Daily Archives: 11. Dezember 2012


11.12.2012 - 23:39 [ Russia Today ]

Mozilla rallies for opposition against secret Internet treaty

Add another name to the list of critics concerned with attempts to rewrite the International Telecommunication Union to give governments control of the Internet: Silicon Valley’s Mozilla now officially opposes the ITU.

Mozilla, the makers of the highly successful Firefox Web browser for Macs, PCs and smart phones, have come out to condemn a top-secret meeting in Dubai this week that could lead to changes with how the world is wired to the Internet.

11.12.2012 - 23:36 [ Huffington Post ]

File-Sharing Lawsuits Canada: TekSavvy Warns Customers It Has Received Requests For Personal Info

An independent internet service provider popular with tech geeks in central Canada is warning that it has been asked to hand over personal information about customers in advance of a potential file-sharing lawsuit, and it’s telling its customers they may want to lawyer up.

Chatham, Ont.-based TekSavvy says it has received a request from Hollywood production company Voltage Pictures to identify the people behind 2,000 IP addresses which the company presumably suspects of unauthorized file-sharing.

11.12.2012 - 23:16 [ PAN North America ]

DuPont hires ex-police to patrol soybean farms

Seed and chemical giant DuPont just hired a fleet of ex-police officers to patrol the farmlands of North America.

The second-largest seed company used to rely on their partner/competitor Monsanto to play the industry ‘bad cop’ when it came to seed policing.

11.12.2012 - 22:31 [ antikrieg.com ]

Paul Craig Roberts – Halsstarriges Washington

Washington führt sich auf wie der Betrunkene in einer Bar, der einen Streit mit einem Kraftprotz beginnt. Washington ist von sich selbst überzeugt, aber Russland und China werden sich nicht einlassen mit einem finanziell ruinierten und militärisch überlasteten Lackaffen. Das Böse in Washington treibt uns in den Atomkrieg und in die Zerstörung des Lebens auf der Erde.

11.12.2012 - 20:31 [ Free Speech ]

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to European Union Despite Arms Exports

Norwegian peace organizations and opponents of the European Union held a torch-lit march Sunday to protest the decision. Three Nobel Peace Prize laureates — Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire of Northern Ireland and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel from Argentina — sent an unprecedented letter to the Nobel Committee opposing the award, saying the 27-nation bloc contradicts Alfred Nobel’s vision of a demilitarized global peace order.

11.12.2012 - 20:08 [ The Raw Story ]

Michigan mounted police trample pro-union protester with horse

Video posted by the Lansing State Journal shows a man laying on the ground as several mounted police awkwardly try to move their horses through a crowd of people protesting the so-called “right to work” legislation being pushed through by Republican lawmakers.

11.12.2012 - 19:54 [ Hamburger Abendblatt ]

Ägypter tragen Streit um Verfassung auf die Straßen

Wegen der Unruhen im Land bat Ägypten den Internationalen Währungsfonds (IWF), die Entscheidung über einen 4,8 Milliarden Dollar schweren Kredit für das Land zu vertagen. Ägypten habe den IWF um einen Aufschub gebeten, nachdem Mursi geplante Maßnahmen zur Reduzierung des massiven Haushaltsdefizits auf Eis gelegt habe, sagte Ministerpräsident Hescham Kandil am Dienstag auf einer Pressekonferenz.

11.12.2012 - 18:34 [ Guardian ]

Cameron‘s urge ‚to do something‘ in Syria resisted by defence staff

The fact that General Sir David Richards, chief of defence staff, has been drawing up contingency plans to provide Syrian rebels with maritime and possible air support should not be seen as an appetite within the Ministry of Defence to get involved.

The military might well do; it might have to. But it doesn‘t want to, at all, and for months military sources in Whitehall have been expressing deep unease about the situation to anyone who will listen.

11.12.2012 - 18:30 [ Google ]

Zeitgeist 2011: How the World Searched

What mattered in 2011? Zeitgeist sorted billions of Google searches to capture the year‘s 10 fastest-rising global queries and the rest of the spirit of 2011.

11.12.2012 - 17:15 [ RIA Novosti ]

`Iswestija`: Duma-Abgeordneter fordert Freiheitsstrafen für negative Nachrichten

Der Gesetzentwurf, den Michejew aus der Fraktion der Partei Gerechtes Russland konzipiert hat, trägt die Überschrift „Über den Schutz der Bevölkerung vor Informationen“.

