In Nordrhein-Westfalen und Rheinland-Pfalz laufen nach den schweren Unwettern die Rettungs- und Bergungseinsätze. Etwa 50 Todesopfer wurden bislang geborgen. Zahlreiche Menschen gelten noch als vermisst.
Daily Archives: 15. Juli 2021
Wie sicher ist die nächste Wahl?
Ursprünglich war die Briefwahl ja nur als Zusatzangebot für diejenigen gedacht, die partout nicht ins Wahllokal gehen konnten. Jetzt stimmt ein Großteil der Wähler unter Bedingungen ab, die keiner kennt. Eine geheime Wahl ist also nicht garantiert. Wer kann schon sagen, wie hoch der Anteil der Stimmen ist, die unter Erwartungsdruck und den Augen anderer abgegeben wurden? Niemand. Doch das ist ein Problem, das der Bundeswahlleiter offenbar nicht erkennen will. Das Problem der fehlenden geheimen Wahl berührt er gar nicht, sondern konzentriert sich nur auf die Sicherheit der Wahldaten und die Auszählung:
Das Zeugnis für die 16 Jahre einer Kanzlerin
24 renommierte Autoren ziehen eine Bilanz der Ära Merkel. Und diese Bilanz ist so niederschmetternd, dass einem unwillkürlich das Schmähwort von der „Abrissbirne aus der Uckermark“ einfällt.
Merkel to hold talks with president Biden at White House
The clock is ticking as President Joe Biden welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House on Thursday with both hoping to rebuild ties badly frayed under former President Donald Trump.
Israeli Billionaire Dan Gertler Embroil Him in One of Biggest Graft Probes Ever
Surprisingly, Gertler submitted the documents that got him into trouble while he was receiving legal counsel from top lawyers in Israel. In the arbitration, Gertler is represented by attorneys Dori Klagsbald and Boaz Ben Zur. The latter is also former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s defense attorney in the so-called Case 4000, in which Netanyahu is accused of offering favors for positive media coverage.
Lebanese PM-designate Hariri announces resignation
Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri announced on Thursday his resignation after failing to line up a non-partisan cabinet in the crisis-torn country, al-Jadeed TV channel reported.
Puebla Group Reiterates Its Support for Cuba
Founded in Puebla City (Mexico) in 2019, this group is a political and academic forum that brings together presidents, politicians, and intellectuals of the Ibero-American left. Among its members are former presidents Ernesto Samper (Colombia), Jose Luis Rodriguez (Spain), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), Leonel Fernandez (Dominican Republic), Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff (Brazil), Luis Solis (Costa Rica), Martin Torrijos (Panama), Evo Morales (Bolivia), and Jose Mujica (Uruguay).
Polen: Outgesourcte Ausgaben
In Deutschland mehrten sich in letzter Zeit die Forderungen, wichtige Rüstungsgroßprojekte außerhalb des Verteidigungshaushaltes zu finanzieren
A ton of corporate media, including the Financial Times, Fox News, The New York Times and The Guardian have used a pic of a PRO-govt rally in Cuba Flag of Cuba to illustrate their articles on anti-government protests, falsely claiming the huge crowds to be on the side of the US.
(13.07.2021)
They all just blindly copied and pasted the Associated Press‘ pic.
But to anyone who knows about Cuba, the massive red and black flags saying „26 Julio“ (Fidel Castro‘s political party) should have been a dead give away! (ht @BenjaminNorton
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OK I‘ve confirmed w/ 4 different sources inclu police: Dimitri Herard, head of presidential guard, is not under arrest. He‘s on administrative leave, in isolation. More arrests — and suspects being sought — in shocking killing of Haitian president Moïse
Head of Haitian presidential guard in custody as hunt for masterminds behind assassination continues
The detention of Dimitri Hérard was confirmed by Bed-Ford Claude, a Haitian prosecutor; Israel Jacky Cantave, a spokesperson for Haiti’s prime minister; and Carl Martin, a close friend and colleague of Hérard’s. Much public anger has been directed against Hérard, as Haitians wonder how a team of alleged assassins appeared to easily infiltrate Moïse’s residence only to be later swiftly taken into custody.
