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Pravda: Google's condemnation of China's human rights record is hypocritical given its 'deep' CIA ties
posted by thelink at 2010-04-01 14:45

thelink: "supplier of the core search technology for 'Intellipedia, a highly-secured online system where 37,000 U.S. spies and related personnel share information and collaborate"
thelink: and other technologies, eg search engines supplied to NSA, mapping tech for military (btw how do they keep 'missing' their targets so well?)
thelink: "The technology behind this software was originally developed by Keyhole Inc., a company funded by Q-Tel http://www.iqt.org/ , a venture capital firm which is in turn openly funded and operated on behalf of the CIA. "
thelink: "Director of Technology Assessment at In-Q-Tel, Rob Painter, moved from his old job directly serving the CIA to become 'Senior Federal Manager' at Google."
thelink: "In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA, are now investing in Visible Technologies, a software firm specialized in 'monitoring social media' ... [which] can automatically examine more than a million discussions and posts ... each day."
thelink: oh hey, did i forget to say FUCK YOU
thelink: "Finally, there is a curious absence from the statements emanating from Google - and from U.S. media reports - of any substantive evidence linking the Chinese government with the alleged break-in attempts to several Google email accounts."
thelink: nice try guys, this time, no blooming mushroom cloud ... or was it something else you were after? sneaky shits
thelink: "the company cannot be motivated by real concern for the human rights and lives of the people in China." fucking A
thelink: did they actually trademark 'Don't be evil (TM)'? maybe they should ... it would go well with the pointy tail

over 6 million people have died in CIA covert actions, and this was in the late 1980's
posted by thelink at 2010-04-01 14:13

thelink: lecture by "John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. He spent 13 years in the agency. He gives a short history of CIA covert operations."
thelink: "You have to be asking yourself, why are we destabilizing 50 corners of the troubled world? Why are we about to go to war in Nicaragua, the Central American war? It is the function, I suggest, of the CIA, with its 50 de-stabilization programs going around the world today, to keep the world unstable, and to propagandize the American people to hate, so we will let the establishment spend any amount of money on arms...."
thelink: and they say there is no better 'system' than this? this 'democracy'? WTF?!
thelink: if you want to be an apologist for these guys, go ahead and try, but you can't ignore what they have done ... i see so many arguments for or against this or that in america which plainly ignore what US foreign policy basically is, this shit
thelink: and us domestic policy ... assasination, bribery, nepotism, class-based exclusion ... get past this shit USA or noone will take you seriously (except your vaunted but universally reviled serial killer cult members)
thelink: fat lot of good it does you, look at your economy, arseholes
thelink: measured on your preferred one-dimensional sliding scale of 'success' you fucking FAIL
thelink: measured on more humanitarian indexes, you fucking need to try harder to be nice
thelink: i need to look in the mirror? you need to read my fucking links

US interventions 1945-1999 by William Blum
posted by thelink at 2010-04-01 14:09

thelink: previously of the US State Dept until quitting as an opponent of their Vietnam war

Centre for Conspiracy Culture @ University of Winchester
posted by thelink at 2010-04-01 13:49

thelink: i wonder if they're deliberately treading on the Chaos Computer Club namespace ... or is it the other way around ;-)

Simon Singh wins libel case.
posted by rik at 2010-04-01 12:35

rik: Scientifically proving that something is bullshit is not libel. Who'd have thought?
rik: "Scientific controversies must be settled by the methods of science rather than by the methods of litigation."

How to transform your hoodie into a computer sleeve
posted by seti at 2010-04-01 01:41

Lehman's Desperate Housewives
posted by seti at 2010-04-01 01:24

seti: what a bunch of despicable immature obscenely overpaid dipshits.