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Penunjuk perasaan Turkey menduduki Taksim Square.
Penunjuk perasaan menduduki Gezi taman berkata mereka masih menaruh harapan
bahawa penyelesaian diplomatik boleh dicapai dengan Presiden Turki Tayyip
Erdogan.
Erdogan telah kembali dari perjalanan asing ke
Istanbul dan menangani orang ramai meminta mereka tidak akan ditarik ke dalam
keganasan.
Turkey protesters occupy Taksim Square. Protesters
occupying Gezi park said they were still hopeful that a diplomatic solution
could be reached with Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan.
Erdogan
has returned from a foreign trip to Istanbul and addressing crowds asked them
to not be drawn into violence.
Luruh Turki: 'Yang bertentangan tepat Arab Spring'
Berkembang Islamisme di rantau ini adalah satu kuasa memandu di nadi bantahan
Turki, dan juga mempunyai simpati polis, tetapi tentera Turki sedang menunggu
di sayap, politik pakar Avigdor Eskin memberitahu RT.
Turkish Autumn: 'The exact opposite of Arab Spring'
Growing Islamism in the region is a driving force in the lifeblood of the
Turkish protests, and even has the sympathy of the police, but the Turkish
military is waiting in the wings, political expert Avigdor Eskin told RT.
Bilderberg 2013: mesyuarat Rahsia membuka pejabat akhbar
untuk wartawan buat pertama kali. Salah satu perhimpunan yang paling rahsia di DUNIA
seolah-olah mengangkat penyamaran secracy. Kumpulan Bilderberg adalah terkenal
malu dari perhatian media, tetapi tahun ini mereka-reka tahunan adalah
dibanjiri dengan wartawan dari beberapa media terkemuka DUNIA.
RT Sara Firth pergi ke Watford berhampiran London
untuk mencuba dan mengetahui apa yang kumpulan di DUNIA yang paling berkuasa
mungkin akan bercakap tentang itu.
Bilderberg 2013: Secret meeting opens press office
for 1st time. One of the most clandestine gatherings in the world seems to be
lifting the veils of secracy. The Bilderberg Group is famously shy of press
attention, but this year its annual confab is inundated with reporters from
some of the world's top media outlets.
RT's Sara Firth went to Watford near London to try
and find out what the world's most powerful group might be talking about.
Amerika Syarikat dilaporkan ‘blabs’ rahsia tapak
peluru berpandu. Pengawasan dilakukan oleh Amerika Syarikat Jabatan Pertahanan
telah ditiupkan penutup kira rancangan untuk penempatan baru berteknologi
tinggi peluru berpandu anti-peluru berpandu ke laman rahsia di tengah-tengah
Israel.
US
reportedly blabs site of secret missiles. A possible oversight by the United
States Defense Department has blown the cover off of plans for the deployment
of new high-tech anti-missile missiles to a secret site in central Israel.
NSA Mengintip: Menyapu program data perlombongan Amerika
Syarikat diturunkan. Perisikan Amerika Syarikat mengesahkan ia mengumpul mesej
peribadi pengguna internet tetapi mempertahankan langkah itu, mendakwa
pengawasan besar-besaran itu hanya mensasarkan "orang bukan Amerika"
di luar negara.
Kertas Terdahulu Britain dan Amerika Syarikat
melaporkan bahawa Amerika Syarikat telah mengetuk terus ke dalam pelayan
syarikat-syarikat internet yang terkemuka Amerika, mendapat akses kepada e-mel
peribadi, gambar dan dokumen. Satu perintah mahkamah bocor telah menjadi bukti
kukuh pertama menyapu program pengumpulan data Washington. RT Anastasia
Churkina laporan ini.
Eugene Puryear, seorang aktivis hak organisasi
Gabungan Jawapan awam, menyertai selepas memberi perspektif beliau mengenai isu
itu.
NSA Spying: Sweeping US data-mining program revealed
. US intelligence confirms it is collecting the private messages of internet
users but defends the move, claiming the mass surveillance was targeting only
"non-US persons" outside the country.
Earlier
British and American papers reported that the US was tapping directly into the
servers of leading American internet companies, getting access to personal
e-mails, photos and documents. A leaked court order has become the first hard
evidence of Washington's sweeping data collection program. RT's Anastasia
Churkina reports.
Eugene Puryear, an activist for the civil rights
organization Answer Coalition, joins after to give his perspective on the
issue.
NSA Menyimpan Rahsia Panggilan Verizon: Laporan -
Rumah Putih Panggilan Program 'Critcal' White House berkata maklumat itu adalah
"alat penting dalam melindungi negara." (NSA Secretly Storing Verizon
Calls: Report - White House Calls Program 'Critcal'The White House says such
information is a "critical tool in protecting the nation)."
Untuk
maklumat lanjut mengenai cerita ini, klik di sini (For more on this story,
click here):
Photo: AP pengguna Facebook Operasi Keselamatan
pekerja Team melihat ulasan di ibu pejabat Facebook di Menlo Park, California
The Washington Post dan The Guardian melaporkan Khamis Jun 6, 2013, kewujudan
program yang digunakan oleh NSA dan FBI yang ‘scours’ yang syarikat-syarikat
Internet utama negara, audio mengekstrak, video, gambar, e-mel, dokumen dan log
sambungan untuk membantu penganalisis mengesan pergerakan dan hubungan
seseorang.
Photo:
AP A Facebook User Operations Safety Team worker looks at reviews at Facebook
headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The Washington Post and The Guardian
reported Thursday, June 6, 2013, the existence of a program used by the NSA and
FBI that scours the nation's main Internet companies, extracting audio, video,
photographs, emails, documents and connection logs to help analysts track a
person's movements and contacts.
Adakah Data Besar
menjadikan kerajaan Amerika Syarikat menjadi 'Big Brother?
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Dengan setiap panggilan telefon mereka membuat dan setiap lawatan web yang
mereka ambil, orang yang meninggalkan jejak data digital mendedahkan yang boleh
dikesan oleh keuntungan-mencari syarikat-syarikat dan pegawai-pegawai kerajaan memburu
pengganas.
Ayat-ayat
yang Agensi Keselamatan Negara perusing berjuta-juta rekod telefon pelanggan Amerika
Syarikat di Verizon Communications dan pengintipan pada komunikasi digital yang
disimpan oleh perkhidmatan sembilan Internet utama menggambarkan bagaimana
agresif data peribadi yang dikumpul dan dianalisis.
