WikiLeaks says its infrastructure is under attack from unknown sources, with a Turkish state power faction or ally almost certainly behind the trouble.
The whistleblowing site is due to publish the first of hundreds of thousands of documents detailing Turkey’s ‘political power structure’ and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan‘s’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) later today.
Despite a massive cyberattack on its website, WikiLeaks has published the first batch of nearly 300,000 emails from the Turkish ruling AKP party’s internal server and thousands of attached files in response to the Ankara government’s widespread post-coup purges.
„It is quite simple: Without Germany, US drones would not fly.“ But the German judiciary has rebuffed such civil suits — most recently in late April, when a court in Cologne rejected pleas about a drone strike that killed two people in Somalia, including a herdsman who was not targeted.
Es werde schwierig sein, Steuerzahlern zu erklären, warum man ihr Geld für etwas bekomme, das man nicht produziere, sagt er. „Die Hauptverantwortlichen der Krise werden hier belohnt. Aber das sind offenbar die Betriebe, die die Politik haben will.“ Zusätzlich diene die Geldspritze Banken wie Raiffeisen, bei denen sich die Bauern für ihre Expansion verschuldeten. – derstandard.at/2000041398866/Biobauern-und-Experten-kritisieren-neue-EU-Hilfen-fuer-Milchbetriebe
Insgesamt stieg die Zahl der Suspendierungen aus dem öffentlichen Dienst seit Niederschlagen des Putschversuches auf rund 29.000. – derstandard.at/2000041392203/TuerkeiMehr-als-15-000-Beamte-des-Bildungsministeriums-suspendiert
In its transparency report released Monday, Google said governments around the world made 40,677 requests related to more than 81,000 accounts in the July-December period.
A judge on Tuesday suspended the WhatsApp smartphone messaging service across Brazil, where it is hugely popular, for failing to surrender user data in a police investigation, the court said.
Tunisia announced on Tuesday that a state of emergency in force since a deadly attack on the presidential guard last November will be extended by two months.
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Our aim is to demonstrate the capabilities of modern computer vision and graphics technology, and convey it in an approachable and fun way. We want to emphasize that computer-generated videos have been part in feature-film movies for over 30 years.
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the guys who made walking on water. explains how they acuatally did it and how it was all a hoax just to sell their shoe, but they did not intended to make that it would acually be a sport „Liquid Mountaineering“ is nothing more than a advertising gimmick
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Liquid Mountaineering is a new sport which is attempting to achieve what man has tried to do for centuries: walk on water.
The Woolshed Co. presents a two-year social experiment exploring the phenomenon of ‚viral‘ videos and shareable content.
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In fact, the craziness of this goes even further: In a 2015 letter to the United States Copyright Office, John Deere, the world’s largest tractor maker, said that the folks who buy tractors don’t own them, not in the way the general public believes “ownership” works. Instead, John Deere said that those who buy tractors are actually purchasing an “implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.”
Doch die Behörde bleibt hart. Kommt die Schülerin nicht zum Termin, wird sanktioniert. „Das kann doch nicht wahr sein, Eltern dürfen richtigerweise auch nicht ihre Unterhaltspflichtigen Zahlen einstellen, nur weil ihnen etwas nicht passt. Im Antwortschreiben des Jobcenter hieß es, dass die Schüler seit ihrem 15. Geburtstag „Kunden“ der Behörde seien und auch so behandelt würden.
(15.7.2016) Die Mitarbeiter haben zwei Jahre lang insgesamt acht manipulierte Videos bei YouTube eingespeist und damit die Nutzer zum Narren gehalten. Die Videos sind insgesamt 205 Millionen Mal aufgerufen und in 180 Ländern angeschaut worden.
Das Ziel sei gewesen, mit schnell konsumierbaren Videos ein weltweites Publikum zu erreichen, sagt Geschäftsführer Dave Christison im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE.
Veerender Jubbal, a Canadian national was portrayed as the terrorist behind the Nice attacks. But he has never even travelled to France ever
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Das Verwaltungsgericht Karlsruhe hat mit Urteil vom 17. 06. 2016 dem Inlandsgeheimdienst in allen Punkten völlig freie Hand gelassen und Csaszkóczys Klage abgewiesen. Für den ‚Verfassungsschutz‘ – so die Richter – „gelten andere Rechtsmaßsstäbe als für die Regierung“. Schon wer die Verfassungswirklichkeit in der BRD kritisiere, müsse damit rechnen, geheimdienstlich überwacht zu werden. Das gleiche gelte für Menschen, die bereit seien, „politisch mit Kommunisten zusammenzuarbeiten“.
Über der türkischen Hauptstadt steigt eine schwarze Rauchsäule auf. Wie Sputnik aus Sicherheitskreisen erfuhr, fing ein Fahrzeug Feuer.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim warned that further „criminal activity will be forcefully dealt with“, and announced that the United States has been given evidence of the involvement of exiled opposition leader Fethullah Gulen in the failed coup.
In an address on Tuesday before members of his party in parliament, Yildirim denounced the „despicable“ and „cowardly“ coup plotters, whom he said were being „directed by a cleric“ from abroad, referring to Gulen.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said on July 18 that Turkey may question its friendship with the U.S. amid calls for the extradition of U.S.-based scholar Fethullah Gülen after a failed coup attempt.
“Even questioning our friendship may be brought to the agenda here. Nonetheless, our Justice Ministry is conducting the necessary work,” Yıldırım told reporters while speaking at a press conference after a cabinet meeting in the capital Ankara.
Two Turkish pilots who played a role in the downing of a Russian jet in November are in custody over the July 15 failed coup in Turkey, an official said late on June 18.
Newly appointed Prime Minister Theresa May has vowed to press ahead with so-called Brexit but has previously indicated that Article 50, which starts a two-year countdown to leaving the bloc, should not be invoked before 2017.
Emerging from the talks, Kerry said he had an excellent discussion with May: „I am very grateful to her for her restatement of the commitment to the very strong transatlantic partnership,“ he said.
IDE (INTRACOM Defense Electronics) signed a €4.1m contract with Krauss Maffei Wegmann (KMW) for WiSPR intercommunication systems, in the frame of the PzH2000 retrofit programme of the German Army.
Bajwa said that Germany praised Pakistan Army’s role in war against terrorism and assured Pakistan of every sort of support against terrorism.
Bajwa also said that main purpose of this visit was to increase the mutual cooperation between both Armies. He told that German Army wants to learn from Pakistan Army’s experience and German Army Chief would visit Pakistan soon.
“Germany, a globally highly connected country… has a responsibility to actively help shape the world order,” the draft says.
No one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack early Tuesday in the city of Nampala.
(16.7.2016) The state of emergency was declared in Mali for the first time for ten days, following the terrorist attack on the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, on 20 November 2015, and then on 21 December for another ten days. On 31 December, it was extended until 31 March, and then on 4 April for ten days.
General Thomas D. Waldhauser assumed command of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) from General David M. Rodriguez during a change of command ceremony conducted on Patch Barracks at the U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart on Monday, July 18.
A new iron curtain is being drawn across Djibouti. Beijing is building its own military enclave, just a stone‘s throw from the US military base.