Mein Gott hat seinen Engel gesandt, der den Löwen den Rachen zugehalten hat, sodass sie mir kein Leid antun konnten; denn vor ihm bin ich unschuldig, und auch gegen dich, mein König, habe ich nichts Böses getan.
24Da wurde der König sehr froh und ließ Daniel aus der Grube herausziehen. Und sie zogen Daniel aus der Grube heraus, und man fand keine Verletzung an ihm; denn er hatte seinem Gott vertraut.
25Da ließ der König die Männer, die Daniel verklagt hatten, holen und zu den Löwen in die Grube werfen samt ihren Kindern und Frauen. Und ehe sie den Boden erreichten, ergriffen die Löwen sie und zermalmten alle ihre Knochen.
Saul sprach: So sagt zu David: Der König begehrt keine Morgengabe, nur hundert Vorhäute von den Philistern, daß man sich räche an des Königs Feinden. Denn Saul trachtete David zu fällen durch der Philister Hand. 26 Da sagten seine Knechte David an solche Worte, und deuchte David die Sache gut, daß er des Königs Eidam würde. Und die Zeit war noch nicht aus, 27 da machte sich David auf und zog mit seinen Männern und schlug unter den Philistern zweihundert Mann. Und David brachte ihre Vorhäute dem König in voller Zahl, daß er des Königs Eidam würde. Da gab ihm Saul seine Tochter Michal zum Weibe.
28 Und Saul sah und merkte, daß der HERR mit David war.
Fellow marchers, members of Jewish and other human rights groups and celebs rally around Linda Sarsour, former recipient of White House award.
Veröffentlicht am 21.01.2017
Women‘s March on Washington organizer Linda Sarsour: „My Palestinian grandmother who lives in occupied territory‘s wildest dream and I‘m so proud to be here. Justice for all.“
Der Begriff Scharia hat seinen Ursprung im Koran. Erwähnt wird er dort jedoch nur an einer einzigen Stelle: Sure 45, Vers 17, wo er ursprünglich den Pfad in der Wüste bezeichnet, der zur Wasserquelle führt…
I think the closest one that I got as a question was, she made a comment something like, „As long as you don‘t bring Sharia law here.“ I said, „Well, let‘s talk about that. Great question. I want that, you know. So do you know what Sharia law is?“ So I told her, it‘s literally a path to life-giving water. It‘s like the Ten Commandments for Muslims. It‘s nothing to be enforced upon anyone. It‘s a moral code that I follow for myself as an individual.
(23.10.2012) Shamiur Rahman, a 19-year-old American of Bangladeshi descent who has now denounced his work as an informant, said police told him to embrace a strategy called „create and capture.“ He said it involved creating a conversation about jihad or terrorism, then capturing the response to send to the NYPD. For his work, he earned as much as $1,000 a month and goodwill from the police after a string of minor marijuana arrests.
„We need you to pretend to be one of them,“ Rahman recalled the police telling him. „It‘s street theater.“
(23.2.2012) „It seems horrible to me that the NYPD is treating an entire religious community as potential terrorists,“ said civil rights lawyer Jethro Eisenstein, who reviewed some of the documents and is involved in a decades-old, class-action lawsuit against the police department for spying on protesters and political dissidents. The lawsuit is known as the Handschu case.
The documents provide a fuller picture of the NYPD‘s unapologetic approach to protecting the city from terrorism. Eisenstein said he believes that at least one document, the summary of statements about the Danish cartoons, showed that the NYPD is not following a court order that prohibits police from compiling records on people who are simply exercising their First Amendment rights.
„This is a flat-out violation,“ Eisenstein said. „This is a smoking gun.“
(6.9.2011) Nach den Terroranschlägen vom 11. September 2001 hat die New Yorker Polizei nach Recherchen der Nachrichtenagentur AP große Teile der muslimischen Gemeinde von New York mit geheimdienstlichen Methoden überwacht. Die als „Demografische Einheit“ bezeichnete Abteilung der Polizei soll von Informanten und über verdeckte Ermittler Informationen zu über 250 Moscheen und muslimischen Studentengruppen gesammelt haben.
(9.7.2014) Die amerikanischen Geheimdienste FBI und NSA werden beschuldigt, bislang unverdächtige amerikanische Bürger zu überwachen, nur weil sie Muslime sind. Ungeklärt ist, ob es einen berechtigten Anlass für dieses Vorgehen gibt.
(24.2.2012)
The National Security Agency and the FBI have reportedly been overzealous trying to prevent terrorist attacks to the point that anti-Islamic racism in those agencies led to the surveillance of prominent Muslim-Americans, revealing a culture of racial profiling and broad latitude for spying on U.S. citizens.
An NSA document leaked by former agency contractor Edward Snowden to reporter Glenn Greenwald shows 202 Americans targeted among the approximately 7,485 email addresses monitored between 2002 and 2008, Greenwald’s news service The Intercept reports.
Over at the White House, more experts and officials have joined the National Security Council staff led by retired Gen. Michael T. Flynn. Victoria Coates, the longtime national security adviser to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), has moved over to the White House to join the NSC’s “Strategic Initiatives Group.” That group also includes professor and former Breitbart editor Sebastian Gorka.
