Obama administration spokesperson vehemently contradicts report that president seeks to override law and Congress

Rejoice! President Barack Obama intends to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay…seven years after he initially promised to do so.

CNN Tonight turned to ophthalmologist and fiction writer Dr. Robin Cook to hype unsubstantiated fears about the transmission of the Ebola Virus and the CDC‘s grasp on the situation.

Presenting Cook as „The Man Who Wrote The Book On Ebola,“ host Don Lemon called Cook‘s 1987 fiction thriller Outbreak, which details an Ebola outbreak in the U.S.,“ prophetic.“

South Korea handed over control of its forces to the United States during the 1950-53 Korean War to defend against invading troops from North Korea. Peacetime control of its forces was returned in 1994, and South Korea is scheduled to get back operational control in the event of war in December 2015.

But last year, Seoul asked for a delay in the OPCON transfer after North Korea conducted its third nuclear test, saying the security situation on the peninsula was markedly different from when the transfer was agreed upon a few years ago.

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(7. Juli) In April, the Ethiopian government imprisoned nine journalists, including six bloggers from Zone 9, in one of the worst crackdowns against free expression in the country. Ethiopia is the second worst jailer of journalists in Africa, trailing only Eritrea, according to CPJ research.

Polizei überwacht Presse, Presse überwacht Bundestag, Bundestag überwacht die Überwacher, Regierung ist auch da. Doch wer schickt die Polizei zum überwachen der Presse?

The Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF) was established by the Secretary-General in 2005 and endorsed by the General Assembly through the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy PDF, which was adopted by consensus in 2006. The mandate of the CTITF is to enhance coordination and coherence of counter-terrorism efforts of the United Nations system. The Task Force consists of 34 international entities which by virtue of their work have, have a stake in multilateral counter-terrorism efforts. Each entity makes contributions consistent with its own mandate.

(23.2.2010) Verschwörung gegen das freie Weltinformationsnetz – Google, Microsoft, CISCO, Symantec und andere Computerfirmen arbeiten mit der UNO zusammen, um Massnahmen gegen die Informationsfreiheit auszuarbeiten – Treffen in Seattle

(2. April 2009) Dabei sei es nicht um die Suche nach bestimmten Straftätern oder konkrete Gefahren gegangen, sondern um eine Durchrasterung von nahezu allen Kunden-Datenbeständen der Telekom ohne ersichtliche Rechtsgrundlage, berichte die „Frankfurter Rundschau“ unter Berufung auf gut informierte Konzernkreise. In den Kundendaten sei nach den Terroranschlägen von New York 2001 anhand bestimmter Kriterien nach potentiellen „Schläfern“ gesucht worden.

(12. August 2013) Mit einer eigenen Einsatzgruppe spürt die Telekom Telefonbetrüger und Hacker auf. Das Überwachungssystem wertet alle Verbindungsdaten der Kunden aus und meldet verdächtiges Verhalten. Der BND rechtfertigt unterdessen die Weitergabe von Mobilfunknummern an ausländische Geheimdienste.

Kanzleramts-Chef Pofalla und BND-Präsident Schindler hatten “große Sorge”, dass ein Untersuchungsausschuss die Tätigkeit der Abteilung Technische Aufklärung des BND untersucht. Das geht aus einem BND-internen Protokoll hervor, das wir veröffentlichen. Damit meinen sie unter anderen zwei riesige Überwachungs-Datenbanken, die sie sogar der Datenschutzbeauftragten verschwiegen haben.

In der gestrigen Sitzung des Geheimdienst-Untersuchungsausschusses drehte sich die Diskussion vor allem über die “Abteilung Technische Aufklärung” (TA) des BND.

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The National Security Agency has had agents in China, Germany, and South Korea working on programs that use “physical subversion” to infiltrate and compromise networks and devices, according to documents obtained by The Intercept.

The documents, leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, also indicate that the agency has used “under cover” operatives to gain access to sensitive data and systems in the global communications industry, and that these secret agents may have even dealt with American firms.

Das Highlight daran ist für mich, dass das mit einer Geheimhaltungsstufe versehen ist, die ich noch gar nicht kannte: ECI.

Britain‘s security services are monitoring thousands of terrorism suspects in London and are involved in operations on a daily basis, the capital‘s mayor Boris Johnson said in an interview published on Saturday.

Yesterday, we mentioned the reports kicked off by Nate Hoffelder‘s research that Adobe was spying on your ebook reading efforts and (even worse) sending the details as unencrypted plaintext. Adobe took its sweet time, but finally responded late last night (obnoxiously, Adobe refused to respond directly to Hoffelder at all, despite the fact that he broke the story). Here‘s Adobe‘s mealy-mouthed response that was clearly worked over by a (poorly trained) crisis PR team: