Der Richter stimmte der Argumentation des Justizministeriums zu, dass derartige Rechtsmeinungen der Öffentlichkeit vorenthalten werden können mit der Begründung, dass Juristen des Justizministeriums sich scheuen würden, bestimmte Positionen zu vertreten, wenn diese veröffentlicht werden müssten.

Large drug companies would be able to monopolize pharmaceutical market prices as TPP patent extensions would enable Big Pharma to stifle generic drug companies’ market share by prolonging generic drugs’ initial off-market time. This monopolization would create a lopsided drug market and cause patients to pay astronomical amounts of money for potentially life-saving medication.

The trade deal would bring new life to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Corporations would be granted copyright protection for 120 years and free information would be commodified as trading information from paid sites would incur fines upon users. Internet service providers would be given excessive powers, as well. The TPP grants ISPs the right to monitor user activity, arbitrarily remove content, and outright cut off internet access.

Raw Kerry Meets With Abbas After Netanyahu

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting for the second time in two days with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, trying to nudge him and the Israeli leader closer to a peace pact that would establish a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

“One day, two years ago, there was an order from the municipality on our door,” Tawfiq Abbas told The Electronic Intifada. He was born and raised in Wadi al-Siyah, a valley on the outskirts of Haifa.

Abbas’ extended family includes more than sixty members, twenty of whom are children. The family holds Israeli citizenship.

“No one actually talked to us. They just left a paper that said we have ten years to leave, according to the municipality and the interior ministry,” he said, adding that all eight homes in the area would eventually be demolished.

Anti-TPP Twitter Storm Wednesday 1/1/14 — the whole world will tweet and post an ANTI-TPP hashtag #StopFastTrackTPP with posts about why people should stop the Trans Pacific Partnership. The goal of this“ „hashtag storm“ is to get this hashtag trending on both Twitter and Facebook, so we can inform the public about the dangers of the Trans Pacific Partnership and agitate people to ACT to stop the TPP. Join us and help expose the corporate coup known as the Trans Pacific Partnership.

Twelve months have passed since The Electronic Intifada published “The dirty dozen: Israel’s racist ringleaders.” My article was a catalogue of the Israeli officials and cultural figures most responsible for the persecution of the country’s non-Jewish African population.

Over the course of 2013, the war Israel is waging against African asylum-seekers has not abated. Sadly, in many respects, it has ramped up in intensity.

(28.12) The video, uploaded by prominent local activist Bilal Tamimi, shows Manal Tamimi walking towards two heavily-armed Israeli soldiers who raided the village and being shot with a rubber bullet from a distance of only a few meters.

I voted against CAFTA, never supported NAFTA, and will not support NAFTA-style trade agreements in the future. NAFTA’s shortcomings were evident when signed and we must now amend the agreement to fix them. While NAFTA gave broad rights to investors, it paid only lip service to the rights of labor and the importance of environmental protection.[1] Presidential Candidate Senator Barack Obama, February 28, 2008

Both TPP and TAFTA/TTIP are based on the premise that by boosting trade and investment, general prosperity will increase too. And yet, despite the huge scale of the plans, and their major potential knock-on effects on the lives of billions of people, precious little evidence has been offered to justify that basic assumption.

(9.September 2013) “BND-Präsident Gerhard Schindler hat den Abgeordneten Informationen der Geheimdienste über die Umstände des wahrscheinlichen Giftgaseinsatzes vorenthalten und damit die Parlamentarier gezielt einseitig informiert“, so Heike Hänsel, entwicklungspolitische Sprecherin der Fraktion DIE LINKE, anlässlich der Informationspolitik des BND-Chefs, der die Abgeordneten im Rahmen einer Sondersitzung des Auswärtigen Ausschusses vom 2. September 2013 lediglich über das abgehörte Gespräch eines hochrangigen Hisbollah-Funktionärs informierte, in dem dieser über den Giftgas-Einsatz von Seiten Assads gesprochen habe. Bereits einen Tag später wurden diese Informationen über die Tagesschau verbreitet.

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(4.September 2013) The 8200 unit of the Israeli Defence Forces, which specialises in electronic surveillance, intercepted a conversation between Syrian officials regarding the use of chemical weapons, an unnamed former Mossad official told Focus.

(9.Oktober 2013) Inside Israel, the prowess of Unit 8200 is the stuff of legend. „These guys specialize at finding the needle in the haystack,“ says Shochat. „And they‘re taught that they can do anything — that‘s part of their training.“ (…)
„The main thing I bring from my intelligence years is the notion that anything is possible,“ says Yoni Lindenfeld, now an engineer at Any.do. „Obviously, I can‘t speak about a lot of what we did. But we met a lot of very talented people.“

Paul told “The Sean Hannity Show” guest host Eric Bolling Friday that the suit will be based on violations of the unreasonable search and seizure provisions of the Fourth Amendment.

Sen. Paul invited “anyone with a cellphone” to join the lawsuit by signing up on his 2016 senatorial campaign website. Paul indicated that as of the Friday broadcast, “several hundred thousand people” have joined him in the suit.

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The article discusses Cisco products, but does not discuss or disclose any specific vulnerabilities (old or new). Cisco is seeking additional information and will pass along what we learn.

Several American tech companies have responded to a report published in Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine detailing how National Security Agency officials exploit vulnerabilities in their hardware and software.

Two U.S. District Court judges have now handed down diametrically opposed rulings on the legality and constitutionality of the National Security Agency‘s collection of Americans‘ telephony metadata. As the world awaits a definitive ruling — potentially from the Supreme Court, but probably not anytime soon — the NSA‘s collection will continue.