Daily Archives: 28. April 2015


28.04.2015 - 23:55 [ VesselFinder ]

Cocaine Seized from Ukrainian Ocean-going Tug in North Sea

More than two tons of cocaine has been seized in the North Sea in a joint marine operation including Border Force, Royal Navy and the UK National Crime Agency (NCA).
The ocean-going tug MV Hamal, owned by an Ukrainian company, was seized by the Valiant cutter of Border Force and the HMS Somerset frigate of the Royal Navy. The action on the vessel interception on 23 April, 100 miles near the Scotland Aberdeenshire coast,was taken after an intelligence provided by the NCA.

28.04.2015 - 22:45 [ Horseed Media ]

Somalia President arrives in Puntland

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud and a delegation of ministers arrived on Tuesday in Garowe, the capital of Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

28.04.2015 - 16:26 [ Yahoo ]

Maersk Tigris ship manager declines comment, Pentagon says Iran boards vessel

The Maersk Tigris is managed by Singapore-based Rickmers Ship Management, which is part of Hamburg-based Rickmers Group. A Rickmers Group spokeswoman declined to comment when contacted by Reuters about the vessel. A spokesman for the world‘s biggest container group Maersk Line said the vessel was on timecharter to Maersk Line, declining further comment.

28.04.2015 - 16:25 [ Reuters ]

U.S. says Iranian forces fire on and board cargo ship in Gulf

audi-owned Al Arabiya television earlier said an Iranian force fired on and seized a U.S. cargo ship with 34 U.S. soldiers on board, and directed it to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. But the Pentagon spokesman said there were no U.S. citizens on board the ship.

Reuters tracking data showed the Maersk, a 65,000-tonne container ship, off the Iranian coast between the islands of Qeshm and Hormuz. It was listed as sailing from the Saudi port of Jeddah, bound for the United Arab Emirates port of Jebel Ali.

28.04.2015 - 16:11 [ Zeit ]

Die Unverantwortlichen

Der Ursprung der Affäre reicht zurück bis in die Zeit der rot-grünen Koalition unter Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder. Verantwortlich für die Geheimdienste war damals der heutige Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Seither hat die Regierung dreimal gewechselt und mit ihr die Verantwortlichen im BND und im Kanzleramt. Ein Überblick über die Ereignisse der vergangenen 14 Jahre.

28.04.2015 - 16:04 [ RT ]

Russian Spacecraft Spinning Out of Control in Orbit, with Salvage Bid Underway

The problems began shortly after Progress 59 launched into space atop a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff occurred at 3:09 a.m. EDT (0709 GMT), with the cargo ship packed with just over 3 tons of food, fuel and other supplies. [How Russia‘s Progress Spacecraft Work (Infographic)]

28.04.2015 - 15:24 [ Global Research ]

Behind Every Refugee Stands an Arms Trader

Humankind has said goodbye to slavery, absolute monarchy, cannibalism and, in principle, child labour. To solve, or at least reduce, the mounting refugee problem, we should begin to discuss how to increase human civilisation by criminalising the arms trade and by abolishing war – as stated in the UN Charter Preamble.

28.04.2015 - 15:17 [ CounterPunch ]

The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Death of the Republic

On April 22, 2015, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill to fast-track the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a massive trade agreement that would override our republican form of government and hand judicial and legislative authority to a foreign three-person panel of corporate lawyers.

The secretive TPP is an agreement with Mexico, Canada, Japan, Singapore and seven other countries that affects 40% of global markets. Fast-track authority could now go to the full Senate for a vote as early as next week. Fast-track means Congress will be prohibited from amending the trade deal, which will be put to a simple up or down majority vote. Negotiating the TPP in secret and fast-tracking it through Congress is considered necessary to secure its passage, since if the public had time to review its onerous provisions, opposition would mount and defeat it.

28.04.2015 - 15:11 [ German Foreign Policy ]

The Schenker Papers

Demnach hat „Schenker“ europaweit an „Entjudungen“, Raub-, Mord- und Deportationsmaßnahmen teilgenommen, unter anderem in Griechenland und in Frankreich. Die daraus erzielten Einnahmen wanderten in die Kassen des deutschen Staates und wurden nie zurückgezahlt. Heute zählt DB Schenker zu den weltweit führenden Logistikern mit bedeutenden Niederlassungen in den USA oder in Israel. Zu den Einnahmen des DB Konzerns trägt DB Schenker mit rund 20 Milliarden Euro jährlich zu 50 Prozent bei. german-foreign-poliy.com veröffentlicht eine ausführliche Expertise über die nie entgoltenen und bis heute beschwiegenen „Schenker“-Verbrechen in einer vom „Zug der Erinnerung“ erstellten deutschen Fassung („The Schenker Papers“).

