Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
U.S. Government Storing Information on Americans in Vast Surveillance Database
December 20th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation’s history, collects, stores […]
Britain May Require ISPs to Block Internet Pornography by Default
December 20th, 2010I wonder how long it will take for other categories of sites to be added to this blacklist? Via: IT Pro Portal: The government has urged UK Internet service providers to block pornographic websites in order to help protect children. UK communications minister Ed Vaizey is expected to meet representatives from UK ISPs BT, TalkTalk […]
Cable Search: Full Text Search of Released Wikileaks State Department Documents
December 20th, 2010Cable Search is automatically adding documents as WikiLeaks makes them available. Via: cablesearch.org: CABLESEARCH is an attempt for an user friendly search engine of already published documents from Wikileaks. Research Credit: RB
Pfizer Targeted Nigerian Attorney General to Undermine Suit Over Fatal Drug Tests
December 17th, 2010Via: Democracy Now: Diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer hired investigators to find evidence of corruption against the Nigerian attorney general to pressure him to drop a $6 billion lawsuit over fraudulent drug tests on Nigerian children. Researchers did not obtain signed consent forms, and medical personnel said Pfizer did not […]
CIA Gave Torturers $5 Million Legal Shield
December 17th, 2010Via: AP: The CIA agreed to cover at least $5 million in legal fees for two contractors who were the architects of the agency’s interrogation program and personally conducted dozens of waterboarding sessions on terror detainees, former U.S. officials said. The secret agreement means taxpayers are paying to defend the men in a federal investigation […]
There Are Now Enough Vacant Properties In China To House Over Half Of America
December 17th, 2010Via: Business Insider: Property stocks in China were weak today due to media reports that the Beijing and Shanghai authorities were investigating the high vacancy rate for Chinese property. Markets are worried they’ll be shocked by what they discover and clamp down on speculation even harder than they have. How large might the vacancy problem […]
We Briefly Interrupt the Rubber Hose Beatings…
December 17th, 2010Court Rebuffs Obama on Warrantless Cell-Site Tracking Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendment Context: The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE Mark Klein on AT&T/NSA Domestic Surveillance Program: “The NSA is Getting Everything.” Ship of Fools by Ted Kaczynski
Washington, DC Subway Police to Begin Random Bag Checks
December 17th, 2010Via: Reuters: Officers will start random bag inspections on the sprawling Washington subway system, the Washington Metro Transit Police said on Thursday, a week after a man was arrested for making bomb threats to the rail system. Metrorail police officers plan to randomly select bags before passengers enter subway stations and they will swab them […]
‘9/11 on Steroids’ Dry Run Shows Urban Nuke Attack ‘A Survivable Event’
December 16th, 2010Mmm hmm. Via: USA Today: The plotters decided to trigger their bomb in Los Angeles during the morning rush, at a metro station a stone’s throw from Universal Studios and the set where Steven Spielberg filmed scenes from “War of the Worlds.” This was no ordinary explosive. It was a 10-kiloton nuclear device packing roughly […]
Hope and Change: Obama Regime Hiring Mercenaries ‘At a Rate That Would Make Bush Blush’
December 16th, 2010Via: Daily Beast: Without much notice or debate, the Obama administration has greatly expanded the outsourcing of key parts of the U.S.-led counterinsurgency wars in the Middle East and Africa, and as a result, for its secretive air war and special operations missions around the world, the U.S. has become increasingly reliant on a new […]
