Syria's secret services tactics echo Nazis, Stasi methods "They were valued for their practical experience," said Chalati, whose research focuses on the relationship between the former East German state security service (Stasi) and Syria's secret services. 12/13/2024 - 7:43 pm | View Link
Inside Assad’s secret police headquarters: Reporter's notebook In one room saved from a fire, we got a glimpse into Assad's system of fear. The Stasi Museum in East Berlin is amazing, not least because it's the actual former headquarters of East Germany's ... 12/13/2024 - 1:02 pm | View Link
Stasi files: German plan to transfer files sparks concern Germany's parliament has voted to transfer the secret files of the Stasi, the intelligence service in communist East Germany, to the national archives despite concerns from researchers. 10/23/2024 - 8:21 pm | View Link
Stasi: A State Against Its People The Stasi archives reveal surveillance methods and victims through interviews, documents and reconstructed files. 10/16/2024 - 6:56 pm | View Link
BFC Dynamo: What happened to the East German champions? It's a significant fall from grace for BFC Dynamo, ten-time Oberliga champions, three-time East German cup winners and pride of Erich Mielke, the head of the secret police, or Stasi. And yet ... 08/21/2023 - 8:48 pm | View Link
The Stasi: Inside the Twisted World of East Germany‘s Secret Police In the annals of 20th-century history, few organizations have left a more chilling legacy than the Stasi, the notorious secret police of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Born in the early years of the Cold War, the Stasi evolved into a sprawling apparatus of surveillance and psychological terror, casting a long shadow over the lives of ... 01/10/2025 - 1:32 pm | View Website
Stasi The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, pronounced [minɪsˈteːʁiʊm fyːɐ̯ ˈʃtaːtsˌzɪçɐhaɪ̯t]; abbreviated MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (pronounced [ˈʃtaːziː] ⓘ, an abbreviation of Staatssicherheit), was the state security service and secret police of East Germany from 1950 to 1990 ... 01/10/2025 - 4:06 am | View Website
The Stasi: The Most Terrifying Secret Police in History? Stalin’s Russia used the KGB, Nazi Germany used the Gestapo, and East Germany had the infamous Stasi. The Stasi were one of the most successful intelligence services in history: they kept almost unimaginably detailed files and records on large quantities of the population, and created an atmosphere of fear and unease that they then proceeded ... 01/9/2025 - 10:59 pm | View Website
Lessons from the Stasi – A cautionary tale on mass surveillance Four decades of domination over almost all aspects of life in East Germany came to an abrupt halt exactly 25 years ago today. On 31 March 1990, one of the most intrusive surveillance organisations in human history, the Ministry for State Security, more infamously known as the Stasi, was dissolved. 01/9/2025 - 5:58 pm | View Website
Stasi – Wikipedia Stasi (pidemmin Staatssicherheit ‘Valtion turvallisuus’, virallisesti Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS ‘Valtion turvallisuusministeriö’) oli Saksan demokraattisen tasavallan (DDR) eli Itä-Saksan salainen poliisi vuosina 1950–1989. 01/9/2025 - 4:11 pm | View Website
Today is Sunday, Jan. 12, the 12th day of 2025. There are 353 days left in the year.
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On Jan. 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake that the Haitian government estimated killed some 300,000 people.
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In 1915, the U. S. House of Representatives rejected, 204-174, a proposed constitutional amendment to give women nationwide the right to vote.
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You are entertaining, sharp and self-assured. If you’re interested in something, you approach it obsessively. You’re original! Simplicity is the key to life this year. Take charge of your health.
Phillip "Flip" Sloan started writing songs when he was 13, and offered his first record deal. When he began writing with Steve Barri, the partnership produced hits like "Secret Agent Man," "A Must To Avoid," and "You Baby."
There's not enough room to list all the records he wrote, played on, or sang.
by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, Arizona Mirror January 3, 2025
Security researchers have uncovered an exploit that allows a person to hack the digital license plates that Arizona allows drivers to use, creating an avenue for bad actors to change the license plate number.
First reported by Wired, security researchers with IOActive were able to jailbreak a digital license plate and display whatever message or image they wanted on the device.
by Caitlin Sievers, Arizona Mirror January 7, 2025
Two Republican state representatives have accused the Arizona Department of Health Services of coming after the Second Amendment rights of parents after the agency concluded in its annual Child Fatality Review Team report that there would be fewer children killed by guns in Arizona if there were fewer firearms in homes.
“We are appalled that the (Child Fatality Review Team) speaking on behalf of the Arizona Department of Health Services, is actually advocating for stripping Arizonans of their Second Amendment rights in their own homes,” Reps.
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Jack Smith has resigned from the Justice Department after submitting his investigative report on President-elect Donald Trump, an expected move that comes amid legal wrangling over how much of that document can be made public in the days ahead.
The department disclosed Smith’s departure in a court filing Saturday, saying he had resigned one day earlier.