Privacy Advocates Want To Halt Facebook Acquisition of WhatsApp.

Given the U SAP AT RIOT Act, no company can be trusted to keep any secrets about you from Big Brother. The only protection is not to give a company any data about you. Nonetheless, this merger could increase the total effect of surveillance, and blocking it could be a good thing to do.

Digital records and books are vulnerable to malicious erasure.

Rugby, like American Football, involves injuries that can lead to major brain damage.

The CIA spied on the Senate committee investigating CIA torture.

This is the reverse of the congressional oversight of the CIA which is supposed to happen.

If Congress has enough guts it can knock the spy agencies out. Congress can legislate for itself the power to demand any and all CIA documents and to declassify those it chooses. With a 2/3 majority, it can do this over Obama's opposition.

Does Congress have the guts?

Comparing distortions on RT TV with distortions on CNN International.

What this shows is that there is a difference between the station's main editorial slant and whether it censors anyone that disagrees. RT (from what I've heard) has a main editorial slant that includes falsehoods about the Crimea, but doesn't require all show hosts to go along with that slant.