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Daily Archives: 10. Februar 2015
Russland und Kuba diskutieren gemeinsame Projekte
Nach dem Besuch von Präsident Wladimir Putin in Kuba im vergangenen Sommer plant Russland, in den kommenden Jahren wichtige Industrieprojekte in Kuba auf den Weg zu bringen. Zu den besprochenen Vorhaben zählt unter anderem die Errichtung eines Kraftwerks zur Stromerzeugung in der Sonderwirtschaftszone von Mariel, mit einer Kapazität von 800 Megawatt. Auch die Erneuerung eines Stahlwerks in Havanna sowie die Beteiligung des russischen Energiekonzerns Sarubeschneft bei Offshore-Ölbohrungen wurde erörtert.
Weniger als Mindestlohn: Selbständig – aber oft arm
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Opposition of Kyrgyzstan starts holding official meetings in United States
The opposition of Kyrgyzstan has already begun to hold official meetings in the United States. The deputy Omurbek Abdyrakhmanov told 24.kg news agency.
Exclusive: US Gives Uzbekistan Military Equipment Boost
The United States is giving Uzbekistan hundreds of military vehicles, says a top U.S. diplomat in an exclusive interview with VOA Uzbek. It is one of the largest equipment transfers by the United States to a Central Asian nation and a move likely to renew concerns over Uzbekistan‘s human rights record.
Daniel Rosenblum, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Asia, said Uzbekistan needs the vehicles for counter-terrorism and counter-narcotic efforts.
US to always support territorial integrity of Central Asian countries – State Department
The US will always support the territorial integrity and independence of each country in Central Asia, said the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Central Asia Daniel Rosenblum during a telephone press conference Feb.10.
“We will support the independence, as well as sovereignty and territorial integrity of each Central Asian country as before,” said Rosenblum.
He said that the US plans to expand cooperation with the countries of the region in security sphere.
“We do not want to see the countries of Central Asia as a haven for terrorists,” said a spokesman for the US State Department. “We are for the expansion of our cooperation in security, as well as confronting such transnational threats as terrorism, drug trafficking and “Islamic state.”
Earth‘s Inner Core Found To Have A Core Of Its Own
“For example, over the history of the earth, the inner core might have had a very dramatic change in its deformation regime. It might hold the key to how the planet has evolved. We are right in the center — literally, the center of the Earth.”
Kurze Durchsage des BSI: ..“Führen Sie Gespräche mit vertraulichem Inhalt nicht über ihr Mobiltelefon.“
So, liebe Leser, fühlt es sich an, in einem Überwachungsstaat zu wohnen.
Das #BSI ist für die Sauberkeitsherbeiführung in den Ausleitungs-Betriebsräumen des #BND zuständig. Kannste Dir nicht ausmalen.
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Saarbrücker Cybersicherheits-Studenten entdecken bis zu 40.000 ungesicherte Datenbanken im Internet
Am meisten erschreckte die Studenten die Kundendatenbank eines französischen börsennotierten Internetdienstanbieters und Mobiltelefoniebetreibers, die Adressen und Telefonnummern von rund acht Millionen Franzosen enthielt. Laut Aussage der Studenten befanden sich darunter auch eine halbe Million deutscher Adressen. Die Datenbank eines deutschen Online-Händlers inklusive Zahlungsinformationen hätten sie ebenfalls ungesichert vorgefunden. „Die darin gespeicherten Daten reichen aus, um Identitätsdiebstähle durchzuführen. Selbst wenn diese bekannt werden, plagen sich die betroffenen Personen noch Jahre danach mit Problemen wie beispielsweise Verträgen, die Betrüger in ihrem Namen abgeschlossen haben“, sagt Backes.
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HALEA ISABELLE KALA
Heimkino bei Kippe und Bier
Im Loophole und dem Klub Kaleidoskop findet derzeit die 3. “Boddinale” statt.
