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13. Amerikanische Behörden und Einrichtungen
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http://www.thenation.com/article/164759
/civil-society-ground-zero
"The Nation" über das Verhältnis der Bürgerbewegung "Occupy Wall Street" zur Bedeutung des Ortes "ground zero". "Now world-famous Zuccotti Park is just a small concrete and brown marble-paved scrap of land surrounded by tall buildings. Despite the “Occupy Wall Street” label, it’s actually two blocks north of that iconic place. It’s rarely noted that the park
is within sight of, and kitty-corner to, Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center towers crumbled. What was born and what died that day a decade ago has everything to do with what’s going on in and around the park, the country, and the world now. For this, Al Qaeda is remarkably irrelevant, except as the outfit that long ago triggered an incident that instantly released both the best and the worst in our society. The best was civil society. As I wandered in the Zuccotti Park area last week, I was struck again by how much what really happened on the morning of September 11 has been willfully misremembered. It can be found nowhere in the plaques and monuments. Firemen more than deserve their commemorations, but mostly they acted in vain, on bad orders from above and with fatally flawed communications equipment. The fact is: the people in the towers and the neighborhood—think of them as civil society coming together in crisis—largely rescued themselves, and some of them told the firefighters to head down, not up." |
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http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11
/fbi-west-point-training/all/1
Das FBI möchte seine Anti-Terrorausbildung
überprüfen, berichtet "Wired". "To fix its troubled
counterterrorism training, the FBI is calling in the
cavalry. The Bureau hat turned to the Army's Combating
Terrorism Center at West Point to scour the FBI's training
materials, after Danger Room revealed that Bureau
specialists were teaching agents that 'mainstream'
Muslims were likely to be 'violent' and 'radical'. The West
Point request represents a frank admission from the FBI
that it requires outside help to reform." |
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http://www.thenation.com/blog/164354/ho
w-homeland-security-increases-your-canc
er-risk
"The Nation" berichtet über das Krebsrisiko, dass von
sogenannten "Nacktscannern" ausgeht. "Now
ProPublica's Michael Grabell reports that the
cancer danger from the new scanners—which look under
a traveler's clothing—is greater than we had feared.
'Research suggests that anywhere from six to 100
Americans could get cancer each year from the
machines,' Grabell says. 'Still, the TSA has repeatedly
defined the scanners as 'safe,' glossing over the accepted
scientific view that even low doses of ionizing radiation
the kind beamed directly at the body by the X-ray
scanners—increase the risk of
cancer.' Nevertheless, millions of Americans are now
being sent thru the scanners." |
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http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2
011/08/new-yorker-night-bin-laden-was-k
illed/40638/
"The Atlantic Wire" berichtet von neuen Erkenntnisse über die Nacht in der Osama bin Laden getötet wurde. "We've read plenty of accounts reconstructing the night of May 1--but none, or at least very few, have given us the impression of actually sitting in the Blackhawk helicopter with the Navy SEAL team as it descended on Osama bin Laden's Abbottabad compound. In the latest issue of The New Yorker, Nicholas Schmidle painstakingly reconstructs the events of the evening and the years of training leading up to it. Among the things included in the story:"
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10. Februar 2012
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