Daily Archives: 1. September 2023


01.09.2023 - 19:48 [ Haaretz ]

Bolsheviks, Khomeinists and Now Bibi: How Israelis Can Stop Netanyahu‘s Messianic Dictatorship

Whatever the outcome, Israeli politics is undergoing a tectonic change. We have shifted from normal politics, which promises mundane improvements and sometimes delivers them – to messianic politics, which promises paradise on earth but tends to create hell. A radical messianic group has risen to power. Like the Bolsheviks and the Khomeinists, the Israeli messianic zealots are certain of three things:

• They know the way to ultimate redemption.

• To bring about that redemption, they require unlimited power.

• Any means used to acquire that power are acceptable, and every sacrifice is legitimate.

01.09.2023 - 18:50 [ DNScheck.tools ]

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01.09.2023 - 17:05 [ MightyGadget.com ]

DNS Server Settings: What are they & which is the best DNS server?

(25th August 2023)

While DoH uses the HTTPS infrastructure to encapsulate DNS queries, DNS-over-TLS focuses on utilising the secure TLS protocol directly.

01.09.2023 - 16:52 [ SiliconAngle.com ]

Attackers target the Domain Name System, the internet’s phone book. Here’s how to fight back

(July 14 2023)

DNS over HTTPS, or DoH, and DNS over TLS send these requests over the UDP transport layer, again using encryption. This prevents man-in-the-middle tampering that could be done with unprotected DNS conversations. The TLS version skips the application-layer protocols, which helps hide this traffic even further and offers a slight performance boost as a result.

01.09.2023 - 16:12 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

„Nato-General Kujat: Ukraine-Krieg ist für Selenskyj ungewinnbar, EU-Eskalation bleibt eine Gefahr“

Wir übernehmen mit diesem Hinweis ein Interview Roger Köppels von der Weltwoche mit dem früheren Generalsinspekteur und NATO-General Kujat. Das Interview ist mit anderthalb Stunden Dauer zwar sehr lang, aber es ist auch sehr inhaltsreich. Zu erinnern ist bei dieser Gelegenheit auch daran, dass Harald Kujat zusammen mit Peter Brandt, Hajo Funke und Horst Teltschik gerade einen Aufruf zu einem Verhandlungsfrieden veröffentlicht hat. Siehe hier.

01.09.2023 - 12:05 [ Ghadir Hani / Times of Israel ]

Don’t leave me to bear this alone

A few weeks ago, I was among the organizers of the March of the Dead in Tel Aviv. 147 coffins signifying all the Arabs killed this year were carried by young Arab men and women. Many Jews marched with us and along with great sadness we had hope that we were not alone. But for the members of the families – the orphans – this is not enough. In many of these murder cases, the victim’s family live next to the murderer who is not charged by the police because there is a lack of evidence or proof. Imagine a situation where a despicable murderer walks free alongside relatives of the murdered. What human society could allow this to occur?

01.09.2023 - 06:20 [ Workers.org ]

No U.S./French-backed invasion of Niger!

(August 6, 2023)

Niger is a target of imperialism for many reasons. Its natural resources include uranium, which supplies up to one third of France’s entire electrical grid. Yet Niger remains one of the poorest countries in the world with the majority of its over 27 million people lacking access to their own electricity. Niger also holds strategic importance to the U.S. military as a hub for its drone operations in Central Africa, used to maintain U.S. influence in the region as well as assist in French military interventions.

In addition to 1,500 French troops, there are over 1,000 U.S. troops stationed in Niger, which the U.S. government now refuses to withdraw, despite the security agreements between the U.S. and Niger being suspended and multiple European countries evacuating their citizens. The U.S. military machine is digging in, hoping to restore the pro-imperialist government by whatever means necessary.