Verizon
menyerahkan metadata yang dipanggil, petikan dari berjuta-juta rekod pelanggan
Amerika Syarikat, untuk NSA di bawah suatu perintah yang dikeluarkan oleh Perisikan
rahsia Asing Pengawasan Mahkamah, menurut satu laporan dalam akhbar British The
Guardian. Laporan itu mengesahkan Khamis oleh Senator Dianne Feinstein,
D-Calif., Yang mempengerusikan Jawatankuasa Perisikan Senat.
Bekas
pekerja NSA William Binney memberitahu Associated Press bahawa dia
menganggarkan agensi mengumpul rekod 3 bilion panggilan telefon setiap hari.
NSA dan FBI kelihatan pemutus yang bersih lebih luas di bawah program sulit
kod-dinamakan "PRISM" yang datang kepada cahaya dalam cerita yang
disiarkan lewat Khamis oleh The Washington Post.
PRISM
memberikan akses kerajaan Amerika Syarikat untuk e-mel, dokumen, audio, video,
gambar-gambar dan data lain yang kepercayaan orang kepada beberapa
syarikat-syarikat yang terbaik di DUNIA yang diketahui, menurut The Washington
Post.
Akhbar
itu berkata, ia dikaji semula jadual sulit syarikat dan perkhidmatan yang
mengambil bahagian dalam PRISM. Syarikat-syarikat termasuk AOL Inc, Apple Inc,
Facebook Inc, Google Inc, Microsoft Corp, Yahoo Inc, Skype, YouTube dan
Paltalk.
Dalam
penyata, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft dan Yahoo berkata, mereka hanya
menyediakan kerajaan dengan data pengguna yang dikehendaki di bawah
undang-undang. (Google YouTube berjalan dan Microsoft memiliki Skype.) AOL dan
Paltalk tidak segera bertindak balas kepada pertanyaan daripada The Associated
Press.
NSA
tidak mendapat nama-nama pelanggan atau kandungan perbualan telefon di bawah
perintah mahkamah Verizon, tetapi itu tidak bermakna maklumat itu tidak boleh
terikat kepada data yang lain yang datang melalui program PRISM untuk melihat
ke dalam kehidupan orang ramai, mengikut pakar-pakar (according to experts).
Seperti
keping teka-teki, bit dan bytes ketinggalan daripada interaksi elektronik rakyat
boleh bersama-sama berbatu-batu untuk membuat kesimpulan tentang tabiat mereka,
persahabatan dan keutamaan menggunakan formula perlombongan data dan komputer
semakin kuat.
Ia
adalah sebahagian daripada fenomena yang dikenali sebagai "Data
Besar," kata-kata hikmah yang semakin digunakan untuk menggambarkan sains
menganalisis jumlah besar maklumat yang dikumpul melalui peranti mudah alih,
pelayar web dan daftar keluar. Penganalisis menggunakan komputer yang berkuasa
untuk mengesan trend dan mewujudkan dossiers digital mengenai orang.
Pentadbiran
Obama dan penggubal undang-undang mengambil bahagian dengan pengawasan NSA itu
tidak berkata apa-apa tentang koleksi rekod pelanggan luar Verizon bahawa ia
adalah demi kepentingan keselamatan negara. Perintah mahkamah yang luas
meliputi rekod Verizon setiap panggilan telefon mudah alih dan talian tetap
dari 25 April hingga 19 Julai, menurut Guardian.
Kemungkinan
rekod telefon Verizon sedang dipadankan dengan set data yang lebih luas,
berkata Forrester Research penganalisis Fatemeh Khatibloo. "Rasa saya
adalah mereka mencari corak rangkaian," katanya. "Mereka akan mencari
yang disambung kepada siapa dan sama ada mereka boleh meletakkan apa-apa tempoh
masa bersama-sama. Mereka juga mungkin cuba untuk mengenal pasti lokasi di mana
ianya orang memanggil dari mana."
Di
bawah perintah mahkamah, rekod Verizon termasuk tempoh setiap panggilan dan
lokasi panggilan telefon mudah alih, menurut Guardian. Maklumat lokasi amat
berharga untuk operasi jubah-mata seperti yang sedang berjalan NSA, kata Cindy
Cohn, pengarah undang-undang untuk Frontier Foundation elektronik, kumpulan hak
digital yang telah berjuang koleksi rekod kerajaan telefon peribadi sejak 2006.
Yayasan
itu kini menyaman lebih koleksi kerajaan komunikasi rakyat Amerika Syarikat
'dalam kes yang bermula sejak pentadbiran Presiden George W. Bush.
"Ia
sangat invasif," kata Cohn. "Ini adalah akibat daripada hakikat
bahawa kita mempunyai begitu banyak pihak yang ke-3 yang telah mengumpul
maklumat penting tentang kehidupan seharian kita."
Ianya
seperti urat yang kaya dengan maklumat bahawa syarikat-syarikat Amerika
Syarikat dan lain-lain organisasi kini membelanjakan lebih daripada $ 2 bilion
setiap tahun untuk mendapatkan data pihak ke-3 mengenai individu, menurut
Forrester Research.
Data
yang membantu perniagaan pelanggan sasaran yang berpotensi. Kebanyakan maklumat
ini dijual oleh broker data kononnya yang di kata, seperti Acxiom Corp, Little
Rock, syarikat Bahtera yang mengekalkan fail luas mengenai aktiviti-aktiviti
online dan offline lebih daripada 500 juta pengguna di seluruh DUNIA.
Floodgates
digital telah membuka sepanjang dekad yang lalu sebagai kemudahan dan tarikan
internet dan telefon anggun pintar-telah membuat ia lebih mudah dan lebih
menyeronokkan untuk orang ramai untuk terus berhubung di mana sahaja mereka
pergi.
"Saya
tidak fikir terdapat perubahan laut dalam kaedah analisis sebanyak telah
berlaku perubahan dalam jumlah, halaju dan pelbagai maklumat dan kuasa komputer
untuk memproses segala-galanya," kata penganalisis Gartner Douglas Laney.
Dalam
tanda penentuan NSA untuk vakum sehingga seberapa banyak data yang mungkin,
agensi itu telah membina sebuah pusat data di Bluffdale, Utah yang 5 kali lebih
besar daripada Capitol- Amerika Syarikat semua untuk menapis melalui Data
Besar.
