Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
New AIDS-Like Disease Found in U.S., Asia
August 29th, 2012Via: AP: Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV. The patients’ immune systems become damaged, leaving them unable to fend off germs as healthy people do. What triggers this isn’t […]
Israeli Court Throws Out Family’s Lawsuit Over Death of U.S. Activist Rachel Corrie
August 28th, 2012Via: MSNBC: An Israeli court rejected on Tuesday accusations that Israel was at fault over the death of American activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by an army bulldozer during a 2003 pro-Palestinian demonstration in Gaza. Corrie’s family had accused Israel of intentionally and unlawfully killing their 23-year-old daughter, launching a civil case in the […]
Venezuela Ramps up China Oil Exports
August 27th, 2012Via: OilPrice.com: The biggest geostrategic change of the past decade overlooked by Washington policy wonks in their fixation on their self-proclaimed “war on terror” is that Latin America has been throwing off the shackles of the Monroe Doctrine. These ignored developments may well soon refocus Washington’s attention on the Southern Hemisphere, as Venezuela’s President Hugo […]
TSA Chatdowns
August 26th, 2012Via: The Blaze: Can the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) pull you out of line without any rational reason, quiz you on where you are going and why? And if you choose not to answer, does that make you “hostile?” One newspaper writer from the Midwest found out the answers to those questions on Monday when […]
Child Porn, Coke Smuggling: Hundreds of DHS Employees Arrested Last Year
August 23rd, 2012Via: Wired: Border Patrol agents smuggling weed and coke. Immigration agents forging documents and robbing drug dealers. TSA employees caught with child porn. Those are just a few of the crimes perpetrated by Department of Homeland Security employees in just the past year. Since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security nearly a decade […]
U.S. Slips to 47th in Press Freedom Index
August 22nd, 2012Via: Reporters Without Borders: The United States (47th) also owed its fall of 27 places to the many arrests of journalist covering Occupy Wall Street protests.
‘Activist’ Richard Aoki: FBI Informant
August 21st, 2012Via: San Francisco Chronicle: The man who gave the Black Panther Party some of its first firearms and weapons training – which preceded fatal shootouts with Oakland police in the turbulent 1960s – was an undercover FBI informer, according to a former bureau agent and an FBI report. One of the Bay Area’s most prominent […]
Britain: Secret Court Hearings
August 20th, 2012Via: Guardian: The government’s plan to establish a new generation of secret courts has sparked fresh controversy after it emerged that the fact that a hearing is to be held behind closed doors may itself be kept secret. During House of Lords debates, it was disclosed that a government application for a court to sit […]
Suicide of Deloitte Partner Daniel Pirron Linked to Standard Chartered’s Iran Scandal
August 19th, 2012Via: Telegraph: The family of a senior partner at Deloitte has called for answers after he apparently committed suicide days after the auditing firm was linked to the Standard Chartered Iran dollar trades scandal. Daniel Pirron, a partner in Delloite’s key General Counsel’s office in New York, was found dead in a car park near […]
Genetically Engineering ‘Ethical’ Babies Is a Moral Obligation, Says Oxford Professor
August 18th, 2012Via: Telegraph: Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a “moral obligation” as it makes them grow up into “ethically better children”. The expert in practical ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice to screen out personality flaws in their children as it meant they were then […]
