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Another Top 10
Here we go again: FBI fabricated "terror emergencies" to justify illegal monitoring of phone calls Bruce Schnier reveals how U.S. demands for monitoring capabilities lead to the Chinese(?) hackers hacking Google ACTA, who taketh away the rights ... |
25-Jan-2010 |
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Security Theatre, Part n
According to a BBC report on the latest security theatre, airline customers are now to be subject to the following indignities for in-flight entertainment: Customers to remain seated during final hour of flight; No access to hand luggage and a ban on ... |
31-Dec-2009 |
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Truly Frightening
South of the border, Glenn Greenwald has been doing a pretty good job of showing how mainstream US journalists not only no longer expose law- and constitution-breakin... |
27-Jan-2009 |
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It's true what they say about the Bush Administration
Elizabeth de la Vega lays out a clear statement of facts surrounding the outgoing administration in her article The White House Criminal Conspiracy. Read it. If you're a U.S. Citizen, you might want to act on it, before it's too late. |
21-Dec-2008 |
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It's true what they say about airport security
"Airport security in America is a sham—“se... |
18-Oct-2008 |
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"An Open Letter to my Friends on the Left"
I wanted to write such a thing, but Steven Horwitz beat me to it. |
1-Oct-2008 |
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Rage Against the Bailout
"The Bailout" came and went, the market dipped sharply the same day, and went back up the next day as "the market" did what it always does: balances out the interests of the many, impartially. Something governments will never be abl... |
30-Sep-2008 |
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Ossetian Separatism: whose business is it?
Quoted without comment from Sheldon Richman's blog: When it comes to separatist movements, the American and Russian governments have no principles whatever. They take whatever side advances their political interests at the moment. When ethnic Albanians... |
26-Aug-2008 |
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Wheeling and Dealing for raw Beltway Power
Glenn Greenwald calls our attention to the apparent slimeball tactics of U.S. politician Steny Hoyer, who pays lip service to opposing immunity for the lawbreaking US Telecoms Companies who willingly gave the U.S. government unlimited access to private... |
18-Jun-2008 |
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Quoted Without Comment
"The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly.... We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that... |
16-Jun-2008 |
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The Pentaganda Scandal
News continues to filter out of the US mainstream media. Bits of news, that is. But mostly bafflegab lead by the Pentagon and the Administration. If you think there's a grain of truth in US news coverage, you should read what the NY Times has to say. A... |
23-Apr-2008 |
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Bit o' good news, The real 'An Enemy of the State', etc.
In the U.S. Congress, the House Democrats finally stood up to be counted, voting through their own bill which does not provide a unilateral amnesty for all the law-breaking that went on after 2001-09-11 by the big telecoms violating everybody's privacy... |
16-Mar-2008 |
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RepRap and The End of Want
In the Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, one of the most pervasive inventions was the "replicator&quo... |
9-Mar-2008 |
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Ian's Top Ten Today, #1
Here are some links that I found worth passing on recently. This is not a monthly or even a regular listing; I'll repeat this when I have another ten. End Software Patents Jacob C. Hornberger: Hillary Should Have Apologized for Waco in Waco ... |
6-Mar-2008 |
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2008: A Year of Tipping Points?
I meant to write this for New Year's but got distracted. Perhaps it's a case of "better late than never". I predicted that 2008 will be a year of several "tipping points". First the Good News: I had planned to say that 2008 would ... |
15-Feb-2008 |
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Voting on the Unknowable
No, this blog entry is not about whether Ms. Clinton or Mr. Obama will win or should win. It's about something more fundamental. Some United States Citizens no doubt believe their country has free and fair elections. Some, perhaps, also still refuse t... |
6-Feb-2008 |
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IPv6 or Bust, and, Farewell IPv6 Samurai
In case you've been off-net for the last ten years, you should know that the Internet is running out of IP addresses - the telephone numbers of the Internet - at an alarming rate, and will reach the failure point within three or four years. IP is the I... |
31-Oct-2007 |
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Bomb-boozled in Boston
Nineteen-year-old Star Simpson went to pick up a friend at the airport, and wound up in jail. Her "crime"? Wearing a flashing electronic name badge that the MIT Electrical Engineering / Computer Science Undergrad had made up for Career Day. N... |
26-Sep-2007 |
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Quoted without comment
"It was this week in 1974 that Richard Nixon resigned the presidency after getting caught lying and violating the Constitution. Remember when that kind of thing used to get you kicked out of office?" -- Jay Leno, The Tonight Show, quoted in t... |
14-Aug-2007 |
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A Muslim answers a Texan's 'Why do they hate us?'
All I can say is: Read it. Read it and understand why so much is wrong with the world today. We've been saying for decades that U.S. policy is way out of line; it's nice to see the mainstream press catching up. Related reading in this Toronto Sun arti... |
25-Jul-2007 |