Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
SAUDIS MOBILIZE THOUSANDS OF TROOPS TO QUELL GROWING REVOLT
March 6th, 2011It’s going to be an interesting Monday in the energy markets. Via: Independent: Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer and the regional domino whose fall the West fears most, yesterday announced that it would ban all protests and marches. The move – the stick to match the carrot of benefits worth $37bn (£23bn) recently […]
$1.2 Trillion: The Real U.S. National Security Budget
March 4th, 2011Via: Alternet: If Americans were ever presented with the real bill for the total U.S. national security budget, it would actually add up to more than $1.2 trillion a year. … A country with a gross domestic product of $1.2 trillion would have the 15th largest economy in the world, ranking between Canada and Indonesia, […]
Is Apple Going to Turn Mac OS Into a Tamperproof Vending Machine?
March 4th, 2011Via: Engadget: Apple’s not saying that it beats other tablets on the market. It’s saying “we do one thing, and these guys do something else altogether.” They’re not competition — they’re not even playing the same game! That’s not to say Apple has given up on PCs, and in fact, the company’s laptop sales are […]
Chinese Military Trains Messenger Pigeons
March 4th, 2011Via: Telegraph: China is training 10,000 messenger pigeons to deliver vital military communications in the event of the country’s communication systems breaking down. According to the Chinese state media, the pigeons are being trained by a special unit of the People’s Liberation Army in the central city of Chengdu. “They will be primarily called upon […]
Former Goldman Sachs Director Charged with Insider Trading
March 3rd, 2011Via: Globe and Mail: On the afternoon of September 23, 2008, in the midst of some of the darkest days in American financial history, a handful of people dialled into a conference call and learned a piece of good news. Legendary investor Warren Buffett was about to invest billions in Goldman Sachs Group Inc., a […]
New Hampshire: Bill Would Make Some Airport Screening Sexual Assault
March 2nd, 2011Via: WMUR: Lawmakers and residents engaged in heated debate Tuesday over a bill that would make random airport security pat-downs and body scans criminal in New Hampshire. The bill (HB628-FN) “makes the touching or viewing with a technological device of a person’s breasts or genitals by a government security agent without probable cause a sexual […]
Iran Arrests Opposition Leaders
March 1st, 2011Via: Bloomberg: Oil rose from the lowest in a week in New York as Libyan crude exports were curbed by fighting in the North African country while demonstrations planned in Iran raised concern of wider disruptions. Futures climbed as much as 1 percent after authorities in Iran, the second-largest producer in the Organization of Petroleum […]
Egypt Bans Individuals from Taking Gold Out of Country
February 28th, 2011Thinking about trying to flee from point A to point B with gold after the shit hits the fan? Via: Reuters: Egypt on Sunday banned the export of gold for the next four months, a measure bankers said seemed aimed at preventing businessmen and former government officials who acquired capital illegally from transferring it abroad. […]
Seymour Hersh and The Knights of Malta: A Look at the Aftermath
February 28th, 2011Definitely interesting. Via: WhoWhatWhy: It seems unusual for a staid, respected publication (one that has received three National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) to start treating a celebrated journalist (who himself has won two National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) as if he were nothing more than a paranoid crank. It […]
Libya: Thanks to U.S. Pressure, Libyan Mercenaries Won’t Be Prosecuted for War Crimes
February 28th, 2011The U.S. couldn’t possibly be held accountable for the atrocities that its mercenaries have carried out (and continue to carry out). Oh, no, no, no. Via: Telegraph: African mercenaries hired by the Gaddafi regime to kill Libyan protesters would be immune from prosecution for war crimes due to a clause in this weekend’s UN resolution […]
