Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Netanyahu Admits on Video He Deceived U.S. to Destroy Oslo Accord
July 24th, 2010Via: The National: The contents of a secretly recorded video threaten to gravely embarrass not only Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister but also the US administration of Barack Obama. The film was shot, apparently without Mr Netanyahu’s knowledge, nine years ago, when the government of Ariel Sharon had started reinvading the main cities of […]
Pay Czar Will Not Fight Banks on $1.6 Billion in Executive Pay; Shaming Them Is Enough
July 24th, 2010Via: AP: For all his tough talk about excessive pay for bankers, the Obama administration’s pay czar let the executives go without a fight. Kenneth Feinberg announced Friday that he would not try to recoup $1.6 billion in compensation given to top executives at bailed-out banks because he thought shaming them was punishment enough. His […]
U.S. War Crimes: Cancer Rate in Fallujah Worse than Hiroshima
July 23rd, 2010Via: Global Research: The Iraqi city of Fallujah continues to suffer the ghastly consequences of a US military onslaught in late 2004. According to the authors of a new study, “Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah, Iraq 2005–2009,” the people of Fallujah are experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia, infant mortality, and sexual […]
Information About DHS FOIA Requesters Reported to Political Staff
July 23rd, 2010Via: AP: For at least a year, the Homeland Security Department detoured hundreds of requests for federal records to senior political advisers for highly unusual scrutiny, probing for information about the requesters and delaying disclosures deemed too politically sensitive, according to nearly 1,000 pages of internal e-mails obtained by The Associated Press. The department abandoned […]
Congress Ranks Last in Confidence in Institutions
July 23rd, 2010In other Scum and Villainy news: Panel Hits Rangel with Ethics Violations. Via: Gallup: Gallup’s 2010 Confidence in Institutions poll finds Congress ranking dead last out of the 16 institutions rated this year. Eleven percent of Americans say they have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in Congress, down from 17% in […]
Canada: Woman Humiliated During Airport Strip Search
July 22nd, 2010Via: Toronto Sun: Shileen Flynn, 29, had already missed one flight and lost her luggage when she says she found herself in a room at the Vancouver airport, naked and squatting, while two crude border agents strip-searched her. … Flynn — a frequent traveller who has been strip-searched twice before — said this time was […]
Google Bends Over for China
July 21st, 2010Imagine my shock. Via: Washington Post: China renewed Google’s Internet license after it pledged to obey censorship laws and stop automatically switching mainland users to its unfiltered Hong Kong site, an official said Tuesday. It was Beijing’s first public comment on its decision to allow Google to continue operating a China website following a public […]
Gordon Brown on Saddam Hussein: “This New World Order That We Were Trying to Create Was Being Put at Risk”
July 21st, 2010Amendment Slipped Into Health Care Legislation Would Track, Tax Coin and Bullion Transactions
July 21st, 2010You already knew about this, but just in case… Via: ABC News: Those already outraged by the president’s health care legislation now have a new bone of contention — a scarcely noticed tack-on provision to the law that puts gold coin buyers and sellers under closer government scrutiny. The issue is rising to the fore […]
America’s New Debtor Prison
July 21st, 2010Via: WalletPop: People who are imprisoned for their debts are technically locked up for contempt of court after failing to appear for a hearing pertaining to their debt. It’s a legal loophole that debt-collection companies are increasingly using. Here’s how it works: First, the collections company files a lawsuit against the debtor, which requires them […]
