Daily Archives: 14. Oktober 2015


14.10.2015 - 23:39 [ The New York Times ]

Encryption Is More Important, and Easier, Than Ever

“When the page you visit is not secure anywhere along the network path, anyone, whether it’s the N.S.A. or another government or the I.S.P., can sniff on your traffic and see what you’re browsing,” said Jacob Hoffman-Andrews, a senior staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an Internet policy group involved in several projects to promote encryption.

14.10.2015 - 18:30 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit

But when we visit a website and don’t click the button, we’re given no indication whatsoever that Facebook is still keeping track of that visit, much less given the ability to control what Facebook does with that information.

14.10.2015 - 18:16 [ Radio Utopie ]

Stuttgart 21: Dr. Eisenhart von Loeper über das Rätsel der „Sprechklausel“

Da gibt es ein Großprojekt S21 – und ebenso sicher wie skandalös ist, dieses Projekt ist seit knapp drei Jahren ohne gültige neue Vertragsbasis, die selbst Bahnchef Grube für nötig gehalten hat. „Das Rätsel der Sprechklausel“ – so der Titel des abrufbaren Gutachtens der Juristen zu S21 – hat die Projektpartner in eine Illusion versinken lassen, man könne sich durch pures Weiterwursteln daran vorbeimogeln, dass dieses Großprojekt ohne insgesamt gültige Vertragsbasis genau genommen rechtlich und finanziell gescheitert ist. Aber Stadt und Land lassen S21 mit wahrscheinlich zweistelliger Milliardenhöhe, mit grauenvollen Mängeln und Risiken uferlos dahintreiben. Mario Barth hat gekonnt herübergebracht: Stuttgart 21 ist schlimmer als der Berliner Flughafen, S21 ist unübertroffen chaotisch als Verkleinerung und Verschlechterung der Verkehrsleistung und gefährlich als Todesfalle durch fehlenden Brandschutz und sechsfach überhöhte Gleisneigung und S21 ist spitze im sinnlosen Verschleudern von mutmaßlich über zehn Milliarden Euro Steuergeldern, die an anderer Stelle fehlen. Jetzt kommt die Wahrheit mit kräftigem Schub ans Licht.

14.10.2015 - 17:16 [ Kommunistische Partei von Israel ]

General Strike of Arab Population: 20,000 Demonstrate in Sakhnin

Approximately 20,000 demonstrators gathered in Sakhnin on Tuesday, October 13, for a solidarity rally with the Palestinians in the occupied territories. “We’ve been warning for months that what they’re doing in Al-Aqsa will spark an intifada, and no one listened, and now everyone’s asking ‘what happened?’ You’re lying Mr. Netanyahu,” said the Chairman of Hadash and former MK Muhammad Barakeh.

The protest was organized by the High Follow-Up Committee for the Arab Citizens of Israel as part of a general strike in the Arab sector on Tuesday that included schools, public institutions and businesses in Arab municipalities.

14.10.2015 - 17:05 [ Radio Dreyeckland ]

Wenn du vor die Türe trittst, schießen sie auf Dich

Ein Gespräch an einer Tankstelle in der Nähe der vorwiegend von KurdInnen bewohnten Stadt Nusaybin an der syrischen Grenze wirft ein Schlaglicht auf die Situation in der Stadt vergangene Woche. Den Zugang zur Stadt selbst hatten die „Sicherheitskräfte“ völlig abgeriegelt. Radio Dreyeckland berichtete bereits am 8. Oktober im Morgenradio.

14.10.2015 - 16:39 [ Oriental Review ]

A Half-A-Billion-Dollar Waste…Or Was It?

Remember, it was reported that the US would give “ammunition and weapons” to its allied proxies in Syria, and no sooner was this announced than an entirely new umbrella organization was created called the “Democratic Forces of Syria”, described by Reuters as compromising “ the [Kurdish] YPG, various Arab groups including Jaysh al-Thuwwar (Army of Rebels) and the Arab tribal Jaysh al-Sanadeed, and an Assyrian Christian group”, with the Arab gangs forming a subgroup called the “Syrian Arab Coalition”. The same day that it was announced, it was revealed that the US airdropped 50 tons of weapons to the northeast Syrian-based entity, thus proving that it had a hand behind its formation and intends for the group to be its on-the-ground proxy from now on (or until it’s defeated by or surrenders to ISIL, at least).

