Quebec’s police watchdog will investigate a fatal RCMP shooting involving a Mi’kmaq man in New Brunswick on Friday night.
Daily Archives: 13. Juni 2020
Thousands rally in fresh Paris protest against racism and police brutality
Paris riot police fired tear gas Saturday to disperse a largely peaceful but unauthorized protest of police brutality and entrenched racism, as a wave of anger continued to sweep the world following the death of African American George Floyd.
Frankreich setzt Demonstrationsverbot aus
13.6.2020 Das höchste Verwaltungsgericht in Frankreich hat ein wegen der Corona-Pandemie erlassenes Demonstrationsverbot ausgesetzt. Das Gericht folgte damit mehreren Beschwerden, dass das pauschale Verbot eine unverhältnismäßige Beeinträchtigung der Grundrechte darstelle.
Berlin: 12 Funkzellenabfragen pro Woche
Zum zweiten Mal in Folge ist die Zahl der Funkzellenabfragen in Berlin höher als vor dem Antritt der rot-rot-grünen Landesregierung. Dabei hatten sich an der Koalition beteiligte Parteien in ihren Wahlprogrammen äußerst kritisch zu den Grundrechtseingriffen positioniert. Die Polizei hat im vergangenen Jahr zudem deutlich häufiger auch Namen und Adressen hinter den Telefonnummern abgefragt.
Frontex-Flugzeuge: Unter dem Radar gegen das Völkerrecht
Seit drei Jahren chartert Frontex Kleinflugzeuge zur Überwachung der EU-Außengrenzen. Zuerst wurde damit Italien, anschließend auch Kroatien unterstützt. Angaben zu den Luftfahrzeugen hält Frontex geheim, die Firmen schalten im Einsatz auch die Transponder zur Positionsdarstellung ab.
Fire on French nuclear submarine at Toulon extinguished
Some 100 firefighters had been called in to tackle the blaze on the Perle, which lasted 14 hours and ended at around 00:50 a.m. (2250 GMT). the ministry said. It confirmed an earlier statement that no nuclear material was aboard when the fire broke out on Friday.
Israel: Likud calls for jailing of journalist reporting on Netanyahu graft case
(11.06.2020)
Drucker‘s investigative report broadcast Wednesday on the Hebrew-language Channel 13, included a recording of Shaul Elovich, a personal friend of Netanyahu and a majority shareholder in the Bezeq telecommunications company, appearing to discuss with with former Walla news CEO Ilan Yeshua how to frame news coverage of Netanyahu so as to present the leader in a positive light.
Bezeq fully owns the Hebrew-language Walla website.
Chile: Umstrittene Frauenministerin tritt nach 34 Tagen zurück
in den sozialen Netzwerken. Frauenorganisationen, Feministinnen und Künstlerinnen waren empört darüber, dass eine Verteidigerin der Militärdiktatur zur Frauenministerin ernannt worden war.
ICC Prosecutor: Israel war crimes probe can go on despite Oslo Accords
(08.06.2020)
The ICC asked the Palestinian Authority to declare whether the Oslo Accords are still legally binding. The request came after PA President Mahmoud Abbas declared on May 19 that the PA no longer viewed itself as bound by the Oslo Accords due to Israel’s intention to annex parts of the West Bank.
Responding to this question, the PA said that Abbas’s May 19 declaration was not part of the legal record of the war crimes case regarding Israel.
Report: Palestinian leadership fails to rally crowds for protest against annexation
While the annexation plan met with harsh criticism from the Israeli left, as well as parts of the international community, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas‘s Fatah party could secure a meager turnout of some 200 protesters at a rally in Ramallah, according to Haaretz.
Israel: Bedouin birth rate a ‚time bomb,‘ says far-right lawmaker
‚I want to maintain a Jewish majority, not just in the State of Israel but in the Negev as well‘
Israeli lawmaker Bezalel Smotrich, known for incendiary anti-Arab comments, said on Thursday that the birth rates of Israeli Bedouins posed an existential threat for the Jewish State, akin to a bomb that must be diffused.
Assassinations, Terror Attacks and Even Castration – the Hidden Actions of Israel‘s Pre-state Militia
Such operations continued right up to the establishment of the state. At the end of March 1947, Mordechai Berger, who worked in the Mandatory police’s traffic division, was murdered in the street after being suspected of divulging information about the Haganah to the British. “The assailants gagged him and hit him over the head with clubs. Berger fell bleeding,” wrote Prof. Yehuda Lapidot, an Irgun member who later researched the history of Mandatory Palestine.
