Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Bill Would Require Government and Private Sector to Require Minimum Cybsersecurity Standards for Devices that Connect to the Internet
December 16th, 2010More specifically, we need to reengineer the Internet to make attribution, geolocation, intelligence analysis and impact assessment — who did it, from where, why and what was the result — more manageable. —Mike McConnell, VP Booz Allen Hamilton It’s like the man says at the blog below, “Here it comes.” Via: Economic Policy Journal: Sen. […]
YouTube Gives Users Ability To Flag Content That ‘Promotes Terrorism’
December 16th, 2010Via: Huffington Post: In response to concerns it’s become a means of radical promotion, YouTube has now added an option for flagging content that is terrorist in nature. When you flag a video as inappropriate, “promotes terrorism” now appears as an option under the “violent or repulsive content” category on the Google-owned website (see screenshot […]
U.S. Army to Issue Smartphones to All Soldiers
December 16th, 2010You’ll love this. Via: USA Today: The Army wants to issue every soldier an iPhone or Android cellphone — it could be a soldier’s choice. And to top it off, the Army wants to pay your monthly phone bill. To most soldiers, it sounds almost too good to be true, but it’s real, said Lt. […]
To Conquer Wind Power, China Writes the Rules
December 15th, 2010Via: New York Times: Judging by the din at its factory here one recent day, the Spanish company Gamesa may seem to be a thriving player in the Chinese wind energy industry it helped create. But Gamesa has learned the hard way, as other foreign manufacturers have, that competing for China’s lucrative business means playing […]
U.S. Vulnerable to Rare Earth Shortages
December 15th, 2010Via: New York Times: The United States is too reliant on China for minerals crucial to new clean energy technologies, making the American economy vulnerable to shortages of materials needed for a range of green products — from compact fluorescent light bulbs to electric cars to giant wind turbines. So warns a detailed report to […]
U.S. Appoints First Cyber Warfare General
December 15th, 2010Via: Guardian: The US military has appointed its first senior general to direct cyber warfare – despite fears that the move marks another stage in the militarisation of cyberspace. The newly promoted four-star general, Keith Alexander, takes charge of the Pentagon’s ambitious and controversial new Cyber Command, designed to conduct virtual combat across the world’s […]
Next House Finance Chairman Declares: Regulators Exist to Serve the Banks
December 14th, 2010Via: Raw Story: Alabama Republican Spencer Bachus, the incoming chairman of the House banking committee, suggested Congress and federal regulators should play a subservient role with banks. “In Washington, the view is that the banks are to be regulated, and my view is that Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks,” Bachus […]
Grand Compromise or Great Conspiracy?
December 14th, 2010Via: Money and Markets: When Americans went to the polls last month, many thought they were voting for a return of fiscal sanity in Washington. And with fiscal sanity, we’d have far better assurance of bond-market stability. Instead, three houses of ill repute — two on Capitol Hill and one on Pennsylvania Avenue — are […]
Scientist Warns of Dire Consequences with Widespread Use of Glyphosate (RoundUp)
December 14th, 2010Grim. Via: Organic Consumers: In a paper published in the European Journal of Agronomy in October 2009, Huber and co-author G.S. Johal, from Purdue’s department of botany and plant pathology, state that the widespread use of glyphosate that we see today in agriculture in the United States can “significantly increase the severity of various plant […]
Federal Judge Strikes Down Obama Administration’s Requirement that All Americans Buy Health Insurance
December 14th, 2010Via: USA Today: A federal judge in Virginia has struck down the Obama administration’s requirement that all Americans buy health insurance, a key provision in the landmark health care bill that the president signed in March. Today’s ruling, if upheld, could undercut the entire health care plan, though U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson wrote that […]
