Topic: POLITIK - on July 5, 2016 at 5:35:00 PM CEST
Statement by FBI Director James B. Comey on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System
Good morning. I’m here to give you an update on the FBI’s investigation of Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal e-mail system during her time as Secretary of State. After a tremendous amount of work over the last year, the FBI is completing its investigation and referring the case to the Department of Justice for a prosecutive decision. What I would like to do today is tell you three things: what we did; what we found; and what we are recommending to the Department of Justice. This will be an unusual statement in at least a couple ways. First, I am going to include more detail about our process than I ordinarily would, because I think the American people deserve those details in a case of intense public interest. Second, I have not coordinated or reviewed this statement in any way with the Department of Justice or any other part of the government. They do not know what I am about to say.
"Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case."
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Topic: weiss nicht - on July 5, 2016 at 4:15:00 PM CEST
Kamikaze Taube
Ein Mann steht vor Gericht, weil er mutmasslich mit Gift beschmierte Tiere in die Luft schickte, um Wanderfalken zu töten. Der Fall gibt erstmals Einblick in eine dubiose Szene von Taubenzüchtern.
Das Video sorgte für Aufsehen: Ein Wanderfalken-Weibchen fliegt mit einer erbeuteten Taube in sein Brutnest auf den Hochkamin der Kehrichtverbrennungsanlage Josefstrasse in Zürich. Es beginnt die Taube zu fressen, wankt dann während Minuten auf der Taube sitzend und kippt schliesslich tot um. Nachdem sich im vergangenen Frühling zwei ähnliche Vorfälle ereignet hatten, publizierte der Schweizer Vogelschutz (SVS) das 2011 aufgenommene Video. Zudem setzte der SVS eine Belohnung von 10 000 Franken für Hinweise auf mögliche Täter aus.
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Topic: weiss nicht - on July 5, 2016 at 4:10:00 PM CEST
Journalistic Standards at the Guardian
Perhaps they will be able to induce individuals to give £10 a month, £120 will buy Polly Toynbee one lunch at the Ivy. But apart from the ethics of asking ordinary people to fund some of the most overpaid people in the country, there are questions about the claims which Viner makes. She talks of Guardian journalism as “well-sourced”, “calm”, “intelligent”, “in-depth”, “thoughtful” and “well-resourced.”
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Topic: SCIENCE - on July 5, 2016 at 4:06:00 PM CEST
Neutrinos hint at why antimatter didn’t blow up the universe
It could all have been so different. When matter first formed in the universe, our current theories suggest that it should have been accompanied by an equal amount of antimatter – a conclusion we know must be wrong, because we wouldn’t be here if it were true. Now the latest results from a pair of experiments designed to study the behaviour of neutrinos – particles that barely interact with the rest of the universe – could mean we’re starting to understand why. Neutrinos and their antimatter counterparts, antineutrinos, each come in three types, or flavours: electron, muon and tau. Several experiments have found that neutrinos can spontaneously switch between these flavours, a phenomenon called oscillating.
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Topic: Terror - on July 5, 2016 at 4:03:00 PM CEST
The Orlando Shootings: Police SWAT Team Involved in the Killings?
The official FBI police report acknowledges shootings at 2am, it does not confirm the occurrence of killings of hostages prior to 5am. The killings started when the Police SWAT Teams stormed the Building at 5.13am. The Orlando Police Department Timeline summarized in an FBI Tampa Press release not only suggests that no one was killed before 5.13am when the SWAT team broke into the building, it also confirms that the first deadly shots were fired at 5.14am and that the suspect was killed one minute later at 5.15am. This assessment was confirmed by Judge Napolitano in a Fox News report: “Here’s what is news in the summary – nobody died until 05:13 in the morning, when the SWAT team entered. Prior to that no one had been killed. The 53 that were injured, and the 49 that were murdered all met their fates at the time of, and during, the police entry into the building,”
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Topic: Space - on July 5, 2016 at 10:00:00 AM CEST
After 1.7 billion miles Juno nails its Jupiter orbit to within tens of miles
Traveling at a speed of 165,000 mph toward a swirling gas giant Monday night, the Juno spacecraft would have no second chances. Had its Leros 1b engine burned too long, Jupiter would have swallowed Juno into its gaseous maw. If the engine burned too short, the spacecraft would have zipped onward into space, lost into the inky blackness forever. But Juno needed no second chance late on the night of July 4th as its hardy little engine fired for a total 2,102 seconds, perfect to within one second, inserting the spacecraft neatly into orbit around Jupiter.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on July 5, 2016 at 9:58:00 AM CEST
Kontroll-Software für CERN kommt aus Österreich
Die futurezone war zu Gast im europäischen Kernforschungszentrum CERN. Dessen Kontrollräume sind mit Software der österreichischen Siemens-Tochter ETM ausgestattet.