11.12.2012 - 16:50 [ Stern ]

Razzia bei Betreiber von fluege.de

Unister war 2002 von Thomas Wagner in Leipzig gegründet worden, der damals noch Student war. Zu dem Unternehmen gehören auch die Online-Börse „auto.de“, das Nachrichtenportal „news.de“, „shopping.de“ oder „partnersuche.de“. Das Unternehmen hat nach eigenen Angaben 1500 Mitarbeiter.

11.12.2012 - 16:14 [ wired ]

Public Buses Across Country Quietly Adding Microphones to Record Passenger Conversations

Transit authorities in cities across the country are quietly installing microphone-enabled surveillance systems on public buses that would give them the ability to record and store private conversations, according to documents obtained by a news outlet.

The systems are being installed in San Francisco, Baltimore, and other cities with funding from the Department of Homeland Security in some cases, according to the Daily, which obtained copies of contracts, procurement requests, specs and other documents.

11.12.2012 - 15:48 [ Radio Utopie ]

Von Berlin nach L.A.: Ein hartes Stück Arbeit

Hannah Weber a.k.a Little Miss Divine ist Tänzerin aus Berlin. Über ihren Weg nach L.A. und was sie dort gemacht hat hier ein Interview auf Radio Utopie.

11.12.2012 - 14:43 [ JICTC ]

JICTC – Joint Interagency Counter-Trafficking Center

Established in September 2011 and signed into EUCOM’s Theater Campaign Plan in April 2012, the Joint Interagency Counter-Trafficking Center (JICTC) works with other U.S. government agencies and international partners to develop an inhospitable environment for transnational illicit trafficking and terrorism in EUCOM’s area of responsibility. This results in diminished money flow to traffickers and terrorists.

11.12.2012 - 14:34 [ Waiblinger Kreiszeitung ]

Erst `Nix gut`, dann die S21-Gegner

Verfolgungseifer gegen S21-Gegner und Antifaschisten, verläppernde Ermittlungen gegen Nazi-Kriegsverbrecher: Eine Abteilung der Stuttgarter Staatsanwaltschaft sorgt seit Jahren für Staunen. Zu den Betroffenen gehören: Dieter Reicherter aus Althütte, Richter im Ruhestand; der Winnender Punkversand „Nix gut“; und nun auch ein Kripo-Beamter aus dem Kreis.

11.12.2012 - 14:16 [ Bloomberg Businessweek ]

Pentagon Wants to Sell Israel More Satellite-Guided Bombs

The all-weather satellite-guided Joint Direct Attack Munition, or JDAM, tail kits are made by Boeing Co. (BA) Bombs delivered this way are among the most precise weapons in the U.S. and Israeli arsenal. They can be dropped by F-15 and F-16 fighter jets…

Other contractors involved the potential sale include Arlington, Virginia-based Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK), Raytheon Co. (RTN)’s Raytheon Missile Systems of Tucson, Arizona, and Cincinnati, Ohio-based KDI Precision Products Inc.

11.12.2012 - 10:33 [ Wir haben Agrarindustrie satt ]

Einladung zum 1. Helfertreffen in Berlin

Termin: Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012, 18:30 Uhr Ort: Markthalle IX Eingänge: Eisenbahnstraße 42-43 und Pücklerstraße 34, 10997 Berlin

Liebe Interessierte an einer Agrarwende, liebe MitstreiterInnen für eine bäuerliche, faire und gesunde Landwirtschaft,

aller guten Dinge sind drei! Nach dem überwältigenden Erfolg der letzten beiden Jahre wird es nächsten Januar wieder eine „Wir haben es satt!“-Demo parallel zum Internationalen Agrarministergipfel in Berlin geben.

11.12.2012 - 10:29 [ techdirt ]

Entertainment Industry Mourns The End Of ‚Hollywood‘ Howard Berman Being Their Personal Voice In Congress

We noted after the election that Hollywood‘s absolute favorite elected official — „Hollywood“ Howard Berman — lost his seat. He was often referred to as „the Representative from Disney“ for his unwavering support of passing legislation that helped the big Hollywood studios and record labels over the public interest.