Monday 8 December 2014

HIBURAN hari INI, Esok SENAPANG: BAGAIMANA pesawat MAINAN mampu MEMBAWA Kpd MESIN Memburu Gaya TERMINATOR . . .



i.Srikandi - Dibunuh oleh alat kawalan jauh adalah prospek yg unik menakutkan kepada kebanyakan kita. Tetapi kita kini hampir ke titik di mana teknologi drone telah menjadi sentiasa ada, kerana ia boleh digunakan untuk pelbagai tujuan oleh sesiapa yang mempunyai wang untuk dibelanjakan.

Drones yang ditawarkan hari ini boleh pergi berbatu-batu ke langit, dan terdapat banyak kes-kes di mana pun keadaan yang boleh berputar di luar kawalan, seperti apabila pesawat yang hampir terlanggar drone.

Pengeluar mempunyai kedudukan mereka sendiri pada hal-hal, iaitu bahawa itu semua perkara tanggungjawab. Pengarah Urusan di Parrot Eropah Tengah, Michel Bonetti, RT memberitahu: "Ia seperti mempunyai sebuah kereta. Sebuah kereta yg dibina utk dipandu di jalan raya - tdk membuat kemalangan & membunuh orang".

Parrot Eropah Tengah membuat banyak kanak-kanak dan orang dewasa 'impian menjadi kenyataan dengan pesawat mereka.

Tetapi penggemar drone tlh menjadi agak sentiasa ada di kalangan kejuruteraan arif orang ramai banyak. Dan dengan kedai-kedai mainan banyak dan syarikat di seluruhnya menjual alat kecil untuk terbang di sekitar dan mengintip jiran-jiran anda, ia benar-benar sebuah DUNIA kemungkinan.

Bruno Kramm, Pengerusi Parti Pirate di Jerman, menjelaskan bahwa pesawat poket juga "menimbulkan risiko besar kepada privasi . . . yang lebih banyak teknologi ini mendapat maju, lebih ada kemungkinan ia benar-benar boleh pergi lebih jauh ke dalam privasi . . . ia benar-benar seperti bahaya teknologi mata-mata yang semua orang boleh gunakan dalam kehidupan seharian mereka."

Dengan menyiarkan video dalam talian, kumpulan peminat drone menunjukkan betapa mudahnya untuk membina tanpa lemak, bermakna membunuh mesin yang pucuk perkara pada anda dan terbang dari sini. Ramai telah menggunakan mainan mereka untuk menggambarkan hanya "betapa bahayanya ianya akan berada dalam tangan seorang orang awam."

Semakin byk pengeluar senjata hari kini mengambil perkara selangkah ke hadapan dpd kenderaan udara hanya weaponizing, membangunkan senjata kecerdasan buatan yg berpotensi utk memutuskan sasaran mereka. Banyak memberi amaran sukar untuk mengendalikan landskap seperti itu.

Fizik dan kawalan senjata penyelidik Mark Gubrud menggariskan masalah ini menimbulkan.

"Dalam beberapa kes, kita akan berfikir bahawa manusia yang telah menetapkan bahawa sasaran tertentu hendaklah diserang, tetapi kemudian tugas mesin untuk keluar & mencari sasaran - & jika mesin melakukannya secara autonomi . . . yg bermakna mesin memutuskan jika ia mendapati sasaran yg betul," katanya.

"Jelas sekali, Terminator adalah fiksyen sains . . . tetapi kita sedang membangunkan peluru berpandu ini, sebagai contoh, akan ditugaskan untuk keluar dan mencari sasaran tertentu, seperti kapal atau kereta kebal tertentu, atau apa sahaja; dan jika peluru berpandu sendiri memutuskan bahawa memang apa yang ia telah mencari dan menyerang, saya fikir ia sudah percaya terlalu banyak dalam mesin kita."

Dan penilaian oleh teknologi yang ditawarkan hari ini, membayangkan ia disemai dengan kecerdasan buatan adalah satu gambaran yang menakutkan.


FUN today, GUN tomorrow ‘HOW toy DRONES Could LEAD 
to Terminator-STYLE hunting MACHINES’ . . .

Being killed by remote control is a uniquely scary prospect to most of us. But we are now close to the point where drone technology has become ubiquitous, as it can be used for a variety of purposes by anyone with a bit of money to spend.

The drones on offer today can go miles into the sky, and there have been numerous cases already where the situation could have spiraled out of control, like when a plane nearly missed a drone.

Manufacturers have their own position on things, which is that it’s all a matter of responsibility. Managing director at Parrot Central Europe, Michel Bonetti, told RT: “It’s like having a car. A car was built to drive on the roads – not to make accidents and kill people.”

Parrot Central Europe makes lots of kids’ and adults’ dreams come true with their drones.

But drone hobbyists have become quite ubiquitous among the more engineering-savvy crowd. And with so many toy stores and companies around selling little tools for flying around and spying on your neighbors, it’s really a world of possibilities.

Bruno Kramm, chairman of the Pirate Party in Germany, explains that the pocket drones also “pose a huge risk to privacy… the more this technology gets developed, the more there is the possibility it can really go deeper into our privacy… it’s really like a danger of spy technology that everybody can use in their daily life.”

