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Daily Archives: 1. Juni 2016
Amazon Tribes Resist US Anthropologists‘ Attempt to Forcibly Contact the Uncontacted
Fighting back against the notion, put forth by American academics, that isolated tribes must be forced into contact with the modern world, Amazonian Indians are warning of another potential Indigenous „genocide“ if such ideas come to pass.
King Tut‘s dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms
An analysis of the dagger‘s blade led by Daniela Comelli, a professor of materials science at the Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy, showed that it contains 10 per cent nickel and 0.6 per cent cobalt, the researchers report in the journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science.
Mouvements de grĂšves reconductibles dans lâĂ©nergie
Appel de la FNME-CGT, 1 juin 2016 :(…)
La FNME CGT demande aux salariĂ©s dâagir sur lâoutil de travail, Ă savoir :(…)
Face Ă lâentĂȘtement du gouvernement, la FNME CGT oppose la dĂ©termination illimitĂ©e des Ă©lectriciens et gaziers pour agir sur lâĂ©conomie du pays
Virus im AKW Gundremmingen kam ĂŒber USB-Stick
VOLLSTĂNDIGEN BEITRAG LESEN:
Google Alert – AKW – 01.06.2016
Sczesny/BND: „BND darf selbst keine Netzangriffe durchfĂŒhren – das wĂ€re mit entsprechendem Mandat Aufgabe der StreitkrĂ€fte“ #CyberSich
Dr. MaaĂen, Pres. of the German Verfassungsschutz: Cyber risks increase dramatically. Spying is one #CyberSich
Atomumschlagfirma nimmt Strafantrag gegen Umweltaktivist*innen zurĂŒck
(30.Mai) â Es hat sich gelohnt, auf den gerichtlichen Streit einzugehen. Die Aktion und der anschlieĂende Prozess haben Vertuschungen seitens des Hamburger Senats zu Tage gefördert. Unterlagen in der Akte bestĂ€tigen die wissentliche LĂŒge des Hamburger Senats bei der Beantwortung einer kleinen Anfrage.â ErklĂ€rt Johannes. âC. Steinweg konnte schlieĂlich dazu bewegt werden, den Strafantrag zurĂŒckzunehmen.â
Union workers at French nuclear plants vote to join strikes
France‘s CGT union workers voted on Wednesday to start rolling strikes in the power sector, including at all 19 nuclear power plants, as part of nationwide protests aimed at forcing the government to withdraw a disputed planned labour reform.
Leader of Western Sahara separatist group Abdelaziz dies
âThis is a great loss for the Sahrawi peopleâ, Polisario official Mohammed Keddad told AFP.
France labour dispute: Hollande digs in as rail strike begins
President Francois Hollande of France has insisted that a controversial labour reform will not be withdrawn as strike action begins on the railways.
„The text assures the best performance for businesses and offers new rights to employees,“ he told a newspaper.
FBI Wants to Remove Privacy Protections from its Massive Biometrics Database
NGI contains well over 100-million individual records that include multiple forms of biometric data as well as personal and biographic information. Although many people assume the FBIâs files only include fingerprints and other data associated with criminal activity, much of these recordsânearly 50-million individual filesâcontain data collected for non-criminal purposes. For example, in some states, youâll need to give the government your prints if you want to be a dentist, accountant, teacher, geologist, realtor, lawyer or even an optometrist. And, since 1953, all jobs with the federal government have required a fingerprint checkânot just jobs requiring a security clearance, but even part-time food service workers, student interns, designers, customer service representatives, and maintenance workers.
Hammond must demand release of Briton facing execution during Ethiopia visit â Reprieve
The UK Foreign Secretary is facing calls to secure the release of a British citizen sentenced to death in Ethiopia when he lands in Addis Ababa today (Wednesday). International human rights organization Reprieve is calling on Philip Hammond to demand the release of activist Andargachew âAndyâ Tsege as he begins a two-day visit to the country, which was announced on Twitter by the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs earlier this week.
Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science, but Genetic Engineers Often Are
What is the meaning of ‚independent science‘? As co-chair of the Policy Committee for the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY), I have been an active participant in the coalition that is campaigning to pass GMO labeling legislation in NY State. In this capacity, I have spoken at public meetings, to the press and on radio interviews. A question that I have heard from proponents of biotechnology is „why do you organic farmers oppose science, like the climate deniers?“
Label of the month: Shipwrec
Shipwrec LOTM mix
From The Valley And The Mountain to Coco Bryce, Camiel presents the sound of Shipwrec.
Filesize: 139.4MB
Length: 58:04
ANOHNI to go on 110-mile desert walk in uranium mine protest
ANOHNI has announced plans to embark on a 110-mile walk across the Western Australian desert on Friday (June 3) to protest against the construction of a uranium mine.
War Nietzsche Metalfan?
Heavy Metal ist mehr als nur Musik. FĂŒr die einen ist er ein Dialog mit Satan, fĂŒr die anderen heilige Rebellion. Ein GesprĂ€ch zwischen einem christlichen Anwalt und einem agnostischen Kunstwissenschaftler ĂŒber Metal, Nietzsche und Religion.
Egypt to reopen border with Gaza for four days
According to Gazaâs border authority, Egypt will open the Rafah crossing for four non-consecutive days, during which students enrolled in universities overseas, medical patients, and Palestinians holding foreign residencies will be allowed to cross the border.
This is what it looks like when cab drivers get pissed about ride-hailing apps like Uber
As you can see in the images below (which come via some Xiâan-based Sina Weibo users), taxi drivers congregated in a central area near the cityâs ancient bell tower and made themselves into a massive traffic jam.
