Nel nostro blog in più circostanze abbiamo evidenziato l’importanza di inserire Forze di Polizia nell’ambito delle Operazioni di mantenimento della Pace (Peacekeeping).

Peacekeeping in retreat: Rethinking how to deal with organized crime in conflict settings è il titolo di un recente interessante articolo di Walter Kemp, che è Director of Communications del “Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime” segnala come le operazioni di peacekeeping delle Nazioni Unite siano in crisi: non vengono lanciate nuove missioni dal 2014, molte sono state ridotte o chiuse, e i finanziamenti sono in calo. Ed, in questo contesto, la criminalità organizzata – una delle principali minacce alla pace – è quasi del tutto assente dall’agenda delle Nazioni Unite.
Secondo l’autore le missioni di pace non affrontano adeguatamente la criminalità organizzata, che alimenta i conflitti e mina la resilienza degli Stati.
L’assenza di interventi può portare a governance criminali o a guerre per il controllo delle economie illecite.

Kemp indica la necessità di nuovi modelli di missioni, ove includere componenti specializzate nel contrasto alla criminalità organizzata, individuandole in quelle che egli chiama “Squadre anticrimine”, idonee a raccogliere informazioni, fornire supporto tecnico e, se autorizzate, eseguire arresti.
Inoltre il personale delle missioni (o meglio parte di esso) dovrebbe avere una formazione mirata, per preparare le forze di pace a riconoscere e affrontare le economie illecite.

A tale proposito l’autore ipotizza collaborazioni più ampie: coinvolgere agenzie come INTERPOL, forze specializzate (es. Guardia di Finanza), società civile e comunità locali, anche per effettuare una migliore mappatura dei mercati criminali per progettare strategie di stabilizzazione efficaci.
Kemp conclude sottolineando come la criminalità organizzata sia un fattore chiave nei conflitti moderni. Ignorarla compromette la pace e la sicurezza. Le Nazioni Unite devono adattare le loro strategie, anche in assenza di missioni di peacekeeping, per affrontare questa minaccia in modo efficace.
Quanto suggerito da Kemp richiama una struttura dell’Arma dei carabinieri costituita ad hoc in alcune missioni di pace internazionali “a marchio” NATO. Ci riferiamo alle Multinational Specialized Unit (MSU) di cui abbiamo parlato qui noblogo.org/cooperazione-inter…

L’articolo (in inglese) è reperibile a questa pagina globalinitiative.net/analysis/…

#peacekeeping #criminaltàorganizzata #Nazioniunite #ONU #Armadeicarabinieri #GuardiadiFinanza

@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo

We recently published an affectionate look at a Polaroid Land camera, whose peel-apart instant film is long out of production except for a very few single exposure packs form a boutique manufacturer. All that was left was a discussion of modifying it for conventional roll film, or perhaps hacking a modern back-to-front Polaroid sheet into it.

Never say never though, because along come the Chinese company Light Lens Lab with a short announcement at the end of a post talking about grain structures and anti-halation layer materials for their black and white film.

Lastly, with our future development plan, we are currently developing and researching instant peel-apart film, with plans on producing and making available black and white peel-apart film by 2025 in various format. We aim to have an update on our packaging and test shot for the next development/research progress installment. We are also researching, developing and producing colour reversal films that consist of a dye-incorporating development process, commonly known as K-14, for 135 and 120 formats in 2026.

So there you go, no sooner has Hackaday declared a format unavailable, than it shows every sign of reappearing. At this point we’d like to take the opportunity to report that McDonalds Szechuan Chicken McNugget sauce will never ever be available again.

So what does this mean? First of all, assuming that the stuff doesn’t need the GDP of a small country to buy in Europe, the Hackaday Polaroid 104 will be able to shoot in its native format again. But perhaps more interestingly, it opens up a new option for the camera hacker. Pack film is much easier than modern instant film to deal with; it requires only rollers and someone to tug on that paper tab, no gears or motors involved. We’re here for this.

The observant will also have noted at the end of the announcement, mention of a dye-incorporating development process. This refers to the colour chemistry seen in Kodachrome, a long-extinct single-layer film that offered legendarily sharp and vibrant-coloured pictures at the expense of a very complex development path. We’d love to see it, but we’ll take the instant pack film and run.

The Hackaday Land camera is here.

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Dear Friends of the Pirate Community,

PPI is heading again to the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), this time in Norway. The IGF is a UN event that brings together a large number of governments and non-profit organizations. PPI has attended the IGF for about 10 years now. As part of our effort to attend the event, we are conducting a fundraiser to collect up to 1500 euros to support our representatives. Donations can be made directly on our website or through the following crowdfunding campaign: fundrazr.com/b2Yiz8

PPI was accepted to organize a workshop entitled “Ethical Networking: Sustainability and Accountability” will be on June 23rd at 16:15 in Workshop Room 2, Hall C: intgovforum.org/en/content/igf…

We will also be presenting at a booth with the European Pirate Party.

