Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Thirty Years After Tiananmen…
June 3rd, 2019Via: Reuters: Three decades after China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, increased government suppression of rights activism has pushed the demonstrators’ original goals further away than ever. In April 1989, weeks before Chinese leaders ordered a military assault to clear the protesters from central Beijing, tens of thousands of […]
Julian Assange Shows Psychological Torture Symptoms, Says UN Expert
May 31st, 2019Via: Guardian: Julian Assange is showing all the symptoms associated with prolonged exposure to psychological torture and should not be extradited to the US, according to a senior UN expert who visited him in prison. Nils Melzer, UN’s special rapporteur on torture, is expected to make his appeal to the UK government on Friday. It […]
Google to Restrict Modern Ad Blocking Chrome Extensions to Enterprise Users
May 29th, 2019Via: 9to5Google: Back in January, Google announced a proposed change to Chrome’s extensions system, called Manifest V3, that would stop current ad blockers from working efficiently. In a response to the overwhelming negative feedback, Google is standing firm on Chrome’s ad blocking changes, sharing that current ad blocking capabilities will be restricted to enterprise users.
California Assembly OKs Health Care for Immigrants in U.S. Illegally
May 29th, 2019It’s as if California fought a war with some external enemy and lost. Except, most Californians didn’t notice. And now… Via: AP: The California Assembly voted Tuesday to extend the state’s Medicaid program to eligible adults who are in the country illegally. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to spend about $98 million a year to […]
China Gears Up to Weaponize Rare Earths in Trade War
May 29th, 2019Via: Bloomberg: Beijing is gearing up to use its dominance of rare earths to hit back in its deepening trade war with Washington. A flurry of Chinese media reports on Wednesday, including an editorial in the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party, raised the prospect of Beijing cutting exports of the commodities that are critical […]
Rare Earth Metals: China’s ‘Nuclear Option’ In The Trade War
May 27th, 2019Via: oilprice.com: A simple visit to an obscure factory by Chinese President Xi on Monday is all it took to raise the specter that China could be contemplating cutting off supply of critical materials to the U.S. and potentially crippling large swathes of its industries. Also, fueled by political innuendo in Xi’s recent call for […]
Limited Hangout: ‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects
May 26th, 2019My best guess is that this Pentagon/CIA/To the Stars operation is a limited hangout, but to what end, I have no idea. A limited hangout is: “Spy jargon for a favorite and frequently used gimmick of the clandestine professionals. When their veil of secrecy is shredded and they can no longer rely on a phony […]
U.S. Military to Trawl Through 350 Billion Social Media Messages
May 25th, 2019“Individual users won’t be identified in the research, according to the Navy.” Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. military plans to analyze 350 billion social-media posts from around the world to help it track how popular movements evolve. A tender for the project, based at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, calls for screening messages from […]
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 […]