It isn’t clear on what charges, if any, Hérard is being held. “The justice [system] wants him to answer questions,” Claude told The Washington Post.
Untersuchung: Frontex billigte Grundrechtsverletzungen
Die Agentur brauche eine menschenrechtliche Sorgfaltspflicht, einen Kulturwandel sowie echte Transparenz.
Journalist de Vries nach Anschlag gestorben
De Vries wurde 64 Jahre alt. Als er vor rund anderthalb Wochen ein TV-Studio in Amsterdam verließ, wurde mehrfach auf ihn geschossen. Er wurde mit einem Kopfschuss in eine Klinik eingeliefert.
Die Polizei nahm nach der Tat drei Verdächtige fest. Darunter auch der mutmaßliche Schütze.
AMLO Denounces Numerous Fake Media Campaigns Against Cuba
López Obrador was one of the first rulers in the world to denounce and unmask the media campaign against the island and crude montages such as the one carried out in Mexico by the agency Artículo 19, financed by the U.S. embassy, by inserting in its media images of demonstrations that took place in Egypt as if they were in Havana.
Chile: Erste Schritte und politischer Gegenwind für den Verfassungskonvent
Ein weiteres Problem zeigte sich bei der Bearbeitung der Anfragen von Bürger:innen an die Versammlung. Diese wurden in bereits einigen Fällen von der zuständigen Stelle der Regierung nicht weitergeleitet. Bassa erklärte nun, man werde die Anfragen als Verfassungskonvent selber beantworten, und er plädierte dafür, die Autonomie und Entscheidungsgewalt der 155 gewählten Delegierten auszubauen.
3 Things Scientists Need to Know About the IPCC
(01.09.2015)
The bottom line is that this is a week of naked political horse trading that goes on behind closed doors. Journalists are not allowed to witness what takes place, which is why we’ve been looking at official IPCC photos here. This is what they permit us to see.
It’s only after the diplomats have haggled over this Summary – paragraph by paragraph – that the final version gets officially released at a press conference.
The world is then told that science has spoken. But what’s just happened has nothing to do with science. Scientific truth is not determined in the dead of night by UN-level negotiations. On what planet would such an approach make scientific sense?
But the bad news doesn’t stop there. There’s actually a step in the IPCC process in which the original, lengthy report gets amended so that it conforms to the politically-negotiated Summary. I am not making this up.
Scientists link Earth‘s magnetic reversals to changes in planet‘s life and climate
(April 19, 2021)
The researchers examined the rings of the tree to look for changes in the amount of carbon-14 over a period of years, Gramling explains. Carbon-14 is useful not only for dating things, but because the interaction of cosmic rays with molecules in the atmosphere produces a lot of it. And when the Earth has a weakened magnetic field, more cosmic rays hit the planet.
The scientists indeed found a large spike in carbon-14 in the tree, which they could then compare with the rock record that indicated a magnetic reversal. (…)
In addition, there is the documented rise in cave art right about 41,000-42,000 years ago, Gramling points out.
Earth‘s Magnetic Field Could Be Changing Much Faster Than We Ever Realised
(8 JULY 2020)
Past palaeomagnetic studies have shown that the magnetic field could change direction at up to 1 degree a year, but the latest study suggests that movements of up to 10 degrees annually are possible.
Is Earth’s Magnetic Shield Eroding?
(29.3.2018)
The strength of Earth’s main magnetic field is currently about 29.5 microteslas, down 5 microteslas, or 14 percent from its strength three centuries ago.
We know this. There is no question of this.
Space mission first to observe key interaction between magnetic fields of Earth and sun
Date: May 12, 2016
Source: University of Maryland
Summary: Physicists have now provided the first major results of NASA‘s Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, including an unprecedented look at the interaction between the magnetic fields of Earth and the sun. The article describes the first direct and detailed observation of a phenomenon known as magnetic reconnection, which occurs when two opposing magnetic field lines break and reconnect with each other, releasing massive amounts of energy.
Surprise: Solar System „Force Field“ Shrinks Fast
(October 1, 2010)
It‘s cold, dusty, and bereft of planets, but the outskirts of our solar system are anything but dull, according to increasing evidence from NASA‘s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) craft.
