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User talk:Brian McNeil/Project INDECT

There is a lot of reading material here, please help.

Original reporting

 * See also User talk:Brian McNeil/Project INDECT/players

INDECT project page

 * Research area: SEC-2007-1.2-01 Intelligent urban environment observation system
 * Are there any documents describing this 'category'?

 * Final generalised purpose: "automatic detection of threats and recognition of abnormal behaviour or violence"
 * Aim: prototype, "supporting the operational activities of police officers", "providing techniques and tools for observation of various mobile objects", "search engine combining direct search of images and video based on watermarked contents", "for fast detection of persons and documents based on watermarking technology and utilising comprehensive research on watermarking technology used for semantic search", "construction of [software] agents assigned to continuous and automatic monitoring of public resources such as: web sites, discussion forums, UseNet groups, file servers, p2p networks as well as individual computer systems,"
 * List of project partners, and coordinator at that page.

People
Helen Petrie (petrie@)
 * member, Ethical review board for Suresh's research.

 * Professor at York University. Speciality is Universal Access - i.e. technology aids for disabled and blind.

Drew Harris, Head of Project INDECT Ethics Board
 * Assistant Chief Constable, PSNI
 * -Crime Operations Department
 * Joined Northern Ireland police in 1983 as on-beat Constable. Promoted to Chief Inspector in 1996, Superintendent in 2000.
 * Appointed to current position in Feb. 2006.
 * Responsibilites: Organised Crime, Major Investigation Teams, Intelligence Branch, Special Operation Branch, Analyst Branch, Scientific Support Branch, Serious Crime Review Team, E-Crime and Central Authorisation Bureau. In addition, he also holds the ACPO Hate Crime Portfolio.
 * BA Honours in Politics and Economics from the Open University
 * M.St in Criminology (Cantab) - Master of Studies (cantab - Cambridge? Part-time?)
 * "completed the Strategic Command Course in 2004 and the Leadership in International Counter Terrorism Course in 2005.
 * Northern Ireland Policing board: search matches from minutes
 * Contact point: Assistant: Zulema Rosborough - firstname.lastname-at-psni.pnn.police.uk

Zulema Rosborough - Detective Chief Inspector, PSNI

...
 * Piotr Szczuko - Gdańsk - project lead GUT
 * Andrzej Ciarkowski - Gdańsk - technical lead GUT
 * Grzegorz Szwoch - Gdańsk - Video analysis
 * Józef Kotus - Gdańsk - Monitoring station design
 * Maciej Szczodrak - Gdańsk - Supercomputing applications

European Commission remit and grant

 * Effectively similar information to the project page. Lists funding, duration, status, and participants (without offsite links or contact details)

INDECT project report on news & social media monitoring (Highlighted by Wikileaks)

 * Title: "XML Data Corpus: Report on methodology for collection, cleaning and unified representation of large textual data from various sources: news reports, weblogs, chat."
 * Contributors: Various EU universities, heavy on the Eastern-EU side. Polish police, Northern Ireland police, companies...
 * INNOTEC data Gmbh
 * Main page features GSM tracking systems, Video surveillance techniques
 * IP Grenoble (Ensimag) - appears school/uni
 * MOVIQUITY
 * list of clients (notable number of ISPs)
 * X-art Pro
 * Profile, address, and contact details ("We are researching and developing tools for workflow enhancements in broadcast telcos and other corporations using rich media.")

Content
 * Responsibility: "Extraction of Information for Crime Prevention by Combining Web Derived Knowledge and Unstructured Data."
 * Introduction: "learn relationships between people and organizations through websites and social networks"
 * Data collected: "Automatic Content Extraction Dataset (release: LDC2007E63)", "Knowledge Base Population (KBP)" ... "entity types of Person (PER), Organization (ORG), and Geo-Political Entity (GPE), Location (LOC), Facility (FAC), Geographical/Social/Political (GPE), Vehicle (VEH) and Weapon (WEA)."
 * Purpose: "augment an existing knowledge representation with information about entities that is discovered from a collection of documents. A snapshot of Wikipedia infoboxes is used as the original knowledge source. The document collection consists of newswire articles on the order of 1 million." + Netflix released rating data for their rating algorithm competition + "Web People Search (WePS) workshop" ... "extracting 18 kinds of attribute values for target individuals whose names appear on a set of web pages", then annotate - relationships, birth dates, 'other'. Dataset includes approximately 40,000 words of 'conversational telephone speech'.

 * Captures ethnic and political affiliation data; groups organisations or individuals can be classed and recognised as having an ideology (eg Christian).
 * Categorises/recognises "salient events" - destruction/damage, Creation/improvement, movement, transfer of possessions.
 * Working with Netflix data, other sets, and US Census data in "filling in the blanks" on people.

 * "The subset of the collected data will be annotated using the annotation scheme described in this report. This annotation will be detailed in that it will identify all relevant potential threats, the participants, the locations, the time and connections between entities involved. End users (i.e. the police) will be used to verify the correctness of the annotation where it is necessary." (Emphasis mine)

Contacts for additional material

 * Name, Contact method, Questions
 * Prof. Wieslaw Lubaszewski (University of Science and Technology, AGH, Poland) - Responsible for data collection - only done in Polish and Czech
 * Email address located in this Polish-language paper

 * Emailed UK Home Office and Attorney General's office
 * AG referred me to Home office, did not answer questions on legal repercussions of INDECT.
 * Correspondence CC'd to scoop, any accredited reporter may verify.
 * Home Office 'passed the buck' to the Northern Ireland Office.

 * Emailed PSNI and Met. police
 * Asking if their operational procedures are based on MoD MoS

Eddan Katz, International Affairs Director, EFF
Skype interview, Eddan in Brussels, spending week there. Meeting/seminar/conference/thing with EU tomorrow.

Eddan intends to mention INDECT in talk, found YouTube video a few days ago, has been getting familiarised with INDECT since the Telegraph(?) story. --Brian McNeil / talk 00:17, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

 * International Affairs Director of the EFF
 * Held position since early 2008, interviewed by Wikinews in early weeks at post.[ Lobby groups oppose plans for EU copyright extension February 26, 2008].

 * Initial section of the interview was an informal discussion, bringing Eddan up to speed on INDECT and this latest document from Wikileaks.
 * This (and possibly other things), analysing relevance to "legal frameworks"
 * mention of people to "proactively protect themself" (encryption)
 * ...Eddan makes mention of a possible "Ombudsman request"
 * ...Eddan first became aware of this with Telegraph report
 * ...INDECT YouTube video uploaded on Friday, EFF found shortly after
 * ...INDECT YouTube video uploaded on Friday, EFF found shortly after

 * ...Eddan sends link to Neoconopticon report (refers me to P78)
 * ...Eddan suggests UK Home Office unlikely to know anything on this (re: my queries)
 * ...Neoconopticon is on the "Security-Industrial Complex"

 * More formal, on-the-record (quotable and attributable)

 * Q:Is this illegal? Is this an invasion of privacy? Spying on citizens?
 * "When the European Parliament issued the September 5 2001 report on the American ECHELON system they knew such an infrastructure is in violation of data protection law, undermines the values of privacy and is the first step towards a totalitarian surveillance information society"

 * Q:Who is making the decisions based on this information, about what?