$ 2
bilion pusat telah diberi persepsi bahawa sesetengah puak kerajaan Amerika
Syarikat berazam untuk membina pangkalan data semua panggilan telefon, carian
Internet dan e-mel di bawah nama keselamatan negara.
Pendedahan
The Washington Post bahawa kedua-dua NSA dan FBI mempunyai keupayaan untuk
menggali ke dalam komputer perkhidmatan Internet utama mungkin akan
meningkatkan kebimbangan bahawa Data Besar kerajaan Amerika Syarikat adalah
mewujudkan sesuatu yang serupa dengan ‘Big Brother’ yang sentiasa berjaga-jaga
Besar dalam "1984" novel George Orwell.
"Hakikat
bahawa kerajaan boleh memberitahu semua pembawa telefon dan pembekal
perkhidmatan Internet untuk menyerahkan semua jenis data ini memberi mereka
kekuasaan penuh untuk membina profil orang yang mereka menyasarkan dengan cara
yang sangat berbeza daripada mana-mana syarikat boleh," kata Khatibloo.
Dalam
kebanyakan kes, syarikat-syarikat Internet seperti Google Inc, Facebook Inc dan
Yahoo Inc mengambil apa yang mereka belajar daripada permintaan carian, klik
pada butang "seperti", aktiviti melayari laman web dan pengesanan
lokasi pada peranti mudah alih untuk memahami apa yang setiap pengguna mereka
suka dan ketuhanan di mana mereka berada.
Ini
semua bagi membantu pengguna menunjukkan iklan tentang produk mungkin
menyinggung perasaan minat mereka pada masa yang tepat. Syarikat-syarikat
mempertahankan jenis perlombongan data ini sebagai manfaat pengguna.
Google
cuba untuk mengambil perkara satu langkah lagi. Ia mengasah analisis data dan
formula carian dalam usaha untuk menjangka apa yang individu mungkin
tertanya-tanya mengenai atau mahu.
Syarikat-syarikat
Internet yang lain juga menggunakan Data Besar untuk meningkatkan perkhidmatan
mereka. Video langganan perkhidmatan Netflix mengambil apa yang ia belajar dari
keutamaan setiap penonton yang mengesyorkan filem dan rancangan TV. Amazon.com
Inc melakukan sesuatu yang serupa apabila ia menonjolkan produk tertentu kepada
pembeli yang berbeza melawat tapak itu.
Kerajaan
persekutuan mempunyai potensi untuk mengetahui lebih lanjut mengenai orang-orang
kerana ia mengawal di DUNIA data bank terbesar, kata David Vladeck, seorang
Georgetown University profesor undang-undang yang baru-baru ini meletak jawatan
sebagai pengarah perlindungan pengguna Suruhanjaya Perdagangan Persekutuan.
Sebelum
meninggalkan FTC tahun lepas, Vladeck memulakan siasatan ke dalam amalan Acxiom
dan broker data lain kerana dia takut maklumat yang sedang disalah tafsir dalam
cara yang orang tidak adil stereotaip. Sebagai contoh, seseorang mungkin
diklasifikasikan sebagai risiko kesihatan yang berpotensi hanya kerana mereka
membeli produk yang dikaitkan dengan peluang yang meningkat daripada serangan
jantung. Siasatan FTC ke broker data masih terbuka.
"Kami
mempunyai kebimbangan sebenar tentang kebolehpercayaan bagi data dan rawatan
yang tidak adil oleh algoritma," kata Vladeck.
Vladeck
menegaskan dia tidak mempunyai sebab untuk mempercayai bahawa NSA adalah
memutarkan data yang ia kumpulkan mengenai warga swasta. Beliau mendapati
beberapa keselesaan dalam laporan The Guardian bahawa perintah tersebut Verizon
telah ditandatangani oleh Perisikan Asing Pengawasan Hakim Mahkamah Ronald
Vinson.
NSA
"berbeza daripada perusahaan komersial dalam erti kata bahawa terdapat
pemeriksaan dalam sistem kehakiman dan di Kongres," kata Vladeck.
"Jika anda percaya dalam cara kerajaan kita sepatutnya untuk bekerja, maka
anda perlu mempunyai beberapa kepercayaan bahawa pemeriksaan mereka adalah
bermakna. Jika anda ragu-ragu mengenai kerajaan, maka anda mungkin tidak
berfikir bahawa jenis pengawasan bermakna apa-apa."
Photo: AP Vic Gundotra, Google Naib Presiden Kejuruteraan Kanan, ceramah tentang Google Plus pada persidangan Google I/O di San
Francisco. The Washington Post dan The Guardian melaporkan Khamis Jun 6, 2013,
kewujudan program yang digunakan oleh NSA dan FBI yang scours syarikat Internet
utama negara, mengekstrak audio, video, gambar, e-mel, dokumen dan log
sambungan untuk membantu penganalisis trek pergerakan seseorang dan kenalan.
Photo:
AP Vic Gundotra, Google Senior Vice President of Engineering, talks about
Google Plus at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. The Washington Post
and The Guardian reported Thursday, June 6, 2013, the existence of a program
used by the NSA and FBI that scours the nation's main Internet companies,
extracting audio, video, photographs, emails, documents and connection logs to
help analysts track a person's movements and contacts.
Photo: AP Pandangan udara Utah Pusat Data NSA di
Bluffdale, Utah, Khamis, 6 Jun, 2013. Kerajaan sedang diam-diam mengumpul telefon
rekod berjuta-juta pelanggan Amerika Syarikat Verizon bawah perintah mahkamah
rahsia, menurut pengerusi Jawatankuasa Perisikan Senat. Pentadbiran Obama
mempertahankan keperluan Agensi Keselamatan Negara untuk mengumpul rekod,
tetapi pengkritik memanggil ia lebih-jangkauan yang besar.
Photo:
AP An aerial view of the NSA's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, Thursday,
June 6, 2013. The government is secretly collecting the telephone records of
millions of U.S. customers of Verizon under a top-secret court order, according
to the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The Obama
administration is defending the National Security Agency's need to collect such
records, but critics are calling it a huge over-reach.
Is Big Data turning US
government into 'Big Brother?'
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With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are
leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking
companies and terrorist-hunting government officials.
The
revelations that the National Security Agency is perusing millions of U.S.
customer phone records at Verizon Communications and snooping on the digital
communications stored by nine major Internet services illustrate how
aggressively personal data is being collected and analyzed.
