Die NATO hat ihren Militäreinsatz in Afghanistan nach knapp zwei Jahrzehnten beendet. Wie der dpa in Brüssel von mehreren Diplomaten und Militärs bestätigt wurde, stehen die derzeit noch im Land stationierten Soldaten aus Staaten wie den USA und der Türkei mittlerweile vollständig unter der Führung der nationalen Kommandoketten.
Der bisher blutigste Militäreinsatz des Bündnisses sei damit de facto Geschichte, hieß es.
A senior U.S. official told Reuters Thursday that the alternatives for the 2015 nuclear deal, formally called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), would be worse for Iran. “I think all the alternatives are worse for us. I think they are worse for Iran. And frankly, I think, at the end of the day, Iran will suffer – I don’t know if they suffer more than we will – but they will be in a bad situation,” the U.S. diplomat said on condition of anonymity.
As a radical shift in the Iranian media‘s narrative regarding the revival of the 2015 nuclear deal is becoming evident daily, IRGC-linked news agency Fars carried an interview with hardline commentator Foad Izadi who dismissed President Hassan Rouhani‘s recent remarks about his success in furthering the negotiations over the nuclear issue. He made the assertion that despite Rouhani’s claim there is no chance to revive the agreement.
Der heftige Dauerregen mit Überschwemmungen und Hochwasser hat dramatische Folgen in NRW. Mindestens 43 Menschen sind ums Leben gekommen. Insgesamt sind mehr als 100 Menschen durch das Unwetter in NRW und Rheinland-Pfalz gestorben. Viele Flüsse und Bäche in der Eifel, im Bergischen Land, im Rheinland und Sauerland führen weiterhin Hochwasser. Straßen sind überschwemmt und Keller vollgelaufen.
On Sunday, Chile’s Approve Dignity leftist coalition and the Go Chile right-wing alliance will define their presidential candidates for the November 21 elections.
Auf einem internationalen Forum der politischen Rechten in Madrid sprach Vargas Llosa unter anderem von Wahlbetrug und einer Bevorzugung des Wahlsiegers Pedro Castillo in der zweiten Wahlrunde.
Trotz der Einschränkunegn aufgrund der Corona-Pandemie gelang es den Aktivist:innen, die Bevölkerung gegen die repressiven Maßnahmen der LUC-Gesetze zu mobilisieren – eine harte politische Niederlage für Präsident Lacalle Pou von der Nationalen Partei.
Experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci have said that local vaccine mandates could be helpful in protecting the US from further surge. And such mandates could become easier for private companies as vaccines move further along.
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With so many people hesitating or resisting the vaccine and vaccination rates dropping, restrictions to work and school may be key to motivating the public to reach the necessary threshold to slow or stop the spread., experts have said.
(01. April 1967)
1. Our Concern. From the day of President Kennedy‘s assassination on, there has been speculation about the responsibility for his murder. Although this was stemmed for a time by the Warren Commission report, (which appeared at the end of September 1964), various writers have now had time to scan the Commission‘s published report and documents for new pretexts for questioning, and there has been a new wave of books and articles criticizing the Commission‘s findings. In most cases the critics have speculated as to the existence of some kind of conspiracy, and often they have implied that the Commission itself was involved. Presumably as a result of the increasing challenge to the Warren Commission‘s report, a public opinion poll recently indicated that 46% of the American public did not think that Oswald acted alone, while more than half of those polled thought that the Commission had left some questions unresolved. Doubtless polls abroad would show similar, or possibly more adverse results.
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Innuendo of such seriousness affects not only the individual concerned, but also the whole reputation of the American government. Our organization itself is directly involved: among other facts, we contributed information to the investigation. Conspiracy theories have frequently thrown suspicion on our organization, for example by falsely alleging that Lee Harvey Oswald worked for us. The aim of this dispatch is to provide material countering and discrediting the claims of the conspiracy theorists, so as to inhibit the circulation of such claims in other countries. Background information is supplied in a classified section and in a number of unclassified attachments.
