Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Petition to Eliminate Armed Guards for the President, Vice-President, and Their Families, and Establish Gun Free Zones Around Them
December 27th, 2012*chortle* Via: whitehouse.gov: Gun Free Zones are supposed to protect our children, and some politicians wish to strip us of our right to keep and bear arms. Those same politicians and their families are currently under the protection of armed Secret Service agents. If Gun Free Zones are sufficient protection for our children, then Gun […]
Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email
December 26th, 2012Via: AllGov: The federal government will continue to access Americans’ emails without a warrant, after the U.S. Senate dropped a key amendment to legislation now headed to the White House for approval. More: Congress Defeats E-Mail Privacy Legislation — Again
Help, I’m Trapped in a Chinese Forced Labor Camp
December 25th, 2012Via: The Oregonian: The letter came in a box of Halloween decorations purchased at Kmart, but for a year Julie Keith never knew. It gathered dust in her storage, a haunting plea for help hidden among artificial skeletons, tombstones and spider webs. Keith, a 42-year-old vehicle donation manager at a southeast Portland Goodwill, at one […]
9/11: The World Trade Center Collapses – Part 1: Scientific Evidence and 200+ Mainstream Testimonies Virtually Prove Buildings Brought Down With Thermate and Explosives
December 23rd, 2012Get comfortable if you click through because you’re going to be reading for a while. My Firefox Print Preview shows this to be 64 pages long as of right now: 9/11: The World Trade Center Collapses – Part 1: Scientific Evidence and 200+ Mainstream Testimonies Virtually Prove Buildings Brought Down With Thermate and Explosives
Brownells Sells 3.5 Years’ Worth of Magazines in 72 hours
December 22nd, 2012Via: Guns.com: In the face of possible legislation to restrict and possibly ban firearms and magazines over a certain capacity, waves of panic buyers have stripped shelves to the paint, at both retail and online gun stores. A combination of demand and gouging has caused prices for rifle magazines and rifles, parts and accessories to […]
How the Internet Became a Closed Shop
December 22nd, 2012Via: Sydney Morning Herald: A LITTLE over a decade ago, just before the masses discovered the digital universe, the internet was a borderless new frontier: a terra nullius to be populated by individuals, groups and programmers as they saw fit. There were few rules and no boundaries. Freedom and open standards, sharing information for the […]
Obama Named Time’s ‘Person of the Year’: ‘Architect of This New America’
December 20th, 2012Where does one even start? Via: Stuff: US President Barack Obama has been named Time magazine’s “person of the year” for 2012. “We are in the midst of historic cultural and demographic changes, and Obama is both the symbol and in some ways the architect of this new America,” Time Editor Rick Stengel told NBC’s […]
Congress Uses School Massacre Hysteria as Distraction to Restore Indefinite Detention for Americans
December 20th, 2012Via: Huffington Post: Congress stripped a provision Tuesday from a defense bill that aimed to shield Americans from the possibility of being imprisoned indefinitely without trial by the military. The provision was replaced with a passage that appears to give citizens little protection from indefinite detention. The amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of […]
The Economic Return of Iceland Has Proved That the Joke Was on Ireland
December 20th, 2012Via: Irish Independent: WAY back in the autumn of 2008, the joke in financial circles was that the only difference between Ireland and Iceland was a letter and six months. Now, with the Icelandic banks preparing to issue foreign currency bonds once again, it turns out that the joke was on us. Remember when the […]
And Now… ‘Time to Profile White Men?’
December 20th, 2012Via: Salon: Yesterday, during a cable news discussion of gun violence and the Newtown school shooting, I dared mention a taboo truism. During a conversation on MSNBC’s “Up With Chris Hayes,” I said that because most of the mass shootings in America come at the hands of white men, there would likely be political opposition […]
