Daily Archives: 3. Dezember 2014


03.12.2014 - 18:13 [ TimesWarp ]

Scrubbing the Data: How the NY Times Obscures Israeli Crimes

The New York Times takes up some unsavory topics concerning Israel in recent issues and in each instance leaves readers in the dark—omitting data, glossing over history and concealing the relevant context.

03.12.2014 - 18:11 [ Ceiberweiber ]

Wie die EU der US-Strategie aufsitzt

Auch in Reaktionen auf die Ankündigung Präsident Putins, den Bau der South Stream-Pipeline zu stoppen wird deutlich, dass manche die Konsequenzen ihres eigenen Handelns nicht recht begreifen wollen. Man vermutet gerne, dass Russland dies doch nicht ernstmeinen könne, weil man die EU als Absatzmarkt brauche, und blendet aus, dass man den USA mit ihrer Isolationsstrategie gegenüber Russland auf den Leim gegangen ist.

03.12.2014 - 17:37 [ Bundeswehr ]

Wildhunde auf dem Sprung

Seit November befinden sich fünf geschützte Fahrzeuge vom Typ DINGO im Nordirak. Die Kraftfahrer der Peschmerga wurden bereits in Deutschland ausgebildet. Allerdings fehlte bisher noch die Einweisung der zukünftigen Bordschützen an der Waffenanlage. Diese soll nun im Irak durchgeführt werden.

03.12.2014 - 17:26 [ Muzzle Watch ]

Anti-Defamation League creates blacklist of groups that link Ferguson to Palestine

File this under “You can’t make this up.”

Abe Foxman, whose $688,000 annual salary makes him one of the most over-paid pro-Israel lobbyists in the country, recently embarrassed himself (again) by actually releasing a press statement lecturing NFL star Reggie Bush on his Twitter feed— Bush had dared compared Ferguson and Gaza.

But it gets worse.

03.12.2014 - 17:24 [ Keep Talking Greece ]

E-mails come and go and it looks as if the Troika will extend Greece’s bailout program

A couple of days ago, Greek sent to Troika a list of austerity proposals -among them Value Added Tax increasing from 6.5% to 13% for hotel accommodations, scrapping poverty allowances, lowering pensions etc -aiming to collect revenues of just 980 million euro in the first stage.

To make the long story short, many Greek media report that an agreement is most likely to be achieved by next Monday, December 8th, when the Eurogroup will meet in Brussels.

03.12.2014 - 17:23 [ Keep Talking Greece ]

Judges reject Romanos’ request; clashes in Athens over hunger-striker

The Judicial Council rejected on Wednesday morning the request of hunger-striker Nikos Romanos to be granted educational furloughs while in prison. With Justice showing a relentless face towards a convict on hunger strike claiming his right to education as foreseen by the law, media reported last night, that coalition government partner PASOK was allegedly preparing a special aw to satisfy Romanos’ request.

03.12.2014 - 17:21 [ Reuters ]

Special Report: How Exxon helped make Iraqi Kurdistan

Less than a year later, Exxon signed a deal with Kurdistan. The story of how that happened explains much about the would-be nation‘s growing power.

Interviews with key players in the secret 2011 negotiations – the talks involved not just Exxon but also fellow Western oil giant Royal Dutch Shell – show how Exxon‘s decision to invest infuriated both Washington and Baghdad, and helped propel Kurdistan closer to its long-held goal of independence.

03.12.2014 - 17:20 [ Daily Kos ]

Video: Police lied. Mike Brown was killed 148 feet away from Darren Wilson‘s SUV

For 104 days, the police have lied and said Michael Brown was killed 35 feet away from Darren Wilson‘s SUV. It was actually 148 feet.

This distance is essential to the defense and how Darren Wilson must demonstrate that he “ reasonably feared for his safety.“ At the point in which Brown ran half a football field away, how reasonable is it for an armed officer to fear anyone?

03.12.2014 - 17:07 [ Worldbulletin ]

UN fact-finding panel allowed into Gaza

A fact-finding panel dispatched by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has entered the blockaded Gaza Strip through the Erez border terminal, a Palestinian official said Wednesday.
The panel‘s entry into Gaza – for the purpose of investigating human rights violations committed by Israel during this summer‘s military offensive on the Gaza Strip – was initially barred by Israeli authorities.

03.12.2014 - 16:58 [ Ansa ]

Three injured at Rome Jobs Act demo

Three protesters were injured in a police charge Wednesday at a demonstration in Rome against the government‘s Jobs Act labour reform bill now on the floor of the Senate, where the administration of Premier Matteo Renzi looks set to call a confidence vote.

03.12.2014 - 16:56 [ ITAR-TASS ]

Putin bans weapons supplies to Ivory Coast

The ban has been imposed in connection with the adoption of the UN Security Council resolution of April 29, 2014, in view of a political crisis that broke out in the West African country

03.12.2014 - 16:55 [ Reuters ]

Ivory Coast army protests sow fears of return to unrest

When thousands of soldiers poured out of barracks and erected barricades in towns across the country this month, it was a stark reminder of the coups, mutinies and rebellions that have crippled the world‘s top cocoa grower.

03.12.2014 - 16:51 [ Ceiberweiber ]

Faymanns Flucht vor der Verantwortung

Nachdem Werner Faymann am SPÖ-Parteitag nur 83,9% der abgegebenen Stimmen auf sich vereinen konnte, vermeidet der Noch-Parteichef Stellungnahmen zu seinem Resultat. Es ist an anderen in der SPÖ, sich live von Radio und Fernsehen interviewen zu lassen, wie man in den Tagen danach bemerken konnte.

03.12.2014 - 16:51 [ Ansa ]

Schettino says ‚only God‘ was above him on Concordia

Former captain Francesco Schettino told a trial into the January 2012 Costa Concordia disaster in which 32 died that only God was above him when he was at the helm of a ship. „I, as the commander, am the first after God,“ Schettino said when asked about his actions after the cruise ship hit rocks off the Tuscan island of Giglio.

03.12.2014 - 14:51 [ Zeit ]

Iraks Geisterarmee

Zurückließen sie Waffen und Ausrüstung für 50.000 Mann, Geschütze und gepanzerte Fahrzeuge, die den Gotteskriegern in die Hände fielen. (…) Demnach existierten mindestens 50.000 der 200.000 Rekruten lediglich auf dem Papier, wahrscheinlich sogar deutlich mehr.

03.12.2014 - 14:11 [ IRNA ]

Afkahm: Two parties have agreed to resolve nuclear dispute by negotiations

There is no doubt Iran will proceed based on the action plan signed in Geneva on November 24, 2013 and will not heed the speculation spread by the western media.
She acknowledged that the western propaganda machine has become active spreading baseless assumptions and said that Iran and the western governments have come closer to an agreement but in some area differences still persist.

03.12.2014 - 13:30 [ Strategy Page ]

Libya: Live Free And Die

In the end, it’s the oil money that will bring peace, or abject poverty for all. The government is running out of cash and credit. Another year or two of this and life gets very miserable for Libyans. The UN speaks of Libya of sliding into a state of anarchy. No one is willing to intervene militarily and the UN has constant problems with gangsters and Islamic terrorists attacking aid efforts. This could end very badly.