Sondereinsatztruppe des U.S.S.O.C.O.M. veröffentlichte heute Foto eines Todesschützen der Armee im Zusammenhang mit Dr. Martin Luther King.
Daily Archives: 17. Januar 2014
Huellkurven – Issue 2
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Wir haben’s satt: 750 Mio Tiere werden pro Jahr in Deutschland geschlachtet
Die Dimensionen unserer Fleischproduktion übersteigt jegliche Vorstellungskraft: 58 Millionen Schweine, 630 Millionen Hühner und 3 Millionen Rinder werden allein in Deutschland jährlich geschlachtet. Wenn man anderes Vieh wie Ziegen, Schafe und Gänse hinzu zählt, sind es rund 750.000.000 Tiere im Jahr, die getötet werden. Unermessliches Tierleid in Megaställen und Schlachtbetrieben wird dafür in Kauf genommen. Massentierhaltung funktioniert nur bei ständiger Behandlung der Tiere mit Antibiotika – damit trotz der schlimmen Bedingungen, unter denen die Tiere leben, keine Epidemien ausbrechen
Obama Says NSAs Mass Collection of US Phone Data Will End
President Barack Obama said Friday that the U.S. government will end its mass collection of American phone data, a victory for civil libertarians that marks the most significant curtailment of U.S. surveillance practices in more than a decade.
Transcript: Obama‘s NSA speech
Read the transcript below:
„At the dawn of our republic, a small secret surveillance committee born out of the Sons of Liberty was established in Boston.
And the group‘s members included Paul Revere. At night, they would patrol the streets, reporting back any signs that the British were preparing raids against America‘s early patriots.
Obama seeks to end NSA holding of metadata
Obama said he has ordered Attorney General Eric Holder and the intelligence community to deliver a report by March 28 on how to handle and store bulk data collections. The president will also consult with the relevant committees in Congress on their views.
Obama backs limits on NSA phone collections
Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, President Barack Obama on Friday called for ending the government’s control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court’s permission before accessing such records.
„not..for the purpose of supressing or burdening criticism or dissent“ Thanks, Mr. President.
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Presidential Policy Directive / PPD-28
Subject; Signals Intelligence Activities
Presidential directive
Presidential Directives, better known as Presidential Decision Directives (or PDDs) are a form of an executive order issued by the President of the United States with the advice and consent of the National Security Council. The directives articulate the executive‘s national security policy and carry the „full force and effect of law“
infiné – free compilation
More than ever in this changing musical landscape, YOU are the ones who give us the strength and the conviction to pursue the adventure in 2014. In 2014, We wanted to thank you Year with a little gift : InFiné Club, a free compilation of 7 exclusive tracks to listen, download and share.
We wish you a happy 2014!
President Obama Speaks on Signals Intelligence Programs
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The Verge Live: NSA
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Vorspiel 22 January – 28 January 2014
Vorspiel 2014: A distributed programme of events leading up to the transmediale and CTM festivals
Take the opportunity to experience some of Berlin‘s best experimental arts, interventions, music and sound in this unique pre-festival programme!
[ZIMMER107] Kinko Acid – Electro Impulse
In classical mechanics, impulse (symbolized by J or Imp) is the change in linear momentum of a body. It may be defined or calculated as the product of the average force multiplied by the time over which the force is exerted…
206. Stuttgarter Montagsdemo zieht zu durch S21-Grabungen beschädigtem Gebäude
Aus aktuellem Anlass wird die 206. Montagsdemo gegen Stuttgart 21 am kommenden Montag, 20.1.2014, neue Wege beschreiten: Der Demozug wird vom Stuttgarter Hauptbahnhof zum beschädigten Haus der Landeswasserversorgung im Kernerviertel ziehen. Wie von den Stuttgarter Nachrichten berichtet, senkte sich das betreffende Haus an der Schützenstr. 4 durch den darunter gegrabenen S21-Rettungsstollen bereits um mehr als 9 mm ab. Die im Haus aufgetretenen Risse werden von der Landeswasserversorgung inzwischen auch offiziell zugegeben.
Neue Konzertreihe ‚Spacedelic Odyssey‘ im Jazzkeller Hofheim (Taunus)
Der Jazzkeller des hessischen Städtchens Hofheim am Taunus ruft eine neue Konzertreihe „Spacedelic Odyssey“ ins Leben. Wie der Name schon andeutet, wird es darin STONER-, PROGRESSIVE- und PSYCHEDELIC-Rock zu hören geben.
Erster Termin ist am 18. Januar ab 21:00 (Einlass 20:30) mit einem Doppelkonzert von FEWSEL und OPEN PARACHINE
The Waning Branches by Porya Hatami
Porya Hatami (b.1981) is an experimental sound artist based in Sanandaj, Iran. Working in the field of ambient/minimal, his compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources and field recording
‚Are You a Human‘: Webmaster werden Kommentar-Spam elegant los!
