Daily Archives: 19. Mai 2018


19.05.2018 - 21:33 [ New York Times ]

Trump Jr. and Other Aides Met With Gulf Emissary Offering Help to Win Election

There were concerns inside the company, Psy-Group, about the plan’s legality, according to one person familiar with the effort. The company, whose motto is “shape reality,” consulted an American law firm, and was told that it would be illegal if any non-Americans were involved in the effort.

Mr. Zamel, the founder of Psy-Group and one of its owners, has been questioned about the August 2016 meeting by investigators for the special counsel, and at least two F.B.I. agents working on the inquiry have traveled to Israel to interview employees of the company who worked on the proposal.

19.05.2018 - 21:31 [ Haaretz ]

Mueller Investigators Questioned Witnesses in Israel and Seized Computers, Report Says

The report, citing four sources, said that a company linked to Zamel, Psy-Group, was working on an online manipulation campaign that involved usage thousands of fake social media accounts to help Trump get elected. The report, Zamel himself was questioned by Mueller‘s investigators and at least two FBI agents were sent to Israel to interview the company‘s employees. Mueller‘s team also worked with the Israel Police to seize computers of one of Zamel‘s firms. The New York Times notes that there were concerns inside the company about the plan‘s legality, since U.S. law prohibits non-Americans from being involved in the election.

19.05.2018 - 21:21 [ Haaretz ]

21 Israeli Arabs Arrested During Haifa Protest Against Gaza Killings

Twenty one Israeli Arabs protesting the killing of Gazans were arrested Friday in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Dozens participated in a demonstration in the city‘s lower commercial area. Police said those arrested were suspected of public disorder offenses. Protesters held up Palestinian flags, according to reports.

19.05.2018 - 21:14 [ GlobalTimes.cn ]

US should adapt to North Korea’s change

Maybe Americans think differently than Asians. However, South Koreans should seriously consider whether North Korea‘s latest revolt is reasonable. It would be OK if Washington pressures Pyongyang to gain an edge in negotiations, but Washington should think twice about the possibility of pushing the Korean Peninsula back to fierce antagonism.

19.05.2018 - 18:00 [ Außenministerium der Volksrepublik China ]

Wang Yi to Visit France, Spain, Portugal and Argentina and Attend the G20 Foreign Ministers‘ Meeting

At the invitation of French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian, Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Alfonso María Dastis Quecedo, Portuguese Foreign Minister Augusto Santos Silva and Argentine Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship Jorge Marcelo Faurie, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay official visits to the aforementioned four countries and attend the G20 Foreign Ministers‘ Meeting in Argentina from May 16 to 24. 20-21 May 2018,

19.05.2018 - 17:55 [ icFlorida ]

Putin approves new Cabinet that sees key figures remain

Many key Cabinet figures, including Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, are staying. Siluanov, the main architect of Putin‘s economic policies, was also promoted to hold the post of first deputy prime minister.

19.05.2018 - 17:53 [ gouv.fr ]

G20 – France’s participation in the Meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers in Buenos Aires (20-21 May 2018)

A French delegation will attend the G20 Meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers in Buenos Aires from May 20 to 21. This meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss the contributions and role of the G20 in support of multilateralism and global governance; it will also provide an opportunity to look at ways to promote fair and sustainable development. It should provide an opportunity to prepare for the G20 Leaders’ Summit due to take place for the first time in South America from November 30 to December 1.

19.05.2018 - 17:49 [ Egypt Today ]

Arab leaders in friendly meeting hosted by President Sisi

Bader Asaker, head of the private office for Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman, tweeted a photo on Friday of Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, Bin Salman, and Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces in Abu Dhabi

Asaker tweeted, “A friendly meeting among brothers, hosted by his highness Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi days ago.”

