Topic: Glaubensfragen - on February 15, 2012 at 3:01:00 PM CET
Australia's 'child labour camp' - Scientology
In the middle of suburban Australia is a secret compound that's labelled 'degrading' and 'inhumane', with allegations of keeping children prisoner.
Right in the middle of a quiet suburb is a place where children are separated from their parents, and forced to work full time for no pay, and live in squalid conditions.
Those who've survived this place say they were brainwashed into believing they could not leave, and that they deserved the shocking treatment dished out.
A young man who escaped the place with the help of his father, Shane Kelsey says “I lived in that garage for about a year and a half, maybe two years.”
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on February 15, 2012 at 2:58:00 PM CET
Telekom Austria zahlte für Wahlkampf von Haider-Partei & ÖVP
Der teilstaatliche Netzbetreiber A1 (Telekom Austria) soll 2006 über Scheinrechnungen den Wahlkampf der österreichischen Partei BZÖ unterstützt haben. Dies hat der Inhaber einer Werbeagentur vor dem Korruptions-Untersuchungsausschuss im österreichischen Parlament ausgesagt. Der Werbeunternehmer Kurt Schmied gab an, auf Ersuchen des damaligen BZÖ-Abgeordneten Klaus Wittauer 720.000 Euro brutto von der Telekom Austria angenommen zu haben.
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dem Magazin „News“ liegt ein brisanter, umfangreicher E-Mail-Verkehr zwischen der Telekom Austria (TA) und ÖVP-Funktionären vor. Letztere wendeten sich demnach mit „Sponsoringbitten“ an die TA - es ging etwa um die Förderung eines Theaterprojekts der Tochter des ehemaligen ÖVP-Chefs Schüssel und um einen Tourbus für die Band des Sohns von Ex-Staatssekretär Morak. Am schwersten wiegt jedoch, dass in einer Mail die Rede von einer Zusage der TA über 100.000 Euro durch den Lobbyisten Hochegger an die ÖVP-Bundespartei ist.heise.de orf.at umfangreicher E-Mail-Verkehr zwischen der Telekom Austria (TA) und ÖVP-Funktionären ÖVP mitten im Sumpf
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on February 15, 2012 at 2:57:00 PM CET
How to avoid being tagged as a terrorist: Don't pay cash for coffee
FBI program distributes generic criteria as 'terrorist warning signs'
It's difficult to figure out where you stand in the eyes of the law these days TSA, the Dept. of Homeland Security and various other security operations use a chain of super-secret, largely extralegal administrative criteria to decide who should go on the No Fly list, who should be watched as a potential terrorist, what kinds of online behavior seem hackerish and whether a desire for privacy is simply preserving one's dignity or a red flag indicating a nefarious and violent purpose.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 15, 2012 at 2:50:00 PM CET
Reel Piracy: The Effect of Online Film Piracy on International Box Office Sales
Hollywood films are generally released first in the United States and then later abroad, with some variation in lags across films and countries. With the growth in movie piracy since the appearance of BitTorrent in 2003, films have become available through illegal piracy immediately after release in the US, while they are not available for legal viewing abroad until their foreign premieres in each country. We make use of this variation in international release lags to ask whether longer lags – which facilitate more local pre-release piracy – depress theatrical box office receipts, particularly after the widespread adoption of BitTorrent. We find that longer release windows are associated with decreased box office returns, even after controlling for film and country fixed effects. This relationship is much stronger in contexts where piracy is more prevalent: after BitTorrent’s adoption and in heavily-pirated genres. Our findings indicate that, as a lower bound, international box office returns in our sample were at least 7% lower than they would have been in the absence of pre-release piracy. By contrast, we do not see evidence of elevated sales displacement in US box office revenue following the adoption of BitTorrent, and we suggest that delayed legal availability of the content abroad may drive the losses to piracy.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 28
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 15, 2012 at 2:45:00 PM CET
Übersicht aller Demos in Österreich 25.02.2012
Bregenz - Innsbruck - Klagenfurt- Salzburg - Wien - Graz -
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 15, 2012 at 2:40:00 PM CET
Demo 25022012
Demo Overview // Demonstrationen im Überblick 25.02.2012
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 15, 2012 at 2:39:00 PM CET
ACTA-Proteste am 25. Februar: Visualisiert
Zu den für Samstag nächster Woche geplanten Anti-ACTA-Demonstrationen gibt es jetzt eine sehr schöne Visualisierung von Christian Witte. Angezeigt werden die via Facebook-Events prognostizierten Teilnehmerzahlen von insgesamt 100 Aktionen in ganz Europa von denen über 30 in Deutschland stattfinden.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 15, 2012 at 2:11:00 PM CET
Acta steht offenbar europaweit auf der Kippe
Jetzt wendet sich sogar ein hochrangiger konservativer Europa-Politiker von dem Anti-Piraterie-Abkommen ab. Der Grund: Die Akzeptanz fehle.