By posting videos online, groups of drone enthusiasts are showing just how easy it is to build a lean, mean killing machine that shoots things at you and flies away. Many have used their toys to illustrate just “how dangerous they would be in the hands of a civilian.”

An increasing number of arms manufacturers today are now taking things a step further than just weaponizing aerial vehicles, developing artificial intelligence weapons with the potential to decide their targets. Many warn it’s difficult to navi-gate such a landscape.

Physicist and arms control researcher Mark Gubrud outlines the problem this poses.

“In some cases, we would think that a human has determined that a certain target is to be attacked, but then tasks the machine to go out and find that target – and if the machine is doing that autonomously… that means the machine is deciding if it’s found the correct target,” he says.

“Obviously, the Terminator is science fiction… but we are developing missiles that, for example, would be tasked to go out and find particular targets, such as particular ships or tanks, or whatever; and if the missile on its own decides that is indeed what it was looking for and attacks it, I think it’s already trusting too much in our machines.”

And judging by the technology on offer today, imagining it imbued with artificial intelligence is one scary picture.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/m5jcky

Monday 24 November 2014

Canggih ‘State-Sponsored’ yang ditaja' Alat PENGINTIP Infrastruktur disasarkan KERAJAAN, Selama bertahun-TAHUN . . .

Srikandi Malware canggih yang digelar Regin telah digunakan untuk mengintip kerajaan, operator infrastruktur dan sasaran berprofil tinggi lain, syarikat kese-lamatan Symantec telah mendedahkan. Ia juga disasarkan individu dan perniagaan swasta, terutamanya di Rusia.

Trojan memaparkan jenis-pintu belakang "tahap kecekapan teknikal yang jarang2 dilihat," kata Symantec dlm satu kenyataan akhbar. Kerumitan virus yg membo-lehkan penceroboh utk mewujudkan rangka kerja bagi pengawasan besar-besaran.

Sasaran termasuk syarikat-syarikat swasta, entiti kerajaan & pemikir penyelidikan. Serangan ke atas syarikat-syarikat telekom telah dikatakan telah dijalankan untuk mendapatkan akses kepada panggilan dihalakan melalui infrastruktur mereka.

Syarikat itu percaya bahawa Trojan telah mungkin dibangunkan oleh ‘nation state’ kerana ia mengambil bulan, jika tidak tahun untuk membangunkan suatu perisian dan menutup trek. Menganalisis keupayaan selanjutnya syarikat itu telah menarik kesimpulan bahawa Regin boleh menjadi salah satu utama alat pengintipan siber yang digunakan oleh ‘negara bangsa/nation state’ yang terlibat.

Hampir satu 1/3 daripada jangkitan disahkan ditemui di Rusia dengan 24 % peratus lagi di Arab Saudi. Mexico, Ireland, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Belgium, Austria dan Pakistan juga dalam senarai.

"Regin adalah ancaman yg sangat kompleks yg telah digunakan dlm pengumpulan data atau pengumpulan maklumat risikan kempen sistematik. Pembangunan dan operasi malware ini akan memerlukan sumber & masa yg lama, "kata Symantec.

Symantec mendapati virus itu telah digunakan antara 2008 dan 2011, sebelum tiba-tiba ditarik balik sehingga versi baru malware itu muncul kembali pada 2013 dan seterusnya.

Regin menggunakan pendekatan modular membenarkan ia untuk memuatkan ciri muat sasaran thatexactly, membolehkan mengintip yang disesuaikan. "Reka bentuk menjadikan ia sangat sesuai utk operasi pemantauan jangka panjang yg berte-rusan, berbanding sasaran," syarikat keselamatan itu berkata ‘says.

Dan ianya 5 peringkat seni bina loading dengan penyulitan khas dan tersembunyi di setiap peringkat menjadikannya serupa dengan ancaman Duqu/Stuxnet, kata Symantec.

"Melaksanakan peringkat pertama bermula rantai domino daripada penyahsulitan dan pemuatan setiap peringkat berikutnya untuk sejumlah 5 peringkat. Setiap peringkat individu menyediakan sedikit maklumat tentang pakej yang lengkap.

Hanya dengan memperoleh semua 5 peringkat adalah mungkin untuk menganalisis dan memahami ancaman, "kenyataan akhbar yang berbunyi. Tambahan pula Regin dilengkapi dgn beberapa ciri2 stealth supaya walaupun selepas kehadiran Trojan ini dikesan, ia adalah "sangat sukar untuk menentukan apa yang ia lakukan."

Para penyelidik mengatakan banyak komponen virus itu kekal belum ditemui manakala ancaman fungsi tambahan dan versi masih boleh wujud.


SOPHISTICATED ‘State-Sponsored’ SPYING tool targeted GOVTS, Infrastructure for YEARS . . .

A sophisticated malware dubbed Regin has been used to spy on governments, infrastructure operators and other high-profile targets, security company Symantec has revealed. It also targeted private individuals and businesses, particularly in Russia.

