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In spite of different politicians who argue that TTIP would already have failed the CETA treaty and thereby also TTIP and TiSA stay a hazard for our civil society. On the 22^nd and 23^rd of September the trade ministers of all European member states will convene planning to ratify the ready-negotiated CETA treaty. Any member state could make CETA fall. Likely the last and the most important time to raise our voice against these perilous treaties!

• Austria: ttip-stoppen.at: demonstrations in Vienna, Salzburg, Linz, Graz and Innsbruck.
• Germany: bund.net: protests in Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Köln, Leipzig, München and Stuttgart.

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Version v1.7.7 of confinedrv has been released. It does now not only support to blend in a partition image but also the Master Boot Record from a file in place of an existing partition (or in place of the spare space before the first partition respectively). confinedrv has also received some other updates and bug fixes. It now makes use of lockfile-create/remove from lockfile-progs and thereby is no more dependent on the meanwhiles rarely shipped lockfile utility.

On the 21^st of September the European Commission will publish a proposal to its member states which would undermine even current protection against EDCs (Endocrine Disruptive Chemicals). EDCs can disrupt the hormon balance of humans and animals. This is in breach of the precautionary principle if these substances do not already have a considerable negative impact on human health. EDCs can cause infertility, foster or evoke cancer, diabetes, immune deficiency, obesity as well as signs of abnormal behaviour with children. The WHO assesses EDCs as “global threat”

• petition, Germany: bund.net (environmental group in Germany)
• petition, Denmark: Danish Consumer Council
• petition, whole EU: Alliance for Natural Health International
• info, Commission in breach of EU-Law: www.theparliamentmagazine.eu
• info, Europeans left unprotected by EDCs: Pesticide Action Network Europe
• info: edc-free-europe.org

We have created a completely new license called C-FSL v1.0 for you in order to achieve Open Source compliance and to give you a maximum of liberties and certainty of use. Almost all programs at elstel.org are now available under the new license: xchroot, confinedrv, bundsteg, [deb]checkroot, dbschemacmd, sftvdownload und vpngate-extract.

Our central SHA512SUMS.signed - list under software/ is also a novelty. It additionally allows you to verify your download with gpg (besides the possibility to make use of https + DANE).