Iraq’s border crossing with Jordan at Treybil was reopened in August 2017 after the Iraqi army secured the road from Baghdad to the frontier.
Daily Archives: 5. August 2018
Egypt concludes naval exercises with US, other
It says in a statement Saturday that “Eagle Response 2018” began July 24 and involved special forces from participating countries, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
China to send a frigate to Australia for military exercises
A Chinese warship will take part in naval training drills off the coast of Darwin this year despite the prolonged tensions in the bilateral relationship between Beijing and Canberra.
Botschafter Barlerin über sein Zusammentreffen mit Präsident Paul Biya
Neben der Übermittlung der besten Wünsche von Präsident Trump zum Nationalfeiertag in Kamerun habe ich mit Präsident Biya eine Reihe von Fragen von gemeinsamem Interesse erörtert.
Die Prinzipien der Kriegspropaganda
Principes élémentaires de propagande de guerre
Report: Syrian Chemical Weapons Chief Killed in Car Bombing
According to reports, Dr. Aziz Asber ran a scientific development center in Masyaf, which was previously attacked several times
Saudi Arabia agrees to admit Iranian diplomat to head interests section
Following the approval by Saudi Arabia‘s Foreign Ministry, head of the Oman and Yemen Department at Iran‘s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Alibek, has been appointed as the caretaker of the Islamic Republic‘s interests section in the city of Jeddah, the official Iranian news agency further said.
US space companies are crossing the Atlantic, bringing rocket launches to the UK for the first time
A host of U.S. companies signed partnerships with the United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA) in July, with several more waiting in the wings, as the British government doled out funding for launching commercial rockets from the island for the first time ever.
Wischen, Tippen, Zoomen: Forscher tracken anhand von Touch-Gesten
Dass die Informationen darüber, wo und wie wir unseren Touchscreen berühren, so einfach zugänglich sind, ist nicht verwunderlich. Ansonsten könnten wir nicht mit unseren Apps auf Smartphones oder Tablets interagieren. Jedoch erlauben einige APIs auch das Abgreifen sehr spezifischer Details, bei denen es fragwürdig ist, ob eine App nicht auch ohne diese Informationen gut funktionieren könnte.
Die Forschungsergebnisse sind gerade deshalb so interessant, weil Touch-Daten so einfach abgreifbar sind und im öffentlichen Diskurs um Tracking und Privacy bisher wenig beachtet werden.
S. Korean FM says ASEAN attendees supportive of Seoul‘s policies, peace efforts
The chair‘s statement from the ASEAN Regional Forum has not yet been released,… but many are keeping a close eye on whether it will reflect North Korea‘s statement, in which Ri said that to move forward, Washington must take a new approach to build confidence… and implement all the points of the joint statement in a balanced, simultaneuous and phased way. Pompeo was reportedly not in his seat during the remarks at the ARF because of his schedule. And though the much anticipated sitdown between him and Ri Yong-ho did not take place either,… the atmosphere did not seem hostile at all.
Why It‘s Now Every American Jew‘s Duty to Oppose Israel‘s Government
Netanyahu‘s zealous dissolution of democratic norms is a critical moral and political mistake. It‘s leading U.S. Jews to question even attenuated support for the Jewish state, while framing Israel as an unreliable, undesirable ally for America
The Left Stops Apologizing
Livni is right. The left has been the victim of incitement for a generation now, which Netanyahu began as opposition leader when he led opposition to the Oslo Accords. And the unbridled incitement against the left didn’t die down following Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination. On the contrary, it spread and become fashionable political discourse and the main agenda of the right, especially Netanyahu.
Tens Of Thousands Protest Israel‘s New Jewish-Nation State Law In Tel Aviv!
Bunter Umzug in Jerusalem
Rund 20.000 Menschen haben in Jerusalem für die Rechte von Lesben, Schwulen, Bisexuellen und Transgender protestiert.…
Progressive James Thompson Needs Your Help!
Help get James Thompson elected! Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, James Thompson, and Adrienne Lawrence, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
Great meeting @AnaKasparian and @cenkuygur yesterday on @TheYoungTurks. Extremely warm, welcoming and funny! You should come do a show in Wichita, Kansas, the KOCH brothers back yard. A big thank you to all your staff for everything! #ks04 #ksleg
‘Development is the only truth’
A demand that Pakistan restructure (only) the Chinese loans, or that the IMF monitor and control the terms and progress of CPEC projects, will be obviously unacceptable to both Pakistan and China. Pakistan may have to do without an IMF package.
HUGE NEWS. A new, independent poll has us WINNING the primary! We‘re @ 35%, Davids @ 21%, Niermann @ 15%, Sidie-McCamon-Willaims @ 12% total, 17% undecided. And, an earlier indep poll has us up 7% over Yoder in the general! #ksleg #ksed #ksleg #kansas #overyoder #yeswekansas
Can a liberal agenda that sells in the Bronx win over voters in Kansas?
