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Daily Archives: 26. Juli 2016
Tesla on Autopilot was speeding before fatal crash: Probe
The National Transportation Safety Board said its preliminary findings showed the Tesla was traveling at 74 miles per hour (119kmh) ahead of impact, but noted that investigators have not yet completed an analysis of the crash data or assigned a cause for the fatal collision.
The car was driving in excess of the posted speed limit of 65 miles per hour (104kmh) before the crash.
IWF-Kredite: Ukraine zwischen Baum und Borke
„Reform“ wurde zum Schimpfwort
Zerstrittener Gipfel der Arabischen Liga in Mauretanien
Das Spitzenteffen in Nouakchott stand im Zeichen von Uneinigkeit und Lähmung
Democratic National Convention Demonstrators Led by Chris Hedges, Cornel West (Multimedia)
On the first day of the Democratic National Convention, demonstrators—led by Truthdig contributor Chris Hedges and longtime activist Dr. Cornel West—marched from Philadelphia City Hall down Broad Street.
There‘s No Business Like the Arms Business
There is, however, unlikely to be a genuine public debate about the value of the arms business and Washington‘s place in it if it isn‘t even considered a subject worthy of more than an occasional media story. In the meantime, the United States continues to hold onto the number one role in the global arms trade, the White House does its part, the Pentagon greases the wheels, and the dollars roll in to profit-hungry U.S. weapons contractors.
The World After Me: Eternal “Wartime“ in the US
No child deserves such a fate. Ever. Each uprooted child who has lost his or her parents, and perhaps access to education or any childhood at all, represents a crime against the future.
And I think often enough about our response to all this, the one we‘ve practiced for the last 15 years: more bombs, more missiles, more drone strikes, more advisers, more special ops raids, more weapons deals, and with it all not success or victory by any imaginable standard, but only the further destabilization of increasing regions of the planet, the further spread of terror movements, and the generation of yet more uprooted human beings, lost children, refugees — ever more, that is, of the terrorized and the terrorists.
US National Security Advisor Visits China
According to Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang, Chinese and US officials will also exchange viewpoints about bilateral relations and other major issues of common interest.
Indigene Aktivisten in Guatemala aus der Haft entlassen
Prozess gegen sieben Widerstandsführer der Maya-Q’anjob’al gegen Wasserkraftprojekte in Huehuetenango endet nach über einem Jahr Haft mit Freisprüchen
Argentine Judges Say They‘re Being Pressured by Macri
An association of judges, lawyers and attorneys alleged on Monday that if they are being pressured by those in power to alter judicial decisions that don‘t serve government‘s interests.
Guatemala Indigenous, Campesinos March Against State Corruption
Popular movements demand an end to government subsidies for wealthy foreign corporations that deprive ailing public services of needed funds.
teleSUR Host Abby Martin Released After Violent Arrest at DNC
Martin was on her way to a „Democracy Spring“ event where there were reports of civil disobedience and arrests being made. The police had closed off all streets surrounding the action.
@ByegmENG, @HDPenglish: Tebrikler. Pîrozbe. #RepublicofTurkey
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Bayern fordert Ausweitung der Vorratsdatenspeicherung
Da Whatsapp inzwischen eine Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung eingeführt hat, wäre ein Zugriff auf die Inhalte nur direkt über das Handy von Verdächtigen selbst möglich.
Turkey PM Yildirim says AKP will work with opposition parties, including pro-Kurdish HDP, to draft new constitution
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Russian, Turkish officials discuss restoring economic, trade ties
The leading ministers of the Turkish economic administration visited Moscow on July 26 to discuss ways to mend ties with their Russian counterparts for the first time since the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey last November, which strained bilateral relations in a dramatic manner.
Turkish President Erdoğan to visit Russia on Aug 9, says minister
“The ambassador has informed us that our president [Erdoğan] has confirmed that he will be in Saint Petersburg [on Aug. 9],”state-run Anadolu Agency reported Şimşek as saying on July 26 in Moscow, where he and two other ministers had gone to meet their Russian counterparts as part of moves to restore broken economic relations between the countries.