19.05.2018 - 16:58 [ Shlomo / Twitter ]

A disappointing lack of Twitter outrage about the Erdogan‘s visit to London. Unlike Assad/Putin, he‘s an official friend of Britain & came to London partly to discuss weapons sales. Yet people who tweet 20 to 30 times on Palestine cud not find 15secs to tweet on Erdogan #NotGood

(16.5.2018)

19.05.2018 - 16:44 [ Nicholas A Heras ‏/ Twitter ]

Does anyone honestly expect #Erdogan to give #Assad back #Syrian land that the #Turkish army has taken by force, or to dismantle the extensive #Syria rebel security apparatus that MiT is building? It is more likely #Turkey pushes for more-yes even #Aleppo -than less in Syria.

19.05.2018 - 16:31 [ alarabiya.net ]

Russia calls for foreign troop pullout from Syria including Iran, Hezbollah

On the heels of a meeting between Putin and the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the Russian resort of Sochi on Thursday, Lavrentiev added: „This statement involves all foreign troops in Syria including the Turkish, American, Iranian and Hezbollah.“

Lavrentiev stressed that Putin’s statement on this issue represents a “political message”, but added „not to view it as the beginning of a withdrawal process of foreign troops from Syria.”

19.05.2018 - 16:21 [ Trend.az ]

Iran signs deal with international consortium for Karanj oil field development

The deal was signed by the National Iranian South Oil Company (NISOC) head, Bijan Alipour and Pergas managing director Colin Rowley, in a ceremony attended by Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh and British Ambassador to Tehran Robert Macaire, Ali Kardor, managing director of National Iranian Oil Company(NIOC) in Tehran, the official website of NIOC reported.

19.05.2018 - 16:13 [ Trend.az ]

Istanbul hosts historic meeting between Rouhani, King Abdullah ‎ ‎

The last similar meeting occurred in 2003, during the King Abdullah’s visit to Tehran, the first visit by a Jordanian monarch to Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, where he held meetings with Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mohammad Khatami.

19.05.2018 - 14:59 [ Haaretz ]

Russia Will Have New Nuclear Weapons Within Four Years, Putin Says

Speaking at a meeting Friday in Sochi, Putin said delivery of the new Avangard hypersonic vehicle will begin next year while the new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile will enter duty in 2020.

The Avangard and the Sarmat were among an array of new nuclear weapons Putin presented in March. He noted that they can‘t be intercepted. They also included a nuclear-powered global range cruise missile and an underwater drone designed to strike coastal facilities with a heavy nuclear weapon.

19.05.2018 - 13:38 [ ORF.at ]

Tschechiens Premier lehnt „weitere Integration“ der EU ab

Der geschäftsführende tschechische Premier Andrej Babis spricht sich gegen eine weitere Annäherung der Mitgliedsländer innerhalb der Europäischen Union, wie sie Frankreichs Präsident Emmanuel Macron vorschwebt, aus. „Wir brauchen keine weitere Integration“, sagte der Chef der Protestbewegung ANO heute im Ö1-Morgenjournal. Er lehne auch eine EU der zwei Geschwindigkeiten ab – Audio dazu in oe1.ORF.at.

19.05.2018 - 12:43 [ Paul Malladi-Harrison ‏/ Twitter ]

Honestly why does anybody in the US care at all about the royal wedding? WHY??? AND GOOGLE NEWS WHY IS THIS THE TOP HEADLINE LOOK RIGHT BELOW IT. And before you start talking to me about algorithms, I haven‘t read anything about this stupid wedding so it‘s not that. #h20stilloff

19.05.2018 - 12:40 [ Jonathan Tepper / Twitter ]

More and more financial “news” sites are basically bots churning out articles based on price activity. Totally useless. Almost entire first page of Google News has no real news

19.05.2018 - 12:17 [ Effing Pants ‏/ Twitter ]

@googlenews so basically you just erased all my customized settings that I chose for the types of news articles that I want to read, and now you‘ve decided you (i.e. you‘re algorithm) already know exactly what I want to read, and I don‘t get a say at all. #bringcustomizationback

19.05.2018 - 12:15 [ krassmasterzero ‏/ Twitter ]

@googledrive WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO GOOGLE DRIVE?!? Holy crap that GIANT freaking „+New“ is INCREDIBLY ugly and doesn‘t fit with the rest of the UI at ALL. It looked perfect before. Why do you keep trying to fix what isn‘t broken?!