A back door-type Trojan displays a “degree of technical competence rarely seen,” Symantec said in a press release. The complexity of the virus enabled the intruder to create a framework for mass surveillance. Targets include private companies, government entities and research think tanks. Attacks on telecoms companies were allegedly carried out to gain access to calls being routed through their infras-tructure.

The company believes that the Trojan was likely developed by a nation state as it took months, if not years to develop such a piece of software and cover up its tracks. Analyzing its further capabilities the company has drawn a conclusion that Regin could be one of the main cyber espionage tools used by the implicated nation state.

Almost a third of the confirmed infections were discovered in Russia with a further 24 percent in Saudi Arabia. Mexico, Ireland, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Belgium, Austria and Pakistan are also on the list.

“Regin is a highly complex threat which has been used in systematic data collection or intelligence gathering campaigns. 

The development and operation of this malware would have required a significant investment of time and resources,” Symantec said.

Symantec found that the virus has been used between 2008 and 2011, before being suddenly withdrawn until a new version of the malware resurfaced from 2013 onwards.

Regin uses a modular approach allowing it to load features thatexactly fit the target, enabling a customized spying. “Its design makes it highly suited for persis-tent, long-term surveillance operations against targets,” the security company says.

And it’s five-stage loading architecture with special and hidden encryption at each stage makes it similar to Duqu/Stuxnet threats, Symantec said. “Executing the first stage starts a domino chain of decryption and loading of each subsequent stage for a total of five stages. Each individual stage provides little information on the complete package. Only by acquiring all five stages is it possible to analyze and understand the threat,” the press release reads. Furthermore Regin is equipped with a number of stealth features so that even after Trojan’s presence is detected, it is “very difficult to ascertain what it is doing.”

Researchers say many components of the virus remain undiscovered while the threat of additional functionality and versions may still exist.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/uxgtj9

Friday 7 November 2014

'OSTALGIA': Politik MEMENUHI bermain KEGENAPAN UUTUK MENEMPATKAN 2 belah pihak utk Warisan Wall di BERLIN . . .



Srikandi 25 tahun sejak jatuhnya Tembok Berlin, dan orang-orang nostalgia. Tetapi ia adalah satu keadaan tertentu mewujudkan dirinya dalam kedua-duanya, suar kreatif di bandar ini, dengan panggilan untuk Wall yang lebih besar.

Di latar belakang kota metropolis yang moden, bersatu Berlin, hal-hal seperti keselamatan pekerjaan sedang menggerogoti penduduk, sementara beberapa tun-tutan mereka bahkan akan membawa kembali dinding ‘Wall’ "10 meter yg lebih tinggi."

Beberapa orang yang merindukan untuk Jerman Timur, lalu sosialis.

"Jerman Timur adalah sebuah negara demokratik, yang membenarkan rakyatnya untuk hidup tanpa rasa takut untuk masa depan. Tiada siapa yang harus bimbang sama ada mereka mempunyai cukup untuk makan atau tidak, "seorang lelaki memberitahu RT. Dia boleh dikira antara yg ke-9 Jerman memihak kpd membawa kembali Wall, menurut kajian yg dijalankan oleh Berlin’s Free University.

"Saya tiada mempunyai apa-apa terhadap mereka membina semula dinding dan menjadikannya 10 meter lebih tinggi. Kita sekurang-kurangnya akan mempunyai jaminan pekerjaan kami dan tidak akan mempunyai untuk menonton setiap sen, "kata seorang lagi responden perempuan.

Perkataan yang sering digunakan untuk menggambarkan sentimen ini adalah 'Ostalgia' - campuran nostalgia dan kata Jerman "ost '(timur). Ini telah menyebab-kan beberapa kebimbangan di kalangan politik, termasuk tuduhan oleh beberapa media telah cuba untuk melukis kehidupan pasca-Wall sebagai salah satu keber-samaan dan kemakmuran ekonomi pada saat kesihatan, pendidikan dan kebajikan ekonomi merupakan isu masih teratas dalam agenda yang berpecah bangsa.

OSTALGIA ‘Politics meets PLAYFULNESS to put 2 sides to Berlin’s Wall LEGACY’ . . .

Twenty-five years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and people are nostalgic. But it's a specific condition manifesting itself in both, the city's creative flare, to calls for an even bigger wall.

In the background of the bustling metropolis that is modern, united Berlin, things like job security are gnawing at the population, while some claim they would even bring back the wall “10 meters higher.”

A number of people are pining for an East German, socialist past.

“East Germany was a democratic state, which allowed its citizens to live without fear for the future. No one had to worry whether they had enough to eat,” one man told RT. He may be counted among the one in nine Germans in favor of bringing back the wall, according to a survey by Berlin’s Free University.

“I’d have nothing against them rebuilding the wall and making it 10 meters higher. We’d at least have our job security and wouldn’t have to watch every penny,” another female respondent said.

The word often used to describe these sentiments is ‘Ostalgia’ – a mix of nostalgia and the German word ‘ost’ (east). This has caused some worry in political circles, including accusations by some that the media is attempting to paint post-wall life as one of togetherness and economic prosperity at a time when health, education and economic welfare are still top issues on the agenda that split the nation.

