Tech Dirt | 21 Oct 2015 from the ministry-of-love dept If there are two edicts I try to follow whenever I’m writing, they are, first, write what is true and, second, avoid cliche at all costs. I bring that up only as a preface before saying the following: the UK is walking down an Orwellian…
Infowars | 1 Sept 2015 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IJypH2DyD0?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360] Alex Jones talks with former Clinton insider Larry Nichols about how Hillary will beat the email scandal and how Obama is planning to be the last President of the USA.
Scoop | 25 Aug 2015 Late addition of national security provisions concerns Law Society The New Zealand Law Society has expressed its significant concerns at the last-minute addition to the Health and Safety Reform Bill of provisions for a closed material procedure for court proceedings where national security is involved. The Law Society has written…
VT | 17 Aug 2015 Hate Squad cracks down on book talk Edmonton, Alberta The Edmonton Police Department’s Hate Speech Squad has launched an investigation of a scholarly book that questions the War on Terror. On August 16th, two undercover EPD officers attended a book talk at the Rossdale Community League Hall in downtown Edmonton. The officers were…
Anti Media | 29 July 2015 Throughout human history, governments have been interested in “mastering the human domain”—in fully understanding how to control the minds of their populations. In 2015, DARPA’s “Narrative Networks” ( or N2) program is in full swing. The project is intended to analyze how “narratives” play into human psychology, delving into…
Sputnik News | 21 July 2015 The United States should revive World War II-style internment camps for “disloyal Americans,” retired general and former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley Clark said on Friday. In an interview with Thomas Roberts of MSNBC, Clark said that during WWII, “if someone supported Nazi Germany at the expense of the United States, we didn’t say that…
Glenn Greenwald | 21 June 2015 The spy unit responsible for some of the United Kingdom’s most controversial tactics of surveillance, online propaganda and deceit focuses extensively on traditional law enforcement and domestic activities — even though officials typically justify its activities by emphasizing foreign intelligence and counterterrorism operations. Documents published today by The Intercept demonstrate…
Web of Debt | 21 June 2015 Let the jury consider their verdict,’ the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. `No, no!’ said the Queen. `Sentence first–verdict afterwards.’ `Stuff and nonsense!’ said Alice loudly. `The idea of having the sentence first!’ `Hold your tongue!’ said the Queen, turning purple. `I won’t!’ said…
Andrew P. Napolitano | Last week, Republicans and Democrats in Congress joined President Barack Obama in congratulating themselves for taming the National Security Agency’s voracious appetite for spying. By permitting one section of the Patriot Act to expire and by replacing it with the USA Freedom Act, the federal government is taking credit for taming…
Global Research | June 03, 2015 Even as talk about the expiry of various parts of the USA Patriot Act was taking place, the background was never going to move that much. Assumptions of security – or its other side, paralytic insecurity – are so entrenched in the complex of power that they tend to win…