In July, Condoleeza Rice was in New Zealand and had to flee because she was being chased by one hundred fifty people calling for her arrest, motivated by a ten thousand dollar bounty. The crowd tried to arrest her under the Geneva Convention, for war crimes and authorizing torture!
It’s so nice to finally be able [...]
Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space.
They want to use satellites. To monitor rats.
In case there was any doubt in your mind as to the resolution of the satellites we know about… the picture of the `thing’ makes it look like [...]
The champions of our digital rights, the Electronic Frotier Foundation, went to court twice this week. The first suit is on behalf of AT&T customers, against the NSA and others, for illegally spying on them. They are also personally suing Bush, Cheney, Cheney’s chief of staff David Addington, former Attorney General and White House [...]
A network of cameras will read up to fifty million license plates per day and keep the data for up to five years. It will have the details of your daily trips. Police were told to fully exploit the capabilities of the database.
The good news is that this is in England.
The bad news is that [...]
You thought you could rest. The coast appeared clear. You could surf with impunity.
You were wrong.
China has proposed that the UN draft regulations for a tracing protocol that could potentially kill anonymity on the net. The UN, never opposed to thinking up draconian rules, is in the process of drafting them.
No, really.
Every time I [...]
Remember when the Prevaricator-in-Chief tried to get his buddies at the telcos blanket immunity for the illegal spying they did? Then the lying, backstabbing thieves in Congress went ahead and approved it?
It’s still in the courts, thanks to the EFF.
I urge you to read this short article to become familiar with this case. Congress already [...]
According to Paul Joseph Watson at Prison Planet, one of the seminal post 9-11 knee-jerk `security’ responses just proved itself to be a large prevarication. Or perhaps an excuse. You decide:
The much vaunted liquid bomb “terror plot” that provoked paranoid airport security measures, an overnight change in baggage procedures, and at one point led to [...]
Morning time is the time I hate most at work.
The trip up the steps and through the main floor is always deceptive. There are only a few people there already and one can sleepily drift toward one’s desk. And that’s where the problems start.
No sooner did I sit down then I received an email from [...]
Thing have started with a bang over in Minnesota.
Ramsey County authorities conducted raids across Minneapolis and St. Paul Friday and Saturday as a pre-emptive strike against disruptive protests of the Republican National Convention. pre-emptive strike…. that’s a uniquely republican concept, like in Iraq.
Five people were arrested and more than 100 were handcuffed, questioned and released… and released…
“This [...]
A congressional investigation found that a very important terrorism database is on the verge of failure due to mismanagement and design flaws.
Let’s put aside for the moment my knee-jerk reactions to gov’t run databases and get right down to one of the reasons that always backs me up: the folks who put them together can’t [...]
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