When asked whether the entire Internet of Things — that is, everything from a kid‘s WiFi enabled toy to someone‘s biomedical device — would be a boon for the NSA or just a whole lot of digital noise to sift through, Ledgett replied, „Both.“
„As my job is to penetrate other people‘s networks, complexity is my friend,“ he continued. „The first time you update the software, you introduce vulnerabilities, or variables rather. It‘s a good place to be in a penetration point of view.“
Das Netz war am Samstagmorgen für mehrere Stunden kaum nutzbar gewesen. Mittlerweile hat die Telekom die Ursache gefunden und offenbar beheben können.
(7.6.2016) Um den Generalstreik vorzubereiten, werden bis Ende Juni Gewerkschaftsversammlungen an der Basis und Plenarien auf Ebene der Bundesstaaten durchgeführt. In der ersten Juli-Hälfte wird dann eine erweiterte Bundesvorstandssitzung über die Situation und die Vorbereitung beraten und gegebenenfalls den Streik beschließen. Außerdem wird der Vorschlag mit anderen Verbänden diskutiert und eine verbandsübergreifende Versammlung einberufen.
This National Mobilization Day is one of the actions programmed by the largest trade union -CUT- and the social movements for the preparation of a general strike in defense of the rights of workers, said the eve the national president of CUT, Vagner Freitas.
From the presidential palace in Brasília, the suspended Brazilian President spoke to The Intercept about her claims that she‘s the victim of a „coup,“ the accusations against her, the right-wing shift planned by the substitute government, and how she believes Brazilians should protest and fight against this subversion of democracy.
Few corporations in the world are as loathed—and as sinister—as Monsanto. But the threat it poses to people and planet could be reaching new heights, as the World Health Organization has recently upgraded Monsanto‘s main product as carcinogenic to humans. With protests against the agrochemical giant held in over 40 countries in May, learn why the global movement against Monsanto is of critical importance to our future. In this episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin issues a scathing expose on the corporate polluter, chronicling it‘s rise to power, the collusion of its crimes by the US government, and highlighting the serious danger it puts us in today.
(18.5.2016) The company says it is waiting for the government to outline its inspection requirements. The inspections could involve private-sector companies. „We‘re not going to sit back and let Argentina steal technology and Brazil pay for it. That‘s wrong. That‘s just ethically wrong,“ Begemann told Reuters on Wednesday.
(7.8.2012) Fünf Millionen brasilianische Bauern haben den US-Saatgutriesen Monsanto geklagt. Sie fordern 6,2 Milliarden Euro von dem Konzern. Der Grund liegt in Monsantos umstrittenem Lizenzsystem. Die Bauern beschuldigen den Konzern, Gebühren für Saatgut einzunehmen, das dieser fälschlicherweise als sein eigenes bezeichnet.
Thousands demonstrated against acting Brazilian President Michel Temer in Rio de Janeiro, Friday, and the impeachment process currently being carried out against suspended President Dilma Rousseff.
„Out with Temer“ their banners read as supporters of Brazil‘s suspended President Dilma Rousseff called for the removal of her interim replacement. Others held photos of the ousted leader with a simple message: „Return, dear.“
Saturday was the third day in a row that fans clashed in the southern French city ahead of the encounter between England and Russia.
“Police intervened in a clash between English, Russian and French supporters in the Vieux-Port district,” said local police chief Laurent Nunez as reports said security forces fired tear gas at fans fighting in the area.
Something for the weekend!
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The rock star said property tycoon Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee in the U.S. presidential elections, was using the song without permission.
May, 68, said he had received an „avalanche of complaints“ about Trump using the anthem during a speech he gave Tuesday.
Buford’s FACT mix has nothing to do with any of that, though. Instead, he’s put together a mixtape of spine-tingling blues from the 1940s and earlier, featuring Delta bluesmen like Charley Patton and Bukka White, gospel-fired guitarists like Rev. Gary Davis, and several recordings made by ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, from the stark intensity of Arkansan folk singer Almeda Riddle to the rowdy group singing of unknown prisoners in Southern penitentiaries.
Content warning: they don’t call it the blues for nothing.
Die Verteilung von Nahrungsmitteln über die staatlich geförderten Bürgerkomitees soll die Versorgungslage verbessern und den Schwarzmarkt ausschalten.
Ed Russell released his first music as Tessela around this time, and along with his peers like Pearson Sound, Untold, Objekt and Peverelist, his tracks have proven to be extremely durable. Whether it‘s due to smart structuring, the classically-rooted sounds he used, or simply the skill of his execution, Russell‘s early-to-mid period music would still stand out in an adventurous techno set or among contemporary UK sounds.
Everyone loves a bargain but the true cost of that latest wardrobe addition is pitiful wages for Bangladesh‘s legion of factory workers, writes Simon Parry.
Das, was jetzt auf dem Weg ist, ist ein Regimewechsel. Wir haben keine repräsentative demokratische Präsidialdemokratie mehr, sondern eine indirekt bestimmte Exekutive, die ausgewählt wurde unter strikter Kontrolle einer „Kontrollkommission“, letztere gebildet von konservativen Gruppierungen, den Wachhaltern des Kapitals.
