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New investigation of CIA proposed

samedi 31 janvier 2015 à 13:00

Former US senators, who helped the Church committee investigate the CIA in the 70s, propose a new investigation.

Urgent: Negotiations with Iran

samedi 31 janvier 2015 à 13:00

US citizens: Senators, support the bill to promote negotiations with Iran.

Murder or prosecutor in Argentina

samedi 31 janvier 2015 à 13:00

President Fernández of Argentina is blaming the intelligence agency for murdering prosecutor Nisman, and wants to dissolve and replace it.

This could be very good if the replacement is limited by laws in what it can collect.

I wonder if the intelligence agency had anything to do with the decision to take visitors' fingerprints and track passengers in the subway.

Spying on "smart" phones

samedi 31 janvier 2015 à 13:00

Lots of companies spy on "smart" phones, and the NSA spied on their spying.

Return of white terror

samedi 31 janvier 2015 à 13:00

What Martin Luther King led American blacks to do was to end white terror, which they achieved by daring to be beaten and arrested and filling the jails.

It makes me sad that this white terror has substantially returned — mainly from thugs, but also (with "stand your ground" laws) from any non-black with a gun.

Compare the advice that black teenagers receive today about how not to be shot by thugs with the 1960s advice described in the first reference above.

Even worse, since the 1960s the US has come to impose permanent punishment on people convicted of a crime, or even (in some cases) accused of one. It is hard to have a mass movement of idealistic young people ready to get arrested and pack the jails when they know they will be excluded from education or employment for life as a result.