NATO Secretary General – Doorstep Statement, Foreign Ministers Meeting, 2 DEC 2014 – Video

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Doorstep statement by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the start of the meetings of NATO Foreign Ministers - 2 December 2014.

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NATO Secretary General – NATO-Ukraine Commission, Foreign Ministers Meeting, 2 DEC 2014 – Video

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Opening remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission at the level of Foreign Affairs Ministers, 2 December 2014.

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NATO Secretary General – Press Conference, Foreign Ministers Meeting, 2 DEC 2014 – Part 2/2 – Video

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Questions and Answers following press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg following the meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Foreign Ministers session, 2 December 2014.

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NATO Secretary General – Resolute Support Potential Operational Partner Nations, 2 DEC 2014 – Video

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Opening remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Resolute Support Potential Operational Partner Nations, 2 December 2014.

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NATO Criticises Russia: Stoltenberg condemns Russia for ‘not respecting’ east Ukraine peace deal – Video

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The Secretary General of NATO has criticised Russia for failing to uphold the Minsk ceasefire deal signed in September. Jens Stoltenberg said the peace deal had been #39;violated #39; and called on...

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NATO Secretary General & President of Afghanistan – Foreign Ministers Meeting, 2 DEC 2014 – 2/2 – Video

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Questions and Answers following Joint press conference by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Aghan President Ghani following the meeting of the North Atlantic Council with Resolute...

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NATO seeks rebuilding of contacts with Russia

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BRUSSELS, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A call for rebuilding military contacts with Russia was brought up at a NATO meeting this week in Brussels, officials said.

Earlier this year NATO suspended interaction with Russian counterparts in reaction to Russia's involvement in Ukraine. Foreign ministers recommended renewal of contacts between senior NATO leaders and Russian military commanders.

"Ministers agreed that at this time of tension there is a need for regular communications among NATO and Russian military to avoid any incidents, and that NATO military authorities should keep channels of military communications open and use them when necessary to avoid any possible misunderstandings related to military activities," said Oana Lungescu, a NATO spokeswoman.

Alexander Grushko, Russian permanent representative to NATO, said his country was amenable to renewing contacts, adding that "communications links and appropriate structures are still in place."

The initiative calling for crisis management protocols recalls emergency lines of communication between Moscow and Washington during the Cold War. NATO representatives fear tensions between Russia and the West could quickly go out of control without opportunities for dialogue. It comes as Russia has increased military exercises in Europe, including incidents in which Russian fighter planes have flown in and near European airspace, prompting the possibility of collision with NATO aircraft.

Earlier, Grushko warned NATO's increased use of military exercises in Eastern Europe is heightening the tension and "will lead to serious risks of military incidents." The Russian TASS news agency reported Grushko told journalists, "This way could lead to the emergence of a new round of arms race and increasing tensions."

His comments came as Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a law ratifying a five-year military alliance between Russia and Kazakhstan, reportedly establishing a unification of military supplies and security procedures.

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Why Privacy Matters What The NSA Capabilities Are. Featuring Jacob Appelbaum. In the first part of the video we see a short animation explaining in plain English why privacy matters and...

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In the Loop: The NSA wants you to help them party with panache

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The sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

For many years, the National Security Agency (NSA) was seen as the most secretive of agencies, beyond impenetrable. The joke was that NSA stood for No Such Agency.

Butlongbefore Edward Snowden blew the cover off the joint, the agency had been lightening up. Like other intelligence agencies, the State Department and the White House, NSA has for many decades hada protocol office to handle official events, visitors and such.

We came across a recent agency help-wanted ad for an NSA protocol officer, whose job would be to explain and apply codes and procedures of social behavior, etiquette and ceremony. Yes, you can bean events planner and virtual latter-day Emily Post.

Youll coordinate, plan and organize. . . visits, ceremonies, dinners and conferences. . . And when big-wigs come to the Fort Meade, youll make sure they can get into the building and have security, transportation and special diet.

You have to have the ability to plan/organize/coordinate and do multitasking, thead says, plus,be able to view computer screen continuously for two hours or more and be able to stand, walk, or kneel for long periods. (Kneel?)

If you can meet all those criteria, then pass a drug test, security background investigation and a polygraph,NSA will pay you between $42,631 and $67,787 a year.(Not much for someone with skills like those.)

