Monday, December 20, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Dimensions Of A Shower
immigration to Europe - an issue of global justice?
Author: Philipp Seirer
The article was developed from my interdisciplinary dissertation, entitled "Immigration to Europe - a discourse between law and justice." A link to the complete thesis as a pdf file you'll find here .
Author: Philipp Seirer
The article was developed from my interdisciplinary dissertation, entitled "Immigration to Europe - a discourse between law and justice." A link to the complete thesis as a pdf file you'll find here .
Die gemeinschaftsrechtliche Trennung zwischen Asylpolitik und ökonomisch motivierter Zuwanderung kann auch aus gerechtigkeitstheoretischer Perspektive legitimiert werden. Als Anknüpfungspunkt bediene ich mich dabei der von John Rawls begründeten Unterstützungspflicht von wohlhabenden Völkern gegenüber belasteten Gesellschaften.
Die moralisch begründete Konzeption der Gerechtigkeit beschränkte sich bis vor kurzem ausschließlich auf die Mitglieder einer abgegrenzten Gesellschaft. Bis heute begegnet man in der politischen Landschaft lediglich dem allgegenwärtigen Leitgedanken der sozialen Gerechtigkeit. The issue of migration is concerned, however, almost by definition to the crossing of social boundaries, so the question of justice must be made not only in a social context. Rather justice must be addressed in a global context.
One of the most influential philosophers of the 20th Century, John Rawls (1921-2002), provides us with his "law of nations' a theory of global justice, which focuses on the people as active subjects of international relations. In terms of global migration represents Rawls (2002, p. 7), the roots of terrorism explicitly in the foreground, where he sees the global inequalities and the associated poverty in a direct relation to political failure, even if it is to specify other reasons. The solution of this problem he sees as realistic utopia '. This contradictory term, he legitimized the commonly regarded as utopian claims of political philosophy.
the center of his global theory are the acts of the political institutions. Rawls speaks of this by a political justice. His egalitarian-universalist morality to the contrary, he argues for the legitimacy of boundaries of (2002, p. 43). This of course is still said nothing about who should be granted immigration into the EU. He simply points out that a company has within its borders over the right to self-determination.
Member States of the EU have joined forces but also to a wider community and a considerable part of their national government responsibilities, made particular reference to asylum and immigration law, to this higher authority. In addition, Rawls justified in his, across the right of peoples' support for a so-called duty-loaded Companies'. He is not expressly limited to the production of distributive justice in terms of a redistribution of global wealth. Rather, he refers with regard to their performance on the following three principles: (1) A well-ordered society must not necessarily be a prosperous society. (2) There is no universal recipe valid, how can one, burdened society 'help to change their political culture. (3), loaded companies' need to be supported so that they become full members of a well-ordered society of peoples and their own affairs independently can regulate ( Rawls, 2002, p. 132ff).
Although the content of support required by these three principles is only vague, can mEn this scenario. excellent transfer to the political practice. The causes of migration are found mostly in these, burdened societies'. Transferred to the migration problem, this means that the EU and its Member States a duty to support the countries of origin of migrants. Given the fact that most migrants residing in their neighborhood their home countries, this obligation is of course independent of whether they finally come to Europe. This support requirement is MMN. one based on moral principles minimal consensus between the home and host societies of immigrants dar. The recognition of this obligation but finally decides on a political level.
It raises the question of whether the asylum and immigration policy can actually contribute to the fulfillment of this duty of assistance. be made
First has on the international law principle of non-interference, which states that a State did not interfere in the internal affairs of another state. After Goodin (1988, p. 675) it is of crucial importance that it causes no harm other states. The support is loaded companies' terms of international law but not required, from a moral perspective, it is very good. Even if there is no general recipe to change the political culture, burdened societies', then Rawls (2002, p. 136) in any case believes that there is no point hineinzupumpen just money in it. The adverse conditions in the affected countries are no doubt due to historical and economic reasons.
After Pogge (2002, P. 125) has the developed Western world, a moral responsibility to distressed migrants. He bases this responsibility so that global inequality is due to a large extent by the law adopted by the Western industrial nations world order. In this respect, the support is based, aggressive companies' for him on grounds of corrective justice. He also believes that there are more effective tools, when the immigration policy is, in order to fulfill these responsibilities.