“None of the organizations emerges with clean hands from this dark matter,” Haskin wrote. He added that the fingers of right-wing organization members were lighter on the trigger, but emphasized the role of Haganah members in assassinating Jews.
Israel: 400 Jewish studies professors condemn annexation as ‚crime against humanity‘
The annexation, the letter argues, will result in a system where small Palestinian enclaves in the annexed territories are effectively controlled by Israel in, what it alleges, will amount to „conditions of apartheid.“
Apartheid is seen as a crime against humanity under the international law, the letter warns, adding that Israel could grant citizenship to residents of the target areas, but the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided against that.
Israel: Iyad al-Hallak‘s family says authorities hiding security footage
A petition was filed by the family requesting that footage of Iyad‘s death be released, but an Israeli court struck it down last week following a police request.
At a funeral held for al-Hallak, his relatives alleged that his death would have been treated differently if he had not been a Palestinian and accused the Israel Police of using lethal violence over nothing but a mere suspicion.
This is the issue w/ many “reforms”: yes, you can pass certain laws, but the problem is police *breaking the law.* Murder is already illegal, but the officers who killed Breonna Taylor STILL haven’t been arrested. Taking on that abuse of power often takes major political risk.
New York City oversight bill to force police to detail surveillance tools
The Public Oversight of Surveillance Technology (POST) Act already has enough co-sponsors to win the two-thirds support needed to override veto from the mayor, who has opposed the bill.
The militarized policing they don‘t want you to see
At this moment where police have exposed the degree of power that they possess and use to exert force on the American public, it has never been clearer that these surveillance technologies will also suppress dissent. They are just as powerful, and as dangerous as the military helicopters staring down protest crowds today. As lawmakers begin to demilitarize community officers, we must also restrict the excessive power that surveillance technologies give to police.
NATO recognises Ukraine as Enhanced Opportunities Partner
Ukraine’s status as an Enhanced Opportunities Partner does not prejudge any decisions on NATO membership. NATO Allies continue to encourage and support Ukraine in its reform efforts, including in the security and defence sector, with regard to civilian control and democratic oversight, and in the fight against corruption.
„What‘s happening is this incredible movement… [it‘s] incredibly inspiring to the vast majority of American people. But it is also threatening to the right-wing and the reactionary agenda of Donald Trump.“ -Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant on Trump threatening protests
The movement, led by a multi-racial community of youth, won a major victory, forcing Seattle police & the big business-backed establishment to leave East Precinct. The movement was undaunted in the face of horrific violence from Mayor Durkan‘s police. Congratulations, solidarity!
Protesters march silently through Seattle streets
Protesters marched through Seattle in silence on Friday. The protest came on the same day that a U.S. judge has ordered Seattle police to temporarily stop using tear gas, pepper spray and flash-bang devices to break up peaceful protests. (June 12)
Seattle Silent March #BLMSeattle #BlackLivesMatter
.@BLMSeattleKC says an estimated 60,000 people turned out for the Seattle Silent March today, which was basically two miles of this
I genuinely don‘t understand why people who say „Free speech is an important principle, but…“ don‘t just say: „I don‘t believe in free speech because…“ People have always debated free speech. There have always been & always will be people who want to limit it. Just say that.
The American Press Is Destroying Itself
But police violence, and Trump’s daily assaults on the presidential competence standard, are only part of the disaster. On the other side of the political aisle, among self-described liberals, we’re watching an intellectual revolution. It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind. It’s become a cowardly mob of upper-class social media addicts, Twitter Robespierres who move from discipline to discipline torching reputations and jobs with breathtaking casualness.
Annexation? Israeli Apartheid? Hounding Journalists? Gantz Didn‘t Come to Fight
The Kahol Lavan leader seems to have forgotten that his party was supposed to represent an alternative to Netanyahu’s aggressive ways
Totalüberwachung, und damit ermöglichte politische Verfolgung, wird nun „gezielt“ erlaubt
(02.07.2016)
Die Regierung setzt ihren bis vor kurzem unter Carte Blanche agierenden geheimdienstlichen Komplex unter Kontrolle. Die Bevölkerung wird weiter bespitzelt, nur eben auf Befehl von oben.
Die Vorgänge repräsentieren nicht nur den Totalausfall einer weiteren Generation von Deutschen und die Legasthenie ihrer Fachidioten. Sie werfen auch ein Schlaglicht auf weltweite Datenbanken von Geheimdiensten, Anwaltsfirmen und Banken und deren politische Verfolgung von „politischen Individuen“.