Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
The Soviet Union’s $1 Billion ‘Psychotronic’ Arms Race with the U.S.
December 16th, 2013Via: Medium: During the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union battled on many fronts to demonstrate their superior technical and scientific achievements. Some of these battles are well known and well documented, such as the race to put a human in space and then on the Moon. Others are much less well known. […]
U.S. Government Lobotomized 2,000 Veterans
December 16th, 2013Via: Army Times: The U.S. government lobotomized roughly 2,000 mentally ill veterans — and likely hundreds more — during and after World War II, according to a cache of forgotten memos, letters and government reports unearthed by The Wall Street Journal. “They got the notion they were going to come to give me a lobotomy,” […]
Eric Holder 1995: We Need to “Just Really Brainwash People Into Thinking About Guns in a Vastly Different Way”
December 16th, 2013Via: YouTube:
IBM Sued for Cooperating with NSA Spy Program
December 16th, 2013IBM knows a thing or two about colluding with fascists: IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black Via: Reuters: IBM Corp has been sued by a shareholder who accused it of concealing how its ties to what became a major U.S. spying scandal reduced […]
Frenchelon: France Broadens Its Surveillance Power
December 16th, 2013*yawn* How old is the Frenchelon joke? I don’t remember if I first came across it in the 1980s or 1990s. Via: New York Times: For all their indignation last summer, when the scope of the United States’ mass data collection began to be made public, the French are hardly innocents in the realm of […]
Apartheid Lives on in Israel
December 16th, 2013Original in French: Nelson Mandela Est Mort Mais L’Apartheid Est Toujours Vivant Via: Mondoweiss: After saluting the demise of a “moral leader of the first order ,” Netanyahu decided not to attend the funeral of Nelson Mandela because of the cost of the trip. The reason given is surprising to say the least when the […]
The Story of Your Enslavement
December 16th, 2013It’s really The Story of Humanity’s Enslavement. The piece ends with the following message: “Wake up. To see the farm is to leave it.” Many of you might think something like, “That’s a bit of a parsimonious way to conclude. Now what? I get it, but I still have to show up to work tomorrow […]
Former Governor of the Bank of Israel to Become Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve
December 16th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: Former Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer is President Barack Obama’s leading candidate to become vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, people familiar with the selection process said. Fischer, 70, would replace Janet Yellen as the Fed’s No. 2 official, according to the people, who asked for anonymity because the decision isn’t final. […]
China Landed Rover on Moon
December 14th, 2013Update: Chinese Rover Landed on Moon and Launched Successfully Via: CNN: China’s first lunar rover deployed successfully from the unmanned spacecraft Chang’e-3 that landed on the moon Saturday. Jade Rabbit (called Yutu in Chinese) is a six-wheeled lunar rover equipped with at least four cameras and two mechanical legs that can dig up soil samples […]
Air Strike Kills 15 Civilians in Yemen by Mistake
December 13th, 2013This is worth seeing: Via: Reuters: Fifteen people on their way to a wedding in Yemen were killed in an air strike after their party was mistaken for an al Qaeda convoy, local security officials said on Thursday. The officials did not identify the plane in the strike in central al-Bayda province, but tribal and […]