28.04.2015 - 12:59 [ White House ]

Message to the Senate — Protocol to the Treaty on a Nuclear- Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia

I transmit herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to its ratification, the Protocol to the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia, signed at New York on May 6, 2014 (the „Protocol“). I also transmit for the information of the Senate the Treaty on a Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Central Asia (the „Treaty“) to which the Protocol relates, and the Department of State‘s Overview of the Protocol, which includes a detailed article-by-article analysis of both the Protocol and the Treaty.

28.04.2015 - 12:45 [ Trend ]

Tehran’s deputy mayor arrested in Kuwait

Amroudi who heads cultural affairs in Tehran municipality already served as head of Iranian schools in Kuwait . He was arrested in Kuwait airport on his way to Tehran. Amroudi was in Kuwait at the invitation of the Iran-Kuwait friendship society to participate in a ceremony.

28.04.2015 - 10:47 [ Zeit ]

BND-Affäre: Warum die SPD taktiert

Der zweite Grund für die Vorsicht der SPD ist Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Auch er war mal Chef des Kanzleramts. Als solcher war er nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 über das Memorandom of Agreement zwischen BND und NSA informiert. Damals vereinbarten beide Geheimdienste Datenaustausch bei der Terroristen-Aushorchung.

28.04.2015 - 10:46 [ Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies ]

The Age of Transhumanist Politics Has Begun: Will It Change Traditional Concepts of Left and Right?

(27.April 2015) The founding of the Transhumanist Party of the United States, the intensifying of the U.S. BRAIN-Initiative and the start of Google’s project “Ending death” were important milestones in the year 2014, and potential further steps towards “transhumanist” politics. The most significant development was that the radical international technology community became a concrete political force, not by chance starting its global political initiative in the U.S. According to political scientist and sociologist Roland Benedikter, research scholar at the University of California at Santa Barbara, “transhumanist” politics has momentous growth potential but with uncertain outcomes.

28.04.2015 - 10:45 [ Zeit ]

Internet der Dinge: Sprechende Klingen

(8.März 2015) Im Internet der Dinge reden Maschinen, Computer und Fahrzeuge miteinander oder mit einem zentralen Server. Kaffeeautomaten berichten eigenständig, wenn der Kaffee alle ist. Autos rufen den Notarzt, wenn sie auf dem Dach liegen. Beim Gillette-Rasierer muss der stoppelbärtige Mann zwar noch einen Knopf drücken, um neue Klingen auf den Weg zu bringen. Aber bis die selbst merken, dass ihre Zeit gekommen ist, wird es nicht mehr lange dauern.

28.04.2015 - 10:35 [ National Security Agency ]

TEMPEST: A Signal Problem

(1972) At the same time that we were trying to cope with the 131-B2 mixer, we began to examine every other cipher machine. Everything tested radiated, and radiated rather prolifically. With rotor machines, the voltage on their power lines tended to fluctuate as a function of the number of rotors moving, and so a fourth phenomenon, called power line modulation, was discovered.

(…)

During this period, the business of discovering new
TEMPEST threats. or refining techniques and
instrumentation for derecting, recording. and analyzing
these signals, progressed more swiftly than the art of
suppressing them. Perhaps the attack is more exciting than
the defense-something more glamorous about finding a
way to read one of these signals than going through the
drudgery necessary to suppress that whacking great spike
first seen in 1943.

28.04.2015 - 10:33 [ Radio Utopie ]

Spionage und Informationskontrolle: Der technologische Quantensprung in 1943

(20.Juli 2014) USA, 1943. Mitten im Zweiten Weltkrieg. In einem Labor der 1877 vom Schwiegervater Alexander Graham Bells gegründeten Bell Company (heute der Weltkonzern AT&T), die für das 1860 gegründete Signal Corps der US Armee arbeitet, testet ein Wissenschaftler der Bell Company das 1925 von der US Armee in Dienst gestellte verschlüsselnde Text-Kommunikationssystem SIGTOT. Es arbeitet nach dem US Patent #1,310,719 für ein “geheimes Signalsystem” des Bell Technikers Gilbert S. Vernam aus 1919 und benutzt zur Verschlüsselung ein Bell Gerät namens 131-B2.

An jenem Tage des Jahres 1943 bemerkt nun der für die US Armee arbeitende Wissenschaftler der Bell Company ein technisches Phänomen, welches bis heute fast der gesamten Weltbevölkerung unbekannt ist, obwohl es die Sicherheit, die Privatsphäre, die Gesellschaften, die Staaten, die Sicherheit und das Leben von heute 7 Milliarden Menschen unmittelbar berührt und gefährdet:

jedes Mal wenn er über den verschlüsselnden Text-Kommunikations-Apparat SIGTOT einen Buchstaben eintippt, schlägt in einem entfernten Teil des Labors ein Oszilloskop aus. Und zwar fünf Mal, für jedes Zeichen pro Sekunde (“baud”). Als er die angezeigten Spannungsspitzen näher analysiert, stellt er fest, dass er die in den Text-Kommunikations-Apparat der Armee per Hand eingetippten und anschließend verschlüsselten Texte aus der Entfernung unverschlüsselt mitlesen kann.

