Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Libya’s Former Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem Found Dead in Danube River
April 30th, 2012Via: BBC: The body of Libya’s former Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem has been found in the Danube River, Austrian police say. A spokesman said there were no signs of violence to Mr Ghanem’s body, which was in the river that flows through Vienna. The former prime minister, 69, worked as a consultant for a Vienna-based […]
CISPA Bill To Obliterate Privacy Laws Under Guise of Cybersecurity, A Blank Check of Privacy Invasion
April 26th, 2012Via: Hot Hardware: There’s a bill currently up for debate in the US House of Representatives that would give companies and government agencies the right to share information when issues of cybersecurity were at stake. If the first thing you thought after reading that was “Wait, don’t we already do this,” the answer is “Yes, […]
North Carolina: State Threatens to Shut Down Nutrition Blogger
April 26th, 2012Via: Carolina Journal: The North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition is threatening to send a blogger to jail for recounting publicly his battle against diabetes and encouraging others to follow his lifestyle. Chapter 90, Article 25 of the North Carolina General Statutes makes it a misdemeanor to “practice dietetics or nutrition” without a license. According to […]
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., […]
