Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Elizabeth Warren Uncovered What the Government Did to ‘Rescue’ AIG, and It Ain’t Pretty
August 10th, 2010Unless the AIG imbroglio is untangled, the rest of this is nonsense. —Cryptogon, April 20, 2010 Here’s another one for your voluminous Captain Obvious file. Via: Alternet: The government’s $182 billion bailout of insurance giant AIG should be seen as the Rosetta Stone for understanding the financial crisis and its costly aftermath. The story of […]
“Putin Puts Out Two Wildfires in Central Russia”
August 10th, 2010This is hilarious, Soviet style propaganda. Better than the tiger incident, in my opinion. Click through to see the photo of ole’ Vlad himself at the controls. HAHAHA. Via: Ria Novosti: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday took part in extinguishing forest fires in Ryazan Province on board an amphibious firefighting airplane. The Russian […]
U.S. to Sell $30 Billion Worth of Fighter Jets to Saudi Arabia
August 9th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration plans to sell advanced F-15 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia but won’t equip them with long-range weapons systems and other arms whose inclusion was strongly opposed by Israel, diplomats and officials said. The proposed $30 billion, 10-year arms package, which would be one of the biggest single deals […]
TheAntiTerrorist on The Big Business of Being Behind Bars
August 9th, 2010Via: TheAntiTerrorist: Related: Land Of The Free: Never In The Civilized World Have So Many Been Locked Up For So Little
The Ministry of Oil Defense
August 6th, 2010The article opens with: It’s not polite to say so, but if Americans understood just how many trillions their military was really spending on protecting oil, they wouldn’t stand for it. Oh really? How Many Millions are in a Trillion? from Econ4U on Vimeo. Tell us all another one about what “Americans” won’t stand for. […]
U.S. Government Funding Program to Train Foreign Workers So American Firms Can Outsource Jobs
August 5th, 2010In other news: The number of Americans who are receiving food stamps rose to a record 40.8 million in May as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government reported yesterday. Via: Information Week: Federally-backed program aims to help outsourcers in South Asia become more fluent in areas like Java programming—and the English […]
Cryptogon Reader On Giving Up His American Citizenship: The U.S. Government Is “The Largest Criminal Organization In The World”
August 5th, 2010Mike Gogulski’s site is: nostate.com.
Organic Co-Op Rawesome Foods: Security Camera Footage of Police (Guns Drawn) Raid
August 5th, 2010As the state stupidly tries to crush suppliers of delicious, nutritious and safe food, people become radicalized. For our purposes, radicalized means increasingly seeking out and paying cash or bartering for outlaw meat, raw milk, free range eggs, heirloom vegetables, etc. … The person who feels empowered by supplying and/or consuming delicious, nutritious and safe […]
Software for Pentagon Costs Americans Tens of Billions of Dollars Per Year, Winds Up Being Owned by Corporations
August 4th, 2010Would you like some air conditioned tents to go with that? Via: Defense News: The Department of Defense spends tens of billions of dollars annually creating software that is rarely reused and difficult to adapt to new threats. Instead, much of this software is allowed to become the property of defense companies, resulting in DoD […]
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 […]
