Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Trump On Taking Syria’s Oil and, “You Know, the Airport Is Right Nearby”
October 27th, 2019“A very big, very monstrous, very powerful airport, and very expensive airport that was built years ago.” Ahh, Ye’ Olde Superbase? Is that you? This is from the old and forgotten depths of Cryptogon’s archives: What part of Superbase don’t you understand? That’s what people in the business of exploitation and death call a “geostrategic […]
As Secret Pentagon Spending Rises, Defense Firms Cash in
October 27th, 2019Via: Defense One: The share of Pentagon spending hidden from public view is rising, as are defense contractors’ revenues from it. The U.S. Defense Department’s overall budget request increased nearly 5 percent from 2019 to 2020, but classified spending rose 6 percent, according to the consulting firm Avascent. It accounts for about $76 billion, or […]
Californians Brace For 10 Years Of Blackouts
October 27th, 2019Via: ZeroHedge: With the state of California set to experience the “biggest blackout ever” as a violent windstorm forces local utilities PG&E, Edison and Sempra to shut off power to millions of residents over fears a broken transmission line could trigger another massive fire, resulting in billions in legal costs, a dismal reality is starting […]
Pence Tells Hong Kong Protesters in China Speech: “We Stand with You”
October 24th, 2019Via: Reuters: Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday accused China of curtailing “rights and liberties” in Hong Kong in a wide-ranging critique of Beijing’s behavior but also insisted that the United States does not seek confrontation or to “de-couple” from its main economic rival.
Life in the Most Drone-Bombed Country in the World
October 24th, 2019Via: MIT Technology Review: America’s longest war has turned Afghanistan into an unwilling testing ground for warfare technology. … Nearly 20 years in, and with the conflict once more intensifying, there are no signs of an ending.
The Jeffrey Epstein Network
October 24th, 2019You’ll love this. Via: Graph Commons: People and activity connected to Jeffrey Epstein, government and organised crime.
BBC News Launches ‘Dark Web’ Tor Mirror
October 24th, 2019Via: BBC: The BBC has made its international news website available via the Tor network, in a bid to thwart censorship attempts. The Tor browser is privacy-focused software used to access the dark web. The browser can obscure who is using it and what data is being accessed, which can help people avoid government surveillance […]
Tulsi Gabbard: “Toe The Line Or Be Destroyed”
October 23rd, 2019Gabbard thinks Al Queda did 9/11 and she’s polling near the bottom for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. But… Calling out Hillary as, “The queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long,” was pretty good! Via: ZeroHedge: Tulsi Gabbard unleashed her latest counterattack to […]
Julian Assange in Court: “Exhibited Exactly the Symptoms of a Torture Victim”
October 23rd, 2019Via: Craig Murray: I was deeply shaken while witnessing yesterday’s events in Westminster Magistrates Court. Every decision was railroaded through over the scarcely heard arguments and objections of Assange’s legal team, by a magistrate who barely pretended to be listening. Before I get on to the blatant lack of fair process, the first thing I […]
“We the People” Have Become “We the Police State”
October 23rd, 2019Via: The Rutherford Institute: We are fast becoming slaves in thrall to a faceless, nameless, bureaucratic totalitarian government machine that relentlessly erodes our freedoms through countless laws, statutes, and prohibitions. Book: Battlefield America: The War On The American People by John W. Whitehead
