spying

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 [...]

I sitting here, still fuming over the treasonous actions of our elected (alleged) representatives in Congress.  It’s not that I didn’t know the handout was going to pass… I’m still allowed my feelings on the topic (which you’ve read already on this blog).  But I wondered aloud to some friends what was going on out [...]

We’re coming down the the final innings, folks.
If you love your country, act to protect it.
Call your congresscritters - now!  Inform them that this alleged bailout bill must not be passed.  We are giving up on Corporate Welfare.  We will not reward fiscal malfeasance.
The United States has an obscenely large debt that is allegedly owed.   [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The truth got another shot in the arm yesterday, when Ralph Nader came out of the closet with doubts about the 9-11 Commission’s report.  And let’s face it - the 9-11 Commission would claim reversed gravity if it thought it was prudent to explain away the tragedy the US faced seven years ago today.
Independent presidential [...]

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 [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — As part of its new $300 million marketing campaign and image makeover, Microsoft Corp. plans to deploy its own customer-service representatives at retailers like Best Buy and Circuit City to help people with their PC purchases….
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I was just complaining to my wife that there’s nothing to do around here after a [...]

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 [...]