The creaking rail system is just one part of what is wrong with Germany’s infrastructure, which economists have warned is now in such a shoddy state, due to years of underfunding, that it is starting to have a serious impact on Germany’s GDP. One state premier even suggested introducing a pothole tax to make up for the lack of funding.
So stellt sich das die Allparteienkoalition aus Union, SPD, der Linken und BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN an einem Gesetzentwurf vor. Die “Sieger” der Workshopreihe gehören dann für die nächsten drei Jahre dem “nationalen Begleitgremium” an, das die Brücke schließen soll zwischen der Arbeit der Kommission Lagerung hoch radioaktiver Abfallstoffe und dem beginnendem Standortauswahlverfahren.
About a quarter of Air France pilots are striking to demand better working conditions – the latest challenge to travellers and France’s image as it hosts Europe’s biggest sporting event.
Anders als bei einem gemischten Abkommen wären in diesem Fall die nationalen Parlamente nicht berechtigt, es demokratisch abzusegnen – Bundestag und Bundesrat hätten somit kein Mitspracherecht.
Einem EU-Vertreter zufolge will die EU-Kommission ihre Entscheidung voraussichtlich Anfang Juli bekanntgeben. Eine Sprecherin der EU-Kommission wollte den Bericht am Freitag nicht kommentieren. S
(6.6.2016) Trade is a hot issue in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. But correspondence from Hillary Clinton and her top State Department aides about a controversial 12-nation trade deal will not be available for public review — at least not until after the election. The Obama administration abruptly blocked the release of Clinton’s State Department correspondence about the so-called Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), after first saying it expected to produce the emails this spring.
(8.6.2016) Die Österreicher haben ein äußerst kritisches Bild von der Rolle der USA: 60 Prozent lehnen einer Gallup- Umfage zufolge die Führungsrolle der Vereinigten Staaten auf dem internationalen Parkett ab. Das ist der höchste Wert aller EU- Staaten. Nur Russen und Weißrussen sehen die „Weltpolizei“ noch kritischer als die Österreicher.
Überraschend nannte Justizminister Wolfgang Brandstetter (ÖVP) die Pläne nun gegenüber Puls 4 „nicht sinnvoll“. Nach der teils vernichtenden Kritik wolle sich das Justizministerium „etwas anderes überlegen“.
Auf dem Weg zur deutschen NSA: Die Bundesregierung hat sich nach den für sie peinlichen Snowden-Enthüllungen vorgenommen, den Bundesnachrichtendienst zu reformieren. Nun stellt sich raus, dass bisher illegale BND-Praktiken nicht etwa untersagt, sondern schlicht legalisiert werden sollen. Man scheint sich eine eigene NSA aufzubauen: Der Auslandsgeheimdienst der Bundesregierung soll zB auch in Deutschland (!) überwachen dürfen. Auskunftsfreudig über die BND-Pläne zeigte man sich heute nicht… Wie ist der Zeitplan? Gilt für Metadaten künftig das Fernmeldegeheimnis?
Many of the surveillance techniques — such as scooping up the metadata of communications and using malware to gain access to the computers and mobile phones of terrorism suspects — have already been in use by U.K. spy agencies and the law now gives them explicit authority.
Lots of people are talking about the fact that President Obama went on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday night to „slow jam the news“ and play up a bunch of his accomplishments while stumping for the TPP agreement. If you haven‘t seen it yet, it‘s here:
Stressing that “Europe is at risk is at risk of suffering lasting economic damage from weak productivity and low growth, Mario Draghi outlined three policy priorities to achieve higher productivity levels:
1) Consolidating the EU’s single market
2) instituting reforms that allow firms to scale up quickly
3) improving human capital through education and training schemes.
Wie dem auch sei, jedenfalls haben wir jetzt diese französische Initiative: eine glanzvolle Versammlung von Außenministern oder ihren Vertretern, die die Wiederaufnahme der Friedensverhandlungen innerhalb eines begrenzten Zeitrahmens fordern. Ihr erklärtes Ziel ist die Anerkennung des Staates Palästina.
The Freedom Theatre, based in Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.
“Our religious traditions, clearly the Jewish tradition, teach us that both of these, fairness and justice, as well as the rule of law are integral elements of a just world,” Gutow said in a statement. “The President of the United States is the person who must reflect that voice.”
“I condemn and [am] hurt by the terrible assault on civilians. My heart goes out to the families. Attacks on the innocent are always wrong, and there can be no justification for shooting civilians in the street.“
“This government has only brought a deepening of hatred and violence. We must completely remove Palestinian and Israeli civilians from the cycle of hate and blood. We must struggle together in a just way to bring an end to the occupation and to bring justice and peace for the two peoples.”
On Thursday, roughly 67% of prosecutions involving suspected ISIS supporters include evidence from undercover operations, according to The New York Times.
In many cases, agents will seek out people who have somehow demonstrated radical views, and then coax them into plotting an act of terrorism — often providing weapons and money. Before the suspects can carry out their plans, though, they‘re arrested.
