Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
“Or, maybe nothing, and this is all a coincidence.”
February 22nd, 2014Via: Daring Fireball: According to slide 6 in the leaked PowerPoint deck on NSA’s PRISM program, Apple was “added” in October 2012. These three facts prove nothing; it’s purely circumstantial. But the shoe fits. Sure would be interesting to know who added that spurious line of code to the file. Conspiratorially, one could suppose the […]
Ukraine: President’s Kiev Offices Abandoned
February 22nd, 2014Via: BBC: Ukrainian protesters have been able to enter the president’s official and residential buildings in Kiev, after they were abandoned by police. They have stationed guards outside the entrances to offices, while the interior ministry has said in a statement that it supports the people. President Viktor Yanukovych’s aides say he is in Kharkhiv, […]
Greece Intercepts Israeli Arms Shipments to Iran
February 21st, 2014Your what hurts? Via: Telegraph: Israeli arms dealers twice tried to send spare parts for fighter planes to Iran, The Telegraph has established, flouting an international arms embargo and openly contradicting the bitter enmity between the Jewish state and the Islamic regime. The illegal shipments are now being investigated by the US Homeland Security Department […]
Google’s Project Tango: Indoor 3D Mapping and Tracking
February 20th, 2014Because tracking you outside is so 1990s. It’s not enough for the Legion of Doom to be able to track your every move outside. It now wants to map your indoor world, in 3D, and where you are in it. NSA/NGA will love this. Coincidence: Tango: Tango (U.S.) NATO phonetic alphabet for the letter “T” […]
“Smart Cities”
February 20th, 2014Via: Fast Company: Tech giant Cisco thinks there’s something to all this talk of ”smart cities”–and that connecting roads or license plate readers to the Internet is going to be big business. In the latest installment of their ongoing expansion into the Internet of Things, Cisco recently announced an agreement with Swiss security firm AGT […]
Ukraine: 25 Dead in Protests
February 19th, 2014Via: CNN: They’ve given up their ground before — voluntarily, as a political concession. But that seems to be over. After the deaths of 25 people in clashes a day earlier, Ukrainian protesters are prepared to stand and fight again Wednesday. Police want to clear them out of central Kiev. Some of them died trying […]
Land of the Freefalling Position on the Press Freedom Index
February 17th, 2014Via: Reporters without Borders: Countries that pride themselves on being democracies and respecting the rule of law have not set an example, far from it. Freedom of information is too often sacrificed to an overly broad and abusive interpretation of national security needs, marking a disturbing retreat from democratic practices. Investigative journalism often suffers as […]
U.S. Army Built a $96 Million Fake City for Combat Training Exercises
February 17th, 2014Maybe some of the tens of thousands of thousands of homeless veterans can live there. No? Via: Telegraph: The US army has built a fake city designed to be used during combat training exercises. The 300 acre ‘town’ includes a five story embassy, a bank, a school, an underground subway and train station, a mosque, […]
Push for Legal Pot Worldwide
February 15th, 2014Via: AP: In a former colonial mansion in Jamaica, politicians huddle to discuss trying to ease marijuana laws in the land of the late reggae musician and cannabis evangelist Bob Marley. In Morocco, one of the world’s top producers of the concentrated pot known as hashish, two leading political parties want to legalize its cultivation, […]
Court Overturns California Law Restricting Concealed Weapons; Appeals Ahead
February 14th, 2014Via: Los Angeles Times: In a significant victory for gun owners, a divided federal appeals court Thursday struck down California rules that permit counties to restrict as they see fit the right to carry a concealed weapon in public. The 2-1 ruling by a U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel would overturn restrictions on […]
