Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
American Owner of DC9 Carrying 5.5 Tons of Cocaine Had Been Investigated for Drug Trafficking a Decade Ago
August 4th, 2010Via: Mad Cow Productions: The American owner of record of the DC9 airliner which took off from St Petersburg in April of 2006 and was busted in Mexico carrying an astonishing 5.5 tons of cocaine Mexico had been the subject of a drug trafficking investigation ten years earlier. According to a DEA report on the […]
Feds Admit Storing Checkpoint Body Scan Images
August 4th, 2010Via: Cnet: For the last few years, federal agencies have defended body scanning by insisting that all images will be discarded as soon as they’re viewed. The Transportation Security Administration claimed last summer, for instance, that “scanned images cannot be stored or recorded.” Now it turns out that some police agencies are storing the controversial […]
And Now… A Vaccine Against Stress
August 4th, 2010Oh sure. Via: CBS News: Stressed out? There’s no app for that, but soon enough there might be a vaccine. Dr Robert Sapolsky, a neuroscience professor at Stanford, says after 30 years of studying stress, his team might be on the verge of a novel cure. “To be honest, I’m still amazed that it works,” […]
China: Garbage Islands Threaten Three Gorges Dam
August 3rd, 2010Via: Reuters: Thousands of tons of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam, and is in places so thick people can stand on it, state media said on Monday. Chen Lei, a senior official at the China Three Gorges Corporation, told the China […]
Six Month Backlog of Americans Wanting to Renounce Citizenship in Britain
August 3rd, 2010Via: Financial Times: At the US Embassy in London, there is a waiting list that none of the officials likes to discuss. On the list are Americans hoping to give up their citizenship, as they seek shelter from the Internal Revenue Service. … The backlog at the US Embassy, where no appointments are available until […]
Erica Goldson: Coxsackie-Athens Valedictorian Speech 2010
August 2nd, 2010It’s definitely worth clicking through to read the whole thing. Via: America Via Erica: And now here I am in a world guided by fear, a world suppressing the uniqueness that lies inside each of us, a world where we can either acquiesce to the inhuman nonsense of corporatism and materialism or insist on change. […]
Schwarzenegger to Speak at Bohemian Grove
August 1st, 2010Will he be wearing his Death’s Head belt buckle? Via: Press Democrat: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to address a throng of rich and powerful men on Friday under the towering redwoods at the Bohemian Grove as the annual encampment along the Russian River in Monte Rio enters its final weekend. No one other than […]
Terrorism Case Baffles Remote Alaska Town
August 1st, 2010My guess is that the following line is the most useful piece of information in the article: …this has the air of a poorly written movie. You visited some site and then you were found with a piece of paper that contained some words. Ready to plea bargain? When it’s time for a law enforcement […]
The WikiLeaks “Insurance” File
July 31st, 2010From now on, I’m going to include a standard WikiLeaks disclaimer in the form of a link to a previous post. — Is WikiLeaks hanging a Sword of Damocles over elements of the U.S. Government? Via: Cryptome: The file, “insurance.aes256,” is ten times the size of the seven other files combined. Appears to be encrypted […]
White House Proposal Would Ease FBI Access to Records of Internet Activity
July 30th, 2010FBI can’t just ask NSA for it, or pull the information out of MAIN CORE because the domestic intercept programs don’t officially exist. An appearance needs to be maintained that the intelligence community doesn’t already have this data. What you’re about to read below is an example of how America does Kabuki theater. Via: Washington […]