Reports of alleged ties to a French fraudster clouded the PM‘s visit to Russia this week, and tensions with Shas threatened his newly expanded coalition, yet oddly enough, humiliated opposition leader Herzog still seeks to join the government.
The Israeli military on Thursday revoked permits for 83,000 Palestinians to visit Israel and said it would send hundreds more troops to the occupied West Bank a day after a Palestinian gun attack that killed four Israelis in Tel Aviv.
President Putin did not only take Binyamin Netanyahu to the Bolshoi when he visited Moscow this week, he also brought him up on stage publicly to celebrate a quarter-century of diplomatic relations.
However, for an outsider, Moscow’s foreign policy seems intensely confusing to say the least.
The ongoing information war between Russia and the U.S.-led West creates moments that are paradoxical if not downright confusing. But confusion may be the prime objective of both sides, following the old maxim: if you cannot convince, confuse.
A two-pronged advance to capture key urban strongholds of the Islamic State group and its self-styled capital of Raqqa has underlined a quiet convergence of strategy between the U.S. and Russia to defeat the extremists, with Syria‘s Kurds emerging as the common link.
The Russian Foreign ministry said Moscow would respond to a U.S. naval ship‘s entry into the Black Sea with unspecified measures, saying it and other deployments were designed to ratchet up tensions ahead of a NATO summit, the RIA news agency reported.
Die Menschenkette heute an der U.S.-Militärbasis Ramstein ist wertlos und wird von wertlosen Organisationen angeleitet.
Heute startet die „Stopp Ramstein-Kampagne“ gegen den Drohnenkrieg. In Kaiserslautern beginnen die Proteste mit Veranstaltungen. Am Samstag wollen die Aktivisten eine Menschenkette um die US-Airbase bilden. RT Deutsch ist mit Reporterin Maria Janssen vor Ort und interviewt die Teilnehmer.
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(1.10.1990) Zumindest in diesem Ziel sind sich der Bonner Kanzler und sein SPD-Herausforderer einig: Die Rückkehr zum „Nationalstaat von gestern“ (Kohl) soll es nicht geben; das neue Deutschland soll „ein Provisorium“ (Oskar Lafontaine), „eine Etappe“ (Kohl) auf dem Weg zur Einheit Europas sein.
11.00 – 13.00 Uhr Auftaktkundgebung in Kaiserslautern mit Oskar Lafontaine
Heute, am 11. Juni, jährt sich der Tag, an dem 1999 Europa an einem Krieg mit Russland gerade nochmals vorbeigeschrammt ist. Nicht irgendein schießwütiger General sondern der NATO-Oberbefehlshaber Europa (Supreme Allied Commander Europe – SACEUR) hatte den Befehl zum Angriff auf russische Truppen im Kosovo gegeben. Der Befehlsempfänger war der britische 3-Sterne General, Sir Mike Jackson, damals Kommandeur der NATO-KFOR-Invasionstruppe.
(30.8.2010) Die US-Truppen in Afghanistan sollen ihrem Befehlshaber zufolge auch über den Beginn des Abzugs im Juli 2011 hinaus dort im Einsatz bleiben. „Ich kann sie (die Afghanen) beruhigen. Sie sollten sich noch einmal anhören, was Präsident Obama gesagt hat: dass im Juli 2011 eine Phase beginnt, in der wir nicht alle zum Ausgang rennen und nach dem Lichtschalter suchen, den wir ausmachen können, bevor wir die Tür hinter uns zuschlagen“, sagte US-General David Petraeus dem ZDF.
(7.6.2016) Requesting a search warrant for Petraeus‘ Arlington, Virginia home in 2013, an FBI agent told a federal magistrate the agency had two audio recordings in which the retired four-star Army general spoke with reporters about matters that authorities believed were „top secret.“
„There is a recorded conversation between Petraeus and, inter alia, Washington Post reporters, which, based on the information and belief of your affiant, occurred in or about March 2011,“ Special Agent Diane Wehner wrote.
(6.6.2016) The Obama administration is seeking to amend surveillance law to give the FBI explicit authority to access a person’s Internet browser history and other electronic data without a warrant in terrorism and spy cases.
The administration made a similar effort six years ago but dropped it after concerns were raised by privacy advocates and the tech industry.
When Rep. Jason Chaffetz began asking the Secret Service about its string of high-profile failures, agents were quick to respond… with attempts to undermine the Congressman‘s credibility. Eighteen minutes after the hearings started, Secret Service agents — dozens of them — began poring through his 2003 Secret Service application in hopes of finding a few skeletons in his previously-vetted closet.
New documents obtained by Privacy International as a result of its ongoing litigation over GCHQ bulk surveillance shows (yet again) there‘s really no such thing as „oversight“ when it comes to spying. Owen Bowcott of The Guardian highlights conversations between GCHQ and its supposed oversight, in which the former talks the latter out of applying more restrictive guidelines from updated laws to its massive data intake. (Unfortunately, Bowcott discusses the documents but does not link to them, and I have been unable to locate these at Privacy International‘s website.)
(7.6.2016) Das Vereinigte Königreich hat ein neues Schnüffelgesetz. Das ist so weitgehend, dass sich sogar China zur Legitimation seiner Gesetzgebung darauf beruft.