Behind dysfunctional government, is democracy itself in decay? It took only 250 years for democracy to disintegrate in ancient Athens. A wholly new form of government was invented there in which the people ruled themselves. That constitution proved marvelously effective. Athens grew in wealth and capacity, saw off the Persian challenge, established itself as the…
1. How widely was Pandemrix vaccine used? Virtually all the narcolepsy data comes from Europe, where the GlaxoSmithKline Pandemrix swine flu vaccine was given to about 31 million Europeans and was used in 47 countries. It was used in Canada (12 million doses) and a number of developing countries, but little is known about increased cases…
Here we go again. Twenty-five years ago, the US intelligence community did not know that the USSR was about to fall. Since then, many hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent by the intelligence agencies, but they still missed the boat on the invasion of Crimea–a subject that should have been of utmost…
Thanks to DS Wright at FireDogLake for this article with useful links. Don’t miss Scott Shane’s Baltimore Sun piece of how intelligence agency trainees listened in to phone conversations by tapping microwave towers, as part of their training–in 1995! During the drama over the so-called Amash Amendment General Keith Alexander, head of the NSA, went to Capitol…
And now from the Snowden cache is the story of how it ain’t only the metadata that is vacuumed up by NSA and saved for posterity. No, it is the complete audio recording of calls that is being obtained and stored. The program allegedly began in 2009, but according to the WaPo, calls are only…
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/20140307IPR38203/html/US-NSA-stop-mass-surveillance-now-or-face-consequences-MEPs-say Parliament’s consent to the EU-US trade deal “could be endangered” if blanket mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) does not stop, MEPs said on Wednesday, in a resolution wrapping up their six-month inquiry into US mass surveillance schemes. The text also calls on the EU to suspend its bank data deal…
Maine Voices: Maine senators should abide by Constitution, OK release of torture report They should also place the full force of their offices behind a return to constitutional government. By Meryl Nass Special to the Press Herald ELLSWORTH — On one historic day 225 years ago, on March 4, 1789, the first U.S. Congress met…
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