Unser Protest richtet sich gegen diese Landesregierung und auch gegen die Frankfurter Stadtregierung, eine Koalition aus CDU, SPD und Grünen. Landes- und stadteigene Wohnungsbaugesellschaften sollten sich auf den Neubau und die Erhaltung von Sozialwohnungen konzentrieren. Die landeseigene Nassauische Heimstätte Wohnungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH baut ebenso wie die stadteigene ABG Frankfurt-Holding statt dessen Eigentumswohnungen im Luxussegment.
Daily Archives: 18. Oktober 2018
McKinseys Ministerin
Offiziell werden Vertreter von Rüstungskonzernen und von Unternehmensberatern wie McKinsey vom Bundesverteidigungsministerium (BMVG) für ihre »besondere Expertise« zeitweilig angeheuert. Faktisch aber schiebt man Lobbyisten der Kapitalfraktion Millionen zu, und sie bestimmen das Regierungshandeln im Sinne ihrer eigentlichen Auftraggeber. Im Haus Ursula von der Leyens (CDU) gehören einige dieser »Berater« offenbar schon zum Inventar.
Colombia: High School Teachers to Join University Strike
The Colombian Federation of Education Workers (Fecode) announced Wednesday, in the context of nationwide protests led by public university students, professors, and directors who are demanding an increase in their budget, that they will also go on strike.
Konferenz gegen G20-Gipfel, „Weltforum des Kritischen Denkens“ in Argentinien
Buenos Aires. Der Lateinamerikanische Rat für Sozialwissenschaften (Clacso) ruft zu einer Gegenveranstaltung zum G20-Gipfel auf, der am 30. November und 1. Dezember in Buenos Aires stattfinden wird. Unter dem Titel „Erstes Weltforum des Kritischen Denkens“ wurden namhafte Persönlichkeiten aus Politik, sozialen Bewegungen und Wissenschaft zu dem Treffen von 19. bis 23. November in Buenos Aires eingeladen. N
ARD-Vorwahlumfrage: Grüne auch in Hessen auf Rekordkurs
Eine Mehrheitsbildung wäre mit den Ergebnissen dieser Sonntagsfrage relativ schwierig: Rechnerisch wären keine Zweierkonstellationen möglich. Für ein Regierungsbündnis aus CDU und Grünen würde es unter diesen Voraussetzungen auch nicht mehr reichen.
Israel‘s Supreme Court Grants Lara Alqasem‘s Appeal; She Will Be Allowed to Enter the Country
Court slams detention as an ‚extreme and dangerous step, which could lead to the crumbling of the pillars upon which democracy stands‘ ■ Alqasem, 22, was detained upon landing in Israel after she was flagged as a BDS activist
EU forscht an Drohnenschwärmen zur Meeresüberwachung
Rüstungskonzerne wollen mit Unterstützung der EU ausprobieren, inwiefern 20 verschiedene Drohnen zu Wasser und in der Luft miteinander vernetzt werden können. Tests finden im Mittelmeer und in der Ostsee statt.
EU und Berlin planen mehr Gesichtserkennung in polizeilich genutzten Datenbanken
Aus der Antwort der Bundesregierung auf eine Kleine Anfrage der Linken geht hervor, dass die Europäische Union und Deutschland die Nutzung von Gesichtserkennungssystemen in polizeilichen Datenbanken weiter ausbauen wollen.
Filterpflicht für Online-Dienste: „Gefahr für freie Meinungsäußerung und rechtsstaatliche Verfahren“
Letzten Monat hat die EU-Kommission einen aggressiven Vorschlag für eine Filterpflicht für Online-Plattformen vorgelegt. Demnach müssen so gut wie alle Betreiber, die Inhalte im Netz anbieten – beispielsweise von Nutzern hochgeladene Videos, Bilder oder Kommentare – diese proaktiv auf „terroristische Inhalte“ überpüfen und ein Hochladen verhindern.
BVT-Belastungszeuge und Ex-Chef mit massiven Erinnerungslücken
„Das kann möglich sein, ich kann Ihnen das nicht genau sagen“, sagt H. etwa auf die Frage von Alma Zadic (Liste Pilz) nach Aktenvermerken zu einem Gespräch mit dem IT-Experten der Staatsanwaltschaft. Dass Systemadministratoren im BVTaus der Ferne Beweise löschen und Zugriffsprotokolle manipulieren können, habe er anhand seiner allgemeinen Erfahrung geglaubt, sagt H. – doch seine am Rande der Befragung getätigte Aussage zu Fernlöschungen wurde als einer der Hauptgründe für die Razzia genannt.
Auch UNO-Hilfskoordinator für Syrien räumt Posten
Es sei „Zufall“, dass sein Rücktritt mit dem Rückzug von De Mistura zusammenfalle.
