The FBI finally agrees with culture jammers. Online advertising has gotten so bad that the FBI now suggests everyone should make use of tracking blocking software, also known as ad blockers. During the last big consumerism celebration in December, the FBI noticed malicious actors paying for ads to solicit unaware
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Cory’s 20th Blogiversary Cake With FBI Icing
Notable author and blogger Cory Doctorow got a call from the FBI for his blog anniversary. Yes, it's harassment, and the FBI enabled it by not doing some investigating to learn it was a baseless complaint, before (deciding not to bother) contacting you. — Saskboy from Saskatchewan (@saskboy) January 16,
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What Comey Left Out
Former FBI director, James Comey, has been getting well deserved comeuppance from the American left for not taking responsibility for the Hillary email fiasco, late campaign, that may have cost her the White House. The standard complaint is that Comey was playing Republican politics when he announced the email investigation
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Schiff Lifts the Carpet, Gives the Public a Glimpse of What Lies Beneath.
The ranking minority member on the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, says they’ve uncovered an abundance of evidence of collusion with the Russians and obstruction of justice involving Donald Trump. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said Wednesday that the panel had seen an “abundance” of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Another FBI Investigation to Worry Trump. This Time It’s Whitefish.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the FBI has launched an investigation into the incredibly smelly $300 million no-bid contract given to Montana company, Whitefish Energy, to rebuild Puerto Rico’s shattered electricity grid. Whitefish is basically a shell company incorporated just two years ago that had, prior to hurricane Maria’s devastation
Continue readingThe Political Road Map: Comey had it Coming!
Years in the future, when humans develop the ability to inspect the time line and revisit moments in history, they will most likely mark two main points of interest regarding the rise and fall of Fascism in America. Those two points will be the reopening of the Hillary Clinton email
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: So Much for Democracy
We now know that Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by well more than 2.5-million ballots. Perhaps as many ballots again were not counted due to Republican efforts to disqualify eligible voters. – Strike One. We now know that investigations by the Central Intelligence Agency determined that Russia
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: So Many Emails, So Little Time.
It’s the favourite food of conspiracy theorists and their zookeeper, Donald J. Trump. “The fix is in.” The proof – the massive number of emails the FBI would have had to read in order to clear Hillary Clinton of any criminal conduct. By some accounts there were upwards of 650,000
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Hillary Clinton, James Comey and the FBI Coup D’Etat
If Hillary Clinton loses the election to Donald Trump, it will be largely due to the FBI director James Comey's decision to inform Congress that another batch of Clinton's e-mails had been found in the laptop of the sexting pervert Anthony Wiener.Even though Comey had no idea what was in
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why the FBI’s E-Mail Scandal Won’t Make Trump President
OK. Now it really is a horror show, and a living nightmare, just as I predicted.With only ten days to go before the American election, and Donald Trump closing in on Hillary Clinton.Clinton gets mugged by the FBI, dragged into another episode of her never ending e-mail scandal.And yes, it doesn't get any
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Doctors More Dangerous Than Guns!
TO BE TAKEN WITH A GENEROUS PORTION OF SALT Doctors (A) The number of physicians in the U.S. is 700,000. (B) Accidental deaths caused by Physicians per year are 120,000. (C) Accidental Read more…
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: Will Ferrell does a mock music video of gangster rap – and it’s a scathingly hilarious critique of the genre
A musical commentary, followed by social and political analysis, followed by hilarious spoof rap videos, and more This is scathingly funny. Will Ferrell does a mock music video of macho gangster rap. Man, how I despise that music. As Rage Against the Machine said, “So-called rap’s a fraud.” Worse, most
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Charge Protestors With Terrorism And Throw Them in Prison!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger This compelling video landed in my inbox this morning courtesy of a Cowichan Bay activist. It claims that a Canadian corporation Trans Canada Pipeline, the force behind Keystone XL pipeline is training FBI and local law enforcement agencies on how to charge legal protestors with terrorism. They say that
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Canadian Police and Suicide Hotlines Violating Privacy
It’s mind boggling that Canadian police would think it’s justified in sharing mental health information with Homeland Insecurity in order to help the USA discriminate against people with mental illness. What in the heck made them think it’s okay? Are they crazy? People need to trust that they can reach
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Democracy Now interview: Ladar Levison talks about decision to close Lavabit rather than comply with U.S. government
In a follow-up to the previous entry I’m posting a Democracy Now interview with Lavabit owner and operator Ladar Levison. Levison made the difficult decision to shut down the encrypted email service, Lavabit, after an apparent bid by the U.S. government to gain access to customer data. As mentioned in
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Dissent or Terror: New Report Details How Counter Terrorism Apparatus Was Used to Monitor Occupy Movement Nationwide
By: Center for Media and Democracy | Press Release: MADISON, WI – May 20 – DBA Press and the Center for Media and Democracy today released the results of a year-long investigation: “Dissent or Terror: How the Nation’s Counter Terrorism Apparatus, In Partnership With Corporate America, Turned on Occupy Wall Street.” The
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Activist Assata Shakur put on FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list: reeks of political targeting
In the weeks following the Boston bombing, an icon of the black liberation struggle in the U.S., Assata Shakur, has turned up on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list. The timing is far from coincidental. It’s the first time a woman has been placed on the bureau’s terrorist list… in
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Boston Bombers Echo Home-Grown Terrorists in Madrid, London Attacks
By: Sebastian Rotella | ProPublica, April 19, 2013, 4:30 p.m. The FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsaerov, the elder of the brothers suspected in the Boston bombings, in 2011, two U.S. law enforcement officials told ProPublica Friday evening. The FBI agents conducted the inquiry into suspected extremist or terrorist activity at the request of
Continue readingLeDaro: Aliens: Do they exist?
According to a 1950 FBI report, they do. Please watch the following video. In this case the saucer was recovered and aliens died. However, in the 1980s, in another alien landing, an alien escaped. Rumours are that he lives under the alias of Stephen Harper and that he lives in
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