19.05.2018 - 11:47 [ Peter Gleick / Twitter ]

Dear @googlenews, When I ask for „Science“ headlines in my news feed, I don‘t want this kind of total crap. Fix your algorithms. This belongs in the feed of people who want „Pseudoscience“ not „Science.“

19.05.2018 - 11:41 [ Google ]

The new Google News: AI meets human intelligence

(15.5.2018) The all-new Google News replaces Google Play Newsstand on mobile and desktop and the Google News & Weather app on mobile. It‘s rolling out starting today and will be available to everyone on Android, iOS and the web in 127 countries by next week.

19.05.2018 - 11:33 [ Google SearchLiaison ‏/ Twitter ]

On Monday, we released a broad core algorithm update, as we routinely do throughout the year. For background and advice about these, see our tweet from last month:

(20.4.2018)

19.05.2018 - 08:50 [ SWR ]

120 Firmen verdienen an Militär und Waffen

Wie ist denn die Rüstungsindustrie in Baden-Württemberg aufgestellt?

Ziemlich stark. Das sieht man schon am Personal: Schätzungsweise 20.000 bis 25.000 Menschen arbeiten in Baden-Württemberg in der Rüstungsindustrie – das ist etwa ein Viertel aller Rüstungsbeschäftigen in Deutschland.

19.05.2018 - 08:08 [ Radio Utopie ]

Medal of Dishonour: den USA kommen immer mehr Kanonenfutter-Soldaten abhanden

(2012) „Die Nr.1 der Kriegsverbrechen ist, einen Krieg zu beginnen, weil alle anderen Kriegsverbrechen von jenem ersten Verbrechen ausgehen. Wir müssen bei den Macht ausübenden Personen beginnen, die die Soldaten in eine solche Situation bringen, bei der allein das Überleben zählt und und nicht die Regeln des Krieges eingehalten werden.“

Jesse Ventura auf CNN:“Our military has turned into contract killers“

Die Soldaten haben über die Erklärungen ihrer Regierung zu Kriegseinsätzen im Ausland die Schnauze gestrichen voll, mit der sie in endlose Kriege geschickt werden und gehen zunehmend mit ihrer Ablehnung in die Öffentlichkeit, die zum grössten Teil der gleichen Ansicht ist. Sie begehren gegen das Pentagon und die US-Regierung auf, die ihre Kriegsgründe auf einem Turm von Lügen und falschen Informationen für die Öffentlichkeit aufbauen, der durch zunehmende Enthüllungen wie ein Kartenhaus zusammenkracht.

19.05.2018 - 07:52 [ Robert C. Koehler / Common Wonders ]

Two Prongs of a Pitchfork

Writing about American gun culture, for instance, Christopher Keelty points out that “the racism that informs gun culture is deeply embedded in American history, and in the history of firearms themselves. . . . In the colonies that would become the United States, European settlers were required by law to own firearms for the specific purpose of fighting off the Indians who had been deposed from their land. Samuel Colt invented his revolver, the weapon that ‘won the west,’ specifically to quell slave rebellions.”

19.05.2018 - 07:49 [ Robert C. Koehler / antikrieg.com ]

Zwei Zinken einer Gabel

Christopher Keelty schreibt zum Beispiel über die amerikanische Waffenkultur und weist darauf hin, dass „der Rassismus, der die Waffenkultur beeinflusst, tief in der amerikanischen Geschichte und in der Geschichte der Schusswaffen selbst verankert ist. In den Kolonien, die zu den Vereinigten Staaten werden sollten, waren die europäischen Siedler gesetzlich verpflichtet, Schusswaffen zu besitzen, um die Indianer, die von ihrem Land vertrieben worden waren, zu bekämpfen. Samuel Colt erfand seinen Revolver, die Waffe, die ‚den Westen gewann‘, speziell um Sklavenaufstände zu unterdrücken.“

