Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Park Police Arrest People for Dancing at Jefferson Memorial
June 2nd, 2011Ok, please stop submitting this. Yes, it’s stupid that these people were arrested, but these types of tactics are a total waste of time. If you want to protest, do it as a general strike that shuts down the Ponzi scheme economy, make a lot less taxable income, produce your own food, participate in local, […]
The Heavy Cost of the Bush-Obama Murder Rampage
June 1st, 2011Via: Lew Rokwell: In every election cycle, the politicians love to pretend there is a difference among them on the foreign policy questions. Yet on these issues of unsurpassed importance, we see the Democrats and Republicans are all part of the same bloodthirsty gang. On the superficial level of presidential politics, Obama and Bush appeared […]
Libya Lost $1.3 Billion on Options Trades Done with Goldman Sachs
May 31st, 2011But first, remember this one? The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs: The point to bear in mind, as Mr. Sloan brilliantly makes clear, is that as Goldman was peddling C.M.O.’s, it was also shorting the junk on a titanic scale through index sales — showing, at least to me, how horrible a […]
Pledge of Allegiance
May 30th, 2011Research Credit: gatorcountry
Lockheed Network Hit by Major Disruption
May 29th, 2011Via: Reuters: Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon’s No. 1 supplier, is experiencing a major disruption to its computer systems that could be related to a problem with network security, a defense official and two sources familiar with the issue said on Thursday. Lockheed, the biggest provider of information technology to the U.S. government, is grappling with […]
Presidential Signature for Patriot Act Extension Carried Out by Robot
May 28th, 2011I couldn’t make it up if I tried.
Top Lobbying Banks Got Biggest Bailouts
May 28th, 2011Mmm hmm. Via: Reuters: The more aggressively a bank lobbied before the financial crisis, the worse its loans performed during the economic downturn — and the more bailout dollars it received, according to a study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research this week. The report, titled “A Fistful of Dollars: Lobbying and the […]
Terrorist ‘Pre-Crime’ Detector Field Tested in United States
May 28th, 2011This is the most hilariously unworkable Magic 8 Ball boondoggle that I’ve ever heard about. In the annals of grant swindling, this one has to take the cake. Via: Nature: Planning a sojourn in the northeastern United States? You could soon be taking part in a novel security programme that can supposedly ‘sense’ whether you […]
Why Are Spy Researchers Building a ‘Metaphor Program’?
May 26th, 2011Via: The Atlantic: A small research arm of the U.S. government’s intelligence establishment wants to understand how speakers of Farsi, Russian, English, and Spanish see the world by building software that automatically evaluates their use of metaphors. That’s right, metaphors, like Shakespeare’s famous line, “All the world’s a stage,” or more subtly, “The darkness pressed […]
U.S. Runs Surveillance Operations Based on Secret Interpretations of Patriot Act
May 26th, 2011Via: Wired: You may think you understand how the Patriot Act allows the government to spy on its citizens. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) says it’s worse than you’ve heard. Congress is set to reauthorize three controversial provisions of the surveillance law as early as Thursday. But Wyden says that what Congress will renew is a […]
