Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Bad government has been good business during the Bush administration. In 1999, nine companies had federal homeland security contracts. Today the total is over 33,000. “Much of what we’ve seen touted by vendors after 9/11,” says security consultant Doug Laird, “is nothing more than a sales force trying to use 9/11 as the hype to […]
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Tagged , argentina, coca cola, columbia, domestic spying, fbi, ford, haliburton, infragard, klan, martial law
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[This post is the the third in a series (1, 2).]
Like Marshall Kirkpatrick, I want it all.
I want my data to be free, I want to be in control of it and I want to have control over my privacy as well. Is that too much to ask? The watchdog group Privacy International released their […]
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Tagged aclu, chris messina, church commission, data portability, david cole, department of homeland security, domestic surveillance, eff, facebook, fbi, fusion centers, google, japanese internment, loren feldman, marshall kirkpatrick, nsa, privacy, sane, shane harris, tangram, total information awareness
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
Last Sunday, the New York Times reported that among hundreds of recently declassified intelligence documents from the 1950s was a 1950 proposal by former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty….
Hoover wanted President Harry S. Truman to proclaim the mass arrests necessary to “protect the […]
Also filed in Weblogs, breaking news, civil liberties, civil rights, civil rights movement, human rights, katrina, louisiana, nola, politics, race and racism, torture and detention
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Tagged church committee, congress, fbi, globalization, habeas corpus, halliburton, harry s truman, j edgar hoover, ku klux klan, milton friedman, mississippi, naomi klein, nsa, segregation, shock doctrine, sovereignty commission
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Maybe I’m being grumpy, but this Labor Day blog post by Seth Godin (via Matt) really rubbed me the wrong way.
Your great-grandfather knew what it meant to work hard. He hauled hay all day long, making sure that the cows got fed. In Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser writes about a worker who ruptured his […]
Sunday, February 19, 2006
The Black Commentator’s Margaret Kimberly notes that Halliburton has won yet another multi-million dollar government contract—this one to build “temporary detention facilities” in case of an “immigration emergency.”
The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other U.S. Government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as well as the development of a plan […]
[If you are in the Boston area and are free tomorrow afternoon, come support this action. –BG]
Join us as we gather 400 supporters to represent the number of Massachusetts high school graduates every year who are denied access to higher education.
Let’s show the legislature that the everyone deserves the right to an education.
The event will […]
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