“The Muslim Brotherhood does not accept the findings outlined in the Prime Minister’s statement. We do not accept that these conclusions can be based on credible evidence.

The Muslim Brotherhood engaged in an open and honest way with Sir John Jenkin’s review. It was hoped that the British government would seek to reciprocate that engagement. It is now clear that the Prime Minister did not intend to carry out a fair review into the Muslim Brotherhood. Our lawyers had repeatedly requested a right to reply to any criticism that might be presented during the review process. This was in order to ensure that the information which would no doubt go on to form government policy was well informed and credible. This has been denied to the Muslim Brotherhood.

A British government review into Egypt‘s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood published on Thursday concluded that membership of or links to the political group should be considered a possible indicator of extremism but stopped short of recommending that it should be banned.

The Turkish Army has reportedly sent military vehicles, including tanks, into civilian areas in its predominantly-Kurdish southeast. Local activists have posted frightening photos on social media.

Grund dafür war ihr Umgang mit einer Vereinbarung, die vor 15 Jahren zwischen der Staatsanwaltschaft und dem verurteilten Drogenbaron Cees Helman geschlossen worden war.
Der Streit um Entschädigungszahlungen an Helman belastet seit Monaten die Regierung und hat bereits drei führende Politiker zum Rücktritt gezwungen.

Yesterday we warned that Congress was quietly looking to do two horrible things: (1) strip all pretense from the „cybersecurity“ information sharing bills and turn them into full-on surveillance bills and (2) then shove it into the „must pass“ omnibus bill which is supposed to be about funding the government and nothing more. And… it looks like our warning was almost entirely accurate, as the bill has been released and within its over 2000 pages, it includes CISA and has been stripped of many of the key privacy protections (if you want to find it, it‘s buried on page 1728), while expanding how the information can be shared and used. In part, due to concerns raised yesterday, a few of the absolutely worst ideas didn‘t make it into the final bill, but it‘s still bad (and clearly worse than what had previously been voted on, which was already bad!).

The bill is due for a vote tomorrow and so right now would be the time to call your elected officials and let them know that this is a serious problem.

In der Welt wird nach Ansicht des Kreml-Sprechers Dmitri Peskow momentan ein großer Informationskrieg geführt.

Dieser Krieg „ist seit langem im Gange“, sagte er in einem Interview für den TV-Sender Rossija24. In diesem Informationskrieg verlieren so manche Medien „das menschliche Antlitz und auch ihre Funktionen als Massenmedien“, betonte er.

To attract and keep a drone pilot workforce that’s been stretched thin by rising demands for global surveillance, the Air Force announced Tuesday that it’s offering up to $125,000 in bonuses to keep the in-demand skills from leaving for the private sector.

The $3-billion plan, which must be approved by Congress, was unveiled Thursday after months of study that focused on a drone pilot force that commanders have described as overworked, undermanned and underappreciated.

Gen. Hawk Carlisle, commander of the Air Combat Command, also has ordered his staff to define career tracks RPA operators and maintenance crews—both officers and enlisted personnel—and study the methods for selecting and promoting RPA officers.

Kaveh Waddell: Why should we think of computer science as political—and why have many considered it to be apolitical, for so long?

Phillip Rogaway: I think that science and technology are inherently political, and whether we want to think about it that way or not, it’s the nature of the beast.

Wheaton College has suspended a political science professor who said her fellow Christians and Muslims worship the same God.

The prominent Christian college‘s decision, which sparked protest on campus on Wednesday, came days after Larycia Hawkins, a tenured professor, received attention in Christian media outlets after announcing she would wear a traditional headscarf known as a hijab through the Christian Advent season.

He said word was getting out that his players made for good soldiers. The military itself had no comment.

The case has created a firestorm after the release last month of a dash-cam video showed Van Dyke shooting McDonald 16 times within seconds of stepping out of his police car as the black teen moved away from the white officer.

McCarthy said he understood how people will feel watching the video but urged calm.

„The officer in this case took a young man‘s life, and he‘s going to have to account for his actions,“ McCarthy said. „People have a right to be angry, people have a right to protest.“

But police will not tolerate criminal behavior, he warned.

Parteien lieben ihre Chefs nicht. Ihre Treue gehört der Macht. Merkel hat sie.

Gelli, ein Sympathisant der Faschisten, hatte 1970 die berüchtigte Freimaurerloge Propaganda Due, kurz P2, gegründet. Sie war tief im italienischen Establishment verwurzelt und zählte Politiker, Richter, Bankiers und hochrangige Armeevertreter zu ihren Mitgliedern.

(21.12.2011) In aller Stille, unter passiver und aktiver Kollaboration aller Parteien und Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestages, rauschte am 15.Dezember in erster Lesung der „Entwurf eines Gesetzes zur Vierzehnten Änderung des Luftverkehrsgesetzes“ (Drucksache 17/8098) innerhalb von 30 Sekunden durch unser Parlament. Alle Reden wurden nicht gehalten. Sie wurden „zu Protokoll gegeben“.

Das Gesetz ändert, so es beschlossen wird, gleichzeitig Luftverkehrsgesetz (LuftVG), Luftverkehrs-Zulassungs-Ordnung (LuftVZO), Luftverkehrs-Ordnung (LuftVO), unterwirft die Nutzung des deutschen Luftraums „Rechtsakten“ der „Europäischen Union“ und gibt statt dem nach einer Verfassungsänderung 2009 geschaffenen „Bundesaufsichtsamt für Flugsicherung“ nun „zuständigen Luftfahrtbehörden“ in Paragraf 23c die „Ermächtigungsgrundlage“ um UNO-Resolutionen, EU-Beschlüsse und „Sanktionen“ wie z.B. Flugverbote in Deutschland gegen bestimmte Staaten umzusetzen.

Vor allem aber ermöglicht der Gesetzentwurf in vom Bundesverkehrsministerium verhängten „Flugbeschränkungsgebieten“ mit Kameras bestückte Drohnen „neben ihren ursprünglich militärischen Einsatzbereichen derzeit insbesondere bei der polizeilichen Gefahrenabwehr“ einzusetzen. GGf. im Ausland befindliche Kontrollstationen der Drohnen werden in orwellscher Manier als „Luftfahrtgerät“ umdefiniert.

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Rahinah Ibrahim, a Malaysian architect with a doctorate from Stanford, knows from personal experience that they have a compelling point. Ibrahim is the only person since 9/11 to file a court challenge that ultimately removed her name from the watch lists. It took her almost a decade to prevail in court and even that victory has proved phyrrhic. While a federal judge agreed that her inclusion on the no-fly list was groundless, she remains unable to obtain a visa that would allow her to visit the United States even to attend academic conferences. A close look at her case by ProPublica provides dramatic evidence of what was argued this month in Washington: It is indeed remarkably easy to get on the list and nearly impossible to get off.

Das Verteidigungsministerium beschwichtigt: Alles kein Problem. „Die USA sicherten die Abschaltung der Aufklärungssensorik während des Transits durch den deutschen Luftraum zu. Die Einhaltung dieser Auflage wurde durch die USA schriftlich bestätigt“

The cost of the US military presence in Japan averages $189 billion annually.