Bader (2002, p. 153) accepts the priority of poverty reduction with respect to the refugee hosting prinzipiell zu, er stellt aber auch klar, dass sich diese beiden Projekte keinesfalls gegenseitig ausschließen und plädiert stattdessen für eine „faire Öffnung der Grenzen“. Der Ansicht, wonach Entwicklungshilfe und Migrationspolitik zwei komplementäre Instrumente im Sinne der internationalen Unterstützungspflicht sind, stimme ich zwar zu. Geht es nach Rawls , so steht allerdings das Postulat der ‚Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe’ im Vordergrund. Indem er den Fokus auf die Veränderung der politischen Kultur einer ‚belasteten Gesellschaft‘ legt, stellt er die Wertigkeit wohlgeordneter Verhältnisse über jenen des Wohlstands in der Gesellschaft.
Letztendlich must be chosen normative evaluation framework, a distinction between the refugee and legal immigration needs to be made due to economic motives. Here is a clear parallel to the distinction between the Community legal right to asylum and immigration policies of the EU is seen. For the reception of refugees by that fact alone may not support the principles of duty be used as criteria, because their countries of origin no longer fulfill its protective function. Refugees are considered in the figurative sense therefore stateless.
Goodin (1988, p. 683F) speaks of this by an imperfect responsibility of all States to inform the individual refugee. The duty to refugee hosting meets, with the exception of its home country, thus the community of all states, and not a particular state alone. For waltz (2006, p. 88f), the receiving claims of refugees for each state of nature is absolutely imperative if he is directly confronted with it.
must be made clear at this point that the EU is the internationally recognized refugee definition of the Geneva Convention but has extended to a subsidiary in need of protection, the media often , Economic refugees' designated migrants fall but not below it. Given the global poverty reduction seems this term a moral point to be at least questionable. A starving child in Africa for example, just as no political power protection as a political refugee. Realpolitik can be explained by the restriction on political refugees and subsidiary protection needy among others, the lack of capacity of the EU. An inclusion of economically motivated migration under the refugee definition would undermine not only the self-determination of Member States but also their democratic structures an irresolvable Aufgabe stellen.
Wie sich an der Situation von Flüchtlingen deutlich zeigt, wird die Moral der Mitgliedstaaten der EU in vielen Fällen durch die Unmoral ‚belasteter Gesellschaften‘ vorgegeben. In diesem Zusammenhang stellt sich Walzer (2006, S. 91f) die Frage, warum sich die reichen Länder des Nordens ausschließlich mit jenen Flüchtlingen befassen, die entweder kräftig oder wohlhabend genug sind, um überhaupt erst in die Aufnahmegesellschaft zu gelangen.
Rawls ‘ Unterstützungspflicht kann nach Walzer (2006, S. 91f) die Flüchtlingspolitik der EU modifizieren, aber not reform. One form of the minimal consensus between moral rights and limited absorption capacities realpolitik I believe in the common EU resettlement seen. This program allows Member States to give those refugees who travel to Europe for there application is simply impossible for a new home. It is thus the most needy, especially children and women who are helped. Although so far only ten Member States participate voluntarily in this program and certainly not all refugees can be helped, I see this move by the European Commission is an important step in a more equitable future of European refugee policy.
summary, I agree in principle with Märker (2005, p. 250), which stipulates that the moral obligation of refugee inclusion in the EU is a broad consensus, their actual implementation, however, due to lack of absorption capacity simply does not fully possible. Subsequently, I will deal with me now economically motivated migration.
Following Walzer (2006, p. 106) I am of the opinion that the Member States of the EU in addition to the pursuit of national interests at the same time the moral force of the support obligation subject. The EU Member States have to compete in the global competition for talent and distinction, not least because of demographic developments between intended and unintended immigration. If the immigration policies of the EU, however, are more harmful than good for the countries of origin, I see this as an indirect violation of the first-mentioned international legal principle of non-interference. As Märker notes the active demand coverage holds for (highly) skilled migration, as it has now been found also in the secondary legislation of the EU entrance, always a risk of , Brain-drain 'in countries of origin.
