Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Large Riots in France Over New Fuel Taxes
November 24th, 2018Via: Daily Mail: Huge plumes of smoke were seen on one of France’s most iconic streets today, as protesters burned large plywood sheets, chairs and other material in demonstrations against planned fuel hikes. A water cannon and rounds of teargas were also used by riot police against thousands of French ‘Yellow Vest’ fuel protesters in […]
ADVChina: “We’ve Been Censoring 70% of What We Say”
November 19th, 2018SerpentZA and Laowhy86 are distancing themselves from China because of the collapsing situation there. If you don’t want to spend the time necessary to watch the videos, it’s easy to sum up: China is a filthy, dangerous, corrupt dictatorship and these guys were worried about their families. Via: ADVChina: More: SerpentZA’s Important Announcement Laowhy86’s Important […]
Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely on a CPAP Machine Hacker
November 16th, 2018Via: Vice: An Australian hacker has spent thousands of hours hacking the DRM that medical device manufacturers put on CPAP machines to create a free tool that lets patients modify their treatment.
U.S. Has Spent Nearly $6 Trillion on War Since 9/11
November 14th, 2018WAR is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as […]
How ZTE Helps Venezuela Create China-Style Social Control
November 14th, 2018Via: Reuters: Chinese telecoms giant ZTE is helping Venezuela build a system that monitors citizen behavior through a new identification card. The “fatherland card,” already used by the government to track voting, worries many in Venezuela and beyond. … The card is increasingly linked by the government to subsidized food, health and other social programs […]
Underperforming Chinese Workers Made to Drink Urine, Eat Bugs
November 8th, 2018Via: Reuters: Workers at a Chinese home renovation company who failed to complete their tasks had to drink urine, eat cockroaches or get whipped by a belt. Others had to shave their heads or drink water from a toilet bowl and had their salaries withheld by a month, according to images and videos on Chinese […]
Chinese-Style ‘Digital Authoritarianism’ Grows Globally
November 2nd, 2018Via: AFP: Governments worldwide are stepping up use of online tools, in many cases inspired by China’s model, to suppress dissent and tighten their grip on power, a human rights watchdog study found Thursday. The annual Freedom House study of 65 countries found global internet freedom declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2018, amid […]
Nearly $6 Billion Belonging To Dead Libyan Dictator Gaddafi Has Gone Missing
October 31st, 2018Via: ZeroHedge: Nearly nine months after Politico first reported that interest payments stemming from nearly $70 billion in frozen assets formerly belonging to the regime of deceased Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi had been paid to opaque accounts belonging to the Libyan Investment Authority, UN investigators are finally looking into where the money went. At last […]
TSA Announces “Biometrics Vision for All Commercial Aviation Travelers”
October 27th, 2018Via: Papers, Please: Today the US Transportation Security Administration released a detailed TSA Biometric Roadmap for Aviation Security & the Passenger Experience, making explicit the goal of requiring mug shots (to be used for automated facial recognition and image-based surveillance and control) as a condition of all domestic or international air travel. … It’s a […]
China: “Vocational Schools”
October 24th, 2018Via: BBC: On 12 July 2015 a satellite swung over the rolling deserts and oasis cities of China’s vast far west. One of the images it captured that day just shows a patch of empty, untouched, ashen-grey sand. It seems an unlikely place to start an investigation into one of the most pressing human rights […]
