Daily Archives: 18. April 2013


18.04.2013 - 23:54 [ abgeordnetenwatch.de ]

Christian von Stetten: Wenn Politiker vor kritischen Fragen davonlaufen

Anstatt für Aufklärung zu sorgen, läuft Christian von Stetten davon.

Update 18. April 2013: Nach einem Bericht des Magazins STERN soll Bushido dem Anführer des Berliner Unterwelt-Clans im Dezember 2010 eine Generalvollmacht erteilt haben – und damit den Zugriff auf sein Geld, Immobilien und Firmen. Laut Oberstaatsanwaltschaft agieren “die männlichen Mitglieder dieser Großfamilie im Milieu der organisierten Kriminalität. Mafiöse Strukturen sind hier eindeutig vorhanden und gerichtlich festgestellt worden.” Der STERN schreibt in seiner aktuellen Ausgabe, die Schnittmenge zwischen dem Bundestagsabgeordneten Christian von Stetten und Bushido sei ein Geschäftsmann aus Berlin – der vermeintliche Getränkelieferant. Der STERN weiter: “Nun haben die Jungs aus dem Flüchtlingscamp Wavel Zugang zum Freiherrn von Stetten…”.

18.04.2013 - 20:11 [ Keep Talking Greece ]

German FinMin Schauble on Cyprus: confused, absent-minded or just a tricky politician?

We all remember German finance minister Woflgang Schaeuble claiming that Cyprus was not systemically relevant for the euro zone. His slogan was more or less that the collapse of Cyrpus’s banking sector would not affect the eurozone as the impact could not be systemically.

Today, Wolfgang Schaueble claimed exactly the opposite

18.04.2013 - 20:02 [ Radio Utopie ]

Pakistan: Musharraf auf der ‚Flucht‘ vor Pakistan

Der ehemalige Generalstabschef und Diktator Pervez Musharraf, gefallener Liebling Washingtons, versucht in Pakistan Pakistan zu entfliehen. Dabei wollte er doch nur wieder mal zu dessen “Präsidenten” ernannt werden. Doch das dürfte für den alten Diener ohne Herren schwierig werden.

18.04.2013 - 19:52 [ United Nations - International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination ]

Opinion of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination under article 14 of the international Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Eighty second session)

The facts as submitted by the petitioner
2.1 The German cultural journal Lettre International (2009 fall edition, number 86)
published an interview with Mr. Thilo Sarrazin, the former Finance Senator of the Berlin Senate (from 2002 to April 2009, Social Democratic Party) and member of the Board of
Directors of the German Central Bank (from May 2009), entitled “Class instead of Mass: from the Capital City of Social Services to the Metropolis of the Elite”. In this interview, Mr. Sarrazin expressed himself in a derogatory and discriminatory way about social “lower classes”, which are “not productive” and would have to “ disappear over time” in order to create a city of the “elite”. In this context, he stated, inter alia:

18.04.2013 - 17:50 [ Wikipedia ]

CryptoParty

CryptoParty has received early messages of support from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and (purportedly) AnonyOps, as well as the NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, Wikileaks central editor Heather Marsh, and Wired reporter Quinn Norton. Eric Hughes, the author of A Cypherpunk‘s Manifesto nearly two decades before, delivered the keynote address, Putting the Personal Back in Personal Computers, at the Amsterdam CryptoParty on 2012-09-27

18.04.2013 - 17:20 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

U.S. House of Representatives Shamefully Passes CISPA; Internet Freedom Advocates Prepare for a Battle in the Senate

EFF extends its deep gratitude to the many organization that have worked with us on this campaign and the tens of thousand of EFF members who helped us by contacting Congress to oppose CISPA. We look forward to continuing to fight by your side in defense of civil liberties as CISPA moves to the Senate.

18.04.2013 - 17:19 [ Time Magazin ]

The 2013 TIME 100

TIME presents its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, from artists and leaders to pioneers, titans and icons

18.04.2013 - 16:36 [ RIA Novosti ]

Lawrow zu Brahimi-Gerüchten: Sondergesandter wird gehen müssen

„Wie würde ein ehrlicher Mensch handeln, wenn eine der beiden Organisationen, die ihn zum Vermitteln zwischen Macht und Opposition in Syrien beauftragt hatten, die möglichen Verhandlungen nicht mehr unterstützt und das nationale Oppositionsbündnis als den einzigen legitimen Vertreter des syrischen Volkes anerkannt hat?“, fragte Lawrow. Zudem habe die Arabische Liga beschlossen, die Opposition noch stärker zu bewaffnen.

