Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Iraq to Buy U.S. Warplanes Worth Around $3 Billion
September 27th, 2011Mmm hmm. Via: Reuters: Iraq has signed a contract to buy 18 Lockheed Martin F-16 warplanes to bolster its air force, an adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Monday. The value of the deal was not immediately known, but a senior U.S. military official said recently the offer on the table for the Iraqi […]
Will Robots Steal Your Job?
September 27th, 2011Via: Slate: They might not know it yet, but some of the most educated workers in the nation are engaged in a fierce battle with machines. As computers get better at processing and understanding language and at approximating human problem-solving skills, they’re putting a number of professions in peril. Those at risk include doctors, lawyers, […]
‘Firefly’ and Anti-Fascism Posters Get Professor Threatened with Criminal Charges on University of Wisconsin Campus
September 26th, 2011Via: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education: A professor has been censored twice, reported to the “threat assessment team,” and threatened with criminal charges because of satirical postings on his office door. Campus police at the University of Wisconsin–Stout (UWS) censored theater professor James Miller’s poster depicting a quotation from actor Nathan Fillion’s character in […]
49% of Americans Believe Federal Government “Poses an Immediate Threat to the Rights and Freedoms of Ordinary Citizens”
September 26th, 2011Via: Gallup: A record-high 81% of Americans are dissatisfied with the way the country is being governed, adding to negativity that has been building over the past 10 years. … The findings are from Gallup’s annual Governance survey, updated Sept. 8-11, 2011. The same poll shows record or near-record criticism of Congress, elected officials, government […]
The Federal Reserve Plans to Identify “Key Bloggers” and Monitor Billions of Conversations About the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, Forums and Blogs
September 26th, 2011Is there are Federal Reserve link for this document? Here’s the document that ZeroHedge has produced: Sentiment Analysis And Social Media MonitoringSolution RFP Request for Proposal (Event-6994) Event Information Description: Federal Reserve Bank of New York (“FRBNY”) is extending to suppliers an invitation to participate in an Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution RFP […]
Fox News Deletes ‘Who Won the Debate?’ Poll Page After Ron Paul Wins
September 25th, 2011Update: You Can Actually Embed the Poll On Your Own Site—If You Want HAHAHA. Fox News. What a bunch of idiots. Code Someone will eventually sober up and take it down, but for now, it works. —End Update— Hilariously, the poll, originally located here, is still accessible via Google cache. It’s actually a polldaddy.com poll, […]
U.S. Has Been Supplying Israel with Bunker-Busting Bombs Since 2009
September 25th, 2011Via: New York Times: The Obama administration has quietly supplied Israel with bombs capable of destroying buried targets, like terrorists’ arms caches or perhaps sites in Iran suspected of being part of that nation’s nuclear weapons program, American officials said Friday. The administration’s transfer of bunker-busting bombs, first reported in an online article by Newsweek, […]
Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets
September 25th, 2011This is great, but don’t forget the context: U.S. Has Secret Tools to Force Internet on Dictators U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors The Sock Puppet Industrial Complex: U.S. Trains ‘Activists’ to Evade Security Forces Think outside the box, by all means. Just don’t be surprised when you find another box. Via: Chronicle of Higher […]
Google Shuts Down ActivistPost.com
September 24th, 2011Via: Before It’s News: At mid-day on Friday, September 23, 2011, the popular alternative news blog, ActivistPost.com, was taken offline. Activist Post receives over one million views per month and has been hosted by Google’s Blogger since its founding in June 2010. “We remain puzzled as to why Activist Post was erased completely by Google,” […]
‘Stingray’ Mobile Phone Tracking System
September 23rd, 2011Via: Wall Street Journal (TinyPaste): For more than a year, federal authorities pursued a man they called simply “the Hacker.” Only after using a little known cellphone-tracking device—a stingray—were they able to zero in on a California home and make the arrest. Stingrays are designed to locate a mobile phone even when it’s not being […]
