Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
AUSTRALIA COULD SCRAP THE $100 NOTE
December 13th, 2016India. Venezuela. Australia? Via: New Zealand Herald: Australia looks set to follow in the footsteps of Venezuela and India by abolishing the country’s highest-denomination banknote in a bid to crack down on the “black economy”. Speaking to ABC radio on Wednesday, Revenue and Financial Services Minister Kelly O’Dwyer flagged a review of the $100 note […]
Venezuela Pulls Highest-Value Banknote, Closes Border with Colombia
December 13th, 2016Via: CNN: Venezuela just made it harder for its citizens to escape the country’s cash crisis. President Nicolas Maduro announced Monday night that he’s closing the country’s border with Colombia for 72 hours as Venezuelans rush to exchange bills before they become invalid later this week. He accused “mafias” of moving Venezuelan money into Colombia. […]
Fake News: ‘Russia Intervened to Help Trump Win Election: Intelligence Officials’
December 10th, 2016Update: Top U.S. Spy Agency: No Evidence Russia Involved Via: Reuters: The overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election, three American officials said on Monday. While the Office of the Director of National Intelligence […]
Pentagon Suppressed Study That Revealed $125 Billion in ‘Waste’
December 6th, 2016Via: The Hill: The Department of Defense suppressed one of its own studies that revealed $125 billion in wasteful spending, according to an investigation published by the The Washington Post. The newspaper found that the study, commissioned by Deputy Defense Secretary Robert O. Work, was hidden because of fears Congress would cut defense spending. The […]
UK: Politicians Exempt Themselves from New Wide-Ranging Spying Laws
December 4th, 2016Via: Independent: Politicians have exempted themselves from Britain’s new wide-ranging spying laws. The Investigatory Powers Act, which has just passed into law, brings some of the most extreme and invasive surveillance powers ever given to spies in a democratic state. But protections against those spying powers have been given to MPs. Research Credit: Jb
Trump’s Pick for Treasury Secretary: Former CIO at Goldman Sachs, Helped Start George Soros Investment Fund
November 30th, 2016L.A. Times background from a couple of weeks ago: Mnuchin, chief executive of New York-based hedge fund Dune Capital Management, spent 17 years early in his career at Goldman Sachs, where he was a partner and eventually chief information officer, before leaving in 2002. He then started an investment fund with billionaire investor George Soros, […]
Microsoft Chatbot Censors Topics for Chinese Regime
November 29th, 2016Via: CNN: “If you like me, why would you talk like this to me?” Ask Microsoft’s Chinese chatbot Xiaoice about Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and that’s how she responds. She also skirts around highly sensitive topics like the 1989 crackdown on Tiananmen Square protests, Chinese President Xi Jinping or even President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump’s Jesuit/Catholic Transition Team
November 29th, 2016Something? Nothing? Coincidence? Reddit Research Credit: RB
Election Recounts
November 26th, 2016Via: Bloomberg: Hillary Clinton’s campaign will participate in vote recounts of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan if they take place, drawing a rebuke from Donald Trump’s team that the Democrat is being a “sore loser” and part of a “ridiculous” effort. If Green Party candidate Jill Stein initiates recounts in those states as she intends, the […]
Cuba: Fidel Castro Dies at 90
November 26th, 2016Via: BBC: Cuba’s former president Fidel Castro, one of the world’s longest-serving and most iconic leaders, has died aged 90. His younger brother and successor as president Raul Castro announced the news on state television. Castro toppled the government in 1959, introducing a Communist revolution. He defied the US for decades, surviving many assassination plots. […]
