Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Marines Asked to Disarm Before Leon Panetta Speech; ‘Somebody Got Itchy’
March 14th, 2012Via: MSNBC: In a highly unusual move, around 200 U.S. Marines were asked to leave their weapons outside the tent where U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta was set to speak during his trip to Afghanistan on Wednesday. Although the military said the order was not given in response to Sunday’s shooting of 16 Afghan civilians […]
US, EU and Japan Challenge China on Rare Earths at WTO
March 14th, 2012Via: BBC: The US, Japan and the European Union have filed a case against China at the World Trade Organization, challenging its restrictions on rare earth exports. US President Barack Obama accused China of breaking agreed trade rules as he announced the case at the White House. Beijing has set quotas for exports of rare […]
Britain: CCTV at Petrol Stations Will Prevent Uninsured Cars from Being Fueled
March 14th, 2012Wow. How long until this is linked to other databases? Unpaid property taxes, unlicensed pets, overdue library books, or who knows what else??? Via: Mirror: Cameras at petrol stations will automatically stop uninsured or untaxed vehicles from being filled with fuel, under new government plans. Downing Street officials hope the hi-tech system will crack down […]
Cyborg Snails
March 14th, 2012Via: Nature: The dozen or so brown garden snails crawling around the plastic, moss-filled terrarium in Evgeny Katz’s laboratory look normal, but they have a hidden superpower: they produce electricity. Into each mollusc, Katz and his team at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, have implanted tiny biofuel cells that extract electrical power from the […]
Surreal Situation in U.S. Post Office
March 14th, 2012My dad went to his local post office to mail me some CDs that I had forgotten to pack when I left the U.S. back in 2006. He said that a bunch of other “old farts” in the post office were also sending packages to their children and grandchildren who were living overseas. He overhead […]
NEW YORK STATE SET TO ADD ALL CONVICT DNA TO ITS DATABASE
March 14th, 2012Via: New York Times: New York is poised to establish one of the most expansive DNA databases in the nation, requiring people convicted of everything from fare beating to first-degree murder to provide samples of their DNA to the state. On Tuesday, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and state lawmakers were putting the finishing touches on […]
Go to Trial: Crash the Justice System
March 13th, 2012Good luck with that. Via: New York Times: AFTER years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless. But some questions a woman I know posed during a phone conversation one recent evening gave me pause: “What would happen if we organized thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of people charged with crimes to […]
DARPA Director Quits Pentagon for Job at Google
March 12th, 2012So, no, she’s not in jail yet. Via: Wired: Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon’s premiere research shop to take a job with Google. Dugan, whose controversial tenure at the agency lasted just under three years, was “offered and accepted at senior executive position” with the […]
DOJ Asks Court To Keep Secret Any Partnership Between Google, NSA
March 12th, 2012Via: Legal Times: The Justice Department is defending the government’s refusal to discuss—or even acknowledge the existence of—any cooperative research and development agreement between Google and the National Security Agency. The Washington based advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center sued in federal district court here to obtain documents about any such agreement between the Internet […]
65-Year-Old California Man Arrested for Distributing Raw Milk and Tortured in L.A. County Jail: ‘I Thought I Was Gonna Die in There’
March 12th, 2012Update: Raw Milk Vending Machine in France Via: YouTube: —End Update— Via: Natural News: NaturalNews can now report that 65-year-old senior citizen James Stewart, a raw milk farmer with no criminal history, was nearly tortured to death in the LA County jail this past week. He survived a “week of torturous Hell” at the hands […]