3. Action. We do not recommend that discussion of the assassination question be initiated where it is not already taking place. Where discussion is active [business] addresses are requested:
a. To discuss the publicity problem with [?] and friendly elite contacts (especially politicians and editors), pointing out that the Warren Commission made as thorough an investigation as humanly possible, that the charges of the critics are without serious foundation, and that further speculative discussion only plays into the hands of the opposition. Point out also that parts of the conspiracy talk appear to be deliberately generated by Communist propagandists. Urge them to use their influence to discourage unfounded and irresponsible speculation.
b. To employ propaganda assets to [negate] and refute the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. The unclassified attachments to this guidance should provide useful background material for passing to assets. Our ploy should point out, as applicable, that the critics are (I) wedded to theories adopted before the evidence was in, (I) politically interested, (III) financially interested, (IV) hasty and inaccurate in their research, or (V) infatuated with their own theories.
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4. In private to media discussions not directed at any particular writer, or in attacking publications which may be yet forthcoming, the following arguments should be useful:
a. No significant new evidence has emerged which the Commission did not consider. The assassination is sometimes compared (e.g., by Joachim Joesten and Bertrand Russell) with the Dreyfus case; however, unlike that case, the attack on the Warren Commission have produced no new evidence, no new culprits have been convincingly identified, and there is no agreement among the critics. (A better parallel, though an imperfect one, might be with the Reichstag fire of 1933, which some competent historians (Fritz Tobias, AJ.P. Taylor, D.C. Watt) now believe was set by Vander Lubbe on his own initiative, without acting for either Nazis or Communists; the Nazis tried to pin the blame on the Communists, but the latter have been more successful in convincing the world that the Nazis were to blame.)
2.6.2 Formen, Mittel und Methoden der Zersetzung
[…] Bewährte anzuwendende Formen der Zersetzung sind:
• systematische Diskreditierung des öffentlichen Rufes, des Ansehens und des Prestiges auf der Grundlage miteinander verbundener wahrer, überprüfbarer und diskreditierender sowie unwahrer, glaubhafter, nichtwiderlegbarer und damit ebenfalls diskreditierender Angaben;
• systematische Organisierung beruflicher und gesellschaftlicher Misserfolge zur Untergrabung des Selbstvertrauens einzelner Personen;
• zielstrebige Untergrabung von Überzeugungen im Zusammenhang mit bestimmten Idealen, Vorbildern usw. und die Erzeugung von Zweifeln an der persönlichen Perspektive;
• Erzeugen von Misstrauen und gegenseitigen Verdächtigungen innerhalb von Gruppen, Gruppierungen und Organisationen;
• Erzeugen bzw. Ausnutzen und Verstärken von Rivalitäten innerhalb von Gruppen, Gruppierungen und Organisationen durch zielgerichtete Ausnutzung persönlicher Schwächen einzelner Mitglieder
(02.05.2017)
Für die „Player“ im Apparat ergeben sich praktisch eine unbegrenzte Anzahl von Gelegenheiten, ohne dass irgendeine Absprache oder ein gemeinsam entwickelter Plan zweier gleichrangiger Personen (Verschwörung) notwendig wäre.
We know, without question, that politicians lie and hide their connections and that corporations routinely display utter contempt for moral norms – that corruption surrounds us.
We know that revolving doors between the corporate and political spheres, the lobbying system, corrupt regulators, the media and judiciary mean that wrongdoing is practically never brought to any semblance of genuine justice.
We know that the press makes noise about these matters occasionally but never pursues them with true vigour.
We know that in the intelligence services and law enforcement wrongdoing on a breathtaking scale is commonplace and that, again, justice is never forthcoming.
We know that governments repeatedly ignore or trample on the rights of the people, and actively abuse and mistreat the people. None of this is controversial.
So exactly what is it that conspiracy deniers refuse to acknowledge with such fervour, righteousness and condescension?
