Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
A Survey of Unlikely Voters
November 10th, 2010Via: Club Orlov: It seems that many of those who are clever enough to realize that voting here is a fool’s errand also want to leave this country. But how many of them are actually successfully leaving? The answer (again, based on my decidedly informal and limited survey of unlikely voters) is that the vast […]
No Charges for CIA Tape Destruction
November 10th, 2010Via: Reuters: No CIA personnel will face criminal charges for destroying videotapes of harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. While the decision will spare the CIA and the Obama administration the potential backlash and embarrassment that a trial could have generated, another federal probe continues into possible abuse of […]
China Says Fed Easing May Flood World Economy With ‘Hot Money’
November 8th, 2010Gold is at $1404 right now, a new record high. Via: Bloomberg: Chinese Vice Finance Minister Zhu Guangyao said the U.S. Federal Reserve’s decision to pump $600 billion into the economy might “shock” emerging markets by flooding them with capital. The first round of quantitative easing, as the Fed policy is termed, in 2009 was […]
A Tale of Two Ghettoes
November 3rd, 2010Via: National Post: Why is Shoppers Drug Mart pulling 3,500 copies of Adbusters, my magazine, off its shelves? A week ago, in the National Post, the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) accused Adbusters of anti-Semitism for publishing side-by-side photographs of the Gaza and Warsaw ghettos ( “Anti-Semitism on your magazine rack — courtesy of Adbusters,” Oct. […]
Is a Federal Nordic State on the Cards?
November 2nd, 2010Via: Guardian: Today the leaders of the five Nordic states are meeting to discuss the possibility of creating a Nordic federal state. Ever since the Kalmar Union of the kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden – reaching to Iceland, Greenland, the Faroe Islands, Shetland and Orkney – collapsed in 1523, the idea of reinstating some […]
Back to the Scene of the Crime: A Return to Jekyll Island: The Origins, History, and Future of the Federal Reserve
November 2nd, 2010See: The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin. Via: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: This special conference marks the centenary of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that resulted in draft legislation for the creation of a U.S. central bank. Parts of this draft (the Aldrich plan) were incorporated into the 1913 Federal Reserve […]
Canada: Tories Reintroduce ISP Intercept Bill
November 2nd, 2010Via: CBC: The federal Conservatives have reintroduced legislation that would allow police and intelligence officials to intercept online communications and get personal information from internet service providers (ISPs) about their subscribers without first obtaining a warrant.
Sarkozy: “Britain and France have pooled their sovereignty.”
November 2nd, 2010Via: Guardian: Britain and France today signed a landmark 50-year treaty on defence and security that envisages the joint use of aircraft carriers, a 10,000-strong joint expeditionary force and unprecedented new levels of co-operation over nuclear missiles. … Cameron disclosed that the two treaties would: * Create a joint expeditionary task force in which around […]
George Hickenlooper, Director of ‘Casino Jack,’ a Film About Jack Abramoff, Found Dead
November 1st, 2010Natural causes… Via: New York Times: George Hickenlooper, a director whose credits include an Emmy-winning documentary about the making of “Apocalypse Now” and a film starring Kevin Spacey as the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff that is scheduled to open in December, died on Saturday in Denver. He was 47. He was in Denver to spend […]
“Starting tomorrow, we’re going to start searching your crotchal area”
November 1st, 2010Via: The Atlantic: At BWI, I told the officer who directed me to the back-scatter that I preferred a pat-down. I did this in order to see how effective the manual search would be. When I made this request, a number of TSA officers, to my surprise, began laughing. I asked why. One of them […]
