Wie frei ist Österreich?

Auf den ersten Blick mag das Thema der Parlaments-Sondersitzung wie „Kraut und Rüben“ wirken, so eine Kritik. Das Team Stronach wollte jedoch von der Bundesregierung wissen, ob Österreich frei oder fremdbestimmt ist. Als Beispiel dafür wurden die Verhandlungen zum TTIP, die Sanktionen gegen Russland und die Brüssler Bürokratie genannt.