Elusive Freedom: How Society is Growing More Oppressive Rather Than Progressive
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2014-02-13 17:22:01 UTC
- Modified: 2014-02-13 17:22:01 UTC
Summary: Items of news from the past week, demonstrating quite clearly that dehumanisation of people starts not only abroad but also at the borders
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Yesterday upon returning to the United States from Canada, the United States Customs and Border Protections ruined my HTC One by breaking off the charger inside the phone. This was after I refused to delete recordings I had of them from the device.
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The diplomat, Devyani Khobragade, was arrested on December 12 on charges of visa fraud and lying to U.S. authorities about what she paid her housekeeper. She was stripped-searched while detained in a Manhattan federal courthouse, an incident that triggered a major rift between India and the United States.
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This interview with Beau Abbott was done by John Gentry, a wannabe cameraman, at Stew Webb’s request in the 1990s and recently loaded on YouTube by John Gentry of Dallas, Texas.
I, Stew Webb was held as a Political Prisoner from 1992-1993 and met and talked for weeks with Beau Abbott, who was also a Political Prisoner at the Federal Prison in Springfield, Missouri, also known as Siberia- USA.
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In an attempt by fact to imitate fiction, the US military’s “Iron Man” armor will take an important step towards reality in June, when multiple prototypes will be revealed and tested.
According to a report by Defense Tech, Navy Admiral William McRaven said three prototypes of the TALOS – Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit – are currently being put together in the hopes that they’ll be ready for testing this summer.
Ed: Cops in Manchester, in particular the Tactical Aid Unit (TAU), have had something similar for a number of years (Iron Man-like armor) and they act like private thugs of the state, beating up people people in the street with no oversight (a bit like death squads)
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Microsoft's 'Lawsuit Diplomacy' (SLAPPs Riding UK Libel Law and Piggybacking UK GDPR, Inapplicable!) Will Only Give a Worse Image to Microsofters (and Microsoft), Give Exposure to Even More Suppressed Facts and Scandals
- Microsoft came to dominate some sectors because of (or owing to) crimes; Microsoft won't just go away without some more crimes.
- Five (or Three) Years Without Social Control Media
- Glyn Moody quit X (Twitter)
- Why GNU/Linux is Growing
- There's growing interest in GNU/Linux right now because people do not fancy buying a new PC just to 'upgrade' (more spying) Windows
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- Links 20/04/2025: Bleeding Constitution and ChatGPT Infuriates Users Some More
- Links for the day
- Deja vu: Hitler's Birthday, Andreas Tille elected Debian Project Leader again
- Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
- Chinese OEMs (and World's Largest) Pave a Path Out of Microsoft Windows
- So Microsoft now values (or prices) Vista 11 at just $140?
- Gemini Links 20/04/2025: Contradictions of Mark Carney and Blog Questions Challenge
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, April 19, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, April 19, 2025
- Electronics in People's Bedrooms
- Modern technology not only blurred the gap between "functions" of rooms
- Gemini Links 19/04/2025: Contingencies, GTD, and Old Computers
- Links for the day
- Links 19/04/2025: Economic Races, Charm Offensives, and USB-C Rants
- Links for the day
- Links 19/04/2025: "Infantilization at Big Tech" and LLM Slop Abused in Defiance of Workplace Rules/Policies
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 19/04/2025: Palm Addiction and Real Experts
- Links for the day
- Egypt is Controlled by Google, Not Microsoft
- Moving from Microsoft to Google is not the answer
- Microsofters Say They Cannot Find a Job (That They Want) Because of Techrights, But Techrights Merely Reported on Their Behaviour
- Quit pointing the finger at people who are recipients of abuse or merely mention the abuse
- Free Software and Standards - Not Marketing Blitz - Needed Amid Growing Severity of Dependency on Hostile Suppliers (or Another Country's Sovereignty)
- ZenDiS can be described as the "Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration"
- When It Comes to the Web, Google is Evil and It Destroys the Web's Integrity With LLM Slop
- Even academia, which is meant to keep standards high, is being lured into LLM slop
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 18, 2025
- IRC logs for Friday, April 18, 2025
- Links 18/04/2025: "Fentanylware (TikTok) Exodus Continues", Chinese Weapons Allegedly in Russia Already
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 18/04/2025: Price of Games and State of Tinylog
- Links for the day
- Sounds Like IBM is Preparing for Mass Layoffs/Redundancies in Red Hat, Albeit in "PIP" (Performance Improvement Plan) or "Relocation" Clothing
- This isn't the "old" IBM; they're applying pressure by confusion and humiliation
- Gemini Links 17/04/2025: Role of Language and Back to Mutt for E-mail
- Links for the day
- "Sayonara" (さよなら), Microsoft
- Windows had fallen below iOS in some countries
- Links 18/04/2025: Layoffs at Microsoft Infosys and Qt Becoming Increasingly Proprietary (Plus Slop)
- Links for the day
- Google News is Dying
- treating MElon's algorithmic/biased site as a source of verified news
- Microsoft's Attack Dogs Have Failed. Now What?
- It would be utterly foolish to assume that Microsoft has any intention of changing
- All Your "Github Projects" Will be Gone One Day (Just Like Skype)
- If you have code you wish to share and keep, then start learning how to do so on your own
- To Understand Who's Truly Controlling You Follow the Trail of Censorship (or Self-Censorship)
- Do not let media steal and steer the narrative; CoCs are not about "social justice", they're about corporate domination
- Fedora Already Lost Its Soul Under IBM
- Fedora used to be very strict compared to many other distros and it had attracted very bright volunteers
- Microsoft is Still Attacking GNU/Linux and the Net
- Microsoft bribed the government using money that did not even exist
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 17, 2025
- IRC logs for Thursday, April 17, 2025
- Gemini Links 18/04/2025: Pinephone Pro and Linux is too Easy
- Links for the day
