Sollte der Gesetzentwurf in seiner jetzigen Form gebilligt werden, wären Geheimdienstarbeiter befugt, den Zugang zum Internet, das Verlassen des Landes und sogar Zusammenkünfte mit bestimmten Personen zu verbieten. Die Beschlagnahme von Ausweispapieren wäre genehmigt. Die Militärs würden das Recht bekommen, Funktionen der Polizei auszuüben wie beispielsweise Kontrolle, Durchsuchung und Festnahme von Bürgern. An Orten, an denen Antiterroreinsätze durchgeführt werden, können die Bürgerrechte eingeschränkt werden, jeder muss die Restriktionen dulden und die Behörden in ihren Handlungen unterstützen.

(26.1.2015) Let‘s think it through. We‘re talking about an IT system that needs to do the following: verify the identity of around 50 million users within a 15 hour period; register their votes, but anonymously so that no connection can *ever* be made between verified identity and vote cast; store the data behind those votes in a fashion that allows independent verification and checking after election, and in a form that absolutely cannot be altered or manipulated after the fact; and do all this without any scope whatever for hacking, penetration or even just crashing during the voting period.

The real results confounded all of the polls published in the weeks leading up to the general election, all of the secret Andorran fruit market polls, and both exit polls published at 8 p.m., one of which canvassed 132,000 voters across 1,100 polling stations.

With 95% of the votes counted, Podemos did not overtake the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) to dominate the left, keeping its 71 joint seats from December.

(13.2.2008) For the first time ever, the IT company will use over 10,000 PDAs to record the information received from all over Spain. These devices will assist in sending data from the polling stations to the information reception centre where it will be processed automatically.

Voters will be able to access the updated electoral portal with its advanced multimedia content and simulators which will answer any questions regarding the elections: postal voting, overseas voting, how the electoral system works, etc. Also, its design will facilitate access for the visually impaired in line with the more stringent international standards.

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The House of Commons petitions committee said it will continue to monitor the petition for „suspicious activity“.

The petition has more signatures than any other on the parliamentary website.

The BBC, the UK’s national broadcaster, gleefully reported, as real, with no basic journalistic checks, an online petition that appeared to be growing at a colossal rate. By 1:30 pm, it was one of the fastest-growing petitions in history.

So fast, in fact, that somebody should have checked for bots and scripts.

PP 14 escaños
Podemos-IU-EQUO 8
PSOE 8
Ciudadanos 6

Die Parlamentswahl in der Monarchie Spanien bringt dem E.U.-Imperium ein weiteres, großes Problem. Wahrscheinlich bringt sie den souveränistischen, progressiven, jungen, intelligenten und basisdemokratischen Ministerpräsidenten Pablo Iglesias, dem sich die örtliche Verräterpartei aus der E.U.-Überpartei „Sozialdemokratische Partei Europas“, die P.S.O.E., als Koalitionspartner unterwerfen muss.

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Unidos Podemos had surpassed the PSOE to become the second largest party with 91 to 95 seats and PSOE 81 to 85, and Ciudadanos 26 – 30 seats, according to poll conducted by Sigma Dos.

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A new alliance on the Spanish Left will be stronger than the sum of its parts.

Einer der renommiertesten und ältesten aktiven Journalisten auf dem Planeten, John Pilger, äußert sich zur Volksabstimmung im Vereinigten Königreich und dessen „Brexit“, dem Ausstieg aus dem Staatenbund „Europäische Union“.

Es ist eine epische Abrechnung.

(22.12.2015) Two flags: In the video Pablo speaks a lot about two different flags. The current flag in spain (red-yellow-red) has the colours of the dictatorship of General Franco. The left-republican parties use to claim the use for our country past republican flag (red-yellow-purple).

El candidato a la Presidencia del Gobierno, Pablo Iglesias, votó esta mañana en el IES Tirso de Molina junto a su madre e Íñigo Errejón.

Pablo Iglesias streckt den linken Arm in die Höhe, ballt seine Hand zur Faust: „Sobald ich Präsident bin, werde ich gegen Europas Neoliberalismus ankämpfen und Spanien von Madrid aus regieren und nicht mehr von Berlin aus regieren lassen.“ „Presidente, Presidente“, feiert ihn die Masse.

(22.6.2016) Rajoy lehnte eine Absetzung des Ministers ebenfalls ab. Er habe von den Gesprächen des Innenministers nichts gewusst. Auf einem Mitschnitt hört man Diaz allerdings sagen: „Der Regierungschef weiß Bescheid.“

In Spanien gibt es mit Podemos zum Glück eine linke Option, die die Empörten an sich binden kann. „Neue Sozialdemokratie“ nennen Iglesias und die Seinen ihr Projekt nicht von ungefähr.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will meet European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels and British Foreign Minister Philip Hammond in London on Monday, a senior State Department official said.

We go to London to get reaction and examine the country’s next steps with guests on both sides of the vote: Joseph Choonara, member of the Socialist Workers Party and spokesperson for Lexit, the Left Leave campaign, and Alex Scrivener, policy officer at Global Justice Now who campaigned with Another Europe is Possible, the left campaign for Britain to remain in the EU.

Many will now rejoice that for the UK TTIP is dead in the water. Indeed, Brexit may be the killer blow to the deal across Europe. But while the UK has escaped TTIP‘s corporate clutches as an EU member state, if the deal does survive the big picture will be a little more complex.

The United States has traditionally relied on an engaged Britain, alongside other allies Germany and France, as a way to ensure its interests are taken into account on the top table of Europe — and now faces the prospect of one of its most influential allies leaving the block and diminishing its clout.

(21.6.2016) We would do well to remember that the actual EU is a group of powerful bureaucrats stuffed inside a neo-liberal institution, who are poised to sign TTIP – the terrifying EU-US trade deal that threatens so much of what we stand for as a socialist country

The most effective propagandists of the „European ideal“ have not been the far right, but an insufferably patrician class for whom metropolitan London is the United Kingdom. Its leading members see themselves as liberal, enlightened, cultivated tribunes of the 21st century zeitgeist, even „cool“. What they really are is a bourgeoisie with insatiable consumerist tastes and ancient instincts of their own superiority. In their house paper, the Guardian, they have gloated, day after day, at those who would even consider the EU profoundly undemocratic, a source of social injustice and a virulent extremism known as „neoliberalism“.

The aim of this extremism is to install a permanent, capitalist theocracy that ensures a two-thirds society, with the majority divided and indebted, managed by a corporate class, and a permanent working poor.

The anti-austerity party Podemos is expected to make big gains in Spain‘s parliamentary election on Sunday, potentially delivering a fresh jolt to Europe‘s political mainstream after Britain voted to leave the European Union.

The German finance minister loves to live in his Kafkaesque castle surrounded by high walls of rules and regulations, of protocols and directives, and fences made of primary and secondary paragraphs, of periods and semicolons – and a comma here and there, a tiny fancy sprinkle to break the dull monotony. In the nicely shielded paper world of Schaeuble there is no space for ‘exclamation marks’. Schaeuble hates surprises and wants to be covered for any unpredictable developments, cosmic attacks included.

Serbischer Ministerpräsident bezeichnet Menschen in anderen Ländern, die gegen eine Mitgliedschaft in der Europäischen Union sind, als Idioten.