Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
No Child Left Untableted
September 16th, 2013A division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is supplying tablet computers and curricula to students in the U.S. In other words, the world’s most diabolical propagandist is receiving public money (Department of Education’s Race to the Top program—no joke) to provide screen based education to thousands of students in the U.S. This could expand to […]
Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Ordered To Pay U.S. Contractor’s Legal Fees
September 15th, 2013Via: Huntington Post: A federal judge on Wednesday ordered four Iraqis who were imprisoned at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison to pay nearly $14,000 in legal fees to defense contractor CACI, an Arlington, Va.-based company that supplied interrogators to the U.S. government during the Iraq War. The decision in favor of CACI stemmed from a […]
‘Follow the Money’: NSA Spies on International Payments
September 15th, 2013Via: Spiegel: The United States’ NSA intelligence agency is interested in international payments processed by companies including Visa, SPIEGEL has learned. It has even set up its own financial database to track money flows through a “tailored access operations” division. The National Security Agency (NSA) widely monitors international payments, banking and credit card transactions, according […]
U.S., Russia Reach Agreement on Seizure of Syrian Chemical Weapons Arsenal
September 14th, 2013Via: Washington Post: The United States and Russia agreed Saturday on an outline for the identification and seizure of Syrian chemical weapons and said Syria must turn over an accounting of its arsenal within a week. The agreement will be backed by a U.N. Security Council resolution that could allow for sanctions or other consequences […]
NSA Poses as Legitimate Websites for Man in the Middle Attacks
September 13th, 2013When you’re connected to .mil’s PSYOP ISP, you may get a ‘special’ version of the Internet. —U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators Via: Cnet: Here’s one of the latest tidbits on the NSA surveillance scandal (which seems to be generating nearly as many blog items as there are phone numbers in the […]
Beeban Kidron: We Need to Talk About Teenagers and the Internet
September 12th, 2013Grim. Via: Guardian: There is a new world order and our children are carrying it around in their pockets.
UN Team Finds No Proof of Chemical Weapons Use in Syria
September 11th, 2013Via: Sydney Morning Herald: United Nations investigators have listed a wide range of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Syria, but provided no conclusion on the issue of chemical weapons use. “On the evidence currently available, it was not possible to reach a finding about the chemical agents used, their delivery systems or […]
NSA Shares Raw Intelligence Including Americans’ Data with Israel
September 11th, 2013Via: Guardian: The National Security Agency routinely shares raw intelligence data with Israel without first sifting it to remove information about US citizens, a top-secret document provided to the Guardian by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. Details of the intelligence-sharing agreement are laid out in a memorandum of understanding between the NSA and its Israeli counterpart […]
Stealth Coating Based on Squid Skin Could Make Soldiers Invisible to Night Vision
September 11th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Most camouflage materials used to disguise soldiers and vehicles during the day show up easily when viewed through night vision goggles and infrared cameras. This is because leaves and other foliage reflect infrared light in a different way to other fabrics and materials. However, scientists at the University of California Irvine have created […]
U.S. ISSUES ULTIMATUM TO SYRIA: ASSAD HAS ONE WEEK TO TURN OVER CHEMICAL WEAPONS
September 9th, 2013Update: Syria ‘Welcomes’ Proposal to Put Chemical Weapons Under International Control Via: CNN: Syria on Monday embraced a Russian proposal for Bashar al-Assad to put his nation’s chemical weapons under international control as part of an effort to head off a possible military strike from the United States over an alleged poison gas attack. Syrian […]