Nichts ist nerviger, als jeden Tag 100 Spam-Kommentare und mehr auszusortieren. Tut man es, geht einem viel Zeit verloren. Tut man es nicht, verzichtet man auf die wenigen echten Kommentare, die man entweder ewig in der Warteschleife belässt oder später beim großen Reinemachen komplett löscht. Das Plugin „Are You a Human“ setzt genau da an, wo uns Blogbetreiber Akismet und viele andere Anti-Spam-Tools alleine lassen.
Watch President Obama‘s speech on NSA reform here at 11AM ET, then join us for The Verge Live
Nilay Patel, Adi Robertson, and Russell Brandom will be on hand to discuss what, if anything, will really be different (all time zones).
The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later
n the decades since, we have made progress in reducing poverty — but we still have work to do.
Redtube: Pornostream-Abmahner tauchen offenbar unter
Websites sind abgeschaltet, Adressen falsch, eine Firma umgezogen.
UK: 4 Monate Haft wegen verschwiegenem Passwort
Die Haftstrafe, die in Großbritannien verhängt wird, wenn man sich weigert, der Polizei ein Passwort auszuhändigen, pendelt sich offenbar bei vier Monaten ein.
Tackling the Sefnit botnet Tor hazard
Win32/Sefnit made headlines last August as it took the Tor Network by storm. Tor is an open source project for online anonymity and is commonly used to browse the Internet anonymously. Around August 19, 2013, millions of infected computers running Win32/Sefnit installers are believed to have been woken up and given instructions en masse, to download and install a Sefnit component using the Tor Network for C&C communication. Based on the Tor Network’s connecting-user estimates, evidence suggests this resulted in more than four million Sefnit-installed Tor client services pushed in just over two weeks, as shown in Figure 1.
Microsoft‘s secret battle against the Tor botnet
In August 2013, 4 million infected computers woke up and waited instructions from their master.
The pathogen was Sefnit, a nasty bit of malware that makes infected computers mine bitcoins. Once the computers woke up, they worked under the command of Ukranian and Israeli hackers named Scorpion and Dekadent.
95% der Geldautomaten laufen mit Windows XP
So könnten modernere Geräte aus der Ferne über die Netzwerke aufgerüstet werden. Bereits ältere Modelle müssen hingegen vor Ort aktualisiert werden, bei einigen hilft nur der Austausch der gesamten Hardware.
Weltweit existieren derzeit etwa drei Millionen Geldautomaten.
Report: Netanyahu held offshore account while serving as finance minister
Prime Minister had account in the tax haven of the Channel Islands, Israel‘s ‚Globes‘ reports; PM‘s office: Account inactive from 2003.
Netanyahu held tax haven bank account
„Globes“ reveals that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held an account in the Channel Islands tax haven of Jersey.
Obama‘s NSA Speech: Just What Eisenhower Warned About?
On Jan. 17, 1961, President Eisenhower used his farewell address to warn Americans that:
„We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.“
Europäische Saatgutverordnung: Grossdemo am 18. Januar 2014 in Berlin
Was passiert wann?
11 Uhr: Auftaktkundgebung, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
Sie kommen mit Kind(ern) zur Demo? Dann kommen Sie doch zu unserem Infostand links von der Bühne. Dort verwandeln wir kleine Demo-Besucher/innen mit Kinderschminke in bunte Bienen und Schmetterlinge!
Hurra! Saatgut-Verordnung vor dem Aus
Nahezu unbemerkt ereignete sich am Montag in Brüssel eine kleine Sensation: Die Abgeordneten im Agrar-Ausschuss wollen der Saatgutverordnung eine Abfuhr erteilen. Nach vielfältigen Protesten der Zivilgesellschaft und mehr als einer halben Million Unterschriften für die Kampagne „Freiheit für die Vielfalt“ allein in Deutschland und Österreich steht die Verordnung damit vor dem Aus.
How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.
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Mass grave fuels fear of thousands buried in Sri Lanka war zone
The police have suggested that the Tamil Tiger rebels it defeated five years ago could be responsible for the burial, uncovered near a historic Hindu temple in the district of Mannar.
Sri Lanka is already under international pressure to address alleged wartime human rights violations
Die Weltbild-Pleite
Was öffentlich gerne als ein “katholisches” Problem diskutiert wird, hat im Grunde mit dem (gescheiterten) Versuch, einem Großverlag eine erkennbare weltanschauliche Grundausrichtung zu geben, nur wenig zu tun. Dass die Eigentümer, nämlich die deutschen Bistümer, angesichts der wirtschaftlichen Situation des Verlags die Reißleine gezogen haben, ist nicht verwunderlich. Diese Entscheidung wäre vermutlich auch bei einer ganz anderen Zusammensetzung der Eigentümer – und da vermutlich sogar schon früher – getroffen worden.
