The parties of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk and Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy have won seats on the Verkhovna Rada of the eighth convocation. They are followed by the Opposition Bloc and the parties of Oleh Liashko, Oleksandr Tiahnybok and Yulia Tymoshenko.
Daily Archives: 26. Oktober 2014
Tunisians elect new parliament to consolidate young democracy
After overcoming a political crisis that threatened to sink its new democracy, Tunisia approved a new constitution at the start of the year and won praise as a model for a region struggling with chaos and violence.
The large number of parties in Sunday‘s election, from Salafist movements to Socialists, means a coalition is the probable outcome before the 217-member assembly selects a new prime minister.(..)
Electoral authorities said announcing a preliminary count would be impossible on Sunday with polling station tallies still arriving, but they expected partial results for the parliamentary ballot by Monday morning.
Dilma Rousseff re-elected
With 97.62% of ballots counted so far, Brazil‘s incumbent President Dilma Rousseff (Workers‘ Party, PT) has had 51.38% of the votes and is mathematically re-elect. Aécio Neves, running under PSDB, had 48.62% of valid votes yet.
Liberman calls Abbas a ‚liar, a coward and a wimp‘
(13. September 2012) Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman kept up his campaign against Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday, calling him a “liar, coward and wimp” who would quit if he had any modicum of self-respect.
Egypt again blocks off Gaza – and Abbas praises it!
It is not fashionable for Westerners to say that Gaza is a source of terrorism.
But Egyptians say it all the time.
Egypt closed the Rafah crossing to Gaza on Saturday morning, It is reported that the closure will last „indefinitely.“
The children killed in Gaza during 50 days of conflict
(26. August) As a ceasefire is agreed after 50 days of conflict between Israel and Hamas, the Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights has compiled a list of 504 children killed in Gaza, comprising almost quarter of the total Palestinian dead
Israeli-backed puppet Mahmoud Abbas stands shoulder to shoulder with the Egyptian dictator against Palestinians in Gaza.
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Abbas Adviser Lauds Arab Murderer of Jewish Baby as ‘Heroic Martyr’
The adviser to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has glorified the terrorist who murdered a three-month-old infant, Israeli-American Chaya Zissel-Brown, and injured eight others yesterday, when he purposely drove his car into a crowd of people waiting for a train in Jerusalem. Sultan Abu Al-Einein lauded the terrorist, describing him as a “heroic Martyr” on his official Facebook page.
IDF‘s Gaza assault is to control Palestinian gas, avert Israeli energy crisis
(9. Juli 2014) Israel‘s defence minister has confirmed that military plans to ‚uproot Hamas‘ are about dominating Gaza‘s gas reserves
Former US envoy: ‘Sense of betrayal’ in Obama-Netanyahu relationship
The bad blood between Obama and Netanyahu “informs the entire relationship because bureaucracies and political systems tend to take their energy from the leadership,” Kurtzer told The Times of Israel on Tuesday in Jerusalem.
Panel approves bill granting Knesset power to overrule High Court
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni appeals the measure; legislation could be used to keep open a detention center for African asylum seekers.
Warmongering Hebrew University tries to muzzle Palestinian students
(10. Oktober) On Monday this week, the giant US weapons-maker Lockheed Martin announced that it had signed a cooperation agreement with Yissum Research and Development Company. Yissum is a “technology transfer” firm belonging to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The deal could lead to “more efficient means” of killing Palestinians. It also enables the privatization of knowledge.
Thousands attend funeral for Palestinian-American child killed by Israeli army
Thousands gathered in the West Bank town of Silwad outside of Ramallah to bury Orwah Hammad, a 14-year old Palestinian-American from Louisiana who was killed by the Israeli army on Friday evening.
Kerry just snubbed a gov’t minister who calls for segregated bus lines. And that’s a bad thing?
Everything that’s wrong with the Israel lobby and U.S. public policy and Zionist Israel is in this story: An Israeli government minister whom the U.S. secretary of state had the fortitude to snub on his latest visit to the U.S. has come out for segregated bus lines in the West Bank. And we’re supposed to feel defensive about snubbing this character? And ambassador Samantha Power was compelled to meet with him? Cry my beloved country.
First, here’s the Kerry snub. Back in the spring Israeli defense minister Moshe Ya’alon called Kerry “messianic” in his pursuit of a peace plan.
Ein umkämpftes Haus
Während die Verdrängung der unteren Klassen im Historischen Zentrum in Mexikos Hauptstadt voranschreitet, lässt sich ein Wohnprojekt indigener Frauen und Familien nicht vertreiben. Trotz Drohungen und Gewalt konnten sie ihr Haus in der besten Lage verteidigen.
Tens of Thousands of Jews Leaving Israel for Germany
The other factor driving young people from Israel is the expanding power of its ultranationalists, many of whom have been encouraged to settle in Israel from parts of Asia and Eastern Europe to fill the void left by those who are leaving and to increase the country’s population as it seizes more Palestinian land and builds settlements on it.
How Israel forces Bedouins to live in a graveyard
Located in the Naqab (Negev) region of present-day Israel, al-Araqib is older than the state itself: its cemetery dates back to 1914. Yet that is not considered significant by the authorities.