The image of an individualized, mutual-benefit-society 'is indeed not too contemporary, much less can we MMN. But talk of a festumgrenzten world, within which the citizens of the world are in a mutual exchange between them, but are here separated by national boundaries. After Schlothfeldt (2002, p. 102) that is on the individual nation-state based model of cooperation, mutual-benefit-society 'has the sole reason for concern because the potential, poverty, refugees' do not even have the opportunity to an der Kooperation in einer wohlhabenderen Gesellschaft zu beteiligen. Dieses Argument hat im von mir gewählten normativen Bewertungsrahmen aber keine Bestandskraft, weil sich die betroffenen Personen primär in ihrer eigenen Herkunftsgesellschaft an der Kooperation beteiligen können. Dies geht bereits aus dem ersten Leitsatz der Unterstützungspflicht hervor, in dem Rawls im Wohlstand einer Gesellschaft nicht das höchste Gut sieht, sondern die wohlgeordneten politischen Verhältnisse in den Vordergrund rückt. Nach dem zweiten Leitsatz gibt es zwar kein allgemein gültiges Rezept, wie man der Unterstützungspflicht gerecht werden kann, die Einwanderungspolitik zählt mEn. aber zu den geeigneten Mitteln.
Following Rawls the Member States of the EU under the third guiding principle, are obliged to open their borders to economically motivated migration, if this is the region of origin and in terms of political culture. Conceivable in this regard immigration measures in terms of a triple-win 'situation for both the host community and migrants, but also for the society of origin profitable. Such measures, I believe in the EU secondary legislation on the one hand by the Directive 2004/114/EC of studies on third-country nationals und andererseits in der Richtlinie 2005/71/EG über die wissenschaftliche Forschung von Drittstaatsangehörigen zu erkennen.
Hinsichtlich der Richtlinie 2009/50/EG über die Bedingungen zur Ausübung einer hochqualifizierten Beschäftigung für Drittstaatsangehörigen bin ich jedoch skeptisch. Zum einen gibt es zu dieser Richtlinie noch keine mir bekannten Erfahrungswerte und zum anderen sehe ich eine akute Gefahr des ‚brain-drains‘, selbst wenn diesem laut Präambel entschieden entgegengewirkt werden soll. Demgegenüber spricht für diese Richtlinie, dass hochqualifizierte Zuwanderer eher dazu in der Lage sind, Rücküberweisungen in ihre Herkunftsländer implement and thereby contribute to the development of political culture.
The measure, an MMN, triple-win situation '. comes closest, and thus most of the global conception of justice Rawls equivalent, which is leaning against the guest worker concept of circular migration. It remains to be seen whether this approach will ultimately prevail within the EU.
All these legal measures should not detract from the fact that the EU and its Member States follow international standards a very restrictive immigration policy. The assumption that the inclusion of economically motivated migrants is not just seen as a (support) obligations, I want to emphasize a slightly different theory of Schlothfeldt (2002, p. 95) in addition: "If the better-off countries do not do what is within their power; to the [political culture] of serious ill-posed in their home country to significantly improve, they basically have no rights to refuse an immigrant visa petition of the persons concerned "
literature and sources.
Bader, Veit (2002 ): Moral Philosophy and admission of refugees and migrants, in: Märker, Alfredo (Hg.): Was schulden wir Flüchtlingen und Migranten?. Grundlagen einer gerechten Zuwanderungspolitik, Wiesbaden, S. 143-167.
Goodin, Robert E. (1988) : What is So Special about Our Fellow Countrymen? In: Ethics, Jg. 98, H. 4, S. 663-686.
Märker, Alfredo (2005) : Europäische Zuwanderungspolitik und globale Gerechtigkeit. Über die normative Dimension der Vergemeinschaftung zuwanderungspolitischer Maßnahmen in der Europäischen Union, Baden-Baden.
Pogge, Thomas (2002) : Migration und Armut, in: Märker, Alfredo (Hg.): Was schulden We refugees and migrants?. Foundations of a just immigration policy, Wiesbaden, p. 110-126.
Rawls, John (2002) : The right of peoples, Berlin.
Schlothfeldt, Stephan (2002) : Economic migration and global distributive justice, in: Maerker, Alfredo (ed.): What we owe to refugees and migrants?. Foundations of a just immigration policy, Wiesbaden, p. 93-109.
Walzer, Michael (2006) : Spheres of Justice. A plea for pluralism and equality, Frankfurt am Main.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Can I Order A Remington 870 Mcs?
Homeopathy, Take 1: "What is it about?" [Update]
I wanted to write a long entry about homeopathy because it is a subject that I eigenlich dear to the heart. Perhaps there is some point to even a video.
