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Civil Liberties If you want to go to heaven, you had better get busy overthrowing Syria — Paul Craig Roberts
The United States government has been at war for eleven years. The US military destroyed Iraq, leaving the country and millions of lives in ruins and releasing sectarian blood-letting that had been kept in check…
American culture FBI Casting Set Stage for Boston Marathon Bombing, Charade, Shootout By Tony Curtis
Update: CBS reveals in their report, “CBS News: FBI Interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev 2 Years Ago,” that the FBI initially attempted to deny any contact prior to the Boston bombings with slain suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. It…
Business Bitcoin, Blessing or a Trap? Anthony Migchels
Bitcoin now stands at $89. It’s the most ridiculous bubble in ages and its bust will be legendary. Not an extensive analysis this time, just calling the now obvious: Bitcoin is trouble. Bitcoin was at…
Business The Fight For Internet Privacy
With a variety of new technological inventions coming out on a monthly basis, there is no doubt that people of all ages want to buy some of the these newest developing items to stay up…
Business Bitcoin helps fund world’s first 3D-printed gun, now test fired and available for download
Cody Wilson decided to do what Presidents and hacks in Washington like to talk about – he’s gone and tried to create a few manufacturing jobs in the USA, through the 3D printing revolution. 3-D…
Business Apple Avoided Billions in Taxes, Congressional Panel Says
WASHINGTON— Even as Apple became the nation’s most profitable technology company, it avoided billions in taxes in the United States and around the world through a web of subsidiaries so complex it spanned continents and…
Business Russia’s Plan For The BRICS To Dismantle The Dollar System
Some financial markets commentators seem to be eagerly awaiting the dollar to collapse under the weight of the Fed’s monetary expansion. The wee problem with that view is that everyone knows that the party that…
Business Police-Staged Reality and its Implications for Politics
Michel Foucault got at least one major facet of contemporary society right: the economic system accounts for only a part of what oppresses us. Exploitation, enforced need, a contrived struggle for existence premised on the…
Business New Laws Would Make Environmental Protest “Terrorism”
Most people have heard of tree-sitting—a tactic environmentalists use to prevent old-growth trees from being cut down and whole forests decimated. In its heyday, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, members of groups like…
Business Martti Malmi Named in SC5 HTML5 SCAM By Shannon Schutz
In 2012 after helping develop the Bitcoin eCurrency, Martti Malmi joined Pyry Lehdonvirta’s company SC5, to help them develop HTML5. HTML5 is a markup language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web…
Business Agency of Fear by Susana Pickard
It’s nearing dusk on November 26, 2010. More than 25,000 people have gathered in a light rain at Pioneer Square in downtown Portland, Oregon to watch the annual lighting of the holiday tree, a 100-foot-tall…
Business Top Constitutional Experts: Obama Is Worse than Nixon
In the wake of the twin scandals of the IRS targeting conservative groups and the Department of Justice spying on AP reporters, the comparisons between Obama and Nixon are everywhere. But what do experts say? Former…
Business The Justice Department v. the Fourth Estate
On Tuesday The New York Times revealed that the Justice Department had seized without notice caches of Associated Press phone records. Not simply work phone logs, but home and mobile phone records of A.P. journalists…
Editor's Desk Russian Pacific Fleet Warships Enter Mediterranean For First Time In Decades, To Park In Cyprus
Earlier we reported that the US has now officially landed a Marine force in Israel as well as an assault ship, in a visit that the US Navy promptly assured “is not associated with, nor…
Business Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down Dwolla Payments to and From Mt. Gox
The DHS issued a “seizure warrant” for the funds associated with Mt. Gox’s Dwolla account. (Photo: Silicon Angle) Update: Warrant Reveals Homeland Security Seized Mt. Gox’s Dwolla Account for ‘Unlicensed Money Transmitting’ The Department of Homeland…
Business FBI Shrugs Off Law Requiring Email Warrants
Despite a federal appeals court ruling that government snooping on emails requires a search warrant, the FBI and other federal law enforcers regularly ignore this constitutional mandate, according to documents obtained by the American Civil…
Business Millions Of Mobile Phone Users Info Offered To Police, Corporation
The data of 27m mobile phone users has been offered for sale to the Metropolitan police, private companies and other bodies, enabling them to track users’ movements. Ipsos Mori, one of Britain’s biggest research firms,…
Business Microsoft reads everything you write on Skype
Anyone who uses Skype has consented to the company reading everything they write. The H‘s associates in Germany at heise Security have now discovered that the Microsoft subsidiary does in fact make use of this privilege in…
Business At Time of His Death, Malcolm X II Under Investigation by FBI’s Counter Terrorism Unit
The burdens of a public life, of living as a symbol of some vast and unquenched yearning, are well-known, but few among us understand with the terrible insight of the Shabazz family what it means…
Civil Liberties Syria: the Conventional War
Essential Intelligence Russian S-300 batteries in Damascus force its invasion by the USA This article describes how Russia is buying time towards a nuclear status for Iran, by means of turning the war in Syria…
Civil Liberties Perchance to Dream
I’ve been spending some time on the blogs lately and wow, the rage and hopelessness are overwhelming. Rage from the cuckolded tea party, rage from the flummoxed left. And everyone’s outrage is The Worst Thing…
Business 10 Indicators of Fascism By Esther Schofield
My fascistograph index would rank the following as the vital, core factors and roots of fascism in a society, from the most important powers at the top down. 1. A hardcore, totalitarian party masquerading as…
Civil Liberties More Americans Now Die from Suicide than from Auto Accidents By Gwendolyn Sykes
Suicides rose sharply during the first decade of the new century, with more Americans now dying at their own hand than in auto accidents. In 2010, 33,687 people died in motor vehicle crashes, while 38,364…
Business Starving the World for Power and Profit: The Global Agribusiness Model By Josie Boatner
A daily ration of bread is now beyond the reach of roughly a billion people on planet Earth. What’s more, hunger is spreading like a pandemic, making incursions from its traditional strongholds in the global south…
