Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Indicted by Federal Grand Jury
May 28th, 2015Via: Washington Post: J. Dennis Hastert, the longest serving Republican speaker in the U.S. House, was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury on charges that he violated banking laws in a bid to pay $3.5 million because of “past misconduct” against an unnamed individual from their hometown west of Chicago. Hastert, 73, who has […]
Bill Gates Just Described His Biggest Fear — And It Could Kill 330 Million People In Less Than A Year
May 28th, 2015Bird Flu Researchers to Continue Work on Engineered Virus H5N1 VIRAL-ENGINEERING DANGERS WILL NOT GO AWAY Scientist Makes H5N1 Highly Contagious Coalition of Leading Scientists Claim H5N1 Ferret Experiments Could Lead to Pandemic H5N1 Bird Flu Needs Just 5 Mutations to Spread Easily in People Britain: Scientists Reconstruct Black Death Plague with Genetic Material Taken […]
Russia Masses Heavy Firepower on Border with Ukraine
May 28th, 2015Check out the gallery. Via: Reuters: Russia’s army is massing troops and hundreds of pieces of weaponry including mobile rocket launchers, tanks and artillery at a makeshift base near the border with Ukraine, a Reuters reporter saw this week. Many of the vehicles have number plates and identifying marks removed while many of the servicemen […]
Judge Who Blocked Release of Osama bin Laden Death Photos Now Blocks Release of Senate Torture Report
May 27th, 2015Via: AllGov: A federal judge has thwarted an attempt to force the release of the Senate report on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) torture program. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s full report on the CIA interrogation program. The […]
Pentagon Report Predicted West’s Support for Islamist Rebels Would Create ISIS
May 27th, 2015Try not to die of shock. Via: Medium: A declassified secret US government document obtained by the conservative public interest law firm, Judicial Watch, shows that Western governments deliberately allied with al-Qaeda and other Islamist extremist groups to topple Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad. The document reveals that in coordination with the Gulf states and Turkey, […]
Obama, Senate Republicans United: Trans-Pacific Partnership Lurches On
May 24th, 2015Via: Washington Post: President Obama won a big victory for his trade agenda Friday with the Senate’s approval of fast-track legislation that could make it easier for him to complete a wide-ranging trade deal that would include 11 Pacific Rim nations. A coalition of 48 Senate Republicans and 14 Democrats voted for Trade Promotion Authority […]
The One About The “U.S. Cracking Down on Militarization of Local Police”
May 18th, 2015Oh sure, and I guess all of those weapons and other equipment are just going to turn into a giant pumpkin at midnight. Via: MSNBC: The federal government will no longer provide heavy military equipment like tanks and grenade launchers to local cops following weeks of backlash against officers who confronted protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, […]
UK Government Quietly Rewrites Hacking Laws to Give GCHQ Immunity
May 17th, 2015Via: ArsTechnica: The UK government has quietly passed new legislation that exempts GCHQ, police, and other intelligence officers from prosecution for hacking into computers and mobile phones. While major or controversial legislative changes usually go through normal parliamentary process (i.e. democratic debate) before being passed into law, in this case an amendment to the Computer […]
Many of the NSA’s Loudest Defenders Have Financial Ties to NSA Contractors
May 14th, 2015Via: FirstLook: The talking heads have been backstopping the NSA’s mass surveillance more or less continuously since it was revealed. They spoke out to support the agency when NSA contractor Edward Snowden released details of its programs in 2013, and they’ve kept up their advocacy ever since — on television news shows, newspaper op-ed pages, […]
“You Make It, We’ll Take It”: DEA Took a Young Man’s Life Savings Without Ever Charging Him with a Crime
May 12th, 2015Via: Washington Post: Joseph Rivers was hoping to hit it big. According to the Albuquerque Journal, the aspiring businessman from just outside of Detroit had pulled together $16,000 in seed money to fulfill a lifetime dream of starting a music video company. Last month, Rivers took the first step in that voyage, saying goodbye to […]
