The Saudi deal was one of dozens of arms sales approved by Hillary Clinton’s State Department that placed weapons in the hands of governments that had also donated money to the Clinton family philanthropic empire, an International Business Times investigation has found.
Daily Archives: 3. März 2016
Mexiko – alles USA oder was?
(Nov. 2010) Ein Krieg namens „Initiative Mérida“ – freundlich-feindliche Übernahme eines Nachbarstaates durch US-Regierung einschliesslich Pentagon, DNI, US-Finanzamt und Co. – Mexiko ist „verkauft und verraten“ und hat sein zweites Guadalupe Hidalgo
Hillary Clinton‘s Dark Drug War Legacy in Mexico
Since 2008, that blank check has come to over $2.5 billion appropriated in security aid through the Mérida Initiative, a drug war security assistance program funded by Washington. Negotiated behind closed doors in the last years of the Bush administration, the plan was originally proposed as a three-year program. Yet Hillary Clinton‘s State Department pushed aggressively to extend it, overseeing a drastic increase of the initiative that continues today.
Murder of high-profile indigenous leader Berta Cáceres must trigger urgent investigation in Honduras
Global Witness is calling on the Honduran government to launch an immediate investigation into the killing of Berta Cáceres, a high-profile activist who campaigned for the defence of indigenous land rights. Cáceres was shot dead in her home town in Honduras, less than a year since she was awarded the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize – a prestigious award recognizing grassroots environmental activists from around the world. (1)
How Many More?
New report shows killings of environmental activists are increasing, with indigenous communities hardest hit. We shine a spotlight on Honduras – the most dangerous country to be an environmental defende
Breaking: Honduran Indigenous Leader Berta Cáceres Assassinated, Won Goldman Environmental Prize
Honduran indigenous and environmental organizer Berta Cáceres has been assassinated in her home. She was one of the leading organizers for indigenous land rights in Honduras.
In 1993 she co-founded the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). For years the group faced a series of threats and repression.
How Can the US Conduct a War on Terrorism When We Are Such Experts in Terrorizing?
It is so reassuring, in a way, to focus on discussing individual, recent acts of torture. It makes us feel as if we are a nation that has long exercised civility and a principled code of conduct.
The reality of our history is, however, far different. We have been engaging in domestic and international terrorism since this nation‘s founding.
And it hasn‘t stopped yet.
Zimbabwe‘s Mugabe says government to take over all diamond operations
Zimbabwe‘s President Robert Mugabe said on Thursday his government would take possession of all diamond operations because existing miners had robbed the country of its wealth.
Mugabe said he had told Chinese President Xi Xinping during his visit to Zimbabwe last December that his government was not getting much from Chinese-owned mining firms.
Liebe CDU-Wähler, ihr müsst jetzt sehr stark sein:
„Das Konfetti, das linke Demonstranten in Friedrichshain auf Polizisten warfen, war doch nicht mit Chemikalien getränkt.“
Schockierend! Diese Linksterroristen werden immer hinterhältiger!
Russia to Launch Massive Ballistic Missile Test From Nuclear Subs
Izvestia reports that volley of 16 IBMs will be launched from two nuclear-powered submarines while moving in choppy seas.
Kuba verteidigt in UNO Recht des Menschen auf ein Leben in Frieden
Die Programme zur Modernisierung der Nukleararsenale müssten gestoppt werden und diese Waffen dürften in den Militärdoktrinen und in der Sicherheitspolitik keine Rolle mehr spielen. „Die einzige absolute Garantie, dass sie nie benutzt werden und nie mit ihrer Anwendung gedroht werden kann, ist ihre völlige Abschaffung“, sagte er.
Kurdische Selbstverteidigungskräfte: Wir haben türkischen Kampfhubschrauber im Irak abgeschossen
Laut Angaben von kurdischen Selbstverteidigungskräften im Irak, haben diese einen türkischen Kampfhubschrauber abgeschossen, der kurdische Stellungen im Irak angreifen wollte. Auf Nachfrage von RT, bestätigten auch russische Regierungskreise, dass es „zu diesem Vorfall“ gekommen ist. RT interviewt Kani Xulam vom American-Kurdish-Network, wieso dieser Vorfall in türkischen Medien völlig verschwiegen wird.
