Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Sebelius Finished
April 10th, 2014You’ll love the replacement, Sylvia Mathews Burwell: Walmart Foundation: Check Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Check Rhodes Scholar: Check Via: BBC: US health secretary Kathleen Sebelius is resigning following the problematic launch of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, US media report. The law – regarded by the president’s supporters as one of his main domestic […]
Meet the Americans Who Put Together the Coup in Kiev
April 9th, 2014Via: Reader Supported News: Ever since Bill Clinton sat in the Oval Office, Washington and its European allies have worked openly and covertly to extend NATO to the Russian border and Black Sea Fleet, provoking a badly wounded Russian bear. They have also worked to bring Ukraine and its Eastern European neighbors into the neoliberal […]
NATO Warns Russia Against Further Intervention
April 8th, 2014Via: BBC: Nato has warned Russia that further intervention in Ukraine would be a “historic mistake” with grave consequences. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Moscow must pull back troops it has massed on the Ukrainian border. On Tuesday, Ukraine regained control of one of the government buildings occupied by pro-Russian activists in the east of […]
Catherine Austin Fitts: The UFO Economy
April 5th, 2014Via: Dark Journalist: Related: Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World by Trevor Paglen
$6 Billion Goes Missing at State Department
April 5th, 2014Via: Fiscal Times: The State Department has no idea what happened to $6 billion used to pay its contractors. In a special “management alert” made public Thursday, the State Department’s Inspector General Steve Linick warned “significant financial risk and a lack of internal control at the department has led to billions of unaccounted dollars over […]
The “Cuban Twitter” Scam Is a Drop in the Internet Propaganda Bucket
April 4th, 2014Via: Firstlook: This week, the Associated Press exposed a secret program run by the U.S. Agency for International Development to create “a Twitter-like Cuban communications network” run through “secret shell companies” in order to create the false appearance of being a privately owned operation. Unbeknownst to the service’s Cuban users was the fact that “American […]
DARPA: Biological Technologies Office
April 3rd, 2014I saw this trailer for The Machine a couple of weeks ago, and I couldn’t resist including it with this news from DARPA. Via: DARPA: Technology, like biology, constantly evolves. It is DARPA’s mission to stay ahead of the shifting technology curve by making critical, early investments in areas that cut across fields of research […]
NSA Infiltrated RSA Security More Deeply than Thought
March 31st, 2014Via: Reuters: “We could have been more sceptical of NSA’s intentions,” RSA Chief Technologist Sam Curry told Reuters.
After Seven Years, Exactly One Person Gets Off the Government No-Fly List
March 28th, 2014Via: Ars Technica: A hearing in federal court Tuesday has apparently marked the conclusion of a drawn-out, costly, and, to use the judge’s own term, “Kafkaesque” legal battle over the government no-fly list. Malaysian college professor Rahinah Ibrahim sued the government back in 2006, after Dr. Ibrahim’s name mistakenly ended up on a federal government […]
The Most Popular Show In America Is Basically NSA Propaganda
March 25th, 2014Via: Business Insider: NCIS and its sibling NCIS: Los Angeles are the top-rated dramas on television, a distinction they have held for several years. Next season there will be a third iteration, which ones hopes will be titled NCIS: Spinoff. As Quartz’s Jason Lynch notes, viewers love these formulaic procedurals—while critics ignore them. But what […]
