Eurosphere agenda: “‘Luxleaks’ whistleblowers convicted

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‘Luxleaks’ whistleblowers convicted

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Two whistleblowers in “Luxleaks” tax scandal get suspended jail terms as journalist on trial is acquitted

Brexit’s long shadow falls on French presidential campaign

 EurActiv.com by Cécile Barbière

The United Kingdom’s decision to leave the EU has catapulted the question of EU membership to the forefront of France’s 2017 presidential election campaign, with the right and extreme right leading calls for a referendum. EurActiv France reports.

Roma evictions: Europe’s silent scandal

 open Democracy News Analysis – by Michael Georg Link and Nils Muižnieks

Despite ECHR rulings in their favour, Roma families are still being evicted en masse from their homes, often without any compensation.

Roma women cry as riot police arrive to assist in the eviction of more than 100 people from their homes in Bucharest, Romania, Sept 15, 2014.

 

Brexit, as seen from the Southern Cone

 open Democracy News Analysis – by Alicia Castro

The dis-United Kingdom, now lacking a veto in the EU, is alone and isolated in its failure to respect the 41 UN resolutions demanding a resumption of negotiations with Argentina. Español

Dignitaries watch the remembrance service to mark the 25th anniversary of the Falkland Islands conflict in London. Alessia Pierdomenico / PA Archive/Press Association Images. All rights reserved

 

Tough call for Slovakia’s EU presidency?

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

As Slovakia prepares to assume the rotating presidency of the EU on 1 July, the Slovak media looks at the challenges the country faces in tackling the fallout from Brexit.

The Brexit Bodge: What they said

Ideas on Europe by Jon Danzig

 

Brexit politics in 8 minutes or less

 Julien Frisch

Three journalists from the La Libre (Belgium), the Irish Times (Ireland) and Politico Europe (EU/Brussels) discuss what’s happening behind the scenes of EU institutions.

Nosemonkey’s prophecies: the Brexit vote, UK media, and the EU debate a decade later

Julien Frisch

This blog would have had a hard time starting off in 2008 withoutNosemonkey’s “EU blog directory“. Thanks to this list, I discovered what was, back then, basically the whole (relevant) EU social media sphere. But more than making me discover the EU blogosphere, Nosemonkey made me discover the UK’s distorted reality field that has contributed to the Brexit vote last week.

Journal 6.26.2016 Brexit to ISIS

Global Guerrillas by John Robb

Some items to think about:

• Brexit is a true black swan.  Nobody in the mainstream, including the Leave camp, saw it coming.  Even now, based on the analysis being written, few people understand why it won.  Why did it win?  The cosmopolitan, financialized elites saw their incomes grow with globalization, but the deals they struck to “earn” those gains required throwing the bottom 60-70% of the country under the economic bus.  In fact, nearly all of the fast rise out of poverty seen globally was achieved by economically damaging the working populations of the developed world (particularly in the US and the UK).  That lopsided deal is a bomb of anger that has been growing for years.  A bomb that is now going off in the US and the UK.  Strangely, nobody in the establishment is willing to do what is necessary to defuse this bomb.  This means it will get much worse before it gets better.

Gibraltar and Scotland discuss staying in EU

 EurActiv.com

The leaders of Gibraltar and Scotland discussed remaining within the European Union on Tuesday after a British vote to leave the bloc, a statement said.

Why Brexit Is Tearing British Politics Apart

Slate Articles by Gabriel Roth

Why are we here?

Fear wins in Spain’s elections

open Democracy News Analysis – by Lluis de Nadal

If Podemos members and leaders draw the right conclusions from Sunday’s elections, then this defeat will only make them stronger.

Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias. Paimages/Francisco Seco. All rights reserved.As Spain prepared for its second general election in six months, all eyes were set on Podemos. Polls suggested that the anti-austerity party led by Pablo Iglesias would surge past the Socialist Party (PSOE), and even come close to beating the ruling centre-right Popular Party (PP). “Victory is at our fingertips,” Podemos’ leaders repeatedly proclaimed.

 

Juncker vs. Farage: The final battle

 EurActiv.com by Laura Fernández Álvarez

“I’m surprised that you are here. You were fighting for the exit. The British people voted for the exit. Why are you here?” European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Tuesday in Strasbourg.

Brexit aftershocks hit Spain

open Democracy News Analysis – by Francesc Badia i Dalmases

Did Brexit have anything to do with the disappoiting results for Podemos in Sunday’s Spanish elections?

Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias. Paimages/Francisco Seco. All rights

Brexit sad but no tragedy, say Baltic countries

BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Major social media players in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are generally saddened by the British vote to leave the European Union, but do not treat it as a crisis.

Debate: Johnson doesn’t want to succeed Cameron

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Boris Johnson will not run for the office of British prime minister. He does not feel able to unite the country, the most prominent Brexit advocate and former conservative mayor of London said on Thursday. Was Johnson the victim of intrigues in the Tory party?

