Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Obama’s ‘No Fly’ List for FedEx and UPS
March 30th, 2013Via: The Future of Freedom Foundation: The Obama administration is notorious for crony capitalism, through which big businesses reap huge riches by virtue of their cozy association with government. Big oil, big car companies, big agrobusinesses, big banks, and big drug corporations are among the legally privileged cronies who are profiting at the expense of […]
Obama’s Crackdown on Whistleblowers and the NSA-SAIC-Trailblazer Fraud
March 29th, 2013Via: The Nation: In the annals of national security, the Obama administration will long be remembered for its unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers. Since 2009, it has employed the World War I–era Espionage Act a record six times to prosecute government officials suspected of leaking classified information. The latest example is John Kiriakou, a former CIA […]
Russian Authorities Raid Amnesty International and Other NGO Offices
March 28th, 2013Via: New York Times: The Russian authorities on Monday raided the local headquarters of the human rights group Amnesty International, the latest in a continuing series of office searches intended to put pressure on nongovernmental groups. The head of Amnesty’s office in Russia, Sergei Nikitin, said in a telephone interview that officials from the general […]
Appeasing The Dictator, 140 Characters At A Time: Twitter Censors Content Within Russia
March 28th, 2013Via: PJ Media: If you have been following the Internet crackdown underway in Russia, you will not be surprised to learn that Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin has recruited many websites — which are either terrified of his wrath or interested in currying his favor — to help crush and eradicate criticism of his government online. However, […]
FBI Wants Real-Time Gmail, Dropbox Spying Power
March 28th, 2013Via: Slate: Despite the pervasiveness of law enforcement surveillance of digital communication, the FBI still has a difficult time monitoring Gmail, Google Voice, and Dropbox in real time. But that may change soon, because the bureau says it has made gaining more powers to wiretap all forms of Internet conversation and cloud storage a “top […]
Drones Visualization: Every U.S. Drone Strike In Pakistan Since 2004
March 27th, 2013Via: Huffington Post: Pitch Interactive, a Berkeley-based data visualization unit, has created a graphic tracking every drone strike the United States has carried out in Pakistan since 2004. … The visualization, seen below, tracks the victims of the strikes using data from the Bureau for Investigative Journalism, specifically noting children and civilian collateral damage. Note […]
EU to Bank Depositors in Other Member States: You Could Be Next
March 26th, 2013The fascist Borg collective is through effing around. Via: Telegraph: Savings accounts in Spain, Italy and other European countries will be raided if needed to preserve Europe’s single currency by propping up failing banks, a senior eurozone official has announced. The new policy will alarm hundreds of thousands of British expatriates who live and have […]
‘Kerry, Karzai Bury Hatchet in Kabul Meeting’
March 26th, 2013Sequence of events: 1) 10 March 2013, Karzai Says Taliban ‘In Service to America’: “My guess is that Karzai probably perceives that he’s not getting a big enough cut of the opium pie.” 2) 12 March 2013, Over 20 Tons of Heroin Seized in Afghanistan: “Can you hear me now?” 3) 25 March 2013: John […]
Shocker: CIA Airlifting Weapons to Syrian Rebels
March 25th, 2013Via: New York Times: With help from the C.I.A., Arab governments and Turkey have sharply increased their military aid to Syria’s opposition fighters in recent months, expanding a secret airlift of arms and equipment for the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, according to air traffic data, interviews with officials in several countries and the accounts […]
CYPRUS: UP TO 40% THEFT FROM BANK ACCOUNTS
March 25th, 2013Update: No Levies on Accounts with Balances Below €100,000 Via: Guardian / Liveblog: Jeroen Dijsselbloem: “I would l like to emphasis that none of these measures will affect desposits below €100,000.” — Confirmation and details are not out. BBC is going with the following right now. Via: BBC: Eurozone finance ministers have agreed a deal […]
