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Jürgen Trittin bei “Pelzig hält sich”

November 2nd, 2011 No comments

Jürgen Trittin: “Wenn Sie heute das Gesetz ansehen, das entspricht ziemlich genau dem, was ich 2001 in den Deutschen Bundestag eingebracht hab’. Also die geistige Leistung von Frau Merkel ist, was den Atomausstieg angeht, ungefähr so gross wie die geistige Anstrengung des Herrn zu Guttenberg die er bei seiner Doktorarbeit aufgebracht hat.” (Min. 49:22)
Quelle: ZDF Mediathek

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UNESCO admits Palestine as Member State

October 31st, 2011 No comments

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For its membership to take effect*, Palestine must sign and ratify UNESCO’s Constitution which is open for signature in the archives of the Government of the United Kingdom in London.

Palestine’s entry will bring the number of UNESCO’s Member States to 195.

The vote was carried by 107 votes in favour of admission and 14 votes against, with 52 abstentions.

Admission to UNESCO for states that are not members of the United Nations requires a recommendation by the Organization’s Executive Board and a two thirds majority vote in favour by the General Conference of Member States present and voting (abstentions are not considered as votes).

The General Conference consists of the representatives of the States Members of the Organization. It meets every two years, and is attended by Member States and Associate Members, together with observers for non-Member States, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Each Member State has one vote, irrespective of its size or the extent of its contribution to the budget.

The General Conference determines the policies and the main lines of work of the Organization. Its duty is to set the programmes and the budget of UNESCO. It also elects the Members of the Executive Board and appoints, every four years, the Director-General.

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Congratulations!

… but! Neo-Imperialism: U.S. pulls UNESCO funding after Palestine is granted full membership.

BOYCOTT U.S. now!

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Upcoming event: “The Politics of Copyright and the New Cultural Economy”

October 24th, 2011 No comments

On 6th of December 2011 2000h CET (1900h UTC) Cory Doctorow is going to have a talk on “The Politics of Copyright and the New Cultural Economy” at “Kunstraum Walcheturm” in Zurich.

“Der Kanadische Science Fiction Autor und politische Aktivist Cory Doctorow wird über die Politik des Urheberrechts und seine Erfahrungen mit der freien Kultur sprechen.”

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Politischer Paradigmenwechsel

October 15th, 2011 2 comments

Sozialpolitisch ist das ja sehr interessant, dass Piratenparteien und Autonome den Staat an das Recht und die Verfassung erinnern müssen!

Im Klartext muss die Rede lauten:
Entspricht der “Staatstrojaner” den technischen Einschränkungen, welche vom Bundesverfassungsgericht vorgegeben wurden und wer trägt die Verantwortung dafür? Sind diese Einschränkungen in leicht oder grob fahrlässiger Weise übertreten worden und falls ja muss die Instanz, welche dafür haftet, zur ganzheitlichen Verantwortung gezogen werden.

Minister müssen zurücktreten, Regierungen ersetzt werden.

[Update 16. Oktober 2011]
Christopher Lauer schreibt “Überwachung unverzüglich stoppen, Quellcode offenlegen”

Christian Sickendieck schreibt “Der Verfassungsbruchminister”

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Tanned Politics

October 4th, 2011 No comments
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Fateful Palestine

September 23rd, 2011 No comments

In a few minutes H.E. Mr. Mahmoud Abbas will talk at the 66th United Nations General Assembly.

See live stream:

[Update]
… here’s a recording of the full speak.

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Key Questions

September 22nd, 2011 No comments

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once more did not fail to point out and name the key questions in regard of “The role of mediation in the settlement of disputes by peaceful means”:

Dear Colleagues and friends;

- Wouldn’t you think that the root cause of the problems must be sought in the prevailing international order, or the way the world is governed?

I would like to draw your kind attention to the following questions:
- Who abducted forcefully tens of millions of people from their homes in Africa and other regions of the world during the dark period of slavery , making them a victim oftheir materialistic greed.
- Who imposed colonialism for over four centuries upon this world. Who occupied lands and massively plundered resources of other nations, destroyed talents, and alienated languages, cultures and identities ofnations?
- Who triggered the first and second world wars, that left seventy millions killed and hundreds of millions injured or homeless. Who created the wars in Korean peninsula and in Vietnam?
- Who imposed, through deceits and hypocrisy, the Zionism and over sixty years of war, homelessness, terror and mass murder on the Palestinian people and on countries of the region?
Who imposed and supported for decades military dictatorship and totalitarian regimes on Asian, African, and Latin American nations.
- Who used nuclear bomb against defenseless people, and stockpiled thousands ofwarheads in their arsenals?
- Whose economies rely on waging wars and selling arms?
- Who provoked and encouraged Saddam Hussein to invade and impose an eight-year war on Iran, and who assisted and equipped him to deploy chemical weapons against our cities and our people.
- Who used the mysterious September 11 incident as a pretext to attack Afghanistan and Iraq , killing, injuring, and displacing millions in two countries with the ultimate goal of bringing into its domination the Middle East and its oil resources?
- Who nullified the Breton Woods system by printing trillions of dollars without the backing of gold reserves or equivalent currency? A move that triggered inflation worldwide and was intended to prey on the economic gains of other nations.
- Which country’s military spending exceeds annually a thousand billion dollars, more than the military budgets ofall countries ofthe world combined? Which governments are the most indebted ones in the world?
Who dominates the policy-making establishments ofthe world economy?
Who are responsible for the world economic recession, and are imposing the consequences on America, Europe and the world in general?
- Which governments are always ready to drop thousands of bombs on other countries, but ponder and hesitate to provide aid to famine-stricken people in Somalia or in other places?
- Who are the ones dominating the Security Council which is ostensibly responsible for safeguarding the international security?
- There exist tens of other similar questions. Of course, the answers are clear. The majority of nations and governments of the world have had no role in the creation of the current global crises, and as a matter of fact, they were themselves the victims of such policies.
- It is as lucid as daylight that the same slave masters and colonial powers that once instigated the two world wars have caused widespread misery and disorder with far-reaching effects across the globe since then.

Dear Colleagues and Friends;

- Do these arrogant powers really have the competence and ability to run or govern the world. Is it acceptable that they call themselves the sole defender of freedom, democracy, and human rights, while they militarily attack and occupy other countries?
- Can the flower of democracy blossom from NATO’s missiles, bombs and guns?

Source: Statement of His Excellency Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran before the 66th Session of the United Nations General Assembly
Link: 66th General Assembly of the UN

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Macht durch Geschwätz

September 22nd, 2011 No comments

»Das Geschwätz wurde eingesetzt, um Informationen darüber zu verbreiten, wie sich die Personen in einer Gruppe zu benehmen haben und die Schande derer zu befestigen, die die Regeln brachen. Durch das Geschwätz werden soziale Normen etabliert. Die Person, welche das Geschwätz in Umlauf bringt gewinnt Status und Macht durch die Demonstration seiner überlegenen Kenntnis der Normen. Die Person gewinnt so wertvolle Information darüber, wie man sich in Zukunft nicht verhalten sollte.«

Übersetzung aus David Brooks: The Social Animal, 2011

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9/11

September 11th, 2011 No comments

“10 years of self-deception”

(Photo by ¡hA)

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Stage-managing the “Arabic spring”

September 1st, 2011 No comments

… and where’s actually Ali Abdul Saoud Mohamed remaining?

Heres an excellent documentary by ARTE in french and german: The streets of terror from 1979 to 2001

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