19.05.2018 - 07:31 [ Bandcamp ]

Froidepierre by Jean Jean

Froidepierre, le titre de l‘album, c’est tout simplement le nom du chalet dans lequel il a été enregistré. Ce nom s‘explique par son emplacement géologique, au cœur d‘une forêt où les pierres sont plus froides qu’ailleurs et où la lumière ne pénètre que difficilement.
Head Records Montpellier, France
released February 23, 2018

19.05.2018 - 07:16 [ U.S. Verteidigungsministerium ]

Budget Request Continues on Path to Military Recovery, Chairman Says

The appropriations in fiscal years 2017 and 2018 and the proposed fiscal 2019 budget support building the lethal and joint force the nation needs, he said… “The funding in this budget is sufficient,” Dunford said. “I look forward to working with Congress to make sure that it is sustained and predictable in the future.”

19.05.2018 - 06:40 [ Robert Fisk / Independent ]

How long after this week‘s Gaza massacre are we going to continue pretending that the Palestinians are non-people?

Remember how they were to blame for their own exodus seven decades ago, because they followed the instructions of radio stations to leave their homes until the Jews of Israel were ‘driven into the sea’. Only, of course, the radio broadcasts never existed

19.05.2018 - 05:32 [ The Real News Network ]

Jewish Americans Condemn US Gov. Support for Israel’s Massacre of Gazans

Activists from Jewish Voice for Peace NYC and Jews Say No! held a Gaza solidarity protest outside the office of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, condemning US support for Israel’s massacre of Palestinian protesters – Ben Norton reports.

19.05.2018 - 04:45 [ Xinhuanet ]

President Trump nominates Harris as U.S. ambassador to S. Korea

It has been reported that the White House withdrew its nomination of Victor Cha, a veteran Korea expert, in January for the post because of Cha‘s opposition to military options against the DPRK.

19.05.2018 - 04:33 [ Sputnik ]

Mysteriöse Maas-Mission: Was suchte deutscher Minister über Westjordanland?

Deswegen rät auch das Auswärtige Amt in Deutschland den Regierungsvertretern immer explizit, die Demarkationslinie einzuhalten. Und wenn man mit dem Hubschrauber fliegt, nicht über die besetzten Gebiete zu fliegen. Das hat Heiko Maas offensichtlich anders gehandhabt. Er ist als Justizminister mit einer sehr rechtsgerichteten israelischen Regierungsvertreterin über die kompletten besetzten Gebiete geflogen.“

19.05.2018 - 04:10 [ RT ]

‘Deterrent to regional threats’? US approves $45mn sale of 3,200 bombs & bunker busters to Bahrain

The order would consist of 1,500 Mark-82 general purpose bombs; 600 Mark-83 bombs; 600 Mark-84 bombs; and 500 BLU-109 “bunker busters,” bombs armed with special warheads designed to penetrate hardened targets, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced on Friday.

19.05.2018 - 03:08 [ Radio Utopie ]

Tag der Schande

Fast alle sogenannten „Militärkorrespondenten“ verhielten sich wie Armee-Propagandisten. Tag für Tag unterstützen sie die Armee damit, dass sie wie diese Lügen und Verzerrungen verbreiteten. Der Öffentlichkeit blieb nichts anderes übrig, als das alles Wort für Wort zu glauben. Niemand sagte ihr etwas anderes.

Dasselbe trifft auf fast alle anderen Kommunikationsmittel, Moderatoren, Ansager und Korrespondenten zu. Sie wurden zu bereitwilligen Lügnern im Dienste der Regierung. Vielen von ihnen wurde das wahrscheinlich von ihren Chefs befohlen. Das ist wirklich kein ruhmreiches Kapitel.

Nach dem blutigen Tag, als sich die Armee der Verurteilung durch die Welt ausgesetzt sah und das Schießen einstellen musste (”nur” zwei unbewaffnete Demonstranten wurden getötet), waren sich alle israelischen Medien darin einig, die Sache zum großen Sieg Israels zu erklären.