... In February 2010, Wikileaks began releasing a voluminous trove of classified documents too many members of the American establishment suspiciously over-emphasized contained the identities of informants overseas. In July of that year thru September 2011, and eventually as a result of a series of unfortunate and unforeseen events, not immediately related to any control Assange had over the execution of what ultimately became known as “Cablegate,” Wikileaks released the entirety of the trove. ...
Bei uns wird gerne angenommen, Wikileaks Veröffentlichung von US-Kriegsverbrechen per Video ist das "Hauptverbrechen" von Assange.
Hier wird dagegen nochmal die Story zum sog. “Cablegate” nachverfolgt, und wie sich damals Assange als einziger um die Begrenzung eines möglichen Schadens bemühte, für den er nichts konnte ...
Bitte selber weiter lesen (sorry für Englisch)
Beim isw wird in dem Zusammenhang darauf hingewiesen Umfassende Strategien der Kapitaleigner hat Naomi Klein als „Schocktherapie“ in ihrem Bestseller einleuchtend beschrieben. Auch jetzt ist der Betrieb wieder einmal rechtsfreie Zone. Die derzeitige „Corona-Krise“ zeigt, wie selbst Krankheitserreger in diesem Sinne genutzt werden.
Mein Zitat der Woche (oder so): " ... and (I) don't want my kids to grow up being exploited by mega-corporations. " - Dries Buytaert dort: https://dri.es/the-web-i-want-for-my-kids
"A number of Indian Twitter users, including "influencers", are leaving the social media network for a little known alternative called Mastodon.
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> The move comes amid criticism of what some are calling Twitter's "highly inconsistent" stand on hate speech...."
Eine private britische Firma, so weit ich sehe.
Eigener Index (!), keine Meta-engine
Verspricht: "Independent and unbiased search results with no user tracking"
Mal sehn ..
In diesem Sinne hab ich losgelegt, obwohl - siehe nebenan! - ich gerade Wichtigeres zu tun hätte. Jedenfalls bin ich jetzt auch im #Fediverse unterwegs .. nach dem #OstermarschMuenchen und dem #OstermarschDraussen mehr ...
jetzt also auch via Franz@muenchen.sozial - bzw. "von außen" https://muenchen.social/@Franz aber auch im dezentralen Fedivers muß man sich anmelden. (Edit 15.5.19)
Man kann unregistriert folgen - nur für Einträge muss man registriert/angemeldet sein.
Das Blog ist auch frei anzusehen - und man kann im Blog moderiert kommentieren - nur im Gegensatz zu früher macht dies kaum noch jemand :-(.
Angra Arab schildert Saudi/VAR Besonderheiten: I have never seen a climate of fear and intimidation in Arab media and social media like this
Saudi and UAE regimes are going nuts. Their media are a festival of crude and vulgar propaganda. But what you will never see in the English language version of UAE/Saudi propaganda is that they attack Qatar for being close to Israel. And in English, they attack Qatar for being close to Hamas.
In den arabischsprachigen Regime-Medien greifen sie offenbar Katar an "nahe bei Israel" zu stehen, auf Englisch greifen sie Katar dafür an, Hamas-nahe zu sein.
Tröstlich: Es gibt gewichtigere Kreise, die meine Einstellung zu dem "Problem Facebook" teilen, dort DARING FIREBALL (englisch)
" .. It's .. killing the web"
Sag ich doch.
via https://blog.fdik.org/2017-06/s1496342079 - mit Zitatübersetzung, gut:
«Behandelt Facebook wie das Privatgrundstück hinter einer Mauer, das es auch ist. Falls Ihr etwas veröffentlicht wissen wollt, macht das auf einem echten Blog auf irgend einer Plattform im echten Web, dem freien.»
It is quite telling about the restrictive political atmosphere of the US that Noam Chomsky is a frequent guest more in foreign mainstream media than in US mainstream media. mal wieder Angry Arab - simple Beobachtung, überwiegend treffend, ..
- nur, die "foreign Media" mit Chomsky sind nach meinem Eindruck auch nicht unbedingt "Mainstream" ..
Aber immerhin, hierzulande hat bei zumindest interessierten Kreisen Chomsky einen guten Namen (siehe z.B. actvism)
via angry arab - es gibt offensichtlich Leute, die ihr das übel nehmen.
wörtlich als Text:"In case you didn't know, the United States funds and arms terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS when it needs them to disrupt a country."
"Falls sie es nicht wußten, die USA finanzierten und bewaffneten teroristische Gruppen wie Al Qaeda und ISIS wenn sie es nötig fanden ein Land zu zerstören.
