Dabei erinnerte Alvarado daran, dass Ecuador eines der sieben Länder Süd-, Mittel- und Nordamerikas ist, die „alle Dokumente zu den panamerikanischen Menschenrechtsmechanismen ratifiziert haben“, und rief Washington auf, wenigstens eines davon zu ratifizieren.

Angesichts mehrerer Tage offener Drohungen seitens der Obama-Administration und Senatoren, welche drohten, einen wichtigen Handelsvertrag mit Ecuador zu kündigen, falls das Land es wagte, Edward Snowden Asyl zu gewähren, teilte die Regierung von Ecuador den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika mit, was sie mit ihrem tiefgekühlten Brokkoli und den frisch geschnittenen Blumen machen kann und kündigte den Vertrag von sich aus.

On Thursday, Wired‘s Kevin Poulsen revealed Thordarson‘s double role as a close Assange protégé and a paid informant working for the United States government in its WikiLeaks investigation.

Für $5000 hat der Wikileaks verraten.

In the wake of the news that spies at GCHQ — the UK equivalent of the NSA — have been tapping into every fiber optic cable that comes into and goes out of the country, downloading and storing phone calls and Internet traffic for up to 30 days, you might think the British authorities have enough information at their disposal, without needing to turn to other sources. But it seems not, according to the latest revelations in The Guardian:

Top-secret draft report from 2009 by the NSA‘s inspector general shows development of ‚collection of bulk internet metadata‘ under program launched under Bush

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One of the greatest honors I‘ve had in my years of writing about politics is the opportunity to work with and befriend my long-time political hero, Daniel Ellsberg. I never quite understood why the Nixon administration, in response to his release of the Pentagon Papers, would want to break into the office of Ellsberg‘s psychoanalyst and steal his files.

Millionen an Informationen fluten täglich unser Gehirn. Die meisten davon werden bewusst kaum wahrgenommen und nur mit einer Art Überschrift ins Unterbewusstsein verstaut. Wenn eine Information beim Empfänger hängen bleiben soll, muss diese oft genug wiederholt werden. Manchmal reicht nur ein Wort. Durch die Wiederholung dieses Wortes wird dieses Teil unseres Bewusstseins, es wird zur Norm, gehört zum Alltag – ob wir wollen oder nicht.

„I‘m not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker,“ Obama said, according to a tweet from the Washington Post‘s David Nakamura.

Back in March of this year, another BBC story noted that two other encrypted messaging services — Skype and WhatsApp — were also being told to make it possible for the authorities to eavesdrop on communications. In the wake of the Viber ban, there are now concerns that WhatsApp, Skype and the Tango messaging service may fall afoul of the Saudi authorities‘ desire to bring these new technologies under control.

Aggressive new anti-piracy legislation that allows for sites to be rapidly blocked by ISPs upon allegations of copyright infringement passed through its final two readings in Russia’s State Duma today.

Two weeks after Samaras’ decision to shutdown public broadcaster ERT and Greeks enjoy the view of multicolored test bars as the government considered the replacement of the black in TV screen with color bars as restoration of ERT frequencies.

When you find out your own government is harvesting your phone metadata and internet activity, what do you do? If you‘re Jeff Larson at ProPublica, you file a FOIA request in hopes of getting the NSA to cough up some of the info it‘s collected on you.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble will visit Athens on July 18th 2013 and will meet with his Greek counterpart Yiannis Stournaras and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras.

The euro zone powers may well get there in the end but as our poll of 50-odd economists showed yesterday, most don’t see any progress before the end of the year, largely because Germany’s September elections will prevent any further leap beforehand.

(02.06.) EU leaders to discuss Franco-German proposals end-June

Wenn man als ersten Schritt ein gemeinsames Verständnis über Inhalt und Substanz einer stärkeren wirtschaftspolitischen Koordinierung erzielt habe, könne man weitergehen, sagte Merkel am Donnerstag im Bundestag.

Yesterday, however, Fairfax Media’s Philip Dorling reported that Former Labor Defence Minister John Faulkner has confirmed that the heads of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and Australia‘s signals intelligence agency, the Defence Signals Directorate, David Irvine and Ian McKenzie, have briefed the federal parliament‘s intelligence committee on the US PRISM internet surveillance program.

The joke around the NSA used to be that the acronym stood for „No Such Agency“ as its very existence was denied for years. While the NSA is now very official, it‘s still probably the most secretive agency out there. That‘s to be somewhat expected, given its mission, but it appears that when it needs to be transparent, it doesn‘t do very well at all.

Der absolute Brüller ist aber, dass der Bosbach schnell die Seite gewechselt hat und jetzt plötzlich ein glühender Verfechter von Menschenrechten und ein Bekämpfer des Überwachungsstaates ist — solange jemand anderes am Ruder ist.

After five years of lengthy negotiations, the EU was expected to finalise agreement today on introducing a new carbon dioxide limit of 95 grams per kilometre, as an average across the EU fleet, by the year 2020.

However, Germany has been fighting for a significant degree of flexibility for its luxury car sector

(06.06.) The Government’s aspirations to capitalise the Irish banks through the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) could be derailed by German chancellor Angela Merkel.

(25.06.) Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann has said a European Central Bank (ECB) programme to stabilise the euro zone by buying sovereign bonds of crisis-hit countries is strictly limited in scope.

(24.06.) Listen to the conversations between Anglo‘s David Drumm with John Bowe and also Peter Fitzgerald with John Bowe above and below.

As such, the content of this latest tape appears to decisively show that key bank executives worked together to purse a deliberate policy of aggression, and deception about the bank‘s true condition, in the run-up to the bank guarantee at the end of September 2008.

In the years after the attacks on September 11th, 2001, the NYPD had at least four „embedded“ CIA officers in their midst. And because at least one of the officers was on unpaid leave at the time, the officer was able to bypass the standing prohibition against domestic spying for the agency and help conduct surveillance for the police force. In his words, he had „no limitations.“

Four Central Intelligence Agency officers were embedded with the New York Police Department in the decade after Sept. 11, 2001, including one official who helped conduct surveillance operations in the United States, according to a newly disclosed C.I.A. inspector general’s report.

Regisseur und Produzent Jens Blecker interviewte für EUPOLY den Börsenhändler Dirk Müller, den ehemaligen Präsidenten vom “Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie” Hans-Olaf Henkel, den ehemaligen Parlamentspräsidenten der Slowakei Richard Sulík, der Börsenhändler Jim Rogers, den Journalisten und Betreiber von “Geolitico” Günther Lachmann, den Fondmanager und Herausgeber des “Gloom Boom & Doom Reports” für Börsenhändler Marc Faber, die Autoren von “Der größte Raubzug der Geschichte: Warum die Fleißigen immer ärmer und die Reichen immer reicher werden” Marc Friedrich und Matthias Weik, sowie Daniel Neun, Gründer der Medienstation Radio Utopie