Bundeswehr bildet kurdische Peschmerga in Munster aus … via @sternde
(3.3.2016)
Videos: Basis-Ausbildung der Peschmerga im Irak
Erbil, Irak, 11.02.2016, USA Combat Camera Team.
Im Kurdistan Training Coordination Center (KTCC) in Erbil erlernen die Peschmerga ihr infanteristisches Handwerk, um im Kampf gegen den „Islamischen Staat“ (IS) bestehen zu können.
Canada Agrees To Use EU‘s ‚Lipstick On A Pig‘ Version Of Corporate Sovereignty For CETA
Last September, Techdirt reported on the EU‘s plan to replace the highly-controversial corporate sovereignty provisions in TAFTA/TTIP — the „investor-state dispute settlement“ (ISDS) chapter — with something it called the „Investor Court System“ (ICS). As we reported then, even if ICS addressed all the problems of ISDS — spoiler alert: it certainly doesn‘t — there was a huge backdoor in the form of CETA, the trade deal between the EU and Canada. If CETA includes old-style corporate sovereignty provisions, US companies with subsidiaries in Canada will be able to use CETA to by-pass TAFTA/TTIP‘s new ICS system completely, and sue EU nations using ISDS with all its widely-recognized faults. In fact, Bernd Lange, the MEP with responsibility for making recommendations on how the European Parliament (EP) should vote on international trade matters, said at the time that he would not support CETA if it included ISDS.
Climate Alarmism on steroids, we are in a “global climate crisis”
You just gotta love the phrase “unprecedented shift in temperature”, as if somehow people aren’t able to handle climate shifts say, like the difference in average annual temperature between New York and Miami (which is far greater than that caused by climate change), or the fact that humans simultaneously inhabit Antarctica and Death Valley, CA. No, they simply can’t handle such shifts in temperature. The only conclusion here is that for their health, we must stop people from moving to different climates in order to save their health.
Surprise: Pro-Surveillance WSJ Editorial Board Sides With Apple Over FBI
Well here‘s a surprise. The Wall Street Journal Editorial board, which is notoriously pro-surveillance, has come out with an editorial that argues that Apple is right on encryption and should resist the FBI‘s demands. I was not expecting that. This is the same WSJ that fought hard against amending the PATRIOT Act, which it insisted was necessary for surveillance.
European Commission approves Greece-TAP deal
The TAP pipeline is meant to transport natural gas from the giant Shah Deniz 2 field in Azerbaijan to Europe. The approximately 870 km long TAP will connect with the Trans Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP) at the Turkish-Greek border at Kipoi, cross Greece and Albania and the Adriatic Sea, before coming ashore in southern Italy.
Boeing Officials Invited to Iran for Talks: Minister
Fakhrieh Kashan told Tasnim on February 24 that Boeing has offered to negotiate with Iran, adding that the country will hold talks with the US-based company on buying aircraft.
Boeing Cleared for Iran Talks After $27 Billion Airbus Haul
(19.2.2016) Europe’s Airbus Group SE, which faced fewer restrictions, grabbed an early lead with a $27 billion order announced on the day nuclear sanctions were eased last month. While European aerospace rivals began scoping out potential sales last year, Boeing wasn’t allowed to veer beyond safety-related items such as the aircraft maintenance manuals it sold to Iran Air Tours.
Syrian truce fragile but holding overall: U.N. envoy
De Mistura said that his office was working closely with Russia and the United States to investigate any fighting and „to quickly intervene in order to make sure that the parties on the ground defuse the situation“.
Russia: reviving dead plans through new gas pipeline project
Russia‘s Gazprom, Italy‘s Edison SpA and Greek gas company DEPA SA signed last week a memorandum of understanding on deliveries of Russian natural gas through third countries to Greece and from Greece to Italy via an undersea pipeline in the Black Sea.
Bundesregierung: „Weltraum-Datenautobahn“ eignet sich gut zur Drohnensteuerung
Die Bundesregierung sieht zahlreiche Einsatzmöglichkeiten der künftigen „Weltraum-Datenautobahn“ in Form des Europäischen Datenrelaissystems (EDRS) in den Bereichen der Sicherheitsbehörden und des Militärs. Dies geht aus einer Antwort des Wirtschaftsministeriums auf eine Anfrage der Bundestagsfraktion der Linken hervor, die heise online vorliegt.