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The Switchboard: NSA hackers spied on international cell phone networks

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Published every weekday, the Switchboard is your morning helping of hand-picked stories from the Switch team.

Comcast and AT&T deal decisions may come in March, FCC says. Bloomberg reports: "The Comcast review has 95 days remaining while the AT&T review has 110 days left, based on clocks that agency uses to set an informal 180-day deadline for considering mergers."

Sprints crazy Cut Your Bill in Half promo actually saves customers 20 percent. "Sprint is cutting in half the service portion of the bill the part that pays for calling, texting and data," writes Re/code. "However, to get that savings, customers have to either lease a new phone or pay installments on the full cost of a new phone."

Google brings better, faster TV and internet hardware to Austin for Fiber launch. "The Network+ Box is the centerpiece of Google Fiber in the home, offering four gigabit ethernet ports and full support for 802.11ac Wi-Fi," according to the Verge. "It also includes 2TB of storage for your DVR recordings."

How the NSA hacks cell phone networks worldwide. "The NSA has spied on hundreds of companies and organizations internationally," the Intercept reports, "including in countries closely allied to the United States, in an effort to find security weaknesses in cellphone technology that it can exploit for surveillance."

Verizon starts killing off 3G networks to make room for LTE. "About 80 percent of Verizons mobile data traffic now rides over LTE, but some 40 million (41 percent) of the total devices on Verizons networks only have 2G and 3G radios," according to Gigaom. "That means for the foreseeable future, Verizon will have to keep a modicum of EV-DO capacity online at every cell site to support those devices."

Brian Fung covers technology for The Washington Post, focusing on telecom, broadband and digital politics. Before joining the Post, he was the technology correspondent for National Journal and an associate editor at the Atlantic.

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Less than two weeks after hearing arguments in the case, a federal appeals court Wednesday again rejected a Florida law pushed by Gov. Rick Scott requiring welfare applicants to submit to drug tests before they can receive benefits.

The 2011 law "offends the Fourth Amendment" protections from unreasonable searches by the government, a three-judge panel ruled in a 54-page opinion authored by Judge Stanley Marcus.

"We respect the states overarching and laudable desire to promote work, protect families, and conserve resources. But, above all else, we must enforce the Constitution and the limits it places on government. If we are to give meaning to the Fourth Amendments prohibition on blanket government searches, we must -- and we do -- hold that (the Florida law) crosses the constitutional line," Marcus wrote.

The ruling, which upheld a final judgment late last year by U.S. District Judge Mary Scriven, is the fourth time courts have sided with the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida and the Florida Justice Institute, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of Luis Lebron, a Navy veteran and single father. The lawsuit was filed shortly after the law went into effect in mid-2011. Scott used mandatory drug tests as an issue in his 2010 campaign.

"This is a resounding affirmation of the values that the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects -- that none of us can be forced to submit to invasive and humiliating searches at the whim of the government, and that the Constitution protects the poor and the wealthy alike. The court has once again confirmed what we argued all along: that the state of Florida cannot treat an entire class of people like suspected criminals simply because theyve asked the state for temporary assistance," ACLU of Florida associate legal director Maria Kayanan, who argued the case before the court Nov. 20, said in a statement.

Scott can either ask the 11th Circuit for an "en banc" review by the entire court or pursue an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court. The Scott administration did not comment Wednesday afternoon on the ruling. Despite repeated court decisions finding that the welfare drug testing law is unconstitutional, Scott and his lawyers have refused to back down from their position that the urine tests are needed to make sure poor children don't grow up in drug-riddled households.

But the appeals-court judges again rejected the Scott administration's arguments, saying that the state failed to make its case.

In effect from July 1, 2011, until Oct. 24, 2011, when Scriven issued a preliminary injunction putting it on hold, the law required applicants seeking benefits in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program -- emergency cash benefits for "the poorest of the poor," available to expectant mothers and families with children -- to submit to and pay for urine tests, which range from $24 to $45. The money would be reimbursed if the tests were negative, and parents who failed the tests could designate someone else to receive cash benefits on behalf of their children.

During the period in which the law was in effect, 4,406 applicants submitted to drug testing. Only 108 -- less than 3 percent -- tested positive for drugs. Another 2,306 applicants failed to complete the applications or receive the drug screens.

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SandyHook was a hoax to weakened the second amendment. A capstone event perpetrated by the president and the attorney general. Also see Sandy Hook creating reality redux on the tube. Stand...

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