Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Britain: Man Faces Questioning for Posting Burning Poppy Photo
November 13th, 2012Via: Sky: A man has been questioned by police after an image of a burning poppy was posted on Facebook on Remembrance Sunday. Kent Police said the 19-year-old, from Canterbury, was detained on Sunday night on suspicion of making malicious telecommunications. The force said in a statement: “A man (was) interviewed by police this morning […]
Petition to Let Texas Secede from the U.S. to be Reviewed by the White House
November 13th, 2012Comedy Gold. Via: Houston Chronicle: Well, Texas, you have done it. As of 3:40 p.m. ET, more than 25,000 Texans have already signed the petition on The White House website to let Texas peacefully secede from United States of America and “create its own NEW government.”
Obama Considering John Kerry for Secretary of Defense
November 13th, 2012Via: Washington Post: President Obama is considering asking Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) to serve as his next defense secretary, part of an extensive rearrangement of his national security team that will include a permanent replacement for former CIA director David H. Petraeus. Although Kerry is thought to covet the job of secretary of state, […]
Big Picture: Syria Conflict
November 12th, 2012Via: Boston Globe: In a conflict dragging on into its twentieth violent month, today was an especially deadly day in Syria, where rebels are fighting the government of Bashar al-Assad. A pair of car bombs exploded, one in Hama and one in Damascus, and both sides claimed wildly different casualty totals. Intense shelling of rebel […]
Microsoft Wants to Know How Many Friends You’ve Got in Your Living Room
November 12th, 2012I didn’t even know what this Kinect camera was for. I had to search for information on it. Wikipedia: Kinect is a motion sensing input device by Microsoft for the Xbox 360 video game console and Windows PCs. Based around a webcam-style add-on peripheral for the Xbox 360 console, it enables users to control and […]
Mexico’s New President Set to Empower a ‘Devil’s Cartel’
November 11th, 2012Via: Narcosphere: Baruch Vega, a long-time CIA operative, has raised a red flag over the incoming president of Mexico’s decision to employ the former head of the Colombian National Police, Gen. Oscar Naranjo, as his security advisor in the war on drugs. “I do not think Naranjo will be running a war against drugs,” Vega […]
Mexican Hitman Claims Cartels Bought Guns from U.S. Border Patrol
November 11th, 2012Via: Wired: The testimony of a Mexican hitman turned US government witness has revealed some astonishing details of life inside Mexico’s criminal underworld. Most astonishing of all: claims that cartel assassins obtained guns from the US Border Patrol. According to Mexican magazine Revista Contralinea, the testimony comes from a protected government witness and former hitman, […]
Chinese Regime Blocks Access to Google Services
November 10th, 2012Via: International Business Times: According to a website dedicated to tracking which sites have been blocked or censored by the Chinese government, Google.com along with a host of other Google services are no longer accessible from mainland China. The Chinese web monitoring website, GreatFire.org, first reported the issue at 1pm (GMT) today, Friday, 9 November […]
‘Next Bush’ Makes Campaign Filing in Texas
November 9th, 2012Via: AP: George P. Bush, a nephew of former President George W. Bush and son of one-time Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, has made a campaign filing in Texas that is required of candidates planning to run for state office, an official said Thursday night. The younger Bush, a Fort Worth resident, filed a campaign treasurer […]
Foxconn Sees New Source Of Cheap Labor: The United States
November 9th, 2012Since MIT did it with Open Courseware years ago, I suspected that the point of the “free education” offerings was to create a pool of relatively skilled workers in some of the poorest countries in the world. You know, places with open sewers where people sleep on dirt floors… and where lots of these people […]