Reuters/Michael Dalder

Tetapi bukan semua azab dan kesuraman. Seperti yang ternyata, ianya bukan hanya generasi tua yg tidak puas, tetapi pemuda juga, yang menjaga hal-hal dalam fokus - walaupun dengan cara yang lebih kurang politik dan lebih ringan dan seni mendamaikan diri dengan masa lalu.

Tak berdosa simbol sisa-sisa Timur - dari sedikit perhiasan pelancong untuk pakaian, bahkan setem pasport palsu - dapat dilihat tersebar di seluruh kedai-kedai cenderamata di Berlin sebagai sedikit naif keseronokan yang sejarah penting adalah mudah untuk mengabaikan semua bakat komik untuk kreatif.

Sebuah hotel boleh membawa anda kembali 30 hingga 40 tahun, seperti mesin waktu, sehingga anda boleh mandi 'kemuliaan' hari-hari, dari perabot untuk pera-latan vintage dan suasana keseluruhan.

Terdapat juga 'nostalgia pelancongan' membawa anda di sekitar ibu negara Jerman terpercaya di Trabant lama. Peminat besar untuk pembuat kereta Rebecca Grosse mengakui jenama "tidak selalu ikon. Selepas dinding turun orang tidak sabar untuk menghapuskan mereka. Tetapi sekarang kita melihat pada mereka sayang."

But it’s not all doom and gloom. As it turns out, it’s not just the older disgruntled generations, but youth as well, who keep things in focus – albeit with a much less political and more lighthearted and artistic way of reconciling themselves with the past.

Innocent-looking symbols of Eastern remnants – from little tourist trinkets to clothes, to even fake passport stamps – can be seen scattered throughout souvenir shops in Berlin as a naïve little bit of fun whose historical significance is easy to overlook amid all the comic flair for the creative.

One hotel can take you back 30 to 40 years, like a time machine, so you can bathe in the ‘glory’ of those days, from the furniture to the vintage equipment and overall ambience.

There is also a ‘nostalgia tour’ taking you around the German capital in a trusty old Trabant. Massive enthusiast for the car maker Rebecca Grosse admits the brand “wasn’t always iconic. After the wall came down people couldn’t wait to scrap them. But now we look on them fondly.”

 
Orang-orang siluet saat mereka berjalan di hadapan bahagian di Galeri East Side, baki bahagian yang terbesar dari bekas Tembok Berlin, di Berlin (People are silhouetted as they walk in front of sections at the East Side Gallery, the largest remaining part of the former Berlin Wall, in Berlin (Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch)

Kemampuan untuk mengalami Ostalgia telah tertanam dalam identiti di Berlin, dengan jumlah pengunjung mengambil gambar2 oleh sisa-sisa ikhtisar dari dinding dan melewati Checkpoint Charlie - paling menonjol timur-barat yang melintasi di bandar.

Bahkan ketika kita menganggap kehidupan malam kontroversi di bandar ini - bahawa semua muzik 24 jam dan anti-establishment kegilaan Berlin terkenal kerana, kita sering mendengar bahawa ledakan kreatif dan kadang-kadang kontro-versi tidak mungkin dapat dicapai tanpa kesan getah tiba-tiba yg diikuti kejatuhan dari dinding.

Untuk pengalaman yang lebih dekat dari Ostalgia di Berlin moden, menonton laporan Peter Oliver.

The ability to experience Ostalgia has been ingrained in Berlin’s identity, with the number of visitors taking pictures by the rundown remnants of the wall and passing through Checkpoint Charlie – the most prominent east-west crossing in the city.

Even when one considers the city's controversial nightlife - all that 24-hour music and anti-establishment madness Berlin is known for, one often hears that the creative and sometimes controversial outbursts would not have been possible without a sudden rubber band effect that followed the fall of the wall.


Thursday 30 October 2014

"JIKA bukan Kami berbuat demikian, SIAPA lagi? 'Pejuang KURDIS Menyeludup MERENTASI Sempadan untuk MENYERTAI perjuangan KOBANI

Still from RT video

Srikandi - Sebagaimana pertempuran untuk Kobani terus mengamuk untuk bulan yang ke-2, pejuang Kurdis telah menghasilkan operasi penyeludupan untuk men-dapatkan diri mereka ke dalam kota itu secara tidak sah dari Turki utk berhadapan dgn militan Islam Negeri berkeliaran di bandar sempadan Syria.

BACA lanjut: Turki mahu tentera anti-Assad mengawal Kobani - PM Turki READ MORE: Turkey wants anti-Assad army in control of Kobani – Turkish PM

"Ketika mereka berangkat dalam misi berbahaya mereka, beberapa kilometer yang memisahkan kita dari Kobani boleh menjadi yang paling berbahaya dalam hidup mereka," RT Paula geser dalam melaporkan dari sempadan Turki-Syria.

'If we don’t, who will?' Kurdish fighters smuggled 
across border to join Kobani struggle

As the battle for Kobani continues to rage for a second month, Kurdish fighters have conceived a smuggling operation to get themselves into the city illegally from Turkey to confront the Islamic State militants swarming the Syrian border city.