Brexit: Tensions emerge over UK-EU trade negotiations

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

UK and EU politicians send conflicting signals about how the UK’s Brexit negotiations should proceed.

Austrian far right gets election defeat annulled

EurActiv.com by Samuel White

Austria’s presidential run-off election must be held again, the country’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday (1 July), handing the Freedom Party’s narrowly defeated candidate another chance to become the first far-right head of state in the European Union.

Brexit: the view from Eurasia

open Democracy News Analysis – by Thomas Rowley, Natalia Antonova, Mikhail Kaluzhsky and Maxim Edwards

Whether you’re in Mariupol or Margate, politics has become an organic part of the tabloid press. Our media should change to tackle this.

27 June: Vladimir Putin addresses the audience at the United Russia party congress. (c) Ivan Sekretarev / AP / Press Association Images. All rights reserved.Over the weekend, Brexit revealed (or created, depending on your opinion) another crack in Europe’s fundament. Roughly speaking, the regional working and middle classes pushed back against alienation, of being written out of the conversation. In so doing, they aligned themselves with one strand of elite interests.

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Cyberculture agenda: “Selfie Diplomacy”..” a report on the first Decentralized Web Summit…

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Selfie Diplomacy- Analysis of MFA Profile Pictures on Twitter

Exploring Digital Diplomacy by Ilan Manor

Last week, as news of Brexit broke, foreign ministries throughout the world took to social media to comment on the UK’s decision to leave the EU. The German foreign ministry responded in two ways. First, it published a series of tweets from Chancellor Markel’s press conference. Secondly, it changed its Twitter profile picture from an image of the German foreign minister to the EU flag (see below).

(German MFA)

How to Break Open the Web: a report on the first Decentralized Web Summit

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

June’s Decentralized Web Summit at San Francisco’s Internet Archive was a ground-breaking, three-day combination of workshops, lectures, demos and a hackathon, all aimed at figuring out how to restore the decentralized character of the early internet — and keep it that way.

This chatbot is responsible for more than 160,000 dismissed parking tickets

 The Next Web by Bryan Clark

Dubbed “the world’s first robot lawyer” by its 19-year-old creator, Joshua Browder, DoNotPay has now successfully contested over 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York.

Snapchat and Tumblr: Platforms for Innovation in Social Media Marketing (Report)

All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison

Startups are usually the home of the most innovative outlooks in social media. Any startup with a different approach or technology, like Instagram andPeriscope, is often bought up by the larger networks. But others, like Snapchat,choose to go it alone. The 2016 State of Social Marketing report from Simply Measured gives us an insight into how these services are leading the industry in different ways.

Facebook News Feed Update: Posts from Friends to Get Priority Over Page Content

Social Media Today by Andrew Hutchinson

Facebook has announced a new News Feed update, this time aimed at boosting the reach of personal updates, which will have an impact on brand Pages

Video Is Becoming an Important Part of Social Engagement (Report)

 All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison

Marketers still face significant challenges when it comes to measuring return on investment on social media. Still, each of the social networks analyzed in theSimply Measured State of Social 2016 report is experiencing some manner of growth and expansion. Let’s take a look at how the established players like Twitter and Facebook are changing, and how your marketing strategy should evolve.

How “Fansmitter” Malware Steals Data from Air-Gapped Computers

 MIT Technology Review

Changing a computer’s fan speed produces an audio signal that can be hijacked to steal data, say computer security experts who have tested the technique.

WhatsApp vs. Signal vs. Google Allo: Which app is best for privacy?

Mashable! by Pete Pachal

This spring, text messages got a lot more private.

Official Tally of Wiretaps Belies Government Scare Stories About Encryption

The Intercept by Alex Emmons

Despite Obama administration claims that encryption is increasingly obstructing law enforcement investigations, the authoritative annual Wiretap Report from the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts released on Thursday found that encryption was less of a problem in 2015 than the year before.

The report’s figures include all court-ordered wiretaps, but not those conducted without a warrant for “foreign intelligence” purposes by the National Security Agency and others.

Teach crypto with emoji: Codemoji!

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Brett from Mozilla writes, “Codemoji, a game and learning tool that lets you encode secret messages in emoji and then send them to friends for deciphering.”

10 Ways to Use Snapchat for Business

 Social Media Examiner by Eric Siu

Wondering how to use Snapchat for your business? Want to create deeper connections with your followers? Snapchat can help you build an engaged following, increase loyalty, and boost your brand visibility. In this article, you’ll discover 10 ways to use Snapchat for business.

Brands Are Still Too Reliant on Engagement Metrics (Report)

All Facebook by Kimberlee Morrison

Social media marketers have been plagued with a number of problems in recent years, and it seems that many find it difficult to keep up with the changing objectives. The 2016 State of Social Marketing report from Simply Measuredprovides valuable insight into the areas marketers need to work on.

