Topic: War and Peace News - on December 19, 2011 at 10:21:00 AM CET
Alleged Libyan rape victim struggling to start anew in America
Hers is a struggle shared by all freshly arrived refugees in the United States. Learning English. Getting a job. Adapting to American culture.
But starting life anew has been that much tougher for Eman al-Obeidi, the woman who came to embody the cruelty of Moammar Gadhafi's regime in the midst of Libya's brutal civil war. She lives every day with the scars of the rape she alleges was committed by Gadhafi's thugs.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on December 17, 2011 at 2:32:00 PM CET
Iran Arrests Another CIA Spy
Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced on Saturday that it has arrested an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Iran immediately after he started his spying activities inside the country.
The Ministry's public relations office said in a statement that the US administration had designed a very complicated and massive plot to pave the way for infiltrating the intelligence apparatus of the Islamic Republic; in the same line, the CIA tasked one of its intelligence analysts with putting this complicated intelligence-operational plan into action.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on December 15, 2011 at 9:02:00 AM CET
TIME's Person of the Year 2011 - The Protester
Once upon a time, when major news events were chronicled strictly by professionals and printed on paper or transmitted through the air by the few for the masses, protesters were prime makers of history. Back then, when citizen multitudes took to the streets without weapons to declare themselves opposed, it was the very definition of news — vivid, important, often consequential. In the 1960s in America they marched for civil rights and against the Vietnam War; in the '70s, they rose up in Iran and Portugal; in the '80s, they spoke out against nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Europe, against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, against communist tyranny in Tiananmen Square and Eastern Europe. Protest was the natural continuation of politics by other means.
And then came the End of History, summed up by Francis Fukuyama's influential 1989 essay declaring that mankind had arrived at the "end point of ... ideological evolution" in globally triumphant "Western liberalism." The two decades beginning in 1991 witnessed the greatest rise in living standards that the world has ever known. Credit was easy, complacency and apathy were rife, and street protests looked like pointless emotional sideshows — obsolete, quaint, the equivalent of cavalry to mid-20th-century war. The rare large demonstrations in the rich world seemed ineffectual and irrelevant. (See the Battle of Seattle, 1999.)
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Topic: War and Peace News - on December 11, 2011 at 1:18:00 PM CET
Anti-Putin protests erupt across Russia
Up to 60,000 demonstrate against alleged vote fraud and demand end to Vladimir Putin's rule in largest rallies in years.
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Russia against Vladimir Putin's 12-year rule amid signs of swelling anger over a poll won by his ruling United Russia party.
The protesters on Saturday demanded an end to Putin's rule and a rerun of the parliamentary election in the biggest popular protests since those that led to the fall of the Soviet Union.
Protesters waved banners, such as "The rats should go!" and "Swindlers and thieves - give us our elections back!", in cities from the Pacific port of Vladivostok, Perm in Siberia, Arkhangelsk in the Arctic north, in Kaliningrad and St Petersburg in the west, and Karelia in the northwest.
"Nationwide there have been protests in dozens of towns and cities, all across Russia's nine time zones," Al Jazeera's Neave Barker, reported from Moscow.
"They're calling not for revolution, but for political evolution," he said.
aljazeera.com ridus.ru Moscow, protest rally on Bolotnaya Square | 360 Dergee Aerial Panorama planeta_miting.jpg
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Topic: War and Peace News - on December 11, 2011 at 1:12:00 PM CET
Großdemonstration in Moskau
Sie sind mit dem Internet aufgewachsen, aber ohne Erinnerung an die Sowjetunion: In Moskau tragen Zehntausende Demonstranten ihren Protest gegen Wahlfälschungen aus den Blogs auf die Straße. Die Polizei hielt sich diesmal im Hintergrund.
Andrej hat sich eine weiße Schleife an das Revers seines Mantels geheftet, als Zeichen seines Protests. "Weiß ist die Farbe der Reinheit", sagt der 21-jährige Moskauer. "Das soll zum Zeichen werden, dass wir genug haben von Dreck und Betrug. Wir wollen Veränderung und die Wahrheit." Seine Freundin Walentina trägt einen Strauß weißer Chrysanthemen.
