Category: Hacktivism

Originally posted on The XX Committee:
Washington, DC, is reeling from revelations that the Office of Personnel Management, the Federal government’s HR hub, has been extensively hacked. OPM is an obscure but important agency since it holds the personnel records of Federal workers, past and present, and even more, it conducts background investigations for security…

Dear friends – Enemies of Secret Trade Deals / People power in action We did it! 2 million people signed our European Citizens Initiative (ECI) against TTIP (the EU-US agreement) and CETA (the EU-Canada agreement). This is a new record: no other ECI has ever reached such a high number of support. Let’s celebrate and … Continue reading Dear friends – Enemies of Secret Trade D

#Netflix #Pirates #Spain | so try to get this: The US uses #Extortion on allies ….or shall we call it imperialistic economic terrorism? “Instead, just months later Spain was told by the United States that it would end up on a trade blacklist if it didn’t reel in piracy. In the years that followed the … Continue reading #Netflix #Pirates #Spain | so try to get

#EdwardSnowden in NYTimes “Privately, there were moments when I worried that we might have put our privileged lives at risk for nothing — that the public would react with indifference, or practiced cynicism, to the revelations. Never have I been so grateful to have been so wrong.” http://ow.ly/NUoIe

#WikiLeaks #EnforcedTransparency While the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (#TPP) has become well known in recent months in the United States, the TISA is the larger component of the strategic #TPP-#TISA-#TTIP ‘T-treaty trinity’. All parts of the trinity notably exclude the #BRICS countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. http://ow.ly/NUnHE