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New SGR report uncovers aggressive focus of UK military research and development
"The UK government’s military research and development (R&D) spending is heavily focused on offensive weapons systems, which do not tackle the main threats to our security, says a report out today." See the full text: Read More
UK: Court of Appeal upholds conviction in terror house seizure case
"The Court of Appeal decision paves the way for the first ever seizure of a family home as a terrorist asset. No other member of his family has been convicted in relation to his offences; Read More
ITALY: Migrants killed on Sicilian tourist beach
"The bodies of 13 migrants were washed ashore after the crew of their overloaded boat forced some of its 200 passengers to disembark in the surf....Some 60 migrants attempted to escape from the scene on Read More
GREECE: FRONTEX activities on Mytilene, Greece: Attempt to take over “open” PIPKA migrant centre, “closed” detention centre set up – FRONTEX claim that families were not expelled from their rooms refuted
Earlier this month the EU’s border agency FRONTEX was accused by migrant support groups on the Greek island of Mytilene of expelling migrant families from rooms that they were occupying, in order to set up Read More
EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: How the NSA obtains and uses airline reservations
"A front-page report in today’s New York Times based on documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden confirms that the NSA, like the DHS, uses airline reservation data as part of its profiling and social Read More
EU: Council of the European Union: Freezing of assets: Trilogue text
See the full text: Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the freezing and confiscation of proceeds of crime in the European Union: Text submitted by the Presidency on Read More
GREECE: Golden Dawn leader charged with heading a criminal gang – Nikos Michaloliakos appears in court after he is arrested along with key members of his Greek neo-fascist party
"The leader of Greece's Golden Dawn party, widely viewed as Europe's most violent political force, appeared in court on Saturday night on charges of heading a criminal gang after police mounted an unprecedented crackdown on Read More
EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Creeping Cloud
"James Bamford, the chronicler of the untrammeled powers of the “Puzzle Palace,” as he calls the N.S.A., wrote in Wired that the Utah tower of Babel may be able to store a yottabyte. That is Read More
EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens
"Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations at certain times, their traveling Read More
EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: A TIMELY REMINDER FROM HISTORY
A quote from Senator Frank Church, who headed a seminal inquiry in 1975 into the surveillance of the peace movement in the USA (the “Church Committee report”), seems pertinent today: "If a dictator ever took Read More