Als Kontrollorgan des Auslandsgeheimdienstes lieferte die Kanzleramts-Abteilung 6 dem Innenressort die brisanten BND-Einschätzungen über die engen Verflechtungen zwischen der Erdogan-Regierung und diversen Gruppen wie der Hamas zu.

(17.8.2016)

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Das kommt bei den Rechten ungefähr so gut an, wie man sich das denken würde:

Hier ist die Seite über Ken Jepsen. Der besuchte Compact und sprach bei Friedensdemos. Das ist, was sie gegen ihn vorzubringen haben. Klare Sache, damit hat man sich völlig logisch eine Seite als Neuer Rechter auf dem Internetpranger verdient!1!!

James asked Congress to lift restrictions on funding for the Air Force’s next-generation weather satellite program, known as the Weather Satellite Follow-on. Congress had fenced about $21 million from the program in 2015 and 2016 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act amid concerns the Air Force was not focusing on preventing two more immediate gaps in weather satellite data: cloud characterization data and in-theater weather imagery. Lawmakers also wanted a broader weather strategy from the Defense Department. That document is expected to go to Congress soon, sources said.

In the Aug. 3 announcement, the Air Force said it would be open to acquiring a new government-owned satellite, buying the weather data from a commercial company, or developing a solution that combines government-supplied missile warning data with conventional weather data.

“It is obvious that, behind these claims, there are some political circles in Germany whose double-standard manners in the fight against terror, including the bloody actions of the PKK [outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party] terror organization, which continues to target Turkey,” read the statement.

“As a country, which sincerely fights against all kinds of terror no matter what their roots are, Turkey expects from its other partners and allies too to act in the same way,” the ministry statement said.

(1.8.2016)

Under Australian law, anyone intercepted trying to reach the country by boat is sent for processing to camps on the tiny Pacific island of Nauru or to Manus Island off Papua New Guinea (PNG). They are never eligible to be resettled in Australia.

(7.6.2016) Labour‘s shadow home office minister Keir Starmer told MPs during day one of the report stage of the draft Investigatory Powers Bill that his party had undergone a „constructive engagement“ with the Conservative government, which led to a number of changes within the proposed legislation.

(17.6.2016) Wenn über Internetdienste kommuniziert wird, die ihren Sitz im Ausland haben, handelt es sich demnach per se um „externe Kommunikation“. Also um Kommunikation, für deren Überwachung kein konkreter richterlicher Beschluss notwendig ist. Es dürfe demnach sogar dann überwacht werden, wenn kein konkreter Verdacht vorliegt und ausschließlich Briten miteinander kommunizieren.

Even though he is not accused of supporting militant groups or violence, the British authorities believe it is only by cracking down on activists like Butt and denying a forum for their ideas to be widely heard that the threat posed by jihadis and groups such as Islamic State can be countered.

But critics, ranging from civil rights groups to leading academics and lawmakers, say what the government is trying to do amounts to a curb on free speech which could drive a wedge between the authorities and Britain‘s 2.8 million Muslims

„The Americans need to read UN Security Council Resolution 2231 more attentively,“ the source said. „The wording of the relevant paragraph concerning supplying weapons to Tehran has nothing to do with the situation with Russian aircraft in Iran.“

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Russia has warned the United States that it is using an Iranian airfield for bombing the Islamic State’s positions in Syria, Colonel Christopher Garver, spokesman for the US-led international coalition, told journalists at a press briefing via teleconference held at the Pentagon building on Tuesday.

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