The drills were held in Russia’s Karachay-Cherkessia Republic.

As you may be aware, the US, Canada and Mexico are „renegotiating NAFTA“ for reasons that don‘t entirely make sense, but we‘ll leave that aside. Either way, opening up that process has created an opportunity for Hollywood to attack the internet, and they‘ve rushed right in.

Es geht um eine Frau, die an ihrem Autos Kameras angebracht hatte, die vorne und hinten die Kennzeichen der Autos vor und hinter ihr filmten.

In manchen Fällen gibt es auch Hinweise auf die Zusammensetzung eines Passwortes, darunter Fragmente, Tastaturlayout oder die Passwortlänge. Besonderes Augenmerk soll auf den Mustern liegen, die Verdächtige für andere Passwörter verwenden. Sind diese bekannt, sollen sich die Behörden der Mitgliedstaaten mit den benötigten gegenseitigen Informationen unterstützen und hierzu die Kommunikationskanäle von Europol und Interpol nutzen.

Russian defense spokesman Major-General Igor Konashenkov, said in a statement that Islamic State attackers had the precise coordinates of the Syrian government forces, which could only have been obtained through aerial reconnaissance.

Troops from the Logistic Support Group 41 (AALOG 41) who are based in Aragon were told of their move at about 7pm last night.(…)
Group 41 provides support services and maintenance as well as workshop units and have previously been deployed in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan.

Well, there’s a remedy for that in our Constitution. The 25th Amendment provides that the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet officers can inform Congress that the president is unable “to discharge the powers and duties” of his office. The vice president would take over, unless more than a third of the House and Senate backed the president.

But mind you, this is all hypothetical.

(23.8.2017) The visit comes after a senior Israeli delegation reportedly shared the same evidence with the Americans last week.

(16.5.2017) Mr. Trump’s boasting about some of Israel’s most sensitive information to the Russians could damage the relationship between the two countries and raises the possibility that the information could be passed to Iran, Russia’s close ally and Israel’s main threat in the region.

Israeli officials would not confirm that they were the source of the information that Mr. Trump shared, which was about an Islamic State plot.

(9.3.2017) Netanyahu is accompanied by Minister Zeev Elkin, Acting National Security Advisor and Head of the National Security Council Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Jacob Nagel, the head of the PM’s staff Yoav Horowitz, GOC Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Herzl Halevy, and the PM’s Military Secretary, Brig.-Gen. Eliezer Toledano.

(9.3.2017) On Thursday, the Israeli delegation led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived Moscow.

The Israeli delegation includes Head of the National Security Council, Major General Yaakov Nagel, Chief of the Military Intelligence, Herzl Levi, Brigadier General Eliezer Toledano, the Military Secretary to the Prime Minister.

(17.12.2016) The security delegation was organized by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was led by National Security Council head Yaakov Nagel.

Nagel served as the Head of the National Security Council (NSC) and as the PM National Security Advisor (Acting) from Jan 2016 until May 2017. Before he was the Head of the startegic and defense Policy Directorate at the NSC (since May 2011).

Professor Nagel served in various positions at the MOD DDR&D (Ministry of Defense – Directorate of Defense Research & Development). He was the Scientific Deputy from Aug. 2001 until April 2011, The Acting Head of the military R&D from Jan. 2002 until Feb. 2004, The Head of Planning and Budgeting Division from 1998 to 2001, and the head of the Sigint Branch from 1996 to 1998.

Nagel served as a technical expert at the Israel Sigint National Unit (ISNU) from May 1980 until April 1996.

(18.Januar 1999) A number of officials strongly suspect that the Israelis repackaged much of Pollard’s material and provided it to the Soviet Union in exchange for continued Soviet permission for Jews to emigrate to Israel. Other officials go further, and say there was reason to believe that secret information was exchanged for Jews working in highly sensitive positions in the Soviet Union. A significant percentage of Pollard’s documents, including some that described the techniques the American Navy used to track Soviet submarines around the world, was of practical importance only to the Soviet Union…Tells about Pollard‘s sale of a highly-classified ten-volume signal intelligence „bible“

(2.10.2017) TransTeleCom is part of Russian Railways, a huge state-owned infrastructure and transport company formerly headed by Vladimir Yakunin, a U.S.-censured former KGB agent considered a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Although Yakunin was reportedly ousted in 2015, the organization still has deep ties to the president, experts say.

