Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 22, 2012 at 2:22:00 PM CET
Journal 2012. Medien & Strategie.
Die angstfreie Debatte. Erstmals geht der ORF aus einer politischen Posse gestärkt hervor. Aus guten Gründen.
Nur einmal angenommen; auch wenn wir wissen, dass es nicht so war... Angenommen ein Superstrategenhirn und/oder eine einander ergänzende Experten-Runde innerhalb des ORF hat Ende letzten Jahres zu folgendem wichtigen Thema getagt: wie kriegen wir den ORF raus aus der ewigen Miesmacher-Kampagne der interessensgetriebenen Verlage und Konkurrenten, raus aus der Negativ-Spirale des österreichischen Eh-Ollas-Oasch-Fatalismus und rein in eine effektive Präsentation seiner Kompetenz, am besten innerhalb einer aktuellen wutbürgerlichen Occupy-Ästhetik; am allerbesten verbunden mit der Bewusstseinsmachung des Themas "Entpolitisierung der Aufsichtsgremien" oder zumindest einem Dämpfer für die ewigen politischen Besetzungs-Begehrlichkeiten. Und das alles ohne totale Beschädigung der aktuellen Führung.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on January 22, 2012 at 2:20:00 PM CET
Identifizierung von Verbündeten - Berater Peter Hochegger kassierte fünf Millionen Euro für politisches Lobbying
Aufträge zwischen 2002 und 2008 für „parlamentarische Überzeugungsarbeit“ und „Regierungslobbying“
Die Telekom Austria zahlte Peter Hochegger insgesamt fünf Millionen Euro für politisches Lobbying: Wurden Parteien und Gesetze gekauft?
Die nahende parlamentarische Aufarbeitung des Telekom-Skandals könnte für den einen oder anderen Volkstribun eine eher unfreiwillige Reise in die eigene Vergangenheit werden. Ab 26. Februar wird sich der Untersuchungsausschuss der Korruptionsfälle der jüngeren Geschichte annehmen. Ganz oben auf der Agenda: die Zahlungen der Telekom Austria an deren früheren Lobbyisten Peter Hochegger.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 22, 2012 at 1:39:00 PM CET
Polish lawmaker smokes ‘marijuana’ in parliament
Janusz Palikot, the leader of a new party which brought in Poland’s first trans-gender and openly gay MPs, launched a drive Friday to legalise marijuana by smoking pot in parliament.
“This is the weed,” he told reporters in his office in the lower house of parliament, lighting up a large incense joint containing what he said was a legal quantity of marijuana.
Palikot said his party had submitted a bill to legalise marijuana.
Earlier on Friday, the philosophy graduate known for his flamboyant political stunts, caused a stir when he announced he would “light up” in parliament.
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Topic: DRUGS - on January 22, 2012 at 1:38:00 PM CET
wall street vs. reality
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 22, 2012 at 1:36:00 PM CET
Do Drones Undermine Democracy?
IN democracies like ours, there have always been deep bonds between the public and its wars. Citizens have historically participated in decisions to take military action, through their elected representatives, helping to ensure broad support for wars and a willingness to share the costs, both human and economic, of enduring them.
In America, our Constitution explicitly divided the president’s role as commander in chief in war from Congress’s role in declaring war. Yet these links and this division of labor are now under siege as a result of a technology that our founding fathers never could have imagined.
Just 10 years ago, the idea of using armed robots in war was the stuff of Hollywood fantasy. Today, the United States military has more than 7,000 unmanned aerial systems, popularly called drones. There are 12,000 more on the ground. Last year, they carried out hundreds of strikes — both covert and overt — in six countries, transforming the way our democracy deliberates and engages in what we used to think of as war.
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Topic: POLITIK - on January 22, 2012 at 1:34:00 PM CET
Pakistan official says US military will be allowed to return, but not CIA drones
U.S. military trainers will be invited back into Pakistan "as early as April or May," but the nation has ruled out allowing CIA drones back into the country, Fox News has learned.
Relations between the two nations have been at an all-time low since 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed in an inadvertent aerial attack by NATO in November.
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Topic: Apple - on January 22, 2012 at 1:31:00 PM CET
Jailbreak For A5 iOS Devices Released
It certainly took long enough, but the untethered jailbreak for Apple's A5 based iOS devices (iPad 2, iPhone 4s) has been released (official site, struggling due to traffic). It's currently only available for OS X, though ports of it to Windows are forthcoming.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 22, 2012 at 1:24:00 PM CET
MegaUpload Fights Shutdown With Former Bill Clinton Attorney
Bennett is best known for defending President Bill Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal.
The New York attorney also represented other big names including Senator John McCain and President of the World Bank Group Paul Wolfowitz
“We intend to vigorously defend against these charges.” was Bennett’s only comment thus far, but fireworks can be expected in the weeks to come.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 22, 2012 at 1:22:00 PM CET
Two lessons from the Megaupload seizure
Two events this week produced some serious cognitive dissonance. First, Congressional leaders sheepishly announced that they were withdrawing (at least for the time being) two bills heavily backed by the entertainment industry — the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House – in the wake of vocal online citizen protests (and, more significantly, coordinated opposition from the powerful Silicon Valley industry). Critics insisted that these bills were dangerous because they empowered the U.S. Government, based on mere accusations of piracy and copyright infringement, to shut down websites without any real due process. But just as the celebrations began over the saving of Internet Freedom, something else happened: the U.S. Justice Department not only indicted the owners of one of the world’s largest websites, the file-sharing site Megaupload, but also seized and shut down that site, and also seized or froze millions of dollars of its assets — all based on the unproved accusations, set forth in an indictment, that the site deliberately aided copyright infringement.
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