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015: 18 to 23 _On 5 Screens / Loophole + Kaleidoskop /
Sounds Queer
by Dan Bahl
Skandal im Wald
by Miss Vergnügen
Anagram
by Anton Hempel
Open Eyes
by Felipe Frozza
Church and State
by Umberto Baccolo
The death of the Israeli left
The Israeli left, if it has ever existed at all, is dead. The Israeli Peace Camp, the preferred way to designate the left in the Israeli context, breathed its last breath about 15 years ago and has never been resurrected.
Obama To Germans Worried About NSA Surveillance: ‚Hey, Trust Us!‘
It‘s often been said that trust is something that you earn — or that you completely destroy in irredeemable ways. So it‘s a little bizarre to see President Obama trying to restore German trust in the US (and specifically over NSA surveillance) with a bogus „hey, trust us“ line, when his own government has spent the past few years doing everything possible to undermine any residual trust. Yet here he is, in a joint appearance with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, asking for „the benefit of the doubt.“
Obama, Merkel press conference: “Oh… Greece! I forgot, yes!”
“Oh… Greece! I forgot, yes!” German chancellor Angela Merkel was talking like a waterfall about the Ukraine crisis, about policies and politicians… and Ops! She forgot Greece, the issue that is currently shaking the European Union, the Eurozone and the markets.
Guest post: Why IMF’s Greek program cannot work: wrong fiscal multipliers and wrong forecasts
Why is the Greek austerity program wrong and the bailout conditions totally wrong? Because the IMF “Multiplier” was wrong! Remember the International Monetary Fund report from June 2013 admitting that the IMF failed to realize the damage caused by the austerity and that IMF applied wrong fiscal multipliers? “Hence the Troika and the bailout conditions for Greece are wrong and the Greek govt is perfectly within its rights to ask for new one, that is not based on errors” notes our economist friend Cheshire Cat, who sent us an article explaining the madness.
United Arab Emirates Resume Airstrikes Against ISIS
The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday launched a series of airstrikes in Syria, returning to combat missions against the Islamic State for the first time since December.
U.S.: Key Arab ally no longer flying ISIS airstrikes over Syria
The United Arab Emirates, an important part of the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), stopped flying combat missions over Syria late last year after a Jordanian pilot was captured, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.
Expanding its role in Afghanistan, China to help build dam, roads
The assistance will include an unspecified amount of financing, an Afghan foreign ministry spokesman, Sirajul Haq Siraj, said on Tuesday, a day after senior Afghan, Chinese and Pakistani diplomats met in Kabul.
French Government Declares Independence From Free Speech: Broad Internet Take-Down Powers Now In Place
As its plan to completely shatter the support it received recently by attacking the very same concept of free speech its enemies declared war upon with terrorist attacks on a parody magazine not so many weeks back, the French government‘s ability to be laughable and simultaneously dangerous never ceases to amaze.
7 Fascist Regimes Enthusiastically Supported by America
President Barack Obama inspired a great deal of debate when, in December, he asserted that it was time for the United States to begin to normalize relations with Cuba and start loosening the embargo that has been in effect since the early 1960s.
Lügen und Drohungen
Demgegenüber erklärte der Präsident des BND, Gerhard Schindler, er gehe mit einem „guten Gefühl“ in die „Diskussion“ über die Kooperation mit den US-Geheimdiensten. Dass diese die von seinem Spionageapparat erhobenen Daten für Drohnenangriffe und illegale Hinrichtungen nutzen, problematisierte er nicht.
Aufruf der Studenten von der Krim an die Studenten der Ukraine
Seid gegrüßt, Studenten der Ukraine! Die Krim, über die Ihr so viel in Eurem Videoaufruf gesprochen habt ist meine Heimat! Hier bin ich geboren und ging zur Schule. Hier bin ich aufgewachsen. Ihr sagtet, dass das Referendum unter vorgehaltenen Waffen stattfand? Wart Ihr etwa hier vor Ort? Ihr nicht die Freudentränen der Krimeinwohner gesehen. Ihr habt auch nicht gehört, wie sie sich gegenseitig zu
Labor leader attacks Netanyahu for going easy on Gaza
Remember that 95 percent of Jewish Israelis supported the Gaza slaughter of last summer. The Gaza onslaught killed more than 2100 Palestinians, including about 500 children. More than 70 Israelis died, almost all soldiers. This is a rightwing polity.
