Speaking at the special session of ALBA [Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas] in Caracas on August 10, Maduro called upon the 11-member South American and Caribbean bloc to invest in education, health and infrastructure in Africa. In a televised address broadcast on Telesur, Maduro denounced imperialist violence, asking: “Until when will the EU and NATO keep silent about the crimes they have permitted to occur in the Mediterranean?”
Daily Archives: 15. August 2015
Panikmache in Medien: Angst, Angst, Angst – und nicht fragen, wieso
Es gäbe theoretisch die Möglichkeit, den Kunden mit interessanten Ideen zu konfrontieren. Machen wir nicht. Wollen wir nicht. Wir wollen untergehen. Mehr dazu nächste Woche.
Traiskirchen: „Politik, die Menschen Schaden zufügt, ist das Abartigste“
Traiskirchens Bürgermeister Andreas Babler fordert im Video-Interview, Innenministerin Johanna Mikl-Leitner die Kompetenzen zu entziehen
Jemen – Die Gesundheitsversorgung bricht zusammen
13 Millionen Menschen leiden im Jemen mittlerweile darunter, dass sie, vor allem auch wegen der
Ausgangssperren, nur ungenügend Zugang zu Lebensmitteln haben. Selbst das Wasser wird inzwischen bedrohlich knapp. Es mangelt nicht nur an Lebensmitteln, sondern auch an Medikamenten und Öl. Dieses wird benötigt um die Stromgeneratoren in Betrieb zu halten. Ohne Öl gibt es in den Krankenhäusern kein
Newly Disclosed N.S.A. Files Detail Partnerships With AT&T and Verizon
The files do not identify the firms by name, but instead refer to the Fairview and Stormbrew programs, An analysis by The New York Times and ProPublica found a constellation of evidence that AT&T was the Fairview partner and Verizon was part of the Stormbrew program. The documents range from 2003 to 2013; it is not clear whether the arrangements are the same today.
AT&T Helped N.S.A. Spy on an Array of Internet Traffic
The documents, provided by the former agency contractor Edward J. Snowden, were jointly reviewed by The New York Times and ProPublica. The N.S.A., AT&T and Verizon declined to discuss the findings from the files. “We don’t comment on matters of national security,” an AT&T spokesman said.
Israeli Spy Companies: Verint and Narus
(2012) In the mid-2000s, two Israeli spy companies (Narus and Verint) were caught in the centre of a huge scandal involving the wiretapping of virtually all US phone and internet messages. Their mass surveillance services were used by America’s two largest telecom companies, AT&T and Verizon.
The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America
(2008) Closer to home, America’s two major telecom companies, AT&T and Verizon, have outsourced the bugging of their entire networks — carrying billions of American communications every day — to two mysterious companies with very troubling foreign connections. In AT&T’s secret room in San Francisco, a mirror image of all data entering the building is filtered through surveillance equipment supplied and maintained by Narus. Verizon, which controls most of the rest of the country’s domestic and international communications networks, chose a different company. According to knowledgeable sources, that company is Verint. According to these sources, in 2006 Verizon constructed its “secret room” on the second floor of a nondescript two-story building at 14503 Luthe Road in Houston, Texas. Once Verizon receives watch-listed names from the NSA, it then reroutes their Internet communications into that
room, which is packed with secret Verint machines and software. After passing through the Verint hardware, the messages are then transmitted in real time to a central government surveillance hub in Sterling, Virginia.
USA: AT&T speichert alle Verbindungsdaten seit 1987 für Drogenfahndung
(2.September 2013) Wir berichteten vor etwa einem Monat über die Special Operations Division der DEA – eine Behörden-überspannende (FBI, CIA, NSA, DEA) Einheit, die lokale Polizei und DEA mit Informationen versorgt, die aus den verschiedensten geheimdienstlichen Quellen gewonnen werden. Um die SOD geheim zu halten, sollen die Beamten im jeweiligen Fall verschleiern, dass die Ermittlungen auf Informationen beruhen, die die SOD lieferte. Im Zweifelsfall sollen Ermittlungsverläufe und Beweise “rekonstruiert” werden, um vor Gericht lückenlos und plausibel zu erscheinen.
@ggreenwald guess what: all German government net traffic is routed via Verizon, incl. Police, BKA, BND and all courts.
