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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Tuesday, July 26, 2011

26 July - Netvibes ( Private )

(89) Consumer Energy Report

 

Border bust humiliates senior

Motor oil in her van didn't contain heroin after all

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/border-bust-humiliates-senior-126160118.html
( You can say 'humiliates.'  I'd say falsely imprisoned.
 
N.S. New Democrat reaches out to stricken Layton
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1255175.html

(90) CyberJournalist.net

(466) ReadWriteWeb

Payments company Jumio is today launching a new technology called Netswipe that turns any webcam into a credit card reader, both on the desktop and on mobile. The service aims to bridge the convenience of online and mobile shopping with the...

US Army Declares War on Vision, Aesthetics, and Sanity with 100 Slide Comic Sans Powerpoint [Powerpoint]

http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/uXHaaDUh8FQ/us-army-declares-war-o...

Iran-Contra. The Bay of Pigs. The Battle of Mogadishu. All of these failures and black eyes upon American military history—none of them compare to this monstrosity, this abomination. This war... 

(499) Mashable!

 

(346) Boing Boing

DNI Security Official Appointed to be New ISOO Director | SneakHole

1 day ago by blackking
In a step that will shape the future course of U.S. government secrecy policy, President Obama approved the appointment of John P. Fitzpatrick, a security official at the Office of the Director of National ... The President has spoken of the need for a “fundamental transformation” of today's classification system, which is an artifact of Cold War principles, politics and practices, though he did not provide any direction for such a transformation. ...
 

Excessive Secrecy in National Security - Blogs

16 Jun 2011 by Micah Zenko
Excessive Secrecy in National Security. Posted on Thursday, June 16, 2011. by Micah Zenko. An MQ-1B Predator from the 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron takes off from Balad Air Base in Iraq, in this file photograph taken on June 12, 2008. ... As a U.S. official noted, with the absence of political authority in Sanaa, and a more active presence of Al Qaeda affiliated groups, “we're trying to look at a lot of different ways to make something happen in Yemen. ...
 

Take Back President Obama Transparency Award. | yuz news

51 minutes ago by admin
2 President Obama has dramatically increased government secrecy. According to the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) the cost of security classification has risen 15 percent to .17 billion and classification ...
 

The American Conservative » Wikileaks Revisited

1 day ago by Jack Hunter
Wikileaks is the organization the entire political class and media establishment told us we must hate. When the whistleblower outfit famously made its mark in November of 2010 by releasing thousands of classified US government ... Secrecy is the most important tool to advance the National Security State. About 6 months ago, when the latest wikileaks scandal broke, I overheard a group of 4 middle aged working class guys at the gym talking about how somebody ...
 

Security, Privacy, Anonymity and Secrecy on the Internet

13 Jul 2011 by Jeremy Parkinson
The joy and luxury of privacy, secrecy and anonymity are just not sustainable in the newly interconnected world. Equality and a leveling of the playing field is far more likely to occur naturally than ever before in ...
 

Whistleblower Sues FBI for Right to Publish - Courthouse News Service

1 day ago
Edmonds says she has "been featured" in national media, including "60 Minutes," The New York Times and the Washington Post, speaking on "matters related to whistleblowers, national security, and excessive secrecy ...
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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