Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Reporter Says Pentagon Agreed to Give Up Docs If He Never Submits Another FOIA Aequest
June 6th, 2015Via: Washington Post: Leopold: The Office of Net Assessment (ONA) is the Pentagon’s in-house think tank. They spend millions and millions of dollars putting together reports — reports that they contract out about perhaps some futuristic warfare, or what the situation in the Middle East is going to look like with regards to oil. I […]
Data Hacked from U.S. Government Dates Back to 1985
June 5th, 2015Via: Reuters: Data stolen from U.S. government computers by suspected Chinese hackers included security clearance information and background checks dating back three decades, U.S. officials said on Friday, underlining the scope of one of the largest known cyber attacks on federal networks. The breach of computer systems of the Office of Personnel Management was disclosed […]
NSA Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border
June 4th, 2015Via: New York Times: Without public notice or debate, the Obama administration has expanded the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance of Americans’ international Internet traffic to search for evidence of malicious computer hacking, according to classified N.S.A. documents.
Leaked TISA Documents Reveal Privacy Threat
June 4th, 2015Via: Forbes: Under the draft provisions of the latest trade deal to be leaked by Wikileaks, countries could be barred from trying to control where their citizens’ personal data is held or whether it’s accessible from outside the country. … And the contents of TISA make interesting reading, particularly for anybody concerned about privacy. Under […]
Britain: Primary Pupils Asked to Complete Surveys About Radicalization
May 29th, 2015Via: Guardian: Parents of children as young as nine have reacted angrily after schools in an east London borough asked pupils to complete surveys designed to provide clues to possible radicalisation. Waltham Forest council has been piloting the scheme in five primary schools with large Muslim intakes. The questionnaire, circulated among year 6 pupils, asks […]
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted by Federal Grand Jury
May 28th, 2015Via: Washington Post: J. Dennis Hastert, the longest serving Republican speaker in the U.S. House, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that he violated banking laws in a bid to pay $3.5 million because of “past misconduct” against an unnamed individual from their hometown west of Chicago. Hastert, 73, who has […]
Bill Gates Just Described His Biggest Fear — And It Could Kill 330 Million People In Less Than A Year
May 28th, 2015Bird Flu Researchers to Continue Work on Engineered Virus H5N1 VIRAL-ENGINEERING DANGERS WILL NOT GO AWAY Scientist Makes H5N1 Highly Contagious Coalition of Leading Scientists Claim H5N1 Ferret Experiments Could Lead to Pandemic H5N1 Bird Flu Needs Just 5 Mutations to Spread Easily in People Britain: Scientists Reconstruct Black Death Plague with Genetic Material Taken […]
Russia Masses Heavy Firepower on Border with Ukraine
May 28th, 2015Check out the gallery. Via: Reuters: Russia’s army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week. Many of the vehicles have number plates and identifying marks removed while many of the servicemen […]
Judge Who Blocked Release of Osama bin Laden Death Photos Now Blocks Release of Senate Torture Report
May 27th, 2015Via: AllGov: A federal judge has thwarted an attempt to force the release of the Senate report on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) torture program. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s full report on the CIA interrogation program. The […]
Pentagon Report Predicted West’s Support for Islamist Rebels Would Create ISIS
May 27th, 2015Try not to die of shock. Via: Medium: A declassified secret US government document obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad. The document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, […]