14.10.2015 - 16:35 [ Russia Insider ]

CIA Rebrands ‚Moderate‘ Rebels: Now They‘re the ‚Syrian Democratic Forces‘!

The U.S. says it will provide its Democratic Forces with air support — even though it‘s a clear violation of international law to conduct air strikes in a country that doesn‘t want you there.
Saudi Arabia and the U.S. have already made it clear that they will continue flooding Syria with weapons.
Meet the new moderates, same as the old moderates.

14.10.2015 - 16:27 [ German Foreign Policy ]

Zu Gast in Frankfurt

Entsprechend gehört Indonesien, das bereits von der alten Bundesrepublik mit Kriegsgerät aller Art hochgerüstet wurde, jetzt erneut zu den bevorzugten Kunden deutscher Waffenschmieden

14.10.2015 - 16:23 [ Anti-Palestinian Viciousness Rages ]

Stephen Lendman / Global Research

An October 13, B’Tselem expressed “deep shock at contempt for human life,” decades of ruthless occupation entirely responsible.
Palestinian Scholars Association chairman Marwan Abu Ras called Palestinian anger a justifiable reaction to Israeli state terror. Netanyahu and complicit thugs are “cowards,” he said.
“(T)hey are neither legally, nor religiously, not ethically, nor morally entitled to grab hold of our land.” Physician, political analyst, human rights champion Mustafa Barghouti believes a third intifada already began.

14.10.2015 - 15:05 [ Der Standard ]

Nach Angriffen: Israels Polizei erhält weitreichende Befugnisse

Demnach wurden „verschiedene Maßnahmen für den Kampf gegen den Terrorismus“ beschlossen. Insbesondere dürfe die Polizei „im Fall von Spannungen oder Anstachelung zur Gewalt“ Stadtviertel abriegeln oder eine Ausgangssperre verhängen. Mittlerweile wurde bereits mit der Kontrolle der Zufahrten zum arabischen Ost-Jerusalem begonnen. Zudem werden hunderte Soldaten in die Städte geschickt, insgesamt sechs Kompanien sollten dort die Polizeikräfte unterstützen. Auch mehr Häuser von palästinensischen Attentätern sollen zerstört werden.

14.10.2015 - 12:41 [ RT ]

US refuses to receive PM Medvedev’s delegation to coordinate anti-terrorist actions in Syria

“We have proposed to Americans what President Vladimir Putin informed the public about yesterday, namely, to send a delegation of military experts to Moscow to agree on a whole number of joint steps, afterwards we would be ready to send a high delegation led by Prime Minister Medvedev to Washington,” Lavrov told the Russian Parliament on Thursday.

14.10.2015 - 08:15 [ Demokratische Volkspartei HDP (Türkei) ]

HDP CEC Resolution: We Condemn the Attack Against Our People Demanding Peace

In this country, a mafia leader who is fed by the government and some state institutions can organize a demonstration in Rize and announce his commitment and support to the Palace. He states that “they will bleed in streams” and a day after people who demand peace in Ankara are murdered by bombs. Unless the political power cut their ties with these mafia organizations within the country, and global gangs like ISIS and Ahrar es Sam, we will experience these kinds of massacres.

14.10.2015 - 07:55 [ Mondo Weiss ]

‘I’m telling you that this massacre will happen again’: Lessons from the 2014 Russell Tribunal for the new intifada

We are putting the world on notice, with very heavy hearts, that we believe that something [terrible] will happen.

– Abdaf Soueif

Every time the operations are getting worse, the massacres are getting worse – I’m telling you that this massacre will happen again.

– Eran Efrati

There is no reason that [we] can say we don’t know. We know.

– Dr. Mads Gilbert