 * "Whats concerning to such a large extent is the fact that the projects seem to be agnostic to that question. These are the searching systems and those people that are working on it in these research labs do search technology anyway."
 * "...but its inclusion in a database and its availability to law enforcement and its simultaneity of application that's so concerning" ... "because the people who built it aren't thinking about those questions, and the social questions, and the political questions, and all this kind of stuff."
 * "...seems like it's intransparent, unaccountable"

 * Q:Who paid for it? Who is paying for it? Was it legal? And, why did they pay for it?

This is covered by the "Seventh framework programme under the European Commission". - See p21 (Neoconopticon report). "Ethical Research" about the FP7 programme.

 * Q:What's the techology/research?

See NeoConOpticon.

TOTAL INTERVIEW DURATION ~50min. ''Notes &c available to verify above. --Brian McNeil / talk 03:10, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Standardised questions

 * These are a basis for any Wikinewsies looking into this. Select and tailor questions depending on who you get to talk to. The "targets" for these questions are the researchers, the companies involved in Project INDECT research, and the politicians and bureaucrats who're making sure this gets money.

 * 1) Is your research designed to support an EU version of Echelon?
 * 2) How does the EU version work?
 * 3) What, in your professional view, is the purpose of such a network/software?
 * 4) Who will be in charge of the implementation of this system?
 * 5) What ground resources are involved in your component? I.e. Countries, entities, hardware, data?
 * 6) When do you expect to receive output/data?
 * 7) Who will have access to the output?
 * 8) What are the details of the funding? A grant, or a competitive bid procedure?
 * 9) (Above note: Grant: €10.1M Pricetag: €16M+)
 * 10) How did you get involved in this? Where, when did you first hear about it?
 * 11) Do you know of anyone else who is currently involved, or has been in the past?

Above from chat on IRC, to be customised before putting to anyone. --Brian McNeil / talk 18:12, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Summary of apparent target system
The information available from the sources above suggests there is an "ideal" system which there is a political drive to attempt to create.

This is the EU attempt to build the modern-day Echelon

The clearly stated objective is to provide a system which sifts and tracks vast quantities of data, categorised in such a way that an individual's interaction with data can be tracked. This has repercussions offline, as well as on. The analysis of data from mainstream sites, news reports, comments therein, and analysis of content relates to events, places, 'intellectual property', organisations, physical objects - firearms, mobile phones.

Police are the only explicitly mentioned users of the system,

Possibly related or salient

 * JSP 440
 * The Defence Manual of Security Volumes 1, 2 and 3 Issue 2
 * MINISTRY OF DEFENCE October 2001
 * By Command of the Defence Council

-Nov 21, 2006 (The Register)
 * http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-06-06-004-20-SC-SW - PGP 10 years on
 * "The Internet has gone from being a gentleman's club for academics to something fiendishly hostile. It's changed from something like a university campus to downtown Bagdad". -- Phil Zimmermann.

Extensive emphasis on actively thwarting attempts of investigative journalists.

Which neatly ties into this video on Youtube. --Brian McNeil / talk 00:48, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

The EU on ECHELON

 * 'My Intro: The 'rumoured' American ECHELON communications intercept system was analysed, and the link to the report is given below. This is to a Cryptome-hosted copy with redacted information restored. Notable, particularly in relation to my conversation with Eddan Katz of the EFF, are the following points:
 * A European Parliament resolution relating to ECHELON was discussed, and passed, on September 5, 2001 - six days before 9/11. (Erikki Liikanen of the European Commission gave this speech, and the Parliament issued this resolution).

 * Compatibility with EU law
 * "The findings of the Committee concerning the compatibility of a system of the 'Echelon type' with EU law distinguish between two scenarios:" 1. "whether such a system is used purely for intelligence purposes," 2 "or the system is abused for the purpose of gathering competitive intelligence."
 * "Maintaining an interception system for the purpose of gathering intelligence in the context of a Member State's defence or national security is outside the scope of the directives in force on data protection."
 * "As to the second scenario, gathering of competitive intelligence does not come within the scope of a common foreign and security policy. It is not an activity that would be allowed under the guise of the pursuit of a Common Foreign and Security Policy."
 * "In so far as Community law is concerned, such activity could fall within the scope of the data protection directives. This is the case if data gathered by Echelon type systems is collected or subsequently passed on to commercial undertakings for purposes unrelated to the prevention of criminal offences and unrelated to State security matters."
 * And the full, unredacted report:
 * European Parliament report on Echelon (unredacted version) - Hosted on Cryptome.org
 * "The committee's remit includes the specific task of examining the compatibility of an 'ECHELON' type communications interception system with Community law"
 * "...If it is true that the system is used to obtain competitive intelligence, the further issue arises of whether this is compatible with Community law. This second aspect will therefore be discussed separately."

 * "In principle, activities and measures undertaken for the purposes of state security or law enforcement do not fall within the scope of the EC Treaty. ... the Community rightly excluded these areas from the scope of application of the data protection directives, ... Directive 59/46/EC on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data ... Directive 97/66/EC concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector ... do not apply to 'the processing of data/activities concerning public security, defence, state security (including the economic well-being of the state when the activities relate to state security matters) and the activities of the state in areas of criminal law'." (Emphasis mine)
 * "the same wording has been used in the proposal for a directive concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector" (This was 2001).
 * "The involvement of a Member State in an interception system for the purposes of State security cannot therefore be in breach of the data protection directives".

 * "there can be no breach of Article 286 TEC, which extends the scope of the data protection directives to data processing by Community institutions and bodies. The same applies to Regulation 45/2001 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data"

 * "emphasised at this point that no sources whatsoever contend that there is any involvement of Community bodies and institutions in a surveillance system and the rapporteur has absolutely no grounds for assuming this to be the case" (in 2001 - and now?)

 * "since at EU level there are still no regulations concerning the admissibility of the interception of telecommunications for security or intelligence purposes, the issue of infringement of Article 6(2) TEU does not yet arise."

 * "If a Member State were to promote the use of an interception system, which was also used for industrial espionage, by allowing its own intelligence service to operate such a system or by giving foreign intelligence services access to its territory for this purpose, it would undoubtedly constitute a breach of EC law." ... "activities of this kind would be fundamentally at odds with the concept of a common market underpinning the EC Treaty, as it would amount to a distortion of competition".

 * Member State obligations "In particular, they shall prohibit listening, tapping, storage or other kinds of interception or surveillance of communications, by others than users'. Pursuant to Article 14, exceptions may be made only where they are necessary to safeguard national security, defence and law enforcement. As industrial espionage is no justification for an exception, it would, in this case, constitute an infringement of Community law."

 * "To sum up, it can therefore be said that the current legal position is that an ECHELON type intelligence system is not in breach of Union law because it does not concern the aspects of Union law that would be required for there to be incompatibility. However, this applies only where the system is actually used exclusively for the purposes of state security. On the other hand, were it to be used for other purposes and for industrial espionage directed against foreign firms, this would constitute an infringement of EC law. Were a Member State to be involved in such action, it would be in breach of Community law."

