Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Former Dictator ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier Back in Haiti
January 17th, 2011Did he arrive on a Blackwater plane? Via: Time: In the past 12 months, Haiti — already the western hemisphere’s economic basket case — has suffered an epic earthquake that according to latest estimates killed more than 250,000 people and leveled the country’s infrastructure, a cholera epidemic that has claimed thousands more lives and a […]
Venezuela Oil Reserves Surpass Saudi Arabia’s?
January 16th, 2011Via: Reuters / CNBC: Venezuela has overtaken Saudi Arabia as the world leader in oil reserves with certified deposits leaping to 297 billion barrels at the end of 2010, President Hugo Chavez’s government said Saturday. Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez told Reuters that the new reserves, which pushed the total 41 percent higher than the previous […]
Third-Largest Maker of Solar Panels in the U.S. Moves Factory to China
January 16th, 2011Via: New York Times: Aided by at least $43 million in assistance from the government of Massachusetts and an innovative solar energy technology, Evergreen Solar emerged in the last three years as the third-largest maker of solar panels in the United States. But now the company is closing its main American factory, laying off the […]
Blogger Who Opposed Congressman Gets Visit from FBI and Sheriff
January 15th, 2011Via: KSPR: A local blogger who was critical of Rep. Billy Long during last year’s congressional campaign has been interviewed by the FBI about his encounters with the congressman. Clay Bowler, who lives in Christian County, says he was shocked to find an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation at his doorstep. Accompanying the […]
Do I Suggest Opening an Account with the Bank of China?
January 15th, 2011WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. The Bank of China is now allowing Americans to open yuan denominated accounts out of its New York and Los Angeles branches. Over email, several people have asked me what I think about this. I think that keeping some portion of […]
Tunisians Drive Leader from Power in Mass Uprising
January 15th, 2011I’m not particularly sure of what actually happened in Tunisia. I’d like to think that the Tunisian people won’t go on to “freely elect” some U.S. puppet in the future, after throwing out the dictator who ran the place for over the last 23 years. Come on, Kevin, why piss on the parade? At times […]
The Rise of the New Global Elite
January 14th, 2011Via: The Atlantic: In the sort of coincidence that delights historians, conspiracy theorists, and book publishers, June 21 also happened to be the day Peterson threw a party—at Manhattan’s Four Seasons restaurant, of course—to launch The Manny, the debut novel of his daughter, Holly, who lightly satirizes the lives and loves of financiers and their […]
Missouri: Concrete “Home” of Overwatch Systems CTO Is One of the Largest in the U.S.
January 14th, 2011Overwatch is wholly owned by defense giant Textron. This is from the Overwatch homepage: Overwatch delivers multi-source intelligence (multi-INT), geospatial analysis and custom intelligence solutions to the Department of Defense, national agencies and civilian organizations. Our solutions enable analysts to integrate and leverage multiple intelligence sources to improve situational understanding and deliver actionable intelligence in […]
Mitre/JASONs Advise Pentagon to Collect DNA and Complete Human Genome Sequences for All Military Personnel
January 14th, 201123andme.mil? Don’t laugh. Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe, was one of the briefers on this. As you may or may not know, Wojcicki is married to Google’s Sergey Brin. I don’t know what’s more terrifying to consider: What the military is going to do with this, or what Google is going to do with this. […]
Freedom in Decline Worldwide
January 14th, 2011Via: AFP: Global freedom declined for a fifth straight year in 2010 as authoritarian regimes dug in worldwide and crime and unrest plagued democracies like Mexico, a US watchdog said Thursday. In “Freedom in the World 2011” the Washington-based Freedom House said it had documented the longest continuous period of decline since it began compiling […]