(10.7.2018) He’d raised tens of thousands of dollars from liberals looking for their next cause, and finding it in the suburbs of Kansas City, with a candidate running proudly on “Medicare for all” and a $15 minimum wage.
“People keep asking, are these the kind of ideas that a candidate can talk about and be successful in Kansas?” said Welder, a 37-year-old labor lawyer. “What I’ve learned on this campaign is that the only way we can be successful is by talking about these ideas.”
How the American left is rediscovering morality
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders talk to Sarah Smarsh about knowing what’s right from wrong
Believe it or not, I receive nice letters from Republican voters who value 2 things: 1) I don’t take lobbyist $ 2) I’m honest about my views & listen to others
What’s frustrating to voters are folks who campaign on stances they don’t believe in. Hawaii: Vote @KanielaIng Aug 11.
No breakthrough at ARF for denuclearization, war-ending declaration
The U.S. is pressing the North to take concrete denuclearization steps, beyond a show of dismantling nuclear and missile testing sites in the absence of international experts.
The North says it has done a lot, and the Trump administration should reciprocate.
Miscreants attack US ambassador’s car in city
As she was leaving around 11:00pm, a group of miscreants gave a chase and threw bricks at the car she was in, Majumder told UNB.
The Victory of ‘Perception Management’
(28.12.2014) To understand how the American people find themselves trapped in today’s Orwellian dystopia of endless warfare against an ever-shifting collection of “evil” enemies, you have to think back to the Vietnam War and the shock to the ruling elite caused by an unprecedented popular uprising against that war.
While on the surface Official Washington pretended that the mass protests didn’t change policy, a panicky reality existed behind the scenes, a recognition that a major investment in domestic propaganda would be needed to ensure that future imperial adventures would have the public’s eager support or at least its confused acquiescence.
This commitment to what the insiders called “perception management” began in earnest with the Reagan administration in the 1980s but it would come to be the accepted practice of all subsequent administrations, including the present one of President Barack Obama.
The Hidden Author of Putinism
(7.11.2014) One of Surkov’s many nicknames is the “political technologist of all of Rus.” Political technologists are the new Russian name for a very old profession: viziers, gray cardinals, wizards of Oz. They first emerged in the mid-1990s, knocking on the gates of power like pied pipers, bowing low and offering their services to explain the world and whispering that they could reinvent it. They inherited a very Soviet tradition of top-down governance and tsarist practices of co-opting anti-state actors (anarchists in the 19th century, neo-Nazis and religious fanatics now), all fused with the latest thinking in television, advertising, and black PR. Their first clients were actually Russian modernizers: In 1996 the political technologists, coordinated by Boris Berezovsky, the oligarch nicknamed the “Godfather of the Kremlin” and the man who first understood the power of television in Russia, managed to win then-President Boris Yeltsin a seemingly lost election by persuading the nation that he was the only man who could save it from a return to revanchist Communism and new fascism. They produced TV scare-stories of looming pogroms and conjured fake Far Right parties, insinuating that the other candidate was a Stalinist (he was actually more a socialist democrat), to help create the mirage of a looming “red-brown” menace.
5 injured in Chhatra League-student clash in Jigatola
The incident occurred when around 1,000 students marched towards Jigatola demanding safer roads and protesting Saturday’s attack on demonstrators.
Taktik des Terrorkrieges: Wahrnehmungs-Management, Verwirrung, gelenkte Querfront
(7.6.2017) „Surkow kam ursprünglich aus der Theater-Welt. Und diejenigen die seine Karriere studierten, sagten, was er tat war, Avantgarde-Ideen aus dem Theater zu nehmen und sie in das Herz der Politik zu überführen. Surkows Ziel war es nicht nur Leute zu manipulieren, sondern tiefer zu gehen und mit ihrer Wahrnehmung der Welt zu spielen und diese zu unterminieren, damit sie niemals sicher sind was wirklich geschieht.
Surkow veränderte die russische Politik in ein verwirrendes, sich permanent veränderndes Theaterstück. Er nutzte Geld des Kremls um alle Arten von Gruppen zu sponsorn: von antifaschistischen Massenjugendorganisationen zu derem völligen Gegenstück: Neonazi-Skinheads, sowie liberalen Menschenrechtsgruppen, welche dann die Regierung attackierten. Surkow unterstützte sogar ganze politische Parteien, welche in Opposition zu Präsident Putin standen.
