This isnât actually massive news â the Catholic Church has moved pretty far since the days of Galileo, even going so far as to admit in 1992 that Galileo may have had a point about that whole revolution thing. (Hey, better 350 years late than 350 years never.)
Daily Archives: 28. Oktober 2014
NeutralitÀt und Nationalfeiertag
Eine der NATO unterworfene „Staatsspitze“ versuchte am Nationalfeiertag so zu tun, als sei Ăsterreich souverĂ€n, unabhĂ€ngig und neutral. Die Kulisse dafĂŒr bot eine Leistungsschau des Bundesheers am Wiener Heldenplatz samt Angelobung von Rekruten und Reden von BundesprĂ€sident, Bundeskanzler und Verteidigungsminister. Die Angehörigen des bewusst kaputtgesparten, da auf Landesverteidigung ausgerichteten Heeres versuchten, das Beste daraus zu machen und hatten immerhin auch den gewohnten Besucherandrang auf ihrer Seite.
For 23rd time, U.N. nations urge end to U.S. embargo on Cuba
In the 193-nation assembly, 188 countries voted for the nonbinding resolution, titled „Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial and Financial Embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.“
Forest Gump – Armee
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Gottverdammt! Ihr seid verfluchte Genies!!
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U.N. council to meet on latest Israel-Palestine tensions
The meeting, scheduled for Wednesday afternoon, is being convened in response to a request made by Jordan to Argentina‘s U.N. Ambassador Maria Cristina Perceval, president of the 15-nation Security Council this month.
Jordan to request emergency UN Security Council meeting over Jerusalem tensions
Request, on behalf of Palestinians, comes after Israel announces settlement construction plan as violence in area escalates.
Documents Show FBI Impersonated Newspaper‘s Website To Deliver Spyware To Suspect‘s Computer
Spend enough time staring at redacted documents liberated from secretive government agencies and you‘re bound to miss a thing or two on the first pass. Chris Soghoian, technologist for the ACLU was browsing through some FBI documents [pdf link] obtained by the EFF and came across this:
France supports Georgiaâs aspiration to join NATO
France expressed full support to Georgiaâs aspiration to join NATO, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said, according to Georgian Defense Ministry.
He made the remarks during a meeting with Georgian Defense Minister Irakli Alasania in Paris.
Rivlin commemorates Kfar Qassem massacre and speaks of âequalityâ
Rivlin was elected President of Israel (a largely ceremonial post with a seven year term) in June 2014. He is a one state guy who believes that Israel should annex the West Bank; he believes, as he must, that Palestinians and Jews should be able to live together.
Rivlin, it strikes me, is a man who realizes that distributing justice, economic privilege, and the rights of citizenship based on ethnic-majority status is a flimsy basis on which to establish a state. In the United States some of the descendants of white European settlers are still struggling to learn this lesson.
Wieso kapieren nur Egoisten und Partei-Contras wie unsere Agentur funktioniert? Nutzt den Postkasten, Idioten.
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When Even The New Yorker Is Doing Long Features On The Ridiculous State Of Copyright Law…
This article has been out for a few weeks now, but I‘ve finally had a chance to read through the whole thing. Louis Menard, over at the New Yorker, has a long piece on just how messed up copyright laws are today, going over many of the same grounds we have (for nearly two decades). The piece itself is a sort of book review of Peter Baldwin‘s new The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle, but basically repeats the main point: copyright law as it is today really doesn‘t make much sense. The first half of the article is a great look at the problems of copyright law, but unfortunately, the second half of the article goes off the rails by leaping on familiar and misleading tropes about why people feel the way they do about copyright. Still, the first half covers a number of copyright‘s problems quite well.
Saarbahn: Abschluss erreicht!
Nach drei Verhandlungsrunden und zwei sehr wirksamen Streiks konnte am 22. Oktober 2014 fĂŒr die unter den LokomotivfĂŒhrertarifvertrag (LfTV) fallenden Mitarbeiter der Saarbahn ein Tarifabschluss erzielt werden, der deutliche Verbesserungen bei den EntgeltzuwĂ€chsen beinhaltet und den BeschĂ€ftigten gute Perspektiven im Unternehmen eröffnet.
Pentagon: ISIS campaign costing $8.3M per day
The Pentagon on Monday raised its cost estimate of the war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to $8.3 million per day.
