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Freitag, Juli 30, 2010

New York Times Blog "Caucus": Political Points: WikiLeaks and Watchdogs

The Times’s Jeff Zeleny, Eric Schmitt and Floyd Norris join Sam Roberts to discuss the newly released U.S. military documents on the war in Afghanistan and the search for the first head of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection. [more...]

Montag, Juli 26, 2010

New York Times: The War Logs

Americans fighting the war in Afghanistan have long harbored strong suspicions that Pakistan’s military spy service has guided the Afghan insurgency with a hidden hand, even as Pakistan receives more than $1 billion a year from Washington for its help combating the militants, according to a trove of secret military field reports to be made public Sunday. [more...]

Spiegel Online: Die Afghanistan-Protokolle

The Guardian UK: The Afghanistan WAR LOGS

WikiLeaks: Kabul War Diary

Mittwoch, Juli 21, 2010

Zeit Online: Deutschlands gefährlichste Straße


Baustelle A1 Hamburg – Bremen auf einer größeren Karte anzeigen

Endlose Baustellen, viele Tote auf der A 1: Seit die Regierung Autobahnen wie die zwischen Hamburg und Bremen an private Firmen verpachtet, sind sie zu Horrorpisten geworden. Heimlich haben Politiker die Geschäfte eingefädelt

Donnerstag, Juni 17, 2010

New York Times: Victory for WikiLeaks in Iceland’s Parliament

At 4 a.m. on Thursday, at the end of an all-night session, Iceland’s Parliament, the Althing, voted unanimously in favor of a package of legislation aimed at making the country a haven for freedom of expression by offering legal protection to whistle-blower Web sites like WikiLeaks, which helped to craft the proposal. [more...]



Report by Al Jazeera March 2010

Dienstag, Juni 08, 2010

Wired: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe - Geheimes Irakvideo - Armee Analyst verhaftet -

Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned. [more...]

Spiegel Online: Ex-Hacker soll WikiLeaks-Quelle an Militär verpfiffen haben


Dienstag, Juni 01, 2010

Spiegel Online: Aussteiger Horst Köhler - Pragmatisch wie Niki Lauda

Der Idealismus ist eine schreckliche deutsche Tradition. Horst Köhler war kein Idealist. Er war ein Pragmatiker, der sein Amt ernst nahm - und auf seine biedere, schwäbische Art sogar Spaß daran hatte. Dann war der Spaß vorbei, und Köhler stieg einfach aus. Vernünftig, findet Henryk M. Broder. [mehr...]

Dienstag, April 13, 2010

AP: Israel tells its citizens to get out of Sinai now


JERUSALEM — Israel issued an "urgent" warning Tuesday to its citizens to leave Egypt's Sinai Peninsula immediately citing "concrete evidence of an expected terrorist attempt to kidnap Israelis in Sinai."
The statement from the Israeli prime minister's anti-terror office took the unusual step of calling on families of Israelis visiting the Sinai to establish contact with them.  more...

Dienstag, April 06, 2010

WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff

WIKILEAK
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded. For further information please visit the special project website www.collateralmurder.com




German Magazine Mirror - SPIEGEL ONLINE
The New York Times
Reuter Press

Donnerstag, März 18, 2010

Erste Sitzung der frei gewählten Volkskammer der DDR im Jahre 1990 - The freely elected People's Chamber of the DDR in the year 1990




Erste Sitzung der frei gewählten Volkskammer


Die erste und zugleich einzige frei gewählte Volkskammer der DDR konstituiert sich am 5. April 1990 im Palast der Republik. Der 10. Volkskammer gehören - einschließlich der Nachrücker - 409 Abgeordnete an. Nur drei Prozent der Abgeordneten sind auch schon Mitglieder der 9. Volkskammer gewesen. Zu ihrer Präsidentin wählen die Abgeordneten im zweiten Wahlgang die CDU-Abgeordnete Sabine Bergmann-Pohl.

