Senate Floor Debates Confirmation Of Mike Pompeo for CIA Director
Daily Archives: 23. Januar 2017
Syrien: Russland und US-Koalition fliegen gemeinsamen Angriff gegen IS
Seit Freitag haben die USA mit Donald Trump einen neuen Präsidenten, der bereits im Wahlkampf angekündigt hatte, die Beziehungen zu Russland verbessern zu wollen.
Neuer CIA-Chef: Anti-Trump-Infos über Kontakte zu Moskau beweislos
(20.1.2017) Der Bericht über eine hypothetische Verbindung des designierten US-Präsidenten Donald Trump zu Russland enthält keine Beweise, wie der designierte CIA-Chef Mike Pompeo am Donnerstag bei Anhörungen im Aufklärungsausschuss des US-Senats sagte.
Zugleich versprach er, sich bei seiner Tätigkeit nur auf Fakten zu stützen. „Ich werde nur den Fakten folgen, egal wozu dies führen könnte“, sagte er.
Nach #ENF-#Kongress: #Europas #neueRechte streiten über #Israel „Israel ist unsere Zukunft“:
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Video Shows Israeli Soldiers Dragging Palestinian Teen Shot in Clashes
A human rights group has demanded that the army investigate the killing of a Palestinian teen after footage showed soldiers dragging the youth’s bullet-ridden body to their vehicle with his head banging on the ground. Only then did the soldiers offer medical care.
Cybersicherheitsstrategie der Regierung: Die Bundeswehr bekommt den Vorzug
Weiterbildung fast nur für die Bundeswehr
Die letzte Boombranche
„Die Vertragsstrafen hat der griechische Staat zu zahlen.“[2] Das gilt auch für die Abfindung von Angestellten, die Fraport nach der Übernahme entlassen wird, und für Entschädigungen für etwaige Opfer von Arbeitsunfällen. Athen hat zudem zu zahlen, wenn sich Ausbauarbeiten „wegen archäologischer Funde verzögern“
Deutschland steigert Rüstungsausgaben: 5,1 Milliarden für die Bundeswehr
Tatsächlich profitieren von dem Geldsegen hauptsächlich deutsche Rüstungsschmieden. Nach Angaben des Ministeriums wurden mehr als 95 Prozent der Mittel für Rüstungsinvestitionen eingesetzt. Der Rest des Geldes sei in die Auslandseinsätze geflossen.
Menschenrechtsaktivisten in Guatemala ermordet
Die örtliche indigene Bevölkerung steht seit Jahren im Widerstand gegen den Bau von Wasserkraftwerken in ihren Territorien.
UK communications spy chief announces resignation
Robert Hannigan, the head of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), informed Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson of his decision.
Before Leaving White House Obama Bombs CIA-Vetted Syrian Rebels Embedded with Al-Qaeda
But it quickly emerged that not only was this an al-Qaeda terror training camp, but one operated with a rebel group previously supported and „vetted“ by the CIA, Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki:
Zeugen unerwünscht: Obama befahl Last-Minute-Luftangriff auf eigene „CIA-Rebellen“ in Syrien
Wie das Nachrichtenportal PJ Media unter Berufung auf einen Bericht des Pentagon vermeldete, hat die US-Luftwaffe am 16. Januar beim Angriff auf ein Trainingscamp für Terroristen nahe Idlib mehr als 100 Al-Qaida-Terroristen ausgeschaltet.
Der Schönheitsfehler an der Sache: Unter diesen befanden sich auch solche, die als „geprüfte moderate Rebellen“ zuvor noch die volle Rückendeckung der CIA genossen hatten und sogar mit panzerbrechenden Lenkwaffen versorgt worden waren. Sie waren in vollem Umfang in die von Al-Qaida trainierte Kampfeinheit eingebunden.
Republicans move toward confirming CIA, State Dept picks
The Senate is expected to confirm Mike Pompeo as head of the spy agency on Monday, even as a Senate panel votes on advancing Rex Tillerson‘s nomination as secretary of state.
Die große Stromlüge (Video)
ARTE/Memento-Doku 2016
Volksbegehren gegen TTIP, Ceta und TISA unterzeichnen – heute erledigt! #Volksbegehren @ttip_ooe
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Is this the end of TTIP? Trump REMOVES deal with European Union from White House website
(21.1.2017) The future of the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the US and EU has been thrown into doubt, hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as President.
Trump Abandons Trans-Pacific Partnership, Obama’s Signature Trade Deal
President Trump formally abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Monday, pulling away from Asia and scrapping his predecessor’s most significant trade deal on his first full weekday in office, administration officials said.
Mr. Trump sharply criticized the partnership agreement during last year’s campaign, calling it a bad deal for American workers.