18.04.2013 - 16:32 [ regensburg-digital ]

Verfassungsschutzbericht: Extrem dumm

Was ist von einem Verfassungsschutzbericht zu halten, der alles, was den Begriff „Antifaschismus“ im Munde führt, als verfassungsfeindlich und extremistisch brandmarkt?

Von einem Dokument, dem selbst ein Extremismusbegriff zugrunde liegt, der von Wissenschaftlern als überholt, irreführend und deshalb gefährlich gekennzeichnet wird?

18.04.2013 - 14:38 [ Forbes ]

Who Are The Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers, 2013?

ocial media is a very democratizing form of communications and to assess influence you really need to know who is first among equals.

That means assessing who has a real following – real in the sense of real people and not just bots, real also in the sense that the following is active in social media and not just a passive consumer.

18.04.2013 - 11:49 [ Ansa ]

Privatizations: Greece gets two bids for OPAP

The offers includes activist U.S. investment fund Third Point, which made fat profits on a speculative investment in deeply discounted Greek government bonds last year. The other bid came from Emma Delta, a group controlled by a Greek ship-owner George Melisanidis and Czech investor Jiri Smecj.

18.04.2013 - 10:03 [ Süddeutsche ]

Das Zypern-Rettungspaket ist unrechtmäßig

Bundesregierung und Bundestag dürfen der Zypern-Hilfe also nur dann zustimmen, wenn die „systemische“ Auswirkung einer Insolvenz Zyperns – sowohl im Hinblick auf andere Mitgliedstaaten als auch auf das Euro-Währungsgebiet insgesamt – nachweisbar ist. Dies muss durch konkretes Zahlenmaterial belegt werden. Ein solcher Nachweis ist bisher nicht geführt worden.

18.04.2013 - 09:51 [ techdirt ]

CISPA Renders Online Privacy Agreements Meaningless, But Sponsor Sees No Reason To Fix That

CISPA‘s sponsors insist the law is 100% voluntary—it doesn‘t compel companies to do anything. But as we‘ve been warning for a year and warned again yesterday, the bill‘s blanket immunity provision doesn‘t merely clear a „legislative thicket“ of laws restricting information-sharing about cyber threats. It also bars companies from making enforceable promises to their users about how they might share users‘ information with the government or other companies in the name of protecting cybersecurity.

18.04.2013 - 09:49 [ techdirt ]

Government Has Already Fooled Us More Than Once On Privacy; History Belies How CISPA Will Be Used

One of the key things we‘ve seen in the pushback on CISPA is that its backers insist that people arguing against it don‘t really understand how the bill works, and that it does protect privacy. CISPA sponsor Rep. Mike Rogers himself took to Twitter this morning to tell the EFF that it‘s misreading his bill. But, of course, as we‘ve seen, it seems that Rogers himself is the one being misleading when it comes to privacy. If he truly believed in privacy protections, he would have supported a variety of straightforward amendments that made it clear how privacy could be protected. But he didn‘t. Instead, he clearly left it open for abuse.

18.04.2013 - 09:08 [ Festival de Cannes ]

Un Certain regard unveiled its President of the Jury and Opening film

Before announcing the full Official Selection this Thursday 18 April, the Festival de Cannes has two announcements to make on Un Certain Regard: the President of the Jury and the Opening film.

18.04.2013 - 07:04 [ techdirt ]

UK Supreme Court Says Unauthorized Browsing Of Copyright Material Online Is OK, But Asks European Court Of Justice Just In Case

The judges recognized that the central issue is whether the temporary copies held on a computer in its memory cache, which are necessary to view a document stored on the Web, are covered by a clause in UK and European law that exempts temporary copies from needing a license provided certain conditions are met. In the judges‘ view, copies held purely for browsing were indeed covered, provided they were not saved or printed out. Here‘s why that is crucial: