Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Homeland Security Wants to Spy on 4 Square Miles at Once
January 24th, 2012Via: Wired: It’s not just for the Afghanistan and Iraq wars anymore. The Department of Homeland Security is interested in a camera package that can peek in on almost four square miles of (constitutionally protected) American territory for long, long stretches of time. Homeland Security doesn’t have a particular system in mind. Right now, it’s […]
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul Detained by TSA; Refused Pat Down
January 23rd, 2012Via: WLWT: GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul said his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, has been detained by security at the Nashville airport. “My son Rand is currently being detained by the TSA at the Nashville Airport. I’ll share more details as the situation unfolds,” the elder Paul posted on his Facebook page. Sen. Paul’s […]
The Age of Transitions
January 23rd, 2012Via: The Age of Transitions:
Iraq Becoming ‘Police State’, Says Rights Group
January 23rd, 2012Meet the new boss… Via: AFP: Iraq is falling back into authoritarianism and headed towards becoming a police state, despite US claims that it has helped establish democracy in the country, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. The criticism from the New York-based HRW, which the government quickly disputed, comes less than a year after […]
Video from Inside Underground Government Food Storage Facility [???]
January 22nd, 2012Update: It’s Probably Springfield Underground Cryptogon reader goldenmudd posted a link to Springfield Underground. Case closed, as far as I’m concerned. —End Update— Update: SubTropolis? Several people are emailing to say that this is SubTropolis. And, yes, the video title mentions SubTropolis. But if you look at the Wikipedia entry for SubTropolis, you’ll find this: […]
Britain: Undercover Police Had Children with Activists
January 22nd, 2012Via: Guardian: Two undercover police officers secretly fathered children with political campaigners they had been sent to spy on and later disappeared completely from the lives of their offspring, the Guardian can reveal. In both cases, the children have grown up not knowing that their biological fathers – whom they have not seen in decades […]
The Roots of Bain Capital in El Salvador’s Civil War
January 22nd, 2012Via: Salon: A significant portion of the seed money that created Mitt Romney’s private equity firm, Bain Capital, was provided by wealthy oligarchs from El Salvador, including members of a family with a relative who allegedly financed rightist groups that used death squads during the country’s bloody civil war in the 1980s Bain, the source […]
Former Liberian Dictator Charles Taylor Worked for CIA
January 22nd, 2012Via: Boston Herald: When Charles G. Taylor tied bed sheets together to escape from a second-floor window at the Plymouth House of Correction on Sept. 15, 1985, he was more than a fugitive trying to avoid extradition. He was a sought-after source for American intelligence. After a quarter-century of silence, the US government has confirmed […]
Air Force’s Top Brain Wants a ‘Social Radar’ to ‘See Into Hearts and Minds’
January 20th, 2012Another one for your bulging For-Fuck’s-Sake-Roll-Eyes file folder. Via: Wired: Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to build better satellites or make jets go insanely fast. Which makes Dr. Mark Maybury, today’s chief scientist, a bit of an outlier. He’d like to build a set of […]
Pentagon-Funded ‘Fun to Play’ Games Would Crowdsource Weapons Testing
January 20th, 2012Via: Nextgov: The Pentagon plans to fork over $32 million to develop “fun to play” computer games that can refine the way weapons systems are tested to ensure they are free from software errors and security bugs, according to a Defense Department solicitation. The goal is to create puzzles that are “intuitively understandable by ordinary […]