The NeoConOpticon report

 * Neoconopticon - Hosted by Statewatch.org
 * Author: Ben Hayes
 * Title Page: Transnational Institute[ Statewatch entry ] - NeoConOpticon - The EU Security-Industrial Complex
 * Report date: September 25,2009
 * TNI summary: "A new TNI report reveals the extent to which Europe’s largest defence and IT contractors are benefiting from a €1.4 billion EU “security research” programme. "

Extract: Following the money

This report is based on a simple reading of the capital flows within the European Security Research Programme: economic, political and social. It reveals a programme that has been designed largely by lobbyists, for lobbyists; the product of a structural conflict of interests arising from the failure to separate the development and implementa- tion of the ESRP. Within this framework the companies whose names appear frequently in this report have played a particularly prominent role. This, coupled with an almost entire lack of democratic control over the ESRP, warrants strict auditing and a full review of the projects funded to date. The kind of enquiries conducted by the USA Federal Government Accountability Office (GAO) could provide a suitable model; the EU Court of Auditors could also sub- ject the programme to more rigorous scrutiny should it be deemed necessary.

There is also a pressing need for clarity in the aims and objectives of the ESRP. The programme is predicated on the twin objectives of supporting the emerging European homeland security industry and increasing public safety. What is happening in practice is that multinational cor- porations are using the ESRP to promote their own profit- driven agendas, while the EU is using the programme to further its own security and defence policy objectives. As suggested from the outset of this report, the kind of secu- rity described above represents a marriage of unchecked police powers and unbridled capitalism, at the expense of the democratic system.

As far as the ESRP is concerned, it is also difficult to draw much needed lines between research and procurement, be- tween civilian and military technology control, and between homeland security and defence applications. Amid all this confusion, if the programme is to continue, the parameters of the ESRP must be radically redrawn to put the programme under democratic control, to separate research and procure- ment and security and defence, to provide impartial objec- tive avenues for research (rather than R&D tailored to the policy objectives of an EU security state), and to put human rights and social justice at the centre instead of the margins of every project.

This is an extremely daunting task that requires an unravel- ling of the fears – real and imagined – that sustain the demand for new security policies. As the authors of ‘Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties’ have explained: “Un- ravelling fear is a difficult and complicated project because we have to face squarely the demons of our history, politics, ideologies and economies... In these terror-filled times, the search for just and peaceful solutions depends on seeing through and beyond our fears to new moral choices and political possibilities”.
 * European Security Research Programme - ESRP
 * INDICT is a part of this, note RP7 in reference to INDICT.

Reading notes
These are notes as reading the NeoConOpticon report.

 * "The comments of Kevin Haggerty (Department of Sociology, University of Alberta) on an earlier draft paper on the European Security Research Programme (ESRP), prepared for the ‘Surveillance and Democracy’ conference, were also very helpful in terms of shaping this report."
 * Kevin Haggerty, Associate Professor (Criminology and Sociology) University of British Columbia. web page/bio

Quote cited in report intro: "Governmental spending on products and services for homeland security should reach $141.6bn worldwide in 2009... The high priority given to homeland security has made that market one of the few recession-resistant sectors of the defence industry, some experts believe." --Visiongain Market Research, 2009.

 * Refers to Statewatch/TNI 2006 report, "Arming Big Brother" (this PDF?)
 * that was examining the European Union's Security Research Programme (ESRP), seven-year €1.4 billion programme.

 * Purpose of ESRP: "need to deliver new security enhancing technologies to the Union's member states to protect EU citizens from every conceivable threat to their security".
 * "aim of fostering the growth of a lucrative and competitive 'homeland security' industry in Europe. To this end, a number of prominent European corporations from the defence and IT sectors have enjoyed unprecedented involvement in the development of the security 'research' agenda."

 * NeoConOpticon is a followup to Arming Big Brother

 * on the ESRA: "Though technically a Research and Development (R&D) programme, the ESRP is heavily focused on the application of security technologies (rather than objective research per se), and is increasingly aligned with EU policy in the fields of justice and home affairs (JHA, the ‘third pillar’), security and external defence (CFSP, the ‘second pillar’)."

 * Arming Big Brother also authored by Hayes

 * "...shows that the design of the ESRP has been outsourced to the very corporations that have the most to gain from its implementation" "...focuses on the implementation of the ESRP and the broader consolidation of the EU security-industrial complex."

 * "What emerges from the bewildering array of contracts, acronyms and EU policies is the rapid development of a powerful new ‘interoperable’ European surveillance system that will be used for civilian, commercial, police, security and defence purposes alike."

 * Claims ERSP is "coalescing around a high-tech blueprint for new kinds of security" ... " division of a future world into internal/external zones internally "...policed by high-tech surveillance systems and rapid reaction forces; ‘peacekeeping’ and ‘crisis management’ missions that make no operational distinction between the suburbs of Basra or the Banlieue; and the increasing integration of defence and national security functions at home and abroad."

 * Report quote, clearly attributed to author Hayes: "It is not just a case of “sleepwalking into” or “waking up to” a “surveillance society”, as the UK’s Information Commissioner famously warned, it feels more like turning a blind eye to the start of a new kind of arms race, one in which all the weapons are pointing inwards. Welcome to the NeoConOpticon."

 * "This report does not start from the standpoint that security technology is bad. On the contrary, genuine, civilian-led efforts to enhance the capacity of states to prevent and respond to crime and catastrophic events through technology should, in principle, be welcomed. It is the way in which they will work in practice that should determine their acceptability." (italicised in report)

 * "The idea behind the ‘NeoConOpticon’ is to emphasise both the central role played by the private sector in ‘delivering’ surveillance-based security policies and the inherently neo-conservative appeal to the ‘defence of the homeland’ against threats to the ‘Western way of life’ used by the EU and other powerful actors."

 * "The EU’s security policies are premised on the neo-con philosophy of global policing and intervention in failed states to both pre-empt ‘threats’ to security and further the spread of the free market and western-style democracy around the world."
 * Ref: A secure Europe in a better world: European Security Strategy, EU Council document 15895/03, 8 December 2003; available at: http://www.iss-eu.org/solana/solanae.pdf. See also: Climate Change and International Security: Paper from the High Representative and the European Commission to the European Council, EU Council document S113/08, 14 March 2008, available at: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/reports/99387.pdf.

 * "Linked to the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, which promises “more reliable partners, more secure investments, more stable regions”, an inherently conservative world view is taking hold of EU consensus."
 * Ref: Solana, J. (2000) The Development of a Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU and the role of its High Representative, available at: http://afa.at/globalview/052000/solana.html.

 * "The ‘NeoConOpticon’ is a crude attempt to encapsulate these ideas: a coherent state-corporate project, potentially global in scope, designed to impose a high-tech security apparatus for the express purpose of maintaining and extending the current neo-liberal order into the 21st century."

