Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Australia Newspapers Redact Front Pages in Media-Freedom Protest
October 21st, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Australia’s fiercely competitive newspaper industry shelved rivalries on Monday to present a united front against what it says is a government campaign to restrict freedom of the press. Major newspapers including The Australian, owned by Rupert Murdoch-controlled News Corp., the Daily Telegraph and Nine Entertainment’s Sydney Morning Herald published front pages with most […]
Clinton Email Probe Finds No Deliberate Mishandling of Classified Information
October 18th, 2019Oh suuuuuuuuuuuure. haha If you want to know why the Clintons will never face justice, read: Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed. My best guess is that their decades long criminal enterprise has been allowed to continue unhindered because of what went down in Arkansas in the 1980s. Via: Reuters: A U.S. […]
How Amazon.com Moved Into the Business of U.S. Elections
October 15th, 2019Via: Reuters: The expansion by Amazon Web Services into state and local elections has quietly gathered pace since the 2016 U.S. presidential vote. More than 40 states now use one or more of Amazon’s election offerings, according to a presentation given by an Amazon executive this year and seen by Reuters. So do America’s two […]
Counterfeiting Microsoft’s “Restore CD” Landed Me in Prison for a Year
October 14th, 2019“When I save something, that’s taking away from their market share.” Via: Vice:
These Scrubbed Reports Reveal New Secrets Into the Prince Andrew-Jeffrey Epstein Relationship
October 14th, 2019Via: Mint Press: While the Jeffrey Epstein scandal has largely faded from media coverage in the United States, it has continued to attract attention abroad, particularly in the United Kingdom in connection with Epstein’s long-standing association with Prince Andrew, the Duke of York and the Queen’s son. The Epstein-Prince Andrew relationship has long been a […]
Facebook Wants Non Invasive Brain Computer Interface, Will Avoid Regulatory Scrutiny
October 14th, 2019Via: Observer: At a recent internal employee Q&A session, the Facebook CEO hinted that such technology could see promising use cases in Facebook’s future augmented reality and virtual reality products. “Brain-computer interface is an exciting idea,” Zuckerberg told employees, according to a meeting transcript leaked earlier this month. “The field quickly branches into two approaches: […]
China’s New Cybersecurity Program: NO Place to Hide
October 14th, 2019Via: China Law Blog: The Chinese government has been working for several years on a comprehensive Internet security/surveillance program. This program is based on the Cybersecurity Law adopted on 2016. The plan is vast and includes a number of subsidiary laws and regulations. On December 1, 2018, the Chinese Ministry of Public Security announced it […]
Pentagon to Send More Troops, Fighter Jets to Saudi Arabia
October 11th, 2019Via: USA Today: The Pentagon will send thousands more troops and two squadrons of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia as tensions increase with Iran. The move follows an attack last month on oil production facilities in Saudi Arabia that Iran was “clearly responsible for,” Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday. Iran denied it had a […]
Burisma Paid Joe Biden $900,000 for Lobbying – Ukrainian MP
October 9th, 2019Hmm… Via: Interfax Ukraine: Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden received $900,000 for lobbying activities from Burisma Group, Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada member Andriy Derkach said citing investigation materials. Derkach publicized documents which, as he said, “describe the mechanism of getting money by Biden Sr.” at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine’s press center in Kyiv on […]
18-Year Old U.S. Soldiers Now Entering Afghanistan 18 Years After War Began
October 9th, 2019Even though Private Nines is from North Carolina, this story reminds me of: Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA by Terry Reed: Terry was the quintessential product of Middle America. Sown like patriotic seed on the plains, his destiny was to be harvested for the nation’s use… So it goes, generation after generation. The harvests […]
