Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Vodafone Reveals Direct Access by Governments to Customer Data
June 6th, 2014Via: New York Times: A number of countries have direct access to the communication network run by the British telecom company Vodafone. The revelation comes in a privacy report released on Friday by Vodafone, the world’s second-largest carrier behind China Mobile, that included information about how governments regularly requested data about the company’s users. Vodafone […]
PSYOP Breaking Down? ‘The American Dream Is Out of Reach’
June 4th, 2014Via: CNN: The American Dream is impossible to achieve in this country. So say nearly 6 in 10 people who responded to CNNMoney’s American Dream Poll, conducted by ORC International. They feel the dream — however they define it — is out of reach. Young adults, age 18 to 34, are most likely to feel […]
Thousands of Palestinians in Jerusalem Without Running Water for Three Months
June 3rd, 2014Via: Middle East Monitor: Israeli water utility company Hagihon has stopped the regular supply of running water to a number of Palestinian neighbourhoods in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a statement issued by Israeli human rights organisation B’Tselem. The affected neighbourhoods are the Shu’fat Refugee Camp, Ras Khamis, Ras Sh’hadeh and Dahiyat As-Salam. They have […]
NSA Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
May 31st, 2014Via: New York Times: The National Security Agency is harvesting huge numbers of images of people from communications that it intercepts through its global surveillance operations for use in sophisticated facial recognition programs, according to top-secret documents. The spy agency’s reliance on facial recognition technology has grown significantly over the last four years as the […]
Spies, CEOs and Politicians Gather for Bilderberg Conference
May 30th, 2014Via: CNBC: It’s a guest list that most conference organizers can only dream of, with attendees ranging from royalty to business leaders, spies to politicians. But this isn’t any conference – this is the Bilderberg conference, a top-secret annual gathering attracting the richest and most powerful people from across the globe. Attendees at this year’s […]
All Wars Are Well Planned Banker Wars, Including WWIII
May 28th, 2014Via: Towards a Better Understanding: Banks have always profited from war because the debt created by banks results in ongoing war profit for big finance; and because wars have been used to open countries to U.S. corporate and banking interests. Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan wrote: “the large banking interests were deeply interested in […]
Obama Announces Plan to Keep 9,800 U.S. Troops in Afghanistan After 2014
May 28th, 2014Are there not enough mercs to protect all of those opium poppies? Via: Guardian: President Obama announced Tuesday that he will leave 9,800 US troops in Afghanistan through much of next year and backed away from ending America’s longest war until at least his final year in office. Related: CIA Ghost Money
North Carolina GOP Pushes Unprecedented Bill to Jail Anyone Who Discloses Fracking Chemicals
May 21st, 2014Via: Mother Jones: As hydraulic fracturing ramps up around the country, so do concerns about its health impacts. These concerns have led 20 states to require the disclosure of industrial chemicals used in the fracking process. North Carolina isn’t on that list of states yet—and it may be hurtling in the opposite direction. On Thursday, […]
China and Russia Sign $400 Billion Gas Deal
May 21st, 2014Via: USA Today: China and Russia signed off on a huge gas deal worth as much as $400 billion Wednesday that heralds a pivot east for Russian business amid ongoing tensions with the West over Ukraine, though few details of the deal were made public. The 30-year gas-export contract, seen as a move by Russian […]
Israeli Forces Shoot Dead Two Unarmed Palestinian Teenagers from 200 Meters
May 21st, 2014Via: Al Jazeera: Defence for Children International (DCI) posted the two-minute video on YouTube, which it said was edited from six hours of surveillance footage from fixed security cameras at a Palestinian-owned business that overlooked the scene. The group said the video showed that troops had committed “unlawful killings where neither child presented a direct […]
