Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
We Choose the Nominee, Not the Voters: Senior GOP Official
March 16th, 2016It’s the same with the Democrats. With regard specifically to Trump, I’m going with the same guess as I’ve had all along. Trump becomes the candidate for the Republicans, and Hillary becomes President. Alternate scenario, the Republicans shit the bed over Trump, some manner of a third party candidate situation results, and—that’s right—Hillary becomes President. […]
Venezuela to Shut Down for a Week to Cope With Electricity Crisis
March 16th, 2016Via: Bloomberg: Venezuela is shutting down for a week as the government struggles with a deepening electricity crisis. President Nicolas Maduro gave everyone an extra three days off work next week, extending the two-day Easter holiday, according to a statement in the Official Gazette published late Tuesday. Maduro had originally said over the weekend that […]
NSA Intercepts for Law Enforcement
March 16th, 2016I said it back in 2013 when we learned about parallel construction. It’s NSA’s infrastructure. The cat was completely out of the bag back then. Via: Privacy SOS: The wall separating “foreign” intelligence operations from domestic criminal investigations has finally, fully collapsed. The FBI now plans to act on a rule change initiated by the […]
The New Mind Control
March 14th, 2016Don’t let this one slip down the page without clicking through! This piece doesn’t mention virtual reality, but VR is going to be an integral part of this, “unseen dictatorship.” It’s easy to pass off clunky RV tech demos as some sort of passing fad. Yep, I remember the 1990s too. But it’s different this […]
The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism
March 12th, 2016Via: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to. The company is creating a wholly new genus of capitalism, a systemic coherent new logic of accumulation we should call surveillance capitalism. … “Most Americans realize that there are two groups of people who are monitored regularly as they move […]
At Secretive Meeting, Tech CEOs and Top Republicans Plot to Stop Trump
March 8th, 2016Now you’re looking for the secret… but you won’t find it, because of course you’re not really looking. You don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. —The Prestige I’m trying to understand this Trump situation and the hysterical freakout that’s ensuing in elite and media circles. Trump could have been vote-frauded into […]
MIT’s New 5-Atom Quantum Computer Could Make Today’s Encryption Obsolete
March 6th, 2016“all you have to do is go in the lab, apply more technology, and you should be able to make a bigger quantum computer” So the only thing preventing a more general purpose quantum computer is money and enough engineers… Hmm… Via: PC World: Much of the encryption world today depends on the challenge of […]
Justice Dept. Grants Immunity to Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server
March 2nd, 2016Via: Washington Post: The Justice Department has granted immunity to the former State Department staffer who worked on Hillary Clinton’s private email server as part of a criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified information, according to a senior law enforcement official. The official said the FBI had secured the cooperation of Bryan Pagliano, […]
“Former Google CEO Schmidt to Head New Pentagon Innovation Board”
March 2nd, 2016Via: Reuters: Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google, has agreed to head a new Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday. Carter is due to discuss the new Defense Innovation Advisory Board with Schmidt during the […]
Wealthy Republicans Planning to Run Third Party Candidate to Stop Trump
February 27th, 2016Some other flunky Republican-as-3rd-Party candidate would simply take votes from Trump, making it more likely that Clinton would win. These guys don’t think that their candidate will have a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning. In other words, these Republicans would rather have Clinton for President than Trump, and they’re working to make that happen. […]
