Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Chinese Companies Buying Foreign Businesses
February 22nd, 2016Via: Business Insider: Chinese companies have been buying up foreign businesses — including American ones — at a record rate, and it’s freaking out lawmakers. There is General Electric’s sale of its appliance business to Qingdao-based Haier, Zoomlion’s bid for the heavy-lifting-equipment maker Terex Corporation, and ChemChina’s record-breaking deal for the Swiss seeds and pesticides […]
America Is Now Fighting A Proxy War With Itself In Syria
February 20th, 2016Via: BuzzFeed: American proxies are now at war with each other in Syria. Officials with Syrian rebel battalions that receive covert backing from one arm of the U.S. government told BuzzFeed News that they recently began fighting rival rebels supported by another arm of the U.S. government. The infighting between American proxies is the latest […]
Beijing Is Banning All Foreign Media from Publishing Online in China
February 19th, 2016Via: Quartz: In the latest sign that China’s long-touted “opening up” is reversing into a “closing down,” a Chinese ministry has issued new rules that ban any foreign-invested company from publishing anything online in China, effective next month. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s new rules (link in Chinese) could, if they were enforced […]
‘See Something Suspicious Online? Homeland Security Wants to Know About It’
February 18th, 2016Via: NextGov: The Department of Homeland Security wants an extra $1 million next year to develop a public-service campaign designed to increase awareness of online threats. The new initiative will be modeled on the “If You See Something, Say Something” effort rolled out after the Sept. 11 attacks. The new cyber PSA “will look to […]
Radioactive Material Stolen in Iraq from Oil Company — ISIS Dirty Bomb?
February 17th, 2016WND threat from Saddam Hussein: Not so much. And now, in the Post-Mission-Accomplished era… Via: Reuters: Iraq is searching for “highly dangerous” radioactive material stolen last year, according to an environment ministry document and seven security, environmental and provincial officials who fear it could be used as a weapon if acquired by Islamic State. The […]
FBI Wants Apple to Create Software to Assist with Brute Forcing Password on iPhone
February 17th, 2016Via: TechDirt: Apple’s reasonable technical assistance shall accomplish the following three important functions: (1) it will bypass or disable the auto-erase function whether or not it has been enabled; (2) it will enable the FBI to submit passcodes to the SUBJECT DEVICE for testing electronically via the physical device port, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or other protocol […]
‘Let Us Inspect Your Home For Dirty Dishes – Or We’ll Get A Warrant,’ City Says
February 16th, 2016Via: Off The Grid News: A Minnesota city is asking a court for a warrant to enter a rental home in order to check to see if the place is clean. If the city wins the case, then inspectors apparently would be able to enter such a building anytime they wish. The renters and tenants […]
The NSA’s SKYNET Program May be Killing Thousands of Innocent People
February 16th, 2016Via: Ars Technica: In 2014, the former director of both the CIA and NSA proclaimed that “we kill people based on metadata.” Now, a new examination of previously published Snowden documents suggests that many of those people may have been innocent. Last year, The Intercept published documents detailing the NSA’s SKYNET programme. According to the […]
How About a Trump/Sanders Ticket?
February 13th, 2016I have a Facebook account that I use, 99% of the time, for comedy gold. Sometimes, the stuff that I see in my feed is so funny that I damn near fall out of my chair. Artist: illmagore: Artist: grrrgraphics:
Mandatory Depression Screening for All Americans?
February 10th, 2016Via: Town Hall: The United States Preventive Services Task Force recently recommended mandatory depression screening for all Americans. The task force wants to force health insurance companies to pay for the screening. Basic economics, as well as the Obamacare disaster, should have shown this task force that government health insurance mandates harm Americans. Government health […]