As charged particles flow out from the sun, they eventually bump up against interstellar medium—the relatively empty areas between stars. These interactions „inflate“ a protective bubble that shields Earth and the entire solar system from potentially harmful cosmic rays (solar system pictures).
The solar wind bubble that protects Earth has been mapped for the first time
Using data IBEX collected on ENAs as it charted just one 11-year solar cycle, the time between shifts in the sun’s magnetic field, researchers built a three-dimensional map of the entire heliosphere, which Reisenfeld says shields Earth and other planets from harmful radiation.
“Our Earth gets bombarded by cosmic rays, galactic cosmic rays all the time,” he says. These rays can subtly affect airplanes that fly near the poles, often on trips between Europe or Asia and the US.
Scientists say that to study other planet’s astrospheres, which is what heliospheres are called when they surround other stars, we must first understand our own.
‚They‘re not going to f**king succeed‘: Top generals feared Trump would attempt a coup after election, according to new book
The authors explain Milley‘s growing concerns that personnel moves that put Trump acolytes in positions of power at the Pentagon after the November 2020 election, including the firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper and the resignation of Attorney General William Barr, were the sign of something sinister to come.
Milley spoke to friends, lawmakers and colleagues about the threat of a coup, and the Joint Chiefs chairman felt he had to be „on guard“ for what might come.
„They may try, but they‘re not going to f**king succeed,“ Milley told his deputies, according to the authors. „You can‘t do this without the military. You can‘t do this without the CIA and the FBI. We‘re the guys with the guns.“
Earth and Mars: Evolution of Atmospheres and Surface Temperatures
(7. Juli 1972)
Indeed, detailed global climatic models (17) suggest that a relative increase in A of only 2 percent is enough to induce extensive glaciation on Earth, which implies that the present climate is extremely sensitive to albedo. This leaves changes in atmospheric composition as a possible explanation. Major variations in the CO2 abundance will have only minor greenhouse effects because the strongest bands are nearly saturated. A change in the present CO2 abundance by a factor of 2 will produce directly a 2° variation in surface temperature (18). The CO2 abundance is highly controlled by silicate-carbonate equilibria; by buffering with seawater, which contains almost 100 times the atmospheric CO2; and by the respiration and photosynthesis feedback loop (19).
Wenn ein Treibhausgas baden geht: Wie das Erdmagnetfeld unser Klima beeinflusst
(6. Oktober 2008)
Die Ergebnisse zeigten, dass selbst kleine Veränderungen des Magnetfelds die Löslichkeit von Gasen im Wasser verändern. „Wenn das Magnetfeld schwächer war, löste sich 15 Prozent weniger Luft im Wasser als bei einem stärkeren Magnetfeld“, erläutert Winklhofer. „Für Kohlendioxid war der beobachtete Effekt sogar doppelt so stark.“
Neuer EU-Klimaschutzplan : Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung
20 Jahre zu spät, aber jetzt passiert es: Europa soll klimaneutral werden. Erster Schritt: 55 Prozent weniger Treibhausgase bis 2030. Ein Kommentar.
Wirtschaftsminister entsetzt: Start-Up-Beirat riet zur Presse-Regulierung
Ein Sprecher des Deutschen-Journalisten-Verbands (DJV)sagte in Berlin der Nachrichtenagentur dpa:
„Dieses Papier zeigt, dass der Beirat offenbar überhaupt keine Kenntnisse über das Grundrecht der Pressefreiheit hat – und das ist das eigentlich Erschreckende.“
Auflösung des Parlaments: Neuwahlen in Thüringen ungewiss – FDP will sich im Landtag enthalten
Zugleich betonte Dittes, dass es keine politische Alternative zur Neuwahl gebe, da die Basis für eine weitere Zusammenarbeit von Rot-Rot-Grün mit der CDU fehle. Regierung und Opposition müssten regulär noch drei Jahre weiterarbeiten.
Merkel zu Besuch in Washington eingetroffen
Außerdem wird Merkel die Ehrendoktorwürde der renommierten Johns-Hopkins-Universität verliehen.
Merkels Besuch symbolisiert die Wiederbelebung der deutsch-amerikanischen Beziehungen, die in der Amtszeit von Bidens Vorgänger Donald Trump stark gelitten hatten.