„Der Streitpunkt liegt hier nur in der Frage des Umfangs. Jemand, der wirklich neugierig auf die Pläne mächtiger Soziopathen ist, wird den Umfang seiner Neugier nicht auf z.B. einen Konzern oder eine Nation beschränken. Warum sollten sie? Eine solche Person geht davon aus, dass die gleichen Muster, die sich vor Ort zeigen, wahrscheinlich auch ganz oben in der Nahrungskette der Macht zu finden sind. Aber der Verschwörungsleugner besteht darauf, dass dies absurd ist.“
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Meiner Ansicht nach ist dies der Grund, warum sich Verschwörungsleugner an die völlig unlogische Fantasie klammern und sie aggressiv verteidigen können, dass irgendwie – oberhalb einer bestimmten, nicht definierten Ebene der gesellschaftlichen Hierarchie – Korruption, Betrug, Bösartigkeit und Narzissmus auf mysteriöse Weise verdampfen.“
Für die Auflösung des Landtags erreichen Rot-Rot-Grün und die CDU keine sichere Zweidrittelmehrheit. Wie die Fraktionen von Linken und Grünen mitteilten, ziehen sie ihre Unterschriften auf dem Antrag zur Parlamentsauflösung zurück.
We understand that former State Security agents and some senior ANC leaders are being investigated as possible instigators to the mayhem, as was admitted by State Security Minister Ayanda Dlodlo. The Minister also told South Africans that the intelligence services knew that something would happen, but law enforcement responses to the unrest prove or paint a completely different reality.
We know that this country’s intelligence services are in shambles because both President Ramaphosa and the minister failed to implement the recommendations of the High-Level Review Panel on the State Security Agency to clean up the spooks. We did mention that these rogue securocrats are a threat to our democracy and they must be dealt with accordingly.
Johannesburg – Civil society organisation, Right2Know has urged President Cyril Ramaphosa and Minister of State Security Ayanda Dlodlo to name and shame some of the State Security Agency’s (SSA) agents who fuelled the violent and destructive protests in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
The campaign which initially erupted under the guise of Free Jacob Zuma campaign turned ugly when hundreds of protesters blocked national roads in KwaZulu-Natal and set alight trucks and vehicles belonging to private individuals.
Slavoj Žižek proposed in an article on the London riots in 2011 that such riots are not easily understandable in Marxist terms, precisely because they do not carry the signs of the emergence of a revolutionary subject. Instead, he proposes that they fit much better the Hegelian notion of “abstract negativity”, of “those outside organised social space, who can express their discontent only through ‘irrational’ outbursts of destructive violence”. Žižek believes that these forms of riot confirm the rather mundane, now commonplace assertion that we live in a post-ideological era, an era in which nothing is demanded any more, a time of “zero-degree violence”.
“Opposition to the system can no longer articulate itself in the form of a realistic alternative, or even as a utopian project,” Žižek writes, “but can only take the shape of a meaningless outburst.”
Shortly after taking his oath of office, Zuma signed a proclamation that bypassed Parliament and collapsed five of South Africa’s agencies into the State Security Agency (SSA).
The door was thus kicked open for the creation of an unlawful, parallel, secret security state, funded by public money — much of which remains unaccounted for — and which served Zuma’s personal and political interests for more than a decade.
South Africa’s highest court last week ordered the imprisonment of the country’s former president Jacob Zuma for 15 months for contempt of court. The decision stems from Zuma’s refusal to appear at a commission to answer questions about his alleged involvement in corruption during his time as president between 2009 and 2018.
On Saturday, however, the constitutional court agreed to hear Zuma’s urgent appeal on July 12 to rescind its order to sentence him to jail. If the court is gelded, the human rights so dearly won defeating apartheid will be lost.
Mehr als 2.200 Menschen seien festgenommen worden, teilte die Ministerin im Präsidialamt, Khumbuzo Ntshaveni, gestern mit. Darunter sei auch ein Mann, der als Anstifter hinter der Welle von Plünderungen stehen soll.
Bei Überflutungen nach schweren Unwettern sind im Westen Deutschlands Dutzende Menschen ums Leben gekommen, zahlreiche weitere werden vermisst. Auch in Teilen der Niederlande und Belgiens verschärfte sich die Situation am Donnerstag. Im niederländischen Maastricht und im belgischen Lüttich (Liege) wurden Tausende Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner aufgerufen, die Städte zu verlassen.
Die Hochwasser-Katastrophe im Westen Deutschlands hat mehrere Todesopfer gefordert, viele Menschen werden noch vermisst. Häuser stürzen ein, Anwohner retten sich auf Dächer.