Wer hat, dem wird gegeben: Dass deutsche Unternehmen vor allem mit wirtschaftsstarken Regionen kooperieren und damit das Wohlstandsgefälle in ihren Zielländern weiter vergrößern, ist dabei nicht nur ein selbstläufiger Prozess, sondern wird politisch gezielt gefördert. Ein Beispiel bietet die Arbeitsgemeinschaft „Vier Motoren für Europa“, die 1988 gegründet wurde und neben dem deutschen Bundesland Baden-Württemberg die Regionen Katalonien, Lombardei sowie Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Frankreich) umfasst.
Daily Archives: 4. Oktober 2017
Pakistan, Russia hold joint drills
The drills were held in Russia’s Karachay-Cherkessia Republic.
MDP says won‘t bring down govt
The leader of the MDP party, Roberto Speranza, said Wednesday the small leftwing splinter from the ruling centre-left Democratic Parrt (PD) would not bring the government down over the 2018 budget.
Hollywood Using Trump To Undermine The Internet In NAFTA Talks
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.
Die Ironie in dieser Meldung ist geradezu atemberaubend.
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.
Cryptowars: EU drängt auf Fähigkeiten zur Entschlüsselung
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 ministry says US is supporting Islamic State in Syria, threatens retaliation
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.
Spain sends in ARMY to Catalonia as it pushes region to brink over referendum
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.
A Nuclear Deal With North Korea May Be Tillerson’s Mission Impossible
Mr. Russel argued that the United States should continue to apply pressure through sanctions on North Korea until Mr. Kim concludes he has no choice but to negotiate.
“People are fond of saying that North Korea will never negotiate denuclearization,” he said. “But I think that there’s an important adverb missing, which is that North Korea will never negotiate denuclearization willingly.”
David Ignatius
Ignatius gilt in Sachen Geheimdienste und Naher Osten als einer der renommiertesten politischen Journalisten seines Landes. Seinen Romanen attestiert sogar der CIA überzeugenden Realismus. 2007 verfilmte Ridley Scott den Roman »Der Mann, der niemals lebte« (Body of lies) mit Leonardo DiCaprio und Russell Crowe in den Hauptrollen.
Our best hope against nuclear war
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.
Netanyahu meets Putin to share secret intel on Iran threat
(23.8.2017) The visit comes after a senior Israeli delegation reportedly shared the same evidence with the Americans last week.
Israel Said to Be Source of Secret Intelligence Trump Gave to Russians
(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.
PM Netanyahu to Insist in Putin Meeting Thursday: Golan Heights Off Limits in Syrian Talks
(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.
Israeli Agenda In Talks With Russia
(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.
Mossad chief and security delegation meet with Trump team
(17.12.2016) The security delegation was organized by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and was led by National Security Council head Yaakov Nagel.
Jacob 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.
The Traitor
(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“
North Korea appears to have a new Internet connection — thanks to the help of a state-owned Russian firm
(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.
Angered by ‘suicidal’ Abe, North Korea warns of ‘nuclear clouds’ over Japan
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.
Japan rules out intercepting North Korean missile tests
(3.10.2017) Some US analysts have suggested intercepting ballistic missile tests as a way of stepping up pressure on Pyongyang, but Itsunori Onodera said Japan had not shot at two recent missiles passing through its airspace because they were projected to land safely in the Pacific.
“Whether it is Japan or any other country, I think that shooting down a ballistic missile could be construed as a military action,” said Mr Onodera.
Why Did It Take Israel a Week to Condemn North Korea‘s Nuclear Test?
(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.
How the Mossad Killed a Deal With Kim Il-sung
(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:
The curious tale of Israel’s short-lived courtship of North Korea
(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.
Israel Has a Playbook for Dealing With North Korea
(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.
MI6 plotted to recruit nuclear spy in North Korea: Biggest intelligence leak since Snowden reveals secret plans – and how Netanyahu and Mossad were at loggerheads over Iran nuclear bomb
(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.
Im August 1910 annektierte Japan offiziell Korea. Es war der Anfang eines langen Leidenswegs
(23.5.2017) Die sechs Überlebenden erinnern an die 200.000 Frauen und Mädchen, die Tokyos Heeresministerium von 1938 an aus den Dörfern und Schulen in rund 2000 Militärbordelle der von Japan besetzten Gebiete Asiens verschleppen ließ, elf, zwölf Jahre die Jüngsten. Nicht wenige wurden zu Tode vergewaltigt, infiziert, exekutiert oder nahmen sich selbst das Leben. Nach der Kapitulation ließen die Japaner viele dieser Ärmsten wie zerstörtes Kriegsmaterial an der Front zurück.
Die Heimkehrerinnen fanden sich begraben im Schweigen ihrer verschämten Familien.
Dark nights in power-starved North Korea
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.
Annahme innerkoreanischer Erklärung vom 4. 10. jährt sich zum zehnten Mal
Die gemeinsame Erklärung vom 4. Oktober, die beim Treffen zwischen dem früheren Staatspräsidenten Roh Moo-hyun und dem damaligen nordkoreanischen Machthaber Kim Jong-il 2007 angenommen wurde, sieht unter anderem ein Ende des Waffenstillstandes und den Aufbau eines Friedenssystems sowie Familienzusammenführungen auf regelmäßiger Basis vor. Die Erklärung konnte jedoch durch den Regierungswechsel in Südkorea und die fortgesetzten Provokationen seit der Machtübernahme von Kim Jong-un in Nordkorea nicht richtig umgesetzt werden.
Known Terrorists Under Witness Protection Roaming The Country Pretty Much Unattended
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 parties want Catalan parliament to discuss independence on Monday – report
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.
Trump’s generals thwart him on the Iran deal
Now the White House faces its latest deadline — Oct. 15 — to certify to Congress that Iran is in compliance with the terms of the deal. Trump has grudgingly given that approval two times this year, but has loudly signaled that he won‘t keep doing so. Speculation over the deal‘s demise has given a wing to a flurry of op-eds from neoconservative wonks and Iran hawks in Washington, cheering on possible “decertification.”
But there‘s a crucial constituency that may not be on the same page as Trump: “his” generals.
Europe will do everything to preserve Iran nuclear deal: EU
“This is not a bilateral agreement, it’s a multilateral agreement. As Europeans, we will do everything to make sure it stays,” Helga Schmid, secretary general of the European Union’s foreign policy service, told an Iranian investment conference of the deal brokered by the bloc between Iran, the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China.