Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Obama Regime to Ship Arms Directly to Syrian Rebels
May 1st, 2013The U.S. has been supplying weapons to the Syrian rebels for months through third countries. Let’s just get over this nonsense about pretending that it hasn’t been happening all along. Via: Washington Post: President Obama is preparing to send lethal weaponry to the Syrian opposition and has taken steps to assert more aggressive U.S. leadership […]
Saudi Arabia Warned U.S. About Boston Bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2012
May 1st, 2013Update: Saudi Arabian Ambassador to U.S. Denies Story: Hmm. Via: Daily Mail: The Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C. today denied its government warned the U.S. about accused Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. According to a highly placed source who spoke to MailOnline, the Saudis sent a written warning about Tsarnaev to the U.S. Department of Homeland […]
Head of Saxo Bank: There Will Be More Wealth Confiscation
April 30th, 2013Via: Telegraph: Savers and investors face further “wealth confiscation” in Europe as the continent struggles to resolve the single currency’s problems, a bank chief has said. European politicians will take the “easy option” of taking money from the rich rather than raising taxes and cutting spending to deal with the continent’s debt problem, Lars Christensen, […]
DoJ Granted Immunity to Companies Participating in NSA Surveillance Programs
April 29th, 2013ISP = Internet Surveillance Provider. Via: Cnet: Justice Department agreed to issue “2511 letters” immunizing AT&T and other companies participating in a cybersecurity program from criminal prosecution under the Wiretap Act, according to new documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Senior Obama administration officials have secretly authorized the interception of communications carried on […]
Afghanistan: CIA’s ‘Ghost Money’
April 29th, 2013Keep in mind, this is the New-York-Times-Limited-Hangout version. My guess is that a couple of extra zeros, at least, would need to be tacked onto, “tens of millions of dollars,” to approach anything resembling what has gone down over there. Via: New York Times: For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into […]
Baby Taken from Parents Who Wanted 2nd Doctor’s Opinion
April 28th, 2013Madness. Via: KSDK: A Sacramento family was torn apart after a 5-month-old baby boy was taken from his parents following a visit to the doctor. Research Credit: alvinroasting
Post 9/11 Domestic Security Spending Exceeds Cost of New Deal
April 28th, 2013Via: CNN / Fortune: Video surveillance is already big business. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, expect it to get even bigger. … In response to security concerns after 9/11, Americans witnessed the growth of a massive domestic security apparatus, fueled by federal largesse. According to Tomdispatch’s Mattea Kramer and Chris Heilman, post-9/11 […]
Boston Bombing Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev Caught on Russian Wiretap
April 28th, 2013He was on the U.S. watch lists, which means that NSA definitely had all of his comms.: The upshot of the American inquiries into Mr. Tsarnaev’s background was that even though he was found to have no connections to extremist groups, his name was entered into two different United States government watch lists in late […]
Registry System Being Set Up to Track Your Vaccination Status
April 28th, 2013Via: Vactruth: The Centers for Disease Control has been quietly rolling out a nationwide program called the Immunization Information Systems (IIS), registering your vaccine information into a database. This effort has been run in parallel with state vaccine registry implementations. What is the intention of such programs? My colleague Leslie Manookian, writer and director of […]
The Iter Fusion Reactor
April 27th, 2013Fusion power has been 20-years-away since the 1950s. And now, “Commercial reactors could not realistically be built until the second half of the century.” As I was chortling about this, it reminded me of a song from the olden days. The pursuit of this pipedream makes sense, though, if the goal is to keep masses […]