Verizon
is handing over so-called metadata, excerpts from millions of U.S. customer
records, to the NSA under an order issued by the secretive Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court, according to a report in the British newspaper The
Guardian. The report was confirmed Thursday by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.,
who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Former
NSA employee William Binney told the Associated Press that he estimates the
agency collects records on 3 billion phone calls each day. The NSA and FBI
appear to be casting an even wider net under a clandestine program code-named
"PRISM" that came to light in a story posted late Thursday by The
Washington Post.
PRISM
gives the U.S. government access to email, documents, audio, video, photographs
and other data that people entrust to some of the world's best known companies,
according to The Washington Post.
The
newspaper said it reviewed a confidential roster of companies and services
participating in PRISM. The companies included AOL Inc., Apple Inc., Facebook
Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., Skype, YouTube and Paltalk.
In
statements, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo said they only provide
the government with user data required under the law. (Google runs YouTube and
Microsoft owns Skype.) AOL and Paltalk didn't immediately respond to inquiries
from The Associated Press.
The
NSA isn't getting customer names or the content of phone conversations under
the Verizon court order, but that doesn't mean the information can't be tied to
other data coming in through the PRISM program to look into people's lives,
according to experts.
Like
pieces of a puzzle, the bits and bytes left behind from citizens' electronic
interactions can be cobbled together to draw conclusions about their habits,
friendships and preferences using data-mining formulas and increasingly
powerful computers.
It's
all part of a phenomenon known as a "Big Data," a catchphrase
increasingly used to describe the science of analyzing the vast amount of
information collected through mobile devices, Web browsers and check-out
stands. Analysts use powerful computers to detect trends and create digital
dossiers about people.
The
Obama administration and lawmakers privy to the NSA's surveillance aren't
saying anything about the collection of the Verizon customers' records beyond
that it's in the interest of national security. The sweeping court order covers
the Verizon records of every mobile and landline phone call from April 25
through July 19, according to The Guardian.
It's
likely the Verizon phone records are being matched with an even broader set of
data, said Forrester Research analyst Fatemeh Khatibloo. "My sense is they
are looking for network patterns," she said. "They are looking for
who is connected to whom and whether they can put any timelines together. They
are also probably trying to identify locations where people are calling
from."
Under
the court order, the Verizon records include the duration of every call and the
locations of mobile calls, according to The Guardian. The location information
is particularly valuable for cloak-and-dagger operations like the one the NSA
is running, said Cindy Cohn, a legal director for the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, a digital rights group that has been fighting the government's
collection of personal phone records since 2006.
The
foundation is currently suing over the government's collection of U.S.
citizens' communications in a case that dates back to the administration of
President George W. Bush.
"It's
incredibly invasive," Cohn said. "This is a consequence of the fact
that we have so many third parties that have accumulated significant
information about our everyday lives." It's such a rich vein of
information that U.S. companies and other organizations now spend more than $2
billion each year to obtain third-party data about individuals, according to
Forrester Research.
The
data helps businesses target potential customers. Much of this information is
sold by so-called data brokers such as Acxiom Corp., a Little Rock, Ark.
company that maintains extensive files about the online and offline activities
of more than 500 million consumers worldwide.
The
digital floodgates have opened during the past decade as the convenience and
allure of the Internet - and sleek smartphones - have made it easier and more
enjoyable for people to stay connected wherever they go.
"I
don't think there has been a sea change in analytical methods as much as there
has been a change in the volume, velocity and variety of information and the
computing power to process it all," said Gartner analyst Douglas Laney.
In a
sign of the NSA's determination to vacuum up as much data as possible, the
agency has built a data center in Bluffdale, Utah that is five times larger
than the U.S. Capitol - all to sift through Big Data.
The
$2 billion center has fed perceptions that some factions of the U.S. government are determined to
build a database of all phone calls, Internet searches and emails under the
guise of national security.
The
Washington Post's disclosure that both the NSA and FBI have the ability to
burrow into computers of major Internet services will likely heighten fears
that U.S. government's Big Data is creating something akin to the ever-watchful
Big Brother in George Orwell's "1984" novel.
"The
fact that the government can tell all the phone carriers and Internet service
providers to hand over all this data sort of gives them carte blanche to build
profiles of people they are targeting in a very different way than any company
can," Khatibloo said.
In
most instances, Internet companies such as Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and Yahoo
Inc. are taking what they learn from search requests, clicks on
"like" buttons, Web surfing activity and location tracking on mobile
devices to figure out what each of their users like and divine where they are.
It's
all in aid of showing users ads about products likely to pique their interest
at the right time. The companies defend this kind of data mining as a consumer
benefit.
Google
is trying to take things a step further. It is honing its data analysis and
search formulas in an attempt to anticipate what an individual might be
wondering about or wanting. Other Internet companies also use Big Data to
improve their services.
Video
subscription service Netflix takes what it learns from each viewer's
preferences to recommend movies and TV shows. Amazon.com Inc. does something
similar when it highlights specific products to different shoppers visiting its
site.
The
federal government has the potential to know even more about people because it
controls the world's biggest data bank, said David Vladeck, a Georgetown
University law professor who recently stepped down as the Federal Trade
Commission's consumer protection director.
Before
leaving the FTC last year, Vladeck opened an inquiry into the practices of
Acxiom and other data brokers because he feared that information was being
misinterpreted in ways that unfairly stereotyped people. For instance, someone
might be classified as a potential health risk just because they bought
products linked to an increased chance of heart attack. The FTC inquiry into
data brokers is still open.
"We
had real concerns about the reliability of the data and unfair treatment by
algorithm," Vladeck said. Vladeck stressed he had no reason to believe
that the NSA is misinterpreting the data it collects about private citizens. He
finds some comfort in The Guardian report that said the Verizon order had been
signed by Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Ronald Vinson.
The
NSA "differs from a commercial enterprise in the sense that there are
checks in the judicial system and in Congress," Vladeck said. "If you
believe in the way our government is supposed to work, then you should have
some faith that those checks are meaningful. If you are skeptical about
government, then you probably don't think that kind of oversight means
anything."
