Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
TSA Chatdowns
August 26th, 2012Via: The Blaze: Can the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) pull you out of line without any rational reason, quiz you on where you are going and why? And if you choose not to answer, does that make you “hostile?” One newspaper writer from the Midwest found out the answers to those questions on Monday when […]
Child Porn, Coke Smuggling: Hundreds of DHS Employees Arrested Last Year
August 23rd, 2012Via: Wired: Border Patrol agents smuggling weed and coke. Immigration agents forging documents and robbing drug dealers. TSA employees caught with child porn. Those are just a few of the crimes perpetrated by Department of Homeland Security employees in just the past year. Since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security nearly a decade […]
U.S. Slips to 47th in Press Freedom Index
August 22nd, 2012Via: Reporters Without Borders: The United States (47th) also owed its fall of 27 places to the many arrests of journalist covering Occupy Wall Street protests.
‘Activist’ Richard Aoki: FBI Informant
August 21st, 2012Via: San Francisco Chronicle: The man who gave the Black Panther Party some of its first firearms and weapons training – which preceded fatal shootouts with Oakland police in the turbulent 1960s – was an undercover FBI informer, according to a former bureau agent and an FBI report. One of the Bay Area’s most prominent […]
Britain: Secret Court Hearings
August 20th, 2012Via: Guardian: The government’s plan to establish a new generation of secret courts has sparked fresh controversy after it emerged that the fact that a hearing is to be held behind closed doors may itself be kept secret. During House of Lords debates, it was disclosed that a government application for a court to sit […]
Suicide of Deloitte Partner Daniel Pirron Linked to Standard Chartered’s Iran Scandal
August 19th, 2012Via: Telegraph: The family of a senior partner at Deloitte has called for answers after he apparently committed suicide days after the auditing firm was linked to the Standard Chartered Iran dollar trades scandal. Daniel Pirron, a partner in Delloite’s key General Counsel’s office in New York, was found dead in a car park near […]
Genetically Engineering ‘Ethical’ Babies Is a Moral Obligation, Says Oxford Professor
August 18th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in practical ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice to screen out personality flaws in their children as it meant they were then […]
Former U.S. Marine, Brandon Raub, Arrested and Taken to Mental Hospital for Facebook Posts
August 18th, 2012Circuit Court Orders Brandon Raub Released, Dismisses Case Against Marine Arrested, Detained in Veterans Admin. Psych Ward over Political Views, Song Lyrics Posted on Facebook Via: The Rutherford Institute: In an unexpected ruling handed down today by Circuit Court Judge Allan Sharrett, the judge dismissed the government’s case against Brandon Raub, the Marine who was […]
Baromney 2012
August 17th, 2012Via: End of the American Dream: What a depressing choice the American people are being presented with this year. We are at a point in our history where we desperately need a change of direction in the White House, and we are guaranteed that we are not going to get it. The Democrats are running […]
Facebook Now Actually Deleting Photos After Users Delete Them?
August 17th, 2012Breaking URLs is not “confirmation” that Facebook is deleting the data. It’s confirmation that the data isn’t accessible from the Internet. This says zippo about what they’re actually doing with the data. I suppose it’s possible that Facebook is deleting the data, but claiming that the data was deleted because it’s not accessible is a […]
