NATO Secretary General and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Jordan - Joint Press Point - 09 DEC 2014
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg joint press point with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Nasser Judeh. Held 09 December 2014 in Amman, Jordan.
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NATO warplanes intercepted six Russian nuclear-capable bombers over the Baltic Sea. while most intercepts carried out over the Baltic are routine, the intercept of the six bombers represen...
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LONDON (Reuters) - NATO allies sent patrol planes to help Britain scour the waters off its western Scottish coast after a submarine's periscope was spotted, in a search reminiscent of the Cold War, media reported.
Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD) said it had received help from NATO allies in an operation, but declined to go into further details.
Reports that searches took place in late November and early December, which first appeared in Aviation Week, come amid growing tensions between Western powers and Russia over its role in the Ukraine crisis.
A squadron of Russian warships entered the English Channel last month and Sweden said it had proof a foreign submarine was operating illegally in its waters in October.
A periscope was spotted in waters where Royal Navy submarines normally surface as they head in or out of a base at Faslane, home to Britain's nuclear deterrent, Aviation Week reported.
It said planes from France, the United States and Canada were involved in the search.
"NATO partners have provided assistance for the operation of maritime patrol aircraft from RAF Lossiemouth for a limited period with the Royal Navy.We do not discuss the detail of maritime operations," the MoD said in a statement late on Tuesday.
Britain has not had its own specialist maritime patrol aircraft since scrapping its Nimrod programme as part of a defence review in 2010.
The MoD did not confirm the planes were looking for a submarine or when the operation took place. Aviation Week said it was not clear whether the submarine being hunted had entered British territorial waters.
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GRAFENWHR, Germany NATOs Allied Land Command has finally reached full operational capacity, LANDCOM commander Lt. Gen. John Nicholson said at the close on Wednesday of NATOs largest training exercise since the end of the Cold War.
One aim of the exercise, Trident Lance, was to test how well a fully operational LANDCOM which is charged with improving the effectiveness and reaction time of the alliances land forces could respond to an international crisis. In this case, the scenario dealt with the hypothetical invasion of NATO member Estonia, which borders Russia at NATOs northeastern corner.
To that end, more than 3,700 troops took part in scenarios, simulated with both computer and traditional training events, that included everything from missile strikes to cyber attacks.
The bulk of Trident Lance was based out of the Joint Multinational Training Command in Grafenwhr. Command elements from Poland, Greece and Turkey also took part, while U.S. Army in Europe provided a hefty logistical contribution.
Nicholson was joined by Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Phillip Breedlove and Supreme Allied Commander Transformation French Gen. Jean-Paul Palomeros in talking about how Trident Lance reflects the new reality of military operations in Europe.
Two years ago the head of states and government of NATO decided to reinvest in training and exercises because they felt that we needed to regain our readiness after two decades of operations and to keep the lessons that we have learned through the operations, Palomeros said. Today, this connective forces initiative is a reality, and we see that through this exercise.
Even though this exercise has been in the planning stages for years, growing tensions in eastern Europe have given it added importance, Breedlove said.
As you have seen over the past few months, Russias aggressive actions in Ukraine have triggered the alliance to begin a series of assurance and adaptation measures to assure our allies and adapt our military organizations to the new security environment in Europe, he said.
Trident Lance is a part of what will be a persistent and continuous level of activity, to include exercises large and small to ensure our forces are prepared to respond on short notice when needed.
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The United States National Security Agency, which is known for monitoring landline, Web and cellphone communications worldwide, also targets wireless carriers, The Intercept reported last week.
Documents released by whistle-blower Edward Snowden show the NSA has monitored more than 1,200 email accounts associated with major cellphone network operators worldwide since 2010, in a covert operation named "Auroragold," according to the report.
Those intercepted communications help the NSA hack into phone networks.
The agency also plans to secretly introduce backdoors into new communications systems.
The GSM Association, whose members are mobile operators and related companies, and which releases standards for GSM phones, is a particular target.
"The mission of the NSA is to gather data," said Jonathan Sander, strategy and research officer at Stealthbits Technologies.
"They will do so in whatever way they can, so long as there aren't explicit legal limits put on them," he told TechNewsWorld.
The NSA's Wireless Portfolio Management Office defines and carries out the agency's strategy for exploiting wireless communications, and its Target Technology Trends Center monitors the development of new communications technology to ensure the NSA remains on top of innovation, The Intercept said. The existence of both has not been publicly disclosed.
As of May 2012, the NSA apparently had collected information from about 70 percent of cellphone networks worldwide -- 702 out of about 985.
Data collected reportedly is sent to NSA "signals development" teams that infiltrate communications networks. The data is shared with other U.S. intelligence agencies and with NSA's counterparts in the so-called Five Eyes alliance.
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After 49ers defensive lineman Ray McDonald was arrested for domestic assault in August, coach Jim Harbaugh defended the teams decision not to take action by wrapping himself in the nations founding documents.
