Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Halliburton Will Pay $1.1 Billion to Settle Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Lawsuits
September 2nd, 2014Bargains. Via: The Verge: Halliburton has agreed to pay $1.1 billion to settle much of its part in 2010’s Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster. The incident killed 11 people, and resulted in the largest oil spill in this history of the US after offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded. Halliburton was responsible for cement […]
In Maryland, a Soviet-Style Punishment for a Novelist
September 2nd, 2014Via: The Atlantic: A 23-year-old teacher at a Cambridge, Maryland, middle school has been placed on leave and—in the words of a local news report—”taken in for an emergency medical evaluation” for publishing, under a pseudonym, a novel about a school shooting. The novelist, Patrick McLaw, an eighth-grade language-arts teacher at the Mace’s Lane Middle […]
Why Is Vladimir Putin Referring to Eastern Ukraine as ‘New Russia’?
August 30th, 2014Western elites stole Ukraine from a deranged dictator with a bogus populist uprising. Now, kleptocrat Putin is stealing it back with irregulars, mercenaries, and tanks. Don’t come to the conclusion that Putin is some sort of good guy. Putin is just like Western elites, but with a more direct approach, and what amounts to a […]
U.S. Hikes Fee To Renounce Citizenship By 422%
August 29th, 2014Is there a loophole? Can one jump right to the DS-4083 if one intended to expatriate oneself when one gave their oath to a foreign sovereign and was grated citizenship? See this, Advice about Possible Loss of U.S. Nationality and Dual Nationality: Potentially Expatriating Acts Section 349 of the INA (8 U.S.C. 1481), as amended, […]
Syrian Refugees Top 3 Million; Up to 6.5 Million Internally Displaced
August 29th, 2014Via: CBC: Three million Syrian refugees will have registered in neighbouring countries as of Friday, an exodus that began in March 2011 and shows no sign of abating, the United Nations said. The record figure is one million refugees more than a year ago, while a further 6.5 million are displaced within Syria, meaning that […]
FOIA Request Reveals NIST Control of 1,000 Hours of 9/11 WTC Phone and Radio Recordings
August 28th, 2014Via: 9/11 Blogger: FOIA records obtained from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) pursuant to a request for internal NIST correspondence during their investigation of the World Trade Center (WTC) building destructions, reveal NIST’s control of 1,000 hours of telephone and radio recordings captured as the events of September 11, 2001 unfolded at […]
Philadelphia Earns Millions By Seizing Cash And Homes From People Never Charged With A Crime
August 28th, 2014Via: Forbes: Chris Sourovelis has never had any trouble with the law or been accused of any crime. But that hasn’t stopped the City of Philadelphia from trying to take his home. The Sourouvelis family, along with thousands of others in Philadelphia, is living a Kafkaesque nightmare: Their property is considered guilty; they must prove […]
Variety of Military Weapons Given to Police Departments Have Gone Missing
August 27th, 2014Via: Fusion: Fusion has learned that 184 state and local police departments have been suspended from the Pentagon’s “1033 program” for missing weapons or failure to comply with other guidelines. We uncovered a pattern of missing M14 and M16 assault rifles across the country, as well as instances of missing .45-caliber pistols, shotguns and 2 […]
Targeting Political Ads to Individuals
August 26th, 2014Via: Engadget: Like it or not, another US election is almost upon us — and this time around, the incessant political advertising may cut a little too close to home. Both Democrats and Republicans are using a new TV ad targeting system from DirecTV and Dish that takes advantage of voter records to put personalized […]
The Surveillance Engine: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
August 26th, 2014Via: First Look: The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The Intercept. The documents provide the first definitive evidence […]
