CDU/CDS 24 %
SPD 11 %
Grüne 27 %
FDP 9 %
Linke 8 %
AFD 13 %
Sonstige 8 %
Nichtwähler/Unentschlossene 18 %
CDU/CDS 24 %
SPD 11 %
Grüne 27 %
FDP 9 %
Linke 8 %
AFD 13 %
Sonstige 8 %
Nichtwähler/Unentschlossene 18 %
Im September wird in Brandenburg gewählt. Die AfD ist bei einer aktuellen Umfrage von „Infratest dimap“ erstmals stärkste Kraft geworden. SPD, CDU, Grüne und Linkspartei folgen im Umfrageergebnis dicht danach. Angesichts solcher Aussichten ist es unverständlich, warum die rot-rote Regierung darauf verzichtet hat, Oppositionsrechte zur Kontrolle des Verfassungsschutzes im Parlament zu stärken. Schließlich könnte sie selbst bald in der Opposition sitzen.
Was wirklich in den Beschlüssen steht, wird später veröffentlicht
Die Beschlüsse der IMK sind noch nicht öffentlich. Erst in einigen Tagen wird man nachvollziehen, was genau in den Texten steht, auf die sich die Minister geeinigt haben. Doch Seehofer deutet an, dass es eigentlich doch um neue Befugnisse geht, wenn auch auf einer anderen Ebene. Er plante schon vorher Neuerungen im Verfassungsschutzgesetz, dessen Entwurf wir veröffentlicht haben und wenig später auch im Entwurf für ein weiteres IT-Sicherheitsgesetz.
Wie die Europawahl Ende Mai gezeigt hat, sind weder SPD noch CDU/CSU in der Lage, bei den Wahlen noch Mehrheiten zu gewinnen. Umso mehr setzen sie sich in Bund und Ländern für die Zerstörung demokratischer Grundrechte und einen autoritären Polizeistaat ein.
Primera declaración de resistencia de los pueblos del CIPOG-EZ, CNI-CIG ante el cerco de los grupos narcoparamilitares y la omisión de los tres niveles de gobierno
… Angesichts des narcoparamilitärischen Terrors und der fehlenden Reaktion des Staates erklärt sich das Gemeinschaftsterritorium Montaña Baja als ‚Gemeinschaften des CNI-CIG im Widerstand‘, um ein Massaker seitens der paramilitärischen Gruppen zu verhindern. Das bedeutet, dass unser Territorium auch für VertreterInnen aller politischen Partei sowie aller Regierungsbeamten geschlossen ist, denn diese sind bisher nur gekommen, um uns zu verlachen. Jedwede Kommunikation hat ab jetzt direkt mit unseren permanenten Versammlungen stattzufinden, die von den zivilen und agrarischen Autoritäten des Concejo Indígena y Popular de Guerrero – Emiliano Zapata geleitet werden.
Wir wiederholen, dass unser Kampf zivilgesellschaftlich und pazifistisch ist, dass wir uns jedoch nicht nur mit unserem Willen gegen die narcoparamilitärischen Banden widersetzen können; deshalb werden wir ab heute alle notwendigen Barrikaden errichten, von denen aus Männer und Frauen all unserer Gemeinschaften unser Territorium verteidigen werden, denn heute nehmen wir das Schicksal unseres kollektiven Lebens in unsere Hand…
Eine Prognose für die Wahlen ist zurzeit schwierig, auch wegen der zahlreichen Ausschlüsse im Vorfeld.
With so many candidates in the field, it‘s probable that no one will win an absolute majority. If no candidate achieves an absolute majority in the first-round vote, a runoff is scheduled for August 11 between the two frontrunners.
Representatives from Caricom nations met with officials from the island nation of Cuba in Georgetown, Guyana on June 14 to discuss issues uniquely affecting Caribbean countries made up of islands and coastal nations particularly vulnerable to environmental threats and natural disasters and to continue the work of integration.
Aktuelle Enthüllungen auf der US-Plattform The Intercept bringen die Bolsonaro-Regierung zusätzlich in Bedrängnis: Am 25. Juni will der Oberste Gerichtshof des Landes über einen Antrag auf Freilassung des inhaftieren Ex-Präsidenten Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva beraten.
In Rio de Janeiro, members of the Military Police (MP) monitored the estimated 100,000 demonstrators who took over the city‘s main avenues, rejecting President Jair Bolsonaro‘s proposal to privative the national pension program. As citizens protested late into the night, the MP dispersed workers and students by launching tear gas and shooting rubber bullets at them. A Brasil de Fato journalist reporting from the scene says she was trapped inside a car and felt the effects of the tear gas, suffering from burning eyes and throat.
