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Daily Archives: 18. Februar 2015
UK admits unlawfully monitoring legally privileged communications
It follows hard on the heels of the British court ruling on 6 February declaring that the regime surrounding the sharing of mass personal intelligence data between America’s national security agency and Britain’s GCHQ was unlawful for seven years.
Conny ist tot
Wenn ein Mensch stirbt, stirbt ein ganzes Universum …
Jeb Bush’s foreign policy team is eerily familiar, in one Venn diagram
If Bush‘s goal is to present himself as his „own man,“ that list of advisers undermines the point somewhat: 19 of the 21 people on it worked in the administrations of his father or brother. We‘ve identified the roles each played in the past three Republican administrations, divvying them up as needed in the following Venn diagram.
Tom Mulcair says NDP will oppose anti-terrorism bill C-51
„Mr. Harper and the Conservatives have intimidated the Liberals into supporting this deeply-flawed legislation. We in the NDP are going to fight it,“ Mulcair told reporters. „The truth is we cannot protect our freedoms by sacrificing them.“
Bill C-51, which would give more powers to law enforcement and intelligence agencies, is up for second reading and debate today.
Holder: die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika zensurieren Journalisten nicht, weil wir uns nicht in einer Zeit des Kriegs befinden’
In einem Vortrag heute im National Press Club warnte Justizminister Eric Holder Reporter vor einer Berichterstattung, die „negative Auswirkungen auf die nationale Sicherheit des Landes“ hat.
GDL-Gremien haben einstimmig für Arbeitskämpfe votiert
Weselsky: „Unsere Mitglieder arbeiten eben im Schichtbetrieb und nur sie haben Probleme mit den unzulänglichen Arbeitszeitregelungen und den massiven Überstunden. Und wir haben mit unserem Flächentarifvertrag ein bewährtes Mittel, um in ganz Deutschland faire Entgelt- und Arbeitszeitbedingungen zu verankern. Das darf nicht kaputt gemacht werden.“ (…)
Die GDL wird rechtzeitig über den Zeitpunkt und die Dauer des Streiks informieren.
Bundeswehr: Zwei Millionen für ein paar Unterschriften
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In Whose America?
Machine Guns, MRAPs, Surveillance, Drones, Permanent War, and a Permanent Election Campaign
Greece, Its International Creditors and the Euro
In addition, the Eurogroup controls the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and, its successor, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). Established in June 2010, the EFSF was a private company — a special purpose vehicle — created as a temporary crisis resolution mechanism. Established in September 2012, the ESM is an international organisation created as a permanent rescue mechanism with the same mission as the EFSF: to “safeguard” financial stability in Europe by providing bailout loans to the eurozone countries. The ESM and EFSF now share the same staff and offices.
American Millennials’ Skills Are Lagging Behind the Rest of the World
The study, by the Education Testing Service Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, shows young Americans fared poorly compared to other countries studied, tying for last in math skills with Italy and Spain, and landing in the bottom of the pack in problem-solving, along with Ireland, Poland and the Slovak Republic. Americans also had lower literacy scores than 15 out of 22 countries, only doing better than young Italians and Spaniards, Education Week reports.
1 in 4 Americans Apparently Unaware the Earth Orbits the Sun
A National Science Foundation study involving 2,200 participants find that about 25 percent of Americans got this question wrong: ‚Does the Earth go around the sun, or does the sun go around the Earth?‘
Move over Galileo! Saudi cleric says Earth doesn’t revolve around sun
He proceeded to say that if the plane stopped dead in its tracks in mid-air, “China would be coming towards it in case the Earth rotates in one direction. If the Earth rotates in the opposite direction, the plane would never reach China, because China is also rotating,” he said.
Max Igan: US, Israel desperately seek to wage more wars in Mideast
Max Igan, a radio host and political commentator from Brisbane, Australia, was interviewed by Press TV to discuss the warmongering policies adopted by the United States and Israel against the Middle Eastern nations.
Griechenland als Chance für Europa
Während in Brüssel die Parole „Exempel statuieren“ ausgegeben scheint, faszinieren die neuen politischen Verhältnisse in Griechenland viele Menschen in ganz Europa und darüber hinaus. Das Renner-Institut der SPÖ lud am 17.Februar Giorgos Chondros (Syriza), Dimitris Droutsas (Ex-Außenminister), Jens Bastian (in Athen lebender Ökonom) und Katerina Anastasiou (Solidarity4all) zur Diskussion.
