Tag Archives: gear
PM must go or the party will be over
Mike Carlton smh.com.au Time to face facts. Time to pull the pin. Julia Gillard is leading the Australian Labor Party towards a catastrophic election defeat, probably the worst in its federal history. For the good of the party and the … Continue reading
‘Disgusting’ video is ‘recruitment tool for the Taliban’: Outrage across the world after footage emerges showing U.S. troops ‘urinating on dead Afghan bodies’
Source: Daily Mail Footage showing American soldiers urinating on dead Afghan bodies has sparked outrage across the world – with Afghanistan’s leaders labelling it as a ‘recruitment tool for the Taliban’. The ‘disgusting’ and ‘highly reprehensible’ 40-second clip shows four … Continue reading
The Surveillance Catalog
Source: WSJ Documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal open a rare window into a new global market for the off-the-shelf surveillance technology that has arisen in the decade since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The techniques described … Continue reading
WikiLeaks Unveils 160 Firms’ Surveillance Gear Sales Docs, Still No Submissions System
Source: Forbes WikiLeaks is still in the secret-spilling business. But not, apparently, in the business of accepting those secrets through the anonymous dropbox that was once its trademark. The site on Thursday unveiled a new trove of 287 documents it’s … Continue reading
Naomi Wolf: So Right and So Wrong
Source: The Daily Mail The People Versus the Police … The corporatocracy is terrified that citizens will reclaim the rule of law. America’s politicians, it seems, have had their fill of democracy. Across the country, police, acting under orders from … Continue reading