Das Programm sieht eine Abkehr vom aktuellen industriellen Agrarmodell vor, bei dem das Land in Händen weniger – oft ausländischer – Kapitaleigner konzentriert ist und die kleinbäuerliche Landbevölkerung vertrieben wird.
I am willing to bet the farm on Boris Johnson becoming the next leader of the Conservative party because any other outcome is pretty much mathematically impossible. So the drama – such as it is – of the next few weeks is going to be irrelevant soon. I suggest we agree on that and get down to the serious business of playing Fantasy Cabinet.
The Trump administration’s claims Iran attacked oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman were quickly debunked, with the ship’s crew saying it “was hit by a flying object.” But the US disrupted important Iranian diplomatic efforts at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
The archive we received from our source is vast, and contains many more explosive stories yet to be reported. Just last night, we published another story exposing even more serious improprieties by Judge Moro, widely regarded as the anchor of legitimacy for the Bolsonaro government, that has led for more calls for him to resign. Because of the importance but also complexity of these issues for those outside of Brazil, we created a video explaining what this archive is about, what these revelations mean, and why the consequences of our reporting are so significant not only for Brazil but for the entire democratic world.
Der große Knall könnte jedenfalls erfolgen, sollte Lula aus der Haft entlassen werden müssen. Seine Anwälte stellten umgehend einen Antrag auf eine Freilassung. Brasiliens Oberster Gerichtshof vertagte am Dienstag noch die Entscheidung, obwohl Lulas Antrag auf die Tagesordnung gesetzt worden war. Sie wollen aber am 25. Juni über einen weiteren Antrag von Lulas Anwälten verhandeln.
Protests have been held across Brazil as thousands of public workers take part in a general strike against a government proposal to reform pensions. The strike, the first since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro took office in January, has affected public transport, schools and banks.
Police used stun grenades on protesters in Rio de Janeiro. In several cities, roads were blocked with burning tyres. Mr Bolsonaro says the controversial reform will restore public finances.
(14.06.2019)
Top media outlets turn to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) for figures on deaths and detentions, never noting the group’s seamless connection to Syria’s opposition, the support it receives from states that waged war on the country, or its open lobbying for US military intervention.
By Max Blumenthal
Unable to fortify their positions on Tal Malah, the Syrian Arab Army was forced to retreat once the jihadist rebels began storming the hilltop and nearby town of Jibeen.
The DNC announced who qualified for the first Democratic presidential debates. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola and Ashlee Marie Preston, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down.
American millionaires would elect Joe Biden over President Donald Trump if the former vice president becomes the Democratic nominee, according the CNBC Millionaire survey.
Historically, Biden has been financially backed by the wealthy and the powerful. The Delaware Democrat was first elected to serve in the United States Senate in 1972 — a position he held until 2009 when he was sworn-in as President Barack Obama’s Vice President.
During nearly four decades in the Senate, Biden racked-up what Andrew Cockburn, a veteran progressive journalist at Harper’s, described as a “disastrous legislative history”. As set forth below, that legislative history included many instances in which Biden embraced regressive policy positions that were closer to those of the Republican Party than they were to those of his own.
Maybe Democrats don’t want to draw attention to how much Obama got wrong when it comes to foreign policy: his support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen when it kicked off in 2015; the complete botched U.S. covert intervention in Syria and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in that country on Obama’s watch; the war in Libya which has left that country looking like a Mad Max hellscape; the drone wars in Pakistan and Yemen with their civilian death tolls; the failure to make progress on the Israel-Palestine conflict; the failed pivot to Asia; the failed reset with Russia.
Maybe Democrats also can’t agree on what a progressive new foreign policy should look like. Because let’s face it: a lot of conservative Democrats, and even some liberal ones, are quite hawkish and like big wars.
Die SPD hat sich in der großen Koalition durchgesetzt: Die vermögendsten zehn Prozent müssen den Solidaritätszuschlag weiterhin abführen. Und erstmals baut der Staat in strukturschwachen Regionen den Mobilfunk aus. SPD-Fraktionschef Rolf Mützenich sieht dadurch die Halbzeitbilanz seiner Partei deutlich positiver.
Fox News military analyst Col. David Hunt and former State Dept. official David Tafuri on how the U.S. should handle escalating tension with Iran.
INDEX for DVD 1
INTRODUCTION
0.01:02 – 12 parallels between Pearl
Harbor and September 11
0.14:10 – The debate: main issues
PART 1 – AIR DEFENSE
0.14:55 – Where are the interceptors?
