Criteria for Protection of Digital Communication

In general, to protect digital communication the following features are important: Verification: The addresses of the sender and receiver can be verified to be owned by the expected persons. Anonymity: The sender and/or the receiver of a message cannot be associated with an identifier by a third party. If identifiers are available, the identifiers cannot…

Most popular #politicalframing to attack climate activists (and counter-frames) [updated]

1. Introduction The following text aims to analyse common #politicalframes to attack climate activists and delay climate action. Attackers are attaching negative associations to climate activists or causing confusion in a discussion making it ineffective and leaving the audience vulnerable to emotional-irrational reactions. By analysing these frames and correcting or counter-attacking them, clarity should be…

Poster for cycling mass action

Introduction The poster below can be used for cycling mass actions by attaching it to a bike trailer, makes most sense if you are the last in the cycling action, so following cars can read it. Tutorial Basic idea: Design an A4 format poster, split it over several A4 sheets, print it, cut and glue…

Capitalism, Colonialism, Carbon, and the Climate

I recently received the following questions from an African activist on capitalism, carbon, and climate, which I try to answer below: 1. Capitalism and Climate, how are these impacting us? Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. [1] This means it operates…

Bundesverkehrsminister Scheuer bricht Ministereid – egal, weil er sich durch die CSU nicht demokratisch verantworten muss

Der bayerische Ministerpräsident Markus Söder hat auf dem CSU-Parteitag am 2021-09-10 folgende Aussage gemacht: Ja, wir wollen erneuerbare Energien zu 100 Prozent. Wir wollen neue Antriebe, Andi Scheuer: Elektro, Wasserstoff, synthetische Kraftstoffe. Du hast uns viel Geld nach Bayern gebracht. Und bei allem, liebe Freunde, was der eine oder andere kritisiert an den [sic!] Andi…

Mobile phones and the cloud – How to protect your privacy

Protection of private information is a fundamental prerequisite in democratic, non-totalitarian systems to avoid excessive control by any government or other powerful group to the point, where no change of the system is possible by individual citizens. Mobile phones play a crucial role across the globe now. While the range of hardware  is more diverse,…

CDU/CSU Politiker leiten systematisch Steuergelder für ihre politische Karriere in eigene Wahlkreise um

Politiker leiten systematisch Steuergelder in eigene Wahlkreise um, um ihre politische Karriere zu fördern, was jedoch der Allgemeinheit Schaden zufügen kann, wenn hier nicht im Sinne der Sachfrage entschieden wird [1]. Fälle der aktuellen Bundesregierung unter Führung von Bundeskanzlerin Merkel sind: Forschungsministerin Anja Karliczek (CDU) leitet 500 Millionen Euro für ein Batterieforschungszentrum in ihren Wahlkreis…

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