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Daily Archives: 27. Juli 2018
Die Mondfinsternis am 27.07.2018 in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Mit seiner Dauer von 1 Stunde und 43 Minuten ist die totale Mondfinsternis die Längste im 21. Jahrhundert!
An diesem besonderen Tag steht der Planet Mars in Opposition zur Sonne und leuchtet hell am abendlichen Himmel. An diesem Tag begleitet der Mars den Mond auf seiner Bahn am Abend- und Nachthimmel.
Die totale Mondfinsternis hat aufgrund der besonderen Konstellation mit Mars und dem verfinsterten Aufgang des Mondes am Horizont seinen ganz besondern Reiz für Fotografen!
Die Entstehung einer Mondfinsternis
Damit eine Mondfinsternis entstehen kann, muss der Vollmond sich im Bereich eines Mondknoten aufhalten. Unter dem Mondknoten versteht man den Schnittpunkt der um 5 Grad geneigten Mondbahn gegenüber der Ekliptik und der Ekliptik selber.
Bei einer Mondfinsternis wird der Mond nicht unsichtbar, sondern reflektiert das in der Erdatmosphäre gebrochene Sonnenlicht. Da das rote Licht am stärksten gebrochen wird, erscheint der Mond während der Finsternis in kupferrot.
The Police – Walking On The Moon
The Police – Walking On The Moon. (C) 1979 A&M Records Ltd.
Gentle Giant: Edge of Twilight
Acquiring the Taste (1971) Vertigo
Lotte Lenya – Moon of Alabama
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny: Alabama-Song
Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill
Claude Debussy: Clair de lune
Prélude – Menuet – Clair de lune – Passepied
Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata
Piano Sonata No. 14
Always a delight to meet President Xi Jinping. Our talks were fruitful and will add vigour to the ties between India and China.
Xi Jinping trifft Russlands Präsident Putin
Der chinesische Staatspräsident Xi Jinping hat sich am Donnerstag in Johannesburg mit seinem russischen Amtskollegen Wladimir Putin getroffen. Dabei erörterten beide Politiker die gegenwärtige internationale Situation sowie wichtige Fragen von gemeinsamem Interesse.
Why IS the President publicly denying his mysterious bodyguard is his lover? GUY ADAMS on the sacked heavy who rose out from France‘s gritty suburbs to become Macron‘s right-hand man
Though virtually unknown to the public, it swiftly emerged that Benalla had, over the past 18 months, become a key figure in the married President’s public and private life.
His background was certainly unusual: raised in a gritty suburb of Evreux in Normandy, he became an activist for the Left-wing Socialist Party as a teenager, eventually becoming friendly with its security director Eric Plumer, who helped him get employment with party officials, including former President Francois Hollande.
Skandal um Macrons Leibwächter: Der Präsident und sein Rüpel
(21.7.2018) Benalla stammt aus einfachen Verhältnissen, er wuchs in der Normandie auf, studierte, erkämpfte sich einen Job im Ordnungsdienst der Sozialistische Partei, gründete später seine eigene Sicherheitsfirma. Das war ganz nach dem Geschmack Macrons: Lieber eine eigene Firma gründen oder im Uber-Taxi sein eigener Herr sein, als stempeln gehen.
MERK TO THE RESCUE: Theresa May offered Brexit lifeline by Angela Merkel who insists EU leaders give PM ‘one last chance’ to sell Chequers plan to them
The Times is reporting that the German Chancellor Ms Merkel is frustrated the talks are not leading to a breakthrough, and is taking matters into her own hands.
She is said to have suggested they use the summit scheduled in Austria for the PM to hold direct talks to avert a no-deal Brexit.
Anti-EU-Parteien vor nächster Europawahl im Aufwind
Europaskeptische Parteien dürften bei der Wahl zum Europaparlament nächstes Jahr zu den Siegern gehören. Laut einer Analyse der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters könnten Parteien wie die Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) bei der Wahl im Mai 2019 deutlich zulegen und gemeinsam bis zu 20 Prozent der Mandate erreichen.
Linksfraktion bleibt im Euro
(29.9.2015) Im Beschluss vom Dienstag bestätigt die Linksfraktion die Kritik zwar. So förderten die EU-Verträge „einen zügellosen Kapitalismus“, während der Euro ohne gemeinsame Sozialstandards zwangsläufig zu Krisen führe. Allerdings habe die EU gleichzeitig einen gewaltigen Anteil am Frieden auf dem Kontinent.
