Archive for February, 2012
Company Makes Copyright Claims Against YouTube Videos Containing Sounds of Birds Chirping
February 27th, 2012Welcome to the future of the Internet. Via: TheNextWeb: You can barely hear the birds chirping in this YouTube video of a man picking some fresh ingredients for a wild salad, and yet that very sound has been identified as copyrighted material, belonging to music company, Rumblefish. YouTube user eeplox posted this to Google’s YouTube […]
White House Refuses to Release Email From Monsanto-Linked Lobbyist
February 27th, 2012Via: TruthOut: The White House is withholding documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by an environmental group that suspects the Obama administration of working with Monsanto-linked lobbyists to defend the planting of genetically engineered (GE) crops in wildlife refuges across the country.
Osborne: UK Has Run Out of Money
February 27th, 2012Via: Telegraph: The Government ‘has run out of money’ and cannot afford debt-fuelled tax cuts or extra spending, George Osborne has admitted. In a stark warning ahead of next month’s Budget, the Chancellor said there was little the Coalition could do to stimulate the economy. Mr Osborne made it clear that due to the parlous […]
U.S. TO ANNOUNCE UNILATERAL AERIAL BLOCKADE ON SYRIA [???]
February 27th, 2012Via: ynet: The Pentagon is readying for the possibility of intervention in Syria, aiming to halt Syrian President Bashsar Assad’s violent crackdown on protesters, the newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat reported Saturday, citing a US military offical. According to the official, the intervention scenario calls for the establishment of a buffer zone on the Turkish border, in […]
FBI Turns Off Thousands of GPS Devices After Supreme Court Ruling
February 26th, 2012Via: Wall Street Journal: The Supreme Court’s recent ruling overturning the warrantless use of GPS tracking devices has caused a “sea change” inside the U.S. Justice Department, according to FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann. Mr. Weissmann, speaking at a University of San Francisco conference called “Big Brother in the 21st Century” on Friday, said that […]
Wyoming House Advances Doomsday Bill
February 26th, 2012Aircraft carrier? Via: Star Tribune: State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch a study into what Wyoming should do in the event of a complete economic or political collapse in the United States. House Bill 85 passed on first reading by a voice vote. It would create a state-run government continuity task force, which […]
Foxconn Hires Public Relations Firm Burson-Marsteller — Other Clients Include Bhopal, Blackwater, Multiple Dictatorial Regimes
February 26th, 2012Via: TechEye: There is no doubt that Foxconn is indeed taking things seriously. The Foxconn spokesperson comes from none other than spin masters Burson-Marsteller, which is a global public relations company which specialises in dealing with enormous PR disasters. Burson-Marsteller has handled Tylenol poisonings, and, according to Corporate Watch, the Bhopal disaster, and the Three […]
Japan: Liberal Democratic Party Member Measuring Radiation in Tokyo Park Found Dead
February 25th, 2012Perhaps tochigi, or other Cryptogon readers who are able to read Japanese, would like to report on this. There is no mainstream news coverage of this in English at the moment. Via: Fukushima Diary: Following up this article ..Tokyo is contaminated as the worst place in Chernobyl Mr. Kabayama, a Tokyo city councilor of Liberal […]
Facebook Has 25 Employees to Handle Requests for User Information from Law Enforcement
February 25th, 2012Via: Forbes: If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world and Joe Sullivan would be head of Homeland Security. … The dirt Facebook holds on its users makes it as attractive to cops as to criminals. Among Sullivan’s responsibilities are daily decisions about how much user information to give […]
And Now… ‘State Department Quietly Warning Region on Syrian WMDs’
February 25th, 2012Mmm hmm. Via: Foreign Policy: The State Department has begun coordinating with Syria’s neighbors to prepare for the handling of President Bashar al-Assad’s extensive weapons of mass destruction if and when his regime collapses, The Cable has learned. This week, the State Department sent a diplomatic demarche to Syria’s neighbors Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi […]