HOLD THE FRONT PAGE. THE REPORTERS ARE MISSING
Although journalism was always a loose extension of establishment power, something has changed in recent years. Dissent tolerated when I joined a national newspaper in Britain in the 1960s has regressed to a metaphoric underground as liberal capitalism moves towards a form of corporate dictatorship. This is a seismic shift, with journalists policing the new „groupthink“, as Parry called it, dispensing its myths and distractions, pursuing its enemies.
Caught In The Cross Hairs – Media Lens And The Mystery Of The Wikipedia Editor
(17.10.2018) Apart from Cross, in the 17 years we have been working on Media Lens, only one other person has subjected us to a relentlessly negative campaign that is in any way comparable. Almost ten years ago, we documented how Oliver Kamm had been pursuing us relentlessly across the internet – writing blogs about us, posting grisly comments about our genocide ‚denial‘ under online interviews with us, and often warning journalists who mentioned our work – or who, god forbid, praised our work – or who interacted with us in any way, that we were blood-drenched ‚genocide deniers‘ and/or seedy ‚misogynists‘.
In 2013, Mehdi Hasan, formerly senior political editor at the New Statesman, now a columnist with The Intercept, commented to Kamm on Twitter:
‚I cant help but be amused at the way you swoop down in at any mention of MediaLens. Got ’em on an alert?‘
Despite continuing to seek out and attack us online, Kamm has shown admirable restraint in not extending his campaign to Wikipedia. We are not aware that he has added a single edit to either of our individual pages, nor to our Media Lens page. It seems that, for Kamm, when it comes to Wikipedia, it is always the Christmas truce.
Auftakt bayerischer Prozessserie
Im Sommer 2017 hatte Edith Grube auf Facebook zwei Beiträge des Münchner Kommunikationswissenschaftlers und Aktivisten Kerem Schamberger geteilt. In beiden Fällen waren Fahnen der YPG beziehungsweise der YPJ zu sehen. Dafür hat die Münchner Staatsanwaltschaft einen Strafbefehl über insgesamt 2.250 Euro (70 Tagessätze zu je 30 Euro plus Gebühren) gegen Grube ausgestellt. Die Behörde geht davon aus, dass es sich um Symbole einer verbotenen Organisation handelt. Deren öffentliche Verwendung sei daher nach dem Vereinsgesetz verboten.
YPG und YPJ sind allerdings in Deutschland gar nicht verboten.
Time to ditch Wikipedia? A look at a Wikipedia editor‘s long-running campaign to discredit anti-war campaigners and journalists
(2.8.2018) As an active editor for almost 15 years, Cross is very familiar with some of the more arcane Wikipedia rules and guidelines (along with their obscure acronyms) and uses them to justify removing information he dislikes in favour of his own inclusions. Often in a very subtle manner and over a long period of time.
Mutmaßlicher V-Mann darf nicht aussagen
Es besteht der Verdacht, dass er als V-Mann für den Militärischen Abschirmdienst gearbeitet hat und um die Jahrtausendwende nah an den untergetauchten Neonazis Uwe Mundlos und Uwe Böhnhardt dran war.
The Philip Cross Affair
(16.5.2018) 133,612 edits to Wikpedia have been made in the name of “Philip Cross” over 14 years. That’s over 30 edits per day, seven days a week. And I do not use that figuratively: Wikipedia edits are timed, and if you plot them, the timecard for “Philip Cross’s” Wikipedia activity is astonishing is astonishing if it is one individual:
The operation runs like clockwork, seven days a week, every waking hour, without significant variation.
The Philip Cross scandal: How Wikipedia is being used against left-wing journalists
Cross has also edited pages relating to art, music, history and architecture. Yet political subjects remain the editor’s focus. And, as FiveFilters points out, there is a bias over years of Cross’s editing – not only negatively impacting left-wing and anti-war figures but also positively impacting right-wing figures. These include Times journalists Oliver Kamm and Melanie Philips.
Fujimori‘s Former Minister of Economy, Dead at 68
Earlier this week, the High Court in Peru had declared inadmissable Boloña‘s earlier request not to pay US$3m owed to the State for allegations of corruption.
Internationaler Währungsfonds eröffnet Büro in der Zentralbank von Argentinien
Die räumliche Vermischung von IWF und dem obersten Regulativ der argentinischen Finanzwirtschaft wird von einigen Seiten scharf kritisiert. Die vormalige Präsidentin Cristina Fernández de Kirchner erinnerte daran, dass während ihrer Regierungszeit vom heutigen Regierungsbündnis Cambiemos die angebliche fehlende Unabhängigkeit der BCRA und der Justiz immer wieder zum Vorwurf gemacht wurde. Den IWF nun aber in die Zentralbank einziehen zu lassen, verkehre diese Vorwürfe ins Gegenteil.