Ein antieuropäischer Kurs komme deshalb nicht infrage.
Länder lehnen Kooperation ab: Scheitern EU-Pläne für Asylzentren?
„Die Afrikaner sagen uns, dass Europa eine Teilschuld trägt an der derzeitigen Situation“, erzählt der SPD-Politiker Jo Leinen. Die zerrüttete Lage in Libyen und Syrien sei auch auf verunglückte Interventionen des Westens zurückzuführen: „Die Kriegsflüchtlinge sind auch Produkte europäischer Politik. Und sie sehen auch die Armutsflüchtlinge als eine Folge verfehlter Entwicklungspolitik und verfehlter Agrar- und Fischereipolitik.“
Die Europäische Union: Ein Projekt der Eliten
(2.12.2015) Radikale EU-Kritik war bisher – nicht zuletzt in Österreich – beinahe ausschließlich ein rechtes Ding. Die FPÖ war zwar bis zu Beginn der österreichischen Beitrittsverhandlungen eine vehemente Befürworterin der „Europäischen Integration“, machte aber Anfang der 1990er-Jahre eine Kehrtwende und seither war ihre Anti-EU-Politik ein wichtiges Element im Werdegang zu einer Massenpartei. Linke EU-Kritik muss im Gegensatz dazu die internationale Solidarität der Werktätigen als Grundlage haben. Ankerpunkt dabei ist, dass dieses elitäre Projekt einer Emanzipation der Arbeiter_innen im Wege steht. Die Zeit wäre eigentlich reif für eine sozialistische Kampagne gegen die EU.
Kolonialismus und Imperialismus von 1450 bis 1950
(3.12.2010) Die koloniale Erfassung der Welt ist ein integraler Bestandteil der europäischen Geschichte von der Frühneuzeit bis in die Phase der Dekolonisation. Zwar waren die einzelnen Nationalgeschichten und Expansionsgeschichten zu unterschiedlichen Zeiten unterschiedlich stark aufeinander bezogen, aber oftmals bedingten sie einander. Transferprozesse innerhalb Europas und in den Kolonien zeigen, dass nicht nur genuine Kolonialmächte wie Spanien und England, sondern auch „Nachzügler“ wie das Deutsche Reich an jenem historischen Prozess der kolonialen Expansion beteiligt waren, mit dem Europa die Weltgeschichte maßgeblich prägte, so wie es von ihm deutlich geprägt wurde.
Zwei Wege – Eine Katastrophe
Das deutsche Diktat über Europa droht den Kontinent zu zerreissen. Repräsentant dieser Politik ist Wolfgang Schäuble, der die EU-Vorstellungen von CDU/CSU prägt. Die ökonomische Unterwerfung der deutschen Nachbarstaaten kritisiert Jürgen Habermas, der sich ein „besseres“ Deutschland wünscht und für die Europa-Ideen von SPD und Bündnis 90/Die Grünen wirbt.
„Zwei Wege – Eine Katastrophe“ vergleicht die EU-Konzepte der Antagonisten. Trotz unterschiedlicher Ausgangspunkte und Motivationen führen beide Entwürfe „in paneuropäische Illusionen und verfehlen das überstaatliche Friedensziel. Sie enden in Imperialismus und Krieg“ (Hans-Rüdiger Minow, Autor). 160 Seiten. Erste Auflage 2016.
Forderungen nach EU-„Marshallplan“ für Afrika
Tajani begrüßte, dass mehrere EU-Länder – darunter Frankreich, Deutschland, Spanien und Portugal – zuletzt Gruppen von Flüchtlingen bzw. Migranten aufgenommen haben, die im Mittelmeer gerettet wurden. „Dies bezeugt, dass eine europäische Lösung für die Flüchtlingsproblematik möglich ist.“
Antonio Vivaldi : La Follia
Sonata in D Minor, Op. 1, No. 12, RV. 63, ‚La Follia‘: I. Adagi
Il Giardino Armonico
The Collected Recordings Of Il Giardino Armonico
Steve Bannon Tells Haaretz Why the Russians Aren‘t the Bad Guys and Why He Can‘t Be an anti-Semite
Bannon seems to have discovered something that for members of the American intelligentsia is not only strange, but practically incomprehensible: Racism is not an issue that interests the majority of Americans. The economy, not racism, was the issue of the election. What truly interests Americans is not the Mexicanness of illegal migrants, but the illegality of so much Mexican migration. “The Democrats,” Bannon told an infuriated Robert Kuttner at The American Prospect a few days before he was sacked from the White House, “the longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.”