[T]his is America, youre innocent until youre proven guilty, Harbaugh said at the time. I dont know what more I can say about that and I have great respect for that principle. . . . Its in the Constitution. Its in the Constitution. Its well defined. The Fifth Amendment.
Harbaughs respect for the Fifth Amendment (which may not have been quite as strong if the player in question had been a bottom-of-the-roster slappy) doesnt match the NFLs attitude toward the Fifth Amendment. Under the new personal conduct policy, the player has no right to remain silent.
Because the Fifth Amendments protection against self-incrimination does not apply in a workplace investigation, the league will reserve the right to compel an employee to cooperate in its investigations even when the employee is the target of a pending law enforcement investigation or proceeding, the new policy states. An employees refusal to speak to a league investigator under such circumstances will not preclude an investigation from proceeding or discipline from being imposed.
Similarly, a criminal defendants refusal to speak in a court of law wont preclude a prosecution from proceeding and discipline from being imposed. However, because the NFL wont be honoring the various other Constitutional protections that apply when liberty is on the line (like proof beyond a reasonable doubt), its much easier for an employee who remains silent to end up being deemed guilty in circumstances where breaking the silence may have exonerated him.
If the player speaks, however, anything he tells investigators may be used against him in his criminal case. Under the rules of evidence applicable in every American jurisdiction and all federal courts, anything a criminal defendant says in any setting can be introduced against him at trial.
For the NFL, that could create awkward moments, transforming league investigators into witnesses, with subpoenas issued for testimony and any notes or other record of what the player said. So the NFL probably would prefer that the player refuse to cooperate; if the player talks, the NFL eventually will be cooperating in the criminal case, whether the NFL wants to or not.
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New personal conduct policy disregards Fifth Amendment protections
The jibe about how DAs can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich was uttered by a former chief judge of New York state, Sol Wachtler. Now the progressives want to make ham sandwiches out of the cops in addition to the rest of us.
The rush is on in Albany for a law that would require appointment of a special prosecutor whenever a police officer kills an unarmed civilian. You could have Zeus for your local DA; a special prosecutor would still be required.
This brainstorm is being hawked by the leftist politicians after a grand jurys failure to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the death of Eric Garner. A similar law was also proposed in Missouri, after the fatal police shooting in Ferguson.
In Albany the measure is being readied by Assemblymen Karim Camara (D-Brooklyn) and Marcos Crespo (D-Bronx). This is a watershed moment, New York Citys public advocate, Letitia James, told the Associated Press this week.
Its clear that the system is broken, James says. The New York Times has come unglued over the issue, saying there is a crisis of confidence in prosecutors. The gist of the complaint is that grand juries so seldom indict police officers.
But what is a grand jury, anyhow?
My favorite definition is that a grand jury is a right, one designed to protect individuals from mob justice. At least in America and New York state, it is a right that inheres in all persons who are accused of a capital or otherwise infamous crime.
That language is from the Fifth Amendment, which is part of the Bill of Rights. No person, the amendment says, shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury.
Similar phrasing exists in New Yorks Constitution, whose grand-jury protection is among the strongest in the country.
It doesnt say that no person shall answer for an infamous crime unless on indictment by a grand jury except for cops. It says no person period.
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John Flannery, a Loudoun litigator and former federal prosecutor, raised the subject to Loudoun County Public School Superintendent Eric Williams at the Loudoun Democrats monthly meeting Dec. 4, where Williams was a guest speaker.
Flannery filed a Freedom of Information Act request with LCPS requesting school facility community use applications, revealing 33 religious groups using school facilities.
According to the documents, 40 percent of the county's public school buildings are used for religious worship services on weekends.
Flannery believes religious services of any kind that are held in public school buildings are unconstitutional and break the First Amendment of the Constitution's Establishment Clause, which prohibits the government from passing laws establishing religion or hindering religious expression.
There are cases that basically say that [worship services in public schools] is essentially the establishment of religion, Flannery said to Williams at the meeting. Religions can use the schools in certain contexts, but they can't use them for worship services, as that's establishing a religion. I was wondering what you propose to do about that?
Williams said that he was not familiar with court cases in which worship service in schools was considered a violation of the First Amendment.
I am accustomed to working in school divisions in which the norm was [schools allowing worship services when not using the building], Williams said. Obviously I'm familiar with the case law in terms of separation between church and state as it relates to school day practices and so that is important. I will tell you that's just not my understanding in terms of what's appropriate in terms of weekend use.
Williams said he was happy to have the board's attorney look into the issue.
Flannery has begun a discussion with school and county officials on whether or not worship in public school buildings is appropriate, saying it violates the First Amendment.
Its time to declare that religious worship is an impermissible use of our public schools, Flannery wrote in a letter he sent to School Board members and the Loudoun Board of Supervisors. Some jurisdictions take great pains to ban religious worship in the public schools so that they wont breach the constitutional barrier designed to separate church from state action It is indicative of establishment when the disputed practice is religious rather than secular, when the practice advances religion, and, finally, when the government is entangled with the religious practice.
