Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
New Zealand: The First Time I Have Been Subject to Government Censorship
March 25th, 2019The New Zealand government has officially declared Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto, The Great Replacement, as, “Objectionable.” A publication reportedly written by the terrorist behind the fatal attacks in Christchurch, has been officially classified as objectionable. … An objectionable classification for this publication is considered to be a justifiable limit on freedom of expression under the Bill […]
Russian Air Force Planes Land in Venezuela Carrying Troops
March 24th, 2019“Russian encroachment in the region…” *snort* Via: Reuters: Two Russian air force planes landed at Venezuela’s main airport on Saturday carrying a Russian defense official and nearly 100 troops, according to media reports, amid strengthening ties between Caracas and Moscow. A flight-tracking website showed that two planes left from a Russian military airport bound for […]
After Blocking Zero Hedge and Others, NZ Telcos Demand Big-Tech Censorship Surge to “Protect Consumers”
March 21st, 2019People are emailing me about these bans. I just now browsed (on a remote machine under my control) ZeroHedge, Gab and Dissenter without any problems on Spark, the largest ISP in NZ. Also, my small, regional ISP has not blocked any of these sites. Whatever is happening with regard to sites being blocked in NZ, […]
While the Nation Fragments Socially, the Financial Aristocracy Rules Unimpeded
March 20th, 2019Via: Of Two Minds: The core structure of the financial aristocracy is the state-cartel, the cartels that are funded and enforced by the central state: higher education, healthcare, national defense, banking, mortgages, student loans, etc. For the financial aristocracy, the federal government is their personal enrichment machine, collecting trillions in taxes and borrowing additional trillions […]
‘DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System’
March 14th, 2019Mmm hmm. If this system relies on elliptic curve cryptography, an attacker with a large quantum computer will be able to crack it. Via: Vice: For years security professionals and election integrity activists have been pushing voting machine vendors to build more secure and verifiable election systems, so voters and candidates can be assured election […]
U.S. Government Will Be Scanning Faces at 20 Top Airports
March 13th, 2019Via: BuzzFeed: For Hasbrouck, the big takeaway is that the broad surveillance of people in airports amounts to a kind of “individualized control of citizenry” — not unlike what’s already happening with the social credit scoring system in China. “There are already people who aren’t allowed on, say, a high-speed train because their social credit […]
Facebook Bans Zero Hedge
March 12th, 2019Update: Facebook Reverses Zero Hedge Ban, Says It Made A “Mistake” Mmm hmm. — Via: ZeroHedge: Over the weekend, we were surprised to learn that some readers were prevented by Facebook when attempting to share Zero Hedge articles. Subsequently it emerged that virtually every attempt to share or merely mention an article, including in private […]
Desperate Venezuelans Swarm Sewage Drains in Search of Water
March 12th, 2019Via: Reuters: The lack of water has become one of the most excruciating side effects of the nationwide blackout that the government of President Nicolas Maduro has blamed on U.S.-backed sabotage but his critics call the product of corruption and incompetence. The blackout has worsened the situation of a country already facing a hyperinflationary economic […]
China’s “Democracy” Includes Mandatory Apps, Mass Chat Surveillance
March 7th, 2019Change the proper nouns and it would read like the situation in Europe or the U.S. Via: ArsTechnica: As the National People’s Congress gathers in Beijing for the beginning of China’s “Two Sessions” political season, state media is making an international propaganda push on social media—including on platforms blocked by China’s “Great Firewall”—to promote China’s […]
Tim Berners-Lee: “The Web Has Been Hijacked by Crooks and Trolls”
March 4th, 2019Via: AFP: Thirty years ago this month, a young British software engineer working at a lab near Geneva invented a system for scientists to share information that would ultimately change humanity. But three decades after he invented the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee has warned that his creation has been “hijacked by crooks” that may […]
