Renowned Arab Spring activist Tawakkol Karman was deported at the Cairo airport after announcing a solidarity visit to pro-Morsi sit-in

Ms Karman, the first Arab woman to win the prize, was held on arrival and reportedly told to fly on the same plane back to the United Arab Emirates.

She has voiced support to Muslim Brotherhood followers, calling Mohammed Morsi‘s ousting „undemocratic“.

CNET has learned the FBI has developed custom „port reader“ software to intercept Internet metadata in real time. And, in some cases, it wants to force Internet providers to use the software.

The FBI says the software, which intercepts metadata in real time, is authorized under the Patriot Act.

„Every agency wants to think that their mission has to be the highest priority,“ said a former White House intelligence official involved with the turf issues.

The Drug Enforcement Administration, Secret Service, Pentagon and Homeland Security Department have requested access to the tools in order to aid investigations of drug trafficking, cyberattacks, money laundering, counterfeiting and copyright infringement.

Mr. Edgar said officials in the national intelligence director’s office occasionally allow other agencies a role in identifying surveillance targets and seeing the results when it is relevant to their own inquiries. But more often, he acknowledged, the office has come down on the side of keeping the process held to an “exclusive club” at the N.S.A., the F.B.I. and the Justice Department, with help from the Central Intelligence Agency on foreign issues.

The Alliance delegation reaffirmed that:

– We reject US statements made recently by Secretary Kerry in support of the military coup in clear violation of constitutional legitimacy acknowledged by democratic states.

– We strongly reject foreign interference in Egypt‘s internal affairs, and at the same time, we welcome the international community’s announced respect for the principles of democracy and human rights and its renunciation of military coups and massacres.

– We support democratic legitimacy, including reinstatement of the elected President, the Constitution and the Shura Council (the Upper House). This conforms to President Morsi’s initiative as announced before the military coup that crushed democracy by suspending the Constitution and abducted the President.

– We condemn the situation witnessed by Egyptians, which is a flagrant violation of human rights, during the past few weeks, and which revealed the bloody face of the military coup.

– Alliance-led protest activities of the Egyptian people are entirely peaceful, and are based on the natural right to hold demonstrations and sit-ins, and freedom of assembly and association.

We condemn any calls to or acts of violence, including all criminal attacks in the Sinai.

2011 Revolution lawyers reaffirm that President Morsi rejects illegal interrogation and insists on reinstatement of the Constitution approved by Egyptians in public referendum in 2012.

The leader of Egypt‘s Muslim Brotherhood and his deputy will face trial in three weeks‘ time for crimes including incitement to murder during protests in the days before the overthrow of President Mohamed Mursi, a Cairo court announced on Sunday.

(01.08.) SPD-Schatteninnenminister Oppermann hat für den 12. August zu einer weiteren Sondersitzung des PKG eingeladen. Auch Kanzleramtsminister Pofalla wird dann wieder zugegen sein. „Es wird eine lange Sitzung“, sagt Oppermanns SPD-Parteikollege im PKG, Michael Hartmann zu SZ.de.

All dies wäre natürlich ebenfalls äußerst denkwürdig. Zumal der Bundesnachrichtendienst sagt, dass die Datenweitergabe in Bad Aibling auf einer Vereinbarung aus dem Jahre 2002 basiert – über die die Bundesregierung trotz zahlreicher Nachfragen bisher noch nie informiert hat.

Der BND betonte am Samstagabend, man arbeite mit der NSA seit über 50 Jahren zusammen – „insbesondere bei der Aufklärung der Lage in Krisengebieten, zum Schutz der dort stationierten deutschen Soldatinnen und Soldaten und zum Schutz und zur Rettung entführter deutscher Staatsangehöriger.“

Wir Journalisten pflegten Prawda und Trud als Parteipropaganda zu verspotten. Heute wird die Parteipropaganda die ganze Zeit über von den großen Netzwerken in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, den Online-Nachrichten und Zeitungen verbreitet.

At the April preparatory committee session for the next Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review meeting in Geneva, Japan did not endorse the statement demanding that atomic weapons never be used under any circumstances.