Each of us knows homeopathic remedies, many of us have already been used and a few even with conventional medicine, they put on a par. What I find is worried, is that it is often based on false assumptions and on a completely wrong understanding of homeopathy. Just ask around once in your environment, what homeopathic remedies are. You will answers such as "natural remedy" or "alternative medicine" to hear. Sooner or later you will be guaranteed one of the Run away and say that homeopathic remedies "not the chemical warfare" and thus would imply that conventional medicine pumped so much chemistry in the patients that they often make more ill than healthy.
Well, what's really behind homeopathy. In principle there are two large golden rules you need to know:
first "Like cures like!"
exactly what means what is produced on a "healthy" patients certain symptoms - strictly according to the dogma of the homeopath - just heal selbige symptoms. This principle, in the literature as "Similia similibus curentur beschrieben, mag auf den ersten, sehr oberflächlichen Blick noch irgendwie einleuchtend klingen. Doch was dieses Prinzip bedeutet, ist vielen überhaupt nicht klar. Stellt euch vor, ihr habt Probleme mit dem Einschlafen. Nach für Nacht wälzt ihr euch stundenlang und bekommt kein Auge zu. Nach einer Woche habt ihr endgültig die Nase voll und ruft euren Arzt an. Seid ihr jetzt bei einem konventionellen Arzt gelandet, dann bekommt ihr vielleicht ein Beruhigungs- oder Schlafmittel verschrieben. Bei einem Homöopathen aber bekommt ihr Koffein! Nächstes Mal, wenn ihr wieder nicht einschlafen könnt hilft vielleicht ein doppelter Espresso oder ein halber Liter Club Mate, vielleicht auch 4 - 5 Dosen Red Bull, zumindest nach homöopathischer Logic. What a "healthy" patient awake makes is to make an awake patient supposedly healthy. This speaks easily, but lacks any common sense.
second The greater the dilution, the more effective the remedy!
homeopaths have the practice to give their money only in very dilute solutions out. And my dear choir, have you any idea of what is discussed here for dilutions. Skilled people are talking about the "potentiation" of the funds. This then goes like this: You
take part active substance - for example, an milligram of caffeine for the sleeping pills - and dilute it in ten Parts of water. Then you shake the solution ten times back and forth ten times to the left and right and ten times up and down, which is homeopathic provision. What comes out at the end of D1 is a solution to the naming to not break. A physicist or a chemist would call this a 1:10 solution. (Do not forget to shake!) Take her now from this solution in turn part and dissolved again in 10 parts of water, you have a D2-solution, that is 1:100. There's still a different scale than the D scale. On the C scale 1:100 homeopathic dilutions are removed. Ie D12 = C6, C2 = D4, etc. But all this is not enough for the homeopath, no! The rule is the more often it passes through this process - the less active substance is so present at all - the more effective will the means.
It is important to know one more thing: you pass the "magical" barrier of a homeopathic solution D23 is one in constant conflict with the Avogardo, this is only one side of chemical molecule in the solution. This means that with a D24 solution only has a chance of 1:10 that in general is still a molecule in the solution. When D25 is the chance of a molecule already at 1:100 and 1:1000 D26 just ridiculous.
The whole thing was in the beginning mainly water and then only water, wird dadurch aber seltsamerweise wirksamer.
So lächerlich das schon für sich ist, wird es erst richtig spaßig, wenn man sich das mal grafisch vor Augen ruft. Hier eine kleine Liste von Potenzierungen und was sie bedeuten:
D 06 -- Ein Tropfen auf das Volumen einer Mülltonne
D 12 -- Ein Tropfen auf 25 olympische Schwimmbecken
D 24 -- Ein Tropfen auf dem Zehnfachen Volumen des Mittelmeeres
D 80 -- Ein Teilchen aufgelöst in allen(!) Teilchen von 100 Universen . (viel Spaß beim Schütteln!)
D 100 -- Eine Lächerlichkeit jenseits von Sinn und Verstand!!
Aber here it sounds for the money-hungry alternative medicine does not occur. Browsed a little bit on the net and you quickly find online shops that you want solutions with a potentiation of D 1500 as a turn on "very effective". I do not think I can draw an adequate comparison. It is not even necessary, so laughable is the theme.
