Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
EU Draws Up Plans for Single ‘Economic Government’ to Prevent Crisis
March 29th, 2010Via: Telegraph: Germany and France have tabled controversial plans to create an “economic government of the European Union” to police financial policy across the continent. They have put Herman Van Rompuy, the EU President, in charge of a special task force to examine “all options possible” to prevent another crisis like the one caused by […]
Fleeing America with More Than Pocket Lint? This May Apply to You
March 29th, 2010Via: ZeroHedge: It couldn’t have happened to a nicer country. On March 18, with very little pomp and circumstance, president Obama passed the most recent stimulus act, the $17.5 billion Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (H.R. 2487), brilliantly goalseeked by the administration’s millionaire cronies to abbreviate as HIRE. As it was merely the latest […]
Federal Law Enforcement Operations Underway in Michigan Against Militia Members
March 28th, 2010Update: Group Was Infiltrated, As Per Routine Via: Wall Street Journal: An undercover agent played a role in the investigation that led to Monday’s indictments. Grand jury testimony by a law enforcement officer referred to an “undercover FBI agent” who worked on the case. The FBI declined to comment, but infiltration is a common tactic […]
Beijing to Sweeten Stench of Rubbish Crisis with Giant Deodorant Guns
March 28th, 2010Via: Guardian: Beijing is to install 100 deodorant guns at a stinking landfill site on the edge of the city in a bid to dampen complaints about the capital’s rubbish crisis. The giant fragrance sprays will be put in place by May at the Asuwei dump site, one of several hundred tips that are the […]
WikiLeaks Statement on Recent Events
March 26th, 2010Via: WikiLeaks: EDITORIAL:U.S. must stop spying on WikiLeaks Fri Mar 26 08:44:46 UTC 2010 Over the last few years, WikiLeaks has been the subject of hostile acts by security organizations. In the developing world, these range from the appalling assassination of two related human rights lawyers in Nairobi last March (an armed attack on my […]
Governments Using Forged SSL Certificates for Man in the Middle Attack on “Secure” Web Sessions
March 25th, 2010I don’t believe in web based email solutions that purport to provide strong encryption and/or anonymity. Who knows what their applets and servers are doing? Not me. And if they rely on SSL, well, that’s ok for buying a book online, but no tinfoiler in his right mind would bet his life on SSL. —The […]
Obama’s Nominee to Oversee Security at U.S. Airports Favors Israeli Model
March 24th, 2010Is that the model where intelligence operatives clone the passports of unsuspecting travelers and then carry out assassinations with their identities? Via: Reuters / Washington Post: President Barack Obama’s nominee to oversee security at U.S. airports said on Tuesday he wants to shift screening closer to the Israeli model to include more behavior detection in […]
IRS May Need to Hire 16,500 Additional Employees for Health Care Enforcement?
March 24th, 2010Via: Wall Street Journal: House Republicans said Thursday that the health care overhaul will expand IRS authority by giving agents the power to verify acceptable health care coverage and fine or confiscate the tax refunds of Americans without coverage. Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee, a panel that oversees taxes and health […]
And Now… Lawmakers Eyeing National ID Card
March 24th, 2010Mmm hmm. Via: Wired: Lawmakers are proposing a national identification card — what they’re calling “high-tech, fraud-proof Social Security cards” — that would be required for all employees in the United States. The proposal by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-New York) and Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) comes as the states are grappling to produce another […]
March 23: This Day in History
March 24th, 2010Here’s an interesting coincidence: March 23, 1933: Germany: The Enabling Act Via: Wikipedia: The Enabling Act (German: Ermächtigungsgesetz) was passed by Germany’s Reichstag and signed by President Paul von Hindenburg on March 23, 1933. It was the second major step, after the Reichstag Fire Decree, through which Chancellor Adolf Hitler legally obtained plenary powers and […]
