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Echoing the words of JFK, who said he was „a citizen of Berlin“ in the city 50 years ago on June 26, Obama implored the audience to remember those suffering from poverty and war.

„They are who you were,“ he said. „They deserve our support, for they too, in their own way, are citizens of Berlin. And we have to help them every day.“

(07.Juni) Jacob Appplebaum, a transparency activist and computer savant, has been repeatedly harassed at American borders, having his laptop seized. Barrett Brown, another investigative journalist who has written for Vanity Fair, among others publications, exposed the connections between the private contracting firm HB Gary (a government contracting firm that, incidentally, proposed a plan to spy on and ruin the reputation of the Guardian’s Greenwald) and who is currently sitting in a Texas prison on trumped up FBI charges regarding his legitimate reportorial inquiry into the political collective known sometimes as Anonymous.

The energetic and powerful young journalist Michael Hastings, most famous for his reporting on the follies of our Afghanistan intervention, who died yesterday in a car crash in Los Angeles went out with an interesting and iconclastic (especially for a guy known for his Rolling Stone reporting) piece for Buzzfeed attacking the Democrats on privacy issues.

Separate from the plan to target Greenwald and WikiLeaks, HBGary was part of a consortia that submitted a proposal to develop a “persona management” system for the United States Air Force, that would allow one user to control multiple online identities for commenting in social media spaces, thus giving the appearance of grassroots support or opposition to certain policies.

The data dump from the HBGary hack was so vast that no one person could sort through it alone. So Brown decided to crowdsource the effort. He created a wiki page, called it ProjectPM, and invited other investigative journalists to join in. Under Brown’s leadership, the initiative began to slowly untangle a web of connections between the US government, corporations, lobbyists, and a shadowy group of private military and information security consultants.

One connection was between Bank of America and the Chamber of Commerce.

The loss of Michael Hastings is a tremendous blow to adversarial journalism, but the circumstances surrounding his death leave many questions unanswered. Michael believed he was under FBI investigation at the time of his death, and that his calls with Barrett were being recorded.

We‘re raising money for Barrett‘s defense. Donate.

June 19, 2013 Current TV News

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Es gibt Geheimabkommen zwischen den großen Internetkonzernen und den US-Netzbetreibern gegen die Netzneutralität. Für einige Millionen US-Dollar erhalten Google, Microsoft und Facebook eine bevorzugte Datendurchleitung.

We are on the dangerous threshold of investing in machines the power to make autonomous life-or-death decisions over humans

On Wednesday, Italy‘s constitutional court rejected a bid by Berlusconi to block a tax fraud conviction on procedural grounds and the former prime minister faces a separate verdict on Monday on charges of paying for sex with a minor.

the public at large has yet to be convinced of a new comprehensive approach to America’s post-war-on-terror national security that rises above ad hoc problem solving and crisis management.

Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) reached a settlement with the city of Los Angeles to resolve a lawsuit claiming the bank acted like a “slumlord” and let foreclosed homes in low-income neighborhoods fall into disrepair.

„How I long for a poor Church for the poor!”
With these words spoken after being elected pope, Jorge Bergoglio underscored a theme that continues to be front-and-center of his papacy.

Pope Francis, Monday received in audience the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro. The meeting focused on the social and political situation of the country, after the recent death of President Hugo Chávez as well as on some current issues, such as poverty and the fight against crime and drug trafficking.

He says legislation may be needed to govern their domestic use.

The retired investigators claim that findings were „falsified.“ A documentary on the subject is coming out in July.

The six former investigators have been brought together for a documentary, „Flight 800,“ which will be shown on the EPIX cable network. They say the key piece of allegedly new evidence is in the form of radar analysis showing that there was a high velocity explosion, specifically that debris was ejected perpendicular and southward from the aircraft at MACH 4.

7. Name and Objectives of the Party

7.1 The name of the Party is “The Wikileaks Party” which, subject to a Special Resolution

at a General Meeting and the Act, may be changed.

7.2. The objectives of the Party shall be:

7.2.1 to do all that is necessary to secure, develop and protect human rights and

freedoms;

7.2.2 to promote that truthful, accurate factual information and providing truthful,

accurate factual information are the foundations of life and democracy;

7.2.3 transparency of governmental action, policy and information;

7.2.4 transparency of corporations’ and non-government organisations’ actions,

information and policies;

7.2.5 ensuring that governments, corporations, entities, associations, trade unions

and the persons associated with such bodies such as politicians and corporate

executives are held accountable for their policies and actions;

7.2.6 recognition of the importance of and need for equality between the

generations;

7.2.7 support and seek the right to self determination for the Torres Strait Islander

Peoples and the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia;

“Security and openness are both necessary for peace with justice,” said Obama. “Government serves the power of the individual, and not the other way around.”

many of them already knew about what was going on: in addition to the British and the Dutch, there are now reports that Germany was also kept informed at the highest levels (original in German.) That would probably explain the revelation by the news magazine Der Spiegel that Germany has been trying to beef up its own snooping capabilities for a while:

India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance program that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, several sources said.

Wisst ihr noch, bei dem Bundestrojaner, als die Opposition wetterte, es gäbe keine gesetzliche Grundlage? Und als die Nerds alle glaubten, sie hätten gewonnen, weil die Parlamentarier selbst erkennen, dass das illegal war? Dabei war das Gegenteil damit gemeint. Nicht „dann machen wir das halt nicht mehr“ sondern „dann müssen wir halt ein Gesetz machen, das das erlaubt“.

He did not say how many unmanned surveillance vehicles (UAVs) the FBI has or how often they have been used.

FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged Wednesday that the agency has deployed drones to conduct surveillance in the U.S., and that the bureau was developing guidelines for their future law enforcement use.