Daily Archives: 25. Dezember 2017


25.12.2017 - 20:13 [ Ynet ]

Lapid confident Netanyahu will be questioned in submarine affair

Yesh Atid leader asserts that if Netanyahu knew Israeli officials received bribes for the submarine deal and still gave Germany the okay to sell advanced submarines to Egypt, ‚he needs to go to prison for a long time. And if he didn‘t know, he needs to resign.‘

25.12.2017 - 19:43 [ The Times of Israel ]

Uzbekistan releases Israeli held after gun clip found in bag

(4.11.17) A similar incident occurred in Uzbekistan earlier this year: In March an Israeli in his 20s was held for 12 days after 13 bullets were discovered in his luggage as he was transferring between planes on his way from Israel to Thailand.

And in October an Israeli man, also in his 20s, was arrested in Egypt with bullets in his bag. He was released some hours later, fined around $140 and banned from entering Egypt for seven days.

25.12.2017 - 16:32 [ boing boing ]

When Justin Trudeau was in opposition, he voted for Canada‘s PATRIOT Act but promised to fix it; instead he‘s making it much, much worse

Back in 2015, Canada‘s failing, doomed Conservative government introduced Bill C-51, a far-reaching mass surveillance bill that read like PATRIOT Act fanfic; Justin Trudeau, leader of what was then a minority opposition party, whipped his MPs to vote for it, allowing it to pass, and cynically admitting that he was only turning this into law because he didn‘t want to give the Conservatives a rhetorical stick to beat him with in the next election — he promised that once he was Prime Minister, he‘d fix it.

Now the Trudeau government has introduced Bill C-59, which is meant to correct those deficits. Instead, it makes them far, far worse.

25.12.2017 - 16:31 [ Techdirt ]

Good News: Trump Protestors Accused Of ‚Hiding Behind The First Amendment‘ Acquitted

Last week we wrote about the insanity of the DOJ‘s argument in trying to convict a group of protestors at Trump‘s inauguration. As we noted, the DOJ didn‘t even try to connect the defendants with any violence or property damage, but merely said that by being near the property damage they were accomplices, because they made the actual perpetrators harder to catch.

25.12.2017 - 04:36 [ Blackest Ever Black/Bandcamp ]

Your Afterlife Is Cancelled by AMATEUR CHILDBIRTH

Choir! Choir! Choir! Of arseholes.
This is Amateur Childbirth’s Christian Rock album. The previous LP from Ivan Matthew David‘s solo project, 2015’s Pripyat, concerned itself with the blighted belief systems of UFO worshippers, Your Afterlife Is Cancelled expands this compelling solo project’s field of enquiry to look at a wider array of “religious anomalies” – cults, for want of a better word. Each song is about a different such anomaly.

25.12.2017 - 00:47 [ Heise ]

Vorplanung für Unterseekabel von Asien nach Afrika abgeschlossen

Die erste Phase des PEACE-Kabelsystems, das 6.200 Kilometer überbrückt, soll Pakistan (Gwadar und Karatschi) mit Dschibuti, Somalia und Kenia verbinden. In einer zweiten Phase ist eine Verlängerung nach Südafrika und Europa mit einer Gesamtlänge von 13.000 km vorgesehen. Die Übertragung der Daten soll mit 200G-DWDM-Technik erfolgen.

25.12.2017 - 00:37 [ teleSUR ]

Venezuela Ejects Top Canadian and Brazilian Diplomats

Canadian Charge d‘Affaires Craib Kowalik and Brazilian Ambassador to Caracas Ruy Pereira have been expelled from Venezuela, National Constituent Assembly (ANC) President Delcy Rodriguez has announced. Rodriguez accused Ottawa of meddling in domestic politics, saying that Kowalik showed no restraint in his „permanent and insistent, rude and vulgar interference in the internal affairs of Venezuela.“

25.12.2017 - 00:23 [ PressTV ]

UK charity group warns of horrifying situations for homeless people

Crisis puts the number of “hidden” rough sleepers at 9,100 besides 9,000 more who are sleeping on the streets and 120,000 who will have to stay in temporary accommodation during the festive season.

The agency also said that the number of hidden homeless is expected to further increase by 47 percent to reach 13,400 during the next decade if no action is taken. The figure has already risen by 57 percent since 2011, when it stood at 5,800.