Grieg Peer Gynt-Suite Nr.1 In der Halle des Bergkönigs
Christof Harr dirigiert das CJD Orchester am 15.10.2011 im KMS der Philharmonie Berlin
Im Kampf zwischen einem weltoffenen und einem düsteren Israel hat Netanyahu eine schwere Niederlage eingesteckt:
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PHONE-IN DAY: Ask your Members of Congress to join 29 others & #SkipTheSpeech by Netanyahu
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Tibi: we the joint arab list don‘t need to undermine Israel‘s existence. Lieberman and Bennett are doing a great job with that @haaretz conf
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The State Comptroller report tells us what we already know about Netanyahu
Report revealing hedonism of Israel‘s prime minister is out. And yet, somehow Netanyahu and his aides will manage to convince Israelis that he‘s the victim in all of this.
Regierung Obama distanziert sich von Israel
Ein israelischer Regierungsmitarbeiter bestätigte gegenüber der Zeitung «Haaretz» am Montag, dass Washington nicht mehr detaillierte Einzelheiten der Atomverhandlungen an die Regierung Netanyahu weiterleite. Die Informationen seien jetzt «von niedrigerer Auflösung», sagte der Offizielle.
India under pressure to explain who blew up Pakistani boat
The comments contradict the Indian government‘s version that the boat laden with explosives was intercepted by the coast guard because it was planning an unspecified illegal transaction and the people on board set it on fire, causing it to explode.
Rüstungsexporte: Das Geschäft mit U-Booten boomt – auch in Krisenländer wie Ägypten
Eine Herstellungsgenehmigung wurde für zwei weitere U-Boote für Ägypten bei TKMS in Kiel – ehemals HDW – erteilt. Die Kieler Werft darf sich nun weiter über Aufträge für Israel, Ägypten und Kolumbien freuen.
ThyssenKrupp Aerospace announces India foray
ThyssenKrupp Aerospace, part of ThyssenKrupp AG, the Garmany-based conglomerate, and supplier of aerospace materials and logistics, announced its foray into the Indian aerospace market with the setting up of a facility here.
India clears $8 billion warships project to counter Chinese navy
Modi summoned a meeting of the cabinet committee on security on Monday to approve construction of seven frigates equipped with stealth features to avoid easy detection, a defense ministry source said.
The Times of India said the government had also approved six nuclear-powered submarines for a further $8 billion.
Israeli defense minister lands at India airshow to boost arms sales
Israel‘s defense minister arrived in India on Wednesday to help sell his country‘s arms industry to the world‘s largest defense importer and promote deepening military ties between the two nations.
Libya mission had support-Napolitano
„I‘d like to recall that there was very wide parliamentary support for the March 18 resolution of the House and Senate assemblies,“ added the Life Senator. „We cannot step back, we cannot dodge or evade. Italy must do its bit, like we did not step back in 2011“..
Italy ‚ready for peacekeeping in Libya‘
Italy is willing to participate in peacekeeping operations in Libya, said Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni in an address Wednesday to the Lower House and Senate prior to a United Nations Security Council emergency meeting on the North African nation currently undergoing a crisis with Islamist insurgents.
Fierce crackdown on dissent no laughing matter in Egypt
„Whoever opposes Sisi is seen as someone who opposes the nation, so the political joke has little place in society and people reject it,“ said comedian Mahmoud al-Ghoul.
„Political jokes are not dead but they are frozen.“
PD to present Palestinian State motion
Two other motions, respectively presented by lawmakers for the Left, Ecology and Freedom (SEL) and the Socialist (PSI) parties, calling on the government to recognise the State of Palestine, should also be voted on on Thursday.
Comptroller: Netanyahu family spending raises criminal concern
State Comptroller Yosef Shapira releases report on expenditure of Prime Minister‘s Office; announces suspected criminal behavior in findings into bottle affair and garden furniture affair.
UN Security Council to Hold Emergency Meeting on Libya
The draft resolution is not expected to be presented Wednesday.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi urged the Security Council on Tuesday to allow international military intervention in Libya, where Egypt launched airstrikes this week targeting the Islamic State group.
Jewish Georgian official: Our army has IDF training to thank
(10.8.2008) Yakobashvili said that a small group of Georgian soldiers had able to wipe out an entire Russian military division due to this training.
„We killed 60 Russian soldiers just yesterday,“ said Yakobashvili. „The Russians have lost more than 50 tanks, and we have shot down 11 of their planes. They have enormous damage in terms of manpower,“
Yakobashvili warned that the Russians would try and open another battlefront in Abkhazia and he denied reports that the Georgian army was retreating. „The Georgian forces are not retreating. We move our military according to security needs.“