“As they set off on their perilous mission, the few kilometers that separate us from Kobani could prove to be the most dangerous of their lives,” RT’s Paula Slier repor-ted from the Turkey-Syria border.



Para pejuang bergerak dengan berhati-hati, di bawah penutup malam, dan dengan beberapa pelan taktikal untuk memperbaiki potensi komplikasi dalam perjalanan tersebut.

"Jika kita tidak pergi untuk melindungi Kobani, siapa lagi?" nyata Kurdi kepada RT sebelum melintasi perbatasan secara ilegal di kawasan kegelapan malam.

"Kadang2 ia boleh mengambil masa satu hingga 2 jam, tetapi ia benar-benar ber-gantung kpd keadaan. Jika kita lihat rondaan, kami sembunyikan diri, kita tunggu sampai pagi, "Simcor Karamoch, yg mengawasi operasi penyeludupan, memberi-tahu RT.

Bandar sempadan Syria-Turki tlh dikepung oleh pejuang IS yg masih mempunyai kawalan ke atas sebahagian besar dari itu. Walau bagaimanapun, Ankara setakat ini enggan utk membiarkan para pejuang Kurdish ke Syria. Turki kini menyimpan kira2 200,000 pelarian yg telah bergerak ke arah yg berlawanan untuk melarikan diri dari konflik.

Karamoch bercakap mengenai bagaimana untuk mengatasi masalah yg meren-tasi sempadan di daerah konflik, seperti bagaimana untuk memberikan tekanan berte-rusan kepada sebuah lombong anda secara tidak sengaja menginjak.

"Apabila anda tahu sesuatu yg telah berlaku, bertanya kepada salah seorang yang lain untuk membawa sebuah batu," katanya, memberikan yang berpotensi menye-lamatkan nyawa nasihat. "Gunakan tali pinggang utk menukar batu untuk but anda, kemu-dian jalankan."

The fighters move carefully, under the cover of night, and with several tactical plans to remedy potential complications in the journey. “If we don’t go to protect Kobani, who will?” one Kurd told RT before illegally crossing the border under the cover of night.

“Sometimes it can take one to two hours, but it really depends on the situation. If we see a patrol, we hide, we wait until morning,” Simcor Karamoch, who oversees smuggling operations, told RT.

The Syria-Turkish border town has been besieged by IS fighters who still have control of large parts of it. However, Ankara has so far been reluctant to let the Kurdish fighters into Syria. Turkey is currently harboring some 200,000 refugees who have been moving in the opposite direction in order to escape the conflict.

Karamoch spoke of how to overcome the problems crossing borders in conflict zones, such as how to apply continued pressure to a mine you may have accidentally stepped on.

“When you know something has happened, ask one of the others to bring a stone," he said, imparting potentially life-saving advice. "Use a belt to swap the stone for your boot, then run.”

Still from RT video

Satu lagi taktik penyeludupan berpura-pura pengawal sempadan bahawa mereka cuba untuk melarikan diri Kobani jika ditangkap dalam perjalanan mereka. "Jika polis Turki melihat kami, kami katakan kami adalah dari Kobani, dan kami yang terlupa sesuatu di rumah kami dan cuba untuk sampai ke sana - Biasanya mereka mengalahkan kami dan marilah kita pergi."

"Tetapi jika ISIS menangkap kita, mereka memotong kepala kami - tidak ada soalan tentang hal itu."

Taktik yang sama berbohong tentang satu pihak sedang berusaha untuk sampai ke digunakan oleh orang-orang yang cuba untuk menyeberangi Tembok Berlin ke Barat.

Selain itu, pejuang Kurdis telah memperkenalkan sistem kata laluan untuk mem-perbaiki tersasar sempit. "kata kunci keselamatan" yang harus diulang 3 kali digu-nakan untuk mengenal pasti rakan-rakan pejuang anti-IS.

"Mereka mesti memberikan kata-kata keselamatan. Jika mereka tidak - menembak mereka, mereka boleh menjadi musuh anda, "kata Karamoch.

Pasukan yang sah juga dihantar ke kawasan tersebut untuk melawan IS militan. Pada hari Selasa, pemimpin Kurdish Syria Saleh Muslim kepada Reuters bahawa beberapa (Kurdi Iraq) kekuatan 150 peshmerga telah menyeberang ke Turki untuk akhirnya menuju ke Kobani.

Another smuggling tactic is pretending to border guards that they are trying to escape Kobani if intercepted en route. “If Turkish police see us, we say we are from Kobani, and we forgot something in our house and are trying to get to it – usually they beat us and let us go.”

“But if ISIS catches us, they cut off our heads – no question about that.”

The same tactic of lying about the side one was trying to get to was used by people attempting to cross the Berlin Wall to the West.

Additionally, Kurdish fighters have introduced a password system to remedy narrow misses. A “security word” which has to be repeated three times is used to identify fellow anti-IS fighters.

“They must give you the security word. If they don’t – shoot them, they could be your enemy,” Karamoch said.

Legitimate troops are also being sent to the region to fight IS militants. On Tuesday, Syrian Kurdish leader Saleh Moslem told Reuters that some 150 peshmerga (Kurdish-Iraqi) forces were crossing into Turkey to eventually head to Kobani.


