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Generalbundesanwalt: Kein Ermittlungsverfahren in Deutschland zur NSA-Überwachung - Golem.de. Doesn't this come dangerously close to obstruction of justice?

German government: "Data protection authorities not responsible for NSA scandal". Well, that makes it easy, if as an affected party you simply declare the responsible supervisory authority as not responsible. Classic interior minister logic.

Verfassungsschutz-Chef: Keine Hinweise auf Spähaktionen - it's probably too much to ask of the domestic intelligence agency if they would read the daily press. You can easily overlook the clues. So much happens in the world, new royal children, Formula 1, football - who should notice a Mr. Snowden among all that. You know, the one with the documents about NSA surveillance activities in Europe and especially in Germany. The one that the USA would like to have extradited because he made these clues, which are not available to the domestic intelligence agency, public.

Netzpolitische Hundstage in der SPD | Lummaland. Reading command. Because the man is right. And the cowards in the SPD should be ashamed. Majority in the Bundesrat but not enough guts to at least get a decent opposition policy, instead resigned cuddle course with Merkel? Ridiculous. And Embarrassing. And definitely not a way for a successful election campaign. And that the entry comes from the NRW SPD, which previously opened its mouth so wide, is ridiculous.

Disinformation: Wall in Captivity - taz.de. So I don't forget and can look it up later, linked here again. Background information on the current demolition action at the East Side Gallery - and somewhat more detailed than previously in the press or from the official authorities in Berlin.

Another rescue package. That's why I probably won't link to media anymore in the future. Newspapers and such nonsense. And to be quite honest? I even hope that Google removes German publishers from the index. Completely. Then let the screaming and later complaining begin, as in Belgium. At least the entertainment value would finally be there again.

Parliament: Fractions want to curtail speaking rights in the Bundestag. When will the pack finally be monitored by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution? Because this is a first-class attack on the Basic Law. There are no fractions, no party discipline, and no restrictions on speaking rights for members of parliament with their own opinions in the Basic Law - there are only free members of parliament. And then the prolethicians in Berlin are still surprised about political disillusionment. Hurray for Lammert, who at least tries to resist this circus of dumbfounding in this regard.

No Quick-Freeze: Chancellor urges Rösler to implement data retention. Isn't that funny? An EU commission wants something that has been rejected as unconstitutional in several member states, partly stopped by courts. There is a chancellor who has already been reprimanded by the Federal Constitutional Court because she pushed through an unconstitutional law. There is an EU commissioner who announces a new version due to constitutional problems. And what does the EU do? It threatens with penalties if the current, non-constitutional version is not implemented. And what does the chancellor, who is sworn to uphold the constitution, do? She wants to enforce a regulation against the objections of her own justice minister and against the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court over the Rösler boy (of course she takes him, after all, he has been on the chopping block since the NRW debacle and is dispensable). And amidst all this nonsense, the prolethicians in Berlin wonder why everyone is so upset about their surveillance fetish. A comedian who comes up with such an absurd story would be booed.

Former Federal President Wulff receives the honorary salary. We (the taxpayers) are now seriously paying the bargain hunter 200,000 euros every year, until the end of his life. Expensive fun. And of course, a resignation because of the revelation of his creative financial management and his many friends is very political. And then the backbencher in the Bundestag is still surprised about the political disillusionment.

Lawyers consulted for this research are also surprised that Wulff allegedly made his name available free of charge to a law firm for more than 15 years, without being compensated for it or making arrangements for a later return to the firm. For example, the managing director of a large law firm that employs former government members calls Wulff's account to tagesschau.de "absolutely unrealistic": "That a politician provides his reputation and thus also his contacts out of pure charity is not known to me, lavish fees are usual" explained the lawyer, who does not want to be named.

via Bundespräsident Wulff verschwieg Beziehung zu Geerkens. Sometimes you don't need to write anything more about the news, sometimes they just speak for themselves.

CCC | Chaos Computer Club analyzes current version of the state trojan. Well, well, the current state trojan is just as bad as the alleged prototype. And of course, everyone claims not to use it. So what is the wonderful, legally compliant version of the state trojan that is allegedly used in the authorities? It would be interesting if the authorities would provide this trojan to the CCC for analysis. But that would be honest and transparent behavior. Apparently, we can no longer expect that from authorities in our banana republic.

