(25.10.2015) A political consultant once related how he lunched with Benjamin Netanyahu, who ordered a hamburger with fries. He was not supposed to be eating such foods – doctor’s orders. As they were finishing up, Bibi’s wife, Sarah, came in, saw the evidence and began to see red. Netanyahu, all righteous indignation, looked her straight in the eye and said he had eaten no such hamburger. The storyteller said he was convinced at that moment that Netanyahu himself believed it.

„Behind the mud-slinging there are no facts, the opposite is true,“ said Netanyahu. The prime minister reiterated that he is not a suspect in the submarine affair and that the justice ministry ruled regarding Bezeq that he did not make controversial decisions or any decisions that helped the company and could be seen as a conflict of interests.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday told a gathering of his political allies that a series of corruption allegations linked to him and his associates are the consequence of “a coordinated campaign of leftists who want to undermine my government.”

This paper focuses exclusively on internal political structures in Iraq and how the post-occupation environment has enabled a situation in which the most logical survival mechanisms for different communities is to mobilise on sectarian grounds within highly fragmented patronage networks.

Baba Ramdev‘s vast empire will now include his own security firm, which will offer army-like training for young men and women. The yoga teacher has announced a „Parakram Suraksha Private Limited“ to „prepare individuals for self and country‘s security“, according to a statement.

For Lévy, the way forward is clear. “Far from destabilizing the region, the emergence of a free Kurdistan would be a potent force for stability and peace. The conclusion of the battle of Mosul challenges us all to make this heartfelt choice for justice and reason,” he concluded.
In assessing Kurdish aspirations for statehood, Joe Roberts, chief advancement officer of The Israel Project (which publishes The Tower), noted their similarities with Jewish aspirations for national self-determination.

On average, Britain has sold more weapons than Russia, China or France over the last decade.
While the government does not provide values for deliveries of arms exports, it does publish information on the values of granted export licences.

Turkey has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to acquire Russia’s most advanced missile defense system, a senior Turkish official said, in a deal that signals a turn away from the NATO military alliance that has anchored Turkey to the West for more than six decades.

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Zu dem vom „S.P.D.“-Innensenator Andy Grote in Hamburg vermeldeten „bewaffneten Hinterhalt“ auf dem mit Baugerüst versehenen Haus am Schulterblatt 1, dem dort von Anti-Terror-Kommandos aus Deutschland und Österreich unter Gebrauch von Schusswaffen vorgenommenen Einsatz mit Stürmung diverser Wohnungen, sowie zu Weiterem ein paar Kleinigkeiten, welche sogar für Fans des starken G20-Staates interessant sein dürften.

In einem Video demonstrieren die Forscher das Resultat: Barack Obama spricht in ein und derselben Videoaufnahme mal über die Krankenversicherung, mal über Terroranschläge, mal über seine Einstellung zur US-amerikanischen Vielfalt. Die Lippenbewegungen passen sich dem Gesagten so an, dass das Resultat zumindest auf den ersten Blick glaubhaft erscheint.

Allerdings lassen sich damit nicht nur potenzielle Partner zur Kontaktanbahnung finden, sondern auch politische Gegner und potenzielle Opfer. Zunächst durchforsteten Erpresser Erotikportale und verlangten Geld von den Identifizierten dafür, dass sie nicht an Familienangehörige verraten werden.

Ende Juni startete eine Website mit dem Namen Je Suis Maidan.

As the CIA continues to defend their investment in the Muslim Brotherhood to bring „moderate Islamist democracy“ to the Middle East, much of the Middle East and our European allies are moving against the group.
I noted here at PJ Media last month that many of America‘s Arab allies (Egypt, UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia), as well as Israel, had moved well ahead of the U.S. in addressing the group‘s toxic influence:

Im Dauerstreit mit Ungarn verschärft die EU-Kommission die Gangart. Die Brüsseler Behörde warf dem rechtskonservativen Ministerpräsidenten Viktor Orban Verstöße gegen EU-Grundrechte vor.

The ways in which the disastrous Blurred Lines verdict represents a complete mess for the music ecosystem are fairly legion, from chilling artistic creation for fear of unintended infringement to the absurdity of giving estates of long-dead artists license to stifle the release of new art that would benefit our culture as a whole. The awful ripple effects of the lawsuit don‘t end there and it‘s useful to keep in mind that the jury awarded the $7.3 million verdict to the Marvin Gaye estate acknowledged that there was no willful infringement on the part of Blurred Lines creators Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams.

SOCOM currently has about 8,000 soldiers deployed to more than 80 countries, Thomas said in May. Since 2015, most of the U.S. troops killed in action have been special operators, including five of the nine Americans killed in combat this year, according to an LA Times analysis. And the elite forces’ share of the burden might only get heavier as the new administration crafts its counterterrorism strategy.

Frontex Director Fabrice Leggeri said Wednesday that other EU member States were not willing to agree to Italy‘s request for asylum seekers saved in the southern Mediterranean to be taken to ports in other countries.

United States Defense Secretary James Mattis did not ask Italy to lead a military mission in Libya during talks with Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti Tuesday, Pinotti said Wednesday, denying press reports. „Nor did the Americans ask us to do more in the country,“ she said.

The paper added that the Iraqi forces, after defeating ISIS and killing a large number of terrorists in Old Mosul, confiscated important documents which proved the revealed reports.

Italy is ready to reorganize its military missions abroad and increase its trainers, especially in Iraq, Defense Minister Roberta Pinotti said Tuesday after a meeting at the Pentagon.

(12.Juli) An Israeli technology company has exposed millions of Verizon customer records, ZDNet has learned.
As many as 14 million records of subscribers who called the phone giant‘s customer services in the past six months were found on an unprotected Amazon S3 storage server controlled by an employee of Nice Systems, a Ra‘anana, Israel-based company.

Justizminister Heiko Maas (SPD) fordert…

Ich bemühe seit fast 40 Jahren die Gerichte, um an die Akten zu gelangen. Erst ging es um Datenschutz, dann um die strategische Fernmeldeüberwachung, dann um die Unterlagen der deutschen Geheimdienste und danach um die der ausländischen Dienste. Es geht dabei auch um den Rechtstreit wegen der „privatisierten“ (also der gestohlenen) Unterlagen, die Minister und Staatssekretäre nach ihrem Ausscheiden aus dem Amt mit nach Hause nehmen und die dann in den Archiven der Parteistiftungen landen. Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat in meiner Sache am 12. Juli 2017 eine Entscheidung getroffen.