Civilians make up 61% of Gaza deaths from airstrikes, Israeli study finds
Civilian proportion of deaths is higher than that in all world conflicts in 20th century, Haaretz newspaper says
#guardian
More than 1,000 unmarked graves discovered along EU migration routes
Bodies also piling up in morgues across continent as countries accused of failing to meet human rights obligations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EBTn_3DBYo
Es sieht so aus, als sei #Sellafield ganz böse gehäckt worden. Deshalb ein bisschen #Musik | #Kernenergie #Security #Epic #Fail #Link #Guardian #Englisch
Hat der #Söder nicht neulich erst wieder etwas über den Segen der #Kernkraft gefaselt?
Sellafield nuclear site hacked by groups linked to Russia and China
The Guardian has discovered that the authorities do not know exactly when the IT systems were first compromised. But sources said breaches were first detected as far back as 2015, when experts realised sleeper malware – software that can lurk and be used to spy or attack systems – had been embedded in Sellafield’s computer networks.
It is still not known if the malware has been eradicated. It may mean some of Sellafield’s most sensitive activities, such as moving radioactive waste, monitoring for leaks of dangerous material and checking for fires, have been compromised.
Why are younger voters flocking to the far right in parts of Europe?
“I voted for Wilders, and many of my friends did too,” he said. “I don’t want to live with my parents for ever. I want my own home, and to be able to provide for my family later on. Wilders wants to figure out the housing crisis, and make our healthcare better. Those are the most important topics for me.”
In Volendam, where the PVV won 42.9% of the vote, that was Gerald’s point. “Younger people, the woke ones from the big cities, care about the climate and gender stuff but they are ignoring the real problems that we have here and now,” he said.
Far-right parties are not the preferred option – or even second choice – for younger voters everywhere in Europe, analysts caution. The trend appears strongest in countries such as Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark.
In the Netherlands, the PVV surged to become the largest party among 18- to 34-year-olds, winning 17% of their vote against 7% previously. In Sweden’s 2022 ballot, 22% of the 18-21 cohort voted for the far-right Sweden Democrats, against 12% in 2018.
Spain’s Vox has a particularly slick operation, and Sławomir Mentzen, the 37-year-old leader of Poland’s ultra-liberal far-right Konfederacja (Confederation) party, has 800,000 followers on TikTok.
Even if “economic grievances, insecurities around housing, jobs, futures” may account for much of the youth vote, he said, “we’re seeing the growth to fruition of a concerted far- and extreme-right effort to reach and radicalise young people”.
28.11.2023 Offener Brief für Julian Assange
Journalismus ist kein Verbrechen
Genau heute vor einem Jahr erschien ein Offener Brief an die US Regierung und die Weltöffentlichkeit. Herausgeber sind die Chefredakteure und Herausgeber von
- »New York Times«
- »Guardian«
- »Le Monde«
- SPIEGEL
- »El País«
Diese Zeitungen haben über viele Jahre die Erkenntnisse von Wikileaks veröfffentlicht. Doch keine dieser Medien wurde von den USA wegen der Veröffentlichungen von Militärgeheimnissen angeklagt, noch nicht einmal angemahnt. Julian Assange wird dagegen seit mehr als 14 Jahren seiner Freiheit beraubt und durch den Espionage Act von 1917 mit 175 Jahren Haft bedroht.
In dem Offenen Brief heißt es
Heute vor zwölf Jahren, am 28. November 2010, haben unsere fünf Redaktionen in Zusammenarbeit mit WikiLeaks eine Serie von Enthüllungsgeschichten veröffentlicht, die weltweit Schlagzeilen machten. Die diplomatischen Depeschen, eine Sammlung von 251.000 vertraulichen Nachrichten des US-Außenministeriums, entlarvten Korruption, diplomatische Skandale und Spionageaffären von internationalem Ausmaß. ...
Aber heute äußern wir uns gemeinsam, weil wir zutiefst besorgt darüber sind, dass Julian Assange noch immer verfolgt wird, weil er geheimes Material beschafft und veröffentlicht hat. ... Das US-Justizministerium nutzte das alte Anti-Spionage-Gesetz von 1917, einst gedacht für die Verurteilung von Spionen während des Ersten Weltkriegs. Es wurde nie zuvor angewendet, um einen Herausgeber oder Journalisten vor Gericht zu stellen.