Bundestrojaner-Artikel-Sammlung - Farlion Inside. Since it's getting a bit confusing, here is a very comprehensive and detailed collection of links on the topic of Bundestrojaner, which, by the way, was also used by the BKA. But of course only in a modified version, which we all believe because they have just lied to us heavily in the denial.

State Trojan also in NRW - WDR 2 Der Sender. Just heard a radio report - and again annoyed. If someone lies to you multiple times, why do you believe wild, unverifiable claims? The alleged "configuration" of the Trojan is feasible for the police, but not the development? Haha, very credible. And the configuration as well as the deployment - these are digital traces that are, on the one hand, trivially falsifiable (unless there is a usable cryptographically signed audit) and, on the other hand, not retrievable afterwards. The documents on the cases only contain what the respective official has said. Whether that is true, no data protection officer and no lawyer can find out afterwards - unless the Trojan is found and examined on devices. And that is exactly what happened with the Bavarian Trojan - and the examination by the CCC did not speak of deactivated features, but of active functions. So again, why do parts of the press still believe the claims of the state criminal investigation departments and politicians?

Bundestrojaner: The Privates behind the Bundestrojaner | Politics - Frankfurter Rundschau. Jaja, but the BKA has already denied it. It will certainly be funny, especially because even the "normal" media have picked up on this - and even if Merkel and Co. ignore blogs and the like, something like the FAZ really hurts them when they get it read to them by their press sorters.

Chaos Computer Club: The German state trojan has been cracked - Current - FAZ. I'm linking to the FAZ. And then to an article where the FAZ uses the CCC as an expert source. But such things happen when your own executive wants to screw over the citizens and just builds constitutionally illegal trojans that are supposed to spy on the citizens. And in the process does things like implementing arbitrarily reloadable (and thus unchecked) code - and then has the whole thing checked for security by verifying an IP address to a redirect server in the USA. Which is just great again. Oh, and you can also deposit data on the computers of the suspects with the software. And of course without any control. No investigator would do that, that would be illegal. About as illegal as the whole trojan. And of course we trust the people who come up with such things, don't we?

Data Protection Officers: Social Plugins Not Permissible in Germany - Golem.de. Great, with this, almost all external linking will go down the drain. Loading JavaScript libraries via a delivery network? Forbidden. Displaying YouTube videos? Forbidden. Displaying Flickr slideshows? Forbidden. The fact that such an absurd perspective leads the entire internet ad absurdum will surely please rather than concern the political level. At least the part that already stands out due to regular misunderstanding. Sometimes I have the feeling that the current group of "data protection officers" are only moles for hardliners in the parties who would like to regulate everything to death. Because only a dumb and quiet citizen is a good citizen. This has nothing to do with real protection of our data - because these "data protection officers" do not take action against the transmission of flight data or intra-European account movements to foreign intelligence services. Nor do they take action against nationwide central databases that are being built through the introduction of the central tax number or the electronic patient card (or in the future through a toll for private cars that will surely come at some point) - there is only half-hearted, weak-kneed "protest". There is nothing to be heard about the threat of fines. Who believes that the "data protection officers" would bravely throw themselves in front of the lions in the internet to protect our data, also believes that lemon folders would fold lemons.

"As far as legal knowledge is concerned, Interior Minister Friedrich – after all a lawyer – still has a lot of catching up to do." via Internet-Law » Friedrich uns graut vor Dir.

Meedia: Meck-Pomms CDU wirbt mit “C wie Zukunft”. Dumb, dumber, CDU. Or "C as in Can't Spell". Or maybe "C as in Quite Stupid"? And this is in government ...

The strange facts of Mr. Uhl « mrtopf.de. I'll just say: read. Because why should I repeat everything that someone has already written elsewhere. And since it also concerns data protection with the VDS, also categorized for the Metaeule.

