Collapsing U.S. credibility
Two Op-Eds in The New York Times this morning both warn of the precipitous decline of American credibility on matters of human rights and peace ushered in by the Obama presidency. Taken together, they explain much of why I’ve been writing what I’ve been writing over the last three years. The first is from Columbia Professor and cyber expert Misha Glenny, who explains the significance of the first ever deployment of cyberwarfare — by the U.S. (first under Bush and accelerated under Obama), along with Israel, against Iran:,
The second is from former U.S. President Jimmy Carter an actually meritorious Nobel Peace Prize winner who describes the record of his fellow Nobel laureate the current President in an Op-Ed entitled “A Cruel and Unusual Record“:
The second is from former U.S. President Jimmy Carter an actually meritorious Nobel Peace Prize winner who describes the record of his fellow Nobel laureate the current President in an Op-Ed entitled “A Cruel and Unusual Record“:
MYSTERIOUS CIRCLE-SHAPED OBJECT IN THE BALTIC SEA
This sounds very interesting.
“During my 20-year diving career, including 6000 dives, I have never seen anything like this. Normally stones don’t burn. I can’t explain what we saw, and I went down there to answer questions, but I came up with even more questions “, says Stefan Hogeborn, one of the divers at Ocean X Team.
More details here:
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12438930-baltic-sea-ufouso-disables-electronic-equipment-mystery-deepens
“During my 20-year diving career, including 6000 dives, I have never seen anything like this. Normally stones don’t burn. I can’t explain what we saw, and I went down there to answer questions, but I came up with even more questions “, says Stefan Hogeborn, one of the divers at Ocean X Team.
More details here:
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12438930-baltic-sea-ufouso-disables-electronic-equipment-mystery-deepens
Hybrid grass linked to Texas cattle deaths
Weird.
See clarification here:
http://cryptogon.com/?p=30142
It's actually a hybrid grass.
See clarification here:
http://cryptogon.com/?p=30142
It's actually a hybrid grass.
DefCon: 20 Years of Hackers, Hijinks and Snooping Feds
Capture the Flag, a digital version of King of the Hill, is the core contest at DefCon, which pits teams of hackers against one another in a battle to gain root on a networked box and fight off adversaries who would unseat them. Teams often work round-the-clock throughout the conference, never leaving their computers for long.
Guest Post: The Economic Abuse Of Veterans In America | ZeroHedge
Volunteering to join the military has always been a process rife with internal and external conflictions. A vital aspect of one’s ultimate decision to do so often depends greatly upon the era in which one becomes eligible. U.S. citizens leaped at the chance to defend their country at the onset of World War II because the enemies were indeed a legitimate and obvious threat to the freedom and sovereignty of all nations. During Vietnam, the waters were muddied (at least in the view of millions of citizens), and many Americans did not see the fight as their own. The line between our system, and the enemies we were supposed to despise, had become progressively more foggy and disjointed. For any wise and honorable man to go out of his way to risk his life, the fight must be clearly just, otherwise, he may feel that his death will serve no purpose.
Obama Asserts Executive Privilege Over Fast And Furious Fiasco | ZeroHedge
President Obama has granted an 11th-hour request by Attorney General Eric Holder to exert executive privilege over Fast and Furious documents, a last-minute maneuver that appears unlikely to head off a contempt vote against Holder by Republicans in the House. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is expected to forge ahead with its meeting on the contempt resolution anyway.
Feds scrap traveller eavesdropping program at Ottawa airport
UPDATE:
The federal government has scrapped a plan to eavesdrop on travellers’ conversations at the Ottawa international airport pending further study after news of the program drew criticism from privacy watchdogs.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) installed microphones at the Macdonald-Cartier Airport to further screen travellers in a plan Public Safety Minister Vic Toews defended Monday as a way to prevent smuggling. Toews assured critics Canadians’ privacy would be respected. No conversations had been recorded, according to reports.
The federal government has scrapped a plan to eavesdrop on travellers’ conversations at the Ottawa international airport pending further study after news of the program drew criticism from privacy watchdogs.
The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) installed microphones at the Macdonald-Cartier Airport to further screen travellers in a plan Public Safety Minister Vic Toews defended Monday as a way to prevent smuggling. Toews assured critics Canadians’ privacy would be respected. No conversations had been recorded, according to reports.
Do Not Track - Universal Web Tracking Opt Out
Do Not Track is a technology and policy proposal that enables users to opt out of tracking by websites they do not visit, including analytics services, advertising networks, and social platforms. At present few of these third parties offer a reliable tracking opt out, and tools for blocking them are neither user-friendly nor comprehensive. Much like the popular Do Not Call registry, Do Not Track provides users with a single, simple, persistent choice to opt out of third-party web tracking.
U.S. again bombs mourners
Note that there is no suggestion, even from the “officials” on which these media reports (as usual) rely, that the dead man was a Terrorist or even a “militant.” He was simply receiving condolences for his dead brother. But pursuant to the standards embraced by President Obama, the brother — without knowing anything about him — is inherently deemed a “combatant” and therefore a legitimate target for death solely by virtue of being a “military-age male in a strike zone.” Of course, killing family members of bombing targets is nothing new for this President: let’s recall the still-unresolved question of why Anwar Awlaki’s 16-year-old American son, Abdulrahman, was killed by a U.S. drone attack in Yemen two weeks after his father was killed.
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