A commentary released by the North’s Korean Central News Agency on Monday framed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s recent call for pressure, not dialogue, to make Pyongyang change its behaviour as a ploy to attain his political aims.
“Japan’s such rackets inciting the tension of the Korean peninsula is a suicidal deed that will bring nuclear clouds to the Japanese archipelago,” it said.

(3.3.2016) The day before the test, NSC head Yossi Cohen left to take over at the Mossad; Netanyahu named Jacob Nagel as his interim replacement. Nagel, an expert in nuclear arms control, received the draft and held a meeting on it.

Israeli officials said some NSC members supported immediate publication of the condemnation, but Nagel and other officials opposed the idea. The opponents argued that Israel did not have to push itself into every world event, the officials said.

Another argument was that publishing the condemnation might draw attention to Israel’s nuclear program. A further argument, a bit unusual, was that the Japanese and South Koreans had not been condemning terror attacks against Israel, so there was no need to respond to their request.

(27.6.2006) But the Foreign Ministry documents prove that Halevy and the Mossad were acting on outside interests. They worked hand in glove with the Central Intelligence Agency to torpedo the move, and all this for reasons of ego – the Foreign Ministry had dared to enter „their“ province, secret contacts with countries with which Israel did not have diplomatic relations.

The Mossad convinced prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and deputy foreign minister Yossi Beilin to stop the contacts with North Korea on the grounds that the American government was opposed to them. But fate had the last laugh: At that same time the American administration was in contact with the North, and in October 1994, it reached an agreement:

(10.8.2017) The spy agency’s involvement, Setton told The Times of Israel this week, meant that the Foreign Ministry was out of the race. With the Mossad involved, nothing tangible would come of the diplomats’ project to bring Jerusalem and Pyongyang closer together.

And so it proved. Israel’s little-known attempt to reach out to North Korea was cut short by then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in early 1993, presumably due to US pressure.

(7.9.2017) Similarly, in 2007, Israel confirmed what it had suspected for five years: Syria, with North Korean help, was trying to build a nuclear reactor. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, a Begin disciple, sent Mossad chief Meir Dagan to Washington, to ask for American intervention. The CIA chief, Michael Hayden, agreed with Israel’s contention that Damascus (with Iranian financing) was constructing the reactor.

(23.2.2015) They reveal the South Africans’ secret correspondence with US intelligence agency the CIA, Britain’s MI6, Israel’s Mossad, Russia’s FSB and Iran’s operatives.
In one document, a cable marked ‘Secret UK/SA eyes only’ shows that MI6, formally referred to as the Secret Intelligence Service, requested assistance from South Africa’s intelligence chiefs to carry out ‘a joint operation’.
The aim was to recruit a spy inside the opaque North Korean decision-making system.

It was not always thus. Under Japanese colonial rule northern Korea was developed as the industrial hub, with the southern part regarded as a agrarian backwater, and when the North designed its national emblem in the 1940s it gave pride of place to the Suphung hydroelectric dam on the Yalu river.

“Back then, they had the best generation capacities in east Asia, probably better than in Japan, definitely better than anywhere else,” said Andrei Lankov of Korea Risk Group.

The FBI loves its counterterrorism work. Loves it so much, it‘s pretty much abandoned all pretense of being a law enforcement agency. It acts as though it‘s somewhere between the NSA and the ATF: interested mostly in picking through surveillance dragnets and running sting operations that turn people who have trouble with basic skills like holding down jobs into national security threats.

But it can‘t score anti-terrorism goals on unguarded nets without a crew of informants. It works with immigration authorities to coerce visiting foreigners into providing the agency with intel. It goes further than that, though. It also operates a witness protection program for informants/witnesses actually involved in actual terrorist activity.