Snowden’s flesh is trapped in Russia, but his mind roams the world in a robot body

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

The Snowbot — a $14,000 Beampro telepresence robot that Edward Snowden pilots from Moscow —

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Turkey’s uglier change in the person of Ministry of Finance buildings…

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This was built in 1925:

and this is being built now:

…And many more news from Turkey:

Environmentalists block road to mining company in Black Sea province

A group of locals and environmentalist activists blocked the road to an untouched forested area in the Black Sea province of Artvin to prevent the activities of a mining firm

22nd anniversary of Sivas massacre commemorated with politicians, Alevi notables

The Sivas massacre, an arson attack on mostly Alevi intellectuals inside the city’s Madımak Hotel staged by radical Islamists that killed 33 intellectuals and two hotel personnel, was commemorated on its 22nd anniversary on July 2 in Turkey’s Central Anatolian province of Sivas

Turkey’s first Roma deputy slams police raids in Roma neighborhoods

A CHP deputy has slammed a huge police operation in Roma neighborhoods in the northwestern province of Edirne, saying the raid aimed to ‘fuel ethnic discrimination’ and ‘advertise the police forces in the media’

Erdoğan vows to prevent Kurdish state in northern Syria, as Iran warns Turkey

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has vowed to prevent the establishment of a Kurdish state in northern Syria, while Iran warned Turkey over military intervention into its neighbor.

Opposition Parties Comment on New Turkish Parliamentary Speaker

 Bianet :: English

HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş said: “We casted 50 votes for Deniz Baykal. We wish the best for MHP. CHP Spokesperson Haluk Koç remarked:” A political party’s leader served the position of Speaker on a silver platter to AKP.

MHP leader Bahçeli keeps door ajar for coalition with AKP

The leader of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), which has become key to the imminent election of Turkey’s new parliament speaker, has left the door open to forming a coalition government with the Justice and Development Party (AKP), while defining three strict preconditions for such an agreement

Lady Gaga slams ‘inhumane’ police crackdown on LGBTI pride march in Istanbul

American pop diva Lady Gaga has slammed the police clampdown on the LGBTI pride parade in Istanbul through her Twitter account

49 photos of joy and fear at Gay Pride march in Istanbul

The 13th Istanbul LGBTI Pride March on June 28 witnessed scenes of joy and fear as police cracked down on participants with tear gas and water cannon. Click through for the photos

Polls results sweep away AKP-style moustaches from bureaucracy

The army of (mostly) men that constitute the country’s civil service are loudly sporting Summer 2015’s hottest new look: almond moustache-free facial hair

Alevis concerned after six homes marked in eastern Turkey

The Alevi community in the town of Yazıkonak in the eastern province of Elazığ has expressed concerns after six Alevi homes in the town were tagged with yellow paint. Homes in the town belonging to people from the eastern province of Tunceli were among those which were tagged on their outer walls on Yazıkonak’s Belediye Street

Turkish riot police fire water cannon and rubber pellets at gay pride revellers

 World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Agencies in Istanbul

This year’s parade in Istanbul coincided with the holy month of Ramadan

British, U.S. Consul Generals attend Pride in Istanbul

Two major consul generals in Istanbul have taken to Istanbul’s famous Istiklal Street to show their support for the LGBTI community in Istanbul

Turkish police crack down on Gay Pride in Istanbul

Istanbul police dispersed LGBTI Pride Parade participants with tear gas and water cannon on June 28 before a much-anticipated march even started, as celebrants were ready with rainbow-colored flags and placards to march along Istanbul’s central İstiklal Avenue

Turkish economy minister has ‘no guilty conscience’ after presenting award to Zarrab

Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci has said he has “no guilty conscience” over attending a ceremony where controversial Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab, embroiled in Turkey’s Dec. 2013 corruption probe, was awarded for his company’s high export performance

Journalist Sued for his Novel on Parallel Structure

Bianet :: English

After being jailed due to his novel “The Imam’s Army”, journalist Ahmet Şık will stand trial in October for allegedly insulting former minister Binali Yıldırım in his novel “We Walked These Roads in Parallel”.

News Website Fined 5,250 Turkish Lira for Insulting Female Unionist

 Bianet :: English

News Website was fined 5,250 Turkish Lira for insulting Unionist Banu Aşçı by publishing her photo titled “The sexiest unionist” on May Day.

Picnic is Forbidden in front of Presidential Palace

 Bianet :: English

Youngster playing ball in front of Presidential Palace were disrupted by the police and bodyguards. Young ones asked “Isn’t the palace open to public?” They didn’t get an answer.

Artist faces four years in jail for ‘insulting’ President Erdoğan

An artist who President Erdoğan was ordered to be pay 10,000 Turkish Liras in compensation now faces four years in prison

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