Daily Archives: 15. Juli 2015


15.07.2015 - 23:54 [ Digitale Gesellschaft Deutschland ]

Vorratsdatenspeicherung von Reisedaten: Innenausschuss stimmt für Totalüberwachung des Flugverkehrs

„Der Innenausschuss des EU-Parlaments hat heute den Grundstein für die Totalüberwachung des Reiseverkehrs von und nach Europa gelegt. Zu den geplanten Vorratsdatenspeicherungen des Kommunikations- und des Straßenverkehrs soll nun auch noch die Protokollierung des internationalen Flugverkehrs hinzukommen. Die angeblichen Sicherungen zum Schutz der Privatsphäre sind dabei nicht mehr als der dürftige und untaugliche Versuch, den Vorgaben des Europäischen Gerichtshofs zur anlasslosen Speicherung personenbezogener Daten nachzukommen.“, erklärt Alexander Sander, Geschäftsführer des Vereins Digitale Gesellschaft.

15.07.2015 - 20:31 [ Youtube ]

Zorbas Syrtaki

Film Zorbas dance Syrtaki,Ballo Greco Syrtaki musica Mikis Theodorakis

15.07.2015 - 20:19 [ Junge Welt ]

Widerstand statt Unterwerfung: Mikis Theodorakis fordert »Volksfront« der Linken und der Kommunisten gegen »das System«

Die Verantwortlichen des dritten Griechenland-Memorandums und die hinter ihnen stehenden global vernetzten finanzkapitalistischen Wortgeber sind nach Ansicht des fast 90 Jahre alten, in Griechenland nach wie vor hoch geachteten und gehörten Musikers und früheren Politikers der Kommunistischen Partei nur zu schlagen, »wenn eine Regierung im Einklang mit dem Volk die reaktionäre Macht bekämpft und sich nicht statt dessen zum Organ des Systems machen lässt«.

15.07.2015 - 20:05 [ [National Aeronautics and Space Administration ]

The Icy Mountains of Pluto

“This is one of the youngest surfaces we’ve ever seen in the solar system,” says Moore.

Unlike the icy moons of giant planets, Pluto cannot be heated by gravitational interactions with a much larger planetary body. Some other process must be generating the mountainous landscape.

“This may cause us to rethink what powers geological activity on many other icy worlds,” says GGI deputy team leader John Spencer of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo.

The mountains are probably composed of Pluto’s water-ice “bedrock.”

Although methane and nitrogen ice covers much of the surface of Pluto, these materials are not strong enough to build the mountains. Instead, a stiffer material, most likely water-ice, created the peaks.

15.07.2015 - 19:46 [ Reuters ]

U.N. likely to vote on Iran nuclear deal next week: diplomats

According to the Vienna deal, the six world powers, Iran and the European Union will form a joint commission to handle any complaints about breaches. If the complaining state is not satisfied with how the commission addresses its concerns, it could then take its grievance to the U.N. Security Council.

The Security Council would then need to vote on a resolution to continue the lifting of sanctions on Iran.

15.07.2015 - 19:32 [ Netzpolitik ]

EU-Parlament beschließt Vorratsdatenspeicherung von Fluggastdaten

Fluggäste, die aus oder nach Europa reisen, müssen sich darauf einstellen, dass ihre Daten künftig für fünf Jahre lang gespeichert und ausgewertet werden. Der Ausschuss für bürgerliche Freiheiten, Justiz und Inneres (LIBE) des EU-Parlaments hat mit einer Mehrheit von 32 zu 27 Stimmen den Kompromissantrag des Berichterstatters im Innenausschuss, Timothy Kirkhope, abgesegnet, der den Weg für die Einführung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung von Fluggastdaten (Passenger Name Record, PNR) freimacht.

15.07.2015 - 18:36 [ Forbes ]

The Greek ‚Disaster‘ Was A Backdoor-Bailout Of Banks Located Outside Greece

Importantly, it wasn’t Greek citizens or any individual holders of Greek debt that had the IMF, ECB and others so worried. It was prominent banks. There’s your story. The alleged bailout agreement from yesterday is not a bailout of Greece’s hapless political class; rather it’s a backdoor bailout of banks that are not in Greece.

15.07.2015 - 18:22 [ Ruptly TV / Youtube ]

LIVE: Greeks react to the Parliament’s vote on eurozone agreement

Protesters are expected to gather on the streets of Athens following the parliament’s vote on Eurozone agreement in Athens on July 14.
Members of the Greek Parliament, led by the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, convene in Athens, July 15, to debate and vote on the agreement proposed by the Eurozone leaders’ Monday morning following over 16 hours long lasting negotiations in Brussels.
The agreement, if backed by the Greek Parliament, will give a way to a fresh pack of austerity measures and economic reforms in exchange for a third bailout and Greece’s place in the Eurozone.“

15.07.2015 - 17:28 [ BBC ]

Who‘s calling on people to ‚Boycott Germany‘?

For their part, German businesses do not seem to be too worried about the call for a boycott. „We‘re taking this seriously, but there‘s no reason to panic,“ Volker Treier, head of the German Foreign Trade Chamber of Commerce, told Reuters on Tuesday. „There have been such calls, time and again since the beginning of the Greek crisis. They largely fizzle out without any effect.“

15.07.2015 - 17:23 [ Radio Utopie ]

UN-Ermittler: Geheimdienste steuern Massaker in Afghanistan, ISAF sieht zu

(17.Mai 2008) „Der Level von Selbstzufriedenheit als Antwort auf diese Tötungen ist atemberaubend hoch“, so UN-Sonderermittler Alston über die ISAF-Militärführung.

ISAF-Stabschef ist der deutsche Generalmajor Hans-Lothar Domröse, bis zum 10. Januar Kommandeur der Division Spezielle Operationen (DSO), zu der auch das KSK gehört.

15.07.2015 - 17:13 [ Reuters ]

NATO plans biggest exercise since 2002 to counter Islamic State

„We cannot choose between the eastern threat and the southern threat, we have to train for both,“ said General Hans-Lothar Domrose, commander of the NATO military command in Brunssum, the Netherlands, who is preparing the exercise.

After more than a decade of NATO-led combat operations in Afghanistan, the U.S.-led military alliance is shifting to defend its territory.

15.07.2015 - 17:04 [ Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt ]

Truth Committee on Public Debt: Preliminary report

(17.Juni) Having concluded its preliminary investigation, the Committee considers that Greece has been and still is the victim of an attack premeditated and organized by the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, and the European Commission. This violent, illegal, and immoral mission aimed exclusively at shifting private debt onto the public sector.

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All agreements were subject to compliance with the Memorandums which had devastating consequences. The result is a tremendous damage to Greece and the population. Perhaps this is no surprise; the agreement mandated the use of Cleary, Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 37 as a private legal advisor. This firm is known in Latin America for its advice on the transformation of odious and lapsed external debt into new bonds under the “Brady Plan”. This represented a disaster for many Latin American countries, as proven during the Official Debt Audit in Ecuador (CAIC 39 ) and the Parliamentarian Investigation Commission in Brazil (CPI 40 ).