China has already indicated that it would look forwards towards taking some substantial step towards resolving the conflict in Syria and Yemen. President Xi Jinping already grabbed headlines by holding the conflict in Yemen at par with Syria. China also believes that the Russian intervention in Syria could not be equated with the military assault launched by Saudi Arabia forces in Yemen.
Daily Archives: 2. April 2016
Abschließender Vortrag der Anwälte des LUFTPOST-Herausgebers Wolfgang Jung zu dessen Klage gegen die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, die am 5. April 2016 vor dem Bundesverwaltungsgericht in Leipzig verhandelt wird
Der Herausgeber der LUFTPOST hat die Bundesrepublik Deutschland, vertreten durch das Bundesministerium der Verteidigung, am 23.04.12 verklagt, weil sie die völkerrechts- und verfassungswidrige Nutzung der U.S. Air Base Ramstein zulässt. Der bisherige Verfahrensverlauf ist in den nachfolgend verlinkten LUFTPOST-Ausgaben nachzulesen:
Syria interactive conflict map (1 April 2016)
Syria interactive map April 1st, 2016 (updated with April 2nd morning events)
News Alert: Syrian Armed Forces storming the gates of Quraytayn, Map update
The Syrian Arab Army’s 43rd and 63rd brigades of the 4th Mechanized Division and popular committees are storming the gates of Quraytayn in southeastern Homs after launching a surprise assault at the western perimeter of this ancient Assyrian town this morning.
Kremlin : Finding lasting solution to the crisis in Syria requires the participation of all forces including the Syrian Kurds
Moscow, SANA-Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov affirmed that finding a lasting solution for the crisis in Syria requires the participation of all forces including the Syrian Kurds.
“These negotiations should be only inclusive … including Kurds, to find a really lasting solution … and to enable Syrians themselves to decide their destiny.” Peskov said in a press statement on Friday.
Syrische Armee beginnt Befreiung der Stadt al-Qaryatain von IS-Terroristen
Die syrische Armee hat am Samstag mit Unterstützung der Miliz und nach einem massiven vorbereitenden Einsatz von Artillerie mit einer Offensive auf al-Qaryatain begonnen. Die Stadt gilt als die wichtigste Hochburg der Terrormiliz Daesh (auch IS, Islamischer Staat) in der Provinz Homs.
‚There is another way‘: Palestinians, Israelis march together against the occupation
Roughly 300 Palestinians and Israelis marched along a major West Bank highway Friday afternoon to demand an end to the occupation and to protest Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The monthly protest march is deliberately held on a road that both Palestinians and Israeli settlers use, with the intention of demonstrating a joint Palestinian-Israeli anti-occupation message in full view of settlers.
Interessant finde ich in diesem Zusammenhang auch die Bereitwilligkeit, derartig sensible personenbezogene Daten…
… wie die Angaben in einer polizeilichen Vernehmung mal eben kurz in die USA zu schicken.
Google übersetzt für die Polizei
(16.3.2016) Ansonsten erklären die in dem verlinkten Artikel zitierten Juristen sehr nachvollziehbar, was da bei der Essener Polizei schiefgelaufen ist. Nachdenklich macht mich die Weigerung der Staatsanwaltschaft, Auskunft zu geben, ob es sich hier nur um einen bedauerlichen Einzelfall handelt oder ob solche Praktiken geduldet werden.
Berufsverbot: Land muss linkem Lehrer 33.000 Euro zahlen
(2009) Die Lehrergewerkschaft GEW nannte das Urteil eine „schallende Ohrfeige“ für die Landesregierung – und „Politikunterricht für Ministerpräsident Günther Oettinger und Kultusminister Helmut Rau“, so die GEW-Landesvorsitzende Doro Moritz.
