Daily Archives: 12. April 2016


12.04.2016 - 19:09 [ Minooka Herald-News ]

Minooka police discontinue body camera use

Meyer described a hypothetical example of the extra work it created for department staff.

“You could have four officers on a call for a domestic incident,” Meyer said. “If they are on scene for an hour – whether there’s an arrest or not – that’s four hours of video that has to be uploaded.”

Then, when cases reached the court system, there were many requests for the videos from attorneys and anyone else involved in the case. Officers were required to turn the cameras on for any law enforcement situation, from directing traffic to serious crime responses, Meyer said.

12.04.2016 - 18:44 [ teleSUR ]

No More Money for War: US Peace Activists Refuse to Pay Taxes

Activists in dozens of cities worldwide will protest military spending this week, including at U.S. post offices, army bases and the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service. An estimated 8,000 to 10,000 U.S. citizens will also refuse to pay all or certain parts of their federal taxes to protest military spending

ANALYSIS:

Report: US Still Sells over Half the World‘s Arms

Ruth Benn of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee told teleSUR she‘s seeing increased interest in antiwar organizing in the United States, despite the distraction of a presidential election. Military spending hovers at about 45 percent of federal income tax, she noted, rising sharply under President Barack Obama’s watch in 2010 and 2011 and falling slightly since.

12.04.2016 - 17:12 [ justsecurity.org ]

The Obama Administration Has Embraced Legal Theories Even Broader Than John Yoo’s

The Justice Department recently released another of the now-notorious Office of Legal Counsel memos written by John Yoo — memos that authorized torture, warrantless wiretapping, and indefinite detention. The new memo, written as a “letter” to then-presiding FISC Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in May 2002, addresses the legal basis for the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping of Americans’ communications under the “Stellar Wind” program.

12.04.2016 - 16:58 [ Netzfrauen.org ]

Das schlimmste Virus aller Zeiten!

Dieses Virus, über das wir berichten, entsteht auch dort, wo meist viele Menschen auf engstem Raum leben, meist in großen Räumen, und die oft über Krankheiten wie Kopfschmerzen, Ohrensausen oder Grippesymptome klagen.

Dieses Virus hat ein ungewöhnliches Ziel: Es greift andere Viren an. Ist man erst befallen, gibt es keine Rettung mehr. Der Erkrankte ist von unstillbarem Verlangen erfüllt, dazu greift er auch zu unlauteren Mitteln.

12.04.2016 - 16:57 [ trend.az ]

Iran denies having received S-300 missiles

Iranian media, however, quoted him as saying the country had received the first consignment of the missiles.

The Iranian news outlets made the mistake almost unanimously and with so much confidence that even leading Western agencies, such as BBC and Reuters, repeated them.

12.04.2016 - 16:53 [ Trend.az ]

Iran won‘t support oil output freeze plan – expert

Major oil exporters for two months have been trying to come to a consolidated decision on oil production freeze, but there is no consent among the OPEC member states, and there are no guarantees that Iranian delegates will come to Doha for the meeting of the leading oil supplying countries in the extended format, a consultant for the Expert Council of the Union of Russian Oil and Gas Producers, Eldar Kasaev told Trend Apr. 12.

12.04.2016 - 16:53 [ RT ]

Saudi-Arabien angeblich auch ohne Iran zu Beschränkung der Ölförderung bereit

(24.3.2016) Am 17. April 2016 soll in Doha ein Treffen von Mitglieds- und Nichtmitgliedsländern der OPEC stattfinden, um eine Ölfördergrenze zu besprechen. Der Energieminister von Russland, Alexander Nowak, hat letzte Woche erwähnt, dass bereits 15 Länder, auf die 73 Prozent der weltweiten Ölförderung entfallen, ihre Bereitschaft geäußert haben, die Förderung zu begrenzen.

12.04.2016 - 14:11 [ Washington Post ]

More than 400 arrested at the Capitol during protest against ‘big money’

Most of those arrested are being charged under D.C. law on crowding, obstructing and hindering, Capitol police said. The police said those arrested for “unlawful demonstration activity” were being processed using “mass arrest procedures.”
On its website, Democracy Spring said it will continue efforts to “reclaim the Capitol” through Saturday.

12.04.2016 - 13:55 [ Maskenfall ]

No 250

(10.April) Der Wirtschaftspopulismus ermöglicht es zudem der Öffentlichkeit, sich über das Wesen des Neoliberalismus und die Zerstörung des Sozialstaats, für die er steht, illusionslos klar zu werden.(…)
Es handelt sich um einen Durchbruch im Diskurs der politischen Linken, inspiriert durch Verfechter des Kooperativengedankens wie Gar Alperovitz und Bewegungen, die sich vor allem mit Umverteilungsfragen befassen. Ausgelöst wurde er durch die Umweltkrise und die Misere, in die der Neoliberalismus das Leben arbeitender Menschen verwandelt.“

12.04.2016 - 13:50 [ CapX ]

Tax and the City: Is our only duty to obey the law?

And there it is today in the Panama Papers tax row. I’ve said it myself about David Cameron’s explanations. He has obeyed the law. He has done nothing wrong. So that’s okay, then, is it? Janan Ganesh writing in the FT today makes that case. Moral exhortation is nonsense, he says, and the “woolly-minded notion of fairness is no way to run a tax system.” I see what he means. But…

12.04.2016 - 13:45 [ TechinAsia ]

Chinese scientists are changing what it means to be human. We need to think about the downsides.

Still, this experiment and last year’s are a proof of concept: CRISPR could be used to introduce desired genetic mutations into a human embryo. And if that embryo was viable and was implanted into a uterus and carried to term, the resulting child would be something out of science fiction: a genetically-enhanced human being.

12.04.2016 - 13:37 [ IPI - International Press Institute ]

In Turkey, technical attacks imperil digital media survival

According to Engelli Web, a Turkish site that monitors digital bans and blocking, Turkey’s Telecommunications Authority (TİB) has blocked access to more than 100,000 websites. For Turkish news sites that are already struggling to stay afloat financially and grow their audiences, online censorship adds an additional hurdle to economic sustainability, representatives of these sites say.

12.04.2016 - 13:33 [ Bandcamp ]

Brute Force by The Algorithm

Marking the next patch update for THE ALGORITHM (masterminded by producer Remi Gallego), BRUTE FORCE is 10 tracks that plunge even further into the unexpected, unthinkable and unbelievable. Named after the digital cryptography attack that attempts to gain access to passwords with a barrage of varied password attempts, this album will work you in every way possible until you open up. Delivered by an unhinged, humorous and abrasive mix of soundscapes, BRUTE FORCE is an impressively cohesive genre mash of Metal, Rock, EDM, Synthwave, Djent and sheer lunacy that can hardly be described.
We call it – Heavy Computer Music.

12.04.2016 - 09:07 [ taz ]

Bundespolizei in Hannover: Täter geschützt, Opfer entwürdigt

(7.4.2016) „Die Angaben des Zeugen aus Marokko und der Beschuldigten zum möglichen Tatverlauf waren widersprüchlich“, so Staatsanwaltin Anna Tafelski zur taz.

Das Foto des Marokkaners habe der Bundespolizist „unter Verwendung dummer und unrichtiger Kommentare verwandt, wodurch ein völlig falscher Eindruck entstanden ist“, heißt es im Einstellungsbeschluss der Ermittler.

Vor dem Amtsgericht Hannover soll sich der Bundespolizist lediglich wegen illegalen Waffenbesitzes und dem Besitz von Kinderpornos verantworten .