Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Social Computing Data Repository
March 24th, 2011Via: Arizona State University: Social Computing Data Repository hosts data from a collection of many different social media sites, most of which have blogging capacity. Some of the prominent social media sites included in this repository are BlogCatalog, Twitter, MyBlogLog, Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, MySpace, LiveJournal, The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW), Reddit, etc. The repository contains […]
15 Dead in New Clashes in Southern Syria
March 23rd, 2011Via: AP: Syrian police launched a relentless assault Wednesday on a neighborhood sheltering anti-government protesters, fatally shooting at least 15 in an operation that lasted nearly 24 hours, witnesses said. At least six were killed in a predawn attack on the al-Omari mosque in the southern agricultural city of Daraa, where protesters have taken to […]
China’s Real Time Voice Analysis Systems Drop Calls When People Mention the Word ‘Protest’
March 23rd, 2011Flashback 2005: Narus Opens New Office in China, Signs Two Partner Agreements in Region; New Office Further Strengthens Narus Presence in Asia: MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Narus, Inc., the leading Carrier-Class IP Platform software provider, announced its opening of a new office in Beijing, China, to support direct sales in China. In conjunction with this, […]
Obama Creates Indefinite Detention System for Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
March 21st, 2011From March 8. Via: Washington Post: President Obama signed an executive order Monday that will create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security. The administration also said it will start new military commission trials […]
U.S. Army ‘Kill Team’ in Afghanistan Posed for ‘Trophy’ Photos with Murdered Civilians
March 21st, 2011Via: Guardian: Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for possible riots and public fury triggered by the publication of “trophy” photographs of US soldiers posing with the dead bodies of defenceless Afghan civilians they killed. Senior officials at Nato’s International Security Assistance Force in Kabul have compared the pictures published by the German news weekly […]
Of Arms and the Man: War-Profiteers and Progressives Make Common Cause for Obama
March 21st, 2011Via: Empire Burlesque: Yet even now, the “progressive blogosphere” is ablaze with partisan fervor bent toward a single goal: the re-election of Barack Obama in 2012. Because if Obama is not re-elected, we might get a president who … kowtows to Wall Street, tortures Americans, kills innocent people — that is, who actually, literally, physically […]
As U.S. Regime Fights Three Wars, Obama Pushes F-18 Fighter Jets on Brazil
March 20th, 2011Hope. Flashback: Obama Awarded 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Via: Reuters: President Barack Obama made a strong pitch for the Boeing F-18 jet fighter in a meeting with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, but she did not indicate if her government had decided to buy the U.S.-made plane, the White House said on Sunday. “The F-18 issue […]
Attempts to Replace Confetti Currency Federal Reserve Notes with Precious Metals Are, ‘A Unique Form of Domestic Terrorism’
March 20th, 2011The source for all the quotes in this post is a U.S. Department of Justice Press Release that appears on the web site of the Charlotte field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. http://charlotte.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel11/ce031811.htm I didn’t link directly to this because my guess is that you wouldn’t be doing yourself any favors by clicking […]
Canada: Free-Range Egg Ban Shuts Bed and Breakfast that Operated for Decades
March 19th, 2011Via: CBC News: A P.E.I. bed and breakfast that has been operating for decades has decided to close down next year rather than stop serving eggs from its own hens because of a government order. The Doctor’s Inn in Tyne Valley, northwest of Summerside, also operates an organic farm. Paul and Jean Offer sell their […]
Obama Regime Understates Deficits by $2.3 Trillion
March 19th, 2011Maybe they’re anticipating finding the missing $2.3 trillion that Rumsfeld mentioned on September 10, 2001. Via: AP: A new assessment of President Barack Obama’s budget released Friday says the White House underestimates future budget deficits by more than $2 trillion over the upcoming decade. The estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that if […]