Die Anklage gegen Assange ist ein gefährlicher Präzedenzfall und ein Angriff auf die Pressefreiheit. Es zählt zu den Kernaufgaben von Journalistinnen und Journalisten in demokratischen Staaten, Fehler von Regierungen zu kritisieren. Sensible Informationen zu beschaffen und zu publizieren, wenn das im öffentlichen Interesse liegt, ist Teil unserer täglichen Arbeit. Wer diese Arbeit kriminalisiert, schwächt den öffentlichen Diskurs und damit die Demokratie.
Zwölf Jahre nach den Botschaftsdepeschen ist es an der Zeit für die US-Regierung, die Verfolgung von Julian Assange wegen der Veröffentlichung geheimer Dokumente einzustellen. Denn Journalismus ist kein Verbrechen.
Die Regierung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland stellt auf Nachfrage der Linken Abgeordneten Sevim Dağdelen dazu fest:
Die Zuständigkeit für das Verfahren liegt bei der britischen Justiz. Die Bundesregierung achtet die Unabhängigkeit der Justiz. Sie hat keinen Zweifel daran, dass die britische Justiz rechtsstaatliche Prinzipien anwendet und die Menschenrechte achtet. Zu laufenden Verfahren sowie den Inhalten vertraulicher Gespräche mit Vertreterinnen und Vertretern anderer Regierungen äußert sich die Bundesregierung grundsätzlich nicht. https://dserver.bundestag.de/btd/20/089/2008966.pdf
Wir demonstrieren weiter jeden 1. und 3. Donnrstag von 18-20h vor der US Botschaft am Brandenburger Tor. Macht mit!
Außerdem: Verleihung KONRAD-WOLF-PREIS 2023, AdK Berlin
Julian Assange hat wieder einen Preis zuerkannt bekommen, diesmal von der Akademie der Künste, - was außergewöhnlich ist, da der Konrad-Wolf-Preis sonst nur für Künstler vergeben wird. Am 22. Oktober nahm Stella Assange den Preis in Berlin entgegen. Viele Berliner "Free Assange“ Aktivisten waren natürlich vor Ort , auch um die Anwesenden zu informieren.
Hier ist der vollständige Wortlaut der Jury-Begründung für den Preis nachzulesen https://www.adk.de/de/news/?we_objectID=65558
Auf der Website der ADK ist das Video der gesamten Veranstaltung bis auf den Vorfilm verlinkt https://www.adk.de/de/programm/index.htm?we_objectID=65629
Mehr dazu bei https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/offener-brief-zu-julian-assange-journalismus-ist-kein-verbrechen-a-b846f4af-6ceb-46bd-aa6f-11ad4874d985
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‘Is That Orwellian Or Kafkaesque Enough For You?’ The Guardian Removes Bin Laden’s ‘Letter To America’
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(...) On 15 November, [The Guardian] removed Osama bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ which it had hosted on its website for almost 21 years. What was suddenly so problematic about the letter that it had to be abruptly removed by the Guardian after being on its website for so long (an archived version can be seen here)?
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'Removed: document'. The Guardian removes Osama bin Laden's 'Letter to America'. Screenshot taken the day after it was the most viewed link on the Guardian website (image by Glenn Greenwald).
The letter has been ‘rediscovered’ during Israel’s current genocidal assault against Palestinians in Gaza, with people around the world discussing relevant issues online. The Guardian link to the letter went viral, particularly among young people on TikTok, with 14 million views of videos tagged with #lettertoamerica. Many of these videos were posted by young Americans, shocked to find that people around the world hate their country because of strong grievances rooted in real issues. (...)
‘And yet, after 9/11, the US government instructed the television networks – ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Fox – do not show any speeches or interviews with Osama bin Laden, because they didn’t want the American population hearing from him what their actual grievances were. They didn’t want Americans to think that maybe we had done things in that part of the world that caused it to happen, that causes “blowback”, to use the CIA’s term.’
As with any statement from an influential or powerful figure, bin Laden’s letter needs to be read critically. There is much to revile in the letter, not least its antisemitism and homophobia. But consider some of the grievances he detailed against the US government, summarised below:
- Palestine was ethnically cleansed to allow the state of Israel to be set up in 1948. Since then, the Palestinians have been subjected to an Israeli military occupation, suffering for decades as a result of massacres, imprisonment, torture, shootings, bombs, destruction of homes and livelihoods: all backed with massive military, economic and diplomatic support from the US.
