Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
72 Department of Homeland Security Employees On Terrorist Watchlist; 95% Failure to Find Weapons at Airports
December 6th, 2015Your what hurts? Via: WGBH: Back in August, we did an investigation—the inspector General did—of the Department of Homeland Security, and they had 72 individuals that were on the terrorist watch list that were actually working at the Department of Homeland Security. The director had to resign because of that. Then we went further and […]
Pentagon Task Force: We Want Villas and Flat-Screen TVs in Afghanistan
December 3rd, 2015Via: ProPublica: The requirements were clear: Villas with no less than queen beds, flat-screen TVs of no less than 27 inches, meals of at least three stars, and round-the-clock bodyguards. Sounds more like a celebrity rider than a description of Afghanistan accommodations for U.S. government employees. But that’s what the Pentagon’s Task Force for Business […]
China Announces Military Overhaul to Make Army More Combat Ready
November 26th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: President Xi Jinping announced a major overhaul of China’s military to make the world’s largest army more combat ready and better equipped to project force beyond the country’s borders. Under the reorganization, all branches of the armed forces would come under a joint military command, Xi told a meeting of military officials in […]
Australia Just Stopped China Buying a Farm the Size of Kentucky
November 19th, 2015Via: Fortune: You can have too much foreign investment, it seems. The Australian government Thursday blocked the sale of a portfolio of farmland the size of Kentucky to Chinese investors on national interest grounds. Four separate groups linked to Chinese-based investors had been dominating the bidding for properties amounting to 2.5% of Australia’s farming land […]
The End-Point in Financial Credit
November 14th, 2015Via: GoldMoney: Since the 1980s, markets have had to adapt to a world of infinite credit. Of course, this credit has not been available to everyone: it has been principally deployed in favour of governments, financial markets, and big business. It amounts to a cartel, planned or unplanned, a partnership between banks and government that […]
Former Russian Propaganda Chief, “Inspiration” for Russia Today, Found Dead in U.S. Hotel
November 7th, 2015Via: Guardian: Vladimir Putin’s former press secretary, who was an “inspiration” for the Russia Today (RT) news channel, has been found dead in a hotel room in Washington. The body of Mikhail Lesin was found in a room in the plush Dupont Circle hotel on Thursday morning, the Russian embassy in Washington said, confirming reports […]
Details of UK Website Visits to Be Stored for Year
November 4th, 2015Via: BBC: The internet activity of everyone in Britain will have to be stored for a year by service providers, under new surveillance law plans. Police and intelligence officers will be able to see the names of sites people have visited without a warrant, Home Secretary Theresa May said. But there would be new safeguards […]
China Decides to Abolish 1-Child Policy, Allow 2 Children
October 29th, 2015Via: AP: China’s ruling Communist Party announced Thursday that the country will start allowing all families to have two children, abolishing an unpopular policy that limited many urban couples to only one child for more than three decades. The decision is the most significant easing of family-planning policies that were long considered some of the […]
EU Countries Won’t Be Able to Opt Out of Genetically-Modified Food
October 28th, 2015Wow. Via: The Journal: EU LAWMAKERS HAVE rejected a hard-won compromise which would have allowed member states to decide whether or not to import Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for use in food and animal feed. The European Parliament voted 557 to 75 against on a law which took the European Commission years to negotiate amid […]
U.S. Back to Combat in Iraq AND Syria
October 28th, 2015“This is combat and things are complicated,” Carter said. No shit. With the Russian imposed no-fly-zone over Syria… How’s this going to work? Without mushroom clouds, I hope. Via: NBC: Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Tuesday that the U.S. will begin “direct action on the ground” against ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria, aiming to […]
