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Where You (Shouldn’t) Store It: Nine Places
Where You (Shouldn’t) Store It: Nine Places Think like a thief… A marketing email just came from Michael Major, author of a book called No Grid Survival Projects, on where NOT to hide your valuables. His ideas are sometimes counterintuitive, which makes them potentially useful: 9 Hiding Spots In Your House Where Looters Always Look First […]
How I Robbed the World Bank
How I Robbed the World Bank I have always had a bad attitude toward official secrets regardless of who is keeping them. That prejudice and John Kenneth Galbraith are to blame for an unauthorized withdrawal I made from the World Bank. When I lived in Boston in the late 1970s, I paid $25 to attend a […]
The Only Obstacle To A Healthy World Is Government Secrecy And Propaganda
The Only Obstacle To A Healthy World Is Government Secrecy And Propaganda If people in power were no longer able to hide secrets and spin lies about what’s going on in the world, all of our major problems would come to an end. Because secretive and manipulative power structures are the source of all of […]
Exclusive: They Spy With Their Little Eye
Exclusive: They Spy With Their Little Eye The Five Eyes, a part of what the NSA calls internally its “global network,” have their dirty fingerprints all over the latest spying scandal engulfing New Zealand, writes exiled Kiwi journalist and activist Suzie Dawson. NZ Spy Scandal: Elephants In The Room; US Used NZ Spies to Spy on Third Countries, Including France; US […]
Julian Assange and the Fate of Journalism
Julian Assange and the Fate of Journalism Photograph Source Jeanne Menjoulet | CC BY 2.0 Julian Assange is the Australian founder of Wikileaks—a website dedicated to the public’s right to know what governments and other powerful organizations are doing. Wikileaks pursues this goal by posting revelatory documents, often acquired unofficially, that bring to light the […]
Bilderberg Meetings – Just An “Occasional Supper Club”?
Bilderberg Meetings – Just An “Occasional Supper Club”? The European online “news” service, Independent, published an article about this years annual Bilderberg meeting being held in Italy. Why is it wherever Bilderberg goes economic chaos follows? Remember Greece? Greece was tagged on both sides of their economic problems first in 2008 at the beginning of […]
What Does The Federal Reserve Have to Hide?
What Does The Federal Reserve Have to Hide? Over the years, dissidents in Congress (notably including former US Representative Ron Paul and current Republican and Democratic presidential contenders Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders) have periodically proposed legislation to audit the Federal Reserve. The legislation is always rejected and, when it gets any significant attention at […]
Global Angst over US Secrecy Fetish
Global Angst over US Secrecy Fetish With the reach of U.S. surveillance now global – and with the U.S. military deployed all over the world – anger at President Obama’s unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers who disclose the U.S. government’s abuses and crimes has gone international, as this Norwegian opinion piece by Victor Wallis shows. The more extreme the crimes of state, […]
€100,000 Reward for Europe’s Most Wanted Secret
€100,000 Reward for Europe’s Most Wanted Secret
India Drives Forward First GMO Crops Under Veil of Secrecy
India Drives Forward First GMO Crops Under Veil of Secrecy A secret application has been made to India’s GEAC (Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee) for a new variety of GMO mustard to be released for cultivation. If accepted, this would be the first GMO variety to be approved in India – and could open the way […]
The TPP is Supply Management
The TPP is Supply Management Despite the talk from the establishment about how the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is about global free trade – and therefore Canadian cows, chickens and cars can no longer be protected by supply management – the reality is, is that the TPP is supply management. It’s supply management on an international level so […]
Trans-Pacific Partnership text won’t be available before election
Trans-Pacific Partnership text won’t be available before election Government officials say haggling by lawyers from 12 countries delaying release of trade agreement Play Media Trade deal details 2:54 Canadians won’t be able to see the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal before they vote. Government officials told CBC News on Wednesday that the exact wording […]
Neil Macdonald: Government sensitivity over you hearing about ‘sensitive’ information
Neil Macdonald: Government sensitivity over you hearing about ‘sensitive’ information Deputy minister calls in the RCMP after media leaks at her department Canadian democracy has, we are told, been maliciously undermined at Citizenship and Immigration, and the department’s top public servant is determined to set things right, on behalf of the Canadian people. Deputy Minister […]
TPP Chapter Released by WikiLeaks Would Let Governments Curtail Trials So as to Contain Information
TPP Chapter Released by WikiLeaks Would Let Governments Curtail Trials So as to Contain Information T / CC BY-ND 2.0 What WikiLeaks claims to be the full intellectual property chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership appears to give countries greater power to stop sensitive information from going public. The Guardian reports: One chapter appears to give the signatory countries […]
Canada’s Biggest Political Scandal You Never Heard Of
Canada’s Biggest Political Scandal You Never Heard Of Big oil, taxpayers’ millions, call girls and a ‘mechanic’ named Bruce Carson. It’s probably the biggest political scandal you’ve never heard of. The tale involves Big Oil, millions of taxpayer dollars, call girls and someone the RCMP describes as “one of the prime minister’s longest serving advisors”: […]
