World-News: 30 July 2010

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rudkla - 30. Jul, 17:47

Chip im US-Pass aus der Ferne ausgelesen

Computerworld

An der Hackerkonferenz Black Hat in Las Vegas hat ein Security-Experte gezeigt, dass sich die ´-Chips in US-Pässen auch aus gut 70 Meter Entfernung ...

http://www.computerworld.ch/aktuell/news/51932/

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rudkla - 30. Jul, 13:41

Obama’s a bigger Big Brother than the last guy

The American Conservative
by Kelley B. Vlahos

07/29/10

Obama seems driven to break every campaign promise he ever made and become the biggest Big Brother of them all. After flipping the script on Patriot Act reformists last year when he supported the extension of unconstitutional law enforcement provisions he once criticized, now he wants to broaden the amount of information the FBI can access without warrant for so-called counter-terror investigations …

http://tinyurl.com/2cmbr62

National insecurity

Foundation for Economic Education
by Sheldon Richman

07/30/10

There’s a country that earlier generations might not recognize in which the national government’s criminal investigative agency can execute its own warrants without court approval; present them to private companies and demand information about people who are not necessarily suspected of criminal wrongdoing; and — if that were not enough — forbid those companies from telling anyone — not even the target of the investigation. The country I have in mind is not a Latin American banana republic or a Middle Eastern dictatorship. It’s the United States of America...

http://tinyurl.com/237z59u

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 30. Jul, 10:35

Obama’s surveillance power grab

The American Prospect
by Julian Sanchez

07/29/10

They’re calling it a tweak — a ‘technical clarification’ — but make no mistake: The Obama administration and the FBI’s demand that Congress approve a huge expansion of their authority to obtain the sensitive Internet records of American citizens without a judge’s approval is a brazen attack on civil liberties. At issue is the scope of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s power to obtain information from ‘electronic communications service providers’ using National Security Letters (NLS), which compel private companies to allow government access to communication records without a court order. The administration wants to add four words — ‘electronic communication transactional records’ — to Section 2709 of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which spells out the types of communications data that can be obtained with an NSL...

http://tinyurl.com/3yrhf9a

Google, CIA invest in “Future” of web monitoring

Wired
by Noah Shachtman

07/29/10

The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine ‘goes beyond search’ by ‘looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events’...

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/

Your innocence is no protection

Liberty For All
by Harry Browne

When the politicians violate the Bill of Rights with the Patriot Act or some other guaranteed-to-bring-peace-and-security-to-the-world scheme, they always reassure us by saying: ‘If you aren’t guilty, you have nothing to fear.’ If only that were so. The truth is that innocence is no protection at all against government agencies with the power to do what they think best — or against a government agent hoping for promotion and willing to do whatever he can get away with... (written 12/03; posted 07/29/10)

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=4610

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 30. Jul, 09:32

Superclass: The New Global Aristocracy

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2010/07/29-0

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The fraud of “Big-Picture” thinking

Campaign For Liberty
by James Bovard

07/29/10

Politicians, pundits, and others perennially invoke the ‘Big Picture.’ Recognizing the role of the Big Picture is vital to understanding how contemporary democracies are going off the rail. The Big Picture provides preemptive exoneration for almost anyone who wants to kowtow and cheerlead for political power. Fifteen years ago, there was a hullabaloo to denounce ‘politically correct’ mandates and imperatives. But the biggest beneficiary of ‘politically correct’ thinking may be political power itself...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1037

Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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rudkla - 30. Jul, 08:37

White House Pushes for Warrantless Access to Internet Records

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/29-3

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rudkla - 30. Jul, 08:29

'Worse Than Rainforest Loss': New Data on Our Dying Oceans

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/29-4

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Russia's Agony a "Wake-Up Call" to the World

By Stephen Leahy

On Monday, Moscow reached 37 C when the normal temperature for August is 21 C. It was the 28th day in a row that temperatures exceeded 30 C.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26130.htm

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rudkla - 30. Jul, 08:23

Unser Planet erwärmt sich

Nach der US-Behörde NOAA belegen alle wichtigen Indikatoren die Klimaerwärmung.
http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148099

Tünche für den Treibhauseffekt

Eine Klimakonferenz ohne Ziel. Weiße Farbe gegen die Klimaerwärmung. Und das Erdölzeitalter tritt nun endgültig in seine schmutzige Schlussphase ein.

http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/33/33074/1.html

Schnelle Reduzierung der CO2-Emissionen notwendig

Nach Berechnungen von Wissenschaftlern des Max-Planck-Instituts müssten die Emissionen bis 2050 um 56 Prozent gesenkt werden, um das 2-Grad-Ziel einzuhalten.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148120

Klimaerwärmung ist nicht mehr aufzuhalten

Der Klimaexperte der Munich Re geht davon aus, dass extreme Wetterereignisse wie Hitzewellen oder Starkniederschläge auch in Deutschland weiter zunehmen und größere Schäden verursachen werden.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/148132

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Wie die globale Erwärmung unter zwei Grad bleibt

CO2-Emissionen müssen bis 2050 um 50 Prozent reduziert werden.
http://sonnenseite.kjm4.de/ref.php?id=d8741689387ms218

WWF Statement zur Verschiebung des US-Klimagesetzes

Für den Klimaschutz ist das ein dramatischer Rückschlag. Die USA sind einer der Hauptverursacher des Klimawandels.

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Bedrohte Paradiese: Thailand - Naturzerstörung im Tropenparadies

WDR Fernsehen | Mo 02.08.2010 | 22.00 - 22.45 Uhr
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Cruise Days 2010 - Tummelplatz für umweltschädliche Luxusliner

Schiffsdiesel statt Schweröl - Weiße Traumschiffe gefährden Gesundheit und Klima.
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Riesige Blaualgenschicht braubt der Ostsee Sauerstoff

In der Ostsee hat sich ein riesiger Algenfilm gebildet, der sich über 1600 km in der Länge und 190 km in der Breite erstreckt. Rund 377.000 Quadratkilometer der Wasseroberfläche in der Ostsee sind derzeit von einer Schicht aus Blaualgen bedeckt.

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rudkla - 30. Jul, 08:04