0.16:12 – The „incompetence theory“
(radars, transponders)
0.22:00 – The military drills
0.29:40 – Specific warnings
0.33:08 – The chain of command
0.38:10 – Promotions, not punishments
0.39:50 – The Mineta case
0.47:38 – Debunkers: „Mineta was mistaken“
0.53:18 – The Mineta case – A summary
PART 2 – THE HIJACKERS
0.57:15 – „Piss-poor student pilots“
0.59:38 – Marwan al-Sheikki (UA175)
1.01:52 – Ziad Jarrah (UA93)
1.03:06 – Hani Hanjour (AA77)
1.04:00 – The debunkers‘ positions
1.06:00 – 2 simulations of the Pentagon attack
1.13:10 – Someone knew?
1.16:40 – Airport security cameras
1.20.15 – The missing black boxes
PART 3 – THE AIRPLANES
1.26:50 – Passenger planes or military drones?
1.28:20 – Impossible speeds
1.37:30 – What happened to the passengers?
1.38:35 – The cellphone calls
1.48:30 – The debunkers‘ position
1.50:38 – If not from the planes, from where?
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(29.8.2014)
Die nach den Attentaten vom 11. September in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika dem Präsidenten vom Kongress persönlich ausgestellte Vollmacht, der ein nun fast dreizehn Jahre andauernder weltweiter Terrorkrieg a.k.a. „war on terror“ folgte, ist in Deutschland immer noch weithin unbekannt.
Radio Utopie dokumentiert dieses in jeder Hinsicht verheerende historische Ermächtigungsgesetz im Wortlaut.
(17.1.2014)
Written in the frenzied, emotional days after 9/11, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force was intended to give President Bush the ability to retaliate against whoever orchestrated the attacks. But more than 12 years later, this sentence remains the primary legal justification for nearly every covert operation around the world. Here‘s how it came to be, and what it‘s since come to mean.
In 2001, Congress passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), allowing the president “to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons.”
Which means that if the Trump administration truly believes Iran and al-Qaeda have been in cahoots before or after 9/11, then it could claim war with Tehran already is authorized by law.
Early Thursday morning, the House Armed Services Committee debated the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act …
(13.06.2019)
As the Trump administration ratchets up tensions with Iran, escalating fears that the United States is looking for a possible path to another war in the Middle East, several Democratic presidential contenders are standing firm in their rejection of the White House’s attempts to create a legal rationale for war. They were responding to comments Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made in a private meeting that suggested that the Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF, passed by Congress three days after 9/11 could provide a legal basis for a war with Iran.
“We have what I would call a concentration camp system,” Pitzer says, “and the definition of that in my book is, mass detention of civilians without trial.”
Historians use a broader definition of concentration camps, as well.
„What‘s required is a little bit of demystification of it,“ says Waitman Wade Beorn, a Holocaust and genocide studies historian and a lecturer at the University of Virginia. „Things can be concentration camps without being Dachau or Auschwitz.
26 parties vie to win the most votes for a new president, 340 mayors, 160 congressional lawmakers, and 20 parliamentary ministers.
Die Macht in Guatemala konzentriert sich auf eine kleine Oligarchie. Schafft die Linke bei den Wahlen am 16. Juni einen Kurswechsel?
Mit 41 Jahren konnte er mit seinem Onkel mütterlicherseits zusammengebracht werden. Seine Eltern Elena Mijalchuk und Juan Manuel Darroux waren im Dezember 1977 während der Militärdiktatur in Argentinien (1976-1983) verschleppt und ermordet worden. Der damals vier Monate alte Junge war daraufhin in der Nähe der Marineschule ESMA gefunden und von der Militärjunta zur Adoption freigegeben worden. Die ESMA war zu dieser Zeit eines der wichtigsten geheimen Haft- und Folterzentren der Diktatur.
Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced new restitution of identity. The individual in question will be presented Thursday a press conference.
Argentine organization Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced Monday it has found the 130th missing grandchild whose identity was stolen during the country‘s last military dictatorship (1976-1983).
Greenwald‘s tweet was in response to threats of deportation by Brazilian far-right politician, Carlos Jordy. Last Sunday, Greenwald and a team of investigative journalists published an exposé in The Intercept outlining major judicial irregularities in the alleged corruption case against former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that lead to his imprisonment since April 2018.
Boris Johnson has confirmed he will take part in a televised Tory leadership debate on the BBC.
The event will take place after the second round of voting.
Mr Johnson is said to have refused to take part in Sunday‘s planned debate on Channel 4, with rival candidates accusing him of avoiding media scrutiny.
UK leadership race frontrunner Boris Johnson insisted Friday he would never raise the „white flag“ of surrender and plead for a further delay of Brexit if no EU deal was ready by October 31.
– The Brexit Party remained on 26 per cent in new weekly poll to lead the pack
– The Lib Dems are now clear in second place on 22 per cent behind them
– The Tories and Labour fell to 18 per cent and 17 per cent respectively