- Sanctions against Iraq, pushed heavily by the US, led to the deaths of 1.5 million Iraqis, 0.5 million of them children under 5.
- US attacks in Somalia, support for Russian atrocities in Chechnya, and support for Israeli aggression against Lebanon.
- Oppression of the populations of US client states in the Middle East, ruled by authoritarian monarchs, or where democratically elected leaders were removed and replaced by US-friendly dictators.
- The exploitation of the Middle East’s natural resources, especially oil, by Western corporations at paltry prices secured through economic and military threats.
- US military bases spread across the region, protecting what the US sees as its own assets.
- The leading US role in destroying climate stability – in particular, its refusal to sign the Kyoto agreement made at the 1997 UN Climate Summit – in order to preserve the profits of US fossil fuel giants.
- US power and influence has been used, not to defend universal humanitarian principles and values, but to secure US geostrategic interests and profits.
- The dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. (...)
So why did the Guardian, which proclaims its credentials in supposedly enabling readers to understand the world, remove bin Laden’s letter from its website? (...)
As Greenwald observed, US ‘Big Tech’ companies – Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter) – are already subjected to censorship in accordance with the dictates of the US security state, as the ‘Twitter files’, a cache of leaked documents, showed. TikTok, a Chinese company, was the only major platform outside the reach of the US. But, noted Greenwald, they were told that, as a condition of being able to continue to operate in the US, they would have to agree to the censorship demands of the US government. Hence, TikTok’s determination to ban TikTok clips discussing #lettertoamerica.
In other words, the censorship actions taken by both TikTok and the Guardian align with the requirements of the US government. This should come as no surprise to anyone who is familiar with the long history of the Guardian acting as a liberal gatekeeper for establishment power. Moreover, the paper’s ever-closer relationship with UK state security services, themselves subservient to US state power, is abundantly clear. (...)
As Greenwald noted:
‘Is that Orwellian enough, or Kafkaesque enough, for you? The article in which most people had an interest in reading was the [letter hosted by the] Guardian [which], precisely because too many people were interested in it, [the editors] decided to remove, so that people couldn’t read it any longer. It’s a document by a major historical figure. The person we’re told was responsible for the 9/11 attack explaining to Americans why people in that part of the world were angry enough with America to do that.
‘And the Guardian decided, even though it had been up on their website for 21 years, that now that people were discussing it in connection with the war in Gaza from Israel, and US support for it, you can no longer read it.’ (...)
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Top German journalist received €600,000 from Putin ally, leak reveals
Influential author and broadcaster Hubert Seipel received financial support for his work on two books described by many as sympathetic to Russian president
#Guardian #CyprusConfidential #Corruption #Russia #Journalism #Disinformation #Propaganda #HubertSeipel
Your next excuse is on platform 5 – German train travel has become an experience worthy of Kafka
Erratic Deutsche Bahn services make our commutes a misery. Luckily, their meaningless announcements are an art form
#Guardian #Germany #DeutscheBahn #Träwelling
(I can confirm. Sitting in the very first train to Hamburg, and the very first announcement on board was that the digital services aren't working. Well, at least the WLAN is. For now.)
Ukraine wants to receive long-range missiles from the West to attack targets in #Russia, #Iran and #Syria, where the #Shahed #drones are produced.
This is reported by The #Guardian with reference to the secret 47-page document that #Kiev has sent to its Western partners.
"The above may be carried out by the Ukrainian defence forces if partners provide the necessary means of destruction," Kiev suggests.
According to the article, "52 electrical components manufactured by western companies were found in the Shahed-131 drone and 57 in the Shahed-136 model, which has a flight range of 2,000km and cruising speed of 180kmh."
Meanwhile, almost all imports to Iran come from #Turkey, #India, #Kazakhstan, #Uzbekistan, #Vietnam and #CostaRica (funny they excluded China and UAE/Farhad)
According to the document, Iran has already diversified its production by using a Syrian factory with delivery to the Russian port of #Novorossiysk. It is also moving drone production to Russia's #Tatarstan.
The document says that the Iranian government is trying to "disassociate itself from providing Russia with weapons" and "cannot cope with Russian demand and the intensity of use in #Ukraine".