Why homeopathy "works"? Well, homeopathy "works" at all. Everything (prohibiting the term "medicine" here) with homeopathic remedies is reached, the so-called "placebo effect". The mere fact that we take a way that we think of medicine, can trigger an improvement without the funds has contributed to it. Added to this is that homeopaths often take a lot of (well-paid) time for their patients. This extra attention sometimes subconsciously reinforced the placebo effect on patients. What is more, then most of homeopathy is used when the body one way or another with some time to heal itself, a homeopathic treatment to serious matters such as stroke, there is not. So if a patient is better by now, the only "was not any good" and has spent a lot of money for a homeopathic remedy, he will think that the remedy had cured him, even though he has taken only water and his body would have been cured without homeopathy. A large, randomized, double-blind study (the gold standard of scientific tests), homeopathy classifies significantly better than placebo, there is not, on the contrary. A large meta-study (ie, an analysis of many individual studies) found that homeopathic remedies are not significantly better than placebo and certainly can not compare with the standard treatment (E. Ernst, 2002, "A Systematic review of systematic reviews of homeaopathy" see Sources).
tl, dr:
Homeopathy is basically nothing more than a little active substance is diluted so ridiculously strong that most not even a single molecule of active substance in the media is left. In addition, you get straight with homeopathy the active ingredient that causes the same symptoms, to treat you try. Significantly better than placebo, homeopathic preparations shown not to be but can still sell high.
[Update: Now with 100% more references! ]
Sources:
Homeopathy (Wikipedia) & potentiation (Wikipedia)
Two articles on the subject of GWUP: Homeopathy & FAQ homeopathy
A systematic review of systematic reviews of homeopathy (meta-analysis, E. Ernst, 2002)
Homeopathy: The effective promotion of ineffective remedies? (E. Ernst, 2006)
What's the harm? Homeopathy (YouTube user: c0nc0rdance, 2010)
James Randi on "World Homeopathy Awareness Week" (James Randi, 2010) 
I wanted to write a long entry about homeopathy because it is a subject that I eigenlich dear to the heart. Perhaps there is some point to even a video.
Each of us knows homeopathic remedies, many of us have already been used and a few even with conventional medicine, they put on a par. What I find is worried, is that it is often based on false assumptions and on a completely wrong understanding of homeopathy. Just ask around once in your environment, what homeopathic remedies are. You will answers such as "natural remedy" or "alternative medicine" to hear. Sooner or later you will be guaranteed one of the Run away and say that homeopathic remedies "not the chemical warfare" and thus would imply that conventional medicine pumped so much chemistry in the patients that they often make more ill than healthy.
Well, what's really behind homeopathy. In principle there are two large golden rules you need to know:
first "Like cures like!"
exactly what means what is produced on a "healthy" patients certain symptoms - strictly according to the dogma of the homeopath - just heal selbige symptoms. This principle, in the literature as "Similia similibus curentur beschrieben, mag auf den ersten, sehr oberflächlichen Blick noch irgendwie einleuchtend klingen. Doch was dieses Prinzip bedeutet, ist vielen überhaupt nicht klar. Stellt euch vor, ihr habt Probleme mit dem Einschlafen. Nach für Nacht wälzt ihr euch stundenlang und bekommt kein Auge zu. Nach einer Woche habt ihr endgültig die Nase voll und ruft euren Arzt an. Seid ihr jetzt bei einem konventionellen Arzt gelandet, dann bekommt ihr vielleicht ein Beruhigungs- oder Schlafmittel verschrieben. Bei einem Homöopathen aber bekommt ihr Koffein! Nächstes Mal, wenn ihr wieder nicht einschlafen könnt hilft vielleicht ein doppelter Espresso oder ein halber Liter Club Mate, vielleicht auch 4 - 5 Dosen Red Bull, zumindest nach homöopathischer Logic. What a "healthy" patient awake makes is to make an awake patient supposedly healthy. This speaks easily, but lacks any common sense. second The greater the dilution, the more effective the remedy!
homeopaths have the practice to give their money only in very dilute solutions out. And my dear choir, have you any idea of what is discussed here for dilutions. Skilled people are talking about the "potentiation" of the funds. This then goes like this: You
take part active substance - for example, an milligram of caffeine for the sleeping pills - and dilute it in ten Parts of water. Then you shake the solution ten times back and forth ten times to the left and right and ten times up and down, which is homeopathic provision. What comes out at the end of D1 is a solution to the naming to not break. A physicist or a chemist would call this a 1:10 solution. (Do not forget to shake!) Take her now from this solution in turn part and dissolved again in 10 parts of water, you have a D2-solution, that is 1:100. There's still a different scale than the D scale. On the C scale 1:100 homeopathic dilutions are removed. Ie D12 = C6, C2 = D4, etc. But all this is not enough for the homeopath, no! The rule is the more often it passes through this process - the less active substance is so present at all - the more effective will the means.
