Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Qaddafi Was Captured Alive—Who Killed Him?
October 21st, 2011Via: The Atlantic: What did happen to Qaddafi after the video above cut away? No one can seem to say for sure. Libyan interim Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril admitted late on Thursday that Qaddafi had been found alive but insisted he had been killed accidentally. “There was cross-fire and he was shot while they were […]
Britain: CIA Lobbies for Secret Courts
October 21st, 2011Via: Independent: Secret justice looks set to be a regular feature of British courts and tribunals when the intelligence services want to protect their sources of information. Civil courts, immigration panels and even coroner’s inquests would go into secret session if the Government rules that hearing evidence in public could be a threat to national […]
Get Ready for a New Human Species
October 21st, 2011Via: MIT Technology Review: If you turned off the electricity in the United States, you would see millions of people die quickly, because they wouldn’t have asthma medications, respirators, insulin, a whole host of things we invented to prevent people from dying. Eventually, we get to the point where evolution is guided by what we’re […]
35 Congressmen Move to Kill $122 Billion in Subsidies to Big Oil
October 21st, 2011Via: Tree Hugger: Who likes oil subsidies? Nobody! Nobody but the oil companies, that is. But as we know, these subsidies, which American taxpayers annually spend billions of dollars on, are extremely difficult to kill. But 35 US congressmen and women are going to try: They’ve just drafted a motion to the so-called ‘super committee’ […]
Mikhail Gorbachev Says Uprisings Signal an Emerging New World Order
October 21st, 2011Via: Lafayette College: Gorbachev was referring to the series of uprisings around the world including the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations here in the United States. “The world needs goals that will bring people together,” he said. “Some people in the United States were pushing the idea of creating a global American empire, and that was […]
Department of Homeland Security Deployed on Tennessee Interstates
October 20th, 2011Via: NewsChannel5: You’re probably use to seeing TSA’s signature blue uniforms at the airport, but now agents are hitting the interstates to fight terrorism with Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR). “Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on an airplane more likely on the interstate,” said Tennessee Department of […]
Muammar Gaddafi Killed in Sirte
October 20th, 2011Via: Al Jazeera: Colonel Ahmed Bani, the military spokesman of the National Transition Council, has confirmed to Al Jazeera that Muammar Gaddafi has been killed. Abdul Hakim Belhaj, an NTC military chief, said Gaddafi had died of his wounds after being captured near his hometown Sirte. The body of the former Libyan leader was taken […]
MTV Real World Casting Call for Occupy Wall Street Protestors
October 20th, 2011An individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which the wind stirs up at will. —Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind So, Obombya, the Goldman Sachs’ shill, and MTV are now behind this Occupy Wall Street situation. [Update: Mikhail Gorbachev: Protests leading to […]
Egypt’s Top ‘Facebook Revolutionary’ Now Advising Occupy Wall Street
October 19th, 2011Via: Wired: One of the key activists behind Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution” is now giving advice to a new group of protesters: the Occupy Wall Street movement. The protesters in New York’s Zuccotti Park — and their offshoots around the country — often cite the mass demonstrations earlier this year in Cairo’s Tahrir Square as their […]
China: People Ignore Dying Child Who Was Run Over by Two Different Vehicles
October 18th, 2011Via: New Zealand Herald: Footage of a two-year-old girl being run over by a van and lying bleeding on the road as more than a dozen people pass her by has sparked outrage and soul searching in China. The video surveillance footage posted widely on Chinese social media sites starts with the young girl being […]
