Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Putin Foe, Exiled Russian Oligarch Found Dead in UK Home
March 24th, 2013Via: CNN: Investigators are searching the London area home where the body of former Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky was found for possible chemical, radiological or biological evidence, police said in a statement released early Sunday. Circumstances surrounding the death of Berezovsky, one of the most politically influential of Russia’s oligarchs until a bitter falling out […]
Academia Is Eating Its Young
March 24th, 2013Don’t forget the fraud: Doubts About Johns Hopkins Research Have Gone Unanswered Scientific Fraud: ‘Nobody Had Noticed the Whole Thing Was Rotten’ American Society for Microbiology: ‘Has Modern Science Become Dysfunctional?’ Via: Press Button, Go Boink: It’s a difficult time for anyone in Academia. From teaching, to funding, to publishing, to translating research, to intellectual […]
Instead of Closing, Gitmo to Receive Major Upgrades
March 23rd, 2013Via: Antiwar: It was supposed to be closed by now, indeed President Obama promised to have it closed four years ago. but with Guantanamo Bay still there, and still full of detainees who the administration now seems comfortable keeping forever without charges or a trial, it is facing a “overhaul.” Pentagon officials say that a […]
Dylan Ratigan Quits MSNBC, Help Vets Create Network of Organic Hydroponic Farms
March 22nd, 2013Via: Dylan Ratigan: If you are reading this, you likely know I left a highly-successful, self-titled show at MSNBC last June in search of meaning and purpose in my work and life. I had lost both after 18 years in Manhattan and the chaos surrounding the hollow political debates permeating America’s media and politics. After […]
Elizabeth Warren: ‘How Many Billions Have To Be Laundered For Drug Lords Before We Consider Shutting Down A Bank?’
March 22nd, 2013Via: Daily Bail: During Senate testimony Liz Warren asks how much drug-laundered money it takes before banking regulators consider shutting down a bank. Hilarity ensues. And no one ever answers the question. Witnesses were: David Cohen, Sec. for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, U.S. Treasury Thomas Curry, Comptroller, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Jerome […]
Homeland Security Will Scan More Private Web Traffic and Email
March 22nd, 2013Via: Reuters: The U.S. government is expanding a cybersecurity program that scans Internet traffic headed into and out of defense contractors to include far more of the country’s private, civilian-run infrastructure. As a result, more private sector employees than ever before, including those at big banks, utilities and key transportation companies, will have their emails […]
CIA CTO: ‘We Fundamentally Try To Collect Everything And Hang On To It Forever’
March 21st, 2013Via: Huffington Post: The CIA’s chief technology officer outlined the agency’s endless appetite for data in a far-ranging speech on Wednesday. Speaking before a crowd of tech geeks at GigaOM’s Structure:Data conference in New York City, CTO Ira “Gus” Hunt said that the world is increasingly awash in information from text messages, tweets, and videos […]
Majoring in Drones: Higher Ed Embraces Unmanned Aircraft
March 20th, 2013Via: Time: Curriculums and research projects related to drones are cropping up at both large universities and community colleges across the country. In a list of 81 publicly funded entities that have applied for a certificate of authorization to fly drones from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), more than a third are colleges, according to […]
Ye Olde Sneaker Net: Cubans Evade Censorship by Exchanging Computer Memory Sticks
March 20th, 2013Via: McClatchy: Dissident Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez on Saturday told newspaper publishers from around the Western Hemisphere that “nothing is changing” in Cuba’s ossified political system and that “the situation of press freedom in my country is calamitous.” But Sanchez said underground blogs, digital portals and illicit e-magazines proliferate, passed around on removable computer drives […]
Defense Contractor Allegedly Compromised by Honey Trap
March 20th, 2013Via: ABC: A defense contractor and former U.S. Army officer has been charged with communicating national defense secrets to a 27-year-old Chinese national with whom he had a romantic relationship. According to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court Monday in Hawaii, Benjamin Pierce Bishop, 59, who held a top secret clearance, transmitted “national defense […]
