- Uncovering corruption: Charmian Gooch at TEDGlobal 2013—"The reality is that the engine of corruption is driven by our international banking system, the problem of anonymous shell companies, and the secrecy we afford to big oil, gas and mining operations."
- Corruption getting worse, says poll
- Revealed: the Rupert Murdoch tape
- 'Dead' man Lenin Carballido wins Mexico mayoral vote
- Pakistan: What corruption have you experienced in your life?—"I request you, whether you are in the developing world or the developed, to treat corruption at par with war, and terror. The price is never ever money alone, it is more than that, much more: the social fabric , human dignity, and lives are at stake."
- Australia: Immigration Department audits reveal large-scale fraud of visa system by Indian students and workers
- DOTC reviews terms of MRT-3 deal—"The extortion allegations... implicated President Aquino's sister Maria Elena 'Ballsy' Aquino-Cruz...." This smacks of nepotism.
- Sergei Magnitsky conviction: Moscow thumbs its nose to the West—Whistle-blowing lawyer who died in prison gets post-mortem tax evasion conviction.
- How Putin Uses Money Laundering Charges to Control His Opponents—"The Magnitsky case highlights Russia's multi-faceted corruption problem."
- Putin Critic Gets 5-Year Jail Term, Setting Off Protests—"Aleksei A. Navalny, Russia's most resonant opposition voice and a Moscow mayoral candidate, was sentenced to five years in prison on embezzlement charges." NYT
- Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released
- Corruption Up 450% in a Year in Russian Military – Prosecutors
- Chinese whistleblower blinded in acid attack—"An amateur Chinese whistleblower, who spent his free time embarrassing Communist party officials by posting pictures of their luxury cars on the internet, was rammed by a car, blinded with acid, and deprived of two of his fingers."
- Court Ruling Deals a Blow to China’s Labor-Camp System—A mother of a rape victim was sent off to the labor camps for complaining over the lack of justice. NYT
- 'Anything But Humane': Tibetan Exposes China from the Inside—"A high-ranking Communist Party official has written a book exposing the crimes of the Chinese against Tibetans. His fellow party members still don't suspect that he has defected to the opposition."
- Cameron cracks down on 'corroding influence' of online pornography—Because Daily Mail readers who are perhaps too lazy and incompetent to parent their own kids, but it's the convenient excuse to monitor citizens all in the name of "protecting the children." Cameron's supposedly backed down, for now.
- Five bods wrongly cuffed thanks to bungled comms snooping in UK
- Britain to use secret evidence in court—"The Justice and Security Act 2013 (JSA) came into force this month. The key provision contained within the legislation creates a new judicial procedure which will permit the use of secret evidence in any civil trial in the UK."
- Confirmed: Canada 2011 polls fraudulent—As one politician from Montreal claims, it's "the way elections are won."
- Fraud claims taint Mali election, amid concerns over undue haste—"Thousands reported to have been left off electoral register."
- Estonia publishes its e-voting source code on GitHub—"System architect says he welcomes 'development and security of the e-elections.'"
- Cemetery vandal ordered out of NZ
- Husband and wife jailed for attacking Sikh taxi driver and ripping off his turban—"You are in Australia, mate, this is not your country. If you want to live in Australia, take this sh** off."
- Israeli judge hands jail sentences to Jewish teens who beat Arab youth
- Marketing 'no-blacks' apartment buildings in Tel Aviv—"Amid efforts to deport, imprison and segregate African asylum seekers in Israel, real estate agents are now marketing 'clean' apartment blocs, meaning no foreign workers or asylum seekers will live there."
- Native Filipino denied flight because she was "deemed" unprepared to fly by KLM
- Twitter releases data to French anti-Semitism probe
- Gore site owner charged over video in Magnotta case—"Edmonton website owner faces count of corrupting morals for hosting dismemberment video."
- Dubai arrests man for sharing assault video—"Detainee filmed and posted online scene allegedly showing Emirati man beating expatriate in road rage attack."
- Life in transit: What is it like to live in an airport?—"This weekend, the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, will have spent four weeks in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. Two thousand miles away, in neighbouring Kazakhstan, a young man has already spent four months in the transit area of an airport - and admits it is driving him round the bend."
- Stateless in the United States—"I have no place in the world to go."
- Saudi but stateless: born on the margins of society
- Edward Snowden's fear of flying is justified—He's been "allowed to leave airport."
- Senator Wyden: the US could become an irreversible surveillance state
- White House: Amash trying to 'dismantle' counterterrorism tool
- Why the NSA Doesn't Want You to Have a BlackBerry
- NSA says it can't search its own e-mails—Utter crapola.
- U.S. high-tech industry feeling the heat from Edward Snowden leaks
- Keep Your Firefox Settings Private By Setting Up Your Own Sync Server
- State Courts Join State Lawmakers in Demanding Warrants for Location Information
- Homeland Security Approves Seizure of Cell Phones and Laptops within 100 Miles of Border; Report Remains Secret
- High-End Stores Use Facial Recognition Tools To Spot VIPs
