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07.10.2025 - 00:30 [ Catholic News Agency ]

Pope Leo XIV says Hegseth’s talk of war is ‘worrying’

(September 30, 2025)

Asked about the secretary’s meeting with the generals and comments about readiness for war, Pope Leo said: “This way of speaking is worrying, because it shows each time an increase in tensions — this vocabulary, even shifting from ‘Minister of Defense’ to ‘Minister of War.’ Let’s hope it is only a way of speaking. Certainly, they have a style of government where they want to show strength, to put pressure, and we hope it works, but that there will not be war. One must always work for peace.”

07.10.2025 - 00:23 [ New Yorker ]

Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the “War from Within”

(October 5, 2025)

Peace abroad and war at home? It’s an unusual note to strike in an electoral democracy.

17.06.2025 - 04:01 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Neues Berliner Verfassungsschutzgesetz: Mehr Überwachung, weniger Kontrolle, erschwerte Auskünfte

Beim aktuellen Gesetzentwurf geht es unter anderem um die Ausweitung der Wohnraumüberwachung. So sollen Wohnräume in Zukunft einfacher überwacht werden dürfen. So ist die Passage des alten Gesetzes, dass diese Form der Überwachung nur zur „Spionageabwehr und des gewaltbereiten politischen Extremismus“ erfolgen darf, gestrichen worden, genauso wie der Zusatz, dass diese Maßnahme nur „im Einzelfall“ erfolgen darf.

Zudem will Schwarz-Rot nun dem Verfassungsschutz die weitreichendste Form des Staatstrojaners, die „Online-Durchsuchung“, sogar ohne explizite Zustimmung der G10-Kommission ermöglichen.

11.06.2025 - 22:49 [ Reuters ]

Troops in LA can detain individuals, military official says, as protests spread across US

In addition to protecting government buildings and personnel, the Pentagon has said the troops will safeguard Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers during raids.
ICE posted photos online on Tuesday of National Guard troops standing guard with weapons in hand as ICE officers handcuffed apparent migrants against the side of a car in Los Angeles.
An 1878 law, the Posse Comitatus Act, generally forbids the U.S. military, including the National Guard, from taking part in civilian law enforcement.

11.06.2025 - 22:07 [ +972 Magazine ]

Israel is falsely designating Gaza areas as empty in order to bomb them

In recent weeks, the Israeli army has been launching airstrikes on residential neighborhoods in Gaza that they treat as evacuated, despite knowing that many of the houses bombed were filled with civilians who could not or did not want to leave, according to two intelligence sources who spoke to +972 Magazine and Local Call.

The army’s designation of a particular neighborhood as “green,” or cleared of residents, is based on a crude algorithmic analysis of phone usage patterns over a wide area — not on a detailed, house-by-house assessment before bombing, as previously revealed by +972 Magazine, Local Call and The New York Times.

01.12.2024 - 05:22 [ Rudaw.net ]

Aleppo’s Kurdish neighborhood braces for clashes with rebels

(November 30, 2024)

The Kurdish-majority neighborhood of Sheikh Maqsood in Syria’s Aleppo is bracing for a possible attack by rebels who have gained significant territory in a surprise offensive against the Syrian army.

The People’s Protection Units (YPG), which controls the neighborhood, published a video early Saturday morning that it said shows “civilians… preparing to defend their neighborhood in the event of an attack.”

23.10.2024 - 11:35 [ Middle East Monitor ]

Mercenary firm to force Palestinians into biometric screenings in Gaza control zones, in potential US, Israel plan

(October 22, 2024)

Israel and the United States are reportedly considering a joint plan to deploy a private American-Israeli security firm to administer Gaza by subjecting Palestinians to biometric screenings with the threat of withholding humanitarian aid.

According to media reports, based on an initial report by Israeli journalist, Shlomi Eldar, on Monday this week, the US and Israel are planning to run a pilot programme – starting with the Al-Atatra village in north-western Gaza – involving 1,000 private mercenaries who would create “gated communities” within the Strip where they will control the inhabitants and their movements through the use of biometrics.

23.10.2024 - 11:34 [ JNS.org ]

Report: Israel’s postwar Gaza strategy to create ‘bubbles’ of control

(July 2, 2024)

The experimental model is slated to be implemented soon in the northern Gaza neighborhoods of Al-Atatra, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia, according to the Financial Times, citing six sources familiar with the plan.

29.03.2024 - 21:00 [ micchiato / Mastodon.social ]

“#Israel’s apartheid army detained, interrogated and beat Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha, a graduate of Syracuse University, with the assistance of Corsight’s facial recognition technology ….

Giora Eiland, a retired Israeli major general, serves on the board of directors of Corsight …. He wrote: ‘The entire population of #Gaza will either move to #Egypt or move to the Gulf.’