Theatre troupe Swapnadal and Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy jointly observed Hiroshima Day on Thursday at the Experimental Theatre Hall through various programmes. Marking the 68th anniversary of the tragic events of Hiroshima-Nagasaki, the programmes included an anti-war poster and photography exhibition at the lobby of the hall, distribution of paper cranes in memory of Japanese child Sadako Sasaki — the symbol of trauma of war — followed by a brief discussion.

von Arbeitskreis Hiroshima-Nagasaki

Atomwaffen abschaffen
Abzug der Atomwaffen aus Deutschland
Keine Modernisierung von Atomwaffen
Verbot und Vernichtung aller Atomwaffen weltweit

Hiroshima- und Nagasakitage Köln
9./10. August 2013
Fr. 9. August 2013, 17:00 Uhr
vor dem Kölner Dom

Kazuo Soda, Überlebender des Atombombenangriffs auf Nagasaki, der auf seinen Friedenspilgerreisen seit 1991 jährlich im August nach Köln an die Klagemauer für Frieden vor dem Dom kam, schenkte den Kölner Bürgerinnen und Bürgern im Jahr 2000 die Ausstellung „Die Atombombe und der Mensch“, zusammengestellt von dem japanischen Verband der Atombombenopfer Nihon Hidankyo. Zur Betreuung dieser Ausstellung bildete sich im Kölner Friedensforum der Arbeitskreis Hiroshima-Nagasaki.

The Kalamazoo Non-violent Opponents to War will commemorate the 68th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Tuesday, Aug. 6 and Friday, Aug. 9.

KNOW began a tradition of marking these dates by demonstrating last year on Aug. 6th, at the Air Zoo when the last flying B-29 Bomber, „Fifi,“ flew into town. It was the same kind of plane used to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Doug Allen, education coordinator for the Peace & Justice Center in Bangor draws a pink chalk line around people participating in a „die-in“ during the Peace & Justice‘s commemoration of the 67th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima at Peirce Park in Bangor on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012.

“Ausserhalb dieser Ankündigung haben wir nicht über besondere Informationen über Bedrohungen, Sicherheitsüberlegungen oder Massnahmen diskutiert oder über andere Schritte, die wir einleiten können”, erklärte Marie Harf, Sprecherin des Aussenministeriums. Es sei nur eine allgemeine fürsorgliche Anordnung für die Sicherheit des Personals ohne bestimmte Bedeutung. Das einzige Besondere an dem Datums ist das Ende des Fastenmonats Ramadan.

Congressman Alan Grayson (FL-09) has announced that tomorrow’s Bipartisan Ad Hoc Hearing on Domestic Surveillance will be postponed until early September. The ad hoc hearing was initially set to take place tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. Planned witnesses included Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian (via satellite); Julian Sanchez, Research Fellow at the Cato Institute; Michelle Richardson, Legislative Counsel at the ACLU; Yochai Benkler, Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard; and J. Kirk Wiebe, a former NSA senior analyst.

But it is not merely that members of Congress are unaware of the very existence of these programs, let alone their capabilities. Beyond that, members who seek out basic information – including about NSA programs they are required to vote on and FISA court (FISC) rulings on the legality of those programs – find that they are unable to obtain it.

Damit unterstreicht er die Vorreiterrolle seines Ministeriums bei der Förderung innovativer deutscher Start-ups wie Gamma International. Deren unabhängige IT-Lösung FinFisher sorgt nicht nur in Deutschland, sondern auch international für Sicherheit.

In early September 2007, SITE announced that Osama bin Laden would release a video message on the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Bloomberg News also reported that IntelCenter, another web monitoring service, noted that al Qaeda‘s media production group as-Sahab flagged the video in an online media statement.[8] While Bloomberg reported only that the video would be released, the Associated Press stated that „the 30-minute video was obtained by the SITE Institute“ and had provided a copy to the AP. The report stated that „American officials said the U.S. government had obtained a copy even though the video had not been posted yet by al-Qaeda“.[9] AP noted that „during the video, bin Laden‘s image moves for only a total of about 3 1/2 minutes in two segments, staying frozen the rest of the time while his remarks continue.“ An anonymous U.S. intelligence official told the AP it may have been a technical glitch that occurred during production. While the video was intercepted by US intelligence agencies, its provision to SITE Institute may have been a boon to the small group, which only made it available on its website to subscribers.[10] However, Fox News released a transcript of the tape.[11]

The importance of the intercepts was underscored by a speech that the Qaeda leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, posted on jihadist forums on Tuesday. In his address, Mr. Zawahri called for attacks on American interests in response to its military actions in the Muslim world and American drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors statements by jihadists.

Der „NYT“ zufolge deuteten einige Analysten und Kongressmitarbeiter an, dass die Betonung einer Terrorbedrohung zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt ein guter Weg sei, vom Wirbel um die NSA-Programme abzulenken.

Das ist besonders schön, weil Bad Aibling jahrelang NSA-Standort war, als Teil des Abhörnetzwerkes Echelon. Dann haben sich die Amerikaner irgendwann „zurückgezogen“. Und jetzt hören wir, dass der BND einfach die Schnüffelei als Subunternehmer weiterbetrieben hat.

Shouting, „No to coups, yes to elections,“ supporters of the ruling Ennahda party crowded into Kasbah Square next to the prime minister‘s office in the capital, Tunis.