Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
U.S. Government’s Takedown of Megaupload ‘Sets a Terrifying Precedent’
January 20th, 2012Of course, the sycophantic New Zealand government went along with Uncle’s whims. Via: AP: One of the world’s most popular file-sharing sites was shut down Thursday, and its founder and several company officials were accused of facilitating millions of illegal downloads of films, music and other content. A federal indictment accused Megaupload.com of costing copyright […]
TSA Admits Wrongdoing in Cases of Two Elderly Woman Who Claim They Were Strip-Searched
January 19th, 2012Via: New York Daily News: In an about-face, the feds have admitted wrongdoing in the cases of two elderly women who say they were strip-searched at Kennedy Airport by overzealous screeners. Federal officials had initially insisted that all “screening procedures were followed” after Ruth Sherman, 89, and Lenore Zimmerman, 85, went public with separate accounts […]
Researchers Drilling Thousands of Meters Into Frozen Antarctic Lake
January 19th, 2012Via: Science Magazine: Along with all the festivities surrounding the anniversary of explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s reaching the South Pole on 17 January 1912, Antarctic researchers are at the edge of their seats waiting for news that will merit another celebration. The centennial coincides with an expected new landmark: This week, a Russian team drilling […]
AMA Recommends Compulsory Participation in Vaccine Trials
January 18th, 2012You’ll love this one. Via: American Medical Association: In recent decades there has been a distressing decline in the numbers of healthy volunteers who participate in clinical trials, a decline that has the potential to become a key rate-limiting factor in vaccine development. … If progression of promising vaccines from the lab to the clinic […]
SOPA & PIPA Internet Protest
January 18th, 2012Via: American Censorship: On Wednesday Jan. 18th thousands of sites will go dark to protest SOPA & PIPA, two US bills racing through Congress that threaten prosperity, online security, and freedom of expression.
New York Police Will Scan Pedestrians for Concealed Weapons
January 18th, 2012Via: CBS News: The NYPD is stepping up their war against illegal guns, with a new tool that could detect weapons on someone as they walk down the street. But is it violating your right to privacy? Police, along with the U.S. Department of Defense, are researching new technology in a scanner placed on police […]
NZ Asset Sales Policy Began On Wall Street
January 18th, 2012Both National and Labour are clear and present dangers to New Zealand. National’s goal is sell our country’s assets to Australia and China. Labour’s goal is get us saddled with debt to those country’s banks. In other words, the ultimate goal of both of the main parties is to sell us out, to make us […]
TSA Screeners Stole $40K from NY Luggage
January 17th, 2012Via: Natural News: Any normal person found guilty of stealing $40,000 from, say, a bank or an employer, would likely be sentenced to at least five years of prison. But when you work for the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), you can expect to be given special legal treatment and sent on your way. The […]
TSA to Test Airport Scanner Operators for Radiation Exposure
January 16th, 2012Via: Los Angeles Times: After years of rebuffing health concerns over airport scanners, the Transportation Security Administration plans to conduct new tests on the potential radiation exposure from the machines at more than 100 airports nationwide. But the TSA does not plan to retest the machines or passengers. Instead, the agency plans to test its […]
UCSF Professor: “Society Will Pay a Huge Price in Cancer” Because of DHS Full Vehicle X-Ray Machines
January 16th, 2012Via: Cnet: Internal Homeland Security documents describing specifications for border-crossing scanners, which emit gamma or X-ray radiation to probe vehicles and their occupants, are raising new health and privacy concerns, CNET has learned. Even though a public outcry has prompted Homeland Security to move away from adding X-ray machines to airports–it purchased 300 body scanners […]
