What we need isn’t a three-month plan, or even a three-year plan, but a long-term American strategy, based on steady, persistent effort, to reverse the forces that have conspired against the middle class for decades. (..)
And because no one who works full-time in America should have to live in poverty, I will keep making the case that we need to raise a minimum wage that in real terms is lower than it was when Ronald Reagan took office.

#StopWatchingUs

Zeitplan/ Route:

11:55 Treffen auf dem Karlsplatz
12:30 Demozug zum Schloßplatz am Fahnenrondell (Route wird noch bekannt gegeben)
12.45 Abschluss mit internationalen Beiträgen u.a. zu unnützen und aufgezwungenen Großprojekten

Wir verteilen Teelichter während der Aktion und lassen diese an der Straße der Menschenrechte bei der Säule (Artikel 12) anzünden und niederlegen. Bitte bringt selber auch Kerzen mit =D
Organisiert von einem überparteilichen Bündnis aus Jusos, Piraten, Grünen, Studierendenvertretung der Uni Erlangen-Nürnberg.

She said that the people of Pakistan wanted to see Dr Aafia return to Pakistan but not to be branded a ‘terrorist’ by the government simply neither at US behest nor to remain incarcerated because of a highly biased US trial and conviction.

The Pakistani neuroscientist was sentenced to 86 years in prison after she was convicted of grabbing a US soldier s M-4 assault rifle and trying to shoot a group of FBI agents and soldiers at an Afghan police compound in July 2008, a charge she consistently denied during the trial.

She’s one of thousands of US political prisoners. She’s well known. She committed no crimes. She’s been brutalized in captivity. Mercy isn’t in America’s vocabulary. Rogue states operate that way.

The United States has agreed to extradite Aafia Siddiqui – a Pakistani woman it had abducted and jailed – to her country under a prisoner exchange deal.

Obama opposed to ‚Amash amendment‘ as vote provides first test of congressional opinion on widespread NSA surveillance

Natürlich dementieren im Moment alle, dass sie die Schlüssel rausgerückt haben, bzw sogar dass sie überhaupt gefragt wurden.

This is all part of the system, a way to keep information privileged. It‘s not ineptitude, they‘re just guarding secrets, and that‘s why the FOIA request can‘t be fulfilled.

After all, why not allow anyone to listen to our darkest secrets if we have no reasonable expectations of privacy anymore?

The son of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi says he has not had any contact with his father since he was deposed on July 3 and intends to pursue army chief General Abdel Fatah al-Sisi in the international courts.

The deposed president‘s daughter, Shaimaa, read out the statement at a news conference in Cairo on Monday. „We are taking local and international legal measures against Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the leader of the bloody military coup, and his putschist group,“ Shaimaa Mohamed Morsi told reporters.

The family of ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Monday accused the country‘s military of „kidnapping“ him and said they would seek help from the International Criminal Court.

Damit will sich Sisi offenbar Rückhalt für eine erneute Ausrufung des Notstands in Ägypten sichern. Der Ausnahmezustand galt in dem Nilstaat bereits von 1967 bis 2012

Murderous putschists continue to deliberately kill peaceful protesters every day. Spilling the blood of innocent Egyptians has become their established approach, which affirms the fascist nature of military regimes.

Before dawn on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, hordes of thugs sponsored by the Ministry of Interior were ordered to murder, burn and vandalize. They did kill three citizens near the edge of the Nahda Square pro-legitimacy sit-in, then killed two others near the center of the sit-in who were shot in the head with live bullets. This indicates the presence of snipers on the buildings of some of the faculties of the university.

Soon, the death toll rose to 10 martyrs, in addition to more than 100 people injured and dozens of protesters’ cars burned by coup thugs. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Interior assures all that it protects peaceful protesters. In fact, its men, agents and thugs are doing all the vengeful killings, arson and sabotage.

We ask the putschists: Don’t you see the millions of people who fill the streets and squares to overflowing – marching in huge peaceful protests? Can’t you hear the roar of voices that reject your ruinous coup, telling you that the majority of the people adhere to constitutional legitimacy and the democratic path?

We also ask them: How many massacres do you want? How many lives will you take? How much more blood are you willing to spill? Do you not fear God? Do you at all care for the interests of the homeland? Do you have any respect for the will of the people and their sovereignty? Or are there other interests you hold higher than all that?!

