Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
China: Police Preventing Protests from Starting
February 28th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: A Bloomberg News journalist was assaulted yesterday in Beijing while covering the deployment of police in response to online calls for protests in the Chinese capital. At least five men in plain clothes, who appeared to be security personnel, punched and kicked the reporter at Beijing’s Wangfujing shopping street at 2:45 p.m. local […]
Libya: U.S. Openly Backing Rebels
February 28th, 2011Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. said it will assist Libyan rebels trying to force Muammar Qaddafi from power, as pro- democracy protests that have swept the Middle East spread to Oman and reignited in Tunisia. “We’ve been reaching out to many different Libyans who are attempting to organize in the east and, as the revolution moves […]
Homeland Security Will Soon Begin Analyzing DNA at Airports
February 28th, 2011Of course, initially, “It’s for the children.” Via: NextGov: The Homeland Security Department this summer plans to begin testing a DNA analyzer that’s small enough to be easily portable and fast enough to return results in less than an hour. The analyzer, about the size of a laser printer, initially will be used to determine […]
A Glimpse Inside One of Gaddafi’s Palaces
February 27th, 2011Video at the link. Via: Al Jazeera: Libyan leader’s palace outside Benghazi is not just luxurious, but a bunker designed to withstand a nuclear attack. As pro-democracy demonstrators gain control of more cities in eastern Libya, Muammar Gaddafi’s many properties in the hands of protesters have been ransacked and destroyed. One such palace sits on […]
Budget Problems? Just Use Prison Labor
February 26th, 2011The New York Times outdoes itself with this one. “Financial experts agree.” Oh sure. See, Land Of The Free: Never In The Civilized World Have So Many Been Locked Up For So Little, for a bit of context. Via: New York Times: Before he went to jail, Danny Ivey had barely seen a backyard garden. […]
‘Who Did We Issue Those To? Who Bought Those Bonds?’
February 26th, 2011Solution to the debt crisis? According to Damon Vickers, author of, The Day After the Dollar Crashes: A Survival Guide for the Rise of the New World Order, a sort of globalist debt jubilee would be carried out as a part of implementing the New World Order. Note: Vickers wants to see the New World […]
NATO Intervention in Libya?
February 25th, 2011I couldn’t make it up if I tried. Ah, yes. The humanitarian crisis in Libya. What about the long running nightmare in Sudan, just to the southeast of Libya? Is NATO going to sort that one out too? What we have with Libya is a humanitarian crisis, mixed together with an oil production problem. This […]
Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda
February 25th, 2011Via: PC World: It’s recently been revealed that the U.S. government contracted HBGary Federal for the development of software which could create multiple fake social media profiles to manipulate and sway public opinion on controversial issues by promoting propaganda. It could also be used as surveillance to find public opinions with points of view the […]
Jury Nullification Advocate Faces Indictment
February 25th, 2011Via: New York Times: There was, in fact, nothing wrong with Mr. Heicklen, 78, who eventually opened his eyes and told the judge, “I’m exercising my Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.” Indeed, it was not his silence that landed Mr. Heicklen, a retired Penn State University chemistry professor, in court; it was what he […]
Saudi Regime Will Attempt to Maintain Power with $37 Billion Lolly Scramble
February 23rd, 2011Via: Reuters: Saudi King Abdullah returned home on Wednesday after a three-month medical absence and unveiled benefits for Saudis worth some $37 billion in an apparent bid to insulate the world’s top oil exporter from an Arab protest wave.
