Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
We Are the Government: Tactics for Taking Down the Police State
August 27th, 2015They don’t like jury nullification. Using your First Amendment right to free speech in front of a court house could result in indictments. Jury Nullification Advocate Faces Indictment Denver DA Charges Man with Jury Tampering for Handing Out Jury Nullification Flyers Via: Rutherford Institute: Where nullification can be particularly powerful, however, is in the hands […]
China Sells U.S. Treasuries to Support Yuan
August 27th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: China has cut its holdings of U.S. Treasuries this month to raise dollars needed to support the yuan in the wake of a shock devaluation two weeks ago, according to people familiar with the matter. Channels for such transactions include China selling directly, as well as through agents in Belgium and Switzerland, said […]
No-Fly List Uses ‘Predictive Assessments’ Instead of Hard Evidence, U.S. Admits
August 24th, 2015Shocker. Via: Guardian: The Obama administration’s no-fly lists and broader watchlisting system is based on predicting crimes rather than relying on records of demonstrated offenses, the government has been forced to admit in court. In a little-noticed filing before an Oregon federal judge, the US Justice Department and the FBI conceded that stopping US and […]
Breathing Beijing’s Air Is the Equivalent of Smoking Almost 40 Cigarettes a Day
August 24th, 2015Via: Economist: Pollution is sky-high everywhere in China. Some 83% of Chinese are exposed to air that, in America, would be deemed by the Environmental Protection Agency either to be unhealthy or unhealthy for sensitive groups. Almost half the population of China experiences levels of PM2.5 that are above America’s highest threshold. That is even […]
Afghanistan Has Cost the U.S. More Than the Marshall Plan
August 23rd, 2015Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. has now spent more on the reconstruction of Afghanistan than it spent on the Marshall Plan, which resuscitated Europe after World War II, according to a special inspector general. The Marshall Plan delivered $103 billion in today’s dollars to 16 European countries between 1948 and 1952. That has now been topped […]
Long Range Strike Bomber Already a Snowballing Disaster
August 18th, 2015Via: Fiscal Times: The price on the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation bomber was just raised. Again. Last year, Air Force officials told Congress that the cost for the 10-year research and development phase for the Long-Range Strike Bomber would be $33.1 billion between fiscal years 2015 through 2025. But this year the price skyrocketed. The […]
Facial Recognition Software Moves From Overseas Wars to Local Police
August 12th, 2015The countries that run ECHELON, the largest civilian communications surveillance program in the world, have developed unified standards for biometric identification. See how this might look in the future by looking at Iraq. That’s the beta testing phase for what’s in store for the rest of us. —Cryptogon, 2007 Via: New York Times: Facial recognition […]
The No Download List
August 8th, 2015Via: The Register: Software export controls are being applied to blacklisted people as well as countries: and these controls apply to routine security packages such as freebie antivirus scanning software, as well as more sensitive technologies, El Reg has concluded. We’ve come to this way of thinking after investigating why Reg reader Hasan Ali was […]
Idaho Sheriff Guarding U.S. Navy Veteran Against Federal Gun Confiscation
August 6th, 2015Via: AP: A group of residents in northern Idaho have lined outside a U.S. Navy veteran’s house to protest claims that federal officials are planning on confiscating the man’s weapons. Idaho Republican state Rep. Heather Scott says the Veteran Affairs office has sent a letter to John Arnold of Priest River warning him that he […]
Denver DA Charges Man with Jury Tampering for Handing Out Jury Nullification Flyers
August 6th, 2015Via: Denver Post: Denver prosecutors have charged a man with seven counts of jury tampering after they say he tried to influence jurors by passing out literature on jury nullification on Monday. Mark Iannicelli, 56, set up a small booth with a sign that said “Juror Info” in front of the city’s Lindsay-Flanigan Courthouse courthouse, […]