 * "...in the words of a former EU Commissioner, “security is no longer a monopoly that belongs to public administrations, but a common good, for which responsibility and implementation should be shared by public and private bodies”
 * Ref:    Frattini, F. (2007) ‘Security by design’, Homeland Security Europe, based on a speech by Commissioner Frattini to the EU Security Research Conference in

Berlin, 26 March 2007, available at: http://www.homelandsecurityeu.com/currentissue/article.asp?art=271247&issue=219.

 * Security-Industrial Complex - Most successful: Israel - defined by report as "The model 'surveillance economy'"

 * "This report uses the model of ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’ to explore and conceptualise the inevitable outcome of authoritarian EU approaches to security, risk and public order. The term was first used at the turn of the century by the USA’s Department of Defence as a euphemism for control over all elements of the 'battlespace' using land, air, maritime, IT and space-based assets. The doctrine seeks to harness the full capacity of the so-called ‘Revolution in Military Affairs’ engendered by the revolution in IT."

 * ..."It follows that if freedom is to survive, then this project cannot be allowed to succeed." (Referring to ESRB)

 * EU in Feb. 2004 announced PASR: "Preparatory Action for Security Research" (€65 million)
 * "...no ‘Green Paper’ on security research, setting out possible policy options, and no public debate"

 * "...legal basis for the PASR: Article 157 of the EC Treaty on the ‘competitiveness of the Community’s industry’," ... "This political decision meant the ESRP would now develop under the auspices of the Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise, instead of DG Research, the established Research & Development (R&D) arm of the Commission. This implied that the goals of the DG Enterprise (industrial competitiveness and long-term profits) were more important than those of its R&D counterpart (the creation of a ‘knowledge society’)."

 * Quotes from EU people to back up assertion policy is to view ESRB as US vs EU Security-Industrial Complex competition. A 'Buy European' attitude, associated with funding the technology's development.

 * "...€200 million per year allocated to the security research component of the seven-year, Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)"
 * '''This is what INDECT is part of.

 * Report author believes additional funding from elsewhere in EU budgets, and national security projects will bring ESRB budget up to 'what they want'. - "...to match the billion dollars spent annually on security R&D in the USA."

 * Source used by report: Group of Personalities (2004) Research for a Secure Europe, available at: http://ec.europa.eu/research/security/pdf/gop_en.pdf.
 * ''Group of Personalities (appears as 'GoP' through report)

 * "...EU’s Preparatory Action for Security Research (PASR) ran from 2004 to 2006, providing a total of €65 million to 39 projects over the three years."

 * "The most striking feature of the Preparatory Action for Security Research was the extent of the involvement of the defence industry. Of 39 security research projects, 23 (60%) were led by companies that primarily service the defence sector. One third of the PASR projects (13) were led by Thales (France), EADS (Netherlands), Finmeccanica companies (Italy), SAGEM Défense Sécurité (part of the SAFRAN Group, France) and the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD, Europe’s largest defence industry lobby group). Together with BAE Systems (UK), these companies participated in 26 (67% or two-thirds) of the 39 projects."

 * "EU was also funding security-related research projects from its mainstream framework research’ programme of 2002-6 (the €16.3 billion, ‘FP6’ programme)."
 * "The relevant FP6 research priorities included IT security, aeronautics, space and satellite-based monitoring and surveillance."

 * "There is, of course, nothing new about governments consulting industry about policy, particularly at the EU level, but while corporations have been embraced by the ESRP, parliaments and civil society – with a few chosen exceptions – have been largely excluded. The process, as we shall see, has been wholly undemocratic."

 * "...2004 SeNTRE project (Security Network for Technological Research in Europe, PASR) was led by the lobby group ASD (AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe), with the support of 21 partner organisations, two-thirds of which came from the defence sector."
 * "The SeNTRE consortium’s findings included a ‘methodology for security research’ based on ‘threats and mission classification’, a government and law enforcement ‘user needs survey’, a technological survey within the SeNTRE consortium and the ‘identification of technology driven innovations and priorities’. The SeNTRE consortium also delivered an ‘organised platform of users and technology experts for future consultation’ which almost certainly provided the basis for the European Security Research and Innovation Forum (see section 7, page 22)."
 * Ref: See also Blasch, B (2008), note 46, ... Blasch, B (2008) ‘Welcome on behalf of the European Commission and the European Programme’, STACCATO [Stakeholders platform for supply Chain mapping, market Conditions Analysis and Technologies Opportunities”] Final Forum 24 April 2008, ASD Europe, available at: http://www.asd-europe.org/Objects/2/Files/blasch.pdf.

 * STACCATO (Stakeholders platform for supply Chain mapping, market Condition Analysis and Technologies Opportunities) - 2005 report (unpublished) "How to foster the European Security Market"
 * Ref: STACCATO was comprised of four work packages: Stakeholder Platform (led by EADS), Market Condition Analysis (Finmeccanica), Integration of Priorities and Recommendations (Thales) and Analysis of Competencies of the Supply Chain (EU Joint Research Centre). See further ‘STACCATO RESULTS and DELIVERABLES’, ASD website: http://www.asd-europe.org/contentdefault.asp?PageID=34.

 * "Contrary to repeated European Commission claims that the ESRP is concerned only with security technology (and not security policy), the ESSTRT study contained over 70 detailed recommendations – including 32 specific EU ‘policy actions’. In addition to the final report, ESSTRT delivered a set of 24 reports and annexes to the European Commission, including ‘Threats to European Security’, ‘Technology Survey’, ‘Political Legal and Ethical Aspects of Security’, ‘Technology Gaps’, and ‘Responses to Terrorist Threats’. The ESSTRT recommendations conclude with an extraordinary ‘unified Strategic Aim governing future activities at all levels’, drafted in the style of an EU Treaty provision or Declaration, calling on member states to ‘avoid policies likely to create new obstacles for counter-terrorism policies and measures..." [link to inset detailing provision-style points] "...ESSTRT also recommended that the European Commission ‘develop a communications strategy that fosters public awareness of threats and of the extent and limits of governments’ ability to counter them’. Such a strategy should stress ‘that it is a long-term challenge; that while it may be driven by external factors, considerable attention needs to be devoted to the capacity for internal generation of terrorist cells within EU member states (emphasis in original). The advice continued with a call on the EU member states to adopt ‘minimum standards of law enforcement’ that ‘allow necessary powers to security organisations including – depending on legislation – access to bank records, ability to intercept communications, and the capacity to use surveillance measures".

 * "Only one of the 39 PASR projects, the PRISE project led by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, focused specifically on issues of privacy and civil liberty in the context of European security research. The PRISE consortium set out to develop “acceptable and accepted principles for European Security Industries and Policies” based on ‘privacy enhancing security technologies’. In its final report, PRISE produced detailed and well-reasoned criteria and recommendations, including the entrenchment of EU privacy and data protection standards in all security technologies."

 * "...EU policy makers are now talking about limiting the availability of privacy enhancing technologies to the people of Europe on the grounds that they could be ‘exploited’ by terrorists and criminals."

Section break - brianmc editing

 * European Security Research Advisory Board (ESRAB) - Established April, 2005
 * No parliamentary consultation
 * included pro-Security State stakeholders.
 * "...less to do with research than the needs of commerce..."
 * "...board was chaired by Markus Hellenthal of EADS..."
 * Two two 'civil liberties' organisations included - "...both of which have conservative agendas."

