Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Alabama: Inmates Can Replace Hispanic Farmhands
December 7th, 2011Via: Politico: Alabama farmers frantically looking for workers to replace those that have fled the state in the wake of its tough new immigration law should just stop by their local prison, according to the head of Alabama’s agriculture department. John McMillan, commissioner of the Alabama Department of Agriculture and Industries, told the Montgomery Advertiser […]
Library of Congress to Receive Entire Twitter Archive
December 7th, 2011Via: Federal News Radio: The Library of Congress and Twitter have signed an agreement that will see an archive of every public Tweet ever sent handed over to the library’s repository of historical documents. “We have an agreement with Twitter where they have a bunch of servers with their historic archive of tweets, everything that […]
Troops Deployed in Moscow to Deal with Anti Putin Protests
December 6th, 2011Putin should just wow-em with some more action man antics. Via: BBC: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has played down his party’s losses at Sunday’s parliamentary election as inevitable for a party in power. Thousands of police and interior troops are on alert in Moscow, after one of the biggest opposition rallies in the city […]
Supreme Court Will Hear Case of Man Arrested After Telling Cheney What He Thought About Iraq War
December 6th, 2011Via: New York Times: The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether Secret Service agents protecting Vice President Dick Cheney may be sued for violating the free speech rights of a member of the public who made critical remarks about the Bush administration’s war policies. The case arose from an episode in 2006 at […]
The Pentagon Is Offering Free Military Hardware To Every Police Department In The U.S.
December 5th, 2011Via: Business Insider: The US military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will. We produce so much military equipment that inventories of military robots, M-16 assault rifles, helicopters, armored vehicles, and grenade launchers eventually start to pile up and it […]
Fed May Give Loans to IMF to Help Euro Zone
December 5th, 2011Meh, what’s another couple of trillion dollars between friends… Via: Reuters: The Federal Reserve, along with the 17 euro zone national central banks, may help provide the International Monetary Fund with funds that could be used to aid debt-ridden states, a German newspaper said. Die Welt cited sources close to the negotiations as saying the […]
85-Year-Old Woman May Sue TSA After Being Strip Searched at JFK Airport
December 4th, 2011Via: New York Daily News: An 85-year-old Long Island grandmother says she plans to sue the TSA after a humiliating strip search on Tuesday by agents at JFK Airport. Lenore Zimmerman, who lives in Long Beach, says she was on her way to a 1 p.m. flight to Fort Lauderdale when security whisked her to […]
New Zealand Government Wants to Rein In Access to Raw Milk
December 4th, 2011New Zealand is a company town and that company is Fonterra. It makes them insane knowing that farmers are cutting them out of the equation by selling directly to consumers. Other parasitic middlemen (the diabolical Foodstuffs and Woolworths duopoly) are cut out of the deal when people buy goods directly from farmers. In short, farmers […]
Wall Street’s “Secret Government”
December 2nd, 2011Via: Alternet: We now have concrete evidence that Wall Street and Washington are running a secret government far removed from the democratic process. Through a freedom of information request by Bloomberg News, the public now has access to over 29,000 pages of Fed documents and 21,000 additional Fed transactions that were deliberately hidden, and for […]
Armed U.S. Police Officers Will Be Allowed to Operate in Canada
December 1st, 2011Via: The Star: Armed U.S. police officers will for the first time be allowed to operate in Canada along with the RCMP as part of far-reaching changes in Canadian-American border operations to be unveiled next week by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Barack Obama. The joint action plan to be announced at the White […]
