Daily Archives: 25. April 2017


25.04.2017 - 21:59 [ Spaceflight Now ]

Cassini sails by Saturn’s moon Titan for last time

Saturday’s flyby was be the last time scientists will capture detailed observations of Titan for at least a decade, and perhaps much longer. Cassini’s scientific sensors planned to gather information on Titan’s lakes and seas, study the moon’s atmosphere, probe the interaction between Titan’s ionosphere and Saturn’s magnetic field, and take a sequence of pictures.

25.04.2017 - 21:27 [ John W. Whitehead / The Ron Paul Institute For Prosperity ]

The Iron Jaws of the Police State: Trump’s America Is a Constitution-Free Zone

Please. Somebody give Attorney General Jeff Sessions a copy of the Constitution. And while you’re at it, get a copy to President Trump, too. In fact, you might want to share a copy with the nation’s police officers, as well.
I have my doubts that any of these individuals—all of whom swore to uphold and defend the Constitution—have ever read any of the nation’s founding documents.

25.04.2017 - 21:20 [ The Ron Paul Institute For Prosperity ]

Candidate Trump: ‘I Love Wikileaks.’ President Trump: ‘Arrest Assange!’

Back then he praised Wikileaks for promoting transparency, but candidate Trump looks less like President Trump every day. The candidate praised whistleblowers and Wikileaks often on the campaign trail. In fact, candidate Trump loved Wikileaks so much he mentioned the organization more than 140 times in the final month of the campaign alone! Now, as President, it seems Trump wants Wikileaks founder Julian Assange sent to prison.

25.04.2017 - 19:59 [ Sputnik ]

Mythos ĂŒber „unsterbliche“ Milzbranderreger deutscher Spione entkrĂ€ftet

Der Zucker und die Ampullen mit den Milzbrandbazillen wurden im Polizeimuseum in Oslo bis 1997 aufbewahrt und dann an das britische Verteidigungsministerium zur Untersuchung geschickt. Ein Jahr spĂ€ter veröffentlichte das Magazin „Nature“ einen sensationellen Artikel, dessen Autoren behaupteten, die Milzbrandsporen, die sich mehr als 80 Jahre lang in ReagenzglĂ€sern befunden hĂ€tten, seien lebendig.

25.04.2017 - 19:26 [ RT ]

PACE President under fire for Syria trip, meeting Assad

Peter Ford, the former British ambassador to Syria, has said that the current political climate makes it impossible for anyone to approach Assad or the Syrian government as anything other than alleged war criminals.

“In the present atmosphere of hysteria, it is impossible to get a fair hearing about Syria or to make a fact-finding visit to Syria or to have any contact with Syria at all,” Ford recently told RT. “Minds in government and the Western media are virtually closed and we are in a period of total hysteria.”

“It is impossible to have a rational discussion of Syria at the moment in many Western countries. There are too many vested interests that want to prevent a rational discussion. Anyone who tries to be objective is immediately, personally attacked.”

25.04.2017 - 18:50 [ German Foreign Policy ]

Die langen Linien der Weltpolitik

Berlin, das sich um jeden Preis eine weltpolitische FĂŒhrungsrolle sichern will und sich deshalb auf entsprechende EinflusskĂ€mpfe inklusive einer möglichen bewaffneten Eskalation vorbereitet, trifft nun Vorkehrungen fĂŒr solche GegenschlĂ€ge auf eigenes Territorium: Im Zentrum der Neuausrichtung der Bundeswehr stehen, wie Generalleutnant BĂŒhler konstatiert, die „Landes- und BĂŒndnisverteidigung“ sowie die „Bereitschaft zur Abschreckung“. Freilich dĂŒrfe dies die FĂ€higkeit des deutschen MilitĂ€rs, globale Interventionskriege zu fĂŒhren, nicht beeintrĂ€chtigen.

25.04.2017 - 17:47 [ Portal amerika21.de ]

Regierung von Argentinien will hÀrteres Strafrecht gegen Demonstranten

Die Partei von Argentiniens PrĂ€sident Mauricio Macri, Cambiemos, will mit einer Gesetzesrevision das Strafrecht verschĂ€rfen, um VerstĂ¶ĂŸe bei der Teilnahme an politischen Demonstrationen hĂ€rter zu sanktionieren. Neu sollen Strafen bis zu zehn Jahren GefĂ€ngnis ausgesprochen werden können. Kritiker sprechen von einer „Kriminalisierung des Protests“.

25.04.2017 - 16:58 [ de.sputniknews.com ]

Moskau zu Londons Atomschlag-Warnung: Großbritannien riskiert, ausradiert zu werden

Denn dann wĂ€re man gezwungen, die Frage zu beantworten, gegen wen London seine Atomwaffen eigentlich einsetzen wolle. Hier gebe es zwei Möglichkeiten: entweder gegen eine andere Atommacht oder gegen ein Land, das ĂŒber keine Atomwaffen verfĂŒge.

Im ersten Fall werde Großbritannien mit einem Gegenschlag „buchstĂ€blich vom Antlitz der Erde ausgelöscht“, so Klinzewitsch. Sollte eher die zweite Variante gemeint sein, lasse dies dem Abgeordneten zufolge darauf schließen, dass „die Lorbeeren der USA, die die Atombomben auf die schutzlosen StĂ€dte Hiroshima und Nagasaki abwarfen, London keine Ruhe lassen“.