Little mourning for electronic wage reporting procedure ELENA. While we're at it with embarrassing - the government's number with Elena is also one of those stupid non-issues that cost a lot of money but ultimately brought nothing and didn't work. And incidentally also violated data protection laws. And was simply idiotic anyway - the data that was supposed to be collected there was really nonsensical for the announced purpose in many areas. But why our government always starts such idiotic projects in the first place, even though the problems are known in advance, someone must explain that to me in a understandable way.

That's why we need to sell tanks to Saudi Arabia. I heard the appalling interview this morning as well. The lies and nonsense from politicians can ruin your entire day. The moderator is usually not my cup of tea, but during today's interview, he hit the nail on the head with a few things: "Morality is for fools, the smart ones make money out of it" - that's the mindset of Pfeiffer and probably some others in the Union. The fact that we have laws prohibiting the export of weapons to crisis regions doesn't matter in this context. Presumably, he would also break into someone's house and empty it if the neighbors had given their consent beforehand.

DSK: „Spiegel” complains about prejudgment « Stefan Niggemeier. Cute - the Spiegel has been eagerly prejudging and now, of all people, one of the "quality journalists" involved in it is complaining about the poor Strauss-Kahn being prejudged. Is this already schizophrenia, or just plain stupidity? I mean, what are the publishers complaining about how bad they have it, when they barely rise above blog level in their "quality articles"?

...and next door the reactor site is on fire - and nobody cares because it's France, nothing bad can happen there and why should one report on reactor fires in front of one's own doorstep when there is a ridiculous operetta wedding. That's what they call quality journalism.

Publishers file lawsuit against Tagesschau-App. Wow, the guys from the executive floors of the digitally failed publishers are really going off the deep end now. Now, the Tagesschau-App for iOS is allegedly partly to blame for the failure of their absurd and half-baked business models on the internet. How about, for once, publishers move their ass into the digital world and actually participate, instead of constantly complaining? But that would be work, better to whine and try to impose their pathetic remaining ideas on users through legal action. I, for one, find it politically scandalous that these incompetent pseudo-managers always manage to get their way through their lobby with politics and far too often get their way - and we fee-payers have our services cut because all that blows through the publishers' heads is empty wind over barren deserts.

Healthcare reform: Dental treatments are set to become expensive. Great idea, to give one of the medical professions with the highest incomes an extra boost. Because, it doesn't matter if you don't have any teeth in your mouth, you can still whistle La Paloma. And soup is much cheaper than solid food anyway.

Bundeswehr-Dozent: Plagiator gives back his doctorate - at least he's not being as silly as the last cases (especially Koch-Mehrin with her "but everyone already knew I copied" defense). But this idea that a revoked doctorate has no effect on a lecturer's career I find quite strange ...

The Postillon explains: What can the National Cyber Defense Center do?. Awesome. Simply awesome. Next, they'll buy a computer... (I doubt it, though, probably its purchase will be canceled for budget reasons)

"Summarizing: The German police, due to a past protest action against the website of an energy company, have paralyzed a democratic party shortly before the elections, hindered the democratic movement of citizens in Spain, and disrupted Anonymous operations against regimes in the Middle East. All in all, #Servergate was thus a very undemocratic day in the history of our friends and helpers." - from the Anonymous statement on Servergate. One may think what one will - the reaction of the police is more than questionable. Here, a trivial reason has probably come a bit too cheaply into the hands of a public prosecutor. The alternative would be blatant incompetence, both in assessing the reason and in assessing the effects. And slowly, the whole thing looks even worse, because there was not even a request for legal assistance from France, but only the announcement of such.

Judgment: Sharehosters must check external link collections. It all sounded somehow absurd, my first reaction was "Landgericht Hamburg" - and indeed, it is the LG Hamburg. And it is as absurd as suspected. And in the case of rulings by the LG Hamburg, I don't necessarily believe that the reporters have simply misrepresented them. Hamburg is Germany's Texas.

Expensive healthcare system: Funds expect additional contribution of 70 euros. Funny, how quickly it's all just about how to fleece the insured as much as possible and no longer about temporarily helping a cash-strapped fund. And it's always great how politicians keep saying you just need to switch to a fund without additional contributions. How, when soon all funds will do that? And of course, the employee has to pay for it all. So that the pharmaceutical industry, doctors, and pharmacists can still reach powerfully into the pockets of employees tomorrow. And the Prolethicians in Berlin hold the stirrup nicely.

