Nach Angaben der Bundeswehr, die den Vorfall zuerst dem Militär-Blog „Augengeradeaus“ bestätigte, wurde keiner der deutschen Soldaten verletzt, weil sich alle in geschützten Fahrzeugen befanden. Sie kehrten den Angaben zufolge nach dem Vorfall umgehend ins Camp Castor in Gao zurück.

(2013) Bis 2018 soll die gesamte Bevölkerung Indiens im Zuge eines seit 2010 laufenden präzedenzlosen Spionage-Programms biometrisch durchleuchtet und in einer zentralen Datenbank erfasst werden

We first wrote about India‘s Aadhaar system, which assigns a unique 12-digit number to all Indian citizens, a year ago.

„In early October, questions were raised with SIS [Secret Intelligence Service] about the mention of glass containers in the 23 September 2002 report. It was pointed out that… glass containers were not typically used in chemical munitions; and that a popular movie (The Rock) had inaccurately depicted nerve agents being carried in glass beads or spheres (and that) Iraq had had difficulty in the 1980s obtaining a key precursor chemical for soman (a chemical agent).“

The United States Navy will spend $240 million to build new facilities at the military detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Sanktionen gegen Russland endlich aufheben, sie sind idiotisch!!

She claimed NATO’s military build-up in Eastern Europe and the bloc itself were of a “defensive nature only,” a remark that was met with heckling from the opposition.

Police state is a term denoting a government that exercises power arbitrarily through the power of the police force. Originally the term designated a state regulated by a civil administration, but since the beginning of the 20th century, the term has „taken on an emotional and derogatory meaning“ by describing an undesirable state of living characterized by the overbearing presence of the civil authorities.[1]

The inhabitants of a police state may experience restrictions on their mobility, or on their freedom to express or communicate political or other views, which are subject to police monitoring or enforcement. Political control may be exerted by means of a secret police force which operates outside the boundaries normally imposed by a constitutional state.[

For anti-war protesters this is only a partial victory and it is bittersweet. We have marched in our millions, only to be ignored. And let’s not forget this was not just Labour politicians (despite the biggest Labour rebellion in history led by MPs such as Jeremy Corbyn), but nearly the whole of the Tory party in the House of Commons. The refusal to recognise the strength of public opinion or the views of constituents, has, in my view, been a major factor in the disaffection with politicians that is so obviously a major factor in political life today.

„There is nothing wrong with having values. They are good reasons why politicians are so keen about talking values as the basis of their own policies. Besides creating a simplistic worldview in black and white, where the opponent is always wrong, by definition, it also leaves room for a foreign policy, where politicians can outbid each other by claiming to be holier that the Pope,“ Hedlund wrote. „Should the worst happen, we can always console ourselves with the fact that our values were superior, and that we had morality on our side,“ he concluded sarcastically.

Gleichzeitig plant das Ministerium jedoch abseits der hier formulierten Strategie, eine weitere Behörde aufzubauen. Deren einziges Ziel: Verschlüsselte Daten zu knacken, damit Dienste und Behörden sie trotzdem lesen können. Bis 2020 sollen 400 Mitarbeiter bei dieser Zentralen Stelle für Informationstechnik im Sicherheitsbereich (Zitis) arbeiten.

Neu ist die Geschichte von der Kooperation zwischen europäischen Geheimdiensten – al-Watan nennt belgische, spanische und französische Besucher in Damaskus – nicht. Schon im Dezember letzten Jahres meldete die Bild-Zeitung die Absicht, dass der BND einen Mitarbeiter in Syrien fest installieren wolle. Die Sache wurde damals noch als brisant gehandelt.