„The left is in total meltdown,“ Steve Bannon tells Haaretz. „And this is just the beginning.“
[LIVE/ARIRANG NEWS] 55 cases containing remains of American soldiers arrive in S. Korea – 2018.07.27
▪ South and North Korean generals to meet again next Tuesday ▪ Seoul‘s Ministry of National Defense unveils its long-planned military reform scheme Friday ▪ Seoul‘s unification minister discusses denuclearization, inter-Korean relations with U.S. Secy. of State ▪
Trump: „Don‘t Believe The Crap You See From These People On Fake News“
„I mean, I saw a piece on NBC today. NBC — not just CNN. CNN is the worst. But I saw a piece on NBC; it was heart-throbbing. They were interviewing people — they probably go through 20, and then they pick the one that sounds like the worst. But they went through a group of people. In fact, I wanted to say, “I got to do something about this Trump.”
Terrible.
And that piece was done by the lobbyists and by the people that they hire. It was a total setup.“
The military does not belong to Donald Trump
Trump has now taken it a step further with what some say is an Orwellian declaration: „What you‘re seeing and what you‘re reading is not what‘s happening.“ But troops don‘t have the luxury of serving only the parts of the nation‘s fabric they agree with. They serve the nation. Despite Trump‘s tendency to talk about the military as „his'“ and „my generals,“ nothing could be further from the truth. The US military is and must stay apolitical. It is not Trump‘s.
S. Korean Pres. Moon to discuss military reform in meeting with top commanders
Since taking office in May last year,… President Moon has been calling for efforts to eradicate what he calls deep-rooted corruption in the military and the defense industry. Friday‘s meeting will be attended by some 1-hundred-and-80 officials….. including Defense Minister Song Young-moo,…. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Jeong Kyeong-doo,…. Commander-in-Chief of the ROK-U.S. Combined Forces, Vincent Brooks,
North Korea confirms new military chief of staff
Ri formerly held the four-star position before he was briefly demoted deputy chief and three stars for an unspecified reason in 2016.
His return adds the recent appointments of No Kwang Chol, first vice defense minister, as the defense chief, and Army General Kim Su Gil as director of the military’s powerful General Political Bureau.
Weißes Haus bestätigt Entgegennahme von Gebeinen gefallener US-Soldaten von Nordkorea
Das hat das Weiße Haus am Freitagvormittag koreanischer Zeit bestätigt.
Chinas Vizeaußenminister trifft Nordkoreas Außenminister
Außenminister Ri Yong-ho habe am Donnerstag in der Mansudae-Kongresshalle eine Delegation des chinesischen Außenministeriums unter Leitung von Vizeminister Kong Xuanyou getroffen, berichtete die nordkoreanische Nachrichtenagentur KCNA.
I don‘t like the term „lamestream media“, but it‘s outrageous that @BreitbartNews is only outlet to pick up on i24news scoop about the Obama admin giving US aid money to an Al Qaeda affiliate in Sudan. Fellow journos: Sometimes the truth is inconvenient.
Exclusive: Obama Administration Knowingly Funded a Designated Al-Qaeda Affiliate
The Middle East Forum has discovered that the Obama administration approved a grant of $200,000 of taxpayer money to an al-Qaeda affiliate in Sudan — a decade after the U.S. Treasury designated it as a terrorist-financing organization. More stunningly, government officials specifically authorized the release of at least $115,000 of this grant even after learning that it was a designated terror organization.
Thank you to @meforum/@greggroman for the excellent work that went into this joint investigation and scoop.
EXCLUSIVE: Obama administration gave US aid money to Al Qaeda affiliate in Sudan
(25. Juli) The US Agency for International Development (USAID) gave $200,000 to the Khartoum-based Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), a designated global terror entity placed on the US sanctions list over its financial support for Osama Bin Laden and other terrorist groups including Hamas.
Africa‘s Three Major Mobile Operators Now Have a Digital Playbook – Highlighting the Continent‘s Digital Services Sector
Three of Africa‘s mobile operators – MTN, Orange and Vodacom – now have in place a „digital transformation“ strategy. In plain English, this buzz word means that they have an idea of how they will replace formerly lucrative voice revenues with digital content and service revenues. Russell Southwood looks at what they‘ve got planned.
Worms frozen in permafrost for up to 42,000 years come back to life
(26. Juli) The roundworms from two areas of Siberia came back to life in Petri dishes, says a new scientific study.(…)
‘We have obtained the first data demonstrating the capability of multicellular organisms for longterm cryobiosis in permafrost deposits of the Arctic,’ states a report from Russian scientists from four institutions in collaboration with Princetown University.
