Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Details of UK Website Visits to Be Stored for Year
November 4th, 2015Via: BBC: The internet activity of everyone in Britain will have to be stored for a year by service providers, under new surveillance law plans. Police and intelligence officers will be able to see the names of sites people have visited without a warrant, Home Secretary Theresa May said. But there would be new safeguards […]
China Decides to Abolish 1-Child Policy, Allow 2 Children
October 29th, 2015Via: AP: China’s ruling Communist Party announced Thursday that the country will start allowing all families to have two children, abolishing an unpopular policy that limited many urban couples to only one child for more than three decades. The decision is the most significant easing of family-planning policies that were long considered some of the […]
EU Countries Won’t Be Able to Opt Out of Genetically-Modified Food
October 28th, 2015Wow. Via: The Journal: EU LAWMAKERS HAVE rejected a hard-won compromise which would have allowed member states to decide whether or not to import Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for use in food and animal feed. The European Parliament voted 557 to 75 against on a law which took the European Commission years to negotiate amid […]
U.S. Back to Combat in Iraq AND Syria
October 28th, 2015“This is combat and things are complicated,” Carter said. No shit. With the Russian imposed no-fly-zone over Syria… How’s this going to work? Without mushroom clouds, I hope. Via: NBC: Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday that the U.S. will begin “direct action on the ground” against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria, aiming to […]
Northrop Grumman Wins Long Range Strike Bomber Contract
October 27th, 2015Via: Washington Post: Northrop Grumman on Tuesday won the Pentagon contract to build a fleet of stealthy planes known as the Long Range Strike Bomber, a new generation of aircraft designed to reach deep into enemy territory. Northrop beat out a team of Boeing and Lockheed Martin in the high-stakes competition for a project likely […]
Bill Would Give Legal Protection to Firms that Share Data with Government
October 27th, 2015Via: Washington Post: The Senate on Tuesday passed a cybersecurity bill that would give companies legal immunity for sharing data with the federal government, over the protests of some lawmakers and consumer advocates who say that the legislation does not adequately protect Americans’ privacy. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, must now be reconciled […]
Shocker: Court Chooses to Ignore Overwhelming Evidence of NSA’s Mass Internet Spying
October 27th, 2015Via: ACLU: A federal district court yesterday dismissed Wikimedia v. NSA, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of a broad group of educational, legal, human rights, and media organizations whose communications are swept up by the NSA’s unprecedented Internet dragnet. Our lawsuit concerns the NSA’s “upstream” surveillance, which involves the mass interception and […]
U.S. Special Forces Deployed in 145 Countries in 2015
October 27th, 2015Via: Truth-Out: Since 9/11, US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has grown in every conceivable way from funding and personnel to global reach and deployments. In 2015, according to Special Operations Command spokesman Ken McGraw, US Special Operations forces deployed to a record-shattering 147 countries – 75% of the nations on the planet, which represents a […]
Saudi Price Arrested, Two Tons of Amphetamines Found on His Private Jet
October 26th, 2015Two. Tons. Via: Telegraph: A Saudi prince has been detained at Beirut airport in Lebanon after two tons of an amphetamine drug popular with Syrian rebels was found on a private jet. Prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz and four other men were held after what was described as the biggest ever drugs bust […]
War Criminal Tony Blair Sorry for Iraq War
October 24th, 2015Via: Independent: Tony Blair has made apologies about aspects of the Iraq War for the first time and has said there are ‘elements of truth’ in the theory that the invasion helped feed the rise of the so-called Islamic State (Isis). In an television interview with the US network CNN, the former British Prime Minister […]