Anti-austerity demonstration fills up central Rome square
Rome, December 18 – Rome‘s central Piazza del Popolo was filling up with protesters from the anti-austerity Pitchfork Movement as demonstrators prepared to launch a large-scale protest against the government Wednesday.
EU ‘needs another crisis’ to finish banking union
(16.5.2018) “I have the impression that [EU member states] have the false impression that everything’s fine, but everything’s not fine and the job is half done,” Olivier Guersent, director general for financial stability, financial services and capital markets union, said at the annual conference of the Single Resolution Board (SRB) in Brussels.
Politicians need “a big enough crisis for them to be scared enough, but not big enough to kill us”, to finish the banking union project, he added.
EU Bank Rescue Board Says Fund Will Hold €33B In 2019
Europe’s fund for helping failing banks is expected to swell to almost €33 billion ($38 billion) in 2019, up from nearly €25 billion earlier this year,
Italian economy minister hails ‚historic‘ banking deal
As well, the board‘s decisions must be approved by EU finance ministers, leading some critics to say the process will be very complex. In a second step, governments will contribute to a resolution fund by imposing levies on banks over 10 years for a total of about 55 billion euros.
No deal is better than partition, or reducing Britain to a vassal state
It was the Europeans who insisted that the Irish border must be resolved before our future relationship with the EU could be discussed. Of course, they knew the border could not be fixed until the future relationship was decided. They were laying a trap to tie the UK to European laws beyond Brexit.
Why the British said no to Europe
(25.Juni 2016) The pith helmets may have long gone, but the blood has never dried. A nineteenth century contempt for countries and peoples, depending on their degree of colonial usefulness, remains a centrepiece of modern „globalisation“, with its perverse socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor: its freedom for capital and denial of freedom to labour; its perfidious politicians and politicised civil servants.
All this has now come home to Europe, enriching the likes of Tony Blair and impoverishing and disempowering millions. On 23 June, the British said no more.
The most effective propagandists of the „European ideal“ have not been the far right, but an insufferably patrician class for whom metropolitan London is the United Kingdom. Its leading members see themselves as liberal, enlightened, cultivated tribunes of the 21st century zeitgeist, even „cool“. What they really are is a bourgeoisie with insatiable consumerist tastes and ancient instincts of their own superiority. In their house paper, the Guardian, they have gloated, day after day, at those who would even consider the EU profoundly undemocratic, a source of social injustice and a virulent extremism known as „neoliberalism“.
The aim of this extremism is to install a permanent, capitalist theocracy that ensures a two-thirds society, with the majority divided and indebted, managed by a corporate class, and a permanent working poor.
IT‘S BEER-EXIT: Macron and Merkel go out for a beer together after telling Theresa May they’ll scrap crunch Brexit summit
ANGELA Merkel and Emmanuel Macron last night shot down Theresa May‘s Brexit plans – then went out to celebrate with a beer.
„#EU negotiators real concern not a Tory #Brexit but one which gave an incoming #Labour government the freedom to establish democratic control over the economy & expose the neoliberal character of the EU itself.“ @lexit_EU @labourleave @keepcalm_change
In kurzer Zeit bin ich im Bayerischen Rundfunk (Radio) und diskutiere Brexit.
Theresa May faces backlash over hint to extend Brexit transition to 2021
It would mean the UK remaining within the single market and customs union and subject to EU rules and regulations for almost three years after the official date of Brexit in March 2019, and more than five years after the referendum vote to leave the bloc.
Angry Brexiteers said the concession would delay when the UK could sign new trade deals around the world and mean taxpayers paying billions of pounds more in additional contributions to the EU.
Sonntagsfrage zur Landtagswahl in Hessen (#ltwhe) • Forschungsgruppe Wahlen / ZDF: CDU 26 % | GRÜNE 22 % | SPD 20 % | AfD 12 % | DIE LINKE 8 % | FDP 8 % | Sonstige 4 %
Elections in Hessen in two weeks time might well lead to Tarek Al Wazir becoming Ministerpräsident
(14.10.2018)
Brexit explained: Why does the Border matter and what is the backstop?
The 499-kilometre border running from Carlingford Lough to Lough Foyle will become the only land border between the UK and the European Union after Brexit. The 1998 Belfast Agreement (also known as the Good Friday Agreement) brought peace to Northern Ireland and removed the need for checks along the Border. It also established North-South regulations and institutions that helped support the peace process. The Border is currently invisible and neither side wants the return of infrastructure or the creation of a hard border.
Labour H&F Council spent Council Taxpayers money in “censuring” me last night for not backing a second EU Referendum. This is against Labour policy. It is, however, @LibDems policy, so maybe it’s they who are in the wrong party, not me?
