Topic: AUSTRIA - on December 14, 2011 at 4:02:00 PM CET
Düringer: "Ich bin ein Systemtrottel"
In der letzten Sendung von „Dorfers Donnerstalk“ hat Roland Düringer mit seiner Wutrede für heftige Diskussionen gesorgt. Im wien.ORF.at-Interview sprach er über die Hintergründe und stellte klar: „Ich bin ein Systemtrottel“.
„Wir sind wütend“, schrie Roland Düringer vergangene Woche in die Kamera der ORF-Sendung „Dorfers Donnerstalk“. Der Kabarettist schimpfte in seiner „Wutrede“ auf Politiker, Banken, Medien, das Ausbildung- und Gesundheitssystem. Dabei sprach er scheinbar vielen Menschen aus der Seele. Ein Video seiner Rede verbreitete sich im Internet in Windeseile auf sämtlichen Social Media Plattformen und löste heftige Diskussionen aus. Auf YouTube ist Düringers Wutrede einige Male vertreten und verzeichnete bis zu 50.000 Klicks.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 14, 2011 at 11:26:00 AM CET
NPD und braune Terrorzelle
Die NPD ist bemüht, sich von den Verbrechen der braunen Zwickauer Terrorzelle zu distanzieren. Fotos belegen allerdings: Der heutige Parteichef Holger Apfel demonstrierte 1996 gemeinsam mit Beate Zschäpe und Uwe Mundlos.
An jenem Sommertag waren sie sich so nah, wie es zumindest Holger Apfel heute nicht mehr wahrhaben will: Es gibt ein Foto, entstanden am 17. August 1996, es zeigt den heutigen Chef der NPD und Beate Zschäpe, getrennt nur durch wenige Meter und ein paar Dutzend Menschen, die zwischen ihnen hocken. Apfel war damals Chef der Jungen Nationaldemokraten, der NPD-Jugendorganisation. Zwei Jahre später sollte Zschäpe gemeinsam mit Uwe Böhnhardt und Uwe Mundlos, der auch auf den Bildern zu sehen ist, in den Untergrund gehen.
Nun, gut 15 Jahre später, sitzt sie in Haft, ihr wird die Bildung einer terroristischen Vereinigung, des "Nationalsozialistischen Untergrunds" (NSU) zur Last gelegt, ihre Mitbewohner Böhnhardt und Mundlos sollen für zehn Morde verantwortlich sein.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 14, 2011 at 11:23:00 AM CET
Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front
Unmanned aircraft from an Air Force base in North Dakota help local police with surveillance, raising questions that trouble privacy advocates.
Armed with a search warrant, Nelson County Sheriff Kelly Janke went looking for six missing cows on the Brossart family farm in the early evening of June 23. Three men brandishing rifles chased him off, he said.
Janke knew the gunmen could be anywhere on the 3,000-acre spread in eastern North Dakota. Fearful of an armed standoff, he called in reinforcements from the state Highway Patrol, a regional SWAT team, a bomb squad, ambulances and deputy sheriffs from three other counties.
He also called in a Predator B drone.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 14, 2011 at 11:20:00 AM CET
Why Drones Could End up Being Good for Privacy Law
On the front page of the Los Angeles Times this weekend was a story about local police calling in military drones -- in this case, the Predator B -- to help apprehend civilians. Mark my words, this is just the beginning. Drones are simply too effective, too cost efficient, for police, firefighters, and even the private sector to ignore. Imagine what drones would do for the lucrative paparazzi industry, for instance, especially coupled with commercially available facial recognition technology.
So why isn't the sky already filled with drones? The Federal Aviation Administration has for years restricted the use of unmanned aerial systems absent a waiver. A few folks in the public sector have sought them. (The state of Oklahoma sought a blanket waiver of the drone ban for eighty miles of airspace.) Going forward, however, waiver may not be necessary: The FAA faces increasing pressure to relax its restrictions and is considering rulemaking to reexamine drone use in domestic airspace.
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 14, 2011 at 11:10:00 AM CET
Politie gebruikt spyware, bevestigt minister - Polizei mit Trojanern, bestätigt Minister
De Unit Interceptie van het KLPD injecteert in "zeer beperkt aantal gevallen" spyware op pc's van verdachten. Dat bevestigt minister van Veiligheid en Justitie Ivo Opstelten.
"De Unit Landelijke Interceptie van het Korps Landelijke Politiediensten (KLPD) beschikt over software die geïnstalleerd kan worden op de computer van een verdachte en waarmee ten behoeve van opsporingsdiensten toegang kan worden verkregen tot die computer en of gegevens daarvan kunnen worden overgenomen." Dat schrijft minister Opstelten in antwoord op Kamervragen van D66, SP en GroenLinks.
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Topic: Phone - on December 14, 2011 at 11:06:00 AM CET
FBI: Carrier IQ FOIA Denial Not Proof Software is Being Used
The FBI is downplaying speculation that its denial of a request for records regarding its possible use of Carrier IQ's software is proof-positive the agency is using the software’s data collection capabilities.
Carrier IQ has been at the center of controversy since it security researcher Trevor Eckhart published findings in November that accused the software of collecting location, keystroke and SMS data from mobile users.
Michael Morisy, co-founder of MuckRock.com, filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requesting “manuals, documents or other written guidance used to access or analyze data gathered by programs developed or deployed by Carrier IQ.” The FBI responded to Morisy’s request in a letter stating: “…the records responsive to your request are law enforcement records; that there is a pending or prospective law enforcement proceeding relevant to these responsive records; and that the release of the information contained in these responsive records could reasonably be expected to interfere with the enforcement proceedings.”
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Topic: POLITIK - on December 14, 2011 at 10:59:00 AM CET
Post-Revolt Tunisia Can Alter E-Mail With `Big Brother' Software
In Tunisia, Big Brother goes by an alias: Ammar 404.
A play on the “Error 404” message for blocked websites, Tunisian bloggers dreamed him up as a fictional front man for the sprawling surveillance state of former ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Aided directly and indirectly by American and European suppliers, Ammar 404 took control of virtually all electronic communication in Tunisia and turned lives upside down -- even changing the content of e-mails in transit. In this world, Tunisians of all stripes could never be sure if e-mails arrived as sent or at all, or who was reading them.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2011 at 10:56:00 AM CET
Ending the Global War on Drugs
Ever since the War on Drugs, everything has hit the fan," says Romesh Bhattacharji, former Narcotics Commissioner of India. Rather than continue the unnecessary and costly drug war, Bhattacharji advises the United States to simply "Relax, take it easy, [and] tolerate."
Last month, at the Cato Institute's "Ending the Global War on Drugs" conference, Bhattacharji's sentiments were echoed by ex-drug czars, cops, politicians, intellectuals, liberal and conservative journalists, and even the former President of Brazil.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 14, 2011 at 10:54:00 AM CET
Selling the Drug War for $3 Billion? How the Pentagon Will Privatize an International War on Drugs
In part of a move to transfer tactics from the "war on terror" to the "war on drugs", the Pentagon is paying private security firms millions to fight the drug war internationally.
There is an increasing perception that the war on drugs is simply unwinnable. The scandalous death toll and socioeconomic impact so far suffered in the countries implicated either as producers or as transit routes has led to such assessment.
Inadequate, inefficient combat strategies and a continuously renewed global net of corruption are part of the complex problem.
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