Die schmutzigen Tricks der Deutschen Bahn
(19. Oktober)
Die von der Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer (GDL) am 2. Oktober 2014 zur Urabstimmung bekanntgegebenen Zahlen − 91 Prozent der beteiligten GDL-Mitglieder votierten in der Urabstimmung bei der Deutschen Bahn (DB) für Streik − entsprechen den Tatsachen.
Nach der Arbeitskampfordnung und der Satzung der GDL ist ein Streik der GDL rechtens. „Wäre dem nicht so, stünden wir schon längst vor Gericht. Jeder weiß, dass die DB nichts unversucht lässt, um uns ins Unrecht zu setzen. Für ihr Ziel, die Berufsgewerkschaft GDL zu entmachten, ist ihr kein Trick zu schmutzig. Doch nun hat das Vorgehen der DB eine neue, bisher ungekannte Qualität erreicht.“ Mit diesen Worten kommentierte der GDL-Bundesvorsitzende Claus Weselsky die von der DB kolportierten Gerüchte über angebliche Unregelmäßigkeiten bei der Urabstimmung der GDL.
Unfall oder Anschlag?
Die Press-TV-Journalistin Serena Shim recherchierte in der Türkei über die IS-Miliz. Auf dem Heimweg von einer Reportage in der Grenzstadt Suruc kollidierte ihr Wagen mit einem schweren Fahrzeug.
Israel to build 1,600 new settler homes in East Jerusalem
The construction at Ramat Shlomo caused a crisis in Israel-US relations in 2010, when 1,600 units were approved just as US Vice President Joe Biden was flying to Israel on an official visit.
Hamas Made Me Do It
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At this rate, every Tom, Dick and Harriet will soon be an anti-Semite
At the speed we’re going, it’s just a matter of time before anti-Semites take over the world. Just a few years ago they were relatively few and far between, hiding under a rock here or concealing their true colors there, but now, almost out of nowhere, anti-Semites are springing up everywhere, at least if you go by the right-wing’s constantly revised and perpetually expanding definitions.
Want to get rich? Don‘t be an anti-Semite
According to the study, Germans who live in areas where Jews had the greatest chances of being sent to concentration camps during World War II are 7.5 percent less likely to invest in the stock market than those in other regions – even today. Germans who live in districts where pogroms occurred during the Black Death (in the 14th century) are 12 percent less likely to invest.
Media source: Denial of government’s support to Syrian Kurds does not change the fact nor the government’s attitude
Damascus, SANA – A media source stressed on Sunday that the support which the Syrian government has provided to the Syrian Kurds against the terrorist organization of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is known, documented and comprehensive.
The stress came in response to “some Syrian Kurdish figures who deny that the Syrian government offered support to the Syrian Kurds in their efforts to confront ISIS.”
This denial, the source said, “doesn’t alter the truth or the fact, nor does it change the essence of the Syrian government’s attitude which primarily stems from its national commitments toward our people all over Syria.”
Gemayel backs Army efforts in north Lebanon
Kataeb Party leader Amin Gemayel expressed solidarity with the Lebanese Army and the people of Tripoli and north Lebanon Sunday, calling for a firm stance to end the insurgencies.
“All the Lebanese care about Tripoli’s wound,” Gemayel said in a statement. “It is time to put an end to the violation of the nation’s sovereignty and the city’s security, and to the attacks on the Army.”
Frank Serpico (ja, DER Frank Serpico) erklärt, wie kaputt das US-Polizeiwesen ist.
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The Police Are Still Out of Control. I should know.
Police make up a peculiar subculture in society. More often than not they have their own moral code of behavior, an “us against them” attitude, enforced by a Blue Wall of Silence. It’s their version of the Mafia’s omerta. Speak out, and you’re no longer “one of us.” You’re one of “them.”
US Military Girds for More ‚Unconventional Warfare‘
The US military must prepare for murky, undeclared wars in which foreign entities use proxy insurgencies against established governments, typified by Russia and Iran, US Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) writes in a new white paper.
Good-For-Something Scumbags
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Egypt, after Sinai attacks, postpones talks on Gaza‘s future
Citing „the state of emergency in the border area between Egypt and Gaza“ and the closure on Friday of the Rafah crossing, a senior Egyptian diplomat said indirect talks between Israel and Palestinian factions would not resume in the coming week.
No new date for the negotiations was announced.
President Morsi Family Mourns Sinai Incident Martyrs
In a statement, Osama Morsi, spokesman for President Morsi‘s family, said: „The family strongly condemns this heinous criminal incident and holds coup authorities fully responsible for neglecting security and protection of the lives of soldiers. Junta authorities are preoccupied with protecting the coup regime and its symbols.
Egypt‘s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood condemns Sinai attacks
Egypt‘s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood has condemned attacks in the Sinai Peninsula that killed at least 33 security personnel on Friday but said President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was responsible for security failures.
Official Baku condemns terrorist acts against security forces in Egypt
„We strongly condemn the terrorist attacks in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, directed against the security forces of the Arab Republic of Egypt. We offer our condolences to all the people of Egypt and to the families of those who died as a result of terrorist attacks. We also hope for a fast recovery of those who were injured,“ – told Trend acting Spokesman for Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Hikmet Hajiyev, commenting on the events that took place on Friday in Egypt.