Tuesday 21 October 2014

KIEV Menafikan tuntutan Intel JERMAN yang Militia Captured peluru berpandu BUK dari tentera UKRAINE . . .

Anggota Kementerian Kecemasan berjalan di lokasi yang Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 nahas kapal terbang, MH17, berhampiran penyelesaian Grabovo di rantau Donetsk, 17 Julai 2014 (Emergencies Ministry members walk at the site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash, MH17, near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014 (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)

tiaraVillaRuby Ukraine Kementerian Pertahanan menolak laporan oleh agensi perisikan luar negeri Jerman yang militia Ukraine timur menembak jatuh pener-bangan MH17 dgn peluru berpandu BUK yg diambil melalui suatu tempat Ukraine. Laporan itu juga menuduh Kiev memalsukan kecerdasan.

"Perintah dari Angkatan Udara Ukraine secara rasmi menyatakan bahawa mak-lumat tentang penangkapan sistem peluru berpandu anti-pesawat Buk-M1 dari unit tentera dari Tentera Udara Ukraine oleh militia tidak benar," kata Kemen-terian Pertahanan negara itu dalam satu kenyataan.

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Kementerian telah memberi respons kepada laporan ‘report’ baru-baru ini yang diterbitkan oleh daily Der Spiegel Jerman. Ianya mendedahkan bahawa pada 8 Oktober BND Presiden Gerhard Schindler mengumumkan pada pertemuan rahsia yang terdapat "bukti yang cukup" yang militia di Donetsk captured BUK sistem peluru berpandu pertahanan dari tempat Ukraine dan menembak roket dari itu. Menuduh pelancaran pada 17 Julai mengakibatkan dalam kemalangan maut MH17 penerbangan awam oleh Malaysia Airlines, dengan 298 penumpang dan anak kapal, laporan itu mendakwa.

Kementerian Ukraine menegaskan bahawa dapatan BND ini tidak mungkin benar kerana "personil, peralatan ketenteraan dan persenjataan yang bertugas di rantau Donetsk itu" adalah "dengan cepat" ditempatkan semula pada 29 Jun, lebih dari 2 minggu sebelum tragedi itu.

"Pada masa yg ketika pemberontak masuk ke wilayah yg pangkalan tentera, hanya kenderaan lama & tidak boleh digunakan tertinggal di sana," kata Kementerian.

Dalam laporannya, agensi perisikan Jerman juga menuduh Kiev memberikan mak-lumat palsu mengenai kemalangan itu, mengatakan bahawa "ini dapat dijelaskan secara terperinci."

Walau bagaimanapun, tidak ada "bukti" yg telah dibentangkan oleh BND lagi, yg mendakwa bahawa ia berdasarkan kesimpulan pada "imej satelit dan pelbagai bukti foto." Ia tidak membuat sebarang kenyataan rasmi berhubung perkara itu.

KIEV Denies GERMAN Intel Claim that Militia Captured 
BUK Missile from Ukraine ARMY . . .

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry rejected a report by Germany's foreign intelligence agency that E. Ukraine militia shot down flight MH17 with a BUK missile captured from a Ukrainian base. The report also accused Kiev of falsifying intelligence.

“The Command of the Air Force of Ukraine officially states that information about the capture of anti-aircraft missile system Buk-M1 from a military unit of the Air Force of Ukraine by militia is not true,” the country’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.


The ministry has responded to a recent report published by the German daily Der Spiegel. It revealed that on Oct. 8 BND President Gerhard Schindler announced at a secret meeting that there is “ample evidence" that militia in Donetsk captured BUK defense missile system from a Ukrainian base and fired a rocket from it. The alleged launch on July 17 resulted in deadly crash of civilian MH17 flight by Malaysian Airlines, with 298 passengers and crew on board, the report claims.

The Ukrainian Ministry insists that the BND’s finding cannot be true because “personnel, military equipment and armament stationed in the Donetsk region” was “quickly” relocated on June 29, more than two weeks before the tragedy.

“At the time when rebels entered the territory of that military base, only old and unusable vehicles were left there,” the Ministry said.

In its report the German intelligence agency has also accused Kiev of providing false information on the crash, saying that “this can be explained in detail.”

However, no “evidence” has been presented by the BND yet, which claims that it based its conclusions on “satellite images and diverse photo evidence.” It has not made any official statements on the matter.

Seorang lelaki mengambil gambar di lokasi yang Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 nahas kapal terbang, MH17, berhampiran penyelesaian Grabovo di rantau Donetsk, 17 Julai 2014 (A man takes pictures at the site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash, MH17, near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region, July 17, 2014 (Reuters/Maxim Zmeyev)

Jerman secara rasmi enggan mengulas mengenai laporan itu, mengatakan bahawa BND "mengumpul data yg dilaporkan kpd Jawatankuasa Audit Bundestag, dilapor-kan kepada kerajaan."

"Tetapi ini semua maklumat rahsia," kata Timbalan jurucakap Canselor Angela Merkel, Georg Streiter, memberitahu pemberita beliau telah diminta untuk mengu-las mengenai berita tersebut.