The retired general also recommended targeting civilian vehicles in Gaza.” #writingcommunity

29.03.2024 - 20:29 [ New York Times ]

Israel Deploys Expansive Facial Recognition Program in Gaza

(March 27, 2024)

The expansive and experimental effort is being used to conduct mass surveillance there, collecting and cataloging the faces of Palestinians without their knowledge or consent, according to Israeli intelligence officers, military officials and soldiers.

The technology was initially used in Gaza to search for Israelis who were taken hostage by Hamas during the Oct. 7 cross-border raids, the intelligence officials said.

21.01.2024 - 06:34 [ Mohamed Salah / Twitter ]

The Israeli occupation forces blow up an entire residential block in Abasan area, east of Khan Younis.

18.01.2024 - 03:45 [ MilitaryTimes.com ]

The fight in Gaza will be hell, military experts in urban combat say

(20.10.2023)

Yahalom Unit: a specialized Israeli Defense Forces combat engineering corps commando unit trained to find, clear and destroy tunnels. The unit is one of the largest in the world focused on underground warfare.

The Yahalom carries a toolkit of specialized gear for such operations, including ground and aerial sensors, ground-penetrating radar, drilling equipment, radios and navigation equipment designed for use underground, thermal equipment and a suite of flying and ground robots for mapping tunnels. Once discovered, the unit has ground-penetrating munitions such as the GBU-28, which can penetrate 100 feet of soil or 20 feet of concrete.

18.01.2024 - 00:44 [ Radio Utopie ]

DER MOBILE TELEVISOR (III): “Boden durchdringender Radar” aus Luftraum und Orbit

(17. Februar 2013)

Die optische Auflösung von Bildern mobiler “Televisoren” (durch Materialien sehender visueller Erfassungsapparaturen) hängt grundsätzlich von der Wellenlänge / Frequenz ab und nimmt mit zunehmender Wellenlänge (d.h.: abnehmender Frequenz) ab.

Für potentiell flächendeckende Durchleuchtung von Metropolen mit ihren tausenden Gebäuden und Kellerräumen bietet sich – wenn auch nicht mit gleicher optischer Auflösung wie bei unmittelbarer Nähe des Zielobjekts und Verwendung von hochfrequenter elektromagnetischer Strahlung – der Einsatz von etwas niedriger frequenten Millimeterwellen aus der Luft an, etwa durch Drohnen. Bereits im September 2008 hatte das U.S.-Militär, nach jahrelanger und in Zeiten des “Antiterrorismus” massiv finanziell geförderter Forschung, an die Presse dringen lassen, man setze in Kriegsgebieten Drohnen mit Überwachungstechnologien ein, die “das Verfolgen von menschlichen Zielen erlauben, selbst wenn sie in Gebäuden oder auf andere Art versteckt sind”.

18.01.2024 - 00:13 [ 972mag.com ]

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

(November 30, 2023)

“Nothing happens by accident,” said another source. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”

According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”

26.12.2023 - 21:29 [ War Mapper / Twitter ]

#Gaza map update:

The #IDF made large advances in northern Gaza over the past week.

The IDF initiated an operation into #Bureij expected to take 2-3 weeks. Last week they issued an evacuation warning for this area.

#Israel has also made some advances in the Khan Yunis area.

25.12.2023 - 21:26 [ S.L. Kanthan / Twitter ]

The stalemate in Ukraine is a win for Russia, since the latter have captured and maintained huge swaths of land. But Israel having a stalemate in Gaza for the last two weeks is a tremendous embarrassment.

Hamas is “winning” against all odds — i.e., stopping IDF, causing significant casualties in Israeli troops, and preventing Israel from moving forward.

(Gaza map Dec 14 thru Dec 23 )

23.12.2023 - 20:39 [ War Mapper / Twitter ]

#Gaza map update:

The #IDF have continued to make gradual advances over the past week in both the North and around Khan Yunis.

#Israel has issued an evacuation warning for central Gaza. Just south of Wadi Gaza, the initial separation line used for the operation in the north.

High resolution and zoomable version available on Soar: soar.earth/maps/16857

20.12.2023 - 20:42 [ War Mapper / Twitter ]

#Gaza map update:

(December 11, 2023)

20.12.2023 - 20:39 [ ehalal.io ]

Stalemate in Gaza: Israeli Forces Remain Static Amidst Heavy Officer Casualties

Last Updated on December 16, 2023

In a surprising turn of events, the Israeli army finds itself in a week-long deadlock in Gaza, with no discernible advancement on the ground. Official reports from the Israeli military reveal a staggering toll among its officers, with casualties reaching alarming proportions.

Shockingly, a substantial 27% of Israeli officers, precisely 108 in number, have been eliminated in the ongoing conflict. The casualties include 5 colonels, 8 lieutenant colonels, 43 majors, 41 captains, and 11 lieutenants, notably many from elite units. What adds a surreal twist to the situation is the age of these officers, most of whom are just over 20 years old.

