Topic: EU - on April 8, 2012 at 5:15:00 PM CEST
Die Sicherheitsarchitektur der EU im Wandel – Die geplante parlamentarische Kontrolle der Sicherheits- und Nachrichtendienste in der Europäischen Union durch das Europa-Parlament
Das Generaldirektorat für Innenpolitik der EU-Kommission hat in einer Studie die parlamentarische Kontrolle der Sicherheits- und Nachrichtendienste in den Staaten der Europäischen Union durch das Genfer Institut zur demokratischen Kontrolle der Streitkräfte (Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces - DCAF) und das European Union Institute - EUI untersuchen lassen. Dieses offizielle, 446 Seiten umfassende Papier enthält eine Vielzahl von Vorschlägen zur Angleichung der parlamentarischen Kontrolle von Sicherheits- und Nachrichtendiensten in der EU. Diese Vorschläge berühren massiv die Souveränitätsrechte der Nationalstaaten in der Union und zielen damit langfristig auf die Einführung einer Sicherheits- und Nachrichtendienststruktur unter Kontrolle der Europäischen Union ab.
Magdeburger Journal zur Sicherheitsforschung, Bd. 1 (2012) wissens-werk.de
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Topic: CARS - on April 8, 2012 at 3:02:00 PM CEST
Abu Dhabi sells stake in Tesla electric car firm
State owned power supplier Abu Dhabi National Energy (TAQA) has sold its 7% stake in US electric carmaker Tesla.
TAQA, three-quarter owned by the government, said it made a profit of $113m (£71m) on the sale.
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Topic: POLITIK - on April 8, 2012 at 12:41:00 PM CEST
Chinese government tells military to ignore internet in wake of coup talk
Regime's jitters evident in thinly veiled reference by army newspaper to rumours that prompted crackdown on chat sites
China's top military newspaper has told troops to ignore rumours on the internet and steel themselves for "ideological struggle" – an apparent reference to talk of a coup as the ruling Communist party faces a leadership transition.
The Liberation Army Daily did not mention rumours of a foiled junta that spread on the internet in recent weeks after the ousting of Bo Xilai, an ambitious contender for a spot in the new central leadership structure to be settled later this year.
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Topic: POLITIK - on April 8, 2012 at 12:39:00 PM CEST
Report: U.S. trained terror group
From the air, the terrain of the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site, with its arid high plains and remote mountain peaks, has the look of northwest Iran. The site, some sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas, was once used for nuclear testing, and now includes a counterintelligence training facility and a private airport capable of handling Boeing 737 aircraft. It’s a restricted area, and inhospitable—in certain sections, the curious are warned that the site’s security personnel are authorized to use deadly force, if necessary, against intruders.
It was here that the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) conducted training, beginning in 2005, for members of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, a dissident Iranian opposition group known in the West as the M.E.K. The M.E.K. had its beginnings as a Marxist-Islamist student-led group and, in the nineteen-seventies, it was linked to the assassination of six American citizens. It was initially part of the broad-based revolution that led to the 1979 overthrow of the Shah of Iran. But, within a few years, the group was waging a bloody internal war with the ruling clerics, and, in 1997, it was listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department. In 2002, the M.E.K. earned some international credibility by publicly revealing—accurately—that Iran had begun enriching uranium at a secret underground location. Mohamed ElBaradei, who at the time was the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations’ nuclear monitoring agency, told me later that he had been informed that the information was supplied by the Mossad. The M.E.K.’s ties with Western intelligence deepened after the fall of the Iraqi regime in 2003, and JSOC began operating inside Iran in an effort to substantiate the Bush Administration’s fears that Iran was building the bomb at one or more secret underground locations. Funds were covertly passed to a number of dissident organizations, for intelligence collection and, ultimately, for anti-regime terrorist activities. Directly, or indirectly, the M.E.K. ended up with resources like arms and intelligence. Some American-supported covert operations continue in Iran today, according to past and present intelligence officials and military consultants.
newyorker.com salon.com Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh details U.S. training of Iranian terrorist group
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 8, 2012 at 8:50:00 AM CEST
Groove Armada – Oh Tweak To Me
March sees the formidable Hypercolour deliver its most surprising output yet, an EP from none other than Groove Armada.
Tom Findlay and Andy Cato need little introduction as Groove Armada. Chart smashes, huge live tours and being part of the worldwide electronic music history aside, the duo have never lost touch with their acid house roots and have continued to be devoted to record buying, DJing and the much maligned promo trawl.
Tom and Andy have been avid followers of the label it seemed, since it's inception. It was through label head Jamie, meeting the guys back in 2010 at Space in Ibiza, and then continued communication via Hypercolour promos, that led to an out-of-the-blue email requesting an informal hook up in East London and, within just a few days, a release was scheduled.
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