 * Set the agenda for FP7 (2007-13) [7th Framework Programme - includes Project INDECT]
 * "...five core ESRP ‘mission areas’: ‘border security’, ‘protection against terrorism and organised crime’ (note the mission creep), ‘critical infrastructure protection’, ‘restoring security in case of crisis’ and ‘integration, connectivity and interoperability’."

 * "...European Security Research and Advisory Board’s report devoted just one of its 84 pages to ‘ethics and justice’, observing that “security technologies, and the government policies accompanying them, raise many different ethical and legal concerns amongst the European citizens”"

 * EU defence contractors regeared/retooled post 9/11 and went into the 'Homeland Security' sector - dominating position

 * "The same is true of Israeli organisations and corporations, whose Homeland Security expertise predates 9/11 and is born out of the politcs of the occupation and the attempt to surveille and control Palestinian populations. Israeli actors are participating in ten of the first 46 ESRP projects, leading four of them. It is also notable that the FP7 security research programme now includes demonstration projects (where prototype security systems are manufactured and tested) and infrastructure projects (for example, communications systems, critical infrastructure and crisis management capacity). Such projects are clearly geared toward the public procurement (at either EU or national level) of security technologies, rather than objective research in the traditional sense."

 * "Funds for security technology are also available under the €4 billion EU fund for ‘Solidarity and Management of Migration Flows’, of which €1.8 billion is earmarked for external borders and some €676 million is committed to the EU Return Fund for the expulsion and repatriation of ‘illegal aliens’."
 * additional funds - "...At least seven member states have already established national security research programmes..."

 * "...‘Phase one’ of the SEREN project will develop the network of national contact points for security research among EU and non-EU participating states."
 * See SEREN project website: http://www.seren-project.eu/.

 * "...The EU Space programme now includes a significant security and defence component. ..."

 * "...If the hype around ‘nano-technology’ – which is to receive a staggering €3.5 billion under FP7 – is translated into applied science, it too has the potential to impact fundamentally on military and security research by revolutionising surveillance capabilities, biological and chemical warfare, munitions and armaments."

 * "Under the ESRP, the FORESEC project on ‘Europe’s evolving security: drivers, trends and scenarios’ will provide “cogent guidance, orientation and structure to all future [EU] security related research activities” and “enhance the shared vision and facilitate the emergence of a coherent and holistic approach to current and future threats and challenges for European security amongst the community of official and non-official constituencies involved”."

 * Two more FP7 security research projects
 * CPSI Project - led by TNO
 * FESTOS Project - led by Tel-Aviv University

 * BREAK AT P21 of PDF***
 * BREAK AT P21 of PDF***

Possible titles
As developed, 'Echelon' has become more inappropriate or irrelevant to this. It needs a new title, and what that might be could depend a great deal on the responses to the large number of emails I've sent out.

Do not rename this at the moment, I think that should be done when ready to mode out of prepared (plus I've sent shortlinks pointing at this title).

If I can get someone to call this "Stasi 2.0"...

 * INDECT: EU's project investigating a software "Stasi 2.0"
 * INDECT: EU project investigating a Europe-wide software "Stasi 2.0"

 * Protecting digital libraries and coffee shops; the implications of Project INDECT
 * Previously library records of who read what when were virtually impossible to obtain
 * Records, book check-in/out now computerised
 * Access to these records not considered in a serious manner (anecdote: friend working in college library - could look up any book, see who read it. Any student, see every book they read. In addition to drill-down form topics - like politics).
 * Wikipedia is the online library for reference material. Facebook et-al are our online coffee shops.

Any other suggestions? Give a note about how you arrive at them. --Brian McNeil / talk 15:32, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

RAFAL ROHOZINSKI - The SecDev Group

 * http://www.cambridgesecurity.net/public_html/people-rohozinski.html [Historical]
 * http://www.secdev.ca/Secdev-temp/index.htm.html
 * info@secdev.ca

Citizen lab

 * http://www.citizenlab.org/ (N.B. Toronto-based)

 * List of their advanced research projects
 * OpenNet Initiative

Highlighted relevant report
 * Synopsis: "Intelligence agencies have asked the government to consider blocking Skype as operators of the popular global VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) engine are refusing to share the encryption code that prevents Indian investigators from intercepting conversations of suspected terrorists."
 * Synopsis: "Intelligence agencies have asked the government to consider blocking Skype as operators of the popular global VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) engine are refusing to share the encryption code that prevents Indian investigators from intercepting conversations of suspected terrorists."

GhostNet
''This is the the network of compromised computers that spied on the Dali Lama. Presumed to be operating out of China, although no way to confirm it is 'official' as opposed to 'patriotic hackers', or even a CIA op designed to look like the Chinese.''

(URL of print version used for single-page display) [Full report available on scribd, pdf download requires an account - supports openID]

Breakdown
Project INDECT consists of a number of work packages.

 * WP1 Intelligent Monitoring and Automatic Detection of Threats
 * WP2 Interactive Multimedia Applications Portal for Intelligent Observation System
 * WP3
 * WP4
 * WP5 Search Engine for Fast Detection of Person and Documents Based on Watermarking and Agent Technology
 * WP6
 * WP7
 * WP8
 * WP9

INDECT: Short Introduction - PDF/presentation - Piotr Romaniak

 * Date: January 27, 2009

Goals in INDECT Development of multimedia surveillance techniques, including: Automated video analysis algorithms (object tracking   & classification, event detection) Advanced audio surveillance (security-related sound   event detection, sound source localization) Combined analysis of multimedia data from multiple sources Collecting and presentation of surveillance and telemetric data (RFID, GPS...)

Latest developments, February 2011
Project INDECT has, over the last 18 months, had little coverage in mainstream news. By-and-large, coverage has been from the blogosphere and fairly poorly informed.

However, a new story which I found via a Google alert seems to indicate that Eddan Katz's talk to the European Parliament may actually be leading somewhere:

I've emailed the office of EuroParl Vice President Stavros Lambrinidis (CC'd scoop) advising that I'm aware of several of the members of INDECT's Ethics Board. Additionally, I've emailed Eddan Katz again, looking to build a stronger case to take to the parliament. Since possible future action includes holding hearings in the Civil Liberties Committee, I am very keen to push for questions which Wikinews attempted to put to Drew Harris to be included in that review, and for the Assistant Chief Constable to actually be summoned to appear before the committee.

This makes it look good for Wikinews getting an inside track on another significant report on INDECT, possibly even helping the European Parliament derail the Commission's plans to implement this excessively intrusive system at taxpayers' expense, with substantial profits for the Military-Industrial Complex who can get funding for research they'd undertake regardless.

My intent is to try and phone Stavros' office in the next day or two; hopefully I can get to a state where he'll talk to me about this and give us some exclusive copy. --Brian McNeil / talk 12:01, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Phoned the office around 1250GMT, the guy I got on the phone was aware of my email, details are with a colleague who's handling their issues with INDECT. Gave him Drew Harris' name and position, was promised his colleague would be in touch.
 * Still waiting any feedback from Eddan. --Brian McNeil / talk 14:02, 23 February 2011 (UTC)

Is this illegal?
What is the *actual* evidence saying that INDECT is illegal? Who can quote particular legal acts and face them with particular INDECT technologies?

