Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Extensive U.S. Mail Monitoring Revealed
October 28th, 2014Via: Dallas Morning News: The U.S. Postal Service reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail of ordinary Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations. The findings serve as a rare public accounting of the Postal Service’s […]
Pot Oil “Miracle in a Bottle” Cure Could Land Mom in Jail
October 28th, 2014The boy had pain so severe he didn’t want to live anymore. The pot oil helped him after 18 other medications didn’t. Now his mother is facing jail. Via: CBS: In March, one mother traveled to Colorado to get a bottle of cannabis oil in hopes of easing the agonizing pain her 15-year-old son has […]
Jeb Bush ‘More Than Likely’ Eyeing 2016 Run
October 26th, 2014Via: CNN: Yet another Bush family member is weighing in on whether or not former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will run for president in 2016. “I think it’s more than likely that he’s giving this a serious thought in moving forward,” his eldest son, George P. Bush, told ABC on Sunday. “If you had asked […]
Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime Required
October 25th, 2014Via: New York Times: For almost 40 years, Carole Hinders has dished out Mexican specialties at her modest cash-only restaurant. For just as long, she deposited the earnings at a small bank branch a block away — until last year, when two tax agents knocked on her door and informed her that they had seized […]
U.S. Drops Weapons to ISIS
October 21st, 2014Via: BBC: The US defence department has said it is examining an Islamic State video appearing to show militants in control of US weapons intended for Syrian Kurdish fighters. Some 27 bundles containing small arms, ammunition and other weaponry were dropped on Monday for militias defending the town of Kobane from IS. A Pentagon spokesman […]
Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie Dies in Moscow Plane Crash
October 21st, 2014Via: BBC: Christophe de Margerie, the chief executive of French oil company Total, has died in an air crash in Moscow. His corporate jet collided with a snow plough and was then engulfed in flames. All four people on board were killed. The driver of the snow plough was drunk, according to Russian investigators. Mr […]
China Hires As Many As 300,000 Internet Trolls To Make The Communist Party Look Good
October 20th, 2014In other news, German Journalist Udo Ulfkotte Admits Spreading CIA and BND Propaganda for Decades. Via: Business Insider: The Chinese government doesn’t just censor its internet. It actually pays people to leave fake comments that make the country – and its communist regime – look good. After reading “Blocked on Weibo” by Chinese researcher Jason […]
Vote All You Want—The Secret Government Won’t Change
October 20th, 2014The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can ‘throw the rascals out’ at any election […]
U.S. Humanitarian Aid Going to ISIS
October 20th, 2014Via: Daily Beast: While U.S. warplanes strike at the militants of the so-called Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq, truckloads of U.S. and Western aid has been flowing into territory controlled by the jihadists, assisting them to build their terror-inspiring “Caliphate.” The aid—mainly food and medical equipment—is meant for Syrians displaced from their hometowns, […]
Our Imperial Rulers Are Deranged: Leon Panetta’s Memoir Proves It
October 16th, 2014Via: David Stockman’s Contra Corner: Which brings us to the question of just what is being “defended” here. It sure isn’t South Korea, which would be obliterated in the event of a nuclear exchange with the North. So then what is it? The answer is the sacred principle of American “world leadership,” which supposedly gives […]
