Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
America’s Police Are Looking More and More Like the Military
October 8th, 2013Via: Guardian: America’s streets are looking more and more like a war zone. Last week, in a small county in upstate New York with a population of roughly 120,000 people, county legislators approved the receipt of a 20-ton Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicle, donated by the US Defense Department to the county sheriff. Between […]
Chinese Jitters Over Absurd $1.3 Trillion Gamble in U.S. Debt
October 7th, 2013Via: Independent: China, the biggest foreign creditor of the United States, has waded into the American budget crisis, warning Congress that it must resolve the political impasse over the debt ceiling without further delay. The Chinese Vice Foreign Minister, Zhu Guangyao, told America’s deadlocked politicians on Monday that “the clock is ticking” and called on […]
Long Island School Bans ‘Footballs, Baseballs, Lacrosse Balls, or Anything that Might Hurt Someone’
October 7th, 2013Via: CBS: Worries about injuries at a Long Island school have led to a surprising ban. As CBS 2’s Jennifer McLogan reported Monday, officials at Weber Middle School in Port Washington are worried that students are getting hurt during recess. Thus, they have instituted a ban on footballs, baseballs, lacrosse balls, or anything that might […]
Russia Planning ‘Near-Total Surveillance’ of Visitors, Athletes at Sochi Winter Olympics
October 6th, 2013HAHA. Warning, Americans, the Russians will be doing to you what the U.S. Government does to you 24/7. Via: Telegraph: Security measures at the Sochi winter Olympics will include such extensive electronic eavesdropping and surveillance that the US State Department has advised Americans headed to Russia to leave smart phones and laptops at home, an […]
Harvest Time: Canadian Government Takes Man’s Farm to Build Military Base
October 6th, 2013Via: Maclean’s: In Frank Meyers’s eyes, the view from his dining room window is priceless. Literally. He can see the old wooden house where he lived as a little boy. The family barn, rebuilt with his talented hands. Rows and rows of sweet corn, sprouting from prime Ontario soil. No matter how many federal bureaucrats […]
Treasury Will Run Out of Borrowed Money by October 17
October 6th, 2013“Or maybe it’s just a date in a video game”: 😉 Via: USA Today: The United States will run out of borrowed money “no later than Oct. 17” unless Congress raises the $16.7 trillion debt limit, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said in a letter to Congress Wednesday. Lew’s letter marks the first time he has […]
Attacking Tor: How the NSA Targets Users’ Online Anonymity
October 5th, 2013Via: Guardian: After identifying an individual Tor user on the internet, the NSA uses its network of secret internet servers to redirect those users to another set of secret internet servers, with the codename FoxAcid, to infect the user’s computer. FoxAcid is an NSA system designed to act as a matchmaker between potential targets and […]
NSA Admits Bulk Collection of Cell Phone Location Data, But Don’t Worry, This Was Only a Test
October 3rd, 2013*wink* Via: New York Times: The National Security Agency conducted a secret pilot project in 2010 and 2011 to test the collection of bulk data about the location of Americans’ cellphones, but the agency never moved ahead with such a program, according to intelligence officials. The existence of the pilot project was reported on Wednesday […]
Man Held in Solitary Confinement for 41 Years for a Crime He Didn’t Commit, Released from Prison on Verge of Death
October 2nd, 2013Via: The Times Picayune: In the last 41 years, Herman Wallace has been incarcerated for a robbery he did commit, indicted for a murder a court ruled he didn’t and diagnosed with a cancer that will end his life. But Tuesday night, he passed through the prison gates and, as a free man, made his […]
How a Purse Snatching Led to the Legal Justification for NSA Domestic Spying
October 2nd, 2013Via: Wired: It began as an ordinary purse snatching. On an early Baltimore morning in 1976, a local street thug crouched alongside his green Monte Carlo, pretending to change a flat, biding his time. Finally, a young woman passed by walking alone to her suburban home. Smith wrenched her handbag from her grasp, jumped into […]
