Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
China: Concept for Cairn-Shaped Farmscrapers
March 6th, 2013While I definitely wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for any of these to be built, my guess is that you would be hard pressed to find a better gallery of sci-fi cityscapes to look at while you waste time at work. Via: Vincent Callebaut Architectures: Related: Secret Organic Gardens for China’s Elite China Acknowledges ‘Cancer […]
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez Dies Aged 58
March 6th, 2013Via: BBC: Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has died, his vice-president has announced. Mr Chavez had been seriously ill with cancer for more than a year, undergoing several operations in Cuba, and had not been seen in public for several months. Nicolas Maduro made the announcement on Tuesday evening, flanked by political and military leaders.
Russia Fears Its Troops Will Riot if Cigarette Rations End
March 5th, 2013Via: Wired: Russia’s new defense minister wants to extinguish one of the Russian military’s most endemic health problems and martial perks: giving free cigarettes to troops. His challenge is to prevent nicotine-deprived soldiers from violently freaking out. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has reportedly drawn up a rule to end the longstanding practice of providing enlisted […]
Pirate Bay Now Running Out of North Korea [???]
March 4th, 2013Update: Probably Still in Europe This post purports to explain what’s happening. You’ll need more propellers in your beanie than I have in mine if you plan on understanding this: The Pirate Bay – North Korean hosting? No, it’s fake. (P2) — Still Routes Through Europe I’m not really sure what’s going on here. nslookup […]
Israel: Palestinian-Only Buses
March 4th, 2013Via: Telegraph: From Monday Palestinians travelling to day jobs into central Israel from the West Bank will be urged to board special buses at a checkpoint instead of the regular services used by Israelis. The scheme was drawn up by the Israeli transport ministry after residents in two Jewish settlements complained that Palestinians travellers on […]
British Terror Suspects Quietly Stripped of Citizenship… Then Killed by Drones
March 4th, 2013Via: Independent: The Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds – with two of the men subsequently killed by American drone attacks. An investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism for The Independent has established that since 2010, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, […]
Processed Foods Sold to Americans Contain Ingredients Banned in Other Countries
March 4th, 2013Via: 100 Days of Real Food: It is appalling to witness the examples I am about to share with you. The U.S. food corporations are unnecessarily feeding us chemicals – while leaving out almost all questionable ingredients in our friends’ products overseas. The point is the food industry has already formulated safer, better products, but […]
Americans Renouncing Citizenship to Become British Increases 3X Over Last Five Years
March 3rd, 2013Sounds like out-of-the-pan-and-into-the-fire to me, but to each his own. Via: Telegraph: London-based American lawyers, who specialise in tax and immigration, report a threefold increase over the last five years in the number of American citizens who are giving up their citizenship – a process known as “renunciation”.
DHS Using Customized Versions of Predator Drones
March 3rd, 2013Via: Cnet: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has customized its Predator drones, originally built for overseas military operations, to carry out at-home surveillance tasks that have civil libertarians worried: identifying civilians carrying guns and tracking their cell phones, government documents show. The documents provide more details about the surveillance capabilities of the department’s unmanned […]
Spending: With Sequestration and Without Sequestration
March 2nd, 2013HC asks: “I was curious why you’re not covering the whole sequestration flap that’s saturating the media right now.” The reason why I haven’t been is because it’s a trivial event, either way. Soviet America is so far gone, so dependent on insane state expenditures, that the propaganda outlets lose their mind at the prospect […]