It is important to know one more thing: you pass the "magical" barrier of a homeopathic solution D23 is one in constant conflict with the Avogardo, this is only one side of chemical molecule in the solution. This means that with a D24 solution only has a chance of 1:10 that in general is still a molecule in the solution. When D25 is the chance of a molecule already at 1:100 and 1:1000 D26 just ridiculous.
The whole thing was in the beginning mainly water and then only water, wird dadurch aber seltsamerweise wirksamer.
So lächerlich das schon für sich ist, wird es erst richtig spaßig, wenn man sich das mal grafisch vor Augen ruft. Hier eine kleine Liste von Potenzierungen und was sie bedeuten:
D 06 -- Ein Tropfen auf das Volumen einer Mülltonne
D 12 -- Ein Tropfen auf 25 olympische Schwimmbecken
D 24 -- Ein Tropfen auf dem Zehnfachen Volumen des Mittelmeeres
D 80 -- Ein Teilchen aufgelöst in allen(!) Teilchen von 100 Universen . (viel Spaß beim Schütteln!)
D 100 -- Eine Lächerlichkeit jenseits von Sinn und Verstand!!
Aber here it sounds for the money-hungry alternative medicine does not occur. Browsed a little bit on the net and you quickly find online shops that you want solutions with a potentiation of D 1500 as a turn on "very effective". I do not think I can draw an adequate comparison. It is not even necessary, so laughable is the theme.
Why homeopathy "works"? Well, homeopathy "works" at all. Everything (prohibiting the term "medicine" here) with homeopathic remedies is reached, the so-called "placebo effect". The mere fact that we take a way that we think of medicine, can trigger an improvement without the funds has contributed to it. Added to this is that homeopaths often take a lot of (well-paid) time for their patients. This extra attention sometimes subconsciously reinforced the placebo effect on patients. What is more, then most of homeopathy is used when the body one way or another with some time to heal itself, a homeopathic treatment to serious matters such as stroke, there is not. So if a patient is better by now, the only "was not any good" and has spent a lot of money for a homeopathic remedy, he will think that the remedy had cured him, even though he has taken only water and his body would have been cured without homeopathy. A large, randomized, double-blind study (the gold standard of scientific tests), homeopathy classifies significantly better than placebo, there is not, on the contrary. A large meta-study (ie, an analysis of many individual studies) found that homeopathic remedies are not significantly better than placebo and certainly can not compare with the standard treatment (E. Ernst, 2002, "A Systematic review of systematic reviews of homeaopathy" see Sources). tl, dr:
Homeopathy is basically nothing more than a little active substance is diluted so ridiculously strong that most not even a single molecule of active substance in the media is left. In addition, you get straight with homeopathy the active ingredient that causes the same symptoms, to treat you try. Significantly better than placebo, homeopathic preparations shown not to be but can still sell high.
[Update: Now with 100% more references! ]
Sources:
Homeopathy (Wikipedia) & potentiation (Wikipedia)
Two articles on the subject of GWUP: Homeopathy & FAQ homeopathy
A systematic review of systematic reviews of homeopathy (meta-analysis, E. Ernst, 2002)
Homeopathy: The effective promotion of ineffective remedies? (E. Ernst, 2006)
What's the harm? Homeopathy (YouTube user: c0nc0rdance, 2010)
James Randi on "World Homeopathy Awareness Week" (James Randi, 2010)
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Rogers Protection Center
INDECT aka "Orwell's Nightmare"
In recent days there have been some messages about IND
ECT. The acronym stands for (deep breath!) "In telligent information system supporting observation, searching and de te ct ion for security of citizens in urban environment ".
