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LifestreamIt’s like a reverse boomerang effect. Why wait for abuses abroad to come back home when you can start at home. Sort of like with the prison abuse. In one way the desire to employ more effective crowd-control measures is indicating the actual extent of the cynicism of the U.S. government — and the need […]
Archive for September, 2006
Kafkaesque is the word.
An assistant professor of Arabic at San Francisco State University has been stranded in Canada for three months, unable to return to campus, after the U.S. State Department canceled his visa and began reviewing his security status.
Mohammad Ramadan Hassan Salama’s troubles began in June, when he arrived in Canada for what he […]
People sure are a pesky bunch that ought to be put in their place. Consider the reaction to the death of Steve Irwin for instance.
Dead stingrays with their tails cut off have been found in Australia, sparking concern that fans of naturalist Steve Irwin may be avenging his death.
This sort of anthropocentric nonsense gets me […]
Let them drink Coca-Cola? Just watch for the toxic spills and water shortage.
President Hamid Karzai formally opened a 25-million-dollar Coca-Cola bottling plant, one of the most significant investments in Afghanistan since the ousting of the Taliban five years ago.
Karzai said it was an endorsement of the government’s efforts to push ahead with reconstruction of the […]
In the latest development in the Pirate Bay story, consider the rather remarkable failure of open government. Sweden is obviously the poster child for open government, yet when Swedish Public Service requested to see the emails that had been sent back and forth between various representatives of respective government they only received 210 out of […]
Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007
Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger
Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
High-Tech Genocide in Congo
Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy
US Operatives Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq
Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act
The World Bank […]
German police cracks down on local TOR nodes blaming the usual suspects in an effort to deflect criticism and hide the actual agenda. Much of the criticism levelled against TOR could of course be levelled against the Internet in general and it stands to reason that TOR is only one target in an ongoing and […]
A good example of how intellectual property is being perverted and how the UN, contrary to what many American pundits would have us believe, is in fact being used in the most heinous way and acting as the best forum the United States government could ever wish for.
The Broadcast Treaty is an attempt to force […]
Boing Boing posted a short plug and book review of “The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank”. A funny and bizarre tale of American Eugenics as envisioned by Robert Klark Graham. But the reality of eugenics in the U.S. is far from the eccentric sideshow and largely harmless tale told […]
This has obviously dominated the news in Sweden these past couple of days and pretty much everything that needed to be said has already been said. But international readers may have missed it so here it goes. A primer to the pre-election scandal that has sort of shattered the fair play image of Swedish politics.
Sweden […]