We are attempting to fundraise some of the costs of our representatives who will be paying out of their own pocket to attend the event. Being in Norway this year, means that it will not be cheap. Any financial assistance would be greatly appreciated.

As a way to further motivate fundraising, we have also provided an incentive to include individual membership in PPI, which normally costs 10 euros, for those who provide at least a 15 euro donation.

The entire event is from June 23rd to 27th. Please review the IGF website as the date nears for information about participating online: intgovforum.org/en/content/igf…

All approved events can be seen here: intgovforum.org/en/content/igf…

Last year in Saudi Arabia we also organized a workshop on Autarchy, spearheaded by Alexander Isavnin: intgovforum.org/en/content/igf…

Two years ago we had a booth in Japan: pp-international.net/2023/10/i…

The year before that PPI had a booth in Poland: pp-international.net/2021/12/p…

At the moment PPI does not have any extra funding for this event. Every PPI representative is self-funded. By making a donation you will provide partial assistance for one of our representatives to attend.

pp-international.net/2025/06/i…

Satellite images show a new militia operating in southern Gaza in an area under IDF control, and a former Israeli defense minister claimed Israel is arming an ISIS-affiliated militia in Gaza to counter Hamas. In response, PM Netanyahu's office said the country is "working to defeat Hamas in various ways."

Se fosse vero sarebbe l'ennesima prova di quanto Israele sia sceso in basso.

We exposed as a lie the Trump administration’s basis for repealing restrictions on surveilling journalists to investigate leaks. The “fake news” that the administration claimed to be combating — reports that the intelligence community disputed its claim that the Venezuelan government directed the activities of the Tren de Aragua gang in the United States – was, in fact, 100 percent accurate.

But just in case that bombshell and the widespread news coverage that followed doesn’t shame the administration into changing course, Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) hosted a discussion about past efforts by the government to out reporters’ sources and what journalists should expect when federal prosecutors come after their newsgathering.

Our panelists would know better than most. Former New York Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winner James Risen fought a seven-year battle against attempts by both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations to force him to testify and reveal his sources in a leak investigation. He detailed the Obama administration’s endless litigation against him, while at the same time it engaged in secret digital surveillance of his communications.

Ryan Lizza, the founder and editor of Telos.news and a former reporter at Politico, CNN, and The New Yorker, also joined to discuss his reporting on the Obama administration’s overreach in secretly spying on Fox News reporter James Rosen, as well as efforts by former U.S. representative and current Trump sycophant Devin Nunes to obtain Lizza’s communications from tech companies in separate litigation.

And Lauren Harper, Daniel Ellsberg chair on government secrecy at FPF, discussed the aforementioned revelations about the Trump administration’s false pretexts for cracking down on leaks, which she obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.

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Risen started by laying out the stakes that emerged after 9/11. “Basically everything about the American conduct in the war on terror was classified,” he explained. “Everything that we now take for granted about our body of knowledge about how the United States conducts warfare in the 21st century came through leaks or unauthorized disclosures of one form or another.”

Lizza agreed, adding that critics of the Iraq War in the current administration would not have been able to mount their criticisms without leaks. Politicians, he explained, use leaked information to form the basis for their political platforms and then turn against leakers when they’re the ones in power.

Harper disputed the administration’s apparent belief that the solution to leaks is more secrecy, not less. “Upwards of 90% of information that is classified ought not to be. So I think in some ways, we can look at leaks as a response to a broken classification system,” she said.

Risen observed that the Obama administration finally backed down from forcing him to testify not due to the law but due to bad press. Lizza had similar impressions from his coverage of the Rosen case, explaining that his reporting “got the ear of some people in the Obama administration who did not like being accused of attacking the First Amendment and going after reporters.”

As Risen explained, when the government comes after journalists it’s often not about finding out who they’re talking to, it’s about “having a chilling effect on journalism in general and making sure everybody is afraid of the government.” Added Risen, “They’ll go after journalists not because they need them, but because they want to punish them and set an example.”

It remains to be seen whether the Trump administration will respond to public shaming like Obama did, but we won’t know unless we try. First, the press needs to avoid surveillance, by implementing digital security best practices when storing data and communicating electronically with sources, but also, as Risen said, going “off the grid” and communicating face-to-face whenever possible.

When that fails and the government comes after journalists’ sources anyway, it’s imperative that the press stand up for itself and its sources, by raising alarms about the risks to investigative reporting and press freedom when the government is able to snoop into reporters’ notebooks and emails. Caving to the pressure only encourages more retaliation.

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