Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Milwaukee Red Cross Told To Prep For Chicago Evacuation During NATO Summit
April 26th, 2012Via: CBS: Is there a secret plan to evacuate some residents of Chicago in the event of major trouble during the NATO summit next month? CBS 2 has uncovered some evidence that there is. It comes from the Milwaukee area branch of the American Red Cross. CBS 2 News has obtained a copy of a […]
TSA Screeners Charged in L.A. Drug Trafficking Probe
April 26th, 2012Via: AP: Duane Eleby, a suspected drug courier, was all set to sneak 10 pounds of cocaine through a security checkpoint at Los Angeles International Airport last February with the help of a former Transportation Security Administration employee and a screener. Eleby, however, bungled the plan by going to the wrong terminal and was arrested […]
Another Way to Kill U.S. Farmers: Seize Their Bank Accounts on Phony Charges
April 25th, 2012Via: Food Freedom News: Monsanto’s Food and Drug Administration can’t close down small dairies and private food clubs fast enough, bursting on the scene with guns drawn as if the criminalized right to contract for natural foods we’ve consumed for millennia deserves SWAT attention. Now, Obama has the Dept. of Justice going after small farmers […]
Obama Regime to Ban Children from Doing Work on Family Farms
April 25th, 2012Via: Daily Caller: A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now it’s attracting barbs from farm kids themselves. The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to […]
Jailed for $280: The Return of Debtors’ Prisons
April 24th, 2012Via: CBS: How did breast cancer survivor Lisa Lindsay end up behind bars? She didn’t pay a medical bill — one the Herrin, Ill., teaching assistant was told she didn’t owe. “She got a $280 medical bill in error and was told she didn’t have to pay it,” The Associated Press reports. “But the bill […]
Want to Get Dry Cleaning Done in Russia?
April 24th, 2012Via: Guardian: It goes something like this. You get to the dry cleaner. There’s a woman, let’s call her Oksana Alexandrovna, sitting behind a low counter, row upon row of clothes in plastic wrap behind her. She’s dealing with a customer. This gives you time to reflect. “Russia is amazing,” you think. “The changes this […]
U.S. to Penalize Authoritarian Regimes That Crack Down on Dissidents
April 24th, 2012Ah, ok. I suppose that the U.S. regime is going to get busy penalizing itself. Or not. U.S. filmmaker repeatedly detained at border: Since the 2006 release of “My Country, My Country,” Poitras has left and re-entered the U.S. roughly 40 times. Virtually every time during that six-year-period that she has returned to the U.S., […]
Homeland Security Raids Flee Market Over Pirated DVDs, Counterfeit Apparel
April 24th, 2012Via: Baltimore Sun: Vendors at the Patapsco Flea Market have a history of allegedly selling counterfeit and pirated merchandise, according to an affidavit, which outlined the latest accusation that resulted in a raid Sunday by federal Homeland Security Investigations special agents. Capping a 2 1/2-year-long investigation into counterfeit apparel and accessories as well as pirated […]
Wireless Industry Association Opposes Bill That Would Require Warrant For Them To Turn Data Over To Law Enforcement
April 23rd, 2012Via: TechDirt: You would think that it would be in the mobile operators’ best interest to protect their own customers’ privacy and to stand up for their basic rights. You would think, but apparently you’d be wrong. It appears that CTIA — the mobile operators’ industry association — is opposing an effort in California to […]
Scientific Fraud: ‘Nobody Had Noticed the Whole Thing Was Rotten’
April 21st, 2012Nobody noticed, eh? Well, my archives go back to 2002, for example, but I don’t count, and thousands of others like me don’t count. The professionally educated ignoramus class heaps scorn on “conspiracy theorists” for outing their crackpot grant swindling and corporate profit cult for what it is, but then, when the rot has gotten […]
