Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Ron Paul, Author of ‘End the Fed,’ to Lead Panel Overseeing Central Bank
December 10th, 2010Hell, at this late stage of the game, why not? Via: Bloomberg: Representative Ron Paul, Texas Republican and author of “End the Fed,” will take control of the House subcommittee that oversees the Federal Reserve. House Financial Services chairman-elect Spencer Bachus, an Alabama Republican, selected Paul, 75, to lead the panel’s domestic monetary policy subcommittee […]
This Is No Ordinary Bank
December 9th, 2010Via: Ventura County Star / AP: This is no ordinary bank: The ATMs are in Latin. Priests use a private entrance. A life-size portrait of Pope Benedict XVI hangs on the wall. Nevertheless, the Institute for Religious Works is a bank, and it’s under harsh new scrutiny in a case involving money-laundering allegations that led […]
U.S. Tells Uganda: Consult Us Before Using Intelligence to Commit Atrocities
December 9th, 2010Via: Guardian: The US told Uganda to let it know when the army was going to commit war crimes using American intelligence – but did not try to dissuade it from doing so, the US embassy cables suggest. America was supporting the Ugandan government in its fight against rebel movement the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), […]
Shell Claimed it Inserted Staff Into Main Ministries of Nigerian Government
December 9th, 2010Standard operating procedure. Via: Guardian: The oil giant Shell claimed it had inserted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government, giving it access to politicians’ every move in the oil-rich Niger Delta, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. The company’s top executive in Nigeria told US diplomats that Shell had seconded […]
Saudi Arabia: U.S. TV Effective for Countering Jihad
December 8th, 2010In summary, the U.S. military is aware that “American Culture” is a strategic weapon that is capable of defeating an enemy, or entire populations, without necessarily having to kill them. The U.S. military, however, must and will kill in order to allow “American Culture” into a society in order to repurpose it. Military failures will […]
North Carolina: Police Will Take Fingerprints from People in the Field
December 8th, 2010Here’s a glimpse at the future of the U.S.: Army Reveals Afghan Biometric ID Plan; Millions Scanned, Carded. And here’s what the opening phase looks like. Via: McClatchy: Next month, 13 law enforcement agencies in the region will begin using a new handheld device that lets an officer scan a person’s fingerprints and seek a […]
Walmart Public Service Announcement
December 7th, 2010Via: YouTube / U.S. Department of Homeland Security:
A Billion New $100 Bills Quarantined in Huge Vaults in Fort Worth, Texas and Washington, DC
December 6th, 2010Your what hurts? Who needs to be a conspiracy theorist with mainstream news like this? “Officials don’t know exactly what caused the problem…” “Officials don’t know how many of the 1.1 billion bills include the flaw…” “The defective bills – which could number into the tens of millions, potentially representing billions of dollars in face […]
U.S. Gets In on Censorship Action
December 6th, 2010Via: Info/Law: The U.S. government is grabbing domain names to prevent users from reaching content it views as illegal. Not content that has been adjudicated illegal, as far as we know – content that is alleged to be illegal. To content owners, and probably to ICE, it looks only natural that we’d prevent people from […]
Human Resources
December 5th, 2010If Cryptogon had a “required viewing” list, Human Resources would be at the top. However, this is not a movie for beginners. I’ve been gazing down the barrel of this predicament of ours for twenty years and I felt my pulse quicken and the hair on my arms standing on end as I watched this. […]