The two new hires include Julia Hahn, known for her anti-immigration stance and contempt for Paul Ryan, and Sebastian Gorka, Breitbart‘s national security editor, according to numerous reports on Tuesday. Hahn will act as an assistant to Bannon and Trump, while Gorka is expected to have a place on the National Security Council.
Furor has arisen over President-elect Donald Trump‘s charges that our intelligence agencies are politicized.
Spare us the outrage. For decades, directors of intelligence agencies have often quite inappropriately massaged their assessments to fit administration agendas.
Careerists at these agencies naturally want to continue working from one administration to the next in „the king is dead; long live the king!“ style.
(1.12.2011) Jetzt lesen wir mal auf deutsch:
„Schießerei, ein BW OPS Beamter mit rechtsextremen Agenten und reguläre Polizei-Streife vor Ort verwickelt“
Und jetzt nochmal von vorne.
(30.11.2011) Wörtlich heißt es in dem Bericht der Amerikaner: „SHOOTING INCIDENT INVOLVING BW OPS OFFICER WITH RIGHT WING OPERATIVES AND REGULAR POLICE PATROL ON THE SCENE“. („Schießerei, in die BW Ops Offizier mit Rechtsextremen und regulärer Polizeistreife vor Ort verwickelt waren.“)
In 2011, Germany uncovered a far-right terrorist group named National Socialist Underground, which had been linked to series of murders, including the murder of a police officer. A report by Stern Magazine stated that German BfV and DIA officers had witnessed the murder of a policewoman during their surveillance of the „Sauerland“ group—an Islamist organization that planned attacks on U.S. military installations in Germany—but that neither of the agencies reported it, thus enabling subsequent violent acts by the same criminal entities. The magazine cited an alleged DIA report that confirmed the agency‘s officers were at the site of the incident.
The authenticity of the alleged DIA observation protocol, on which the Stern Magazine based its report was swiftly denied by the BfV, while DIA refused to comment. An unnamed U.S. „insider expert“ for intelligence matters told Der Spiegel he deemed it unlikely that DIA could be involved in that type of operation at all; the „expert“, however, erroneously described DIA as an analytic organization, when in fact the agency has been involved in clandestine operations for decades.
(6.1.2017) One position that is a source of tension is undersecretary of defense for intelligence, a powerful post that oversees all Defense Department intelligence agencies, which include the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, President-elect Trump’s national security adviser-designate, was DIA director until he was sacked by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. following a dispute with then-Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael G. Vickers.
Veröffentlicht am 23.08.2015
A cynic might almost think the UK government doesn‘t really care what its Surveillance Camera Commissioner recommends.
Mr. Comey, a former senior Justice Department official under President George W. Bush, was appointed by President Obama in 2013.
The calls were picked up as part of routine electronic surveillance of Russian officials and agents in the United States, which is one of the FBI’s responsibilities, according to the U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss counterintelligence operations.
Das FBI hat Telefonate zwischen dem russischen Botschafter in Washington, Sergej Kisljak, und dem Berater des neuen US-Präsidenten Donald Trump für nationale Sicherheit, Michael Flynn, abgehört, wie der TV-Sender NBC unter Berufung auf Quellen aus den US-Geheimdiensten berichtet.
A electronic data privacy bill introduced in the New Mexico Senate would ban the use “stingrays” to track the location of phones and sweep up electronic communications without a warrant in most situations and restrict warrantless collection of cell phone data from third parties. Passage of the bill would not only protect privacy in New Mexico, but would also hinder at least two aspects of the federal surveillance state.
Kel McClanahan, the lawyer who represented MuckRock in our CIA lawsuit, outlines the three year fight to get the agency to release its declassified database – and all the excuses the agency used for why it couldn’t be done.
The CIA has millions of declassified records stashed away in Maryland — something it claimed was accessible to the public. Actual access, however, resembles something out of Terry Gilliam‘s „Brazil,“ rather than what any reasonable person would call „accessible.“
This so-called „publicly accessible“ database — known as CREST — has been the target of MuckRock contributor Mike Best, who kickstarted an effort to liberate records from the vault through the use of manual labor. The records can be accessed by computer, but only certain computers, and only if you know exactly where to find them.
Angefangen hat alles in den Regierungszeiten Ronald Reagans in den USA und Margret Thatchers in Grossbritannien mit der Einführung eines Denkverbots:
„There is no Alternative“,
war das Lieblings- und zugleich Totschlagargument der „eisernen Lady“. Das „TINA-Prinzip“, wie es alsbald genannt wurde, war Rechtfertigung und Begründung zugleich für die damaligen Grausamkeiten in der Arbeits- und Sozialpolitik. Es wurde aber auch gern zur Begründung kriegerischer Handlungen, zum Beispiel für den Ausbruch des Falklandkrieges genutzt. Später bemächtigte sich dann der deutsche Kanzler der sozialen Kaltherzigkeit und des Sozialabbaus, Gerhard Schröder, und seine Nachfolgerin Angela Merkel dieser Argumentationslinie.