Heidelberger Lehrer klagt gegen Verfassungsschutz: Verhandlungstermin am 20. 04. 2016 in Karlsruhe
In den Jahren 2004 – 2007 hatte das Kultusministerium Baden-Württemberg dem Lehrer Berufsverbot erteilt. Als Begründung wurde sein Engagement in antifaschistischen Gruppen – insbesondere in der Antifaschistischen Initiative Heidelberg (AIHD) – angeführt. Der Verwaltungsgerichtshof Mannheim erklärte das Berufsverbot schließlich für unbegründet und grundrechtswidrig. Csaszkóczy wurde daraufhin vom Kultusministerium verbeamtet, weil „keine Zweifel an seiner Verfassungstreue“ bestehen.
Grosses Interesse im Zivilprozess um Eckert und Ziegler
Den Vorschlag des Richters, sich „in Güte zu einigen“, lehnten die Beklagten ab. Zum einen, weil nach ihrem Verständnis keine Behinderung vorgelegen habe, zum anderen, weil die umfangreiche Klage in keinem Verhältnis zu der eher geringen Schadensersatz-Summe stehe. Dies lasse auf einen Einschüchterungsversuch schließen. Dazu erläuterte Rechtsanwalt Wolter der Presse, wenn BürgerInnen nicht mehr demonstrieren können, ohne Angst zu haben bei jeder Kleinigkeit sofort beklagt zu werden, dann sei ihr Grundrecht auf Demokratie gefährdet.
MOZAMBIQUE‘S MOVEMENT TO END LAND GRABS
n Mozambique, where 80% of the population is campesinos —traditional, family farmers—companies are taking the best, most fertile land and moving people to land that can’t grow anything. For example, the coal mining project in the Tete province relocated people from the fertile soil by the Zambezi River, with the promise of houses and two hectares of land per family. They were moved to an arid place with land that can only grow stones, as they say, losing access to the land and river their lives depended on.
These Corporations Have Pillaged the Land and Robbed the People
If lawmakers really want to protect workers AND their communities, they need to introduce legislation that actually holds these COMPANIES accountable for their contractual and legal obligations to workers.
Schweizer Rüstungskonzern auf PR-Tour in Lateinamerika
Die RUAG-Delegation knüpft auf der Lateinamerika-Tour mit Fluggesellschaften und Bergbauunternehmen ebenso Kontakte wie mit „Vertretern verschiedener Streitkräfte und Regierungsinstitutionen“, wie es in einer Mitteilung des Unternehmens heißt. Die PR-Tour begann in Mexiko, anschließend standen Besuche und Vorführungen in El Salvador, Panama, Ecuador, Kolumbien, Peru, Chile, Argentinien, Paraguay und Brasilien auf dem Programm.
Streiks in Argentinien, Obama verspricht einen „Dollar-Regen“
Ähnlich schätzt dies der Historiker Leandro Morgenfeld ein: „Obama will die Vorherrschaft Argentiniens innerhalb des Mercosur stärken, da sich in Brasilien eine Krise anbahnt. Schließlich will er die Mitglieder des Mercosur für das Freihandelsabkommen Transpazifische Partnerschaft (TPP) gewinnen, um die Konkurrenz aus China im Zaum zu halten.“
#DemocracySpring Has Sprung, With 140-Mile March Before DC Sit-Ins, Arrests
Movement wants big money out of politics, and free and fair elections
Gustavo Castro Goes Home as People Power Trumps Honduran Government
Beloved environmentalist Gustavo Castro, the only witness to his colleague Berta Cáceres‘ murder on March 3, is back in Mexico with his family on Friday, after a Honduran judge decided to lift the measure prohibiting him from leaving the country, in place since March 7.
Meet the Filipino Scientist Who Invented the Videophone in 1954
Aside from the videophone, Zara has 30 patents under his name, including a solar-energy device, a propeller-cutting machine, and an airplane engine that ran on plain alcohol as fuel.
Diese 5 Punkte zeigen, worum es bei der Autobahn-AG wirklich geht. Nr. 4 betrifft auch Dich.