10.12.2023 - 02:10 [ 972mag.com ]

‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza

(November 30, 2023)

“Nothing happens by accident,” said another source. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”

According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”

10.12.2023 - 02:02 [ Arnaud Bertrand / Twitter ]

WOW, this might be THE most important piece of journalism on the war on Gaza since it began, by Israeli newspaper @972mag Essentially they confirm, with unimpeachable sourcing, that the killing of civilians was all calculated and intentional.

(30.11.2023)

Their investigation is „based on conversations with seven current and former members of Israel’s intelligence community — including military intelligence and air force personnel who were involved in Israeli operations in the besieged Strip — in addition to Palestinian testimonies, data, and documentation from the Gaza Strip, and official statements by the IDF Spokesperson and other Israeli state institutions.“

24.10.2023 - 03:07 [ New York Times ]

U.S. Raises Concerns About Israel’s Plan of Action in Gaza, Officials Say

Biden administration officials insisted that the United States had not told Israel what to do and still supported the ground invasion. But the Pentagon has sent a three-star Marine, Lt. Gen. James Glynn, along with other officers to help the Israelis with the challenges of fighting an urban war.

A Pentagon official said on Monday that the deployment of General Glynn, reported earlier by Axios, did not mean the Pentagon was making decisions for Israel. General Glynn, the official said, would not be on the ground in Israel if an incursion into Gaza begins.

08.07.2023 - 19:31 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

J’accuse – Ihr seid mitschuldig!

Sachkundige (wie Anshel Pfeffer von der Zeitung Haaretz) nennen die „Operation Haus und Garten“ – so der zynische Name für diesen Angriff – eine „Textbuch-Demonstration“ für „urban warfare“ oder Stadtkrieg. Israel übt also, wie immer wieder in Gaza, an den Menschen in Palästina, um die Überlegenheit seiner Waffen und seiner Militärstrategie und -taktik vor der Welt zu demonstrieren.

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Amira Hass (ebenfalls Haaretz) spricht von einem regelrechten Science-Fiction-Angriff. Das HQ, das die Armee ganz in der Nähe von Jenin errichtet hatte, war in direkter und ununterbrochener Verbindung mit allen am Angriff beteiligten Gruppen und konnte in Echtzeit verfolgen, was vor Ort passierte.

10.04.2023 - 09:54 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Berlin: Große Koalition will Staatstrojaner schon vor Straftaten

In Berlin wollen CDU und SPD der Polizei den Einsatz von Staatstrojanern erlauben, dabei darf sie das längst. Auf Nachfrage erläutert der Innensenat: Die Polizei darf zwar heute schon hacken, um Straftaten aufzuklären. Sie soll aber auch hacken dürfen, um zukünftige Straftaten zu verhindern.

04.04.2023 - 21:06 [ Middle East Eye ]

Abu Dhabi announces launch of Israeli-installed mass surveillance system

(15 July 2016)

The Internet of Things applies unique identifiers to objects, or in the case of Abu Dhabi, people to be followed, and provides large amounts of data on all aspects of an individual’s movements and activities based on the surveillance equipment used. Tools for the collection of data include all manner of devices, from cameras on the street to smart devices connected to the internet.

“Every person is monitored from the moment they leave their doorstep to the moment they return to it. Their work, social and behavioural patterns are recorded, analysed and archived,” a source close to the project told MEE at the time.

04.04.2023 - 20:37 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Analyse: Geheimdienstlicher Komplex will das stadtweite “Überwachungs”-System in Berlin wieder aktivieren lassen

(30.12.2016)

Bürgermeister Michael Müller und die “S.P.D.” sind durch das Attentat am Breitscheidplatz bereits erniedrigt worden. Noch fehlt dem Apparat die Unterwerfung vom Rest der Landesregierung, seitens “die Linke” und Bündnis 90/Die Grünen”.

Was würde passieren, wenn bekannt würde, dass Berlin, die einflussreichste und mächtigste Stadt auf dem Kontinent Europa und die Hauptstadt der Berliner Republik, durch ein stadtweites Spionagesystem “überwacht” wird, durch das jede Person beobachtet werden kann “von dem Moment an dem sie die Türschwelle verlässt, bis zu dem Moment an dem sie zurückkehrt” und dass Arbeit und soziales Verhaltensmuster der Stadtbewohner und -besucher “aufzeichnet, analysiert und archiviert“? Und nicht nur Geheimdienste aus N.A.T.O.-Staaten darauf in Echtzeit zugreifen können?

Nichts. Nichts würde passieren. Die strategische Mehrheit der Bevölkerung würde sich ducken, bücken, beugen, wie sie es in der deutschen Geschichte immer getan hat.

