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I’ve never really taken the “Google is watching you” conspiracy theories very seriously, but Cory Doctorow has cooked up a scenario in his new short story “Scroogled” which scares the hell out of me. It’s a story about how easy it would be for Google to do a deal with a neo-fascist Government to provide [...]

In this video from The Real News, Gore Vidal makes the suggestion I’ve heard a number of times that the USA knew Japan was defeated and had surrendered BEFORE they dropped the atom bombs on them. But they went ahead and did it anyway.

I’ve been reading lately about “NSC 68″ or “National Security Council paper [...]

Lest we forget… the Want To Know website tracks the verified events leading up to, during and post the 2001 attacks on America, with each event backed up by source material.
I particularly like this one:

Jan 2001: After the elections, US intelligence agencies are told to “back off” investigating the bin Ladens and Saudi royals. [...]

Chris Pirillo needs no introduction. Everyone knows him as an ubergeek, the founder and maintainer of Lockergnome, former host of TechTV’s “Call for Help”, and, along with his wife Ponzi, the host of Gnomedex, the technology conference made for geeks. I always think of him as the guy with the most infectious laugh I’ve ever [...]

 

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A very special guest (shhhh can’t tell you who) joins me on today’s show to chat about the JFK bomb plot, Rupert Murdoch’s attempts to buy the world, divorce, Facebook, asking the right questions, Apple TV, the Australian government’s new broadband plan which is a bitchslap to our friends at Telstra, Marc Andreesen’s blog, setting [...]

 

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From the BBC:
The US Central Intelligence Agency is to declassify hundreds of documents detailing some of the agency’s worst illegal abuses from the 1950s to 1970s. The papers, to be released next week, will detail assassination plots, domestic spying and wiretapping, kidnapping and human experiments.
Conveniently, the papers being declassified stop in 1975 - the [...]

5am. Haven’t been able to sleep. So I got up about 2am intending to work and have instead done what I always do at this hour - watch YouTube videos on 80s film clips. Sad. Very sad.
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When the JFK Airport bomb plot thing broke in the headlines a few weeks ago, I immediately smelled a [...]

Charley Reese (ex-Orlando Sentinel) has written an interesting piece for AntiWar.com about Iran. He makes the following points:
I don’t see how any honest man can believe that Iran is a threat to the United States or its neighbors. Iran has not invaded anyone in the past 100 years. Iran has from the beginning insisted that [...]

This is strange. A few sites (link 1, link 2, link 3, link 4) are reporting that German police intercepted American agents trying to smuggle C4 explosive into the G8 conference at Heiligendamm. No coverage of this by MSM at the moment.

Sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that US security men tested German security by [...]