Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
AIG Will Be Paying for Legal Defense of Goldman Sachs’ Top Executives; They Have Insurance Underwritten by AIG
April 25th, 2010Unless the AIG imbroglio is untangled, the rest of this is nonsense. —Elliot Spitzer: “There are no coincidences in this world. None.” Who bailed out AIG? The U.S. Taxpayer. So, who’s actually going to pick up the tabs to both prosecute and defend Blankfein and the gang? The U.S. Taxpayer. I don’t understand the significance […]
Google: Biggest Wardriver of Them All?
April 25th, 2010Via: Register: Google’s roving Street View spycam may blur your face, but it’s got your number. The Street View service is under fire in Germany for scanning private WLAN networks, and recording users’ unique Mac (Media Access Control) addresses, as the car trundles along. Germany’s Federal Commissioner for Data Protection Peter Schaar says he’s “horrified” […]
Stephen Hawking: Extraterrestrials Are Almost Certain to Exist; If We Encounter Them, Chances Are We’re Doomed
April 25th, 2010If Martians fell from the sky What would that do to God? Would we put the weapon down Or aim it up at the sky No one would believe it Except the fucking nut jobs They’d laugh and cry “We told you so!” Dave Matthews Band — Time Bomb The mainstream media is, increasingly, driving […]
GM Pays Back TARP Loans With…TARP Loans
April 24th, 2010Why not? It works for Uncle $cam! Via: Reason: Have you driven a Ford lately? That might be a good idea, as it seems that GM’s claims to have repaid its TARP loans in full and ahead of schedule are, well, bullshit. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner […]
FDIC Friday: Regulators Seize Bank Linked to U.S. Senate Candidate
April 24th, 2010I’ve become bored with FDIC Fridays, but I couldn’t resist posting this one. Via: Reuters: Regulators on Friday seized a Chicago bank owned by the family of the Democratic nominee running for the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama. Broadway Bank was among seven Illinois banks whose failure was announced on Friday. […]
Alan Grayson Discloses That Dodd Bill Covertly Eliminates Already Passed Legislation Requiring Full Fed Audit
April 24th, 2010Via: ZeroHedge: Once again we get confirmation that Chris Dodd is nothing but a paid manservant for his Federal Reserve masters, in addition to being a lame duck, whose last days in office are meant to do everything to allow the old-school Wall Street ways of endless secrecy and Fed bailouts to continue in perpetuity. […]
SEC Staffers Watched Porn as Economy Crashed
April 23rd, 2010Via: Washington Post: Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says. The SEC’s inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo […]
Building an Artificial America in a Supercomputer: Synthetic Citizens to Help Social Scientists
April 23rd, 2010I found a one paragraph version of this information linked from Technofascism Blog and I went looking for more. The full text from the 2008 IEEE piece is below. Knowing what we know about the surveillance data that’s being collected, I see no reason why the “simulation” couldn’t be setup to run on real data, […]
Facebook Steps Up Lobbying, Deepens Ties with Intelligence Agencies, FTC
April 23rd, 2010Here’s my (one sentence) guess about what this is actually about: Facebook is a CIA cutout that’s frantically lobbying for privacy legislation to remain lax so that it can continue to run its various intelligence operations on the platform. Via: Venture Beat: Facebook has been gradually boosting its profile in Washington D.C. over the past […]
WellPoint Routinely Cancels Coverage of Breast Cancer Patients
April 23rd, 2010So, let me understand this: Obamacare is going to require people to pay for insurance that can be canceled as soon as they come down with a serious illness? Get the state to hold a gun at people’s heads to pay into a scam. That sounds like a pretty good gig for those diabolical corporations. […]
