Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Bank of America Halts Foreclosures in All States
October 8th, 2010See: MERS/MBS/Foreclosure Goes RICO Via: Bloomberg: Bank of America Corp., the biggest U.S. lender, will halt foreclosures in all 50 U.S. states to determine whether documents used to seize homes from people had the correct data. “We will stop foreclosure sales until our assessment has been satisfactorily completed,” the Charlotte, North Carolina- based company said […]
Obama “Town Hall Meeting” Casting Call
October 8th, 2010Via: Backstage: PRESIDENT OBAMA TOWN HALL, DC MTV, BET, and CMT (prods.) are casting the audience for a town hall meeting with President Obama. Shooting Oct. 14 at 4 p.m. in Washington, DC. Seeking—Audience Members: males and females, 18+. To apply, email townhallaudience@mtvnmix.com and put “Town Hall” in the subject line. To ensure that the […]
California: State Cancels Access to Welfare Benefits on Cruise Ships and Casinos
October 7th, 2010I should have a California category to complete with Florida. Via: Los Angeles Times: California officials are cutting off use of state-issued welfare debit cards at casinos across the country and on cruise ships, in the wake of Times reports that the aid cards have been used to spend or withdraw millions of dollars in […]
9/11: Firemen Explosion Testimony
October 7th, 2010The video below is from the NIST data dump that the International Center for 9/11 Studies obtained through FOIA. The files are now available as a torrent. (Since I’m in New Zealand, there’s no way for me to download an 86GB torrent, but most of you aren’t dealing with small-remote-island Internet issues like me.) There […]
White House Blocked Government Scientists from Warning American Public of the Potential Environmental Disaster Caused by BP Oil Spill
October 7th, 2010See floridaoilspilllaw.com for full time coverage of the ongoing disaster in the region. Via: Guardian: The White House blocked government scientists from warning the American public of the potential environmental disaster caused by BP’s broken well in the Gulf of Mexico, a report released by the national commission investigating the oil spill said yesterday. The […]
Killing Each Taliban Soldier Costs $50 Million?
October 6th, 2010There are, however, a few metrics by which “victory” for the U.S. in Afghanistan may be measured. First of all, the fact that mayhem continues is a victory for the corporations that profit from the absurd war-related contracts. There’s the unknown billions of heroin related dollars that are generated from covert operations in Afghanistan. The […]
James Corbett: The Truth About Terrorism
October 5th, 2010Research Credit: mja
Schneier on Proposed Key Escrow Rules
October 5th, 2010The most imminent danger would be believing that any of the services mentioned below are actually secure from government surveillance. The new rules would just make it easier for the government to conduct the surveillance on closed systems on a massive scale. Via: Schneier: On Monday, The New York Times reported that President Obama will […]
One Program to Watch Them All: DARPA’s INSIGHT
October 4th, 2010Yet again, it’s the Information Awareness Office by another name. Via: Wired: No surprise that Darpa, the military’s blue-sky research arm, is the agency behind the lofty five-year program, called Insight. The agency’s goal is to replace “largely manual exploitation and…chat-based operator interactions” with a system that mines different inputs, including drone footage and on-the-ground […]
U.S. Judge Asks Vatican to Serve Court Paper to Pope
October 4th, 2010Via: AP: A federal U.S. judge is asking the Vatican to cooperate in serving the pope and two other top officials with court papers that stem from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse by a priest in Wisconsin. The request is an incremental step in a lawsuit that accuses the officials of conspiring to keep the […]
