Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category

« Previous PageNext Page »

Toxic Clenbuterol in Chinese and Mexican Meat

July 29th, 2012

Via: CBC: Fearing tainted meat, China’s women’s volleyball team has stuck to a strict vegetarian diet for the last three weeks — which the team’s coach is now blaming for his athletes’ abysmal performance. The Chinese team lost four of five matches at a world tournament that ended Sunday in Ningbo, China, falling to the […]

Cryptocat

July 28th, 2012

Out of my 4 DHS interrogations in the past 3 weeks, it’s the first time I’m asked about Cryptocat crypto and my passport is confiscated. —Nadim Kobeissi From what I’ve read so far, Cryptocat looks interesting, mainly because it might be usable by regular computer users. Cryptogon is read by many people with multiple propellers […]

Basketball Players On a DLR Train: All Seeing Eye in British Government Transportation Advisory for 2012 Olympics

July 28th, 2012

Check out the tattoo on the right arm of the standing basketball player. Via: Get Ahead of the Games – Basketball Players On a DLR Train (.pdf): This website has been developed by Transport for London on behalf of the Olympic Delivery Authority, London 2012, the Department for Transport, the Highways Agency, National Rail and […]

CIA Says No Problem with Its NYPD Partnership

July 27th, 2012

Via: AP: The CIA said Friday its internal watchdog found nothing wrong with the spy agency’s close partnership with the New York Police Department. The agency’s inspector general concluded that no laws were broken and there was “no evidence that any part of the agency’s support to the NYPD constituted ‘domestic spying’,” CIA spokesman Preston […]

Barrels of Human Fetuses Found In Russian Forest

July 26th, 2012

Via: AP: Villagers in Russia’s south Urals region have stumbled upon a gruesome discovery – four barrels left in a forest containing 248 human fetuses, prompting an official probe, officials said Tuesday. Police in the Sverdlovsk region said the fetuses, preserved in formaldehyde, were kept in barrels with tags marked with surnames and numbers. The […]

U.S. Government Health Journal: Fluoride Lowers IQ

July 26th, 2012

Via: Environmental Health Perspectives: Thus, children in high fluoride areas had significantly lower IQ scores than those who lived in low fluoride areas. Related: The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson

Tell-All Telephone

July 26th, 2012

Anyone who has read Cryptogon over the last several years knows that it’s not as bad as the following piece suggests; it’s actually much worse. Via: Zeit Online: Green party politician Malte Spitz sued to have German telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom hand over six months of his phone data that he then made available to […]

Media Farce: ‘Reporters’ Consult with Regime Censors Before Publishing Stories

July 24th, 2012

Via: New York Times: They are sent by e-mail from the Obama headquarters in Chicago to reporters who have interviewed campaign officials under one major condition: the press office has veto power over what statements can be quoted and attributed by name. Most reporters, desperate to pick the brains of the president’s top strategists, grudgingly […]

VA Must Disclose Documents to MK-ULTRA Victims

July 24th, 2012

Via: Courthouse News Service: Veterans won another court order requiring the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to hand over more documents about its Cold War-era drug experiments on thousands of Vietnam veterans. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in Oakland, Calif., said the documents requested were “squarely relevant” to the claim that the government failed […]

DNI Admits FISA Surveillance Violated the 4th Amendment

July 23rd, 2012

Shocker. Via: Wired: The head of the U.S. government’s vast spying apparatus has conceded that recent surveillance efforts on at least one occasion violated the Constitutional prohibitions on unlawful search and seizure. The admission comes in a letter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassifying statements that a top U.S. Senator wished […]

« Previous PageNext Page »