Archive for July, 2010
NSA: New 1.8 Million Square Foot Building at Fort Meade
July 27th, 2010This is in addition to the new 1.5 million square foot facilities in Texas and Utah. Via: WBAL: A draft environmental impact statement said that a project by the National Security Agency will bring 6,500 workers to the Fort Meade area, challenging the area’s infrastructure. The NSA statement said the planned expansion will cost at […]
EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers
July 26th, 2010Via: EFF: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) won three critical exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) anticircumvention provisions today, carving out new legal protections for consumers who modify their cell phones and artists who remix videos — people who, until now, could have been sued for their non-infringing or fair use activities. “By […]
WikiLeaks Founder, “Constantly Annoyed that People Are Distracted by False Conspiracies Such as 9/11”
July 26th, 2010People often ask me if I think this source is disinfo or if that source is disinfo… My response is always: TREAT EVERY SOURCE AS DISINFO. You’ll avoid disappointment when the thing starts serving up rat poison—which, unfortunately, happens a lot. I haven’t shared this before, but in early 2008, someone from WikiLeaks wrote to […]
Raw Food Raid in Los Angeles
July 26th, 2010Via: Los Angeles Times: With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts. Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the […]
Cities Give Land Away In Attempt to Gain Taxpayers
July 26th, 2010Via: New York Times: Give away land to make money? It hardly sounds like a prudent scheme. But in a bit of déjà vu, that is exactly what this small Nebraska city aims to do. Beatrice was a starting point for the Homestead Act of 1862, the federal law that handed land to pioneering farmers. […]
It Puts the Lotion on Its Skin, Or Else It Gets the Hose Again: Will Jeb Bush Set Sights on the White House?
July 26th, 2010Is a rational response to this even possible? Maybe, but I’m not capable of delivering it. I’ll leave you with this, instead. Somehow, it seems appropriate. Americans are down that pit, most of them just don’t know it. Via: ABC News: This probably isn’t the first time you’ve heard someone ask if Jeb Bush is […]
Automated Debt-Collection Lawsuits Engulf Courts
July 26th, 2010Great innovations in the bucket shop economy. Via: New York Times: As millions of Americans have fallen behind on paying their bills, debt collection law firms have been clogging courtrooms with lawsuits seeking repayment. Few have been as prolific as Cohen & Slamowitz, a Woodbury, N.Y., firm that has specialized in debt collection for nearly […]
Corexit: “People who work near it are hemorrhaging internally.”
July 26th, 2010Via: Democracy Now: Well, Corexit is one of a number of dispersants, that are toxic, that are used to atomize the oil and force it down the water column so that it’s invisible to the eye. In this case, these dispersants were used in massive quantities, almost two million gallons so far, to hide the […]
Poverty and Hunger in Ohio
July 26th, 2010Television, white bread and Pepsi… Sometimes cigarettes. *shrug shoulders* That guy trying to avoid freezing to death in the basement with his two sons… Man, that segment is going to haunt me for a long time. The show is in multiple parts. If you click through, the links to the next clip are on the […]
WikiLeaks: Afghanistan War Logs; Massive Leak, Over 90,000 Files
July 26th, 2010More Interesting Reading: TF 373 and OGA TF 373 refers to Task Force 373, which is a U.S. death squad. OGA is Other Government Agency. According to Salon, “In military lingo, OGA stands for ‘other government agency’ and denotes clandestine operations conducted independent of the military chain of command.” —End Update— Update: Searching for Heroin […]
