Archive for December, 2012
Private Prison Company Allegedly Partnered With Violent Gangs To Save Money
December 4th, 2012Via: Think Progress: A new lawsuit brought by eight inmates of the Idaho Correctional Center alleges that the company is cutting back on personnel costs by partnering with violent prison gangs to help control the facility. Court documents and an investigative report issued by the state’s Department of Corrections show how guards routinely looked the […]
Some New iMacs Marked ‘Assembled in USA’
December 4th, 2012Via: Apple Insider: Apple may be taking some of the burden of assembling the new iMac off Chinese supply partners by performing parts of assembly in the U.S., as a number of newly-purchased standard units are showing an “Assembled in USA” notation usually reserved for made-to-order machines.
Sales of Gold American Eagles Gap Higher
December 3rd, 2012Via: ZeroHedge: What changed in the last 30 days? Did the world just wake up to the idea that the only way out of this quagmire is a twisted currency war that appears to have re-ignited thanks to Abe’s efforts? Something appears to have snapped in the American psyche as the last 30 days have […]
Running a Small Business in America as Kafkaesque Nightmare
December 3rd, 2012Via: Middletown Journal: The six-year dispute between Clearcreek Twp. and Howard and Lisa Gray shows just how complicated, combative and costly local land use issues can become. The Grays obtained permission from a Clearcreek Twp. official to use their residential driveway in Warren County to get to buildings on the Montgomery County portion of their […]
Turn in Your Guns, Get a Free Flu Shot
December 3rd, 2012*chortle* Via: Telegram: WORCESTER — Flu shots instead of gunshots. People can get free flu shots Saturday and next Saturday, even if they don’t turn in a gun at the city’s annual Goods for Guns buyback program. City residents, or residents of any other community, may bring their unwanted weapons, unloaded and wrapped in a […]
Texas: Teacher’s Reward Program Charges Second-Graders ‘Boyd Bucks’ for Bathroom Breaks
December 3rd, 2012Social engineering payload: You need money for everything. You need to pay to piss, for example. How about charging them to breathe? Oh yeah, this is the in-school suspension and breakfast stick state. Via: NBC: The mother of a 7-year-old Irving elementary school student says her son wet his pants in class after his teacher […]
RFID Tracking for Vatican Employees
December 3rd, 2012Via: Telegraph: Vatican clergy and employees will be issued with an identity card complete with a microchip-tracking device in sweeping new security measures designed to prevent a repeat of the Vatileaks scandal. Much tighter controls have already been introduced for anyone seeking access or photocopies of the Holy See’s archives, dossiers and documents. The Papal […]
Binney Claims FBI Has Access to NSA Mass Intercepts
December 3rd, 2012Intuitively, we all knew this, but here’s a claim by someone who was in a position to know, that FBI has access to the mass intercepts. Via: Russia Today: Related: Retroactive Surveillance on Anyone
AP’s Dangerous Iran Hoax
December 2nd, 2012Via: Guardian: Although it was intuitively obvious that the graph trumpeted by AP as scary and incriminating of Iran’s nuclear program was actually a farce, there is now new, overwhelming, very compelling scientific evidence that is the case. Whether as victim or recklessly culpable participant, AP helped perpetrate a dangerous hoax, and owes an explanation […]
Australian Government Admits to Accessing People’s Private Telephone and Internet Records 5800 Times Every Week Without Warrants
December 2nd, 2012I wonder what happens when their targets/citizens run persistent VPNs located in other countries? Via: Sydney Morning Herald: AUSTRALIAN law enforcement and government agencies have sharply increased their access without warrant to vast quantities of private telephone and internet data, prompting new calls for tighter controls on surveillance powers. Government agencies accessed private telecommunications data […]