Ketua Persekutuan Agensi Pengangkutan Udara Rusia tlh berkata bahawa Moscow "tidak faham kedudukan ini, kesimpulan yang dicapai oleh perisikan Jerman."

"Pertama sekali, ia adalah sukar untuk bercakap tentang mana2 maklumat yang disediakan oleh perisikan Jerman, kerana sekarang semua orang membincangkan [sahaja] apa yg telah diterbitkan di dalam majalah ini," kata Aleksander Neradko.

Beliau berkata, dari Rusia yang bermula telah menyeru semua orang untuk melaporkan hanya fakta dan maklumat keras kepada jawatankuasa siasatan.

"Sisi Rusia, sebagai contoh, melakukannya: semua fakta kami kami diserahkan kpd jawatankuasa siasatan. Oleh itu, kita adalah penganut prinsip siasatan telus, menyeluruh, terbuka dan objektif. Oleh itu, kita tidak faham kedudukan ini, pene-muan perisikan Jerman ini."

Satu siasatan antarabangsa yang diketuai oleh pakar-pakar Belanda masih lagi dijalankan. Satu laporan awal yg dikeluarkan pd September mengesahkan bahawa kapal terbang terhempas akibat kerosakan struktur disebabkan oleh "sejumlah besar objek bertenaga tinggi" yg melanda dari luar. Siasatan itu belum lagi ditu-buhkan yang di belakang pelancaran membawa maut.

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Tidak lama selepas menenggak pesawat, bahagian Ukraine dipersalahkan kema-langan pada pemberontak anti-Kiev di timur Ukraine. Pegawai mendakwa militia mengsasarkan MH17 dengan sistem Ed disediakan oleh Rusia. Pandangan ini telah disuarakan oleh masyarakat antarabangsa, tetapi tidak ada bukti membuktikan yang pernah dibentangkan.

Germany has officially refused to comment on the report, saying that the BND “collects data that are reported to the Audit Committee of the Bundestag, reported to the government.”

“But this is all secret information,” Chancellor Angela Merkel's deputy spokesman, Georg Streiter, told reporters as he was asked to comment on the news.

The Head of Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency has said that Moscow “does not understand this position, the conclusions reached by German intelligence.”

“First of all, it is hard to speak about any information presented by German intelli-gence, because now everybody is discussing [only] what was published in this magazine,” Aleksander Neradko said.

He said that from the very beginning Russia has been calling on everyone to report only facts and hard information to the investigation committee.

“The Russian side, for example, did so: all facts we had we passed to the investi-gation committee. Thus, we are adherents of the principle of transparent, compre-hensive, open and objective investigation. Therefore, we do not understand this position, these findings of German intelligence."

An international probe led by Dutch experts is still ongoing. A preliminary report issued in September confirmed that the plane crashed as a result of structural damage caused by a “large number of high-energy objects" that struck from outside. The investigation has not yet established who was behind the fatal launch.


Shortly after the plane's downing, Ukrainian side blamed the crash on anti-Kiev rebels in eastern Ukraine. Officials claimed that militia targeted MH17 with a BUK system provided by Russia. This view was echoed by the international community, but no evidence proving that has ever been presented.


Friday 5 September 2014

Amerika Syarikat, Kesatuan Eropah Menyediakan pusingan baru SEKATAN Ekonomi ke atas RUSIA . . .

(Kiri-Kanan) Presiden Perancis Francois Hollande, Presiden Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Presiden Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama, Perdana Menteri Britain, David Cameron, Canselor Jerman Angela Merkel dan Perdana Menteri Itali Matteo Renzi bertemu untuk membincangkan Ukrain pada sidang kemuncak NATO di Celtic Manor Resort, berhampiran Newport , di Wales September 4, 2014  (L-R) French President Francois Hollande, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi meet to discus Ukraine at the NATO summit at the Celtic Manor resort, near Newport, in Wales September 4, 2014 (Reuters /Alain Jocard)

Srikandi - Amerika Syarikat merancang pusingan baru sekatan yang bertujuan untuk Persekutuan Rusia terhadap krisis yang sedang berlaku di Ukraine, White House berkata pada hari Khamis, dan Kesatuan Eropah dilaporkan di ambang melakukan perkara yang sama.

Reuters melaporkan pada hari Khamis bahawa White House sedang berusaha gelombang baru sekatan terhadap Rusia, yang boleh dikenakan selaras dengan sekatan dijangka diumumkan oleh wakil-wakil Kesatuan Eropah lewat minggu ini. Berita yang membuat pengumuman itu sebagai White House mengambil bahagian dalam persidangan-panggilan dengan wartawan.

Menurut Reuters, Timbalan penasihat keselamatan negara White House Ben Rhodes memberitahu pemberita bahawa hukuman yang baru sedang dimuk-tamadkan, tetapi diabaikan untuk memberikan butir-butir mengenai apa sektor khusus akan disasarkan.

"Perkara utama adalah bahawa Rusia mesti terus menghadapi peningkatan kos sendiri," kata Rhodes. "Jika Rusia memuncak kita boleh meningkat tekanan kita."

