Whistleblower Edward Snowden's revelations about the NSA's network surveillance consist of 20,000 secret documents. Not all have become public yet. #Ericsson
One of the most controversial NSA programs was the bulk collection of domestic telephone records (metadata) under authority of Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. electrospaces.net/2016/01/sectio…
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Since September 11th, 2001, the United States government has dramatically increased the ability of its intelligence agencies to collect and investigate information on both foreign subjects and US citizens. theverge.com/2013/7/17/4517…
The revelation came from Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian newspaper who wrote that there was evidence that the National Security Agency required the telecommunications company Verizon....(Ericsson)...
on an ongoing basis for records of all telephone calls made in the United States. According to the Guardian, the interception covers telephone calls between the US and abroad and calls entirely within the US (including local calls).
The Defense Radio Agency (FRA) helps the US National Intelligence Service (NSA) hack into computers. It shows secret documents from Edward Snowden, which SVT's Uppdrag review has seen.
"FIVE EYES PRISM – Operated by the NSA together with the GCHQ and the ASD
XKeyscore – Operated by the NSA with contributions from the ASD and the GCSB
Tempora – Operated by the GCHQ with contributions from the NSA
MUSCULAR – Operated by the GCHQ and the NSA
STATEROOM – Operated by the ASD, CIA, CSE, GCHQ, and NSA
Guess what ericsson does as intelligence services and its software is so hugely dependent on. And guess which country has access to five eyes without it being shouted about to the public SWEDEN... What does Sweden and Ericsson do?”
Ericsson, ITU on Building a Sustainable, Connected Future
"Ericsson CEO Borje Ekholm stressed the need for interoperability and standardization to drive accessibility, and achieve true democratization of connectivity." #Ericsson
This joint effort is part of the Giga initiative. Launched last year and led by UNICEF and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Giga aims to connect every school to the internet. Ericsson..... unicef.org/press-releases…
One million schools mapped: UNICEF and ITU’s Giga initiative........
The story of the fire-stricken bulk carrier Almirante Storni has not ended yet. I wrote in 2021 about this ships name and where it led me. This is an extended reproduction of that thread.
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What i found interesting in this story is actually the name of the vessel.
Almirante Storni.
Giorgio Almirante (27 June 1914 – 22 May 1988) was an Italian politician who founded the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement, which he led until his retirement in 1987.
Almirante trained as a schoolteacher, but went to work writing for the Rome-based fascist paper Il Tevere.
Il Tevere was a Fascist newspaper which was published in Rome, Kingdom of Italy, between 1924 and 1943. It is known for its founder, Benito Mussolini.
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Telia has been active in Kazakhstan since the late 1990s. In order to maintain its privileged position in the Kazakh market, Telia has engaged in corrupt activities with high-ranking politicians, namely Timur Kulibayev and later Karim Massimov. kiar.center/massimov-kulib…
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was the party newspaper of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) from 1920 to 1945. Alfred Rosenberg was its editor-in-chief from 1923 to 1937.
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In March 1923, editor-in-chief Eckart died, and Alfred Rosenberg became the new editor-in-chief. After the failed beer cellar coup in November 1923, both the NSDAP and the Völkischer Beobachter were banned.
Pic: Alfred Rosenberg 1935
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The circulation was small and local, petty-bourgeois oriented, and after Franz Eher's death in 1918, his widow sold the paper to the occultist and deeply nationalistic Thule Society led by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff. "Thule" will appear more... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thule_Soc…
Saltsjöbaden tillkom på 1890-talet på initiativ av K.A. Wallenberg och Ernest Thiel, idén var att skapa en exklusiv villa och badort vid Östersjökusten. Ortens mest kända byggnad är Grand Hotel Saltsjöbaden som stod färdig 1893. Här slöts Saltsjöbadsavtalet den 20 december 1938
"LO försökte dölja klasskampen och pratade om arbetarnas och Wallenbergs gemensamma bestämmanderätt. Senare har denna paragraf ytterligare ändrats. Nu heter det att förbunden skall ”medverka till en samhällsutveckling på grundval av politisk, social och ekonomisk demokrati”."
If you ever get to the enemy trench on the other side you will find people just like you. Dealing with the same kind of daily struggles to survive. Therefore it is important for them to keep the illusion alive that between you is a warzone.
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They have to keep new and old conflicts alive to make you believe in the warzone between you the people. So while you dwell in you trench in the modern war that consist of information, economy, and a small portion of arms and still believe in the backdrop of conflict.
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Some of us is rising up and walking out to stand in the middle to make you aware of the things that divide us. To make you aware of who is dividing us and why. We are risking to have words and epithet thrown at us. However those are hollow if you have the correct perspective..
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