Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Did Crashed Lockheed Martin HALE-D Airship Have EEStor Systems On Board?
August 5th, 2011If you’re not familiar with the EEStor story, I’ve done several posts on it over the years. With regard to this HALE-D airship crash, let’s first note Lockheed Martin’s links to EEStor. This is from 2008: Lockheed Martin to Use EEstor’s Ultracapacitors for Military and Homeland Security Applications: Lockheed Martin has signed an exclusive international […]
Rawsome Farm Buying Club Raided Again
August 4th, 2011Look at all of the agencies associated with this nonsense!? Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office: Agencies taking part in the ongoing investigation include the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; the California Franchise Tax Board; the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Milk and Dairy Food Safety Branch and the department’s Division of Measurement Standards; the […]
U.S. Borrowing Tops 100% of GDP
August 4th, 2011Via: AFP: US gross debt shot up $238 billion to reach 100 percent of gross domestic product after the government’s debt ceiling was lifted, Treasury figures showed. On Tuesday, the Treasury had to add more than $200 billion of commitments immediately after President Barack Obama signed into law an increase in the debt ceiling. The […]
China to New Zealand: Embrace Your Status as an Authorized Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong Franchisee
August 4th, 2011*sigh* Via: New Zealand Herald: China is launching a public relations offensive in New Zealand and the rest of world, saying the West has nothing to fear from China’s rapid economic growth and investment. The Chinese embassy’s political counsellor Cheng Lei held a rare press conference this morning at the embassy in Wellington, reading out […]
The Secret Patriot Act Is Staying Secret
August 3rd, 2011Via: Wired: The secret Patriot Act is staying secret. Two Senators have been warning for months that the government has a secret legal interpretation of the Patriot Act so broad that it amounts to an entirely different law — one that gives the feds massive domestic surveillance powers, and keeps the rest of us in […]
Moody’s Confirms U.S. AAA Rating; Food Stamp Use Rises to Record
August 3rd, 2011Just a quick juxtaposition of two stories to demonstrate how absurd the kabuki theater has become. Moody’s Confirms U.S. AAA Rating, Assigns Negative Outlook Record Numbers Are Receiving Food Stamps
Israeli-Style Airline Passenger Screening Starting in Boston
August 2nd, 2011Via: Boston Herald: Boston’s TSA screeners — part of a security force whose competency has come under fire nationwide — soon will be carrying out sophisticated behavioral inspections under a first-in-the-nation program that’s already raising concerns of racial profiling, harassment of innocent travelers and longer lines. The training for the Israeli-style screening — a projected […]
New Zealand Medical Establishment Attempted to Murder Man Rather Than Let Him Recover from Terminal Pneumonia With High Doses of Vitamin C
August 2nd, 2011Watch and learn. Via: 3News: The amazing story of a King Country dairy farmer who caught swine flu and very nearly died.
Obombya Regime Wants Changes to Arms Export Licensing Process… To Export More Arms
August 1st, 2011Via: Aviation Week: The Obama administration is proposing to shift tanks, trucks and other military vehicles currently controlled on the U.S. Munitions List (USML) to the less-restrictive U.S. Commerce Control List (CCL) by year’s end as part of a broader effort to reform the U.S. arms export licensing process. The licensing process governs foreign sales […]
Tentative Debt Deal Might Happen; $2.4 Trillion Debt Ceiling Increase Supposedly Tied to $2.4 Trillion in Cuts
July 31st, 2011Deal Almost Complete; No Vote Today Forex is underway. So far, it mostly just looks like the usual noise. NZD/USD broke higher again, however, and hit a new record high of .8842 intraday. Gold is selling off a bit, down 1% right now. Major Asian equity markets are all green; Nikkei up 1.65%. I’ll be […]