Of course we speak in the title and the project only increased security but who reads a few lines later comes quickly to the limits of all that we as Rule of Law and Constitutional know. Here's a monster in the process is to arise, which not only has the possibility but even the task to scan entire populations and to monitor. act
Nominally it is an "intelligent information system to support to monitoring, search and detect safety of citizens in an urban environment. "According to the EU Commission Project at least 11 million euro cost. The main objective of the project seems fully automated pooling of monitoring mechanisms of all stripes from across the European Union to be. These include not only the monitoring of public space by CCTV cameras in pedestrian zones, but also the application of "a large number of microphones, developing its own search engine for permanent and automated monitoring of web sites, videos, forums, Usenet groups, web servers , blogs, email, P2P networks, social networks (Facebook, Flickr, etc.) and of course personal computers, greet Federal Trojans can, to the use of whole squadrons (I shit you not!) Unmanned surveillance drones.
on the official website of some of the project status reports are available publicly for download. After some voices in the blogosphere "made use of these files, some of them disappeared, especially the document D 1.1, a general summary of the project. It seems to clear and concise. The documents appeared elsewhere but then again, among other things, they were leaked to the Pirate Party (see references). A further response to the public outcry on the part of the project was - instead of openness, transparency and education - the establishment of a cynically titled "Ethics Board" what more a public relations office for INDECT is, who decides in the future, what information is disclosed to the public, and what not, so that employees can better concentrate on their work on the project.
In the meantime disappeared
documents (9.4) has drawn even on the truly unfortunate fact that the methods of criminals whom the police are usually one step ahead, as financial police with lower and handicapped by bureaucracy agents must accept as the villains and, unlike their counterparts in law and must respect human rights.
The implication that in diesem Satz mitschwingt, lässt einem einen kalten Schauer den Rücken herunter laufen. Wird hier ein Fuß in die Tür Gesetzt, in Zukunft - natürlich nur bei besonders bösen Terroristen - die Menschenrechte außen vor zu lassen?
Anwendungsgebiete für das inzwischen für den Big-Brother-Award nominierte Projekt sind vielseitig. Denkbar sind Suchanfragen wie "Zeig mir eine Liste aller ..." mit einer beliebigen Verdachtsgruppe als Ziel (Muslime, Gewerkschafter, Personen mit Konten im Ausland, Personen, die Häufig nach Holland fahren (Verdacht auf Drogen) oder Menschen mit ungesundem Lebenswandel, Besucher der Seite XY oder oder oder.) Die Missbrauchsmöglichkeiten für so ein "Wunderwerk der Technology "are endless. The European Data Protection Supervisor has not, of course connected to this project, he was not even informed about it (see this interview ).
is in cities, even with use of the" intelligent "evaluation of camera and microphone data suspicious behavior be tracked and analyzed. It is also used by "profiling". That is, a few dozen police officers were questioned as classically because of me looks like a shoplifter, and the people that apply to this description may be monitored more closely. The resulting potential offenders would then identified, filtered, scanned, reviewed and are arrested in doubt. Under "suspicious behavior" includes, for example, these activities:
- race, run, in the wrong direction move
- Driving too fast, wrong
- groups of more than X people
- Luggage forget
- For too long at the station or airport sit
- lounging around, shouting, swearing
With this project, of course, created entirely new categories in terms of "holistic" surveillance of people. He knew of this research project, would George Orwell - author of "1984" - turn in his grave. The rule of law concepts such as "presumption of innocence" or "court-proof evidence" of this project are completely pushed aside. In its place comes the mother of all data leeches comb through with their sacred mission in the name of law and order to Europe after all troublemakers. In the sense of freedom and democracy as a project is unthinkable. Indect must be stopped.
Finally, a quote:
The EU research with millions on a software monitoring program called INDECT, dass mit vollautomatischer Analyse vom Daten aus dem Internet und der Überwachunginfrastruktur die Sicherheit erhöhen soll. Dinge wie Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Unschuldsvermutung lösen sich schnell in Rauch auf.