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October 5, 2009 Six people were killed and fifteen injured after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb inside a funeral tent in Iraq on Monday.

The attack occurred in the city of Haditha, about 220 kilometres from Iraq's capital of Baghdad. The bomber had been carrying an explosive belt when he entered the tent and blew it up.

The funeral had been held for a member of the tribe al-Jaghaifa, which consists primarily of members of Iraq's security forces and Sunni insurgency supporters.

Haditha is a city in Iraq's Anbar Province. It used to be a haven for Sunni insurgents, but violence there later decreased after local tribes sided with US armed forces in the war against Al-Qaeda.


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Attacking the World Food Programme? What the hell is wrong with these people?! They're bombing a HUMANITARIAN institution! What next, are they going to starve puppies?--72.209.8.195 (talk) 18:51, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
 * And some how they are winning the hears and minds of the local tribal people.--KDP3 (talk) 20:38, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

Lawlessness is the crazy part. I'm reminded of a comment about Africa, "It is not a poor Nation, it's a Nation poorly managed." I think the same can be said of Pakistan. And the U.S. thinks they are going to install stable political management into tribal regions of Pakistan, that is pure folly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.125.23.174 (talk) 08:26, 7 October 2009 (UTC)


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Rwandan genocide suspect arrested in Uganda

October 6, 2009

Ugandan authorities have extradited one of the most wanted suspects from the in Rwanda to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. The suspect was captured Monday in Kampala following a tip-off.

The fugitive, Idelphose Nizeyimana, was flown on a chartered plane early Tuesday to Arusha, Tanzania, where the for Rwanda (ICTR), has its headquarters.

Nizeyimana was one of the men on the tribunal's most-wanted list, accused of helping ethnic Hutus organise the mass murder of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda's Butare province in 1994.

The former army captain and intelligence officer was also accused of ordering the execution of the symbolic queen of the Tutsi tribe and Tutsi intellectuals. Nizeyimana was indicted by the ICTR nine years ago on five counts of genocide, complicity in and incitement to genocide and crimes against humanity.

ICTR spokesman Roland Amoussouga said that the Ugandan police, working with Interpol, arrested Nizeyimana after he crossed into Uganda from the Democratic Republic of the Congo using fake documents. "This is a very important development and the tribunal wishes to commend the Uganda, Interpol and the Ugandan government for this outstanding cooperation that they have displayed," he said.

Nizeyimana had been at large for fifteen years, reportedly hiding among Hutu rebels in the forests of eastern Congo Kinshasa. It is not clear why he went to Uganda. However, Ugandan police say he was arrested following a tip-off that he had been staying at a guesthouse in Kampala. The United States had offered a $5 million reward for information leading to Nizeyimana's arrest.

The ICTR was formed in late 1994 to prosecute key genocide suspects. Six people have been acquitted and 30 others have been found guilty or pleaded guilty to charges. 26 others are being tried and four suspects are currently awaiting trial. Many low-level suspects were tried in traditional village courts in Rwanda.

Ethnic Hutus had slaughtered as many as 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda during a three-month killing spree in 1994.


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Former Costa Rican president sentenced to jail on charges of corruption

October 6, 2009 Rafael Calderon, the former president of Costa Rica, was sentenced to five years in prison after he was convicted of corruption while in office.

Calderon, who served as head of state from 1990 to 1994, is the first ex-president to be tried for corruption. He had been arrested in October 2004, charged with taking an illegal commission after the government bought medical equipment from Finland. Calderon denied the charges.

The former president was convicted on Monday. The head of the social security programme under Calderon, Eliseo Vargas, was sentenced to five years in jail as well. Prosecutors had originally wanted a 24-year jail term for Calderon.

The judge hearing Calderon's case, Alejandro Lopez McAdam, refused requests by the prosecution to send Calderon to jail immediately, pending the outcome of an expected appeal.


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Typhoon Melor on path towards Japan

October 6, 2009

Typhoon Melor, a tropical cyclone in the Pacific, has weakened somewhat over the past few days, but is still a powerful and dangerous storm as it tracks towards Japan. Forecasters say the cyclone will strike the islands of Okinawa before making landfall near Tokyo on Thursday.

The storm is among a series of damaging typhoons that have formed in the Western Pacific over the past few weeks, including Ketsana, which caused devastating flooding in the Philippines.

"Minami Daito is expected to be hit by violent winds and rough seas with a sea swell of more than nine metres [30 feet] from late Tuesday to Wednesday noon," a forecaster said. After that, the storm could strike Honshu on a path similar to that of a typhoon in 1959 which killed thousands of people.

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Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" wins Man Booker Prize 2009

October 6, 2009 The 2009 Man Booker Prize has been awarded to British author Hilary Mantel for her historical novel Wolf Hall. 57 other authors were short-listed, including former winners AS Byatt and JM Coetzee, as well as Sarah Waters, whose book, The Little Stranger, has sold more copies than Wolf Hall.

The winning novel tells the tale of Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Tudor king Henry VIII. In her acceptance speech, Mantel said "I can tell you at this moment I am happily flying through the air."

Mantel was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2006, 21 years after her first novel, Every Day is Mother's Day, was published in 1985. Wolf Hall was the longest book on the list.

The decision was not unanimous, but all 5 judges were happy to award Mantel the trophy £50,000 prize at the London Guildhall. The judges assert that, despite differing opinions, the decision was not a compromise. James Naughtie said, "When we gathered this morning none of us knew which book was going to win. I think we all felt exhausted at the end of the process but there was real feeling that we had found a book that was worthy of the prize."

The judges this year were Lucasta Miller, a biographer and critic; Professor John Mullan; James Naughtie, the chairman of judges; Sue Perkins, a comedian, journalist, and broadcaster; and Michael Prodger, the literary editor of The Sunday Telegraph;.

According to Ladbrokes bookmakers, the novel was the clear favourite, with 80% of people betting on it. Some thought this backing would go against the book, since the last time the bookmakers' favourite won was in 2002, when the prize was given to Yann Martel's The Life of Pi.


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Chilean court jails ex-army officers for murdering witness in Croatian arms deal

October 6, 2009 A court in Chile has sentenced four former army officers to jail terms for their parts in the murder of a key witness in an investigation into illegal arms shipments to Croatia. Colonel Gerardo Huber, who was then in charge of buying military weapons, testified in 1991, and was killed the following year.

At the time, Huber's death was ruled a suicide despite his recent testimony at a military investigation after police in Hungary uncovered a shipment of arms to Croatia marked as aid in late 1991. The shipment was alleged to have been approved by Chilean army head Augusto Pinochet. At the time, it was illegal to supply arms to Croatia following the breakup of Yugoslavia. There were eleven tons of arms in the shipment.

