Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Farmageddon
June 9th, 2011Via: Farmageddon: Farmageddon Trailer from Kristin Canty on Vimeo. Research Credit: R
Surprise: Cost of War in Libya Exceeding Estimates
June 9th, 2011Via: Financial Times: US military operations in Libya are on course to cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than the Pentagon estimated, according to figures obtained by the Financial Times. Robert Gates, the outgoing secretary of defence, said last month that the Pentagon expected to spend “somewhere in the ball park of $750m” in […]
Why Is The Federal Government Running Ads Secretly Created & Owned By NBC Universal?
June 9th, 2011Via: Tech Dirt: We certainly suspected this when New York City first announced that it was running a series of silly and misleading videos as part of a media campaign to “Stop Piracy in NYC,” but now it’s been confirmed that these videos were not, in fact, New York City’s, but are purely NBC Universal’s. […]
Saudi Regime Delays Revolution with Payouts
June 9th, 2011Via: New York Times: As one nation after another has battled uprisings across the Arab world, the one major country spared is also its richest — Saudi Arabia, where a fresh infusion of money has so far bought order. The kingdom is spending $130 billion to pump up salaries, build housing and finance religious organizations, […]
U.S. Funding for Future Promises Lags by Trillions
June 7th, 2011Via: USA Today: The federal government’s financial condition deteriorated rapidly last year, far beyond the $1.5 trillion in new debt taken on to finance the budget deficit, a USA TODAY analysis shows. The government added $5.3 trillion in new financial obligations in 2010, largely for retirement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. That brings […]
North China Is Dying
June 7th, 2011Via: New York Times: North China is dying. A chronic drought is ravaging farmland. The Gobi Desert is inching south. The Yellow River, the so-called birthplace of Chinese civilization, is so polluted it can no longer supply drinking water. The rapid growth of megacities — 22 million people in Beijing and 12 million in Tianjin […]
The Gitmo No One Talks About
June 7th, 2011Via: Salon: President Obama has presided over a threefold increase in the number of detainees being held at the controversial military detention center at Bagram Air Base, the Afghan cousin of the notorious prison at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. It’s the latest piece of news that almost certainly would be getting more […]
Syria Says 120 Forces Dead
June 6th, 2011Via: AP: Armed men attacked Syrian security forces in a tense northern city on Monday, state television said, and 120 policemen and security forces were killed in a region where the army has carried out days of deadly assaults on protesters calling for the end of President Bashar Assad’s rule. Communications were cut to the […]
Canada: Brigette DePape Protests Harper Government on Senate Floor
June 4th, 2011I’m no fan of sign waving, but this was pretty good. Brigette DePape’s protest was different from the run-of-the-mill pink tutu and bozo wig nonsense that has no chance of ever causing the corporate state to change course. Seeing her in her official uniform, standing there in defiance in front of the Queen’s goon squad, […]
Introducing iCensor: Apple Is Patenting Technology That Will Cripple Its Devices When They Are In the Proximity of ‘A Concert or a Classified Facility’
June 3rd, 2011Forget Apple’s sycophantic entertainment industry boot licking for a moment. Will agents of the state have a kill switch on recording devices as well? Apparently so. The patent itself, U.S. Patent #20110128384 uses the phrase, “classified facility” as an example of a venue where the devices would be crippled. (Can you hear that sickening sound? […]