Leistungsschutzrecht: Bundesjustizministerin über eine Abgabenpflicht für Zitate. Once again, the politics helps the internet non-understanders and rights extortionists in companies with a broken business model to make money at the expense of others' work. And incidentally, the right to quote is destroyed. Because does anyone really believe that "commercial" won't quickly become "business-like" and then, through legal hair-splitting, "every blogger"? It's enough to have advertising on your own blog to be considered a commercial provider. And of course, the idea of introducing another collecting society for the nonsense is great, which also wants to be paid well again. At some point, we will probably have to pay the gas suppliers when we want to fart.

Uni Bayreuth: Guttenberg deliberately deceived. Now it's official. It's all just plagiarized. However, it is strange that in such a debacle, the two people who reviewed this so-called "dissertation" are not scrutinized more closely. After all, how can a doctoral advisor and a second reviewer review a dissertation without reading it? Or should they have actually read the thing but not noticed that nothing particularly impressive was in it or that it was all just copied?

Ralf Jäger: SPD Interior Minister wants "carefree" data retention. Why do we even need the Union if a red-green government can be so crazy as to want data retention?

Ettenheim: Awarding of the Small Art Prize: Georg Schramm causes a scandal in the Europa-Park. Well, Georg Schramm is just a cabaret artist with guts and not such a softie like the gentlemen and ladies in the Europa-Park would probably have preferred. But as they say: those who can't handle the heat shouldn't be in the kitchen. You don't invite Georg Schramm for friendly, nice words. He is the personification of anger. And as such, he speaks for many (and I am one of them).

The Düsseldorf district government defines prohibited entertainment as an event that "is intended to provide pleasant pastimes, sociability, as well as relaxation and recreation". Exceptions may be allowed for religious or solemn events.

via Discussion about Good Friday rest. So much for the topic of secularization.

Significantly increased radiation in the Asse. Why do atomic energy representatives still believe they have to advocate for atomic energy when we are not even capable of operating a storage facility for low and medium radioactive materials like the Asse safely and without problems? After all, this is a storage facility in a highly industrialized country that, according to the claims of atomic energy advocates, has the highest competence in atomic energy. Why does a reactor have to blow up in Japan for people to realize that our perfect atomic world is not as perfect as it seems? When we have all the problems right in front of our own door (and behind it)!

Why the VISA warning file is a mess at Metronaut.de – Big Berlin Bullshit Blog. The VISA warning file affects me directly and personally. My fiancée is Russian, her family still lives in Russia, and we will continue to make and want to make visits. I can already say goodbye to any illusion of data protection for myself and Juliana. Of course, a state has the right to protect itself from abuse, but general suspicion solely based on the use of legal possibilities is always wrong. And the VISA warning file is nothing more than the general suspicion of citizens simply because they appear once in the context of a visa application. This has nothing to do with the rule of law anymore.

The risks of technology cannot be abolished. But the way we deal with it can be changed. Facilities like nuclear power plants, which can cause unimaginable damage, should not be operated by any state. And people who make money with such facilities, like our esteemed nuclear industry, should clearly be branded as irresponsible lobbyists. They have the situation under control in their speeches, while the reactor hall is already falling apart behind them.

via Dieses Vertuschen und Verzögern ist ein unfassbarer Skandal: Die Methoden der Atomlobby - taz.de.

You are heroes!

Thanks, Judith Holofernes!

The BILD newspaper is not to be regarded with a wink as trash cultural asset and no harmless “Guilty Pleasure” for well-groomed upstarts, no witty social reference and no lifestyle quote. And least of all is the Bild newspaper what you want to sell it as: hated but largely harmless inventory of an otherwise much smarter Germany.

