americanpirates Archive
Surveillance powers are about, wait for it, power. You can’t help but understand this as you read the newly revealed top secret transcripts typed out by some NSA pencil pusher listening in on the French president’s phone calls. Just put yourself in the shoes
Sharing some new video/music artists I’ve recently encountered. Enjoy: Pogo is a world famous electronic musician who specializes in remixing classic films–including bits of dialogue remade into melodies. You’ll want to scroll through this playlist to get a feel for the full scope of
Over 300,000 (and some estimate 1 million) Italians gathered in Rome over the weekend to protest proposed legislation sanctioning ‘gay marriage’ and new educational programs in public schools (there are no alternatives in Italy) which force students to cross-dress in order to experience different
Let’s get right to the good stuff–this is the man who wrote the recent article alleging that Russia and China have now obtained the Snowden documents. And he crumbles when asked basic Journalism 101 questions. You won’t believe this: Glenn Greenwald rips the report
It’s a serious documentary about chickens (well, kind of serious) and it’s also hilarious on so many levels. The Natural History of the Chicken, directed by Mark Lewis, is a film for all ages. It’s the only film that I’ve bothered to gather my
Reason and Huffington Post are jumping up and down to protest against anyone daring to compare the identity confusion of Rachel Dolezal (pretending to be white) and Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner, now ‘identifying’ as a woman. What I want to point out is that the first comparisons
If you didn’t know, Kalief Browder is a young man who was held in a U.S. prison for three years without a trial for allegedly stealing a backpack. He spent a good percentage of that time in solitary confinement. He was sixteen years old.
In a spectacular display of hypocrisy, President Obama filed a motion in court to continue bulk collection of metadata of innocent Americans just hours after signing the ‘USA Freedom Act’–you know, the new law designed to end bulk collection by the government. (See the court
New Link to Senate Proceeding http://www.senate.gov/floor/ Rand speaks after procedural mess. Sunday 5/31/2015 4pm EST – Senate session begins 12am – Patriot Act Expires LIVE STREAM http://www.c-span.org/video/?326227-…a-surveillance Who could have predicted that we might regain (at least in theory) some of our Constitutional rights
Short and sweet: We have a plan to boost strategic articles in opposition to renewing the badly named “Patriot Act” and aspects of the NSA debate and we need your help to do it. Even if the ‘Patriot Act’ survives Sunday evening (when it
