Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Senators and TSA Defend “Love Pats” at Airports
November 18th, 2010It’s sexual assault. It’s state sponsored sexual assault. See: TSA – Sexual Assault. Via: CBS News: “I’m wildly excited that I can walk through a machine instead of getting my dose of love pats,” Sen. McCaskill said.
For 18 Minutes in April, China Hijacked 15% of the World’s Internet Traffic
November 17th, 2010Via: National Defense Magazine: For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from U.S. military, civilian organizations and those of other U.S. allies. This massive redirection of data has received scant attention in the mainstream media because the mechanics of how the hijacking was […]
Scientists Warn Airport X-Ray Scanners May Be Unsafe
November 17th, 2010Via: AFP: Some US scientists warned Friday that the full-body, graphic-image X-ray scanners now being used to screen passengers and airline crews at airports around the country may be unsafe. “They say the risk is minimal, but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these X-rays,” Dr Michael Love, who runs an X-ray […]
PRICE CONTROLS ON FOOD IN CHINA
November 17th, 2010Via: BBC: China’s premier Wen Jiabao has said the government is preparing new measures to stem double-digit food price inflation. “The state council is formulating measures to curb the overly fast rises of prices,” he said in a statement on the government’s website. He gave no details, but they are said to include price caps, […]
Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S.
November 15th, 2010Not news, but… Via: New York Times: A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and […]
McDonald’s and PepsiCo to Help Write UK Health Policy
November 14th, 2010Via: Guardian: The Department of Health is putting the fast food companies McDonald’s and KFC and processed food and drink manufacturers such as PepsiCo, Kellogg’s, Unilever, Mars and Diageo at the heart of writing government policy on obesity, alcohol and diet-related disease, the Guardian has learned. In an overhaul of public health, said by campaign […]
After Encounter with TSA, Man Decides Not to Fly, Government Goon Threatens to Sue for $10,000
November 14th, 2010Update: TSA to Investigate Via: Sign On San Diego: The Transportation Security Administration has opened an investigation targeting John Tyner, the Oceanside man who left Lindbergh Field under duress on Saturday morning after refusing to undertake a full body scan. Tyner recorded the half-hour long encounter on his cell phone and later posted it to […]
Courts Helping Banks Screw Over Homeowners
November 12th, 2010Via: Rolling Stone: The foreclosure lawyers down in Jacksonville had warned me, but I was skeptical. They told me the state of Florida had created a special super-high-speed housing court with a specific mandate to rubber-stamp the legally dicey foreclosures by corporate mortgage pushers like Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan Chase. This “rocket docket,” as […]
World’s Largest Pilot Union Shuns Full-Body Scanners; Radiation Risks
November 10th, 2010Via: Register: The world’s largest independent airline pilot association is warning its members to avoid security screening by full-body scanners out of concern the machines emit dangerous levels of radiation. The American Pilots Association, which represents about 12,000 pilots, is recommending members instead submit to new pat-down searches, even though critics have described them as […]
Barack Obama: We Must Embrace Globalism And The Emerging One World Economy
November 10th, 2010Via: Economic Collapse Blog: Although it received very little coverage in the mainstream media, Barack Obama made some comments about globalism during his speech in Mumbai, India that were very eye-opening. As he was discussing the new realities of world trade in 2010, Obama warned against “those who see globalization as a threat” and he […]
