Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Chinese Neurosurgeons Remove Sections of Brains of Drug and Alcohol Addicts
December 28th, 2012Via: Time: How far should doctors go in attempting to cure addiction? In China, some physicians are taking the most extreme measures. By destroying parts of the brain’s “pleasure centers” in heroin addicts and alcoholics, these neurosurgeons hope to stop drug cravings. But damaging the brain region involved in addictive desires risks permanently ending the […]
The Spy State Tightens Its Grip
December 28th, 2012Via: AlterNet: These are just four examples of an increasing number of efforts among various federal entities, including the Congress and Supreme Court, to expand the power of the U.S. government to spy on American citizens. Recent initiatives by three of the lead agencies engaged in citizen surveillance — National Security Agency (NSA), Department of […]
Canada Tries to Disappear Report on Israeli Murder of Four Unarmed UN Observers
December 27th, 2012Via: Windsor Star: The Defence Department has quietly removed from the Internet a report on the killing of a Canadian military officer by Israeli forces, a move the soldier’s widow says is linked to the Conservative government’s reluctance to criticize Israel for any wrongdoing. Maj. Paeta Hess-von Kruedener and three other United Nations observers were […]
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 […]
