Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Goldman Sachs VP Changed Name, Now a Top Congressional Staffer
August 19th, 2011Via: Think Progress: Has Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) turned the House Oversight Committee into a bank lobbying firm with the power to subpoena and pressure government regulators? ThinkProgress has found that a Goldman Sachs vice president changed his name, then later went to work for Issa to coordinate his effort to thwart regulations that affect […]
Fake Facebook Identity Used By Military Contractors Plotting To Hack Progressive Organizations
August 19th, 2011Via: ThinkProgress: Earlier this year, ThinkProgress obtained 75,000 private emails from the defense contractor HBGary Federal via the hacktivist group called Anonymous. The emails led to two shocking revelations. First, that an assortment of private military firms collectively called “Team Themis” had been tapped by Bank of America to conduct a cyber war against reporters […]
Idaho Is a Constitution Free Zone: U.S. Government Uses Criminal Defendant’s Communications With Defense Team to Prosecute Him
August 19th, 2011You may find it hard to have any sympathy for a guy like Edgar J. Steele, but if you think that what the government has done to him is ok, you’re worse than the Nazis that Steele has defended and promoted. One of my core struggles on here is against the fascist eugenics that Steele […]
OBAMA CALLS FOR SYRIAN PRESIDENT TO STEP DOWN
August 18th, 2011Is the U.S. going to drag NATO into bombing Syria—for the children? World War III for economic growth? How’s that thing in Libya working out for Mr. Hopey Changey? Via: New York Times: President Obama called on Thursday for the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, to leave power, and issued a new executive order providing for […]
SEC Illegally Destroyed Files and Documents Related to Thousands of Early-Stage Investigations
August 18th, 2011You’ll love this one. Via: New York Times: An enforcement lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission says that the agency illegally destroyed files and documents related to thousands of early-stage investigations over the last 20 years, according to information released Wednesday by Congressional investigators. The destroyed files comprise records of at least 9,000 preliminary […]
For First Time, More Corn Used for Ethanol Than Livestock
August 18th, 2011Via: The Gazette: For the first time ever, more of the corn crop may go into gas tanks than into the stomachs of cattle and poultry destined for kitchen tables. The prediction drew little response last week when it was released by the USDA in its Crop Production and Supply/Demand Report for the 2011 crop […]
UK PM’s Internet Censorship Insinuation Receives Praise from China
August 18th, 2011Via: ZeroPaid: You know your internet censorship plans are too strict when China praises you for it. I’ll say this right off the bat, if someone told me one month ago that I would end up writing a headline like that, I would have told them they were insane. I am simply stunned that it […]
Hugo Chavez Orders $11 Billion of Gold Home From International Vaults
August 18th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered the central bank to repatriate $11 billion of gold reserves held in developed nations’ institutions such as the Bank of England as the metal rises to record levels behind a weakening U.S. dollar. Venezuela, which holds 211 tons of its 365 tons of gold reserves in U.S., European, […]
Long Beach Police Department Claims Authority to Detain People for Taking Pictures “With No Apparent Aesthetic Value”
August 17th, 2011The U.S. horror show is plumbing new depths of fascism now. This one will definitely cause you to skip a beat. Even I had to pause and re-read this one in disbelief. Via: Long Beach Post: Police Chief Jim McDonnell has confirmed that detaining photographers for taking pictures “with no apparent esthetic value” is within […]
Who—and What—Are Behind the “Official History” of the Bin Laden Raid?
August 17th, 2011I just included a tiny piece of this. Click through, but be ready to for a lengthy and careful meditation on total absurdity of this fabricated spectacle. Via: Who What Why: The establishment media just keep getting worse. They’re further and further from good, tough investigative journalism, and more prone to be pawns in complicated […]