The new daily estimate would bring the total cost of the war, between Aug. 8 and Oct. 16, to $580 million, according to Reuters.
Iran accuses Turkey of prolonging civil war in Syria
Iran has accused Turkey of prolonging the three-year conflict in neighboring Syria by insisting on President Bashar al-Assadâs overthrow and supporting âterrorist groups,â the official IRNA news agency has reported.
AG probes Ya‘alon‘s Palestinian bus ban
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein was questioning an edict from Defense Minister Moshe Ya‘alon, which would effectively bar thousands of Palestinian laborers travelling home to the West Bank from taking public buses with Israeli settlers, the Justice Ministry said on Tuesday.
Poroschenko beginnt Verhandlungen mit Volksfront
In der Ukraine haben nach der Parlamentswahl die Koalitionsverhandlungen der beiden Parteien von PrĂ€sident Petro Poroschenko und Regierungschef Arseni Jazenjuk begonnen. Beide Parteien, sowohl Block Petro Poroschenko als auch Jazenjuks Volksfront, streben eine AnnĂ€herung an die EU an, Poroschenko will sich um einen Beitritt 2020 bemĂŒhen.
Who‘s Going to Get Rich Fighting the Islamic State?
Obama‘s small war means big profits — and little oversight — for defense contractors and hired guns.
Kommentar des Departements fĂŒr Information und Presse des AuĂenministeriums Russlands zur Zunahme der Spannungen auf der Sinai-Halbinsel
Moskau verurteilt entschieden die gegen die SicherheitskrĂ€fte Ăgyptens begangenen TerrorĂŒberfĂ€lle, und zwar unabhĂ€ngig von den Motiven, von welchen sich ihre Initiatoren und AusfĂŒhrenden leiten lassen. Wir erklĂ€ren unsere SolidaritĂ€t mit dem BemĂŒhungen der politischen FĂŒhrung der Arabischen Republik Ăgypten und ihren StreitkrĂ€ften bei ihrer BekĂ€mpfung der Gefahr des Terrorismus und Radikalismus sowie auch unsere UnterstĂŒtzung der auf die Stabilisierung der Lage im Land ausgerichteten Handlungen. Wir sprechen unser aufrichtiges Beileid den Familien der Getöteten aus und wĂŒnschen allen Verletzten baldige Genesung.
Anti-Terror-Datei: Auch das neue Gesetz ist verfassungswidrig
(16. Oktober) Auch das jetzt verabschiedete Gesetz ist verfassungswidrig. Es setzt das Urteil des Bundesverfassungsgerichts nicht nur unzureichend um, sondern weitet die vom Bundesverfassungsgericht beanstandeten umfassenden Möglichkeiten der Datenspeicherung sogar noch aus.
Wenn die Granaten der französischen Polizei töten
In diesem Jahr jĂ€hrt sich zum 10. mal der Todestag von SĂ©bastien Briat, der 2004 bei einer Protestaktion in Frankreich gegen einen CASTORtransport nach Deutschland ums Leben kam. Die Missachtung von Sicherheitsregeln seitens der französischen Eisenbahn SNCF und die Intervention der Polizei trugen zu seinem Tod bei. Dazu Ă€uĂerte ich mich bei einer Mahnwache in Gedenken an SĂ©bastien 2005, einem Jahr nach seinem Tod. In einigen StĂ€dten wird es zum 10. Todestag von SĂ©bastien Gedenkveranstaltungen geben.
Ausgerechnet wenige Tage vor diesem traurigen Jahrestag kommt ein weiter Umweltaktivist in Frankreich ums Leben. RĂ©mi Fraisse war 21 Jahre alt und wurde am Sonntag um 2 Uhr Nachts bei einer Demonstration gegen den Bau eines Staudammes in Testet (Tarn-DĂ©partement, SĂŒd-West-Frankreich) durch eine Explosion getötet.
French Socialists and Greens at odds following death of Sivens dam protester
French Socialist government leaders and Green deputies are at odds after the death of a protester during clashes with paramilitary police at the site of a controversial dam project in south-west France.
RĂ©mi Fraisse, a 21-year-old student, died instantly on Saturday night after being hit in the back by a grenade, according to the results of an autopsy. However, the conclusions of further analyses, which should indicate whether the weapon was fired by gendarmes or by protesters, are not expected until later on Tuesday.
