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VIDEO SHOWS PITTSBURGH COP PUNCHING TEEN AT GAY PRIDE IN AN APPARENT USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE | THE GRIND

A video showing a Pittsburgh Police officer using what appears to be excessive force on a 19-year-old Pittsburgh PrideFest attendee, has sparked outrage online after it was shared on Facebook late Sunday afternoon.

According to eyewitness Autumn Huntera, the incident occurred around 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon. Huntera explains that the teen engaged in a heated debate with a group of anti-gay protesters attending the Pride festival: “She was saying that being gay is not a sin and that she was a lesbian and proud of it, and that she wasn’t going to hell for it.”

Huntera detailed her account of the incident for us:

"The girl was debating with one of the protesters, and she stepped closer without even realizing it and the officer ran over to her. He grabbed her by the back of her neck, pulled her over, dropped her on the ground, pulled her up by her hair, and said “Do you want me to hit you.” When she didn’t respond, he hit her in stomach area about 4 or 5 times repeatedly. After everyone yelled at him, he hand cuffed her, put her against a wall. She was crying against a wall next to her ‘attacker’ while her fiancee was panicking trying to find someone who recorded it."

Huntera adds that the protester and teen were about a foot apart when the officer grabbed her without prior warning.

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"A Texas-based encrypted email service recently revealed to be used by Edward Snowden - Lavabit - announced yesterday it was shutting itself down in order to avoid complying with what it perceives as unjust secret US court orders to provide government access to its users’ content.”

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An excerpt of Snowden’s statement on the issue is included. He hails this move by Lavabit and called it ‘inspiring’.

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Deutschland, du Opfer!

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Wann brauchen wir eine Straight Pride Parade?

oppositioneller

Das überzeugt mich noch nicht. Wann wurde eigentlich aus dem politischen CHRISTOPHER STREET DAY ein GAY PRIDE? Ich hoffe nicht, dass das Wort Stolz dadurch auch abseits der Communiy wieder modern wird. Stolz braucht diese Welt momentan am wenigsten!

#StopWatchingUs - Berlin - 27. Juli 2013

#StopWatchingUs #PRISM #TEMPORA #NSA #Snowden #Manning #Assange #WikiLeaks #Überwachung #Stasi #Gestapo

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theatlantic

NSA Spying Rankles Privacy-Loving Germans

As President Barack Obama delivered a speech at Brandenburg Gate a few weeks ago, dozens of protesters voiced outrage over the U.S. government’s global surveillance program, holding signs reading, "Yes We Scan."

And since then, things have gone from bad to worse — especially given revelations that Germany’s intelligence services have been working in close cooperation with their American counterparts throughout the NSA’s vast spying system.

Amid a deepening scandal, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government has watched the growing furor with dismay over the past month, as the demands for answers have reached a fever pitch.

"The German government has a duty under international and German law to protect their citizens against such schemes, and they have to make clear that they’re actually doing that on an international level," said Alexander Dix, the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.

The controversy swirling around Merkel has boiled down to a fundamental question: who knew what, and when. As news broke in early June that the NSA is tapping into millions of phone calls, emails, and text messages, and that Germany is one of the agency’s targets, Berlin responded with measured surprise, promising to investigate the extent of the NSA’s activities on German soil.

But as was reported last weekend, Der Spiegel magazine found that the country’s federal intelligence service, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, or BND, used software provided by the NSA and even flew representatives to Washington in April for guidance and advice from a specialized unit there.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

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Augsburg – Berlin – Frankfurt – Göttingen – Hannover – Hamburg – Heidelberg – Heidenheim – Ingolstadt – Kassel – Köln – Leipzig - Magdeburg – Mannheim – München – Münster – Regensburg – Saarbrücken – Stralsund - Trier – Ulm – Würzburg

#StopWatchingUs – Am Samstag, den 27.07.2013 finden bundesweite Demonstrationen und Protestaktionen statt. Wir wollen nicht nur ein Zeichen gegen #PRISM, #Tempora, Utah Data Center und Co. setzen, sondern auch ein Zeichen gegen die Ausweitungen der weltweiten Überwachung.

Wir wollen Solidarität mit den Whistleblowern zeigen und Mut machen, sein Wissen mit der Öffentlichkeit zu teilen.

Informationen zur Demonstration:

Die Organisation der Demonstrationen läuft dezentral und nach Chaosprinzip. Das heißt am besten schaut jeder selbst ob es in seiner Stadt schon eine Regionalgruppe gibt, bringt sich ein bzw. baut eine auf, falls noch nicht vorhanden.

Genauso läuft dann die Promo für die Demo. Wir sind ALLE dafür verantwortlich, dass die Sache läuft! Wir nutzen dafür ALLE Plattformen, die uns zur Verfügung stehen!

Hinter #StopWatchingUs stehen keine Organisationen sondern einfach Menschen, die die Schnauze voll haben! Du bist eingeladen dabei zu sein!

Weitere Informationen bekommst du hier:

https://www.facebook.com/events/566858663364951/

http://demonstrare.de/termine/27-07-stopwatchingus-deutschlandweite-proteste-gegen-prism-und-tempora

http://www.alex11.org/2013/07/stopwatchingus-und-idp13-auf-die-strase-gegen-onlineuberwachung

http://occupy99.de/2013/07/stopwatchingus-wir-alle-sind-edward-snowden/

Ich versuche alle Infos zu den Demonstrationen und Veranstaltungen hier zu Sammeln. Also Weiterlesen!

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Found in Berlin. People are very sensitive about their privacy here. Kinda nice. #stopwatchingus #surveillance #moderntimes

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2013 is going to be an amazing year.

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Here’s the schedule for this comet.

August and September 2013. The comet should become visible in August and September 2013 to observers at dark locations using small telescopes or possibly even binoculars.

October 2013. Comet ISON should become visible to the unaided eye, but only barely in the early part of the month. The comet will be sweeping in front of the constellation Leo then. It’ll pass first near Leo’s brightest star Regulus, then near the planet Mars. Maybe these brighter objects will help you find it that month. Meanwhile, the comet itself will be getting brighter during October.

November 2013. Comet ISON will continue to brighten throughout the month as it nears its late November perihelion (closest point to our sun). Plus ISON will pass very close to the bright star Spica and the planet Saturn, both in the constellation Virgo. Its perihelion (closest point to our sun) on November 28 will be an exciting time. The comet will come within 800,000 miles (1.2 million km) of our sun’s surface. If all goes well, and the comet doesn’t break up (as comets sometimes do), the terrific heating Comet ISON will undergo when it’s closest to our parent star might turn the comet into a brilliant object. Some are predicting that ISON will become as bright as a full moon! That would make Comet ISON a daylight object, briefly. Remember, though, at perihelion, Comet ISON will appear close to the sun on the sky’s dome (only 4.4° north of the sun on November 28). Although the comet will be bright, you’ll need to look carefully to see it in the sun’s glare. Some expert help around this time might be called for, and we’ll announce comet-viewing parties as we hear about them.

December 2013. This may be the best month to see Comet ISON, assuming it has survived its close pass near the sun intact. The comet will be visible both in the evening sky after sunset and in the morning sky before sunrise. As ISON’s distance from the sun increases, it’ll grow dimmer. But, for a time, it should be as bright as our sky’s brightest planet, Venus, and it should have a long comet tail. People all over Earth will be able to see it, but it’ll be best seen from the Northern Hemisphere as 2013 draws to a close.

January 2014. Will ISON still be visible to the eye? Hopefully. And on January 8, 2014, the comet will lie only 2° from Polaris — the North Star.