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Nov. 25, 2014 front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. (Newseum)
Something more than fires and rage has been sparked in the streets of Ferguson. There is a growing awakening and reawakening of hundreds and thousands of protesters to their First Amendment rights to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
I saw it firsthand as I talked to men and women, young and old, black and white, before and after a grand jury decided not to indict former Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
Before this sleepy suburb in my hometown of St. Louis morphed into an international flashpoint for race relations and police tactics in America, for many of the protesters the 45 words in the First Amendment had as much interest or meaning as the Yellow Pages. Now, the First Amendment, like Ferguson, is a rallying cry, a hashtag, ammunition they can use to protect themselves from any government authority that tries to quell their voices.
Voices like Thomas Bradley. The 24-year-old barber works on the stretch of West Florissant Avenue in Ferguson that suffered the most damage. A week before Brown was killed, Bradley said he was physically and verbally harassed by a Ferguson policeman. In the aftermath of Browns death and the grand jurys exoneration of Wilson, Bradley has taken a place beside other young demonstrators on the citys streets.
I didnt know anything at all about the First Amendment, at least not as much as I should have, he said. Now I do. This is not just about Mike Brown but everybody who has ever been abused by the police department.
Voices like 63-year-old Beverly Adams of University City, Mo., who knew about her constitutional rights but hadnt exercised them in years.
I was enraged when [Browns body] was left out in the street for four and a half hours, she said. I started marching on Canfield, the street where Brown died. Thats where I always go, by myself. I think when all is said and done, there will be a special law in his name against police brutality.
Voices like Ericka Hughes, 42, a business owner in Jennings, Mo., who made some of the T-shirts worn in the Ferguson protests. She took to the streets within the first few days of Browns shooting.
This is not the first time I have marched for a cause, she said. Browns death hit so close to home in so many ways. I have nephews and cousins and stepsons. This affects everybody.
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A new eavesdropping bill is generating some First Amendment concerns before it even becomes law.
The law will replace the previous one, which was declared unconstitutional by the Illinois Supreme Court. However, some nebulous language is causing concerns among some groups who fear it could have a chilling effect on people videotaping the police.
The law makes it illegal to record any conversation unless everybody in the conversation consents or no one in the conversation has a reasonable expectation of privacy. Well, what does it mean to have a reasonable expectation of privacy? This law doesn't tell you how to know that, said Jacob Huebert, Sr. Attorney with the Liberty Justice Center.
But the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois said those concerns are misguided.
When you see a police officer having an interaction in public, and you can hear what they're saying, you can record it, said Ed Yohnka, Communications Director with the ACLU of Illinois
Yohnka said people who have been marching in the streets of Chicago to vent their frustrations over the Eric Garner death in New York City should not have to worry about recording their interactions with police, or any other public interaction with law enforcement, as long as it's in a public place.
That right was established by the decision issued by the Illinois Supreme Court back in the spring when it ruled the old eavesdropping law was unconstitutional, according to the ACLU.
Yohnka said the new law would put the onus on police officers to take steps to have any private conversations in places where they could clearly expect privacy. He added prosecutors and police need to make it clear to their officers that people do have the right to record them doing their job in public.
They have a right, under the First Amendment, to gather that kind of information, you know to try to redress wrongs, to try to correct a situation, to make a complaint about the actions of a particular public official, Yohnka said.
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Days after Vertcoin forked its network to implement an anti-ASIC algorithm Lyra2RE, another cryptocurrency with similar objectives was launched. Named as Kryptohash, the new altcoin is promising new features against ASIC mining, one among which is a brand new POW algorithm.
KSHAKE320 The New POW Algorithm The new algorithm is aiming to reduce mining costs by completely eradicating ASICs from the picture. A small description of KSHAKE320 describes it as a new Proof-Of-Work algorithm (POW) based on the Keccak-F 1600 Sponge function in a mode called Extendable-Output (a.k.a. SHAKE). SHAKEs variable output makes it ideal for a Proof-Of-Work solution, as it can easily be configured to require large amount of memory which increases the computing cost to those attempting to perform large-scale ASIC attacks.
Incidentally, Vertcoin is also using the hash function Keccak in its chain algorithm, which also includes other algorithms like Skein, Groestl, Blake and Lyra2. However, the Kryptohash developers have implemented a 320-long mining hash, while Vertcoin uses the 256 one. Also, there is no mention of SHAKE in the Lyra2E whitepaper, which makes KSHAKE320 a truly unique algorithm thanks to handful of new features..
Mining Incentives The block solvers are promised to be paid a fixed 0.5% fee. The absence of ASIC mining will indeed eradicate mining monopoly, as the probability of solving one block would be same for each miner. The block difficulty will be adjusted every 100 blocks using a PID algorithm. Here is the block reward and fee structure listed on Kryptohashs official website.
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