Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
ATF Sting Operation Used Brain-Damaged Man, Then Charged Him
April 9th, 2013Via: Journal Sentinel: ATF agents running an undercover storefront in Milwaukee used a brain-damaged man with a low IQ to set up gun and drug deals, paying him in cigarettes, merchandise and money, according to federal documents obtained by the Journal Sentinel. For more than six months, federal agents relied on Chauncey Wright to promote […]
Margaret Thatcher Dead at 87
April 8th, 2013Via: BBC: Former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher has died “peacefully” at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke, her family has announced. Successor David Cameron called her a “great Briton” and the Queen spoke of her sadness at the death. Lady Thatcher was Conservative prime minister from 1979 to 1990. She was the first […]
The Nonsense About iMessage Supposedly Frustrating DEA
April 8th, 2013I think I’m making progress. Readers who submitted this DEA / iMessage nonsense knew it was bullshit. Congratulations. You guys get it. Via: TechDirt: In reading over this, however, a number of people quickly called bullshit. While Apple boasts of “end-to-end encryption” it’s pretty clear that Apple itself holds the key — because if you […]
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 […]
