Archive for the 'Elite' Category
Australia: Greens Attempt to Access Government’s Secret Discussions On Internet Piracy
March 22nd, 2012Via: Delimiter: The Australian Greens have filed a motion in the Senate requesting that the Government release documents regarding its closed door meetings on Internet piracy which the Attorney-General’s Department has blocked from being released under Freedom of Information laws. On 8 February this year, major Australian ISPs sat down with the representatives of the […]
‘Effective World Government Will Be Needed to Stave Off Climate Catastrophe’
March 22nd, 2012Mmm hmm. Via: Scientific American: To be effective, a new set of institutions would have to be imbued with heavy-handed, transnational enforcement powers. There would have to be consideration of some way of embracing head-in-the-cloud answers to social problems that are usually dismissed by policymakers as academic naivete. In principle, species-wide alteration in basic human […]
Using Mobile Phone User Location Data for ‘Crowd (Soft) Control’
March 18th, 2012shewhomeasures.com: Via: PhysOrg: Eighty-eight percent of Americans now own a cell phone, forming a massive network that offers scientists a wealth of information and an infinite number of new applications. With the help of these phone users — and their devices’ cameras, audio recorders, and other features — researchers envision endless possibilities for gathering huge […]
Former Senior U.S. Intelligence Official and Current Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President Joan A. Dempsey: ‘We’re a Few Years Away from Realizing Real Quantum Processing and Quantum Computing’
March 18th, 2012Bamford lays out a narrative below about the “enormous breakthrough,” but, at the end of the day, it’s conventional computers. There’s no mention quantum computers, or even the far less “out there” photonic systems. Is Bamford’s piece a limited hangout? —Bamford Claims NSA Has Made “An Enormous Breakthrough” in Cryptanalysis And now… Via: CNN: One […]
Bamford Claims NSA Has Made “An Enormous Breakthrough” in Cryptanalysis
March 16th, 2012Well, it has been the $64,000 question for a couple of decades: Can NSA break something like PGP? While there might be other black world technologies that could be up to the task (there’s no way to know), what we do know is that a practical quantum computing capability would be, for all intents and […]
Comment Posted on U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Website
March 16th, 2012Update: Comment Removed CFTC Website I made sure to post the full text below, but here’s another mirror, just in case. —End Update— At a minimum, this makes for an interesting read. Via: U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission: From: Z A N Organization(s): JPMorgan Chase Comment No: 57019 Date: 3/14/2012 Comment Text: Dear CFTC Staff, […]
IRAN’S BANKS TO BE BLOCKED FROM GLOBAL BANKING SYSTEM ON SATURDAY
March 15th, 2012Flashback to a couple of weeks ago on Cryptogon: If SWIFT actually pulls the plug, I’d consider the fuse to be lit. Also, if SWIFT does it before 20 March, this is probably the real reason: Last week, the Tehran Times noted that the Iranian oil bourse will start trading oil in currencies other than […]
“What’s the next ‘shocking’ headline: ‘Prostitution in Vegas!?’”
March 15th, 2012As many of you noticed, I took a pass on posting the boring op-ed piece about the Goldman Sachs vampire squid. Oh shock horror, the squid makes fun of blowing up their own customers. I mean, no shit, Sherlock. I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole thing turned out to be a frontrunning setup for […]
Secret Organic Gardens for China’s Elite
March 15th, 2012Via: Los Angeles Times: At a glance, it is clear this is no run-of-the-mill farm: A 6-foot spiked fence hems the meticulously planted vegetables and security guards control a cantilevered gate that glides open only to select cars. “It is for officials only. They produce organic vegetables, peppers, onions, beans, cauliflowers, but they don’t sell […]
Canada Too Dangerous for Cheney to Visit
March 13th, 2012Via: Ottawa Citizen: Former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney has cancelled an April appearance in Toronto citing concerns that Canada is too dangerous. “He felt that in Canada the risk of violent protest was simply too high,” said Ryan Ruppert, president of promotions company Spectre Live Corp., which had booked Cheney for an April 24 appearance […]
