Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Biden: “Create a New World Order”
April 7th, 2013Via: CSPAN: Vice President Joe Biden calls for the creation of a “new world order” at the Export Import Bank conference in Washington on April 5, 2013. Flashback: 1992 Biden Speech: “On the Threshold of the New World Order: A Rebirth for the United Nations”
ATF Wants Database to Find Out Who Your Friends Are
April 7th, 2013Via: Wired: The ATF doesn’t just want a huge database to reveal everything about you with a few keywords. It wants one that can find out who you know. And it won’t even try to friend you on Facebook first. According to a recent solicitation from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the […]
‘Bitcoin Really Is an Existential Threat to the Modern Liberal State’
April 6th, 2013Via: Bloomberg: So far, Bitcoin is not a big deal. Its total value in circulation was $1.4 billion as of this week. That’s equivalent to the currency stock of a small nation — somewhere between Iceland and Uruguay — and just one-thousandth of the total value of U.S. dollars in circulation. The volume of transactions […]
Price Increases for U.S. Military Gear Dwarf Most Nations’ Defense Budgets
April 5th, 2013Madness. Via: Wired: Here’s an example of what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was talking about in his Wednesday speech on reforming the way the Pentagon buys gear. If you look at just the increases in how much defense gear costs, the bloat dwarfs what nearly every other nation on earth spends on defense annually. I […]
Recovery: Debtors’ Prisons Thrive
April 5th, 2013Via: CBS: Thousands of Americans are sent to jail not for committing a crime, but because they can’t afford to pay for traffic tickets, medical bills and court fees. If that sounds like a debtors’ prison, a legal relic which was abolished in this country in the 1830s, that’s because it is. And courts and […]
Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze
April 5th, 2013How many intelligence services have cutouts listed in this heap of data??? Via: International Consortium of Investigative Journalists: Dozens of journalists sifted through millions of leaked records and thousands of names to produce ICIJ’s investigation into offshore secrecy A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore […]
Enron’s Skilling May Be Released From Prison Over A Decade Early
April 4th, 2013Via: Zero Hedge: Former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling may be the latest beneficiary of the culture of pervasive permitted, even according to some – encouraged, crime. After being sentenced to prison for 24 years in the aftermath of Enron’s spectacular 2001 bankruptcy, the former CEO may be released after serving well less than half of […]
Obama Administration Pushes Banks to Make Home Loans to People with Weaker Credit
April 3rd, 2013Via: Washington Post: The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place. […]
The Monsanto Protection Act
April 2nd, 2013Via: Democracy Now: President Obama outraged food activists last week when he signed into law a spending bill with a controversial rider that critics have dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act.” The rider says the government must allow the planting of genetically modified crops even if courts rule they pose health risks.
$100-Million Brain-Mapping Project
April 2nd, 2013Via: io9: President Obama announced plans this morning for a long-term research project to improve our understanding of the brain. Comparing it to the Human Genome Project, Obama said the brain-mapping initiative could lead to cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and autism, while fueling economic growth and job creation. … BRAIN stands for “Brain Research […]
