Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Beijing’s Billions Buy Up Resources
October 3rd, 2010Via: Independent: While much of the developed world is baulking at its debts in the aftermath of the financial crisis, China has continued a global spending spree of unprecedented proportions, snapping up everything from oil and gas reserves to mining concessions to agricultural land, with vast reserves of US dollars. This year alone, Chinese companies […]
EU’s Technolife Project: Social Engineering for the Coming Technofascist World
October 3rd, 2010Via: Technofascism Blog: In yet another attempt to gain public acceptance for the coming technological tyranny, the EU has recently funded the University of Bergen in Norway to create a website that collects people’s opinions on three emerging techno-fascist technologies: biometric id, human augmentation, and global tracking systems. … The TechnoLife project will present the […]
The U.S. Government has Deployed Mobile X-Ray Technology to Scan Cars and Trucks at Internal Checkpoints
October 1st, 2010Via: Christian Science Monitor: As an antiterror measure, the US government has deployed mobile X-ray technology to randomly scan cars and trucks. But the measure is riling privacy proponents. For many living in a terror-spooked country, it might seem like a great government innovation: Use vans equipped with mobile X-ray units to scan vehicles at […]
1010: No Pressure
October 1st, 2010Update: They Tried to Take It Down How’s that working out for you, 1010global? Mirror 1 Mirror 2 —End Update— Via: 1010Global: Whippersnapping climate campaign 10:10 teams up with legendary comic screenwriter Richard Curtis – you know, Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill, co-founded Comic Relief – and Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong to proudly […]
Pre-Crime Magic 8 Ball Uses “Resentment” in Spoken and Written Information to Identify “The Terrorists”
September 29th, 2010I like Tony’s commentary on this over at Technofascism Blog. He offers a couple of quotes from 1984: “It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, […]
Russia: Medvedev Fires Yuri Luzhkov, the Mayor of Moscow
September 29th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stepped out of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s shadow long enough on Tuesday to fire Moscow’s larger-than-life mayor, rattling a political establishment that until now has accepted Putin as the nation’s undisputed authority.
The Left Right Paradigm is Over: Its You vs. Corporations
September 29th, 2010Careful, Barry, you might cause Maria to smear her lipstick. Via: The Big Picture: Every generation or so, a major secular shift takes place that shakes up the existing paradigm. It happens in industry, finance, literature, sports, manufacturing, technology, entertainment, travel, communication, etc. I would like to discuss the paradigm shift that is occurring in […]
New Zealand Government to Place More Restrictions on Foreign Ownership of Large Farms
September 29th, 2010I’m actually amazed by this. I didn’t think anything came “too close to home” for the New Zealand government when it came to China. I fully expected the acquisition of the Crafer farms by China Jin Hui Mining Corporation (later changed to “Natural Dairy” for perception management purposes) to sail through without any problems. Thankfully, […]
U.S. Government Wants All Providers of Encrypted Internet Services to Implement Key Escrow
September 27th, 2010Wikipedia has an entry on key escrow, if you aren’t familiar with the concept. Via: New York Times: Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of […]
Obama Argues His Assassination Program Is a ‘State Secret’
September 27th, 2010Via: Salon: At this point, I didn’t believe it was possible, but the Obama administration has just reached an all-new low in its abysmal civil liberties record. In response to the lawsuit filed by Anwar Awlaki’s father asking a court to enjoin the President from assassinating his son, a U.S. citizen, without any due process, […]