Quellen:
Infoseite bei der Piratenpartei über INDECT
AG Indect bei der Piratenpartei
Dokumente zu INDECT, die der Piratenpartei zugespielt wurden
Offizielle Website des INDECT-Projektes
Offizielle Projektbeschreibung der EU-Kommission 
In recent days there have been some messages about IND
ECT. The acronym stands for (deep breath!) "In telligent information system supporting observation, searching and de te ct ion for security of citizens in urban environment ". Of course we speak in the title and the project only increased security but who reads a few lines later comes quickly to the limits of all that we as Rule of Law and Constitutional know. Here's a monster in the process is to arise, which not only has the possibility but even the task to scan entire populations and to monitor. act
Nominally it is an "intelligent information system to support to monitoring, search and detect safety of citizens in an urban environment. "According to the EU Commission Project at least 11 million euro cost. The main objective of the project seems fully automated pooling of monitoring mechanisms of all stripes from across the European Union to be. These include not only the monitoring of public space by CCTV cameras in pedestrian zones, but also the application of "a large number of microphones, developing its own search engine for permanent and automated monitoring of web sites, videos, forums, Usenet groups, web servers , blogs, email, P2P networks, social networks (Facebook, Flickr, etc.) and of course personal computers, greet Federal Trojans can, to the use of whole squadrons (I shit you not!) Unmanned surveillance drones.
on the official website of some of the project status reports are available publicly for download. After some voices in the blogosphere "made use of these files, some of them disappeared, especially the document D 1.1, a general summary of the project. It seems to clear and concise. The documents appeared elsewhere but then again, among other things, they were leaked to the Pirate Party (see references). A further response to the public outcry on the part of the project was - instead of openness, transparency and education - the establishment of a cynically titled "Ethics Board" what more a public relations office for INDECT is, who decides in the future, what information is disclosed to the public, and what not, so that employees can better concentrate on their work on the project.
In the meantime disappeared
documents (9.4) has drawn even on the truly unfortunate fact that the methods of criminals whom the police are usually one step ahead, as financial police with lower and handicapped by bureaucracy agents must accept as the villains and, unlike their counterparts in law and must respect human rights. The implication that in diesem Satz mitschwingt, lässt einem einen kalten Schauer den Rücken herunter laufen. Wird hier ein Fuß in die Tür Gesetzt, in Zukunft - natürlich nur bei besonders bösen Terroristen - die Menschenrechte außen vor zu lassen?
Anwendungsgebiete für das inzwischen für den Big-Brother-Award nominierte Projekt sind vielseitig. Denkbar sind Suchanfragen wie "Zeig mir eine Liste aller ..." mit einer beliebigen Verdachtsgruppe als Ziel (Muslime, Gewerkschafter, Personen mit Konten im Ausland, Personen, die Häufig nach Holland fahren (Verdacht auf Drogen) oder Menschen mit ungesundem Lebenswandel, Besucher der Seite XY oder oder oder.) Die Missbrauchsmöglichkeiten für so ein "Wunderwerk der Technology "are endless. The European Data Protection Supervisor has not, of course connected to this project, he was not even informed about it (see this interview ).
is in cities, even with use of the" intelligent "evaluation of camera and microphone data suspicious behavior be tracked and analyzed. It is also used by "profiling". That is, a few dozen police officers were questioned as classically because of me looks like a shoplifter, and the people that apply to this description may be monitored more closely. The resulting potential offenders would then identified, filtered, scanned, reviewed and are arrested in doubt. Under "suspicious behavior" includes, for example, these activities:
- race, run, in the wrong direction move - Driving too fast, wrong
- groups of more than X people
- Luggage forget
- For too long at the station or airport sit
- lounging around, shouting, swearing
With this project, of course, created entirely new categories in terms of "holistic" surveillance of people. He knew of this research project, would George Orwell - author of "1984" - turn in his grave. The rule of law concepts such as "presumption of innocence" or "court-proof evidence" of this project are completely pushed aside. In its place comes the mother of all data leeches comb through with their sacred mission in the name of law and order to Europe after all troublemakers. In the sense of freedom and democracy as a project is unthinkable. Indect must be stopped.
Finally, a quote:
abandon the willing, their liberties for more security deserve neither liberty nor safety.tl, dr:
(Benjamin Franklin)
The EU research with millions on a software monitoring program called INDECT, dass mit vollautomatischer Analyse vom Daten aus dem Internet und der Überwachunginfrastruktur die Sicherheit erhöhen soll. Dinge wie Rechtsstaatlichkeit und Unschuldsvermutung lösen sich schnell in Rauch auf.
Quellen:
Infoseite bei der Piratenpartei über INDECT
AG Indect bei der Piratenpartei
Dokumente zu INDECT, die der Piratenpartei zugespielt wurden
Offizielle Website des INDECT-Projektes
Offizielle Projektbeschreibung der EU-Kommission
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