EU Commission President Special advisor appointment constituted maladministration and was misleading
In a strongly worded decision, the appointment process of Edmund Stoiber as a high-level special advisor to the European Commission President Juncker has been labelled âmisleadingâ, and constituting maladministration.
Gezi Closed Again on 3rd Anniversary
The mass rallying on Ä°stiklal street on the 3rd anniversary of the Gezi Resistance confronted police barricade yesterday. The families of those killed in the resistance were up front the banner of the Taksim Solidarity reading âWe are here, We are Togetherâ.
Army chief meets US congress delegation
The King‘s Adviser for Military Affairs and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mashaal Muhammad al-Zabin, on Wednesday, received a US congress delegation led by Chairman of the US Congress‘s Armed Services Committee‘s Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, Mike Rogers.
EU allows five nations to extend border checks
Inger Stoejberg says the European Commission has permitted Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria and France to keep checks at borders „for another six months.“
Updated combined EU Referendum forecast
This weekâs forecast shows the probability of a Remain win reduced to 71.9%, down from 76.1% last week. Once again the forecast share of the vote for Remain, at 53.7%, is similar to all our previous combined forecasts.
Belgium faces strikes, France still struggles with growing disruption
As France continues to struggle with nationwide strikes just 11 days before the Euro 2016, public sector employees in Belgium also started strikes across the country, leading to a disruption in transportation and other public services
Bundestag beschlieĂt neuen NSU- Ausschuss
Der Bundestag hat Mittwochnachmittag mit den Stimmen aller Fraktionen die Einsetzung eines dritten Untersuchungsausschusses beschlossen (Drucksache 18/6330). Er trĂ€gt den Namen ,,Terrorgruppe NSU IIâ und verfolgt das Ziel, ,,die noch offene Fragen im Zusammenhang mit der Terrorgruppe ,Nationalsozialistischer Untergrundâ (NSU), den ihr zur Last gelegten Straftaten sowie zu ihrem Umfeld aufzuklĂ€renâ, wie es in der Beschlussempfehlung des GeschĂ€ftsordnungsausschusses heiĂt (Drucksache 18/6601). Man wolle an die ,,erfolgreiche Arbeitâ des NSU-Untersuchungsausschusses in der vergangenen Wahlperiode anknĂŒpfen und ,,seither bekanntgewordene Fakten, die der frĂŒhere Ausschuss nicht behandeln konnte, verarbeitenâ. Dem Ausschuss werden acht ordentliche Mitglieder der CDU/CSU-Fraktion, zwei Mitglieder der SPD-Fraktion und je ein Mitglied der Fraktion Die Linke und der Fraktion BĂŒndnis 90/Die GrĂŒnen angehören. Wie ĂŒblich, stellt jede Fraktion auch die gleiche Zahl von stellvertretenden Mitgliedern.
„Vom Völkermord an den Armeniern ist nur indirekt die Rede“
Die Experten des Donat-Verlags, die sich seit Jahrzehnten mit dem Genozid beschÀftigen, wenden sich in einem offenen Brief an den Bundestag. Sie warnen die Abgeordneten vor einem schweren Fehler.
Bundesweiter Protest gegen die Autobahnprivatisierung und GrundgesetzÀnderung: am 31.5.2016 Aktion in Berlin
Die Aktion fand vor der Vertretung des Landes Bremen statt, weil Bremen derzeit den Vorsitz in der MinisterprĂ€sidentenkonferenz inne hat. Bremens BĂŒrgermeister Dr. Carsten Sieling (MPK-Vorsitzland) lehnt eine solche GrundgesetzĂ€nderung ab.
Weltverkehrsforum – mCloud bislang ohne GovData Anbindung
Etwa drei Millionen Dateien und gut zwei Terabyte Daten zu den Themen MobilitĂ€t (StraĂen, Schienen und Wasserwege), Wetter und Klima sowie GewĂ€sser sind auf mCloud eingestellt. Darunter Daten der 1.700 ZĂ€hlstellen der Bundesanstalt fĂŒr StraĂenwesen (StraĂenauslastung, Verkehrsdichte), Flutzeiten und WasserstĂ€nden an der Deutschen Bucht, Echtzeitdaten ĂŒber die PegelstĂ€nde der BundeswasserstraĂen oder Zeitreihen der ĂŒber 1.000 Klimastationen des Deutschen Wetterdienstes. Als erstes Unternehmen hat die Deutsche Bahn AG DatensĂ€tze in die mCloud eingebunden (Fahrplandaten, Daten ĂŒber die Parkplatzsituation an Bahnhöfen). Hinzukommen in Zukunft unter anderem Daten des Erdbeobachtungssatteliten-Programms Copernicus (ca. zwölf Petabyte). Das BMVI plant darĂŒber hinaus, die bislang kostenpflichtigen Daten des Deutschen Wetterdienstes offen zur VerfĂŒgung zu stellen.
Efes 16 Military Exercise
(29.Mai) Since 4th May, the Joint Combined Exercise Efes 16 is conducted in Turkey. The national exercise Efes, is being held as a multinational event for the first time this year, including about 7,000 service members from the U.S. Army and Navy, Azerbaijan, England, Germany, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
The purpose of the exercise is to improve joint and combined operations of the command, control and planning to include logistics and interoperability skills.
Technip awarded major natural gas field development contract in Mediterranean Sea
This natural gas field development, which is operated by Mellitah Oil & Gas B.V. Libyan Branch, a consortium between National Oil Corporation and ENI North Africa, will be tied back to the Sabratha platform, which is situated approximately 110km off the Libyan coast in a water depth of approximately 190m.(…)
Offshore installation is scheduled for the second half of 2017 through to the second half of 2018.