Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Americans Hate the U.S. Government More Than Ever
January 27th, 2016Via: CBS: A handful of industries are those “love to hate” types of businesses, such as cable-television companies and Internet service providers. The federal government has joined the ranks of the bottom-of-the-barrel industries, according to a new survey from the American Customer Satisfaction Index. Americans’ satisfaction level in dealing with federal agencies –everything from Treasury […]
Blizzard Senate Antics: Senate Leader Surprises Lawmakers with New ISIS War Powers Request
January 25th, 2016Via: DefenseOne: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell offered members a snow-weekend surprise late Wednesday night: Quietly teeing up a debate on the legal underpinning for the fight against ISIS. … The AUMF put forward by McConnell would not restrict the president’s use of ground troops, nor have any limits related to time or geography.
“The Pentagon Has No Clue How Many Weapons It Has Lost to ISIS”
January 25th, 2016Lost. *wink* None of this is by design. Oh no. Shit happens. They forgot to mention the stacks of cash: 2011: $6.7 Billion In Cash Missing in Iraq Via: Mother Jones: For more than a decade, the United States has supplied huge quantities of weapons and military hardware to the Iraqi government—and a large chunk […]
The Story Behind National Reconnaissance Office’s Octopus Logo
January 21st, 2016Never mind the nauseating gibberish in the release from NRO. I thought this commentary was comedy gold. Via: Muckrock: The logo was widely lampooned as emblematic of the intelligence community’s tone-deafness to public sentiment. Incidentally, an octopus enveloping the planet also so happens to be the logo of SPECTRE, the international criminal syndicate that James […]
Father of Koch Brothers Helped Build Nazi Oil Refinery
January 11th, 2016Building a refinery for Hitler? *pfft* How Bush’s Grandfather Helped Hitler’s Rise to Power Also see: Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler by Antony C. Sutton IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black Via: New York Times: The father of the billionaires Charles […]
China Hospital Bulldozed with Patients Inside, Morgue Buried
January 10th, 2016Via: Stuff: Chinese state media say local officials in a central province have violated rules in forcibly demolishing part of a hospital, sending medical staff fleeing and burying under rubble six bodies being processed at a morgue. Bulldozers unexpectedly demolished part of a hospital and its adjoining morgue in central China, sending doctors, nurses and […]
Missing U.S. Missile Shows Up in Cuba
January 8th, 2016Via: Wall Street Journal: An inert U.S. Hellfire missile sent to Europe for training purposes was wrongly shipped from there to Cuba in 2014, said people familiar with the matter, a loss of sensitive military technology that ranks among the worst-known incidents of its kind. The unintended delivery of the missile to Cuba has confounded […]
CHINA: STOCKS HALTED; SHANGHAI DOWN 7%
January 6th, 2016Via: CNBC: China’s stocks were suspended from all trade on Thursday after the CSI300 tumbled more than 7 percent in early trade, triggering the market’s circuit breaker for a second time this week. That drop-kicked stock markets across Asia, which were already wallowing after a weaker open amid concerns over China’s economic slowdown and its […]
Lily Tang Williams: “Common Core Is The Communist Core I Went Through In China”
January 6th, 2016Via: Lily Tang Williams:
North Korea Claims Test of Hydrogen Bomb
January 5th, 2016If that was a hydrogen bomb, it was a firecracker, relative to more normal yields of that class of weapon, or, it didn’t work properly. Via: Reuters: North Korea said it successfully tested a miniaturized hydrogen nuclear device on Wednesday, claiming a significant advance in the isolated state’s strike capability and setting off alarm bells […]
