Archive for October, 2014
Government Set Up A Fake Facebook Page In This Woman’s Name
October 23rd, 2014Via: BuzzFeed: The Justice Department is claiming, in a little-noticed court filing, that a federal agent had the right to impersonate a young woman online by creating a Facebook page in her name without her knowledge. Government lawyers also are defending the agent’s right to scour the woman’s seized cell phone and to post photographs […]
U.S. Drops Weapons to ISIS
October 21st, 2014Via: BBC: The US defence department has said it is examining an Islamic State video appearing to show militants in control of US weapons intended for Syrian Kurdish fighters. Some 27 bundles containing small arms, ammunition and other weaponry were dropped on Monday for militias defending the town of Kobane from IS. A Pentagon spokesman […]
All the Markets Need Is $200 Billion a Quarter From the Central Bankers
October 21st, 2014Via: Bloomberg: The central-bank put lives on. Policy makers deny its existence, yet investors still reckon that whenever stocks and other risk assets take a tumble, the authorities will be there with calming words or economic stimulus to ensure the losses are limited. A put option gives investors the right to sell their asset at […]
Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie Dies in Moscow Plane Crash
October 21st, 2014Via: BBC: Christophe de Margerie, the chief executive of French oil company Total, has died in an air crash in Moscow. His corporate jet collided with a snow plough and was then engulfed in flames. All four people on board were killed. The driver of the snow plough was drunk, according to Russian investigators. Mr […]
China Hires As Many As 300,000 Internet Trolls To Make The Communist Party Look Good
October 20th, 2014In other news, German Journalist Udo Ulfkotte Admits Spreading CIA and BND Propaganda for Decades. Via: Business Insider: The Chinese government doesn’t just censor its internet. It actually pays people to leave fake comments that make the country – and its communist regime – look good. After reading “Blocked on Weibo” by Chinese researcher Jason […]
Vote All You Want—The Secret Government Won’t Change
October 20th, 2014The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election […]
Corpus of Data Automatically Shared with Apple by a Standard Installation of OS X Yosemite
October 20th, 2014Via: GitHub: This repository provides a corpus of network communications automatically sent to Apple by OS X Yosemite; we’re using this dataset to explore how Yosemite shares user data with Apple. The provided data was collected using our Net Monitor toolkit; more information regarding usage and methodology is provided below. … Having read DuckDuckGo’s privacy […]
Virginia Police Have Been Secretively Stockpiling Private Phone Records
October 20th, 2014Via: Wired: While revelations from Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency’s massive database of phone records have sparked a national debate about its constitutionality, another secretive database has gone largely unnoticed and without scrutiny. The database, which affects unknown numbers of people, contains phone records that at least five police agencies in southeast Virginia […]
U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS
October 20th, 2014Via: Daily Beast: While U.S. warplanes strike at the militants of the so-called Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, truckloads of U.S. and Western aid has been flowing into territory controlled by the jihadists, assisting them to build their terror-inspiring “Caliphate.” The aid—mainly food and medical equipment—is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, […]
Updated Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) – IP Chapter
October 16th, 2014Via: WikiLeaks: Today, Thursday 16 October 2014, WikiLeaks released a second updated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the world’s largest economic trade agreement that will, if it comes into force, encompass more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP. The IP Chapter covers topics from pharmaceuticals, […]
