Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
New And Improved FBI Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide, Now With Even Fewer 4th Amendment Protections
June 13th, 2011Via: New York Times: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention. … Some of the most notable changes apply to the […]
NSA Style Guide
June 13th, 2011Via: Government Attic: National Security Agency (NSA) SIGINT Reporter’s Style and Usage Manual, 2010 – [13-Jun-2011] NSA SIGINT Style Manual 2010
U.S. Underwrites Internet Detour Around Censors
June 13th, 2011Mmm hmm. See: The American Culture Bomb: Satire from the Onion and a Long Forgotten U.S. Army War College Essay There will be no peace. At any given moment for the rest of our lifetimes, there will be multiple conflicts in mutating forms around the globe. Violent conflict will dominate the headlines, but cultural and […]
‘The War You Don’t See’: A Film You Won’t See — An Open Letter to Noam Chomsky and the General Public
June 13th, 2011Via: Common Dreams: Dear Noam, I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, ‘The War You Don’t See‘, and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in […]
Italian Politician ‘Bloodied’ Sneaking Into Bilderberg Hotel
June 12th, 2011Via: TheLocal: Italian MEP Mario Borghezio was reportedly given a bloody nose on Thursday as he attempted to sneak into the secretive Bilderberg conference in St. Moritz. Borghezio, of right-wing Italian party Lega Nord, was reportedly with another Italian as he attempted to infiltrate the luxury Suvretta House hotel where the conference is taking place. […]
Cedar Falls Demands Keys to All Commercial Properties (Including Rental Homes and Apartments) to Be Placed in Lock Boxes That City Employees Can Access
June 12th, 2011Research Credit: EB
School Surveillance: How Big Brother Spies On Pupils
June 11th, 2011Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse by Annette Fuentes Via: Guardian: ‘Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that increasingly have come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased […]
Tennessee Law Bans Posting Images that ‘Cause Emotional Distress’
June 10th, 2011Via: Ars Technica: A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to “transmit or display an image” online that is likely to “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress” to someone who sees it. Violations can get you almost a year in jail time or up to $2500 in fines. The Tennessee legislature has been busy […]
The New, NEW Transparency: NSA Declassifies 200 Year-Old Book
June 10th, 2011Via: Wired: A cryptology instruction book… 202 years old. A photograph of the U.S. Army’s cypher bureau… from 1919. A breakdown of Russian electoral districts… circa 1948. Schematics for a magnetic tape memory system… nearly half a century old. These are just some of the items that, had you seen them, would have irreparably damaged […]
Russia Halves Belarus Power Supply Over Unpaid Bills
June 10th, 2011Via: BBC: Moscow has halved electricity supplies to Belarus over unpaid bills, piling on pressure for it to privatise lucrative assets. A source at Russia’s energy export monopoly said supplies – which account for 10% of the country’s needs – might stop completely on 19 June. Confirming the cut, Belarus said it owed $54m (£33m). […]