HDP co-chair calls for return to peace talks
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has called on Turkey’s government and to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) to seize the opportunity to adopt braver policies and rekindle peace negotiations following the recent failed coup attempt.
“We once again repeat our call to the PKK and the government,” Demirtaş told members of his party during a parliamentary group meeting on July 26, adding that Turkey is “not the same” as it was on July 14.
Turkey is in big danger if US was behind coup attempt: MHP leader
“It is said that this U.S. person secretly came to Turkey twice before July 15 and had meetings full of secrets in [the eastern province of] Erzurum and the [southern province of] Adana’s İncirlik Air Base. If these claims are true, which means if the CIA and Pentagon are behind these traitors, this means that we are facing a very serious problem and the U.S. will not be able to overcome this,” he said.
Turkey: The night of the ordinary hero
For more than 30 years Fethullah Gulen has encouraged his followers to infiltrate the military and judiciary in Turkey.
Hidden camera footage from 1997 reveals Gulen telling his followers to „avoid detection and infiltrate“ all levels of the state down to its „capillaries“.
Cloaking this sinister and heinous agenda, Gulen has formed a broad network of schools, NGOs and businesses, and covertly infiltrated into public offices to overthrow the democratically elected government in Turkey.
Gulen, who has already been sought by Turkish officials to stand trial on several counts of conspiracy, resides in southern Pennsylvania, USA.
The US has not yet extradited him to Turkey to stand trial, and continues to renew his residency permit.
Lorenz Caffier (@cducsubt) hält Bundeswehreinsätze im Inneren für richtig
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In Baden-Württemberg – Kabinett schnürt weiteres Anti-Terror-Paket
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Polizeistaat und Kriegslobby kämpfen hier um ihre Macht.Und wer Macht hat,der will sie behalten,mit allen Mitteln. Lehrt uns die Geschichte.
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Senat und Nationalversammlung haben bisher keine einheitliche Version vom Ausnahmezustand beschlossen.
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Übrigens: der Ausnahmezustand in #Frankreich läuft heute immer noch aus.
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Operation Asyl: Psychologische Kriegführung gegen unsere Republik und Gesellschaft im Zuge der Verwicklung in Angriffskriege gegen Syrien und Irak
Sofort nachdem sich herausgestellt hatte dass die angeblichen Attentäter nicht existierten, nahm dies Minister Thomas de Maiziere zum Anlass eine noch verstärkte Kooperation der deutschen Ableger mit dem geheimdienstlichen Komplex zu propagieren, also der „deutschen“ Geheimdienste mit „ausländischen“ Geheimdiensten.
Der Amoklauf von München und die Amerikanisierung der deutschen Gesellschaft
(24.6.2016) Die World Socialist Web Site hat immer wieder aufgezeigt, dass die Ursache dieser regelmäßig wiederkehrenden Massengewalt „in der Fäulnis und der bösartigen Krise des amerikanischen Kapitalismus“ liegt. So wiesen wir vor einem Monat auf den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Massaker von Orlando, dem 49 Besucher einer Schwulenbar zum Opfer fielen, und den von den USA geführten Kriegen, der Militarisierung des gesellschaftlichen Lebens und den ständigen Angriffen auf die Arbeiterklasse hin.
„Die Auswirkungen dieser täglichen Realität innerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten kann man schwerlich übertreiben“, schrieben wir. „Besonders die instabilsten Teile der Gesellschaft bekommen sie zu spüren. Politische Reaktion, nationaler Chauvinismus, immigrantenfeindlicher Rassismus – die rückständigsten Stimmungen werden systematisch kultiviert, um eine Politik imperialistischer Kriege und der Verelendung der Arbeiterklasse durchzusetzen.“
Eine ähnliche gesellschaftliche Entwicklung findet auch in Deutschland statt.