Photo: AP Perdana Menteri Turki Recep Tayyip Erdogan
dan Emine isteri beliau dgn melambai kepada orang ramai sebaik tiba di Lapangan
Terbang Ataturk di Istanbul awal Jumaat Jun 7, 2013. Erdogan mengambil
pendirian agresif pulangan teliti untuk negara awal Jumaat, memberitahu penyokong
yang membanjiri untuk menyambut beliau bahawa protes yang telah melanda negara
ini mesti datang ke penghujungnya.
Photo:
AP Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his wife Emine wave to the
crowd upon their arrival at the Ataturk Airport of Istanbul early Friday, June
7, 2013. Erdogan took a combative stance on his closely watched return to the
country early Friday, telling supporters who thronged to greet him that the
protests that have swept the country must come to an end.
TINJAUAN 1WC’sChannel
2013: ISTANBUL (June 07, 2013. AP) -
Perdana Menteri Turki mengambil pendirian agresif pulangan teliti untuk negara
awal Jumaat, memberitahu penyokong yang membanjiri untuk menyambut beliau
bahawa protes yang telah melanda negara ini mesti datang ke penghujungnya.
Dalam
acara itu pertama meluas sokongan awam sejak tunjuk perasaan anti kerajaan
meletus minggu lalu, lebih daripada 10,000 penyokong bersorak Recep Tayyip
Erdogan dengan tepukan membayangkan kegembiraan di luar lapangan terbang
antarabangsa Istanbul.
Walaupun
komen awal yang menunjukkan bahawa dia boleh melembutkan pendirian beliau,
Erdogan menyampaikan ucapan berapi-api sekembalinya dari lawatan 4 hari ke
Afrika Utara. "Bantahan ini yang bersempadan dengan menyalahi
undang-undang mesti berakhir," katanya.
Berpuluh-puluh
ribu penunjuk perasaan telah mengadakan tunjuk perasaan yang telah merebak
kepada berpuluh-puluh bandar-bandar di seluruh Turki, tercetus reaksi polis Jumaat
lepas ganas untuk apa yang bermula sebagai satu bantahan kecil terhadap
rancangan untuk membangunkan pusat Taksim Square, Istanbul.
Sejak
itu, 3 orang telah mati - 2 penunjuk perasaan dan seorang anggota polis - dan
beribu-ribu telah cedera. Satu penunjuk perasaan pada sokongan hayat di sebuah
hospital di Ankara. Penunjuk perasaan dari semua lapisan masyarakat telah
menduduki persegi dan taman itu, membantah apa yang mereka katakan adalah cara
yang semakin autokratik dan sombong Erdogan - caj beliau sekeras-kerasnya ‘menafikan.
Turki
telah menunggu kata-kata Erdogan apabila beliau kembali, melihat mereka sebagai
isyarat sama ada demonstrasi akan berakhir dgn kegagalan atau diarahkannya.
Erdogan pada masa yang hampir lemas oleh penyokongnya, sebahagian daripada asas
yang telah membantu beliau memenangi 3 pilihan raya tanah runtuh. "Allah
Maha Besar," mereka melaungkan, dan tidak lama lagi berpindah ke slogan
merujuk secara khusus kepada penunjuk perasaan di Dataran Taksim.
"Marilah
kita pergi, marilah kita menghancurkan mereka," mereka berteriak.
"Istanbul di sini, di mana adalah penjarah?" Erdogan pada mulanya
dirujuk kepada penunjuk perasaan sebagai perompak dan pengacau, di samping
mengakui bahawa pasukan polis yang berlebihan mungkin telah digunakan, dan
berjanji ia akan disiasat.
Ucapan
Erdogan, yang dihantar dari atas bas terbuka di luar terminal lapangan terbang,
muncul pada mulanya adalah satu cubaan untuk menyerang nota menyatukan.
"Mereka kata saya perdana menteri hanya 50% peratus. Ia tidak benar. Kami
telah berkhidmat keseluruhan 76 juta dari timur ke barat," katanya,
merujuk kepada kemenangan pilihan raya pada tahun 2011, apabila dia telah
mengambil 50% peratus undi.
"Bersama-sama
kita Turki. Bersama-sama kita adalah bersaudara," katanya, sambil menambah
"Kami tidak pernah berusaha untuk memecahkan hati. Kita berada di dalam
memihak kepada membaiki hati." Namun, dia menjadi lebih agresif.
"Kami tidak pernah untuk membina ketegangan dan polarisasi. Tetapi kita
tidak boleh memuji kekejaman," katanya.
Dalam
ucapan terakhir beliau di Tunisia sebelum terbang ke Istanbul, Erdogan berkata
bahawa kumpulan pengganas yang terlibat dalam protes, mengatakan mereka telah
dikenal pasti. Dalam sentuhan, Erdogan tersirat bahawa bank-bank juga
sebahagian daripada konspirasi yang mengisi protes. Beliau menambah bahawa api
perbezaan pendapat dan pendapat yang sentiasa membakar oleh kumpulan-kumpulan
lain juga.
"Mereka
yang menggelar diri mereka wartawan, artis, ahli politik, dengan cara yang
sangat tidak bertanggungjawab, membuka jalan bagi kebencian, diskriminasi dan
provokasi," katanya. Bercakap sebelum kembali Erdogan, Koray Caliskan,
profesor sains politik dan hubungan antarabangsa di Universiti Bosporus,
menunjukkan bahawa Perdana Menteri telah mengekalkan garis keras kerana
"sehingga kini Erdogan sentiasa mendapat sokongan dengan meningkatkan ketegangan
di negara ini."
"Turki
adalah benar-benar di persimpangan. Erdogan tidak akan dapat untuk menunjukkan
di Turki sebagai model demokrasi lagi," katanya. Dalam komen yang lebih
awal di Tunisia, Erdogan mengakui bahawa beberapa orang Turki terlibat dalam
protes daripada kebimbangan alam sekitar, dan berkata beliau mempunyai
"kasih sayang dan hormat" untuk mereka.
Mereka
komen tidak muncul terpengaruh telah banyak daripada beribu-ribu penunjuk
perasaan yang membanjiri dataran untuk hari keenam hari ini. Lebih daripada
10,000 orang lain dipenuhi jalan yang sibuk di kawasan kelas pertengahan
Ankara.
"Saya
tidak percaya keikhlasan," kata penunjuk perasaan Hazer Berk Buyukturca.
Pasaran saham utama Turki mendedahkan kebimbangan bahawa komen Erdogan akan
melakukan sedikit untuk meredakan penunjuk perasaan, dengan indeks harga umum
menjunam sebanyak 8% peratus selepas komen beliau mengenai kebimbangan bahawa
pergolakan berterusan akan melanda ekonomi negara.
