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
- The Year of the Bubble
- We hope that in 2026 the marketing liars will find some new buzzwords to latch onto and quit calling everything "AI"
- The Right to Repair (Especially When Products Are So Poorly Made)
- Many electrical appliances fail often/quick and are nearly impossible to repair
- Sounds Like Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' (Slop) Ran Out of Money to Borrow
- Maybe in 2026 slop will be scarce enough that eventually, maybe by year's end, we'll manage to just ignore it.
- Links 24/12/2025: US TACOs on "China Chip Tariffs Until 2027", Russian Snickers in U.K. Convenience Shops
- Links for the day
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- The Register MS: Don't Use Linux
- That really says a lot about The Register MS
- EPO People Power - Part XV - EPO Cocainegate to Resume This Weekend
- The next installment (number 16) will probably come out this weekend
- Microsoft: XBox is Going "Online", "Cloud"...
- XBox as a console is pretty much dead
- Mozilla Firefox is a GAFAM Browser With Slop, Move to a Free Software Web Browser
- on mobile the options would be more limited
- libera.chat Was Under Attack Last Night
- Several months from now libera.chat turns 5
- Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raises Over $300,000 Before Christmas
- the FSF made it past $300,000
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 24, 2025
- IRC logs for Wednesday, December 24, 2025
- Gemnini Links 25/12/2025: Hibernation and TV detox
- Links for the day
- In India, Staff Works on Christmas Eve, Becomes Unemployed (Last Day)
- The company fires based on how "expensive" workers are more often than based on their productivity
- Links 24/12/2025: Cheeto President "Accused of Rape in Jeffrey Epstein Files", Windows to be Replaced by Slop?
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 24/12/2025: Tea, Love During Pain, and Gaming This Year
- Links for the day
- GAFAM is a Bubble, Nothing is Free in This World
- Nothing is free in the world
- My New CD Player/Stereo Didn't Even Last a Year, My CD Player/Stereo From the Early 1990s Still Works
- That helped reaffirm what I said in recent years about production/manufacturing standards of "modern" things
- GitHub Isn't Free, Microsoft Subsidises It (Losses) to Entrap You Inside Proprietary Software, Now Come the Fees
- GitHub was never free
- XBox Console is Dead, "Microsoft is Rethinking What XBox is"
- So XBox is now "cloud"
- IBM SkillsBuild: Teaching Slop to People
- What skills does that give? Making more slopfarms?
- Maybe 2026 Will be the Last Year of António Campinos
- Europe's patent system is run by thugs and it serves thugs
- 2025: The Year LLM Slop Rose to Prominence and Then Fell
- the slop hype is bound to end
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, December 23, 2025
- IRC logs for Tuesday, December 23, 2025
- Links 24/12/2025: Spotify Surveillance and Shadow Over Rule of Law in Hong Kong
- Links for the day
- A Good End for a Fine Year
- Today we saw some pleasant news online about the growth of GNU/Linux and more perils impacting Windows and XBox
- Serial Sloppers Lost Momentum, Sites With "Linux" in Their Name Barely Bother Anymore
- Will 2026 be the year slopfarms jump the shark?
- Gemini Links 23/12/2025: Hydraulic Pressure Balance and mercury://
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 23/12/2025: "The sun is shinning" and "problem in the Butlerian Jihad setup"
- Links for the day
- Links 23/12/2025: "Over 8,700 News Articles Censored in Turkey in 2024" and "Photos Are Being Deleted From the Epstein Files"
- Links for the day
- Techrights as 'Regulator' Against Runaway Trains
- "Runaway trains" never scared us because we know that they, unlike us, don't think rationally
- Links 23/12/2025: That ‘Satisfying Click’ and Security Lapses, Car Bomb Kills Russian Lieutenant General Fanil Sarvarov
- Links for the day
- Links 23/12/2025: GNU Taler 1.3, US Regime Censors Television Again
- Links for the day
- Valve Can Bring More Users to GNU/Linux, But It Won't Bring Freedom
- Steam is DRM
- Social Control Media is Bots (Fake Traffic, Fake 'Engagement')
- As per FORTUNE, 76% of Twitter is alleged to be bots now
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, December 22, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, December 22, 2025
- How the Slop (So-called 'AI') Bubble Will Burst Next Year
- There are already talks about mass layoffs in January
- "Generative AI Bubble Has Begun to Pop", Nvidia Rides “Circular Financing... a Strategy That Hearkens Back to the Dot-com Crisis”
- For companies like Microsoft this may mean another 30,000+ layoffs next year
- Microsoft-Connected Media Talking About XBox Division "Profit Margins" is Distraction From XBox Sales Collapsing 70% in One Year
- The simple fact is, Microsoft's console is dead in the water
- The Reality is "Vibe Code" (Slop) is That It's Worthless
- “Confidently Wrong”