New Labor ad: Netanyahu didn‘t hit Gaza strongly enough, early enough. #IsraeliLeft #Peacecamp
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Muslims are Nazis, ‘USA Today’ jokes
Above is a cartoon, by Cameron Cardow of the Ottawa Citizen, that USA Today selected as its daily editorial cartoon for February 2. It’s not a terribly hard cartoon to parse: Islam is the modern equivalent of Nazism, and threatens a new Holocaust.
U.S.-Imperium will “globale Koalition” für Terrorkrieg 2.0 und bastelt an “Nachrüstung” der Kriegsvollmacht aus 2001
(2.9.2014) Was also nun? Die Totalüberwachung der Bevölkerung beenden? Das Internet nicht mehr als Beute-Reservoir plündern, Geschäftsgeheimnisse nicht mehr rauben, demokratische Prozesse nicht mehr sabotieren, “Meinungsführer”, Funktionäre und Personen in Schlüsselpersonen, die die Macht des Spionage-Apparates und der Nomenklatura gefährden, nicht länger bespitzeln, beglotzen oder erpressen?
Nicht doch. Was für eine zivilistische Vorstellung. Ihre Majestäten müssen sich doch in Acht nehmen, vor dem Hunpower-Media Complex. Dazu braucht man doch Vorwissen. Oder waren es “Erkenntnisse im Vorfeld”?
Aufgrund der Zwickmühle, in die die imperiale Lügenmaschinerie geraten ist, versucht nun die Machtzentrale des U.S.-Imperium, das Weiße Haus, offensichtlich seinen 13-jährigen Terrorkrieg zu retten und stattdessen noch zu eskalieren und in Orwellscher Manier (“Ostasien? Eurasien! Da lang! Nein, da lang!”) umzudefinieren. Entsprechend soll die Kriegsvollmacht aus 2001 “nachgerüstet”, umgeschrieben und auf einen neuen Feind gemünzt werden, damit der Terrorkrieg weitergeht, der Westblock militärisch in Bewegung bleibt und nicht etwa ein Frieden ausbricht.
Obama relents, will send Congress request for war powers against Islamic State
Mr. Obama has called for Congress to unite behind him since September, saying the war on terrorism has evolved beyond the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts that were authorized in 2001 and 2002. He said it is time to replace those authorizations.
Iraqi commander denies paramilitary groups involved in killings
That clashed with accounts from Diyala‘s Sunni governor and provincial council members who described Shi‘ite militia fighters and security forces executing at least 72 unarmed civilians last month in the eastern province.
Five witnesses Reuters interviewed on Jan. 28 also fingered the militias.
CIA Wanted To Throw The CFAA At Senate Staffers For Unauthorized Googling
According to the CIA‘s investigators, Senate staffers accessed documents they weren‘t supposed to see, apparently by „abusing“ the shared network set up explicitly for the Torture Report compilation. What Wheeler spotted — in a very thorough fisking of the CIA investigative report by Katherine Hawkins of Just Security — is the attempted criminalization of Google searches.
Obama says US considers sending weapons to Ukraine
US President Barack Obama has said that his administration is looking at all options in handling the crisis in Ukraine, but he has not yet decided whether the US will provide lethal arms to Kiev, Al Jazeera reported.
‘My time in the US has come to an end‘: Dr. Sami al-Arian on his deportation and the fight for justice in post 9/11 America
Three decades ago Palestinian Islamic Jihad was one of the most well known militant groups in the world. It wreaked havoc on Israel, carrying out numerous suicide bombings that took the lives of more than 100 during the intifada years. One of its leaders had taught at the University of South Florida and in the wake of his relocation to Syria his colleague who taught at the same university, Dr. Sami al-Arian, became the center of a terrorism investigation. Al-Arian was an unexpected presumed jihadist. He was a known civil rights activist who was invited to the White House, and had ties to congress and top GOP operatives. In 2000 he campaigned for Muslims to vote for George W. Bush.
