„The car was hit but its two occupants, German diplomats, escaped unharmed with the help of a Saudi citizen,“ the agency added, citing the same source.Authorities are seeking the gunmen, the agency added, without saying whether the incident was linked to unrest in Eastern Province.

The need for transparency is particularly great in the international policymaking space. Too often, the public is left completely in the dark about the provisions that officials are negotiating or even proposing in closed door meetings.

Case in point: the secret negotiations over international agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

The Omer-2 experiments included 716 IDF soldiers and officers. During the experiments, the soldiers involved received shots containing a special inoculation, developed at the Institute for Biological Research in Nes Tziona, meant to combat the anthrax disease.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) asked a federal court on Friday to order the Department of Justice (DOJ) to release more thorough information about the dragnet electronic surveillance being conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA). The filing in EFF‘s long-standing case, Jewel v. NSA, also argues that the DOJ must stop pretending that information revealed and publicly acknowledged about government surveillance over the last seven months is still secret.

In the week leading up the two-year anniversary of the SOPA blackout protests, EFF and others are talking about key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day, we‘ll take on a different piece, exploring what’s at stake and and what we need to do to make sure the law promotes creativity and innovation. We‘ve put together a page where you can read and endorse the principles yourself. Let‘s send a message to DC, Hollywood, Brussels, and wherever else folks are making new copyright rules: We‘re from the Internet, and we‘re here to help.

In the latest episode of the Keiser Report, Max Keiser and Kim Dotcom discussed copyright issues, crypto currencies, Edward Snowden’s revelations and the Trans-Pacific Partnership [TPP].

Last Friday the Supreme Court granted certiorari in three important cases. This means a busy spring for EFF as we will likely file amicus briefs in all of them.

Nach wie vor irrlichtert Herr Michael Neumann, von Amts wegen Hamburger Senator für Inneres und Sport, bei den auch militanten Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Staatsorganen und BürgerInnen um die Rote Flora, den ESSO-Hochhäusern, den sog. Lampedusa-Flüchtlingen und der Mietpreisentwicklung in Hamburg wie eine
hilflose Person umher.

Wohltuend hebt sich das letztlich wegweisende Interview von Herrn Klaus von Dohnanyi, zur Hafenstraßenhäuser-Befriedung amtierender Bürgermeister
Hamburgs, im Hamburger Abendblatt/DIE WELT von gestern zur praktizierten Senatslinie im aktuellen Konflikt ab. Olaf Scholz ist längst gefordert.

Im Rahmen der täglichen intensiven Lagebewertung der Polizei ist ein Fortbestand der Gefahrengebiete nicht mehr erforderlich und daher deren Aufhebung auch juristisch geboten. Die Gefahrengebiete werden ab sofort aufgehoben.

Tagelang herrschte Ausnahmezustand in Hamburg. Polizisten durften in durch die Stadt eingerichteten Gefahrengebieten ohne besonderen Anlass Bürger kontrollieren, die ihnen verdächtig vorkamen. Betroffen waren vor allem die Stadtteile Altona-Altstadt, Altona-Nord, St. Pauli und Sternschanze.

Doch damit soll nun Schluss sein.