Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Russ Tice on Boiling Frogs Podcast
June 21st, 2013What we have here is essentially a computer age, orders-of-magnitude-worse extension of what Curt Gentry laid out in J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets. Tice said that NSA has turned into a rogue organization, “That’s there to protect its own interests.” That’s nothing new, if you look at bureaucratic politics—all government organizations do […]
U.S. Scrapping Billions of Dollars Worth of Military Equipment in Afghanistan
June 20th, 2013The U.S. Government borrowed money of China and did what with it? Via: Washington Post: Facing a tight withdrawal deadline and tough terrain, the U.S. military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds worth of vehicles and other military equipment as it rushes to wind down its role in the Afghanistan war by the end […]
Former TWA Flight 800 Investigators Claim Coverup
June 19th, 2013Via: ABC News: In a new documentary, former investigators who looked into the mysterious crash of TWA Flight 800, which killed 230, are breaking their silence to claim that the explosion that brought down the plane in 1996 was likely no accident, and that the final report on the cause of the blast was falsified. […]
FBI Has Started Using Surveillance Drones Inside U.S.
June 19th, 2013Via: Huffington Post: FBI Director Robert Mueller revealed Wednesday that the bureau uses drones to conduct surveillance on U.S. soil. Asked by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) if the FBI was following in the footsteps of the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in pursuing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, […]
Offensive Cyber Effect Operations
June 19th, 2013Via: CNN: Today, the United States is conducting offensive cyberwar actions around the world. More than passively eavesdropping, we’re penetrating and damaging foreign networks for both espionage and to ready them for attack. We’re creating custom-designed Internet weapons, pre-targeted and ready to be “fired” against some piece of another country’s electronic infrastructure on a moment’s […]
NSA Implementing ‘Two-Person’ Rule To Stop The Next Edward Snowden
June 19th, 2013This is great. They can spend all day trying to comply with their increasingly cumbersome security directives. Via: Forbes: The next Edward Snowden may need a partner on the inside. On Tuesday, National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander told a congressional hearing of the Intelligence Committee that the agency is implementing a “two-person” system to […]
U.S. Government Bans Americans From the Skies Without Explanation
June 19th, 2013Via: ACLU: The government does not have the unchecked authority to place individuals on a secret blacklist without providing them any meaningful opportunity to object, the ACLU argued in a brief filed last Friday with the federal district court in Oregon. We made the filing in Latif v. Holder, our lawsuit asserting that the government […]
3 NSA Veterans Speak Out On Snowden: We Told You So
June 19th, 2013Update: New Tice Interview — I wonder if Tice was invited to participate in this… Via: USA Today: In a roundtable discussion, a trio of former National Security Agency whistle-blowers tell USA TODAY that Edward Snowden succeeded where they failed. When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details this month on the government’s collection […]
China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities
June 18th, 2013Via: New York Times: China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years — a transformative event that could set off a new wave of growth or saddle the country with problems for generations to come. The government, often […]
Greenwald: ‘You have no idea what is coming’
June 16th, 2013The release of the documents without any censorship by the media? Information about NSA operations that we haven’t already known about for years? More pics of the pole dancing girlfriend? Via: Twitter: You have no idea what is coming; and I’m promoting the leaks, not myself
