Daily Archives: 28. Dezember 2014


28.12.2014 - 22:02 [ news-round ]

Saporoschje: Again breakdown in the largest atomic power plant of Ukraine

In the largest atomic power plant Ukraine was switched off for the second time within one month a reactor after a breakdown. As the power station communicated Saporoschje in the southeast of the country on its website, the sixth reactor block was taken on Sunday morning “by the internal protective mechanism of the generator” by the net.

28.12.2014 - 21:42 [ Raumfahrer ]

China startet Erdbeobachtungssatelliten YaoGan 26

Möglicherweise handelt es sich bei YaoGan 26 um einen weiteren militärischen Aufklärungssatelliten. Der Satellit umkreist die Erde auf einer 97,4 Grad gegen den Äquator geneigten sonnensynchronen Bahn in einer Höhe um die 490 Kilometer. Die Bahnparameter und Startumstände ähneln bestimmten früheren Satelliten aus der YaoGan-Serie. Westliche Beobachter unterstellen eine Ausrüstung von YaoGan 26 mit optischem Fernerkundungsequipment.

28.12.2014 - 20:21 [ Radio Utopie ]

Die Geister von Nürnberg

Jackson wird mit diesem universalen Schlüsselsatz von Gaddy zitiert:

“Jede Zuflucht zum (Angriffs-) Krieg, jede Art von Krieg ist eine Zuflucht zu Mitteln, die in sich verbrecherisch sind. Krieg führt unweigerlich zu Tötungen, Verletzungen, Freiheitsberaubungen und Zerstörung von Eigentum.”

28.12.2014 - 18:01 [ TruthDig ]

Truthdigger of the Week: Leonard Beerman: Activist, Pacifist, Rebel and Rabbi

No cause was more controversial than his ardent support for Palestinian rights. Never flinching in the face of withering criticism from his own congregants as well as from Jews from across the United States and Israel, his support was rooted in his firm conviction that peace was the only path to security for Israel and to justice for the Palestinians.

28.12.2014 - 17:31 [ Truthout ]

Green Neocolonialism, Afro-Brazilian Rebellion in Brazil

The Afro-Brazilian Quilombola people were forced from their land in Brazil in order to make way for eucalyptus plantations, which produce toilet paper destined for Western markets. But they are resisting by replanting native trees and food crops, and working for a post-eucalyptus reality.

28.12.2014 - 16:39 [ Consortiumnews ]

The Future the US Budget Foretells

The political influence of the nation’s wealthiest individuals will increase by a factor of ten in 2015, making the United States more of a plutocracy and less of a democracy than at any time since the 1920s. (…)
This is what happens when democracy allows itself to be captured by an increasingly unregulated capitalist ethic – an erosion of any politically based sense of a need to work for the common good.

28.12.2014 - 16:28 [ Global Research ]

Israel Steals Gaza’s Offshore Natural Gas: $15 Billion Deal with Jordan

(06.09.2014) The Middle East Monitor reported September 4, 2014 that a Memorandum of Understanding ”is due to be signed between Israel and Jordan in the reservoir of Leviathan to export Israeli natural gas to Jordan during the next 15 years with a total value of $15 billion”. (Jordan to buy $15bn of Israeli gas, Middle East Monitor, September 4, 2014.)

Israel’s first natural gas export deal will also be signed by “the Leviathan field partner Noble Energy Inc. on behalf of itself and its partners Delek Group Ltd. units Avner Oil and Gas LP and Delek Drilling Limited Partnership and Ratio Oil Exploration (1992) LP.” (Leviathan partners signing $15b Jordanian gas deal, Globes, Israel business news, on September 3, 2014)

28.12.2014 - 16:24 [ idea.de ]

Außenminister Steinmeier würdigt deutsch-israelisches Verhältnis

Weitsichtige Politiker vom ersten Premierminister Israels, David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973), und Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967) bis zum früheren israelischen Staatspräsidenten Shimon Peres und dem ehemaligen Bundespräsidenten Johannes Rau hätten die Annäherung zwischen beiden Ländern vorangebracht. Fortgeführt worden sei sie von engagierten Bürgern auf beiden Seiten. So sei eine Partnerschaft entstanden, „deren Dichte und Tiefe sich vor fünfzig Jahren kaum jemand vorstellen konnte“.