Sebelum ini, sekatan yang dikenakan oleh Amerika Syarikat dan Kesatuan Eropah telah mensasarkan beberapa bank terbesar di Rusia, dan juga pengeluar minyak terbesar di negara ini, Rosneft.

Detik-detik sebelum dilaporkan bahawa Amerika Syarikat sedang berusaha pada pusingan baru sekatan, Telegraph melaporkan dari UK bahawa wartawan yang telah menunjukkan sulit dokumen 3 halaman yang mencadangkan "semua syarikat minyak Rusia & pertahanan negeri yg dikuasai akan dilarang dpd menaikkan dana dalam pasaran modal Eropah."

"[Ke] melarang pembiayaan hutang (melalui bon, ekuiti dan pinjaman bersindiket) kepada syarikat-syarikat pertahanan dan kepada semua syarikat-syarikat yang utama aktiviti adalah penerokaan, pengeluaran dan pengangkutan produk minyak dan minyak dan di mana kerajaan Rusia merupakan pemegang saham majoriti," kertas yang dipetik daripada dokumen EU. "Pelanjutan ini dengan ketara akan meningkatkan beban diletakkan di negara Rusia utk membiayai syarikat2."

Bruno Waterfield daripada Telegraph melaporkan dari Brussels bahawa kedua-dua Amerika Syarikat dan EU akan bersetuju untuk mengenakan sekatan esok, Jumaat, "melainkan jika Rusia menarik balik tenteranya."

"Esok di Majlis Eropah . . . kami akan mengumumkan anctions dan meletakkan mereka ke dalam tindakan jika tiada kemajuan [di Ukraine], tetapi segala-galanya bergantung kepada jam yang akan datang," Presiden Perancis Francois Hollande yang dipetik ‘quoted’ sebagai berkata oleh Reuters.

Kuasa-kuasa Barat mendakwa bahawa Kremlin mempunyai peranan langsung dalam permusuhan semakin meningkat di timur Ukraine, di mana tentera yang berpangkalan di Kiev mempunyai selama beberapa minggu kini telah terlibat dalam pertempuran dengan pemisah dianggap disokong oleh kuasa-kuasa Rusia. Moscow telah bulat-bulat menafikan dakwaan ini.

"Ia adalah lanjutan daripada sekatan kewangan yang sedia ada," Neil ricih, ketua pasaran baru muncul ekonomi di Modal Ekonomi, memberitahu The Moscow Times manuver dijangka EU. "Sekatan sebelumnya satu 'precedent'."

Presiden Amerika Syarikat Barack Obama pada masa ini di Wales di mana ahli-ahli pakatan NATO bertemu sepanjang minggu ini untuk menimbang pilihan lanjut mengenai keadaan semasa di timur Ukraine, serta ancaman antarabangsa yang ditimbulkan oleh militan Negara Islam dan isu-isu lain.

US, EU preparing New round of Economic Sanctions 
Against RUSSIA . . .

The United States is planning a new round of sanctions aimed at the Russian Federation over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, the White House said on Thursday, and the European Union is reportedly on the verge of doing the same.

Reuters reported on Thursday that the White House is working on a new wave of sanctions against Russia, which may be imposed in tandem with embargoes expected to be announced by European Union representatives later this week. The newswire made the announcement as the White House participated in a conference-call with reporters.

According to Reuters, Deputy White House national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters that the new penalties were being finalized, but neglected to give details concerning what specific sectors will be targeted.

"The key point is that Russia must continue to face costs for its own escalation," Rhodes said. "If Russia escalates we can escalate our pressure."

Previously, sanctions imposed by the US and EU have targeted some of the largest banks in Russia, as well as the country’s largest oil producer, Rosneft.

Moments before it was reported that the US is working on a new round of sanctions, the Telegraph reported from the UK that its journalists were shown a confidential three-page document suggesting “all state-controlled Russian oil and defense companies will be banned from raising funds in European capital market.”

"[To] prohibit debt financing (through bonds, equities and syndicated loans) to defense companies and to all companies whose main activity is the exploration, production and transportation of oil and oil products and in which the Russian state is the majority shareholder," the paper quoted from the EU document. "This extension would significantly increase the burden placed on the Russian state to finance its companies."

Bruno Waterfield of the Telegraph reported from Brussels that both the US and EU will agree to impose the sanctions tomorrow, Friday, “unless Russia withdraws its military.”

“Tomorrow at the European Council . . . we will announces anctions and put them into action if there is no progress [on Ukraine], but everything will depend on the coming hours,” French President Francois Hollande was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Western powers allege that the Kremlin has a direct role in the escalating hostilities in eastern Ukraine, where the Kiev-based military has for weeks now been engaged in combat against separatists presumed to be supported by Russian forces. Moscow has adamantly denied this claim.

"It is an extension of the financial sanctions that are already in place," Neil Shearing, the chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics, told The Moscow Times of the EU’s expected maneuver. "The previous sanctions have set a precedent."

US President Barack Obama is currently in Wales, where NATO alliance members are meeting throughout this week to weigh further options concerning the current situation in eastern Ukraine, as well as the international threat posed by Islamic State militants and other issues.


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