Crackpot Labour H&F Council calling on me to either back a second EU referendum or resign & cause a by-election….Honestly guys, have you shown this to any of your Labour MP or Council colleagues outside of London?
Eurozone political economy can be reduced to two incompatible positions: German resistance to debt mutualisation and inflation, and France‘s commitment to ever closer union. As long as this remains true, there will be no end to the current crisis. 1/
After more than two years of being ruthlessly pushed around by the EU, it is time for the UK to resist.
(15.10.2018)
Support for the Union comes from all corners of the UK: Campbell
Indeed, the comments by the Scottish Conservative Leader last weekend highlighted the strength of support across the United Kingdom for maintaining the Union.
Ruth Davidson’s position is not borne out of enthusiastic support for leaving the European Union; she was an advocate for Remain. However, Ruth Davidson recognises the impact of placing an international style border down the Irish Sea. She understands that such an outcome would be seized upon by separatists within the United Kingdom.
The DUP wants to see a sensible deal which maintains the constitutional and economic integrity of the United Kingdom. We will stand up for Northern Ireland but most important is the Union between us all. It is very clear that those same objectives are shared by many others across the United Kingdom. Both those who were ‘Leave’ as well as those who were ‘Remain’recognise that the four countries are stronger together.”
Scotland: David Mundell accused of ‘flip flopping’ after denying he threatened to resign
David Mundell told MPs that preserving the integrity of the UK as the country leaves the EU was a “red line” for him and other Scottish Conservatives including Ruth Davidson.
But he said the Prime Minister felt the same way, batting away suggestions that he told her he would quit over any Brexit deal that boosted the case for Scottish independence.
DUP ready to vote down budget and potentially topple Theresa May if she compromises further on Brexit
Budget votes are viewed as an issue of confidence in a government – meaning defeat would trigger calls for a general election
DUP leader says would prefer no Brexit deal to ‘annexation’ of Northern Ireland
(13.10.2018) The head of the Northern Irish party that props up British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government said on Saturday she would prefer no Brexit deal to a bad deal, saying the current proposal would permanently annex Northern Ireland from the rest of the United Kingdom.
Unionists plan ‘guerilla war’ against Northern Ireland Brexit plan
(12.10.2018) Even if May can get a version of the so-called Irish backstop through the U.K. parliament without DUP votes, the party could use its position as the leading unionist political force in Northern Ireland to try to prevent it from ever being implemented — and in the process block power sharing with nationalist politicians permanently.
“We are going to squeeze their balls until their ears bleed,” the party official said.
EU plan to annex Northern Ireland may spark war
(8.10.2017) At the outset of Brexit, all sides openly agreed there should be no border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, but it now seems the Europeans were being sneaky when they made the pledge. It has now emerged they are keen to see a border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, despite them being the same country.
Given most people are confused by the geography of the UK it is worth quickly recapping before I go any further.
Thursday’s Daily MAIL: “ANOTHER Year In Brexit Limbo?”
#bbcpapers #tomorrowspaperstoday
EU WHAT? Brexit deal latest – Theresa May says Britain could stay tied to EU for another year in last-ditch bid to cut deal at Brussels summit
The PM told European leaders she would consider an extension to the Brexit transition period, but Brexiteers reacted immediately with fury
Michael Fabricant reveals REAL reason Brussels is playing hard ball over Brexit
The Tory backbencher said the UK’s departure has left the bloc fighting for “sheer survival” with the very future of the European project at stake.
He said granting Britain any special exceptions could “open Pandora’s Box” and embolden disgruntled member states like Hungary and Poland to make similar demands.
‘We may NEVER leave!’ Brexiteer FURY as panicked Theresa May considers DELAYING EU exit
THERESA May risked infuriating Tory Brexiteers this evening by opening talks with the EU on extending Britain‘s transition out of the bloc by at least another year.
Theresa May open to extending Brexit transition period by a year as she asks EU for ‚creative‘ ideas
At a summit in Brussels the Prime Minister said Britain would be open to the idea of staying tied to the EU beyond the end of December 2020, even though that could mean paying billions more to Brussels.
EU sagt Brexit-Sondergipfel im November vorerst ab
Geliefert wurde allerdings „nicht wirklich substanziell Neues“, außer dass Großbritannien „bereit wäre, eine Verlängerung der Übergangsfristen zu überlegen“. Den für 17. und 18 November geplanten Sondergipfel zum Brexit haben die EU-Staaten wieder abgesagt.
Israeli companies to secure UN forces in Africa
The organization has approached a number of companies from around the world that specialize in defense sensors that can detect precision-guided weapons such as missiles and mortars. Three out of the five companies contacted by the UN were Israeli. Ultimately, the Israeli company MER was chosen. The UN recently signed an $8 million deal for the next three years, with the option of another five years.