Angry Arab, wieder mal, er zitiert eine arabische Bloggerin dankenswerterweise auf Englisch1, wohl wissend dass er keine der widersprüchlichen Angaben prüfen kann:
Physicians without Borders said three days ago that there are only "four out of eight" hospitals functioning in East Aleppo and that they were bombed. Aljazeera claimed that there are six hospitals functioning. The Guardian said that there are three hospitals left in East Aleppo, and that one of the three was bombed by Russian and Syrian regime. This number clashes with the number of Physicians without Borders. CNN, on the other hand, said that there is one hospital left in East Aleppo still functioning out of four and mentioned a 3rd hospital bombed. The hospital mentioned by CNN is not listed by Physicians without Borders. Huffington Post listed five hospitals in East Aleppo which are still functioning which also clash with other counts. But a month prior, Huffington Post has mentioned three hospitals in East Aleppo. But the local committees of the Syrian rebels said TWO MONTHS ago that that there are no hospitals left anymore in East Aleppo, but the same committee later said that two functioning hospitals were bombed. And those same committees were the major source of "news" from East Aleppo for Western media. As for the notorious Liz Sly (who basically takes the propaganda of Syrian rebels and produces it in English) of the Washington Post, she wrote on Sep. 28 that there are six remaining hospitals in East Aleppo. But six days later, Liz Sly mentioned eight remaining hospitals (the number of Physicians without Borders). And that is how the truth is disseminated about the news from Syria in Western media.
1. ... dankenswerterweise ...: statt auf Arabisch, falls das jemand mißversteht.
es sollen über 5 FB-Gruppen gewesen sein. Anonyme Denunziation funktioniert dort.
Update, andere Baustelle, passt gerade: http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/48/48105/
"Da es von Facebook keine Listen gibt, aus denen hervorgeht, was genau verboten ist und was nicht, sind Fotodokumentationen zu türkeikritischen Demonstrationen in Deutschland auf Facebook unmöglich geworden," resümiert er. Das ist schließlich auch das Ziel der türkischen Justiz und der Regierung.
... wobei, doch, hierzulande gibt sich "jung & naiv" redlich Mühe mit solchen Fragen - und der klassischen Antwortwiederholung eines Regierungssprechers: "Ich habe dem nichts hinzuzufügen" (Link zu y**tube ;() ...
Currently, the governments of 15 countries are bombing Syria. They include seven allied NATO countries: US, UK, France, Turkey, Canada, Belgium, and Netherlands. They also include non-NATO allies of the United States: Israel, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, and Australia; and most recently, Russia.
As Trade Commissioner, Cecilia Malmström occupies a powerful position in the apparatus of the EU.
.... when I asked the trade commissioner how she could continue her persistent promotion of the deal in the face of such massive public opposition, her response came back icy cold: “I do not take my mandate from the European people.”
Angry Arab mal wieder, hier als Zeitungskommentar. Leider nur englisch, Übersetzung wäre wohl lohnend.
Yet, Western political hypocrisy was too visible to ignore. Western governments championed, armed, and defended tooth and nail the tyrannical polygamist dynasties of the Gulf and in the regimes of Jordan and Morocco. But the US was quite vigilant in pressing for free elections in countries where the governments are not clients of the US. The US pushed for elections in Iran, but not in Saudi Arabia, in Syria but not in Jordan, etc..
The elections in Algeria in 1991 made the intentions of the West clear. Western governments support free elections only if the results are consistent with Western political and economic interests. When the Algerian military junta cancelled the results of the elections, Western governments rushed to reward the anti-democratic rulers with weapons and financial assistance. And in 2006, after several years of redundant rhetoric by Bush officials about the desirability of free elections for the Palestinians (and the elections were not free as money from the US, UK, and Gulf regimes were pumped into the coffers of Fatah) the Bush administration lobbied the world to disregard the results of the elections, and even engineered (just as in 1953 in Iran) a coup by Mohammed Dahlan to take over power by force (Hamas was smarter, and preempted the coup). ..
Übrigens .. die Ukraine geht analog: Wenn eine demokratisch gewählte Regierung nicht passt, ist das schnell mal viele Milliarden wert, die für den Umsturz ins Land gebracht werden ...
Jeb Bush yesterday strongly suggested he was running for President in 2016. If he wins the GOP nomination, it is highly likely that his opponent for the presidency would be Hillary Clinton.
Having someone who is the brother of one former president and the son of another run against the wife of still another former president would be sweetly illustrative of all sorts of degraded and illusory aspects of American life, from meritocracy to class mobility. That one of those two families exploited its vast wealth to obtain political power, while the other exploited its political power to obtain vast wealth, makes it more illustrative still: of the virtually complete merger between political and economic power, of the fundamentally oligarchical framework that drives American political life. ..