01.09.2023 - 05:55 [ voanews.com ]

Taliban Sign Multibillion-Dollar Afghan Mining Deals

(August 31, 2023)

Shahabuddin Dilawar, the Taliban minister of mines and petroleum, said the seven contracts cover the extraction and processing of gold, copper, iron, lead and zinc in four Afghan provinces — Takhar, Ghor, Herat and Logar.

The nationally televised signing ceremony occurred as the de facto Afghan authorities marked the second anniversary of the withdrawal of all U.S.-led NATO troops from the country after nearly 20 years of war with the then-insurgent Taliban.

01.09.2023 - 05:48 [ CNN ]

The Taliban are sitting on $1 trillion worth of minerals the world desperately needs

(August 19, 2021)

Afghanistan is one of the poorest nations in the world. But in 2010, US military officials and geologists revealed that the country, which lies at the crossroads of Central and South Asia, was sitting on mineral deposits worth nearly $1 trillion.

Supplies of minerals such as iron, copper and gold are scattered across provinces. There are also rare earth minerals and, perhaps most importantly, what could be one of the world’s biggest deposits of lithium –

01.09.2023 - 05:25 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Afghanistan: Der Kupfer-Krieg

(29. November 2006)

Im Süden werden demnächst die Abbau-Rechte für Kupfererz im Werte von 1.6 Billionen Dollar an internationale Konzerne vergeben.

Aynak (Ainak), nördliches Ende der Provinz Logar, 35 Kilometer südlich von Kabul: hier im wüsten Landes des Kriegsgebietes von Südafghanistan sind nicht nur Opium, Waffen und Krieg als Geld-oder Gewinnquelle zu haben – hier liegen laut Sondierungen durch US- und britischen Behörden 240 Millionen Tonnen Kupfererz mit einem Kupfergehalt von 2.3%, dicht unter der Erdoberfläche und leicht abzubauen.

01.09.2023 - 04:50 [ ORF.at ]

Taliban: Neue Abkommen für Betrieb von sieben Bergwerken

Welche Firmen den Zuschlag erhielten und aus welchen Ländern die Investitionen genau stammen, war nicht klar. Laut einer Mitteilung des Taliban-Wirtschaftsministeriums handelt es sich um den Abbau von Gold, Kupfer, Blei und Eisenerz. Die Investitionen stammen demzufolge aus Asien und Europa. Genauere Details nannte das Ministerium zunächst nicht.

01.09.2023 - 04:05 [ GazetteNGR.com ]

Kagame, Biya sack Rwandan, Cameroonian military chiefs after soldiers seized power in Niger, Gabon

The Rwandan leader, known for his brutal crackdown on the media and opposition, also retired 83 senior officers, 06 junior officers and 86 senior non-commissioned officers, 678 end-of-contract officers, while 160 were discharged on medical grounds discharges,” the statement said.

In Cameroon, Mr Biya, who spends most of his time in Switzerland, is also not leaving his grip on the country to chance as he immediately shuffled the officers in the army, air force and marine.

The sweeping changes in Cameroon and Rwanda came barely hours after the coup in Gabon, where President Ali Bongo Ondimba was toppled and placed under house arrest by soldiers. Both leaders did not reference the coups in Niger and Gabon in their respective decisions.

01.09.2023 - 03:39 [ Eurasiareview.com ]

The Horn Of Africa States: Why An ECOWAS Invasion Of Niger Would Be Wrong – OpEd

In the Horn of Africa, we have a saying which denotes the importance of experience. We say, “Ask the one who has experienced it.” Civil conflicts and good-intentioned foreign forces sent to a country never solve a country’s real problems and this is even more so when one is acting on behalf of the others, who take advantage of the bounties of that country.

01.09.2023 - 03:26 [ Washington Post ]

Why a bloc of West African countries is threatening to invade Niger

(August 22, 2023)

The situation is complicated by the fact that three other members of the 15-member ECOWAS are suspended because they have had their own military coups in recent years. These countries — Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea, all former French colonies in the Sahel — have indicated they may side with Niger’s military government in the event of a war.