Archives for February 2015

Snowden Document Reveals Huge Scope Of Canada’s Domestic Surveillance

Canada’s spy agency collects and stores millions of citizens’ emails each year.

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Canada's electronic spy agency, the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), collects millions of emails and other information from its citizens and stores them for "days to months," according to a document leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and revealed by CBC News in collaboration with The Intercept on Wednesday. According to the

Majority of Germans: We Don’t Have A Real Democracy

New poll also shows a third of respondents say capitalism is the root cause of hunger and poverty.

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A new German survey has a finding that may strike a particular chord with those in the United States. Over 60 percent of Germans said their country did not have a true democracy because business has a bigger say than the electorate, the survey by the Emnid polling institute for the Free University of Berlin found. The finding echoes results

Forced Blood Draws, DNA Collection And Biometric Scans: What Country Is This?

Our freedoms—especially the Fourth Amendment—are being choked out by a prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat down, taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation.

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A frustrated resident that tried to drive around a police checkpoint is stopped at gunpoint by one police officer, right, while another tries to break his window to extract him in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been

States Attempting To Predict Future Crimes With Secretive Surveys

Some surveys have the potential to punish people for being poor or uneducated by attaching a lower risk to those who have steady work and high levels of education.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — States are trying to reduce prison populations with secretive, new psychological assessments to predict which inmates will commit future crimes and who might be safe to release, despite serious problems and high-profile failures, an Associated Press investigation found. These programs are part of a national, data-driven

Saudi-Funded French Weapons Sent To Lebanon To Destroy Hezbollah

The Lebanese army’s role is limited to internal security, so how does $25 million in arms from the U.S. and another $3 billion worth of Saudi-funded arms from France fit into that military objective?

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Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, right, meets with Saudi Ambassador Ali Awad Assiri at Hariri's house in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. Hariri, considered Lebanonís most influential Muslim Sunni politician, returned unexpectedly to Lebanon Friday after three years of self-imposed exile. His return comes amid heightened tensions