28.04.2015 - 10:30 [ The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST) ]

Light and Shadows of a Great Life: In Commemoration of the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Leon Theremin, Pioneer of Electronic Art

What is certain is that Theremin found himself in prison, then in prison camp, then in prison-type top-secret scientific and research institutes after his return to the Soviet Union. Incredibly, while still in prison, Theremin was granted the most prestigious Soviet scientific award, the First Class Stalin Prize (the Soviet analogue of the Nobel Prize) in 1947. He was rewarded for having created the „Buran“ bugging system, which was designed for tactful, remote, contact-free surveillance of American and French embassies by means of detecting window-glass vibrations from distances of 300–500 m. (Recent reports in Russia have revealed that Beria, former head of the KGB, used Theremin‘s inventions to listen in on Stalin himself. Theremin preserved the results—unique magnetic-tape recordings of Stalin‘s voice—for many years, keeping them in his own home until they finally crumbled to dust with age.)

28.04.2015 - 10:29 [ Wikipedia ]

The Thing (listening device)

Theremin‘s device was used by the Soviet Union to spy on the United States. The device was embedded in a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States. On August 4, 1945, a delegation from the Young Pioneer organization of the Soviet Union presented the bugged carving to U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, as a „gesture of friendship“ to the USSR‘s World War II ally. It hung in the ambassador‘s Moscow residential study until it was exposed in 1952 during the tenure of Ambassador George F. Kennan. The existence of the bug was accidentally discovered by a British radio operator who overheard American conversations on an open radio channel as the Russians were beaming radio waves at the ambassador‘s office.

28.04.2015 - 10:26 [ Süddeutsche ]

Abhörtechnik nutzt Vibrationen

(23.September 2014) Trifft Schall auf einen Gegenstand, übertragen sich die Schwingungen der Luft als leichte Vibrationen auf diesen. Moderne Videokameras können dieses Vibrieren aufzeichnen. Aus dem Videomaterial lassen sich mit einem mehrstufigen Algorithmus die Audiosignale rekonstruieren. Die gewonnenen Tonspuren sind verständlich. Geschlechter und Stimmlagen können unterschieden werden.

28.04.2015 - 07:21 [ Haaretz ]

Is David Cameron the most pro-Israel British PM ever?

The very real prospect of David Cameron’s Conservative Party losing Britain’s general election on May 7 is causing a shudder of dread to pass through Israeli diplomats and lobbyists in London. Officially, of course, they are not involved in the United Kingdom’s internal politics. But the consensus is that “we have never had such a pro-Israel prime minister.”

28.04.2015 - 07:19 [ James Petras ]

Argentina: A Case Study of Israel’s Zionist-Wall Street Destabilization Campaign

A recent article by Jorge Elbaum, the former executive director of DAIA (Delegation for Argentine Jewish Associations), the principle Argentine Jewish umbrella groups, published in the Buenos Aires daily Pagina 12, provides a detailed account of the damaging links between the State of Israel, US Wall Street speculators and local Argentine Zionists in government and out.

Elbaum describes how their efforts have been specifically directed toward destabilizing the incumbent center-left government of President Cristina Fernandez, while securing exorbitant profits for a Zionist Wall Street speculator, Paul Singer of Elliott Management as well as undermining a joint Iranian-Argentine investigation of the 1994 terrorist bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires.

28.04.2015 - 07:14 [ Wikipedia ]

Deutsche Verbindungs- und Unterstützungsgruppe: Marinelogistikbasis im Einsatzgebiet

Nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 beschloss der Deutsche Bundestag am 16. November 2001 die Teilnahme der Bundeswehr an der Operation Enduring Freedom. Zu den hierfür vorgesehenen deutschen Kräften gehörte ein Marinekontingent, dass am Horn von Afrika eingesetzt wurde. Zu seiner Unterstützung wurde in Dschibuti eine Marinelogistikbasis im Einsatzgebiet (MLBE) eingerichtet.

28.04.2015 - 07:13 [ Bundeswehr ]

„Hessen“ und „Berlin“ beenden Einsatz bei Atalanta

Die beiden Schiffe waren für den Einsatzzeitraum dem Kommandeur der Task Force 465, dem schwedischen Konteradmiral Jonas Haggren, unterstellt. In seinem Auftrag patrouillierten die „Hessen“ und die „Berlin“ überwiegend im Golf von Aden, entlang des international vereinbarten Transitkorridors „IRTC“ („International Recommended Transit Corridor“). In ihm überwachen Kriegsschiffe kontinuierlich das Seegebiet zwischen dem Jemen, Oman und Somalia und gewährleisten die sichere Durchfahrt von Handelsschiffen.

28.04.2015 - 07:11 [ Süddeutsche ]

Ohne Garantie

Nun rüstet der Westen die Kurden auf, damit sie sich gegen Waffen wehren können, die ursprünglich aus dem Westen stammen. Was für eine Volte. Aber was wäre die Alternative?