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Topic: weiss nicht - on July 5, 2016 at 9:55:00 AM CEST
Secret bankers be warned: "Panama Papers" were the first shots of a "Helvetian War."
Here's a long one -- a major posting about the coming war that no one seems to have on their scopes or horizons. Although this scenario was loosely described in fiction, it may take the world's powers by surprise. And it will not need their permission. A few small nations could decide on this desperate course, tomorrow. Let's start with last month's headlines -- and hence "old news." The spill of confidential records from a Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca & Co., was called “the Wikileaks of the mega-rich.” Despite revealing only the tip of a very-dirty iceberg, the Panama Papers shine light upon a vast network of powerful people around the world who use shell corporations and secret, offshore accounts to dodge taxes, or evade sanctions, or to launder money. Mossack Fonseca is one of the leading creators of shell companies, according to the Center for Public Integrity. Released files include data on 214,488 "offshore entities" involving individuals in 200 countries and territories.
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Topic: EU - on July 5, 2016 at 9:54:00 AM CEST
EU-Parlament stellt Weichen für Websperren gegen Terror
Der Innenausschuss des EU-Parlaments drängt darauf, terroristische Webseiten zu löschen und notfalls auch zu sperren. Entwickler von Malware für Terrorakte sollen sich strafbar machen. Wenn Anschläge befürwortet werden, soll auch das strafbar sein. EU-Abgeordnete fordern, dass Provider deutlich schärfer gegen extremistische Propaganda im Internet vorgehen. Als "wirksamstes Mittel" gegen illegale terroristische Inhalte empfiehlt der federführende Innenausschuss, diese "an der Quelle" zu entfernen. Die Mitgliedsstaaten sollten daher "alles in ihrer Macht Stehende unternehmen", um darauf auch gemeinsam mit Drittländern hinzuarbeiten. Lässt sich der inkriminierte Content nicht löschen, sollen die EU-Nationen aber auch Maßnahmen treffen können, mit denen der Zugang dazu blockiert wird.
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Topic: WEB - on July 5, 2016 at 9:53:00 AM CEST
What media companies don’t want you to know about ad blockers
New York Times CEO Mark Thompson caused a minor stir a couple weeks ago when he gave a speech at an advertising conference declaring that “No one who refuses to contribute to the creation of high quality journalism has the right to consume it.” He went on to say that while the Times is “not there yet,” the company may soon prevent users with ad blockers from accessing its site. But newspaper executives like Thompson often focus exclusively on the drawbacks of ad blockers, leaving a big part of the story untold. Thompson did not say one word in his keynote address about the significant security benefits of ad blockers, which is ironic, because his paper was one of several news organizations that served its users.
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Topic: EU - on July 5, 2016 at 9:52:00 AM CEST
Last chance to have your say on new EU spam and cookie law
There are just 24 hours left to respond to a public consultation on the EU’s so-called Cookie Law. The European Commission plans an overhaul of the more correctly named ePrivacy Directive before the end of the year to bring it into line with the new General Data Protection Regulation. The use of cookies in the UK is governed by the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (PECR), based on the ePrivacy Directive, which require organisations to provide clear information about how cookies are used on their website and allow people to opt in or opt out from having non-essential cookies placed on their device.
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Topic: EU - on July 5, 2016 at 9:50:00 AM CEST
Europol’s online censorship unit is haphazard and unaccountable says NGO
Europol’s Internet Referral Unit (IRU) celebrated its first birthday at the weekend, but civil liberties organisations are worried that it goes too far in its efforts to keep the Web free from extremist propaganda. The IRU has been up and running since July 2015 as part of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (ECTC) in the Hague. The unit is charged with monitoring the Internet for extremist propaganda and referring “relevant online content towards concerned Internet service providers” in particular social media. Much was made of how the IRU could "contact social network service provider Facebook directly to ask it to delete a Web page run by ISIS or request details of other pages that might be run by the same user."
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