Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
U.S. to Send Troops to Israel
January 5th, 2012Watch that CNN clip with the soldier talking about voting for Ron Paul before you read the story below: Via: Global Research: In one of the most blacked-out stories in America right now, the US military is preparing to send thousands of US troops, along with US Naval anti-missile ships and accompanying support personnel, to […]
A Brief History of Plutocracy
January 5th, 2012Via: Robin Upton at Chaos Computer Club: This whistlestop re-telling of world economic history squeezes 12,000 years of history into 18 slides. Its focus is the changing nature of money and the rise of the monied class in US and Europe. It outlines how the modern system of banking was instituted, how international organising allowed […]
CNN Pulls the Plug on Live Feed of Soldier Talking About Voting for Ron Paul
January 4th, 2012Update: Soldier in Trouble for Praising Ron Paul on National TV Noguru sent this in. Via: ABC: Rep. Ron Paul likes to silence the GOP rivals who criticize his foreign policy as “dangerous” by reminding them that he receives more financial support from military personal than all the other candidates combined. But the Army is […]
H.R. 3166: Enemy Expatriation Act
January 4th, 2012My guess is that, “supporting hostilities” will mean anything the maniac state makes up at its whim about your behavior, reading choices, purchases, etc. Via: GovTrack: 112th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3166 To add engaging in or supporting hostilities against the United States to the list of acts for which United States nationals would […]
Hope, 2012 Edition
January 3rd, 2012Belarus: Browsing Foreign Websites a Misdemeanor
January 3rd, 2012Via: Library of Congress: As stated in an explanatory note published together with the Law, this act was issued to implement the Decree of the Belarusian President of February 1, 2010, on Improvements to the Usage of the National Segment of the Internet. The newly published Law imposes restrictions on visiting and/or using foreign websites […]
SOPA: Internet Giants Consider ‘Nuclear Option’
January 3rd, 2012Via: Cnet: The Internet’s most popular destinations, including eBay, Google, Facebook, and Twitter seem to view Hollywood-backed copyright legislation as an existential threat. It was Google co-founder Sergey Brin who warned that the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act “would put us on a par with the most oppressive nations in the […]
Progressives and the Ron Paul Fallacies
January 1st, 2012Via: Salon: The thing I loathe most about election season is reflected in the central fallacy that drives progressive discussion the minute “Ron Paul” is mentioned. As soon as his candidacy is discussed, progressives will reflexively point to a slew of positions he holds that are anathema to liberalism and odious in their own right […]
The Coming War on General Purpose Computation
January 1st, 2012Via: Cory Doctorow at Chaos Computer Club: The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the stakes are the freedom, fortune and privacy of […]
Twelve Triggers for World Government
January 1st, 2012Via: Adrian Salbuchi: The Private Global Power Elite embedded in major governments is dead set on imposing World Government on us sooner rather than later. Let’s look at 12 mega-processes – veritable “Triggers” – that we infer they are using to achieve their goals. Research Credit: windhorse
