The 100,000-strong union went on strike last year, shutting down schools across Jordan for a month in one of the longest and most disruptive public-sector strikes in the country‘s history. In recent weeks, its leadership had accused the government of failing to honour a deal signed last October that had ended the strike.
Daily Archives: 25. Juli 2020
Jordan Teachers Association ordered closed for two years
Abdallat also issued a gag order banning the publication, circulation or commenting on the cases on social media except those issued by authorised official agencies, according to Petra.
Readout of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley‘s Meeting with Chief of the Israeli General Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley met with Chief of the Israeli General Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi today in Israel during a trip to the CENTCOM area of responsibility.
The two leaders discussed the current security environment throughout the Middle East.
Readout of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley‘s Meeting with Jordanian Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Maj. Gen. Yousef Alhnaity
The two leaders discussed the current security environment throughout the Middle East.
Erdoğan, Fayez Sarraj hold meeting in Istanbul
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Saturday received Libya‘s Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj at Istanbul‘s Vahdettin Palace.
Erdoğan and Sarraj came together in a closed-door meeting
Somalian PM Hassan Ali Khaire ousted following parliament vote
The vote also followed a dispute over the timing of a national election. Khaire, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and the heads of regional governments have been in talks this week to try to agree if it should go ahead in February 2021.
Regierung verhängt erneut Ausnahmezustand im Nordosten von Guatemala
Außerdem sind Hausdurchsuchungen und Festnahmen ohne richterliche Anordnung möglich und werden sowohl von der Polizei als auch vom Militär durchgeführt.
Attacking a journalist due to contempt for their ideology, politics or work is repulsive and should be regarded as a crime. As this case demonstrates, it’s the mentality of fascists:
“When people I like are beaten up, that’s fascism. When my own political adversaries are beaten up, that’s some cool shit that I get off on seeing. I’m an anti-fascist – love me.”
Art, Truth & Politics
(2005)
When we look into a mirror we think the image that confronts us is accurate. But move a millimetre and the image changes. We are actually looking at a never-ending range of reflections. But sometimes a writer has to smash the mirror – for it is on the other side of that mirror that the truth stares at us.
I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory.
If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us – the dignity of man.
Fleetwood Mac – Albatross
CIA ‘Obsessed’ With Former UK Envoy Who Will Testify in Spying-on-Assange Case
The former British ambassador to Uzbekistan and a close associate of imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange says he was the “top target” of the 24/7 surveillance of Assange at Ecuador’s embassy in London by the Spanish security company UC Global, which, according to press reports and court documents, shared the surveillance with the CIA.
Craig Murray said he has been contacted by an attorney in the spying case on Assange and that he will be going to Madrid to testify. The founder of UC Global, David Morales, was arrested over the surveillance (including privileged Assange-lawyer conversations) and is on trial.
Murray told former CIA analyst Ray McGovern in an email, shared with Consortium News with Murray’s permission, that the CIA was “obsessed” with him.
37 Senate Dems Join GOP to Approve $740 Billion War Budget
The House and Senate are now expected to reconcile their two versions of the NDAA; the House bill includes a 3 percent pay raise for troops and $3.6 billion to combat China.
In wake of protests, fences placed around Netanyahu‘s Caesarea residence
Fences and roadblocks were placed Thursday night around Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private house in Caesarea, as well as around all houses adjacent to his home, Hebrew-language outlet Walla News reported.
Freedom of religion is our first freedom. Yet SCOTUS has ruled that casinos can host hundreds of gamblers, while churches cannot welcome their full congregations. Justice Roberts once again got it wrong, shamefully closing church doors to their flocks.
Conservatives blast Supreme Court ruling: Roberts has ‚abandoned his oath‘
Conservative lawmakers blasted Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts after he sided with the court‘s liberal justices in a 5-4 decision Friday that rejected a Nevada church’s request to block the state government from enforcing a cap on attendance at religious services.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tweeted early Saturday morning that Roberts had „abandoned his oath.“
So It Turns Out ‘Overpopulation’ Was Always A Stupid Patriarchal Myth
The mass media have been discussing these findings with shock and alarm, because such information is likely to be new and surprising to anyone who has never gone through the all-consuming herculean effort of motherhood. To anyone who has, the idea that most women would choose to have two or fewer children if given the resources, information and freedom to do so is just self-evident common sense.