The verdict into Huber's death was reopened by a civilian court after thirteen years, resulting in a trial. He had been shot by a machine gun, with the impact destroying his head. Following their convictions, the court yesterday jailed Gen. Victor Lizarraga for ten years and Col. Manuel Provis for eight years after both were found guilty of conspiracy and homicide. Both were intelligence officials.

The court also jailed General Carlos Krum and Colonel Julio Munoz for just under two years on convictions of conspiracy and murder. All four are now retired. The person who pulled the trigger on the gun that killed Huber has never been identified.


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Demonstrators and police clash at IMF meetings in Istanbul

October 7, 2009 Large clashes erupted in Istanbul, Turkey on Tuesday between protesters and security forces, near the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the. The protests came as the head of the IMF warned policymakers from 186 countries of social upheaval as the world economic crisis continues.

Demonstrators — chanting against the World Bank and IMF — marched to, in the heart of Istanbul. The protests drew several thousand people — mostly leftists, anti-globalisation groups, liberal democrats and trade unionists. Analysts say that the IMF and World Bank do not have a good reputation among many people in Turkey, because they have been associated with austerity programs and hardship.

Monday's announcement by the  that his government is close to signing a new agreement with the IMF made some demonstrators angry. "We are angry, but we know that we are right. We want just to protect our rights — and for this, we are here," said one man.

The demonstration was largely peaceful until protesters attempted to march to where the World Bank and IMF meetings were being held. Police moved in, using water cannons, tear gas and baton charges. The demonstrators responded by setting fires and throwing rocks at the police in the narrow back streets of Istanbul. The center of the city turned into chaos, with both shoppers and protesters running for cover.

Armored cars were dispatched to restore order in the city, spraying water and tear gas at the protesters. The police also sent out several helicopters. Shops pulled down their shutters and banks closed. A taxi driver was reported to have had a heart attack from the effects of tear gas.

While the clashes were ongoing, the IMF's Managing Director,, warned of the danger of social unrest in emerging economies due to the global economic downturn.

"Nineteen million people are about to be put into extreme poverty because of the crisis. What we are talking about is not only higher unemployment or lower purchasing power in the lower income countries; it is about life and death. We could see in those countries, social unrest, political instability, or even war," he said.

However, Strauss-Kahn said the crisis could be worse and said international cooperation has prevented a more serious global recession. He said leaders should now try and take the opportunity to shape what he called "the post crisis world".


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Nine killed by car bomb in Iraq, 31 injured

October 6, 2009 Nine people were killed and 31 were injured after a car bomb blew up in the city of Falluja in western Iraq, local officials said. At least five of the victims were police officers.

This is the second bomb blast in the Anbar province within the past few days. Six people were killed after a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a funeral in Haditha on Monday.

"Security forces are still looking for victims under the rubble," said the head of the Amiriya local municipal council, Shaker al-Issawi.

According to reports from witnesses, the blast was so strong that it threw bodies onto rooftops of neighbouring buildings.

Unlike previous such explosions, this explosion did not appear to be set by a suicide bomber. A witness near where the car bomb exploded said that a man had parked a blue truck, and left it a quarter of an hour before it exploded.


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Tropical Storm Henri forms in the Atlantic

October 6, 2009

Tropical Storm Henri (pronounced awn-'REE), the eight named storm of the, formed on Tuesday approximately 600 miles east of the.

The storm currently has winds of about 40 miles per hour (65 kilometres per hour), with slightly higher gusts. Henri is moving north-northeast at 18 mph (30 kph).

The storm is predicted to be weak and short-lived, avoiding any land masses. The tropical storm could die out as soon as Wednesday.

However, the storm's intensification has already surprised some meteorologists: "The formation of Henri illustrates how difficult it is to anticipate the changes in convection that distinguish strong tropical disturbances from weak tropical cyclones", said a National Hurricane Center forecaster.


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Over two million people displaced by flooding in India

October 7, 2009 Two and a half million people have been displaced and over 250 people were killed following the heaviest flooding to hit southern India in a hundred years.

Karnataka was the state most heavily affected by the floods. R.V. Jagdish, a government spokesman, said that 172 deaths from the rains in the state were reported, and fifty thousand people are living in relief camps. The neighbouring state of Andhra Pradesh reported at least fifty flood-related deaths. 1.5 million people residing in 100 relief camps across that state, chief minister K. Rosaiah said.

Relief crews dispatched boats and helicopters to send rations to large numbers of villagers left stranded after torrential rains.

No less than five million people have been sent to temporary government shelter areas following the heavy rains, which had flooded millions of acres of cropland.

Ambrose Christy, the south zonal manager for anti-poverty group Caritas India, said that “we have never experience anything like this before. It is the worst flooding in 100 years. The situation could become even more severe as the rains get worst. If the Krishna River bursts its banks, millions more will be forced from their homes and a huge area of land will be underwater.”


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New ring discovered around Saturn, could explain dark side of its moon

October 7, 2009

Astronomers have found a huge new ring around the planet Saturn. The faint dust ring extends up to 7.4 million miles (12 million km) from the planet and could fit over a billion Earths inside it, making it the largest in the Solar System. It could also solve a mystery about one of Saturn's moons that has puzzled scientists for centuries.

The ring was found with the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, with details published today in the journal Nature. It is thought to consist of ice and dust from Saturn's moon Phoebe, which is kicked up by collisions with comets and then drifts in towards the planet. The ring and moon both orbit in a plane inclined at 27 degrees to the other rings.

"This is one supersized ring," said Dr Anne Verbiscer of the University of Virginia, one of the authors of the paper. Of Saturn's other rings, the largest is the E-ring, a mere 150,000 miles (240,000 km) in diameter. Jupiter also has "gossamer rings" of a similar diameter to the E-ring. If the Phoebe ring was visible from Earth, it would appear twice as large in the sky as the full Moon.

However the newly found ring is extremely faint. It is made up of dust particles around 10 microns (thousandths of a millimetre) in size, and according to Verbiscer, "In a cubic km of space, there are all of 10-20 particles." This explains why it has evaded discovery until now. "If you were standing in the ring itself, you wouldn't even know it."

The Phoebe ring does not reflect much visible light, but the Spitzer telescope was able to pick up the dust's faint infra-red glow. The telescope, launched in 2003, orbits the Sun and is roughly 66 million miles (107 million km) from Earth. It is one of NASA's four Great Observatories.

The discovery could also finally account for the unusual appearance of Iapetus, another of the planet's moons. When Iapetus was first observed in 1671 by astronomer Giovanni Cassini, its leading side was seen to be much darker than the other. Until now scientists had been unsure why this was. Now it is thought that the moon orbits in the opposite direction to the ring, and as Iapetus moves through the ring, dust builds up on its front surface. Verbiscer likens it to "bugs on a windshield."

"Astronomers have long suspected that there is a connection between Saturn's outer moon Phoebe and the dark material on Iapetus," said Douglas Hamilton, another author of the paper. The material has been found to have a similar composition to Phoebe's surface. "This new ring provided convincing evidence of that relationship."

This is the second major discovery for astronomers studying Saturn in the past month. In September, evidence from the Cassini orbiter showed that Saturn's other rings were far less flat than expected.