Lebih
seminggu yang lalu demonstrasi telah merebak ke 78 bandar-bandar, berkembang
menjadi pembolongan awam apa penunjuk perasaan anggap sebagai meningkatkan
keangkuhan Erdogan. Ini termasuk percubaan untuk mengenakan apa yang banyak
berkata adalah adat istiadat terhad kepada kehidupan peribadi mereka, seperti
berapa ramai kanak-kanak untuk mempunyainya atau sama ada untuk minum arak.
Setakat
ini, 4,300 orang telah cedera atau mendapatkan rawatan perubatan untuk
kesan-kesan gas pemedih mata semasa protes, Yayasan Hak Asasi Manusia Turki berkata.
Satu orang kepada sokongan kehidupan di Ankara. Menteri Dalam Negeri Muammer
Güler berkata lebih daripada 500 pegawai polis telah cedera. Sebanyak 746
bantahan telah meletus, menyebabkan beberapa 70 juta Lira Turki ($ 37 juta)
sebagai ganti rugi, katanya. Hampir 80 penunjuk perasaan masih dimasukkan ke
hospital, dan hampir semua penunjuk perasaan yang ditahan telah dibebaskan.
Ezgi
Akin di Ankara menyumbang. Fraser melaporkan dari Ankara.
Photo: AP Perdana Menteri Turki Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, kanan, melambai kepada orang ramai semasa ketibaan beliau di Lapangan
Terbang Ataturk di Istanbul awal Jumaat 7 Jun, 2013. Erdogan mengambil
pendirian agresif pulangan teliti untuk negara awal Jumaat, memberitahu
penyokong yang membanjiri untuk menyambut beliau bahawa protes yang telah
melanda negara ini mesti datang ke penghujungnya.
Photo:
AP Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, waves to the crowd upon
his arrival at the Ataturk Airport of Istanbul early Friday, June 7, 2013.
Erdogan took a combative stance on his closely watched return to the country
early Friday, telling supporters who thronged to greet him that the protests
that have swept the country must come to an end.
Photo: AP Perdana Menteri Turki Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, ditengah, dan Emine isteri beliau melambai kepada orang ramai sebaik
tiba di Lapangan Terbang Ataturk di Istanbul awal jumaat 7 Jun, 2013. Erdogan
mengambil pendirian agresif pulangan teliti untuk negara awal Jumaat, memberitahu
penyokong yang membanjiri untuk menyambut beliau bahawa protes yang telah
melanda negara ini mesti datang ke penghujungnya.
Photo:
AP Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, center, and his wife Emine wave
to the crowd upon their arrival at the Ataturk Airport of Istanbul early
Friday, June 7, 2013. Erdogan took a combative stance on his closely watched
return to the country early Friday, telling supporters who thronged to greet
him that the protests that have swept the country must come to an end.
Photo: AP sorakan
orang ramai untuk ketibaan Perdana Menteri Turki Recep Tayyip Erdogan di
Lapangan Terbang Ataturk di Istanbul awal jumaat, 7 Jun, 2013. Erdogan
mengambil pendirian agresif pulangan teliti untuk negara awal Jumaat,
memberitahu penyokong yang membanjiri untuk menyambut beliau bahawa protes yang
telah melanda negara ini mesti datang ke penghujungnya.
Photo:
AP The crowd cheers for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's arrival
at the Ataturk Airport of Istanbul early Friday, June 7, 2013. Erdogan took a
combative stance on his closely watched return to the country early Friday,
telling supporters who thronged to greet him that the protests that have swept
the country must come to an end.
Photo: AP sorakan orang ramai untuk ketibaan Perdana
Menteri Turki Recep Tayyip Erdogan di Lapangan Terbang Ataturk di Istanbul awal
jumaat, 7 Jun, 2013. Erdogan mengambil pendirian agresif pulangan teliti untuk
negara awal Jumaat, memberitahu penyokong yang membanjiri untuk menyambut
beliau bahawa protes yang telah melanda negara ini mesti datang ke
penghujungnya.
Photo:
AP The crowd cheers for Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's arrival
at the Ataturk Airport of Istanbul early Friday, June 7, 2013. Erdogan took a
combative stance on his closely watched return to the country early Friday,
telling supporters who thronged to greet him that the protests that have swept
the country must come to an end.
Photo: AP Beribu-ribu penunjuk perasaan Turki,
memegang bendera kebangsaan dan potret pengasas Turki Mustafa Kemal Ataturk,
menunjukkan kegembiraan kerana mereka berarak di ibu kota Turki, Ankara,
KHAMIS, 6 Jun, 2013. Perdana Menteri Turki Recep Tayyip Erdogan pada hari
Khamis nampaknya telah sedikit sederhana retorik beliau mengenai protes
anti-kerajaan di negara itu tetapi tidak kembali dari rancangan pembangunan
semula untuk Istanbul yang mencetuskan rusuhan hampir seminggu dan mendakwa
"kumpulan pengganas" adalah yang terlibat dalam konflik itu.
Photo:
AP Thousands of Turkish protesters, holding national flags and portraits of
Turkey's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, jubilate as they march in Turkish
capital, Ankara, Thursday, June 6, 2013. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip
Erdogan on Thursday appeared to have slightly moderated his rhetoric regarding
the anti-government protests in his country but didn’t back away from
redevelopment plans for Istanbul that sparked the nearly week-long unrest and
claimed “terrorist groups” were involved in the unrest.
Photo: AP Penunjuk perasaan lulus batu antara satu
sama lain kerana mereka cuba untuk membentuk benteng berhampiran Taksim persegi
Istanbul semasa protes, lewat khamis Jun 6, 2013. Perdana Menteri Turki Recep
Tayyip Erdogan pada hari Khamis nampaknya telah sedikit sederhana retorik
beliau mengenai protes anti-kerajaan di negara itu tetapi tidak kembali dari
rancangan pembangunan semula untuk Istanbul yang mencetuskan rusuhan hampir
seminggu dan mendakwa "kumpulan pengganas" adalah yang terlibat dalam
konflik itu.