The free elections to the People’s Chamber (Volkskammer) of the German Democratic Republic on 18 March 1990 completely transformed the character of that Parliament. Under the dictatorship of the Socialist Unity Party (SED), the People’s Chamber had been a sham parliament which, with one single exception, had always rubber-stamped the decisions of the state and party leaders until the peaceful revolution in the autumn of 1989. Now it transformed itself into a democratic parliament, whose members tackled a massive workload to carve out the path to the unification of Germ

Mittwoch, Dezember 23, 2009

Obama calls local talk show: 'Barry from DC'



"Barry" dialed in to "Ask The Governor" to pay tribute to the man he almost picked for vice president and did tap for Democratic Party chair more on us today

Sonntag, Juni 14, 2009

Reports from Iran via tehranbureau.com

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
from Iran sent 10:15 AM sunday june 3 Tehran-time

I was just on the phone with my dad… he’s in the persian rug business in Tehran (Bazaar)… he said everything’s really come down there and on his way to Bazaar, but places like Khiyaban Vali Asr and Vanak are pretty chaotic…my cousin there was beaten pretty bad with a baton… seems like it’s getting very violent…
from Iran sent 9:23 AM sunday June 3 Tehran-time

The banks are all closed. most with windows smashed up. its morning now and it seems to be business as usual for people going to work, but everyone is very angry and bitter. its a very strange unsettling feeling. you can feel things are going to explode at some point.
saadat abad riots – the people have severely beaten the police forces. burned every single one of there motorbikes. following which the police retaliated by by smashing all the cars and home windows in the residence neighborhood of saadat abad.

Iranian TV has been showing movies all day! NOT ONE WORD OF THE UNREST.
Updates from Tehran, via friends source spoken to on Skype:
“I was at Vezarate Keshvar [Interior Ministry]… they never even opened the ballot box.
It took hours to get home today. I had to hide in people’s houses and in car parks and wherever I could find just to avoid getting beaten by the guys on motorbikes with batons. They were hitting everyone they passed. I saw them pulling women out of cars and beating them. Oddly places you thought would be busy are not. Tajrish is empty. Elsewhere people driving around honking horns and showing peace signs. All seems completely futile. And odd day at work, all very angry and upset and cynical, no one could actually do any work. Btu I was saddened by the fact everyone seemed resigned to it already.”
“Two of my friends are also missing, one I know was arrested but no news since. No idea about the other.”
from Iran sent 2:43 AM Tehran-time (6:13 EST)
[Translated] “Here the internet is horrible. After much trouble, I was able t log on through a proxy. I’ll try my best to get the news to you. I have news right now that in Shahrake Gharb [neighborhood in northeast Tehran] is absolute chaos. People are in the streets, they’re chanting. No sign of police. Their protest continues at this hour. I also hear that Niavaran [north Tehran] is a big chaotic too — at least until an hour ago. I’m sorry my information is fragmented. I’m afraid I’ll get disconnected. In Niavaran people are shouting from their homes. That way when police comes they quickly retreat; so they haven’t been able to arrest anyone. I’ve also heard that people captured a few of the Basij guys and gave him a beating. It feels like Martial Law here. Cell phones are down, internet lines are horrible, Facebook is filtered, and … I also have news from Ahvaz. They have also announced there that if someone comes out of their house they will be arrested. So keep your fingers crossed and pray for us. Tomorrow is a great day. I gave you the news. Please try to publish it. Thx.”

Dienstag, April 21, 2009

Somali Pirates' Homemade Hijacking Video - Piraten Video -



By Evan Hansen wired.com
The 10 minute 42 second video, taken by the pirates themselves, is both oddly intimate yet strangely banal. It takes place aboard the Yasa Neslihan, a vessel manned by a crew of 20 Turks captured by Somali pirates on October 29, 2008. The vessel and crew were released unharmed on Jan. 6, 2009, after a ransom was paid. more on "DANGER ROOM" Blog on wired.com blog

Mittwoch, April 08, 2009

Man dies during G20 protests in London- Channel 4 - The video made by a businessman was published by "The Guardian" UK




Ian Tomlinson, the man who died at last week's G20 protests in London, was attacked from behind and thrown to the ground by a baton-wielding police officer in riot gear, dramatic footage obtained by the Guardian shows. More Guardian Report with Video...

Another video "The Telegraph" >