Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
The Untold Story Behind Saudi Arabia’s 41-Year U.S. Debt Secret
May 31st, 2016Via: Bloomberg: The basic framework was strikingly simple. The U.S. would buy oil from Saudi Arabia and provide the kingdom military aid and equipment. In return, the Saudis would plow billions of their petrodollar revenue back into Treasuries and finance America’s spending. It took several discreet follow-up meetings to iron out all the details, Parsky […]
Neocon Ghoul Announces Plan Underway to Ensure Hillary Clinton Becomes President
May 30th, 2016Wealthy Republicans Planning to Run Third Party Candidate to Stop Trump: Some other flunky Republican-as-3rd-Party candidate would simply take votes from Trump, making it more likely that Clinton would win. These guys don’t think that their candidate will have a snowball’s chance in Hell of winning. In other words, these Republicans would rather have Clinton […]
Britain: Plans to Create an EU Army ‘Kept Secret’ from Voters
May 27th, 2016Via: Telegraph: Plans to move towards the creation of a European army are reportedly being kept secret from British voters until the day after next month’s referendum. Drawn up by the EU’s foreign policy chief, the Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy foresees the formation of new European military and operational structures. This first […]
Secret Text in Senate Bill Would Give FBI Warrantless Access to Email Records
May 26th, 2016Just skip the parallel construction. Via: The Intercept: A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate’s annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability to demand individuals’ email data and possibly web-surfing history from their service providers without a warrant and in complete secrecy. If passed, the change would expand the reach […]
Special Operations Troops Assaulted Downtown Tampa … All to Thunderous Applause
May 26th, 2016Via: Washington Post: On Wednesday, Special Operations troops from more than a dozen countries jumped out of helicopters, rappelled from buildings and expended hundreds of rounds of ammunition as they attempted to rescue the mayor of this Florida city. The operation was, of course, an exercise, but it was also a public spectacle for a […]
U.S. Military Uses 8-Inch Floppy Disks to Coordinate Nuclear Force Operations
May 25th, 2016Yes! haha Read data from the 8″ floppies and feed it to the W.O.P.R. at 110 baud: Trying to ignore the comedy gold for a moment: Reliability of floppies can vary widely. I’ve seen everything from disks being defective out of the box to lasting over a decade or more. Yes, I know that there […]
Foxconn Replaces 60,000 Factory Workers with Robots
May 25th, 2016Via: BBC: Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots. One factory has “reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots”, a government official told the South China Morning Post. Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: “More companies are likely to […]
Magic 8-Ball Future Crime Predictor Influencing Decisions About Prison Sentences
May 24th, 2016Via: ProPublica: Scores like this — known as risk assessments — are increasingly common in courtrooms across the nation. They are used to inform decisions about who can be set free at every stage of the criminal justice system, from assigning bond amounts — as is the case in Fort Lauderdale — to even more […]
Price of Corn Flour in Venezuela Soars 900 Percent
May 24th, 2016Via: AFP: Venezuelans on Tuesday woke up to discover that the government-controlled price of corn flour — used to make corn patty arepas, a staple of local cuisine — has risen 900 percent. The socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro had kept the price of corn flour frozen for 15 months at 19 bolivares a […]
Venezuela: ‘We Want Food!’
May 18th, 2016Via: AFP: It was around noon when a food truck rolled up to a Venezuelan state-subsidized supermarket in the town of Guarenas just east of the capital. But, to the fury of the long line of people waiting out front, the cargo wasn’t unloaded. Instead soldiers took it away. “We want food!” the crowd roared […]