Ein Deal zwischen drei Ministerien: Sie wollen eine Art Autobahn-AG gründen – mit der die Autobahn teilprivatisiert wird. Konzerne wie Allianz und Deutsche Bank verdienen daran Milliarden. Für Steuerzahler/innen wird es teuer. Warum, erklären diese 5 Gründe.
Brave Testimony Helps Convict Costa Rican Slayers of a Turtle Conservationist
There is seemingly no end to the violence against environmentalists and community-rights campaigners on the world’s loosely-governed resource frontiers. The murder last month of Berta Cáceres, a much-lauded Honduran indigenous activist, was just the most prominent recent example.
Norway’s Whaling Program Just Got Even More Controversial
The document shows that more than 113 metric tons of minke whale products—equivalent to about 75 whales—was bought or used by Rogaland Pelsdyrfôrlaget, the largest manufacturer of animal feed for Norway’s fur industry.
Nova Scotia MP agrees to table aquaculture petition
Nova Scotia MP (South Shore-St. Margarets) Bernadette Jordan has agreed to table a petition in Canada‘s parliament regarding fin fish aquaculture, if the project generates 500 or more signatures. In just over two days, the petition has garnered more than 700 signatures, with 120 days left in the petition period.
e-270 (Aquaculture)
Whereas:
Containing Atlantic salmon in open-net cages in our oceans has serious consequences;…
Concepcion Picciotto
Picciotto was featured in Michael Moore‘s 2004 film, Fahrenheit 9/11, as well as in veb-films Route 66 mockumentary. The Oracles of Pennsylvania Avenue (2012) by Tim Wilkerson
White House Peace Activist Concepcion Picciotto Dies
When asked why she maintained the vigil for so many years, she said, „Because nobody will do it. Nobody will stand up.”
Britain spends £40mn on cyber security center to protect military networks
Fallon’s announcement follows the arrest of a 74-year-old peace activist who refused to leave a protest site outside an NSA spy base in Yorkshire last month. Officers also issued an official dispersal order banning protesters from assembling there.
Resilience: a core element of collective defence
Today, by contrast, 90 per cent of NATO’s supplies and logistics are moved by private companies and 75 per cent of the host nation support for NATO forces forward deployed on the territory of the eastern Allies comes from private sector contracts.
Azerbaijan: US Should Urge Further Prisoner Releases
“Because Azerbaijan is such an important partner for the US, it’s all the more reason the US government should lend its voice to help secure freedom for government critics,” said Andrea Prasow, deputy Washington director at Human Rights Watch. “The Obama administration and members of Congress shouldn’t miss this crucial opportunity to encourage Aliyev to end the country’s human rights crackdown.”
Azerbaijan named committed partner of NATO
(14.3.2016) The Romanian embassy, in its capacity of NATO Contact Point Embassy to Azerbaijan, hosted a roundtable on NATO-Azerbaijan cooperation on March 11.
Romania’s Deputy Foreign Minister responsible for strategic issues Daniel Ioniță, NATO officials, ambassadors, defence attaches and senior diplomats from Embassies of NATO countries in Baku attended the event.
Kerry, State Dept. Comment on Karabakh Conflict
Secretary Kerry made his appeal during talks with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Thursday as the Azerbaijani leader is the Washington for the nuclear security summit.
Azerbaijan increases gas supplies to Turkey
The Turkish Department for the Energy Market Regulation reported that Turkey imported 594.46 million cu m of gas from Azerbaijan in January via Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum that was up by 3% or 17.1 million cu m more versus January 2015.
Azerbaijan is apparently backed by Turkey: Karabakh spokesman
“Azerbaijani troops have used heavy weaponry, trying to break into the depths of Karabakh’s defense in some places,” Davit Babayan was quoted as saying. “The Armenian troops retaliated, throwing the Azerbaijani troops back and causing the rival major losses.”