Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Defying Congress, Trump Sets $8 Billion-Plus in Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia, UAE and Jordan
May 24th, 2019Mmm hmm. Via: Reuters: U.S. President Donald Trump, declaring a national emergency because of tensions with Iran, swept aside objections from Congress on Friday to complete the sale of over $8 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan. The Trump administration informed congressional committees that it will go ahead […]
Facebook Now Censoring Diet Information
May 24th, 2019Via: CrossFit: CrossFit is a contrarian physiological and nutrition prescription for improving fitness and health. It is contrarian because prevailing views of fitness, health, and nutrition are wrong and have unleashed a tsunami of chronic disease upon our friends, family, and communities. The voluntary CrossFit community of 15,000 affiliates and millions of individual adherents stands […]
Robots Conduct Daily Health Inspections of Schoolchildren in China
May 23rd, 2019Wow! Via: New Scientist: Please stand in front of Walklake for your examination. This health checking robot takes just 3 seconds to diagnose a variety of ailments in children, including conjunctivitis, and hand, foot and mouth disease. Over 2000 preschools in China, with children aged between 2 and 6, are using Walklake every morning to […]
U.S. Charges WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange with Espionage
May 23rd, 2019Via: Reuters: The U.S. Justice Department unveiled 17 new criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday, saying he unlawfully published the names of classified sources and conspired with and assisted ex-Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in obtaining access to classified information. The superseding indictment comes a little more than a month after the […]
Chicago and Detroit Have Bought Real-Time Facial Recognition Systems
May 19th, 2019Via: Wired: Civil liberties activists trying to inspire alarm about the authoritarian potential of facial recognition technology often point to China, where some police departments use systems that can spot suspects who show their faces in public. A report from Georgetown researchers on Thursday suggests Americans should also focus their concern closer to home. The […]
Man Makes Videos Critical of New Zealand Government, Gets Visits by Armed Police
May 15th, 2019Here are the videos that attracted the attention of the police. This is a Facebook post with the video of one of the police visits. In case you don’t use Facebook, someone mirrored the video on YouTube: Via: Cross the Rubicon:
Drone Attack on Saudi Aramco Facilities
May 14th, 2019Via: Reuters: Oil prices rose on Tuesday after the world’s top oil exporter Saudi Arabia said explosive-laden drones had attacked two pumping stations belonging to state oil company Aramco. … The Saudi state news agency quoted Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih as saying that Aramco had halted pumping on the East-West pipeline until the damage was […]
WordPress.com Took Down Jon Rappoport’s Blog
May 13th, 2019There is a purge underway on the wordpress.com platform. Anyone dealing with controversial topics has to self host. It doesn’t mean that your hosting provider won’t terminate you, but you have a much better chance of remaining up than on any of the major blogging or social media platforms. Via: Jon Rappoport: On May 11, […]
Swarms of Drones, Piloted by Artificial Intelligence, May Soon Patrol Europe’s Borders
May 12th, 2019Step 1: Facilitate and encourage illegal immigration to the point of collapsing European society. Step 2: Deploy swarms of surveillance drones to interrogate/track/identify individuals at random. You know, since we created the problem in the first place, we’ll come up with a “solution.” Step 3: ….. (Fill in the blank) Hmm. I know. How about: […]
Mexico Wants to Decriminalize All Drugs and Negotiate With the U.S. to Do the Same
May 11th, 2019And wreck the CIA’s illicit drug running business? I don’t think so. Imagine the whinging you’d hear from the militarized cop industrial complex. Also, what would become of the private prison industry? Oh no no no, Mexico, let’s not go there. Via: Newsweek: Mexico’s president released a new plan last week that called for radical […]
