Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Sarkozy Calls for Tax on Financial Transactions to Fund Global Development
August 16th, 2011Via: AFP: French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday called for a tax on all financial transactions at the UN Millennium Goals summit to pay for global development. “Finance has globalized, so why should we not ask finance to participate in stabilizing the world by taking a tax on each financial transaction,” Sarkozy told the summit. […]
Doubling Down: Germany, France Propose Collective Government for Eurozone Led by EU President
August 16th, 2011HAHA. What could possibly go wrong? Via: CBC: The leaders of Germany and France are proposing collective governance for the euro zone led by the European Union president. Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy announced the proposal Tuesday after meeting in Paris, as new figures showed economic growth in the region all but stalled even before […]
Britain: Police Could Get New Curfew Powers
August 16th, 2011Via: Guardian: New powers allowing police to clear the streets and create “no-go” areas for the public are being considered, the home secretary, Theresa May, has said. May said it was time to consider whether the police needed a power “to impose a general curfew in a particular area” in the aftermath of last week’s […]
As Economy Tanks, “New Normal” Police State Takes Shape
August 15th, 2011Via: Dissident Voice: Forget your rights. As corporate overlords position themselves to seize what little remains of a tattered social net (adieu Medicare and Medicaid! Social Security? Au revoir!), the Obama administration is moving at break-neck speed to expand police state programs first stood-up by the Bush government. After all, with world share prices gyrating […]
Paul Krugman on CNN: “If We Discovered That Space Aliens Were Planning to Attack… This Slump Would Be Over in 18 Months”
August 15th, 2011The Al Qaeda swindle isn’t working, so why not double down and shoot for the stars? Via: CNN Clip on YouTube: Paul Krugman wants to create a Keynesian-infused Space Alien Economic Bubble to revive the depressed one we have right now.
Author Claims Pentagon Can’t Account for $10 Trillion Since 1991
August 15th, 2011Via: Daily Ticker: You think Enron’s accounting was troubled? The Pentagon has very little accountability when it comes to its books. Since first submitting financial accounts in 1991, the Pentagon “has been unable to account for trillions of dollars, well over almost $10 trillion by my own account,” says Glain. Conspiracy theorists suggest this is […]
Terror Screening Watchlist Service
August 14th, 2011Via: The Informant: Last Friday, the federal government’s new anti-terror database, the Terror Screening Watchlist Service, went live. The database is loaded with an unknown amount of personal information, including names, photographs and biometric data. In a new turn that has civil liberties advocates crying foul, the Department of Homeland Security is claiming all information […]
World Is Witnessing Financial WWIII
August 12th, 2011Via: Russia Today: Following the loss of the US’s triple-A credit score which sparked sell-offs on global markets, a new war using financial derivatives has been waged, which by no means can bear the name of WWIII, financial analyst Max Keiser told RT. Investors however remain unconvinced the country’s finances are solid enough. Problems in […]
Government Pays for Empty Flights to Rural Airports
August 12th, 2011Via: AP / San Francisco Chronicle: On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, Nev., airport and depart for Las Vegas without a single passenger on board. And the federal government pays them to do it. Federal statistics reviewed by The Associated Press show that […]
Russia: Government Sponsored Youth Camp
August 12th, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times: They wake up to the Russian national anthem and gather near the main stage lined with huge portraits of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his boss (on paper at least), President Dmitry Medvedev, where they do their morning exercises to music interrupted periodically by recorded quotations from both leaders. As the […]