Photo:
AP Protesters pass bricks to each other as they try to form a barricade near
Taksim square of Istanbul during a protest, late Thursday, June 6, 2013.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday appeared to have
slightly moderated his rhetoric regarding the anti-government protests in his
country but didn’t back away from redevelopment plans for Istanbul that sparked
the nearly week-long unrest and claimed “terrorist groups” were involved in the
unrest.
Erdogan calls for end to
Turkey protest
REVIEW 1WC’sChannel
2013: ISTANBUL (June 07, 2013. AP) -
Turkey's prime minister took a combative stance on his closely watched return
to the country early Friday, telling supporters who thronged to greet him that
the protests that have swept the country must come to an end.
In
the first extensive public show of support since anti-government protests
erupted last week, more than 10,000 supporters cheered Recep Tayyip Erdogan
with rapturous applause outside Istanbul's international airport.
Despite
earlier comments that suggested he could be softening his stand, Erdogan delivered
a fiery speech on his return from a four-day trip to North Africa. "These
protests that are bordering on illegality must come to an end as of now,"
he said.
Tens
of thousands of protesters have held demonstrations that have spread to dozens
of cities across Turkey, sparked by the violent police reaction last Friday to
what started out as a small protest against a plan to develop Istanbul's
central Taksim Square.
Since
then, three people have died - two protesters and a policeman - and thousands
have been wounded. One protester is on life support in a hospital in Ankara.
Protesters from all walks of life have occupied the square and its park,
objecting to what they say is Erdogan's increasingly autocratic and arrogant
manner - charges he vehemently denies.
Turks
have been awaiting Erdogan's words upon his return, seeing them as a signal of
whether the demonstrations would fizzle or rage on. Erdogan at times was almost
drowned out by his supporters, part of the base that has helped him win three
landslide elections. "God is Great," they chanted, and soon moved on
to slogans referring specifically to the protesters in Taksim Square.
"Let
us go, let us smash them," they shouted. "Istanbul is here, where are
the looters?" Erdogan had initially referred to the protesters as looters
and troublemakers, while also acknowledging that excessive police force might
have been used, and promising it would be investigated.
Erdogan's
speech, delivered from atop an open-air bus outside the airport terminal,
appeared at first to be an attempt to strike a unifying note. "They say I
am the prime minister of only 50 percent. It's not true. We have served the
whole of the 76 million from the east to the west," he said, referring to
his election win in 2011, when he took 50 percent of the vote.
"Together
we are Turkey. Together we are brothers," he said, adding "We have
never endeavored to break hearts. We are in favor of mending hearts." But
he soon became more combative. "We have never been for building tension
and polarization. But we cannot applaud brutality," he said.
In
his last speech in Tunisia before flying to Istanbul, Erdogan had said that
terrorist groups were involved in the protests, saying they had been
identified. In a twist, Erdogan implied that bankers were also part of a
conspiracy that was fuelling the protests. He added that the flames of dissent
had been fanned by other groups too.
"Those
who call themselves journalists, artists, politicians, have, in a very
irresponsible way, opened the way for hatred, discrimination and
provocation," he said. Speaking before Erdogan's return, Koray Caliskan,
professor of political science and international relations at Bosporus
University, pointed out that the prime minister was maintaining a hard line
because "until now Erdogan had always gained support by increasing the
tension in the country."
"Turkey
is absolutely at a crossroads. Erdogan won't be able to point at Turkey as a
model of democracy anymore," he said. In his earlier comments in Tunisia,
Erdogan acknowledged that some Turks were involved in the protests out of
environmental concerns, and said he had "love and respect" for them.
Those
comments don't appear to have swayed many of the thousands of protesters who
thronged the square for a sixth day Thursday. More than 10,000 others filled a
busy street in a middle class area of Ankara.
"I
do not believe his sincerity," said protester Hazer Berk Buyukturca.
Turkey's main stock market revealed the fears that Erdogan's comments would do
little to defuse the protesters, with the general price index plunging by 8
percent after his comments on concerns that continuing unrest would hit the
country's economy.
Over
the past week the demonstrations have spread to 78 cities, growing into public
venting of what protesters perceive to be Erdogan's increasing arrogance. That
includes attempts to impose what many say are restrictive mores on their
personal lives, such as how many children to have or whether to drink alcohol.
So
far, 4,300 people have been hurt or sought medical attention for the effects of
tear gas during the protests, the Turkish Human Rights Foundation said. One
person is on life support in Ankara. Interior Minister Muammer Guler said more
than 500 police officers had been injured. A total of 746 protests had erupted,
causing some 70 million Turkish Lira ($37 million) in damages, he said. Nearly
80 protesters were still hospitalized, and almost all detained protesters had
been released.
Fraser
reported from Ankara. Ezgi Akin in Ankara contributed.
Photo: AP Seorang lelaki melihat papan saham
elektronik di Bursa Saham Tokyo di Tokyo, Jumaat, 7 Jun, 2013. Pasaran saham
Asia jatuh hari Jumaat, mengabaikan pemulihan di Wall Street, kerana
pelabur-pelabur enggan memasuki pasaran menjelang pekerjaan utama Amerika
Syarikat laporan lewat hari ini.
Photo:
AP A man looks at an electronic stock board at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in
Tokyo, Friday, June 7, 2013. Asian stock markets fell Friday, ignoring a
rebound on Wall Street, as investors stayed on the sidelines ahead of a key
U.S. jobs report later in the day.
Saham Asia jatuh menjelang laporan pekerjaan
Amerika Syarikat
TINJAUAN
1WC'sChannel 2013: BANGKOK (Pasaran 7 Jun 2013 AP.) - Pasaran saham Asia jatuh
hari Jumaat, mengabaikan pemulihan di Wall Street, kerana pelabur-pelabur
enggan memasuki pasaran menjelang pekerjaan utama Amerika Syarikat laporan
lewat hari ini.
Pelabur
juga mendaftar kekecewaan dengan Bank Pusat Eropah selepas ia gagal memenuhi
harapan untuk satu langkah dramatik untuk mencetuskan aktiviti ekonomi di
rantau ini terperangkap kemelesetan. Kekeliruan tentang arah mana Rizab Persekutuan
Amerika Syarikat mungkin pergi dengan rangsangan bon-membeli itu juga disimpan
pelabur Edgy.
"Saya
fikir sentimen pasaran masih lemah kerana masih ada kebimbangan tentang apa
langkah seterusnya yang Rizab Persekutuan akan menjadi," kata Linus Yip,
strategi di First Shanghai Securities di Hong Kong. Ketua Fed Ben Bernanke
berkata bank pusat Amerika Syarikat mungkin tarik balik program bon-membeli
yang $85 billion-sebulan jika data ekonomi terutamanya pengambilan, bertambah
baik.
