Owl: Corry Doctorow – Is 2014 the Death of the Web to DRM and Government-Corporate Collusion and Corruption?

Doctorow: 2014 is When We Lose the Web Writer Corry Doctorow may be just suffering from deep winter blues, but if not, and he’s correct, his brief musings on the near future of the net are ominous: “Try as I might, I can’t shake the feeling that 2014 is the year we lose the Web. …

Owl: “Smart Grid” is NSA on Steroids, Expensive, Instrusive, & A Major Health Hazard

Worse than NSA, plus Hazardous to Health & Home (Causes House Fires) This is one of the 2-3 most important and perhaps alarming articles (and well documented) I’ve referred to on this site in the last twelve months. An absolute must-read for anyone living in the US and all other western countries and owns a …

Owl: Chinese Take-Over of USA — with Power Grid False Flag Takedown Thrown In

Both perhaps over-blown, but these weak signals suggest that deals may be in the works that are not in the best interests of the public. The Coming Chinese Invasion of America Many of my military sources tell me that a series of international “inland ports” will be created in conjunction with known mineral rich areas …

Jean Lievens: The War on Knowledge — The Year Hacktivists and the Government Went to War

The Year Hacktivists And The Government Went To War Gerry Smith Huffington Post, 20 December 2013 Peter Ludlow, a philosophy professor at Northwestern University, wrote in The Nation that the prosecution of hacktivists was part of “a war on knowledge” that extends beyond hackers to include Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, who exposed government secrets. …

Owl: Corporate Dirty Tricks Against Non-Profits – Hiring Portions of National Security Enterprise Against Activists

New Report Supplying Details on Corporate Espionage – Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations From this report’s contents, we find it evident that no type of nonprofit, no matter how benign or noble in its aims against injustice and wrong – even nursing home activists! – is exempt from spying by aggressive, malign predator …