My two favorites, U.S. and India, lead the pack of 74 countries requesting information from Facebook on users. Government requests to Facebook include basic subscriber information (such as name and length of service), IP address logs and actual account content. The majority of requests made by governments are said to be related to criminal cases […]
A Chicago judge has postponed serial groper Srinivasa Erramilli’s sentencing yet again, overruling objections from the prosecution. This is the third postponement in Telugu bidda Erramilli’s sentencing, making it his second hat-trick. Srinivasa Erramilli’s first hat-trick was for three groping incidents on board commercial flights in the U.S. Erramilli’s new sentencing date is September 5, […]
British spy novelist John Le Carré is mad as hell. Le Carré is mad at America and its closest ally, UK. It’s no secret to careful readers of Le Carré that the author has turned anti-American in his autumn years. In A Most Wanted Man, the young Chechen falls victim at the end to U.S. […]
Indian movie-makers are turning me off the medium of films with their insane Idée fixe on love. Hindi, Tamil or Telugu, most Indian movies have this unyielding, tiresome obsession with love. I’m sick and tired of watching yet another love story. So I was delighted to stumble upon The Lives of Others (2006), a remarkable […]
The Obama White House received another blow with the public petition to Pardon Edward Snowden hitting the 100,000 milestone. Pardon Edward Snowden petition was created on June 9, 2013 after it became known that Snowden was the fearless leaker of information on the U.S. National Security Agency’s illegal spying on the American people. The Right […]
No, you’re not dreaming. And I’m not drunk. I know, I know, these days crazy shit is coming to light every day in America. Widespread domestic spying, stories of a U.S. missile downing TWA 800 in 1996 etc. But what follows takes the cake in sheer madness. After bailing out Wall Street scumbags and outsourcing […]