Prototype of China‘s Tianhe-3 complete
The research and development of the prototype of China‘s new-generation exascale supercomputer Tianhe-3 is complete, the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin announced Thursday. The final version of Tianhe-3 will be operational by 2020.
U.S. Embassy Statement for the 2018 Presidential Elections in Mali
The United States government has provided over $7 million in direct support for a credible electoral process in Mali. Our technical and financial assistance provides access to information for voters, electoral observation teams, and increased engagement of youth and women in Mali’s political process. The United States has also provided indirect support through the UN and numerous institutions and programs to strengthen governance and the electoral process in Mali.
(LEAD) Koreas to hold general-grade military talks at Panmunjom next Tuesday: ministry
South and North Korea have agreed to hold general-level military talks next week to discuss measures to enforce the military part of their April summit agreement, Seoul‘s defense ministry said Friday.
The talks will take place at the Peace House, a South Korea-controlled building at the border truce village of Panmunjom, at 10 a.m. on Tuesday.
Dubai‘s DP World to build shipping hub outside Bamako, Mali
Dubai-based port operator DP World says it has signed a deal with Mali to build a 1,000-hectare, or 2,470-acre, large logistics hub outside of Bamako.
Did China think Donald Trump was bluffing on trade? How Beijing got it wrong
“They say this is about the midterm elections and things will change after that. They are totally wrong and they totally misread the situation. I feel partly this is because they have become more insulated, and partly because nobody dares to tell Beijing that they are wrong.”
Tschechien will 2019 Botschaft in Mali eröffnen
Der Tschechischen Republik schwebt schon seit längerer Zeit vor, ihre diplomatische Vertretung im südlichen Randgebiet der Sahara-Wüste zu stärken.
Party heads, bigwigs humbled in strongholds
According to the unofficial results announced by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) so far, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan won all five seats where he had contested the elections, whereas the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari lost in their traditional strongholds.
Chinese lending for African infrastructure trebles – Sub-Saharan Africa sees the vast majority of lending since 2014
The value of loans from Chinese lenders to energy and infrastructure projects in Africa almost trebled between 2016 and 2017, from US$3 billion to US$ 8.8 billion, with policy lenders China Development Bank and China Exim particularly active in helping bridge Africa’s infrastructure gap, according to multinational law firm, Baker McKenzie
A Light, A Glimmer by Various Artists
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released June 4, 2018
Polar Seas Recordings Toronto, Ontario
Power Africa welcomes Israeli government
6.12.17 The Power Africa initiative has welcomed aboard the Israeli government to join their quest for expediting access to electricity to selected countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
African migration: Who’s thinking of going where?
(27.Juni) Afrobarometer’s current round of nationally representative surveys (to be completed by mid-2018) explores migration intentions and drivers in 35 African countries. Initial data from nine countries – Ghana, Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Mali, Zambia, and Zimbabwe – show that on average, one-third of respondents have considered emigrating, including 16% who have given it “a lot” of thought (see Figure 1). The proclivity to emigrate is highest in Malawi (where 28% say they have thought “a lot” about leaving), Zimbabwe (22%), Benin (20%), and Ghana (20%). It is lowest in Mali, where eight in 10 respondents (80%) say they have not considered emigrating at all.
Africa: U.S Gas Roadmap to Power and Light Sub-Saharan Africa
The Gas Roadmap for sub-Saharan Africa, launched in June at the World Gas Conference in Washington, DC, by the US Agency for International Development‘s Power Africa co-ordinator, is an initiative that seeks to add some 16,000MW of gas-fired power in nine countries by 2030.
Haaretz Published a Cartoon 38 Years Ago Depicting Israeli Leaders as Pigs. Nobody Got Fired
But as Katz noted, Haaretz published a similar cartoon in 1980
Jerusalem Post Fires Cartoonist Over Caricature Mocking Netanyahu, Likud Lawmakers
The Union of Journalists in Israel said that it „takes seriously the decision to fire cartoonist Katz from The Jerusalem Post because of his critical cartoon. Causing harm to a journalist because he expressed an opinion, lte alone when it was approved by his editors, is a dangerous step that must not be accepted. We call on Katz‘s editors to retract this unacceptable step.“
As a result of the firing, Tel Aviv‘s upcoming Animix Festival, which celebrates animation, comic books, and cartoons, will feature an exhibit on freedom of speech.