The Bild newspaper is a dangerous political instrument — not only a strongly magnifying telescope into the abyss, but a malicious being that does not describe Germany, but makes it. With an agenda.

by Wir sind Helden. The advertising campaign of the Blöd with these unspeakable "celebrity quotes", for which people give themselves who should actually know much better, is an unspeakable nonsense. And at least someone says what they really think about it, instead of being instrumentalized for the Blöd. (Obligatory Guttenberg: I shamelessly copied the title from the Schockwellenreiter)

Plagiarism – GuttenPlag Wiki. With the latest politician statements in support of Guttenberg, I really wonder if a Mrs. Merkel and a Mr. Seehofer are really too stupid to look at the Wikia page beforehand - at the time of my post 175 instances with evidence of the copied originals. This has nothing to do with mistakes or negligence, this is just plain system.

Newspaper: Guttenberg plagiarized parts of his doctoral thesis - and now everyone with the princes: "everything just stolen"!

Streitfall: Telekom will einheitlichen De-Mail-Domainnamen per Gesetz - state-subsidized scam free from technical expertise. The entire de-mail debacle can hardly be surpassed in absurdity.

Study: Power companies demand two billion euros too much. More astonishing than the audacity of the energy companies is the (feigned) astonishment of the Prolethicians about this matter - for what do they expect when a de facto monopoly is left in place and no serious state regulation is introduced? Throwing Merkel's cotton balls is now proven to be useless and a government that is controlled in a banal way by the energy suppliers certainly has no interest in changing anything. We will have to pay again (we always have to pay, I'm not fooling myself about that, but it would be nice to spend money on meaningful things and not on the billion profits of an already much too fat electricity mafia).

Majority in NRW against new state treaty for youth protection on the internet - Computer. The attempt by the Union to portray this as an embarrassment for Red/Green is quite amusing. I mean, how stupid do these prolethicians in Düsseldorf actually think the voter is? The waffling of Red/Green is indeed embarrassing - especially with the Greens, after their bold statements, one could only have accepted a rejection - but the ridiculousness of the Greens is something the Union can hardly claim as a success, the Greens manage that quite well on their own. Good that this dreadful contract has been postponed for now (whoever believes the topic is now settled for good is also putting on their pants with pliers), but it is hardly a merit of any of the parties. Everyone has made a fool of themselves, even the Left (with their approval in Berlin).

Jugendmedienschutzstaatsvertrag: Grüne wollen zustimmen and Germany will finally leave reality behind regarding the internet with the expected approval of this nonsense. And all the cease-and-desist scammers are rubbing their hands together due to the expected additional revenue. I would like to label my blog with a minimum IQ to ensure that the brainwashed proletarians from Berlin have to stay out. The hypocritical behavior of the Greens is absolutely undignified.

"A bomb on a plane heading to Germany? Admittedly, I'm just a science journalist, deal with physical phenomena, but frankly, I don't believe this news. It all fits too well. Here in my hotel are the interior ministers, and precisely now it is announced that Germany will soon be the target of a terrorist attack. This smells like a staged event."

via With de Maizière at the breakfast table: The terror is here, the muesli is gone - taz.de.

With certainty: Calls for stricter laws | tagesschau.de - already absurd that federal ministers from the Union and FDP clearly oppose state ministers and their populist saber-rattling. Even more absurd that even SPD ministers are calling for something that has been rejected by the Federal Constitutional Court. And as the basis for all this, only claims without evidence and without verifiability. With this, the terrorists have already won, and these prole feeders are making themselves into errand boys. Can we please have them monitored by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution now? Their anti-constitutional stance is clearly documented ...

Number magic at retirement age: Trick 67 - taz.de - because the intention behind it is simply to cut pensions. None of the prolethicians in Berlin really believe that workers can last until 67. That was never the goal, not even for Münte and the other liars of the SPD.

Unionsminister: Sitzblockierer sollen Polizei-Einsatz bezahlen | tagesschau.de - which would also help to control the annoying demonstrators, because hey, it's simple: demonstrators in general or even strikers cause costs and then you can get them from them and then people will think twice about whether they go out on the street!

The erosion of democracy has always worked quite well through the wallet.

Questions and Answers about the Health Reform | tagesschau.de - I find it quite astonishing that the politicians in Berlin still have to engage in "hard negotiations" to decide how much the contributors can be fleeced. The fact that the negotiations no longer discuss savings on doctors' fees, hospital costs, and drug prices is, however, not surprising. The pretended saber-rattling by the Federal Health Administrator is just a show for the media.