Brain Turned Off

The recent revelations of Robert Durst’s bathroom confession have made quite some headlines. But his is not the only one. Over the years some other confessions have been recorded – mostly with the microphone still on unaware by the confessor.

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New documents have been released this week about a data collection scheme by the British agency GCHQ – working closely together with U.S.’s NSA, named “Optic Nerve”. It fetches images from webcams users used in Yahoo chats.

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So the promoters of the “religious freedom protection” bill recently approved by the Arizona legislature say it is not hatred and does not attack gays.

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It must be boring in Arizona.

The Legislature in Arizona has apparently nothing more important to do than discuss and pass a bill (House Bill 2153) messing with religious freedom. In a nutshell, it would allow individuals – and businesses –  to use religious beliefs to defend against lawsuits. Continue reading →

Thanks to our excellent connection to the National Security Agency (NSA) we were provided with a transcript of a conversation, that has potential wide implications in view of events happening just the last couple of days.

On a hot September evening last year, this phone conversation between New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and the head of the Port Authority of New Jersey took place. Here is the transcript (NJ Gov Cristie in Bold, Port Authority in plain): Continue reading →

Our buddies from the National Security Agency (NSA) hot-delivered the following transcript from the Oval Office in the White House of a phone conversation between the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un and U.S. President Barack Obama.

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We have received advanced information that the National Security Agency (NSA) is going to offer a service to help you to organize your email accounts. Especially it will filter spam and help to draw your attention to really important emails, so that you won’t miss them.

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Today’s Government shutdown without question hurts everything, starting with the government workers who may not get a paycheck or get it delayed to sometime in the distant future, to the economy – with the federal government to biggest employer in the country, and of course the U.S.’s reputation all over the world. There have been suggestions that “U.S.A” stands for “United States of Absurdistan”. Continue reading →

The behavior of NSA and the British counterpart GCHQ gets more bizarre every day.

David Miranda, the partner of Guardian columnist Glenn Greenwald, was detained Continue reading →

It is getting worse every day in Egypt, ever since the military ousted President Mursi – a democratically elected President after all.

If such a thing happens in any other country, it would be called a coup. Not so in this case. Continue reading →