Die Zukunft des Anti-Piraterie-Abkommen Acta (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) ist ungewisser denn je. Am Dienstag erklärte der französische Fraktionsvorsitzende des Europäischen Volkspartei (EVP) im Europaparlament, Joseph Daul, gegenüber dem Online-Portal cuej.info sogar: „Acta ist am Ende.“ ("Acta c’est fini") Es fehle die notwendige Unterstützung.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 15, 2012 at 2:08:00 PM CET
Die EU-Abgeordneten haben Tausende E-Mails von Acta-Gegnern erhalten. Damit ist nun Schluss: Die Parlamentsverwaltung hat entschieden, alle Acta-Mails automatisch in die Spam-Ordner zu verschieben.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 15, 2012 at 1:55:00 PM CET
EUROPA - Press Releases - Transparency of ACTA negotiations
MEMO/12/99
Brussels, 13 February 2012
Transparency of ACTA negotiations (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement)
The negotiations of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) started in June 2008 and were finalised in November 2010.
The European Union was represented during the negotiations by European Commission officials, as well as representatives of our Member States because ACTA touches upon both exclusive competences of the European Union and competences which are shared with the Member States. This factsheet aims at clarifying the way the European Parliament, civil society and all stakeholders have been informed and involved in the negotiation process.
Who sat at the negotiation table?
During the negotiation rounds, government officials from the negotiating countries were present in the room.
(see annex for a list of participants from the European Commission and the Member States):
For the European Union, this included a group of 4-8 Commission officials from the Directorates-General for Trade, Internal Market and Services, Justice, Information Society and Media, and Taxation and Customs Union. Moreover a group of 2-4 officials from the Member State holding the rotating EU Presidency were present, since they negotiated the criminal provisions on behalf of the EU Member States (criminal aspects of IPR enforcement being a Member State competence before the Lisbon Treaty and a shared competence after the entry into force of this treaty).
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 15, 2012 at 1:50:00 PM CET
Stopp ACTA!* - Digitale Gesellschaft
* ACTA ist ein internationales Handelsabkommen, das weitreichende Konsequenzen für das Internet und unsere Rechte als Nutzer haben wird. Der Vertrag ist noch nicht durch das EU-Parlament ratifiziert. Es ist also noch Zeit, den gewählten Politikern zu erklären, warum sie gegen ACTA stimmen müssen.
Kontaktiere EU-Abgeordnete ... ... für ACTA ... unentschlossene ... gegen ACTA
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 15, 2012 at 1:46:00 PM CET
Anti-Piracy Agreement ACTA Is Falling Apart in Europe - Bulgaria Dutch
Bulgaria won’t be ratifying the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) any time soon.
On Tuesday, Bulgaria followed some of its European neighbors, including Germany and Poland, in halting approval of the controversial intellectual property treaty.
mashable.com Dutch Parliament asks government not to sign ACTA Acta loses more support in Europe guardian.co.uk
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