Iran has $100 billion abroad, can draw $4.2 billion: U.S. official
Iran has about $100 billion in foreign exchange assets around the world, of which it will be able to draw $4.2 billion under last year‘s nuclear agreement with six world powers, a senior U.S. administration official said on Friday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the money and assets were held in various countries and that a significant proportion was Iran‘s oil revenue.
Exclusive: Russia steps up military lifeline to Syria‘s Assad – sources
„Russian advisers and intelligence experts have been running observation UAVs around the clock to help Syrian forces track rebel positions, analyze their capabilities, and carry out precision artillery and air force strikes against them,“ said the source, who declined to be identified.
Syria prepared to offer ceasefire in Aleppo before Geneva peace talks
„As a result of our confidence in the Russian position and its role in stopping the Syrian bloodshed, today I submitted to minister Lavrov a plan for security arrangements that have to do with the city of Aleppo,“ said Moallem. „I asked him to make necessary arrangements to guarantee its implementation and specify the zero hour for military operations to cease.“
Lawrow: Assad-Gegner immer noch nicht zu Syrien-Konferenz eingeladen
„Wir haben unlängst erfahren, dass die nationale Koalition und andere Oppositionsgruppen immer noch keine formelle Einladung zu Genf-2 bekommen haben“, sagte der russische Außenminister Sergej Lawrow nach einem Treffen mit seinem syrischen Amtskollegen Walid al-Muallem am Freitag in Moskau. „Wie wir verstehen können, wartet der UN-Generalsekretär ab, bis die Koalition über ihre Teilnahme endgültig entscheidet“, so Lawrow weiter. „Uns beunruhigt diese Situation sehr.“
Growing Number Of People Agree That Ed Snowden Is A Whistleblower
The same poll also showed that a majority of people now think that the US government‘s anti-terrorism policies have „gone too far.“ It cracked 51%, up from 45% right after the first Snowden revelation, and way up from the 25% who felt that way back in 2010.
WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to Speak at SXSW
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will serve as a keynote presenter at the 2014 South by Southwest (SXSW) music, film and interactive festival in March.
Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese soldier to surrender after the second world war – in pictures
The former imperial army intelligence officer remained on the Philippine island of Lubang for nearly 29 years without knowledge of Japan‘s surrender in the second world war. He has died at a Tokyo hospital aged 91
Japanese soldier who took three decades to surrender, dies
Onoda, whose sole remaining companion was killed in a shootout with Philippine troops in 1972, held firm until two years later.
He was only persuaded to surrender when his former commanding officer travelled to his hideout on the island of Lubang in the north-western Philippines and convinced him that the war had ended.
Tomed ep by Opak
via FOEM Music Blog
Podcast January 2014
Gosh, I’m too tired for a real introduction here. But I think it’s quite a good episode and good start for the new year. I love especially the finale!
North Korea, “Genocide by Sanctions”: UN Double Standards Pertaining to Sanctions and their Devastating Social Impacts
The terms “transparency” and “accountability” are used with greater frequency at United Nations briefings than in practically any other venue. Yet, information on the impact of sanctions on the people of the DPRK and third states affected by the sanction is confidential to the Sanctions Committee. Only the Sanctions Committee secretariat in the Department of Political Affairs is permitted access to this information. Whose political agenda is served by this secrecy, this total failure of transparency and accountability?
Prosor: UN continues to oil Palestinian propaganda machine
Netanyahu said eariler that the „imbalance“ in the treatment of Israel and the Palestinians was hampering peace efforts. „I think it pushes peace further away, because it tells the Palestinians: ‚You can basically do whatever you want, say anything you want, incite any way you want and you wont be held accountable‘.“
U.S. condemns Hermel bomb attack
Although the attack is the first of its kind in the town of Hermel, where support for Hezbollah is strong, it is the latest in a series of bombings in Lebanon mainly linked to the Syrian confict.
The Nusra Front in Lebanon claimed responsibility for the attack, saying a suicide bomber carried out the bombing in response to Hezbollah’s military involvement in Syria.
Rocket attack on Lebanon’s Arsal kills six: source
Arsal residents said five rockets hit the border town with one of the missiles striking a house, killing five people from the Hujeiri family.
Future Movement coordinator in the town and deputy Arsal mayor claimed the rockets came from the neighboring Lebanese town of Al-Qaa.
Japan stands by apologies for war aggression as textbook row re-emerges
China‘s ties with Japan have long been poisoned by what Beijing considers Tokyo‘s failure to atone for its brutal occupation of parts of China before and during World War Two and what it sees as whitewashing of events such as the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in school textbooks.
Where are all the leftwing Eurosceptics?
This has been met on the left by eye-rolling – the Tories and other obsessives are banging on about Europe again. It is treated as an eternal mystery: why are the centre-right so worried about the EU?
The question ought to be reversed: why is the modern British left so relaxed, so enthusiastic even, about a project that clashes with socialist values in principle and in practice?