Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Israel Cloned Travelers’ Passports to Carry Out Assassination
March 24th, 2010Via: Guardian: Passing through Israel’s Ben Gurion airport, a few miles east of Tel Aviv, is a unique experience no first-time visitor is likely to forget. It represents the pinnacle of modern aviation security. Baggage is passed through giant, state-of-the-art machines, and travellers – both arriving and leaving – are frequently subjected to lengthy, personal […]
Airport Device Follows Fliers’ Phones
March 23rd, 2010Via: USA Today: Today’s smartphones and PDAs could have a new use in the nation’s airports: helping passengers avoid long lines at security checkpoints. The Transportation Security Administration is looking at installing devices in airports that home in and detect personal electronic equipment. The aim is to track how long people are stuck in security […]
British Government Ran Intelligence Unit Outside of Military Command Structure
March 23rd, 2010In the Independent article below, we learn that victims were hooded and deprived of sleep. In other words, this is a limited hangout that’s covering for something else. Like what? I have no idea, but what ever happened to the SAS operators who dressed like Arabs and shot at Iraqi police? Look at what the […]
China Condemns Decision by Google to Lift Censorship
March 23rd, 2010How diabolical must a regime be for Google to look like the good guy? Via: BBC: China has said Google’s move to stop censoring search results is “totally wrong” and accused it of breaking a promise made when it launched in China. The US giant is redirecting users in mainland China to its unrestricted Hong […]
Waihopai Three Acquitted
March 19th, 2010On a gut level, I’m glad that the Waihopai three were acquitted. I find New Zealand’s subservient participation in the AUSUSUKs military adventures and surveillance fetishes repellent. On a logical level, though, this appears to indicate that if an accused party can convince a jury that they were acting in the interests of the “greater […]
Biden in Israel: A Gift of Broken Glass and More Weirdness
March 17th, 2010* Queue Twilight Zone Music * Via: Reuters: In the region where symbolism may matter most, the signs for U.S. Vice President Joe Biden’s visit were inauspicious. First Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak cancelled talks in Cairo and flew to hospital for gallbladder surgery. Then came an Israeli gift of broken glass and an eerie power […]
Google Appears to Drop Censorship in China
March 16th, 2010Via: MSNBC: Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and regional independence movements could all be accessed through Google’s Chinese search engine Tuesday, after the company said it would no longer abide by Beijing’s censorship rules. Despite a report in the China Daily that Google China was still filtering […]
Time Magazine: “What if the millions of so-called dropouts are onto something?”
March 16th, 2010I don’t agree with a lot of the woowoo in this article [cheap fuel cells powering off grid shanty towns?], but it’s still a good article and it describes a lot of things that Becky and I implemented in our own lives years ago. You’re probably sick of seeing this repeated on Cryptogon, over and […]
PayPal Apologizes to Cryptome
March 16th, 2010Via: Cryptome: From: “Muller, John” jmuller[at]paypal.com To: “cryptome[at]earthlink.net” cryptome[at]earthlink.net Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:29:17 -0700 Subject: PayPal Dear Mr. Young: I wanted to reach out and apologize for PayPal’s restriction of Cryptome’s account. As the head of PayPal’s legal department, I am responsible for the policies that govern the use of our service. While […]