(26.Juni 2014)
Immernoch spannend: Anonyme Kommentatoren schmähen mich mit „selbsternannter Journalist“ #Verizon
(2.Juli 2014)
Journalists live in fear in Mexican state of Veracruz
But, he says, „living in fear is not an option“ — a line his dad used to use.
Mexico’s War on Journalists
Earlier this summer, Ruben Espinosa fled Mexico’s Gulf coast state of Veracruz after receiving death threats. His work as a photojournalist there had made him an enemy of the state’s governor, who presides over one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a reporter. On July 31, Espinosa was found beaten and shot dead in a Mexico City apartment.
Ende des „Patriot“-Einsatzes in der Türkei: „Bedrohung hat anderen Fokus erhalten“
Nach Informationen von SPIEGEL ONLINE haben die USA innerhalb der Allianz bereits signalisiert, dass sie den Einsatz ihrer „Patriot“-Staffeln in der Südtürkei ebenfalls im Oktober 2015 beenden wollen. Offiziell wird dies vermutlich am Montag bekannt gegeben, so lange wollte eigentlich auch Berlin mit der Mitteilung über die Pläne der Bundesregierung warten.
Judge Realizing He Probably Can‘t Block Release Of Surreptitiously Recorded Video
Last month, we wrote about a judge in California issuing a temporary restraining order barring an anti-abortion group from releasing a video it had surreptitiously recorded of a conversation it held with a life sciences company named StemExpress, where the group pretended to be an organization interested in doing business with StemExpress. You can argue that the group, the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), did something quite shady (it‘s the same group that similarly recorded conversations with a Planned Parenthood exec) in misrepresenting who they were, secretly recording conversations, and editing and releasing the videos — but that doesn‘t change the fact that the court really can‘t bar the release of the video. Because that‘s called prior restraint.
Extremist settler youths descend on Palestinian worker, beat him with rod, fist and boot
A gang of Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian worker who was repairing a traffic light in an illegal Israeli settlement near Jerusalem Thursday, landing the worker in the hospital with a broken hand and a number of other injuries, according to local sources. The worker, Loay Bakri, 31, works as an electrical contractor, and was sent to the illegal Israeli settlement of Pisgat Ze’ev to fix a broken traffic light..
VIDEO: registran a supuesto policía disparando a delincuente en Venezuela
Un video muestra el momento en que supuestos policías del estado Aragua, en Venezuela, dispara a quemarropa a un presunto delincuente.
Venezuela arrests eight police officers after video of shooting
The video shows a young man being held by men in uniform and then falling to the ground after a gunshot is heard. Three other people are seen lying motionless on the ground nearby.
The officers will be charged with „alleged responsibility in the death of four men“ between the ages of 21 and 35 in an operation carried out in an industrial area on August 5, the prosecutors‘ office said in a statement.
Linksregierung und 400-Euro-Sklaven in Griechenland
Dieses Griechenland der flexiblen Beschäftigung und der modernen Sklaven braucht genau das: Eine neue Partie von „Aufsehern“, die uns mit der Peitsche im Nacken sitzen und befehlen werden, mehr zu arbeiten, nicht zu sprechen, uns nicht zu widersetzen und die Erniedrigungen auszuhalten – natürlich zum Wohl des Landes. Wir haben sie gefunden, die Regierung der Linken hat jeden Grund, darauf stolz zu sein. Sie schickt sich sogar an, „lang und breit“ ihre Unterschrift zu setzen um die Vereinbarung zu ratifizieren und sie wieder nach Griechenland zu holen, damit sie evaluieren und zuweilen die Peitsche schwingen …
Russian, Iranian foreign ministers to discuss nuclear plan, Syria
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif will meet on Monday to discuss the Iranian nuclear program and peace efforts in Syria, Russia‘s foreign ministry said on Saturday.
New Study Predicts Decades Of Cooling From Weak Solar Activity
Study author Jorge Sanchez-Sesma examined solar cycle data going back 100,000 years and compared them to about 25,000 years of surface air temperature data in the Congo River Basin. Sanchez-Sesma found that “information from reconstructions and models indicates a potential continental tropical temperature cooling of around 0.5oC for the rest of the 21st century”.
Furthermore, the study argues that varying levels of solar activity explain “most of the variation” in the Congo River Basin’s air temperatures “during the past centuries” — this is important since the river basin is far from the influence of ocean temperatures.
