The Office of the Director of National Intelligence reports that the secret authorization for the NSA to collect data on Americans’ phone calls, which was set to expire today, has been renewed by the FISA court.
Daily Archives: 20. Juli 2013
Bin Laden son-in-law accuses US of torture
Abu Ghaith was detained by US agents in Jordan at the end of February and flown to New York. He was indicted on March 1 on a single count of conspiracy to kill US nationals.
Deadly lunch contained pesticide – report
The report found the meal was prepared with cooking oil that contained monocrotophos, an organophosphorus compound that is used as an agricultural pesticide, Ravindra Kumar, a senior police official, told reporters.
Jordan‘s king meets Egypt‘s new leadership
Jordan‘s King Abdullah has met with Egypt‘s new leaders in the first visit by a head of state to Cairo since the popularly-backed military coup.
Why Afghanistan ? After 9 /11 – The Kaspian Gas Resevoir
Investment Banker Karl Schwartz lays it out
1. The Caspian Sea Basin (Kazakstan, Turkmenistan etc.) holds between 11 and 12 TRILLION dollars in oil and gas resources
2. There are only three ways to get it out:
– East to China
– West through Iran, Russia, and Turkey to Europe
– South through Afghanistan and Pakistan
3. The Taliban who controlled Afghanistan before 9/11 made pipeline deals with non-US companies and refused to change them to give control of the region‘s resources to the US
How Telus is misrepresenting figures to justify price-gouging
Despite the fact that the data supports many of the findings from OpenMedia.ca’s community-driven report, Time for an Upgrade, Big Telecom is still refusing to listen; cherry-picking the data and misrepresenting the facts just as they have done in the past. Luckily, smart folks like Ottawa Law Professor Michael Geist were ready to bust Big Telecom’s myths, crunching the numbers to show what’s really going on in the new OECD report.
Virus Genome Finding Points To New Branch In Tree Of Life
The organism was initially called NLF, for “new life form”. Jean-Michel Claverie and Chantal Abergel, evolutionary biologists at Aix-Marseille University in France, found it in a water sample collected off the coast of Chile, where it seemed to be infecting and killing amoebae. Under a microscope, it appeared as a large, dark spot, about the size of a small bacterial cell.
X-Keyscore: Spioniert die NSA auch auf deutschem Boden?
(19.07.) Dazu würden weltweit mehr als 700 Server eingesetzt, die sich in „mehreren dutzend Ländern“ in militärischen und anderen Anlagen der USA und ihrer Allierten sowie in US-Botschaften und Konsulaten befinden sollen.
Snowden leaks which Aussie spy bases contribute to NSA
PRISM slides provided to Brazilian news organisation O Globo by Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who broke the story of global surveillance, point to four Australian signals intelligence bases and the Waihopai facility taking part in the XKEYSCORE categorising and processing system.
The program, known by its unclassified nickname „Stellar Wind,“ is code named „RAGTIME.“
5. What is program XKEYSCORE?
At Fort Meade, a program called XKEYSCORE processes all signals before they are shunted off to various „production lines“ that deal with specific issues. PINWALE is the main NSA database for recorded signals intercepts. It is compartmentalized by
keywords (the NSA calls them „selectors“). Metadata is stored in a database called
MARINA and is generally retained for five years.
NSA Even Spied on Google Maps Searches, Documents Suggest
I also asked Gaither why the Google does not automatically encrypt all of its searches in order to thwart spies mining the data directly off of networks. He said that Google had “worked hard over the past few years to increase our services’ use of SSL encryption” and was “committed to adding more support for SSL.”
Man Dies After Winning Beer Drinking Contest In Spain
The beer drinking contest is part of the area‘s annual festival, which has been held for more than 15 years. However, following the death, future festival plans have been suspended, La Nueva España notes.
U.S. Congressmen appreciate Azerbaijan‘s contribution to Europe‘s energy security
Over 20 members of the U.S House of Representatives and the Senate, representatives of the U.S. State Department, diplomats accredited in Washington, experts of influential analytical centers and media representatives attended the event.
No country invited for Rohanis inauguration yet
Mesri told IRNA that president-elects office will give the parliament a list of its suggested countries and countries which have expressed readiness to attend the ceremony and then the parliament will officially invite them for the inauguration ceremony.
