A Greek F16 fighter jet has crashed at the Albacete airbase in central Spain, according to the Defense Ministry. Two pilots have reportedly been killed and 10 other people injured.

The incident, at this point, is shrouded in mystery. Officials could not “confirm the type of weapon Coignard brandished at the officers.” Beyond the alleged, unspecified weapon, virtually no details about the events that immediately preceded Coignard’s death have been released.

“We often say: Ukrainian Army, Ukrainian Army. But who is really fighting there? There are, indeed, partially official units of armed forces, but largely there are the so-called ‘volunteer nationalist battalions’,” said Putin.

Vorratsdatenspeicherung gefährdet die Arbeit in Berufen, für die Vertraulichkeit notwendig ist – also zum Beispiel Ärzt/innen, Jurist/innen, Seelsorger/innen und Journalist/innen sowie alle Menschen, die mit ihnen zu tun haben.
Gleiches gilt für politisch oder unternehmerisch Aktive, die der Vertraulichkeit bedürfen. Dadurch schadet Vorratsdatenspeicherung der freiheitlichen Gesellschaft.
Vorratsdatenspeicherung verstößt gegen das Menschenrecht auf Privatsphäre und informationelle Selbstbestimmung und widerspricht der europäischen Grundrechte-Charta.

Kein Wunder, dass sogar die Bundestags-Nachrichten eine “Auskunftsblockade der Telekom” sehen, die von Abgeordneten “hart kritisiert” wurde.

The TSA is disappointed that so few Americans have opted out of its bottle-tossing, package-groping screenings by signing up for its PreCheck program. For a few years now, the TSA has been selling travelers‘ civil liberties back to them, most recently for $85 a head, but it‘s now making a serious push to increase participation. The TSA can‘t do it alone, so it‘s accepting bids on its PreCheck expansion proposal.

Zivil-militärische Übungen europäischer und afrikanischer Einheiten werden feste Einrichtung. Deutsche Einsatz-Prioritäten liegen „schwerpunktmäßig im osteuropäischen und nordafrikanischen Bereich“

Strelkov, who is world-famous for his no-BS demeanor, has written on his VK page that UAF units have defected to the NAF and are now helping to mop up what‘s left of the Ukrainian Army. If true, this would be an absolutely remarkable turning point in the conflict.

Gehört viel Phantasie dazu, sich vorzustellen, dass Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die sich am aktiven Widerstand gegen Fracking, Stuttgart 21 oder TTIP beteiligen, ganz schnell auf Zetsches “Anti-Terror-Listen” landen?

Kurdish forces took full control of the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border on Monday, driving out the last group of Islamic State fighters after nearly four months of battles, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.

Independent Crimean television station ATR has been raided by armed security officials , who told employees they were seeking archival footage of an anti-Russia protest last year.(…)
ATR, which was established as the first -ever channel dedicated to the native Crimean Tatar population, was one of the last independent media outlets left after Russia‘s takeover of the Black Sea peninsula in March.

In addition to the main political track resuming Monday, the UN said another meeting would be taking place in Geneva later in the week bringing together municipal and local council representatives from cities and towns across Libya to discuss „confidence building measures and ways to implement them.“
UNSMIL said it also planned to convene a number of other tracks at a later stage.