Wetter: Sonnenzyklus 24 war schwach
(8.April 2015) Der derzeitige Sonnenzyklus war nicht nur 30 Prozent schwächer als sein Vorgänger, sondern auch schwächer als alle Zyklen der letzten 80 bis 90 Jahre. Zuletzt war die Sonnenaktivität zwischen 1880 und 1920 so schwach ausgeprägt wie heute.
Halfway to Hell? – Alarmists are Growing Desperate in Their Efforts to Influence Public Opinion
Apparently, based initially on a 1975 “first intuition” by an economist (not a climate scientist), politicians have sought to limit global surface warming to 2 deg C above pre-industrial levels by restricting greenhouse gas emissions. To that end, those politicians created the political entity called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), whose sole purpose is to prepare reports to support the politicians’ agendas.
Politicians from around the globe are once again gathering this year to futilely try to reach agreement on how to achieve that goal of limiting global warming to the economist-suggested limit. So, in order to increase public awareness, we’re being bombarded weekly with speculations of pending global-warming gloom and doom.
Human Right calls for investigation into AU troops’ misconduct in Somalia
On July 28, 2015, the UN Security Council renewed AMISOM’s mandate until May 2016, in a resolution that largely failed to underscore the importance of accountability for abuses by AMISOM forces. The Security Council resolution, however, said the AU should share information gathered through its newly established Civilian Casualty Tracking Analysis and Response Cell with relevant stakeholders, including the UN.
Bundeswehr-Spezialeinsatzkräfte im Inneren Somalias ohne Mandat
(Mai 2013) Interne Clan-Kämpfe wie in der Region Jubbaland an der Grenze zu Kenia zwischen dem früheren Verteidigungsminister und einem Scheich sowie Ansprüche der Warlords der verschiedenen Regionen kämpfen in Mogadischu um die Pfründe an der Regierungsbeteiligung. Das neue Parlament zerfleischt sich gerade gegenseitig.
Somali region re-elects former warlord to fight al Shabaab
Jubbaland includes the strategic port of Kismayu. Madobe and Barre Hirale, a clan elder, fought for years to control the city, which generates valuable revenues from taxes, charcoal exports and levies on arms and other illegal imports. Hirale ruled Kismayu in the 1990s and into the 2000s until he was unseated by Madobe, who was at the time aligned to the Islamic Courts Union that ruled Somalia until 2006.
Egypt‘s deposed president Mursi appeals death sentence – lawyer
The court-appointed legal team representing deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Mursi filed an appeal on Saturday at the country‘s highest court challenging sentences of life imprisonment and death handed down in June, Mursi‘s lawyer said.
Hillary Clinton soll Energiereform in Mexiko beeinflusst haben
Zwei der Koordinatoren, die bei der Planung eine zentrale Rolle gespielt hätten, arbeiten nun für private Energieunternehmen. Auch der damalige US-Botschafter Carlos Pascual, der in die Pläne involviert war, wechselte später zu einem Beratungsunternehmen für Erdöl- und Gasbeförderung. Insbesondere für Konzerne wie Exxon Mobil, Chevron und British Petroleum (BP) sind die von Clinton unterstützten Beschlüsse sehr vorteilhaft.
Genuch geredet, getz wird gelaufen #fsa15 #Münster (Muttern hat getz auch Textsecure, dank Cryptomenschen)
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Hambacher Forst: Aktions Ticker / Infos 15. August 2015
Seit dem frühen Morgen geht es im reinischen Braunkohle Revier rund. Wir werden euch auf dem aktuellen Stand von den Aktionen halten.
„Ende Gelände“ hat einen eigenen Ticker.
Activists to halt diggers at RWE coalfields in Germany
A thousand activists are expected to descend on the Rhineland coalfields in Germany this weekend in protest at the fuel’s climate impacts.
They are targeting RWE’s opencast lignite mine. Together with the energy company’s three power stations in the area, it makes up Europe’s biggest source of carbon dioxide, activists say.
Environmentalists break through police line at German coal mine to protest use of coal
A spokesman for German energy company RWE says several huge bucket-wheel excavators used at the open-pit mine had to be shut down for safety reasons. Spokesman Lothar Lambertz says RWE has canceled plans to bring employees onto the site to rally in favor of coal mining.
Polizei hält die Demo auf und nimmt einen Teilnehmer fest, weil er eine Staubschutzmaske trägt. #EndeGelaende
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