25.04.2017 - 16:56 [ independent.co.uk ]

Theresa May would fire UK’s nuclear weapons as a ‘first strike’, says Defence Secretary Michael Fallon

Yesterday, the Labour leader suggested Trident renewal might not be in Labour’s election manifesto – only to be corrected within hours by party colleagues.

Speaking to BBC Radio Four’s Today programme, Mr Fallon said voters tempted by Labour had been left “completely unsure as to what would actually happen to our nuclear deterrent”.

25.04.2017 - 16:56 [ de.sputniknews.com ]

Chef der Labour Party tritt fĂŒr bessere Beziehungen zu Moskau ein

(23.4.2017) „Man muss sich bemĂŒhen, die Grenze zwischen den heutigen Nato-LĂ€ndern und Russland zu demilitarisieren, unsere KrĂ€fte auseinanderzufĂŒhren, sie weiter voneinander entfernt zu halten. Wir dĂŒrfen nicht in einen neuen Kalten Krieg abgleiten“, sagte Corbyn am Sonntag gegenĂŒber BBC.

25.04.2017 - 16:55 [ express.co.uk ]

Jeremy Corbyn REFUSES to say if he‘d authorise strike on ISIS chief in car crash interview

(23.4.2017) The Labour leader, who is a life-long anti-nuclear campaigner, was also asked whether a Labour government would scrap Trident if successful in June’s election.

He said: “We would have a strategic defence review immediately which would look at all aspects of defence as most incoming governments do. We would look at the situation at that time. But we would also make sure our Armed Forces are properly funded and are able to play their part in peacekeeping around the world.“

Meanwhile, the Conservatives warned Mr Corbyn would be unable to take the “difficult decisions” needed in the event of a major terrorist attack.

25.04.2017 - 16:46 [ dailyworld.in ]

Sigmar Gabriel, Reuven Rivlin

Jerusalem : German Foreign Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, left, shakes hands with Israel’s President, Reuven Rivlin during their meeting at the President’s residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, April 25, 2017.

25.04.2017 - 16:44 [ Haaretz ]

Rivlin Uses Holocaust Day to Challenge Netanyahu’s Darkness and Despair

Rivlin took issue with his idol Menachem Begin’s justification for the 1982 war in Lebanon, which was to “prevent another Treblinka.” He said that such an approach consigns the justification for Israel’s very existence to preventing another Holocaust. He described the approach as “dangerous,” one in which “every threat is existential and every enemy is Hitler.” He decried the division of the world to either “righteous gentiles or anti-Semitic Nazis,” a separation that transforms any criticism against Israel to an expression of anti-Semitism. Instead, Rivlin offered what he described as “a third way’ that combines the Israeli vow of never again, accentuates Jewish solidarity throughout the world and adopts the Jewish value of respecting all men and women, regardless of their religion or race.

25.04.2017 - 16:38 [ Reuters ]

Death toll in Venezuela‘s political unrest rises to at least 24

The ruling Socialist Party accuses foes of seeking a violent coup with U.S. connivance, while the opposition says Maduro is a dictator repressing peaceful protest.

The opposition‘s main demands are for elections, the release of jailed activists and autonomy for the opposition-led Congress. But protests are also fueled by a crippling economic crisis in the oil-exporting nation of 30 million people.

25.04.2017 - 16:21 [ Techdirt ]

Malware Hunts And Kills Poorly Secured Internet Of Things Devices Before They Can Be Integrated Into Botnets

The problem (aside from this being illegal and destructive) is that the type of person that‘s likely to go out and purchase a poorly-secured „gee whiz“ IOT device or router without considering security — is the same type of person that‘s not going to understand why that device just stopped working for no coherent reason. As a result, they‘re likely to rush out and buy another, poorly-secured device, bringing the incompetence full circle with a zero net gain.

25.04.2017 - 09:17 [ de.sputniknews.com ]

Gemeinsames Ziel bestÀtigt: Moskau nimmt Syrien-Memorandum mit USA wieder auf

Der Zeitung zufolge nahm Moskau das Memorandum, das nach dem US-Angriff auf den syrischen MilitĂ€rflughafen Schairat Anfang April ausgesetzt worden war, bereits am 13. April wieder auf — gleich nach dem Besuch des US-Außenministers Rex Tillerson in Moskau. „Rex Tillerson wandte sich wĂ€hrend seines Moskau-Besuchs mit der Bitte an die russische FĂŒhrung, das Abkommen wieder in Kraft zu setzen“, zitiert die Zeitung die Quelle.

25.04.2017 - 09:16 [ Zeit.de ]

Syrien: USA verhÀngen weitere Sanktionen gegen Assad-Regime

Dies sei eine Reaktion auf den jĂŒngsten mutmaßlichen Giftgasangriff, fĂŒr den die USA das Regime von Baschar al-Assad verantwortlich machen. Die Strafmaßnahmen richten sich gegen 271 Personen, teilte US-Finanzminister Steven Mnuchin mit.

Von den Sanktionen seien Mitarbeiter der syrischen Regierung und hochrangige Wissenschaftler des Landes betroffen, sagte er.