Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
U.N. Calls for ‘Anti-Terror’ Internet Surveillance
October 24th, 2012Via: Cnet: United Nations report calls for Internet surveillance, saying lack of “internationally agreed framework for retention of data” is a problem, as are open Wi-Fi networks in airports, cafes, and libraries. The United Nations is calling for more surveillance of Internet users, saying it would help to investigate and prosecute terrorists. A 148-page report […]
Russia Broadens Definition of Treason
October 24th, 2012Via: Financial Times: Russia has broadened its definition of treason, in a move prompting fears that state authorities will have a new weapon to clamp down on the press and non-governmental organisations. The law was passed on Tuesday by the lower house of parliament, one of several pieces of legislation overseen by President Vladimir Putin […]
DHS Moving X-ray Body Scanners from Large Airports to Smaller Ones
October 24th, 2012Via: CNBC: The Transportation Security Administration is removing full-body, X-ray scanners from major U.S. airports, and shipping them to less busy locations.
Iran Threatens to Halt Crude Exports If Sanctions Intensify
October 23rd, 2012Via: Bloomberg: Iran will suspend all oil exports, pushing global crude prices higher, if the U.S. and Europe tighten sanctions further on the OPEC member’s economy, Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi warned. “If you continue to add to the sanctions, we will stop our oil exports to the world,” he said at a news conference in […]
‘IMF’s Epic Plan to Conjure Away Debt and Dethrone Bankers’
October 23rd, 2012If nothing else, it makes for an entertaining read. Via: Telegraph: So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the International Monetary Fund claims that one could eliminate the net public debt of the US at a stroke, and by implication do the same for Britain, Germany, Italy, or Japan. One […]
Japanese Justice Minister Resigns After Revealing Organized Crime Links
October 23rd, 2012Via: AFP: Japan’s justice minister, who has admitted past links with organised crime, resigned Tuesday just three weeks into the job, citing “health problems”, the government said. Keishu Tanaka was brought into the cabinet at the start of the month as part of a reshuffle aimed at shoring up Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda’s shaky administration. […]
Satire: Nation Tunes In To See Which Sociopath More Likable This Time
October 22nd, 2012Via: The Onion: According to reports, millions of viewers across the country are expected to tune in to tonight’s town-hall-style presidential debate at Hofstra University in order to determine which complete and utter sociopath they find more likable this time around. “I’m very curious to see which one of these two clinically sociopathic individuals will […]
Supreme Court Terminates Warrantless Electronic Spying Case
October 20th, 2012Via: Wired: The Supreme Court closed a 6-year-old chapter Tuesday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s bid to hold the nation’s telecoms liable for allegedly providing the National Security Agency with backdoors to eavesdrop, without warrants, on Americans’ electronic communications in violation of federal law. The justices, without comment, declined to review a lower court’s December […]
Does the Romney Family Now Own Your E-Vote?
October 20th, 2012Via: Global Research: Will you cast your vote this fall on a faulty electronic machine that’s partly owned by the Romney Family? Will that machine decide whether Romney will then inherit the White House? Through a closely held equity fund called Solamere, Mitt Romney and his wife, son and brother are major investors in an […]
Crimes by ATF and DEA Informants Not Tracked by Feds
October 20th, 2012*yawn* Via: USA Today: The nation’s top drug and gun enforcement agencies do not track how often they give their informants permission to break the law on the government’s behalf. U.S. Justice Department rules put strict limits on when and how agents at the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and […]