04.04.2023 - 20:24 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Große Koalition in Berlin: Ein Desaster für die Bürgerrechte

Konkret will sie unter anderem eine Rechtsgrundlage schaffen für den Einsatz von Staatstrojanern durch die Polizei – wie üblich mit Verweis auf die „Bekämpfung terroristischer Straftaten und schwerster Straftaten“. Tatsächlich setzt die Polizei staatliches Hacking in der Praxis vor allem wegen Eigentums- und Drogendelikten ein.

Natürlich gehört auch mehr Videoüberwachung „an kriminalitätsbelasteten Orten“ zum Programm der Koalitionär:innen, um damit „die Bürgerinnen und Bürger besser zu schützen“. Sie hatte die CDU schon zu Zeiten der bislang letzten Berliner GroKo zwischen 2011 und 2016 auf dem Wunschzettel. Dass Videoüberwachung laut wissenschaftlicher Studien damals wie heute kaum zur Prävention beiträgt, interessiert offenbar wenig.

24.01.2023 - 14:56 [ New York Post ]

DC should send Ukraine M1 Abrams tanks and lead by example

(January 19, 2023)

A victory for Vladimir Putin in Ukraine would be a disastrous strategic blow to US interests in the region. That outweighs any concern about providing tanks, which (unlike missile systems) are far harder to use against targets within Russian territory. And the M1 Abrams is a battle-tested tool with diverse uses — especially in urban warfare, a key Ukrainian theater. 

24.09.2022 - 21:58 [ Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon / Nitter ]

Wow: Dank unermüdlicher Kampagnen gegen #biometrischeMassenüberwachung will nun die Mehrheit im EU-Parlament ein Verbot im #AIAct verankern. Wir lassen nicht locker, bis Gesichtserkennung im öffentlichen Raum endgültig verboten ist

24.09.2022 - 21:42 [ BiometricUpdate.com ]

EU parliament majority now in favor of banning AI surveillance in public

(23.09.2022)

According to the document, some EU countries are pushing to add more exemptions for law enforcement.

These include the police being able to use real-time facial recognition (RTFR) to prevent any “substantial threat” to critical infrastructure. The exceptions join the list, which already includes searching for kidnapping victims and suspects of crime.

German liberal Svenja Hahn told Politico that negotiations are still ongoing, but the EU parliament will formally try to secure its position on the matter by the end of the year.

24.09.2022 - 21:09 [ AlgorithmWatch.org ]

A guide to the AI Act, the EU’s upcoming AI rulebook you should watch out for

(28.08.2022)

The unfolding of this is being attentively watched by other global players as the law will also have an effect outside the EU.

Currently, the EU Parliament and EU Council are each negotiating the draft written by the EU Commission within their own institutions. After this, the three bodies will go into trilogue negotiations.

Here is a guide for you to understand this new regulation and the political processes around it.

10.09.2022 - 11:55 [ Patrick Breyer ]

Smart Meter: Widersprechen Sie dem Spionagezähler-Zwangseinbau!

„Trotz jahrelanger Warnungen soll mit den sogenannten ‚intelligenten Stromzählern‘ ein Datenspion in jedes Haus und in jede Wohnung eingebaut werden können. Mithilfe der geplanten Verbrauchsaufzeichnung im 15-Minuten-Takt kann die Anwesenheit und das Verhalten in der eigenen Privatwohnung in bisher ungekanntem Maße nachvollzogen und ausgewertet werden. Vermieter, Ehepartner, Polizei, Geheimdienste oder Einbrecher könnten damit das Privatleben ausspionieren.

Ein erkennbarer Nutzen für die Verbraucher ist demgegenüber nicht vorhanden, Einsparversprechen sind nicht nachgewiesen. Die bis zu 10mal höheren Preise im Vergleich zu den bisherigen Zählern werden auf jeden Fall durch die Verbraucher getragen werden, entweder direkt über die Stromrechnung oder indirekt durch Umlage in der Miete.“

10.09.2022 - 11:52 [ Verbraucherzentrale.de ]

Smart Meter: Was Sie über die neuen Stromzähler wissen müssen

(24. März 2022)

Der digitale Stromzähler ersetzt den alten analogen Stromzähler (Ferraris-Zähler). Er wird auch als moderne Messeinrichtung bezeichnet und kann mit einem Kommunikationsmodul verbunden werden. Erst durch dieses Kommunikationsmodul – auch Smart-Meter-Gateway genannt – wird eine moderne Messeinrichtung zu einem intelligenten Messsystem. Dieses ermöglicht die Datenübertragung in beide Richtungen. Es kann also sowohl Signale senden als auch empfangen. Auf diese Weise könnten in Zukunft zum Beispiel auf Wunsch elektrische Geräte in einem Smart Home automatisch an- oder ausgeschaltet werden.