Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
OBAMA REGIME CONSIDERING USE OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS FOR GUN CONTROL
January 10th, 2013To all of you who stacked it deep while it was cheap: Well done. Via: New York Times: President Obama is planning a comprehensive effort to pass legislation and use executive orders to prevent gun violence, representatives of about a dozen gun control organizations were told Wednesday at a White House meeting. … Mr. Feinblatt […]
Iowa Legislator Wants Semi Auto Weapons Confiscated
January 9th, 2013Via: Daily Times Herald: State Rep. Dan Muhlbauer, D-Manilla, says Iowa lawmakers should ban semi-automatic guns and “start taking them” from owners who refuse to surrender any illegal firearms through a buy-back program. In an interview, a fiery Muhlbauer said it is time to act with “radical changes” on gun laws and other issues to […]
Disney World to Track Visitors with Wireless Wristbands
January 9th, 2013Via: NBC: New wireless-tracking wristbands designed to make the “Most Magical Place on Earth” even more hassle-free will hit Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., over the next few months. The “MagicBands” will be linked to customers’ credit-card information and function as room keys and park entry passes, thanks to radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips, which […]
Putin Preps Russian Navy for Biggest Exercise Since the Soviet Union
January 8th, 2013Via: Wired: The Russian navy is about to stage its largest war exercise in a long time — possibly the largest since before the breakup of the Soviet Union. It’s a chance for President Vladimir Putin to show off his military might, of course. But the exercise may also be a subtle warning to the […]
Unwitting Sensors: How DoD is Exploiting Social Media
January 7th, 2013Via: Defense News: On any given day, 400 million short messages are typed or thumbed onto Twitter, and that’s just a fraction of the total communications sent through a social media universe that includes Facebook, Google+, chat rooms, bulletin boards and many other electronic forums. The messages are as diverse as all the conversations in […]
‘Can a $1 Trillion Coin End Debt Ceiling Crisis?’
January 5th, 2013There’s a lot of laughter about this, but the proposal is not altogether different from what the U.S. is doing already in slow motion. The key difference between simply minting trillion dollar coins and the way the debt scam is currently done is as follows: If the U.S. Government prints x number of trillion dollar […]
How Bankers Help Drug Traffickers and Terrorists
January 5th, 2013Via: New York Times: LAST month, HSBC admitted in court pleadings that it had allowed big Mexican and Colombian drug cartels to launder at least $881 million. The bank also admitted to using various schemes to move hundreds of millions of dollars to nations subject to trade sanctions, including Iran, Cuba and Sudan, in violation […]
U.S. Military Does Deal with Microsoft for Windows 8 and Other Software
January 5th, 2013Since Windows 8 is a bigger turd than Vista, it must be nice for Microsoft to be able to dump it on the U.S. taxpayer via Uncle $cam. Via: U.S. Department of Defense: The Defense Department has leveraged the buying power of more than two million information technology users to award a three-year, $617 million […]
Cass ‘Cognitive Infiltration’ Sunstein on Gun Control
January 4th, 2013Via: Big Think: While he left his post as the head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs this past summer, Sunstein remains one of the most influential legal scholars of his generation. His ideas — which apply behavioral economics to public policy — are highly nuanced, and often make both libertarians […]
Write Gambling Software, Go to Prison
January 3rd, 2013Via: Wired: In a criminal case sure to make programmers nervous, a software maker who licenses a program used by online casinos and bookmakers overseas is being charged with promoting gambling in New York because authorities say his software was used by others for illegal betting in that state. New York authorities say that about […]