Doch die entscheidende Sache war, dass Surkow anschließend bekannt werden ließ, dass er dies tat – was bedeutete, dass keiner sicher war was echt und was gefälscht war im modernen Russland. Wie ein Journalist es formulierte: Es ist eine Strategie der Macht, die jedwede Opposition konstant verwirrt hält. Eine unaufhörliche Formwandlung, die unaufhaltsam ist, weil sie undefinierbar ist.“
Patriot Prayer, Anti-fascist rallies in Portland, Oregon – Extended live coverage
Watch the complete coverage streamed from KGW News of the dueling protests in Portland, Oregon by the Patriot Prayer and Anti-fascist groups and other demonstrators. Aug. 4, 2018. All footage from KGW News.
#AlexJones #Infowars ANTIFA Fails To Stop Free Speech In Portland As Thousands Of Americans Come Together
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HyperNormalisation (2016) by Adam Curtis – A different experience of reality FULL DOCUMENTARY
Published on Dec 12, 2016
The cult documentary maker explores the falsity of modern life in his own inimitable style. Though he’s spent the best part of four decades making television, Curtis’s signature blend of hypnotic archive footage, authoritative voiceover and a seemingly inexhaustible appetite for bizarre historical tangents is better suited to the web, a place just as resistant to the narrative handholding of broadcast TV as he is. He argues that an army of technocrats, complacent radicals and Faustian internet entrepreneurs have conspired to create an unreal world; one whose familiar and often comforting details blind us to its total inauthenticity.
Portland protest: Clashes erupt as Patriot Prayer & Antifa stage rival rallies
(5.8.2018) Hundreds of demonstrators from the right-wing Patriot Prayer group and Antifa activists launched rivaling protests in Portland. There was heavy police presence on site after similar events earlier this year ending in violence.
Clashes in Portland as nationalist & anti-fascist rallies meet
(7.8.2017) Hundreds of nationalist demonstrators and anti-fascist counter-protesters converged in downtown Portland, Oregon, Sunday, causing a mass brawl between the two rival groups. The meeting led to a sudden outbreak of violence between the two rival factions.
Rallies, vigils to mark 73rd anniversary of Hiroshima attack
Peace groups in Walpole, Pittsfield, Easthampton, Arlington, Watertown, Andover, Cambridge, Waltham and other cities and towns plan to stage rallies and vigils calling for universal nuclear disarmament.
A Nagasaki Day remembrance in Boston on Aug. 9 will close out the week.
Ethiopian Federal military took control of Jigjiga town
The military seized the installations including the headquarters of state-owned media, the parliament and the presidential palace of the state.
Verhandlungen zwischen ELN und Regierung in Kolumbien gescheitert
Ein letzter Versuch für Friedensverhandlungen zwischen der scheidenden Regierung von Präsident Juan Manuel Santos und der Guerilla-Bewegung Nationale Befreiungsarmee (ELN) kurz vor Amtsübernahme des rechtskonservativen Präsidenten Iván Duque am 7. August ist gescheitert.
‚We Need Equality‘: Tens of Thousands Attend Druze Rally Against Nation-state Law
Right-wing activists spread fake correspondence on deal between Druze leaders and Labor party
Druze engage in mass rally in Tel Aviv against ‚Jewish state law‘
The protesters accuse the Tel Aviv regime of racism and discrimination against other ethnicities.
Iran plans to open interests section in Saudi Arabia
“There have been advances made in the past two weeks, and I believe there are signs that the interests section will open and become operational,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Saturday.
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4.8.2016
Pödelwitz in Sachsen wehrt sich gegen das Verschwinden
„Wir sollen zwangsenteignet werden“
Caracas chaos: Soldiers scatter after loud explosion cut Maduro speech
An explosion rocked a televised event hosted by Venezuela‘s President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on Saturday.
Moment Maduro’s speech cut midway by explosion, panic ensues
The moment Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro’s speech was interrupted by approaching drones laden with explosives was captured on video.
Caracas authorities reject Venezuela president Nicolas Madura‘s claims of assassination attempt, say explosion caused by gas tank
Three local authorities who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss the case said the incident was actually a gas tank explosion inside an apartment near the site of Maduro‘s speech.
Smoke could be seen coming out a building window.
Live im Fernsehen: Venezuela meldet Drohnenattacke auf Präsident Maduro
Ein von mutmaßlichen Rebellen verantworteter Twitter-Account bekannte sich zu dem Anschlag. Dort wurde behauptet, dass zwei Drohnen mit C4-Sprengstoff in der Nähe des Präsidenten explodiert seien, bevor sie von Scharfschützen abgeschossen worden seien. Die Rebellengruppe mit dem Namen „Soldados de franela“ (in etwa: Stoff-Soldaten) war bisher nicht bekannt.
World Extends Solidarity To Venezuela‘s Maduro After Attack
World leaders and intellectuals have condemned the assassination attempt against Venezuela‘s President Nicolas Maduro, sending messages of support from across the globe.
Anschlag auf Maduro
Ersten Informationen zufolge explodierten während einer Militärparade mehrere mit Sprengstoff beladene Drohnen. Maduro blieb unverletzt.