France, UK Will Invest Over $2 Billion in Drones
The drones will be engineered to enter hostile territory ahead of standard manned warplanes.
France and Britain on Thursday inked a deal to invest more than US$2.2 billion in the development of combat drones, according to a statement from the French government.
Jordan gets US Black Hawk helicopters to bolster defences
They said another eight Black Hawks would begin arriving next year under a military aid deal worth about $200 million.
Greece resists to IMF’s demands for further pension cuts
Greece cannot accept demands from the International Monetary Fund to cut its pensions yet again in order to achieve a primary surplus target in two years, Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said on Thursday.
AUßENPOLITIK – Lapsuslied Januar 2016 – von Marco Tschirpke
Musik und Text: Marco Tschirpke,
Beatz & Kamera: Christian Betz,
O-Ton: Thomas Oppermann (Fraktionsvorsitzender, SPD)
IS weiterhin mit Bankensystem verbunden
„Swift ist gemeinsam mit der für Swift zuständigen belgischen Aufsicht darum bemüht, dieses Risiko auf ein Minimum zu reduzieren“, zitierte das Magazin eine schriftliche Stellungnahme des Bundesfinanzministeriums. Konkret gehe es um die Filiale der Commercial Bank of Syria in der Islamistenhochburg Raqqa.
Unsere Musikcharts im März 2016
In unseren C.C. Musikcharts im März 2016 gibt es nun zwei Neuvorstellungen mit jeweils ruhiger Musik zum Entspannen: Arrow and Olive (Nashville, U.S.A.) mit „Our Place“ und May mit „I could have been someone“.
Deutscher Arzt soll 24-Jährigen für den IS rekrutiert haben .. via @focusonline
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Jahrelang soll ein BND-Mitarbeiter als Spitzel für d. CIA gearbeitet haben Wann bekommt er das Bundesverdienstkreuz?
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Yes, Donald Trump Can Create Problems For Free Speech & The First Amendment
A few weeks ago, Donald Trump‘s spokesperson claimed that he had „single-handedly brought back free speech.“ It was an odd thing to say for a variety of reasons. First, the US has really strong free speech protections and they haven‘t gone away (even if there are some threats to them). That is, free speech doesn‘t need to be „brought back“ because it‘s already here. Second, Trump himself, just a few weeks earlier was quoted deliberately mocking free speech, claiming that people who support it are „foolish people.“ And then, of course, there‘s the fact that Trump has a very, very long and detailed history of both threatening to sue, and actually suing, over the speech of others.
Wladimir Putin, schmeissen Sie endlich Sergej Lawrow raus und beenden Sie den Syrien-Krieg
(28.6.2012) Herr Präsident, das wird nicht aufhören. Sie müssen es aufhalten. Und Sie können es. Militärisch ist die Invasion Syriens bereits gescheitert. Sie wissen das. Die völlig zerstrittene „Opposition“ Syriens, löchrige Deckung für die Invasionstruppen, kann nur noch mühsam als Potemkinsche Fassade aufrecht erhalten werden. Das Assad-Regime, korrupt, brutal, monarchisch und wie das Gaddafi-Regime Libyens bis kurz vor dem Angriff noch von den Spionen des US-Einflussbereichs als vermeintlicher Verbündeter im zehnjährigen „Krieg gegen den Terror“ hofiert und ausgeleuchtet, ist bereit, alle seit ungefähr 40 Jahren überfälligen Selbstverständlichkeiten an demokratischen Mindeststandards einzuführen. Vieles hat das Regime bereits getan, u.a. eine Verfassungsänderung vollzogen.
Aber genau das, eine von innen heraus erfolgte Erneuerung und Demokratisierung, ohne als Protektorat der Saudis, Israelis, des Nordatlantikpakts oder der 2008 aus dem Nichts geschaffenen Mittelmeerunion zu enden, spiegelt den Albtraum der Strategen genau dieser Militärmächte wieder.
Public support for Putin to serve another term hits highest level in four years: poll
Seventy-four percent of Russians would vote to re-elect Putin as president, according to a poll by VTsIOM.
Putin dominates state media in Russia and is widely expected to contest the next presidential election in 2018. If he won, it would be his fourth term as president.
Nach Einigung von Russland und Saudi-Arabien: Steigt der Ölpreis jetzt wieder?
(16.2.2016)