Spahn lässt Testpflicht prüfen
Spahn wies darauf hin, dass für verpflichtende Tests hohe rechtliche Hürden bestünden: „Das ist ja ein Eingriff in die Freiheit, jemanden zum Test zu verpflichten“, sagte er. Die Gerichte schauten „sehr genau hin, dass jeder Eingriff verhältnismäßig“ sei.
Gouverneur verhaftet: Erneut Massenproteste in Russland
Öffentliche Versammlungen sind in Russland wegen der Coronavirus-Pandemie derzeit verboten. Die Kundgebung in Chabarowsk wurde von der Polizei aber nicht aufgelöst. Behördenvertreter sprachen von 6.500 Teilnehmern, in Onlinekanälen der Opposition war dagegen von rund 90.000 Demonstranten die Rede.
Anti-Netanyahu Protesters Say They Were Violently Attacked by Right-wing Activists
A counter-protest by Netanyahu supporters drew some 200 Likud activists nearby, joined by a few dozen La Familia members. When the right-wing protest dispersed, the La Familia members allegedly split up into a number of groups and began wandering the nearby streets and looking for the left-wing protesters. In at least five cases, according to protesters’ allegations, they physically attacked demonstrators, and in many other cases cursed and insulted activists – focusing mostly on women. They also sang songs denouncing former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by a right-wing extremist in 1995.
Supreme Court again rejects church challenge to virus restriction
The decision was a 5-4 ruling, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the liberal wing.
The court’s order was unsigned and did not provide any reasoning, common practice when the high court acts on emergency applications. The court’s conservative justices filed three dissents.
Japan‘s Top Court Says 45 Million Twitter Users Must Check That Anything They Retweet Is Not A Copyright Infringement
The case concerns a photo of a flower, originally posted on a web site in 2009, with the photographer‘s name and copyright notice. As often happens, the photo was then tweeted without the photographer‘s consent, and was further retweeted.
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As a result, the Japanese High Court ordered Twitter to hand over the email addresses of all those who had posted the image.
The Digital Services Act package
The new Digital Services Act package should modernise the current legal framework for digital services by means of two main pillars:
First, the Commission would propose clear rules framing the responsibilities of digital services to address the risks faced by their users and to protect their rights. The legal obligations would ensure a modern system of cooperation for the supervision of platforms and guarantee effective enforcement.
Second, the Digital Services Act package would propose ex ante rules covering large online platforms acting as gatekeepers, which now set the rules of the game for their users and their competitors.
The EU Digital Services Act: What it is and Why it Shouldn’t Happen
(30.09.2019)
Crucially, the Commission shifted the focus from ISSs to platforms.1 Soon thereafter, the language in the many policy documents on platforms changed. Platforms, the Commission claimed, need to act “responsibly” if they are to continue to benefit from insulation. In its highly controversial Copyright in the DSM Directive the Commission suggests that even ISSs falling under Article 14 ECD need to have effective protective technologies and that they cannot rely on the article if they do not. ‘Active’ providers cannot rely on the protection as they are not responsible enough in the Commission’s mind.
Gesetz gegen Hass im Netz: Kein Einwand von EU erwartet
Justizkommissarin Vera Jourova drängt auf eine europäische Lösung und hat bereits EU-weit verpflichtende Vorgaben für Onlinenetzwerke für Ende des Jahres in Aussicht gestellt.
Dennoch ist man sich in Edtstadlers Ministerium sicher, dass Österreichs Initiative durchgehen wird – denn auch gegen ähnlich geartete Gesetze in Deutschland und Frankreich habe es keine Einwände gegeben, hieß es aus ihrem Büro.
Konflikt um EU-Gipfelpaket: Wer verhandelt und wie es weitergeht
Auf die Ständige Vertretung Deutschlands bei der Europäischen Union in Brüssel kommt ganz schön was zu. Die „StäV“ wird nämlich die Seite der 27 Mitgliedsstaaten vertreten, wenn die Verhandlungen mit dem Europaparlament über das rund 1,8 Billionen Euro schwere Finanzpaket beginnen, das aus dem EU-Haushalt für die nächsten sieben Jahre und dem Corona-Wiederaufbauprogramm besteht.
U.S., Russia to hold talks on arms control, space security in Vienna
A U.S. delegation of staff members from the departments of State, Defense, Energy, and the National Security Council will hold a U.S.-Russia Space Security Exchange in the Austrian capital on July 27, U.S. State Department said in a statement.