Wissenschaftliches Fehlverhalten: NRW-Staatssekretär soll Doktortitel verlieren
Eumann war 2010 nach der rot-grünen Regierungsübernahme in NRW Staatssekretär im Ministerium für Bundesangelegenheiten, Europa und Medien geworden. Als Vorsitzender der SPD-Medienkommission ist Eumann auch auf Bundesebene für Medienfragen zuständig.
KBR must face lawsuit over alleged kickbacks from military contracts: court
The government can pursue “enhanced” penalties from Houston-based defense contractor KBR Inc over allegations that employees took kickbacks involving military contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday.
Going, in Uncertainty, Where No Other Big City Has
The city has said that it hopes to emerge from bankruptcy by the fall of 2014, an ambitious timeline for a complex case that court filings say involves more than 100,000 creditors.
Helen Thomas dies at 92, reported on every president since Kennedy
Thomas announced in June 2010 that she was retiring from Hearst, effective immediately, after comments she made about Israel and the Palestinians, including that Israel should „get the hell out of Palestine“ (..)
In 2009 she asked President Barack Obama, „When are you going to get out of Afghanistan? Why are we continuing to kill and die there? What is the real excuse and don‘t give us this Bushism ‚If we don‘t go there, they‘ll all come here.'“
„Johnny Depp ist stolz auf seine Ureinwohner-Abstammung“. Ach, von DENEN…
#Friedrich
Ex-NSA-Chef: Überraschung der deutschen Politik über Snowden gespielt
„Ich bin da mal sehr respektlos, okay? Das ist wie in dieser Filmszene aus ‚Casablanca‘, in der Polizeichef Renault informiert wird, dass in Rick‘s Café Glücksspiel stattfindet. Sehen Sie, alle Staaten spionieren, alle modernen Staaten betreiben elektronische Spionage.“
Unser Mann in Wiesbaden
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Narus: Wer die Prism-Technologie herstellt
Der weltgrößte Hersteller von Überwachungstechnik, Narus, soll die Technik für das NSA-Programm Prism produzieren. Der Auslandsgeheimdienst BND hat sie laut einem Medienbericht gekauft und setzt sie seit Jahren selbst ein.
Im Loop noch skuriler…
#Friedrich ruft das #Supergrundrecht aus #PRISM #NSA
#Friedrich ist Die drei Affen in einer Person
#Prism
Ich weiss garnichts mehr. Wer sind Sie ? Wer bin ich ?
#friedrich #prism #nsa
RT @schoenerhausen Kann diesen #Friedrich nicht mal jemand aus seinem Amt erlösen?
Der is ja unerträglich
EX-NSA-Chef Michael Hayden: deutsch Politik wie im Film „Casablanka“:
#prism #nsa #friedrich
Das nennt man wohl kontextbezogene Werbung :-)
#Friedrich
Innenminister Friedrich zur Prism-Affäre: „Ich weiß nicht, was Herr Alexander da gesagt hat“
„Ich weiß nicht, was der Herr Alexander da gesagt hat“, sagte der CSU-Politiker dem ZDF – mehr als einen Tag, nachdem die Äußerungen des US-Geheimdienstchefs bekannt geworden sind.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn elected to Russian Direct Investment Fund’s supervisory board
The Russian Direct Investments Fund managing company is a 100-percent subsidiary of Russia’s Vnesheconombank.
Experte: Georgien soll Geheimnis über Biolabor an russischer Grenze lüften
Das Labor wurde unter aktiver Teilnahme des Instituts für medizinische Erforschung von Infektionskrankheiten der US-Landstreitkräfte und des Instituts für Bakteriophagen, Mikrobiologie und Virologie Georgiens eröffnet wurde. Das Labor, in das die USA rund 100 Millionen Dollar investiert haben, wird von einem ehemaligen ranghohen Mitarbeiter des Sonderdepartements der georgischen Auslandsaufklärung geleitet.
Polen rechnet erst 2023 mit Anschluss an Eurozone
Polen wird sich möglicherweise 2023 der Eurozone anschließen, sollte die Währungsunion weiter reformiert werden.
Mitmachen: Neue Braunkohletagebaue in der Lausitz stoppen!
Der Energiekonzern Vattenfall will in der Lausitz fünf neue Braunkohletagebaue eröffnen. Damit möchte Vattenfall den Betrieb seiner klimaschädlichen Kohlekraftwerke bis zum Jahr 2050 absichern. Braunkohle ist der klimaschädlichste aller Energieträger: Braunkohlekraftwerke stoßen etwa dreimal so viel Kohlendioxid aus, wie Gaskraftwerke.