The Egyptian people, who erupted on January 25, 2011 and regained their freedom, dignity and sovereignty, will continue along the path of this blessed Revolution until they wrest it from the putschists, who want to drag Egypt back to the repressive military rule Egypt suffered for over sixty years, and which committed the most horrid crimes including murder, torture, arbitrary arrests and detention, corruption, despotism and tyranny, looting, subservience and humiliation.

Our revolution is peaceful, and all its activities are peaceful. No provocateurs or provocation will drag us into any violence. Our strength is in our peacefulness, our unity and our faith in God Almighty. Our cause is just – against the coup, in solidarity with the return of legitimacy, reinstatement of the Constitution, the Parliament and the President.

We reiterate our warning of an apparent plan by security and intelligence agencies to plot violent attacks to terrorize citizens and then accuse peaceful protesters who announced more than once that their power lies in their peacefulness. We are confident that the Egyptian people will not be deceived by these covert plots.

Egypt‘s army chief has called on Egyptians to hold mass demonstrations to voice their support for the military to put an end to „violence“ and „terrorism.“

Spiegel Online fast den eingebrachten Verfassungszusatz wie folgt zusammen…

Ein VPN (Virtuelles privates Netzwerk) ist ein abgeschlossenes Teilnetz innerhalb eines größeren IP Netzes, indem die Teilnehmer meist räumlich getrennt sind. Die Teilnehmer verbinden sich über ein VPN Protokoll (OpenVPN, L2TP, usw.) zum Hauptserver und erhalten eine eigene IP. Sofern die Verbindung verschlüsselt ist, können Computer ausserhalb des VPN die Daten weder lesen, noch verändern. Ein VPN ermöglicht also die Kommunikation mit ausgewählten Rechnern und gleichzeitig die sichere Trennung von anderen Netzwerken.

Washington: Ausschuss lässt Abstimmung im Repräsentantenhaus zur Eingrenzung von Spionage zu, trotz Intervention von N.S.A.-General und Präsident. Berlin: Republik außer Funktion. Das “Team Telecom” und die Telekom. Eine kleine Zusammenfassung.

Amash‘s amendment, supported by a Michigan Democrat, John Conyers, unexpectedly made it through the House rules committee late on Monday night, a feat for which the second-term legislator credited House speaker John Boehner.

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However, we oppose the current effort in the House to hastily dismantle one of our Intelligence Community’s counterterrorism tools. This blunt approach is not the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process.

General Alexander’s hurried visit to Capitol Hill came as a leading Senate critic of the N.S.A.’s large-scale collection of data about Americans’ phone calls spoke out about expansive government surveillance. He declared that recent leaks about domestic spying by Mr. Snowden have created a “unique moment in our constitutional history” to reform what he said has become “an always expanding, omnipresent surveillance state.”

As one of our million-plus FreedomWorks members nationwide, I urge you to contact your representative and urge him or her to vote YES on the Rep. Justin Amash’s (R-MI) amendment to H.R. 2397, the Department of Defense Appropriations bill. The amendment would withhold funding to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance activities being conducted without a warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

The White House is raising the alarm over a congressional effort to terminate the government‘s authority to collect phone records of millions of Americans in an amendment attached to a $598.3 million defense spending bill.

The astonishing amount of information the government is secretly seizing from Americans should shock anyone who has even a passing interest in privacy, civil liberties, or the Constitution. The government is vacuuming up data on every call made by every customer of a major phone company. This sort of sweeping surveillance is not even plausibly authorized by statute, let alone the Constitution.

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Ein Telekom-Sprecher sieht Netzpolitik.org gegenüber nichts ungewöhnliches an dem Dokument: „Dieser Vertrag besagt, dass sich die amerikanische Tochter der Deutschen Telekom AG an amerikanisches Recht hält.“

Der Autor, ein gewisser Herr Torsten Krauel, vergleicht Snowden mit Leuten, die die Tatsache, dass die USA den Code der Japaner im 2. Weltkrieg entschlüsseln konnten, an die Deutschen verrieten. Snowden, so behauptet er, habe die Welt an den Rand des Abgrundes gebracht

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