Tetapi
pegawai-pegawai Fed lain telah bercakap mengenai penggulungan turun pembelian
aset terlebih dahulu. Pasaran saham, yang telah ditolak oleh pelabur mencari
pulangan yang mengatasi bon, mungkin merasa kesannya jika Fed skala kembali
pembelian yang telah mengekalkan kadar faedah yang rendah.
Indeks
Nikkei 225 Jepun susut 1.3% peratus kepada 12,734.91 selepas yen meningkat
berbanding dolar. Itu pummeled pengeksport Jepun, yang secara amnya
mengalu-alukan mata wang yang lemah untuk membuat produk yang lebih berdaya
saing di luar negara. Isuzu Motors menjunam 7.9% peratus. Yamaha Motor Ltd
tenggelam 6.4% peratus. Toshiba Corp jatuh 6.%1 peratus.
Hong
Kong Hang Seng jatuh 1.3% peratus kepada 21,549.68. Kospi Korea Selatan
kehilangan 1.5% peratus kepada 1,930.80. Australia S & P/ASX 200 susut 0.7%
peratus kepada 4,746.40. Kemudian Friday, Jabatan Buruh Amerika Syarikat akan
melepaskan laporan pekerjaan untuk Mei. Laporan itu dengan teliti bagi
tanda-tanda peningkatan dalam pengambilan, kritikal untuk ekonomi yang cuba
untuk mengambil langkah pemulihan yang lembap. Satu kumpulan baru-baru ini
laporan pembuatan yang lemah juga telah meningkatkan kebimbangan mengenai
kekuatan ekonomi.
Pada
hari Khamis, pelabur kecewa oleh kekurangan inisiatif baru dari Bank Pusat
Eropah Presiden Mario Draghi yang boleh membantu meningkatkan ekonomi Eropah
yang bermasalah. Walaupun ECB mengurangkan pertumbuhan 2013 dan ramalan inflasi
untuk kumpulan 17 negara mata wang euro, Draghi berkata majlis pentadbir
merasakan tidak ada sebab untuk bertindak sekarang, terutamanya kerana data
terkini menunjukkan peningkatan dalam keadaan ekonomi semasa yang suram.
Penganalisis
di Credit Agricole CIB di Hong Kong dipanggil pengumuman ECB "agak
mengecewakan bagi sesiapa yang mencari beberapa isyarat yang lebih longgar akan
datang." Wall Street mencatatkan pemulihan sederhana hari ini. The Dow
Jones industri purata meningkat 0.5 peratus kepada 15,040.62 mata. Standard
& Poor 500 ditambah 0.9 peratus kepada 1,622.56 mata. Nasdaq indeks
komposit naik 0.7% peratus kepada 3,424.05 mata.
Benchmark
minyak untuk penghantaran Julai naik 8 sen kepada $ 94,85 setong dalam dagangan
elektronik di New York Mercantile Exchange. Kontrak itu meningkat $ 1,02 untuk
ditutup pada $ 94,76 setong pada Nymex pada hari Khamis.
Dalam
mata wang, euro meningkat kepada $ 1,3258 dari $ 1,3245 lewat Khamis di New
York. Dolar jatuh kepada ¥ 96,19 dari 97,22 ¥.
REVIEW
1WC'sChannel 2013: BANGKOK (Markets June 07, 2013. AP) - Asian stock markets
fell Friday, ignoring a rebound on Wall Street, as investors stayed on the
sidelines ahead of a key U.S. jobs report later in the day.
Investors
were also registering disappointment with the European Central Bank after it
failed to fulfill hopes for a dramatic step to spark economic activity in the
recession-mired region. Confusion about which direction the U.S. Federal
Reserve might go with its bond-buying stimulus also kept investors edgy.
"I
think market sentiment is still weak because there is still concern about what
the next move of the Federal Reserve will be," said Linus Yip, strategist
at First Shanghai Securities in Hong Kong. Fed chief Ben Bernanke has said the
U.S. central bank might pull back on its $85 billion-a-month bond-buying
program if economic data, especially hiring, improves.
But
other Fed officials have spoken about a winding down of asset purchases sooner.
Stock markets, which have been pushed up by investors looking for returns that
outpace bonds, might feel the pinch if the Fed scales back purchases that have
kept interest rates low.
Japan's
Nikkei 225 index lost 1.3 percent to 12,734.91 after the yen climbed against
the dollar. That pummeled Japan's exporters, which generally welcome a weaker
currency to make products more competitive overseas. Isuzu Motors plunged 7.9
percent. Yamaha Motor Ltd. sank 6.4 percent. Toshiba Corp. dropped 6.1 percent.
Hong
Kong's Hang Seng fell 1.3 percent to 21,549.68. South Korea's Kospi lost 1.5
percent to 1,930.80. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 shed 0.7 percent to 4,746.40.
Later Friday, the U.S. Labor Department will release its employment report for
May. The report is closely watched for signs of improvement in hiring, critical
for an economy trying to pick up the pace of a sluggish recovery. A recent
batch of weak manufacturing reports has also heightened concerns about the
economy's strength.
On
Thursday, investors were disheartened by the lack of new initiatives from
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi that might help boost ailing
European economies. Even though the ECB cut its 2013 growth and inflation
forecasts for the 17-country euro currency grouping, Draghi said the governing
council felt there was no reason to act now, especially as recent data suggest
an improvement in the current gloomy economic conditions.
Analysts
at Credit Agricole CIB in Hong Kong called the ECB's pronouncements
"fairly disappointing for anyone looking for some signal of more easing to
come." Wall Street posted a modest recovery Thursday. The Dow Jones
industrial average rose 0.5 percent to 15,040.62 points. The Standard &
Poor's 500 added 0.9 percent, to 1,622.56 points. The Nasdaq composite index
rose 0.7 percent, to 3,424.05 points.
Benchmark
oil for July delivery was up 8 cents to $94.85 per barrel in electronic trading
on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract rose $1.02 to close at $94.76
a barrel on the Nymex on Thursday.
In
currencies, the euro rose to $1.3258 from $1.3245 late Thursday in New York.
The dollar fell to 96.19 yen from 97.22 yen.