Trump kündigt TPP-Abkommen auf
Das Handelsabkommen TPP war ein zentraler Teil der Agenda seines Amtsvorgängers Barack Obama, der damit die Verbindungen zwischen den USA und Asien stärken wollte. Der 2015 ausgehandelte Vertrag war jedoch noch nicht in Kraft. Neben den Wirtschaftsmächten USA und Japan sollten der geplanten Freihandelszone auch Australien, Brunei, Kanada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexiko, Neuseeland, Peru, Singapur und Vietnam angehören.
Gore Tech & End.user – Atlantic Warfare EP by Gore Tech / End.User / The Teknoist / Dolphin
Gore Tech, Manchester, UK
Electronic music production for the future-phobic
released April 29, 2016
Jemen berichtet über die ersten US-Drohnenattacken unter Trump
Zwei Drohnenangriffe der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika in der jemenitischen Provinz Bayda haben am Wochenende laut jemenitischen Behördenvertretern mindestens zehn Menschen getötet. Es handelt sich um die ersten Drohnenangriffe, die unter Präsident Trump durchgeführt wurden, der am Freitag sein Amt angetreten hat.
One of Britain‘s Trident missiles DID fail last year, US officials confirm at the exact moment MPs were REFUSED details about the ‚successful test‘ by the defence secretary
US officials have confirmed an ‚anomaly‘ did lead to the failure of a British Trident missile test despite the refusal of the Defence Secretary to give MPs details.
Viewpoint: What’s Coming for Unions under President Trump
(19.Januar) In this short piece I describe the likely form and substance of the attacks. Here I’m limiting my discussion to issues that most directly implicate unions, though there’s plenty more for workers to fear from the incoming administration—including increasing privatization and broad-brush deregulation, as well as efforts to pit workers against one another by fanning the flames of racism, sexism, and hostility toward immigrants.
General election: ‘Go away if you don’t like it here,’ says Dutch PM
The letter refers to anti-social behaviour in traffic, on public transport and in the streets. ‘We feel a growing unease when people misuse our freedoms to spoil everything, when they have come to our country for freedom,’ Rutte says. ‘People who don’t want to adapt… who attack gay people, who shout at women in short skirts or call ordinary Dutch people racist.’
Iran, Shell begin rivalry in petchem market
Sedighizadeh underscored that majority of large European countries like Italy, German, Russia, Greece, Albania are customers of the new Iranian petchem product; “additionally, the product will be deployed to Persian Gulf littoral states, Turkey, the US, Pakistan, Azerbaijan Republic, Nigeria, Kenya and Iraq.”
Article 50 ruling: When is it and what will it mean for Brexit?
What will happen when the Supreme Court gives its ruling on Tuesday?
At 9.30am all 11 Justices of the Supreme Court will take their seats on the bench, before one of the Justices, probably Lord Neuberger, President of the Supreme Court, delivers a brief summary of the Court’s decision lasting around five minutes.
The full judgement, including detailed reasons for the Justices’ decision, is expected to be released on the Supreme Court’s website
MPs warn banks over threat to free cash machines
MPs say they could intervene if banks fail to resolve a dispute that threatens millions of customers with being charged to withdraw their own money from thousands of cash machines that at present are free to use.(paywall)
Is your personal data being traded online for mere pennies?
One provider responded to undercover Which? staff with an invoice for 500,000 pieces of personal information costing four pence each. The data included phone numbers and addresses for households with an annual income of more than £40,000.
Bank details were also on offer. One company offered to sell the investigators 5,000 records including bank account information for 24 pence per item.
At talks in Astana, UN envoy on Syria urges mechanism to oversee ceasefire
International talks to extend the ceasefire in Syria started today in the Kazakh capital of Astana, with the United Nations Special Envoy said the ceasefire can be solidified if a mechanism to oversee and implement it is created.
Taiwan Cement chief dies after fall
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Koo Cheng-yun (辜成允), chairman and president of Taiwan Cement Corp. (台泥), died Monday morning after sustaining critical injuries from a fall on Saturday, the company confirmed. He was 62.
Trump promises CEOs to slash taxes, regulations
President Donald Trump promised business leaders on Monday that he would cut taxes „massively“ and slash regulations by 75 per cent.
He also warned the 12 corporate CEOs gathered at the White House that he would impose a „border tax“ on goods imported by companies that move jobs out of the United States.
Lawsuit accuses Trump of violating the Constitution with foreign payments to his businesses
A public interest group sued President Trump in federal court Monday, alleging he is violating the Constitution by receiving payments from foreign governments to his businesses.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed the suit in the Southern District of New York, seeking a ruling that Trump is in violation of the Constitution‘s emoluments clause .
Rencontre franco-allemande à Berlin
Le Président de la République, François HOLLANDE, se rendra à Berlin pour un déjeuner de travail avec Mme Angela MERKEL,Chancelière allemande le vendredi 27 janvier 2017.
Protesters mass in Jerusalem to demand freeze on Arab home demolitions
Two convoys of at least 100 vehicles each cut across southern and northern Israel on Monday morning on their way to the Knesset in Jerusalem, where they assembled to protest the recent demolitions of homes belonging to Arab citizens, and a deadly incident that occurred during one recent demolition.