Ma sucht mit Google in ihrer Freizeit nach Blogs, Videos und anderen Postings, in denen Südkoreaner das kommunistische Nordkorea glorifizieren. Im vergangenen Jahr meldete sie mehr als 30 Postings, die sie als gefährlich einstufte und die „Südkoreaner einer Gehirnwäsche unterziehen könnten“, an den Geheimdienst.

Earlier this year, we wrote about how ridiculous the federal government‘s view of Silicon Valley seemed to be, in that they had this weird belief that by nerding a little harder, we could somehow „disrupt“ ISIS. The thinking seemed confused, and somewhat typical of people who don‘t understand technology or how Silicon Valley works. It‘s „magic wand“ thinking. People who don‘t understand technology tend to view technology as a sort of magic — and thus, they assume it can do anything. And, right now, a bunch of those people in the White House want that magic wand to make ISIS disappear from the Internet.

There you have it, the logo of big business, intertwined with the US military machine; portraying one of the principle characteristics of fascism in the west, the interdependence and shared power of the western corporate and military complex.

Back in December, we wrote about plans by Rep. Mike McCaul and Senator Mark Warner to put together a „commission“ to figure out what to do about the encryption „issue.“ In his speech, McCaul did at least say that „providing a backdoor into everybody‘s iPhone was not going to be a very good strategy“ since it would open things up to hackers, but at the very same time, he kept saying that we had to somehow stop bad people (terrorists, criminals, child predators) from using encryption. He also keeps insisting that the Paris attackers used encryption, despite lots of evidence to the contrary. So it‘s not entirely clear what the point of this Commission is, other than to chase down some mythical solution that doesn‘t exist.

Laut dem verabschiedeten Gesetzestext, der nun zur Bestätigung an Präsidentin Dilma Rousseff geht, werden Akte der Sabotage, Gewalt oder geplanten Aktionen „aufgrund von Fremdenhass, Diskriminierung oder Vorurteilen wegen Ethnie, Hautfarbe oder Religion, wenn sozialer Terror provoziert wird, der Personen, Eigentum oder die öffentliche Ruhe und Sicherheit gefährdet“, als Terrorismus definiert.

Aufgrund des Drucks linker Parteien wurde auch ein Artikel gestrichen, der soziale Bewegungen einbezieht.

(25.Februar) „We‘ve flown 709 sorties involving 3,720 receivers,“ Air Force Maj. Timothy Smith, spokesman for the command, said on Feb. 17. „And we‘ve offloaded 26,591,200 pounds of fuel“ to foreign aircraft, he said.

(27.Februar) Gen. Lunde says that state-sponsored hacking groups have targeted many Norwegian companies during the past year. He says that these companies are suppliers and collaborators of the Norwegian army and that hackers have stolen information considered to be state military secrets.

(27.Februar) Ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries, a nationwide march has swept across the nation for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Organizers have reported that at least 40 cities are holding demonstrations, and perhaps as many as 70.

The parents of a baby injured by a flash-bang grenade during a no-knock multi-agency task force raid in Georgia, will be awarded $3.6 million after a federal judge‘s decision on Friday.

Am 4. November 2015 wurden 6 Mitglieder des Kollektivs Straight Edge Madrid festgenommen und durch den Sondergerichtshof Audiencia Nacional angeklagt. Während ihrer Haft wurden ihre Rechte als Gefangene verletzt. Ihr einziges Verbrechen ist ihre anarchistische, vegane und gegen Drogen gerichtete Ideologie. Ihre Arbeit ist bekannt dafür, dass sie antispeziesistische Aktionstage und drogenfreie Feste veranstalten, bei denen eine alternative und gesunde Freizeitgestaltung gefördert wird.(…)

However, they were quickly arrested for trespassing on the airbase.

Former TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata, 75, and two former vice presidents, Sakae Muto, 65, and Ichiro Takekuro, 69, are accused of failing to implement safety measures despite being aware of the possibility that such an accident could unfold at the utility’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.(…)
However, the trial is expected to bring into the open internal TEPCO documents that have not been released until now.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has roundly condemned Saudi Arabia for defying calls to halt airstrikes on Yemen; following a recent air attack that killed dozens of civilians in a market.

(16.2.2016)

An ad hoc commission was created in Turkey for preparation of a new constitution for the country Feb. 4. The commission was comprised of representatives of ruling party and oppositional ones, however, on February 17, MPs from the opposition Republican People‘s Party (CHP) left the commission.

Dutch authorities identified about 30 war crimes suspects, a third of them Syrians, among the 59,000 people who applied for asylum last year, the immigration minister said on Monday.

Die aktuellen politischen Entwicklungen führen dazu, dass in manchen Bereichen vermehrt Juristen gesucht werden. So werden zum Beispiel aufgrund der Flüchtlingskrise mehr Richter eingestellt. Und (auch) wegen der Zunahme von Extremismus und Terrorismus sucht das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz gemeinsam mit dem Bundesministerium des Innern Volljuristen als Nachwuchsführungskräfte.