The concept of a “surveillance society” is tightly bound up with totalitarian political regimes that use their surveillance infrastructures to suppress dissent and maintain power. The degree to which the surveillance infrastructures that exist are used for such purposes is the final factor to be considered.

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Tony Blair knew in detail about the CIA’s secret kidnap and interrogation programme after the September 11 attacks and was kept informed “every step of the way” by MI6, a security source has told The Telegraph.

And the United States isn’t the only Western nation conducting operations in Africa. More than 1,000 troops from 18 nations, including Burkina Faso, Canada, Chad, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mauritania, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Senegal, the United Kingdom, the U.S., and the host nation of Niger, carried out counterterror training on the outskirts of Niamey, the capital, as well as at small bases in Tahoua, Agadez, and Diffa as part of the annual Flintlock exercise.

Das würde mich in diesem Lande nicht mehr wundern, wenn der „Verfassungsschutz“ sich für seine durch Fakten nicht zu rechtfertigende Existenz und das immer wieder von der CDU bereitgestellte Budget bedankt, indem er über „V-Leute“ der CDU Mitgliedsbeiträge zuschustert.

„Mehr als 110 Geschosse sind seit Anfang April gegen Damaskus und dessen Außenbezirk Djaraman abgefeuert worden. Der Granatwerferbeschuss verschiedener Stadtbezirke der syrischen Hauptstadt und der Umgebung hat 44 Menschen das Leben gekostet. Mehr als 200 Menschen wurden verletzt“, berichtet Suriya al-An unter Berufung auf die hauptstädtische Medienbeobachtungsstelle.

It is not known what sparked the graffiti war that led to the latest bloodshed.

There has been tension in the past between Arab clans and ethnic Nubians, who originate from southern Egypt and north Sudan.

Die gegenwärtige Krise in der Ukraine hat die Nato völlig entlarvt: Ohne daraus ein Hehl zu machen, verstärkt nun die Allianz ihre Kräfte entlang der russischen Grenzen, stellen russische Experten fest, die von RIA Novosti im Zusammenhang mit dem 65. Jahrestag der Gründung der Nato befragt wurden…

Nach Auffassung des Politologen Andranik Migranjan, hatte das Weiterbestehen der Nato nach dem Zerfall des Warschauer Vertrags und der UdSSR 1991 keinen Sinn mehr. „Wie aber auch jede bürokratische Organisation bemühte sie sich um die Selbstrettung, was sie auch heute tut“, so Migranjan.

Forza Italia‘s 60 votes could yet prove crucial if many government senators choose to defy a party line that calls for them to scrap their own jobs.

A police spokeswoman said an investigation was underway but that all early clues pointed to a family drama having taken place. There was no indication that Schmittmann‘s business dealings had played any role in the tragedy.

Jesus Reyna Garcia, a member of President Enrique Pena Nieto‘s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), became the interim governor of Michoacan last year stepping in after Governor Fausto Vallejo fell ill.

From the start, the program’s objective was clear: to de-stablize the government of Cuba, and destabilizing governments is something the United States is proficient at. There are few areas of the world whose history doesn’t include an attempt, often successful, by United States to overthrow a government. In fact, in Venezuela, Ukraine and various parts of Africa, South America and the “Middle East”, such efforts are currently ongoing. In most of these cases, the propaganda-preparing and deceit-dispensing USAID plays a central role.