Viele der Menschen, die am Samstag zum Bolotnaja-Platz im Herzen Moskaus strömen, tragen Blumen oder weiße Bänder.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on December 11, 2011 at 12:26:00 PM CET
No - 2050
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Topic: War and Peace News - on November 30, 2011 at 10:08:00 AM CET
You will prosecuted
A female protestor displays her hands with Yemen's flag and writing Arabic that reads,"you will prosecuted," during a demonstration demanding the prosecution of Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sanaa
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Topic: War and Peace News - on October 8, 2011 at 10:56:00 AM CEST
Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other warzones.
The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from flying their missions overseas. Nor have there been any confirmed incidents of classified information being lost or sent to an outside source. But the virus has resisted multiple efforts to remove it from Creech’s computers, network security specialists say. And the infection underscores the ongoing security risks in what has become the U.S. military’s most important weapons system.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on October 8, 2011 at 10:52:00 AM CEST
54 Gigabyte syrische Überwachungsdaten im Netz aufgetaucht
Telecomix hat gerade 54 GB syrischer Internetüberwachungsdaten anonymisiert ins Netz gestellt. Die Daten wurden mit Hilfe der US-Firma Blue Coat Systems in Syrien gewonnen, um Bürger und Aktivisten zu überwachen und zu verfolgen. Blue Coat Systems hat auch eine Tochterfirma in Deutschland mit Sitz in München. Die Firma Blue Coat hat dem syrischen Regime, das seit dem Beginn der demokratischen Revolution mehr als 3000 Menschen getötet hat, ein System zur Verfügung gestellt, mit dem das Land Internetanfragen zensieren und einzelne User und ihre Internetnutzung lückenlos überwachen kann. Die jetzt geleakten Daten umfassen einen Zeitraum vom 22. Juli bis zum 5. August. Die Daten, die anonymisiert ins Netz gestellt wurden, umfassen mehrere Millionen HTTP Requests, sie erlauben einen Einblick in die syrische Überwachungsmaschinerie, die mit Hilfe von westlichen Firmen betrieben wird.
metronaut.de Telecomix : Syria tcxsyria.ceops.eu Index of /OpSyria/Logs
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Topic: War and Peace News - on October 3, 2011 at 10:14:00 AM CEST
U.S. Army Europe Unmanned Aircraft System Flight Regulations
This regulation—
● Provides policy on unmanned aircraft system operations, unmanned aircraft crewmember training and currency requirements, and flight rules. ● Covers Army unmanned aircraft system general provisions, training, standardization, and management of unmanned aircraft system resources. ● Must be used with AR 95-23.
Applicability. This regulation applies to members of the active Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard; and DOD civilians and civilian contractors who provide training on or are involved in the operation, standardization, and maintenance of unmanned aircraft systems. During mobilization, the policy in this regulation may be modified by the proponent.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on September 26, 2011 at 10:58:00 AM CEST
Dumped in the desert ... Gaddafi’s yellowcake stockpile
Sitting in row after row, each 15 long by four high, the blue barrels are as frightening as any remnant of the Gaddafi regime.
Some are marked radioactive, as were the open plastic bags alongside.
The powder they contain appears to be yellowcake uranium from neighbouring Niger. Yet when they were discovered by advancing rebel forces last week, they were abandoned, in tumbledown warehouses protected only by a low wall.
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Topic: War and Peace News - on September 24, 2011 at 11:44:00 AM CEST
A guide to Libya’s surveillance network
After repeated interrogations lead by Reflets.info, OWNI, the Wall Street Journal and the Figaro, Amesys, the French company that sold Internet surveillance systems to Gaddafi’s Libya tried to calm things down with a statement posted on its website (mirror):
"The contract only concerned the sale of materials capable of analysing a fraction of existing internet connections, only a few thousand."
However, the documents in OWNI’s possession tell a different story, in fact, the exact opposite story. In contrast to traditional surveillance systems that target specific connections, the “massive” (sic) Amesys surveillance system is used to intercept and analyze the entirety of the telecommunications network, to the scale of an entire country.
In its presentations for the high-end surveillance service, Amesys flaunts EAGLE as having been conceived to monitor the whole spectrum of telecommunications: IP traffic (internet), mobile and landline telephone networks, WiFi, satellite, radio and micro waves thanks to its “passive waves, invisible and inaccessible to any intruder.”
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