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Greek Prime Minister sworn in, new cabinet appointed

October 7, 2009 George Papandreou, the new Greek prime minister, and his cabinet were sworn into office on Tuesday, after winning general elections held on Sunday.

Papandreou, whose socialist PASOK party won the snap general elections, will also be foreign minister, a post he held from 1999 to 2004 in the cabinet of then Prime Minister Costas Simitis. A new position — deputy prime minister — has been introduced, going to Theodoros Pangalos, who served as foreign minister between 1996 and 1999.

Louka Katseli will be economy minister. She was special economy adviser to Papandreou's father — Andreas Papandreou — between 1993 and 1996, when he was prime minister.

George Papaconstantinou, a European Parliament lawmaker, is the new finance minister. Papaconstantinou has his work cut out for him, especially in tackling a ballooning budget deficit, which is projected to exceed 6% for 2009, a shrinking economy, and widespread public debt.

Evangelos Venizelos will be national defence minister, while Tina Birbili will be environment, energy and climate change minister.

The new government will have sixteen ministries, five of which will be headed by women.

"This cabinet has George Papandreou's stamp [of approval] all over it, he's utilising all of his close associates and creating a significantly upgraded Maximos Mansion," veteran Washington correspondent and Kathimerini editor Tim Ellis said on Wednesday, referring to the official residence and primary workplace of the prime minister.

Ellis said it appears the new Greek premier is creating a "White House-style" administration at the centre of government, "one able to follow, in the positive sense, what the ministers and ministries are doing."

PASOK, formerly Greece's biggest opposition party, won a convincing victory in Sunday's snap elections, attracting 45% of the votes and an absolute majority of 160 seats in the 300-seat parliament.


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@Tempodivalse: Actually I take that back. I just looked at the archives, there are loads of stories on Saturn and its moons! the wub "?!"  20:21, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

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It seams very english/american to put miles before KM, but as its a scientific article and also uses cubic kilometers and microns so i think it would be better to list km (miles). But its a pretty minor point for a great article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.15.153.179 (talk) 14:47, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

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Italian court overturns law preventing trial of Prime Minister Berlusconi

October 7, 2009 Italy's Constitutional Court has overturned a law that granted Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi immunity from being prosecuted. There are at least three court cases that can now proceed against him, including a corruption trial.

There had been speculation in the media that Berlusconi would resign if the law was struck down, but a spokesman said "Berlusconi, the government and the majority will continue to govern." The spokesman went on to call the decision "a political verdict," and Berlusconi has commented he expected the result because of left-wing leanings by the judges.

The panel of fifteen judges took two days to reach their decision. There is no appeals process to try and save the law, which gave immunity to the Prime Minister, President and two parliamentary speakers for as long as they held office.

Despite suggestions from the PM's lawyers that he may resign if the ruling went against him, Berlusconi said that "We go ahead," and that he felt "invigorated" by the ruling. He called the allegations he now faces in court a "real farce".

The law had halted a trial in Milan that he bribed a UK lawyer for favourable testimony in a separate corruption probe. One of the other two trials he faces involves alleged bribes to senators.

Berlusconi had an earlier version of the law overturned in 2004, and the latest decision rejects another passed last year. The court said it would breach the constitution's requirement of equality before the law, and added that as a constitutional change required for more legal process than being passed in parliament.

Berlusconi is considering running for President, which would extend his immunity for several more years under other laws. Although his opinion poll support has dropped recently he remains popular, despite allegations of media manipulation and sexual activities with prostitutes and a teenage model. A billionaire businessman, he is the longest-serving Prime Minister since the second world war.


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40 injured after attacks in Thailand

October 7, 2009

More than forty people were injured and four were killed in Thailand following attacks in the country's south.

Suspected insurgents blew up a car bomb, weighing 30 to 50 kilograms, on Tuesday at a hotel in Sungai Kolok, a small city in the Narithiwat province. They also threw grenades and opened gunfire on two restaurants in the vicinity.

"The bomb was hidden in the passenger car and detonated by radio signal," said Colonel Parinya Chaidilok, an army spokesman. He added that the car the bomb was hidden in had a false licence plate and managed to pass a bomb detection machine screening.

27 people were injured and one person was killed by the bomb, police reports said. Half a dozen shops and eight cars were also damaged by the detonation.

Sungai Kolok is a town on Thailand's border with Malaysia. It has been a frequent target for separatist attacks over the past few years.

The South Thailand insurgency, is supported by some of the Muslims who make up 90% of the population living in the provinces. The region, that was a semi-autonomous Islamic sultanate until 1902, has suffered violence for decades, however it has been escalating since 2004 with increasing tension between Muslims and the Thai army resulting in 3,600 deaths.

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Very Interesting

One huge ring
I looked at the pictures on en.wikipedia.org and they were much more enormous than the on in the picture on this news article. Rascal the Peaceful (talk) 01:04, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

It's like we're looking through a lens at an apple only to recognize the apple seeds, then look back and go, "HOLY CRAP IT'S AN APPLE." 128.211.161.206 (talk) 12:27, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

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It wold be nice to know which speratists did this and what their agenda is? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.15.153.179 (talk) 14:50, 8 October 2009 (UTC)


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Large magnitude 7.8 earthquake, aftershock strikes Vanuatu region

October 7, 2009 According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the Vanuatu region in the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday. The quake was followed by a large aftershock with a magnitude of 7.3.

So far there are no reports of damage or injuries.

Both of the quakes' epicenters were centered roughly 373 kilometres northwest of the Vanuatu city of Santu, at a depth of 33 kilometres.

Vanuatu was placed under a tsunami warning after the earthquake started, however, it has since been removed, as the tremors managed to produce only small waves.

The earthquake comes a week after another heavy tremor caused tsunamis in the South Pacific. That quake killed 170 people on the islands of Tonga, Samoa, and American Samoa.


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UK Royal Mail workers vote in favour of strike action

October 8, 2009

Royal Mail workers have voted 3:1 in favour of a nationwide postal strike in the United Kingdom.

The Communication Workers' Union (CWU), that represents employees of the postal service balloted members on nationwide strike action, following a series of regional strikes over the past 3 weeks. Of the 80,830 members consulted, 61,623 voted in favour of a walk-out.

The union's General Secretary, Dave Ward, said that there would be no strike action for at least 10 days.

The possibility of further talks with the Royal Mail before undertaking action has not be ruled out; any walk-outs in the run-up to Christmas will cause extreme disruption to deliveries.


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Muslim conquerors,by the sword,taking over the planet ,wake up!! Your country might be next. --Giocondo5
 * I feel bad for adding the context because a retard like you read it and used it as an excuse to attack people, I skimmed over the details of the conflict to add the background but it very much seams like the government has been doing some very dodgy stuff (like attacking and killing protesters), and while i do not condone terrorism I see the motivation. To simply put it down the lines of Muslim vs everybody would be a great dishonour to all the LTTE victims (budists can be violent terrorist, who engage in ethnic cleansing) but hey don't let the fact you were born retarded make you STFU if you haven't go a clue what you are talking about.--86.15.153.179 (talk) 05:36, 9 October 2009 (UTC)


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