Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
And Now… J.P. Morgan’s Hunt for Afghan Gold
May 18th, 2011Ultimately, victory will mean that Afghanistan becomes pacified in a manner that facilities effortless corporate rape. The purpose of the U.S. military is to tie the victim down. Then, the people in the suits step into the room… —The Runaway General J.P. Morgan bankers, who just happen to be former British SAS members, are working […]
Avoid Gate Grope, Become a ‘Trusted Traveler’
May 18th, 2011Via: USA Today: Upset with being frisked and having a naked image taken of you at airports? Increasingly, stringent air security screening methods such as these are under question. And they’re not just being questioned by travelers upset at being groped. A consensus is building among the airline industry, business and leisure travel groups and […]
NATO in Libya: Besides the Oil, Is It Also a Gold Robbery?
May 17th, 2011Pookie let me know about issue #5 of The Gold Standard (.pdf), which includes an interesting comment from this Wall Street Journal piece about Gaddafi’s vast gold holdings. The comment is no longer posted at the Wall Street Journal: PvC from Belgium comments on Wall Street Journal Blog: “It seems to me that the war […]
The Secret Sharer
May 17th, 2011Yet again, we learn that there was a desire to generate dossiers on people that, besides the Internet, financial transactions and telephone surveillance data, included physical tracking information. Bill Binney, the NSA employee who led the team that created the ThinThread system (described below), also alleges that all email “transmitted in America” is archived and […]
Police Can Now Knock On Your Door, Listen for Sounds Suggesting Evidence Is Being Destroyed (Whatever That Means), and Then Break In—No Warrant Necessary
May 17th, 2011Game over. Via: Los Angeles Times: The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision in a Kentucky case, says police officers who loudly knock on a door in search of illegal drugs and then hear sounds suggesting evidence is being destroyed may break down the door and enter without a search warrant. The Supreme Court on […]
‘We are 100% certain that governments will start banning bitcoins in the next 12 to 18 months.’
May 16th, 2011Well, they can’t stop people from transferring bitcoins to each other. As long as the Internet exists, bitcoins can be sent and received around the world. The governments, however, can shut down exchanges that handle national fiat currencies in and out of bitcoins. I wonder if people will continue to be use bitcoin after the […]
UAE Hires Blackwater to Establish 800-Member Mercenary Battalion
May 16th, 2011Via: Washington Post: The crown prince of Abu Dhabi has hired the founder of the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide to set up an 800-member battalion of foreign troops for the United Arab Emirates, the New York Times reported Sunday. The Times said it obtained documents that showed that the unit being formed by Erik […]
13 Palestinians Killed During Protests Along Israel’s Borders
May 16th, 2011Do you really think that this was coordinated over open social networks and Israel didn’t know about it? I don’t know what the point of this is, but there is no chance that Israel was “surprised” by it. Via: Toronto Star: The popular uprisings that swept the Mideast this year reached Israel’s doorstep Sunday as […]
Britain: Police Buy Software to Map Suspects’ Digital Movements
May 12th, 2011Flashback: MAIN CORE Via: Guardian: Britain’s largest police force is using software that can map nearly every move suspects and their associates make in the digital world, prompting an outcry from civil liberties groups. The Metropolitan police has bought Geotime, a security programme used by the US military, which shows an individual’s movements and communications […]
New Congressional Legislation Gives President Unchecked War Power
May 12th, 2011Mmm hmm. Presidential War Power by Louis Fisher Via: ACLU: Tucked inside the National Defense Authorization Act, being marked up by the House Armed Services Committee this week, is a hugely important provision that hasn’t been getting a lot of attention — a brand new authorization for a worldwide war. This stealth provision was added […]