Greek defense minister says Greece has Plan B if EU rigid on deal
„Plan B is to get funding from another source,“ he told Greek television show that ran in to early Tuesday. „It could the United States at best, it could be Russia, it could be China or other countries,“ he said.
Juncker, Schaeuble react to Greek gov’t program, France & Austria favor an agreement
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras pleasantly surprised Greeks with the announcement of a series of measures to boost the social welfare state, to provide aid to vulnerable groups of the society and tax breaks to low-incomers, to cut state expenditure and to overhaul the institutions. The Greek PM also rejected the Eurogroup proposal for a bailout extension and asked for a bridge program until June, instead.
EU seeks to move relations with Azerbaijan beyond “excellent strategic”
Maja Kocijancic, Spokeswomen to European Commission/Commissioner Hahn, wrote in an e-mail to AzerNews, while commenting on future of relations with Azerbaijan, the strongest economy in the South Caucuses.
Der #Verfassungsschutz #Hessen hat überraschend einen neuen Präsident bekommen. Gründe noch unklar:
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Rivers might constitute just 20 percent of continental water flowing into oceans
If you think rivers are what send terrestrial rainfall back into the oceans, you don‘t know the half of it. And that fraction keeps shrinking. According to new research, it might be that only one-fifth of the water flowing from the continents into the Atlantic and Indo-Pacific Oceans runs through overland channels of water. And just as surprising, a vast amount flows into the land from the ocean.
Russia suspends joint space program with Ukraine
Likely as a response to the possibility of Russia‘s withdrawal, Sergei Boita, general director of Ukraine‘s Yuzhnoye Design Bureau, estimated the annual loss for the bureau at around 200 million U.S. dollars.
Afghan, Pakistani, Chinese Officials Meet for Security Talks in Kabul
Senior Foreign Ministry diplomats from the three countries led their delegations in what Afghan officials described as “an in-depth exchange of views” on the regional situation.
Gitmo translator ID‘d as CIA ‚black site‘ agent
A pre-trial hearing for the defendants accused of being a part of the attacks of September 11, 2001 came to a halt after one of the defendants objected to the presence of a courtroom interpreter the defendant said worked in a former secret CIA-run „black site“ prison.
Secret recordings show US military and a Democratic congressman distrusted Hillary Clinton on Libya
and went behind her back to negotiate with Gadhafi
Under pressure from Congress, Secret Service deputy director resigns
The Secret Service said Monday that its second-ranking official was resigning his post, a departure under pressure of one the last remaining senior managers who had presided over a string of embarrassing security lapses in recent years.
Israel declares part of al-Quds military zone: Local leader
According to Bassam Bahr on Monday, the head of the committee to defend land and resist settlements, the Israeli army declared part of the desert area a „closed military zone“prohibiting the Palestinian people from entering.
Congress Lines Up 3 Bills to Protect Our Emails From Unwarranted Government Intrusion
Don‘t get too excited, though: This bill, like similar efforts aimed at bringing the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act into the 21st century, wouldn‘t mess with the NSA‘s unconstitutional surveillance programs. Lofgren‘s bill, Sen. Leahy‘s Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2015, and a similar bill brought by Reps. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) and Kevin Yoder (R-Ky.) provide loopholes for what the federal government calls „foreign“ intelligence surveillance. In other words, NSA/FBI programs like PRISM wouldn‘t be affected if these important bills were signed into law.
This Prisoner‘s Note Isn‘t From Some Dystopian Dictatorship. It‘s From Texas.
„Every day from dusk to dawn there‘s noise, banging, clanking, yelling, screaming. Everyday someone is getting hurt or hurting themselves. Everyday there‘s fire and floods and complete chaos & hate…Every day is a challenge here. A challenge against insanity.“