Republik auĂer Funktion
Kein einziges staatliches âVerfassungsorganâ agiert mehr als solches. Regierung, Parlament und Justiz ignorieren das Grundgesetz. Deutsche Waffen und Soldaten ziehen in die Ukraine und den Irak, deutsche Söldner unter Ausbildung von C.I.A. und Bundesnachrichtendienst in den Syrien-Krieg. Die Republik ist von den Staatsorganen und Staatsparteien, nach einem ĂŒber Jahrzehnte andauernden schleichenden Prozess, seit anderthalb Jahren vor aller Augen auĂer Funktion gesetzt worden.
Eine unvollstÀndige Zusammenfassung.
Peshmerga forces depart from Arbil by air for Kobane
Peshmerga forces of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) departed from Arbil by air on Oct. 28 for the Syrian town of Kobane to help Syrian Kurds in their battle against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants, according to sources. After arriving to the Ćanlıurfa airport, they will travel to Kobane by land.
Expansion of âsecretâ CIA post suggests closer U.S.-Kurd ties
(11. Juli 2014) Western contractors hired to expand the facility and a local intelligence official confirmed the construction project, which is visible from the main highway linking Erbil to Mosul, the city whose fall June 10 triggered the Islamic Stateâs sweep through northern and central Iraq. Residents around the airport say they can hear daily what they suspect are U.S. drones taking off and landing at the facility.
TROUM / TZII / FILIP GHEYSEN / TRAUMASUTRA
Thursday October 30 Doors 20:00 Concert 21:00
US vice president Biden to visit Turkey
Earlier, the US vice president accused Turkey and several Arab countries of supporting the terrorists in Syria. However, he later apologized to the Turkish stateâs head.
Condensed Utopia (single track, 2013)
‚Condensed Utopia‘ means: The future condition / level / state (after the next transformation) is already existent (but invisible) in the present. Make it visible!
150 peshmerga will enter Kobani through Iraq: Turkish FM
Turkish FM also said the Free Syrian Army (FSA) has yet to enter Kobani, adding that the talks with Kurdish Democratic Union‘s Party are ongoing and 100 FSA fighters ‚may‘ enter the besieged town.
Turkey puts its army on full combat alert
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Oct.28 that PKK, the Syrian regime and âIslamic Stateâ (IS) are the enemies of Turkey.
How Israel is turning Gaza into a super-max prison
According to the United Nations, 100,000 homes have been destroyed or damaged, leaving 600,000 Palestinians â nearly one in three of Gazaâs population â homeless or in urgent need of humanitarian help.
Roads, schools and the electricity plant to power water and sewerage systems are in ruins. The cold and wet of winter are approaching. Aid agency Oxfam warns that at the current rate of progress it may take 50 years to rebuild Gaza.
Where else in the world apart from the Palestinian territories would the international community stand by idly as so many people suffer â and not from a random act of God but willed by fellow humans?
Napolitano wiretaps destroyed
(22. April 2013) Italy‘s Constitutional Court ruled in December that Palermo prosecutors investigating alleged negotiations between the Mafia and the State must destroy recordings of four conversations Napolitano had with Nicola Mancino, a former interior minister and Senate Speaker, between November 2011 and May 2012. Napolitano argued that the Italian Constitution forbids prosecutors from investigating the head of state unless he is suspected of high treason or attacking the Constitution itself.
Napolitano tells hearing ‚never knew‘ of State-Mafia deals
Italian President Giorgio Napolitano said at a State-Mafia trial hearing Tuesday that „he had never known of any deals“ to allegedly stop a Cosa Nostra bombing campaign in 1992-93, when he was House Speaker, Palermo city lawyer Giovanni AirĂČ Farulla told reporters on his way out of the presidential palace.
Italian president Napolitano testifies in major mafia case
Italy‘s President Giorgio Napolitano gave unprecedented testimony on Tuesday in a major trial that accuses the state of holding secret talks with the Sicilian Mafia in the 1990s.
During Cold War, CIA And FBI Hired Over 1,000 Nazis As Spies, Limited Investigations Of Those Nazis
A new book by Eric Lichtblau, The Nazis Next Door: How America Became a Safe Haven for Hitler‘s Men, apparently details how the FBI and CIA hired over 1,000 Nazis during the height of the cold war, forgiving them their past sins, so long as they might help spy on the Soviet Union.