Pro-independence Catalan parties Junts Pel Si and CUP have asked parliament to meet to discuss and possibly declare the region’s independence from Spain on Monday, Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia reported on Wednesday.

Catalonia President Carles Puigdemont tells the BBC that independence from Spain will be declared in a matter of days.

Der Chef der katalonischen Regionalregierung, Carles Puidgemont (karles pudsch-themon, dsch und th stimmhaft; so ungefähr – viel Glück!) möchte Ende dieser oder Anfang der nächsten Woche die Unabhängigkeit Kataloniens von Spanien erklären. Dies sagte Puidgemont in einem Interview mit der BBC.

Der spanische Monarch sagte, das Königshaus bleibe der Einheit des Landes verpflichtet. Menschen in Barcelona fühlen sich nach seiner Rede wieder mal ausgegrenzt.

Das hat die Wogen zwischen Madrid und Barcelona wohl kaum geglättet?

Nein. In Barcelona gingen kurz nach der Rede überall Menschen an die Fenster, auf die Balkone, trommelten auf Töpfe, um ihren Ärger kundzutun. Es gab auch politische Reaktionen: Barcelonas Bürgermeisterin bedauerte, dass der König mit keinem Wort die 800 Verletzten bei den Polizeieinsätzen am Sonntag erwähnte.

Er wolle allen Spaniern „eine Botschaft der Ruhe und der Hoffnung“ übermitteln, erklärte Felipe. Ohne demokratischen Respekt gebe es kein friedliches Zusammenleben. Es liege in der „Verantwortung des Staates, die verfassungsmäßige Ordnung sicherzustellen“.

After a short exchange of fire, the smugglers abandoned the drugs at the clashes scene and then fled to Afghanistan, Tajik Border Service Spokesperson Muhammad Ulughojaev told Avesta.
76 kg of cannabis, 29 kg of hashish, 2 kg of opium were found at the scene of the clashes.

Just as important as actual support is renewed attention and excitement, which can be seen in Google search data where the search term “Basque Independence” has had its search volume increase by at least 100%.
Although the road to independence for Basque Country is much farther than that of Catalonia, there’s no doubt that efforts for independence will be renewed should Catalonia achieve its independence from Spain.

Napoleons Frankreich (1799–1814/15) war ein Polizeistaat mit Joseph Fouche an der Spitze der Geheimpolizei. Fouche handelte auf Napoleons Geheiß. Während Napoleons Regierungszeit setzte Fouche Theaterstücke ab und verbot Zeitungen. Er unterhielt ein dichtes Netz von Spitzeln in Theatern, Salons, Restaurants und Bordellen. Die Presse wurde kontrolliert. So gab es 1799 beispielsweise ca. 60 Zeitungen in Paris. 1814 waren nur noch 4 davon übrig. Begründet wurden die Aktionen der Geheimpolizei mit der Absicht, Anschläge und Attentate auf Napoleons Person verhindern zu wollen.

The National Assembly passed the counterterrorism bill Tuesday by 415-127, with 19 lawmakers not taking part in the ballot. The law will now be heading to the Senate in the next few days or weeks and then will return to the lower house for a final vote.

The drill takes place at a time that a deadly campaign led by the regime in Riyadh keeps claiming more lives in the impoverished Yemen.

The draft report has to be approved by U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and is subject to change. It is due to be submitted to the U.N. Security Council this month, and the 15-member body is to discuss the report on Oct. 31.
The Saudi U.N. ambassador, Abdallah Al-Mouallimi, declined to comment until the report is officially issued. In August, the Saudi U.N. mission said there was “no justification whatsoever” for including the coalition on the blacklist.

“The siege will not last long,” said Brawner. “But our troops are trying their best to finish the siege earlier than that,” he said.

Yahoo has tripled down on what was already the largest data breach in history, saying it affected all 3 billion accounts on its service, not the 1 billion it revealed late last year.(…)
The stolen data could include names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, passwords that have been scrambled, or “hashed,” and encrypted or unencrypted security questions or answers, the company said.