Tag Archives: propaganda
Hastings, Snowden warn journalists of the info war
In a recent interview NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden states, “After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power — the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government — for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period […]
Brazil stands their ground on US data spying
Resentment has festered in Brazil since revelations of the surveillance practices emerged in July, detailing how the agency established a data collection center in Brasília and prioritized Brazil, with its vast telecommunications hubs and large population of 200 million, as among the agency’s most spied-upon countries. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/world/americas/in-brazil-kerry-is-told-spying-sows-distrust.html?ref=world Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota issued the unusual expression […]
US spying leviathan holds on to telephone records
The US spying programme “touches” 1.6% of internet traffic in fact reveal the vast scale of snooping, a senior security researcher has said. The figures were “utterly meaningless” since the memorandum is vague about where the data is taken from. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23669003 Caspar Bowden told the BBC that the National Security Agency (NSA) was a “surveillance […]
Judge orders baby’s name be changed from Messiah
A judge in the US has ordered a baby’s first name to be changed from Messiah to Martin, arguing that the only true messiah is Jesus Christ. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23665106 She was able to make the order because the parents were already in a child support hearing in a dispute over what their son’s last name should […]
FBI lure another lonely muslim into a terrorist act
Law enforcement officials that have provided suspects with support and some materials needed to carry out an attack, have drawn criticism from those who believe that many of the subjects would have been unable to pull off their schemes without help from the government. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/10/nyregion/30-year-sentence-for-man-who-tried-to-bomb-federal-reserve.html?ref=us Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, 22, came to the United […]
Emerging police state violence ignored by West
The Sri Lanka military on Wednesday shot unarmed protesters last week and desecrated a church by entering it with weapons and attacking people who sought refuge there. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/08/world/asia/sri-lanka-catholic-church-says-army-killed-unarmed-protesters.html?ref=world Residents of Weliweriya town, northeast of the capital, Colombo, and surrounding villages were protesting discharges of chemical waste from a factory that were polluting drinking water. Witnesses […]
TSA violates 4th amendment and ushers in US police state
At Union Station on a recent morning, an armed squad of men and women dressed in bulletproof vests made their way through the crowds. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/us/tsa-expands-duties-beyond-airport-security.html?pagewanted=1&ref=us The squad was not with the Washington police department or Amtrak’s police force, but was one of the Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads — VIPR […]
Amazon will lead destruction of EU unions with robots
Amazon was facing strikes at warehouses in Germany, its second-biggest market. Unions there say the company has imported American-style business practices — in particular, an antipathy to organized labor — that stand at odds with European norms. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/business/workers-of-amazon-divergent.html “In Germany, the idea that warehouse workers are going to be getting opposition from an employer when […]
Google to unleash eavesdropping phone in August
Google-owned Motorola has announced a phone that is “always listening”. Saying “OK Google now…” will prompt the Moto X’s Touchless Control system to listen for instructions. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23536936 The device is the first to have been designed from scratch since Google’s $12.5bn (£7.9bn) takeover of Motorola last year. While the company has released handsets since then, […]
Islamist prison breaks may be connected to Syrian conflict
Interpol cited prison escapes in Iraq, Libya and Pakistan, and asked its members to examine if they were connected. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23560889 In the most recent escape, 248 prisoners were sprung from a jail in north-west Pakistan. Militants used automatic weapons and bombs to break down the walls of the jail in Dera Ismail Khan on 30 […]
Drone killings escalate in Pakistan
There were more drone strikes in Pakistan last month than any month since January. Three missile strikes were carried out in Yemen in the last week alone. And after Secretary of State John Kerry told Pakistanis on Thursday that the United States was winding down the drone wars there, officials back in Washington quickly contradicted […]
FBI concludes no wrongdoing by FBI in boston bombing
The F.B.I. has concluded that there was little its agents could have done to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, according to law enforcement officials, rejecting criticism that it could have better monitored one of the suspects before the attack. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/us/fbi-said-to-conclude-it-could-not-have-averted-boston-attack.html?ref=us That conclusion is based on several internal reviews that examined how the bureau handled […]
Kerry confused by the words, “Democracy & Coup” in Egypt
Secretary of State John Kerry offered an unexpected lift to Egypt’s military leaders on Thursday, saying they had been “restoring democracy” when they deposed the country’s first freely elected president, Mohamed Morsi. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/02/world/middleeast/egypt-warns-morsi-supporters-to-end-protests.html?ref=world&_r=0 Mr. Kerry said, “The military did not take over, to the best of our judgment — so far.” Mr. Kerry’s blunt comments […]
Peacekeepers replaced with The United Nations force in Africa
The United Nations has threatened to forcibly disarm rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo, an early test of the robust new mandate for the multinational peacekeeping contingent that includes going on the offensive there.In an uncharacteristically stern warning on Tuesday, the United Nations ordered individuals near the eastern city of Goma to turn in […]
Snowden’s father spurns FBI, supports son
The father of US fugitive Edward Snowden has said the FBI asked him to travel to Moscow and see his son. Lon Snowden said he had been asked several weeks ago about Edward, who is sought by the US for leaking details of electronic surveillance programmes. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23514431 He wants to know the FBI’s intentions, he […]
The elite’s war on the low-wage worker
Relegated to the background, America’s low-wage workers have been making considerable noise lately by deploying an unusual weapon — one-day strikes — to make their message heard: they’re sick and tired of earning just $8, $9, $10 an hour. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/sunday-review/fighting-back-against-wretched-wages.html?from=homepage Their anger has been stoked by what they see as a glaring disconnect: their wages […]
DC city council impels Walmart to pay employees more
An attempt by the Washington DC City Council to force profitable chain stores to pay much higher wages than the city’s minimum has infuriated Walmart, which is threatening to pull out of up to six planned stores. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/us/washington-push-on-wages-has-walmart-balking.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130721 On July 10, the City Council passed a “living wage” measure that would require Walmart to […]
EU antitrust suit uncovers bankster derivative scheme
Back in 2009, the Justice Department said it was investigating the large Wall Street banks for possible collusion in the huge and opaque credit default swaps market. The question was whether the big financial institutions had worked to keep transactions in these insurance-like instruments closed to competitors and more profitable for themselves. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/business/trying-to-pierce-a-wall-street-fog.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130721&_r=0 Not much […]
NWO looks for win-win again with sustained conflict in Syria
A senior American intelligence official on Saturday said that the Syrian conflict could last “many, many months to multiple years,” and described a situation that would most likely worsen regardless of whether the Syrian leader, President Bashar al-Assad, fell. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/world/middleeast/us-intelligence-official-says-syrian-war-could-last-for-years.html “If Bashar Assad were to succeed, he will be a more ruthless leader who will […]
Colombian troops die in rescue attempt of US operative
At least 17 Colombian troops have died in an ambush in the east of the country, close to Venezuela’s border. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-23394408 Saturday’s ambush happened in a rural part of Arauca known as El Mordisco. A number of guerrilla fighters were injured and captured, reports said. Earlier the Farc said it had captured a former US […]
Dirty Babylon 