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Over half a million Afghans displaced in 2016

The United Nations has reported a dramatic increase in the number of displaced people as a result of the years-long conflict in Afghanistan. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday that more than half a million people had been displaced in 2016, the highest number since 2008. The figure also surpasses a previous record of 471,000 set last year. This has been a sharp increase in the number of people leaving their homes due to daily battles between the Kabul government forces and Taliban militants across the war-torn country. Mark Bowden, the UN humanitarian coordinator has expressed concern about the increasing number of internally displaced people in the war-stricken country. More: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/11/30/495903/Afghanistan-displaced-UN

Syrian forces liberate SE Aleppo

Syrian government troops and their allies have managed to retake full control of a neighborhood southeast of Aleppo, which has been turned into a major frontline in the fight against terrorists. An unidentified Syrian military source announced the recapture of the Sheikh Saeed district on Wednesday. However, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claimed that militant groups still controlled a third of the neighborhood. Separately on Wednesday, Russia expressed its readiness to escort aid agencies into recently retaken areas of eastern Aleppo. Lieutenant General Sergei Rudskoi of the Russian military's General Staff said that despite the announcement, Moscow had not received any requests from the United Nations or anyone else so far. Rudskoi also noted that the Syrian government forces had completely purged terrorists from the Castello road, which is the only supply line into militant-held eastern Aleppo. The Russian official further stress

Feds can hack millions of devices with one warrant

On Thursday, December 1, a vital Supreme Court order is set to go into effect that dramatically expands the surveillance power of federal agents. The impending alteration to Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure softens the legal requirements for obtaining search and seizure warrants that grant the government remote access to individual’s computers and phones. In the past, law enforcement was required to obtain a warrant from a judge within the jurisdiction where the proposed search was going take place. Under this new system, however, if an individual is using technology to conceal their location, the warrant is considered valid regardless of jurisdiction. A single authorization will have the potential to validate millions of searches on private devices. Any journalist, activist, or whistleblower who values privacy and uses tools like Freenet or the Tor network will fall directly into the crosshairs. As USA Today summarized, the rule change was “

Η προπαγάνδα κατά του Κάστρο μετά θάνατον

σύντομο σχόλιο από failed evolution Πολλά Δυτικά Δεξιόστροφα/νεοφιλελεύθερα μίντια έσπευσαν να στιγματίσουν τον ηγέτη της Κουβανικής Επανάστασης, Φιντέλ Κάστρο, που πέθανε πρόσφατα, λίγο-πολύ ως 'στυγνό δικτάτορα'. Τα Δεξιόστροφα/νεοφιλελέ τρολ πλημμύρισαν τα σόσιαλ μίντια με παρόμοιους χαρακτηρισμούς. Σε ένα κωμικοτραγικό και παράξενο σκηνικό, στη σημερινή πραγματικότητα, ένα μεγάλο μέρος αυτού του στρατού προπαγάνδας εξήρε την 'κληρονομιά' που άφησε η Μάργκαρετ Θάτσερ όταν πέθανε, παρόλο που, ο 'δικτάτορας' Κάστρο ήταν αυτός που έφτιαξε ένα ισχυρό δημόσιο σύστημα υγείας για όλους τους Κουβανούς πολίτες, ενώ η νεοφιλελεύθερη Μάγκυ έκανε τα πάντα για να καταστρέψει ένα από τα καλύτερα συστήματα υγείας της Δύσης, προκειμένου να εξυπηρετήσει ιδιωτικά συμφέροντα. Αυτό που συνήθως δεν αποκαλύπτουν όσοι μισούν με φανατισμό τον Φιντέλ Κάστρο, είναι ότι πολέμησε και νίκησε μια, υποστηριζόμενη από τις ΗΠΑ, δικτατορία. Ότι η 'δημοκ

‘Killers having lunch’: The real life Wolves of Wall Street

Part 5 Telesales in Mauritius The Bureau has established that BinaryBook has at least two centres of sales operations. Initial approaches by salespeople to potential clients are made from a Mauritius-based call centre run by a company called Linkopia. Some clients are then passed on to a company named Yukom based in Israel. Both Linkopia and Yukom are owned by Yossi Herzog, a 51-year old Israeli. The two companies provide call centre services for several other binary option brands besides BinaryBook. Herzog’s lawyer told the Bureau that the staff in the Linkopia “conversion centre” in Mauritius call names from lists of possible investors and try to persuade them to put money into BinaryBook. He accepts that the companies convert leads into clients for BinaryBook. But he denies that the company acts as a broker itself and says staff do not manage customer accounts and have never prevented customer withdrawals. Earlier this year Wealth Recovery Internation