Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Prisons Turn to the Wind for Energy
February 19th, 2010It’s clean. It’s green. It’s fascism. More: Clean, Green U.S. Prison Camp: The Guantanamo Naval Base Wind Farm Via: Christian Science Monitor: When the Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic and landed at Plymouth Rock, it was the wind blowing into their ships’ sails that pushed them across the water. That power of the wind will soon […]
U.S. CITIZEN CRASHES PLANE INTO BUILDING IN APPARENT SUICIDE ATTACK ON IRS
February 18th, 2010UPDATE: Original Tenant of Building Allegedly Attacked by Joe Stack was Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation just happened to be Bobby Ray Inman, former Director of the National Security Agency and former Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. The former Director […]
Drowning in Debt: What the Nation’s Budget Woes Mean for You
February 18th, 2010Three pages of ABC neWz about the snowballing debt crisis and not one word about the WarBama regime’s absurd military spending increases and adventures. Pentagon Black Budget Sees Year Over Year Record Funding; Tops $56 Billion Obama Budget Seeks More Money for Nuclear Weapons Cost of Keeping One U.S. Soldier in Afghanistan Per Year: One […]
South Carolina Lawmaker Seeks to Ban Federal Currency
February 18th, 2010One for your Don’t-Hold-Your-Breath-File folder. Via: CBS News: South Carolina Rep. Mike Pitts has introduced legislation that would mandate that gold and silver coins replace federal currency as legal tender in his state. As the Palmetto Scoop first reported, Pitts, a Republican, introduced legislation this month banning “the unconstitutional substitution of Federal Reserve Notes for […]
Possibility of EU Greek Intervention a Step Closer
February 18th, 2010Via: Irish Times: THE PROSPECT of an EU intervention in the Greek economy drew a step closer when European finance ministers endorsed a 28-day deadline imposed on its government to show that its budget plan is yielding dividends. With European Central Bank president Jean Claude-Trichet pushing hard for Athens to adopt new budget measures, finance […]
And Now… Roving, Random Explosives Checks in U.S. Airports
February 17th, 2010Via: USA Today: Airport screeners for the first time will begin roving through airports taking chemical swabs from passengers and their bags to check for explosives, the Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday. The program, already tested at five airports after the attempted Christmas Day bomb plot on a U.S.-bound airliner, begins nationwide in a few […]
Illinois Senate Meets in Secret Today
February 17th, 2010This is pretty weird. Via: Chicago Tribune: The Illinois Senate plans to meet behind closed doors this morning to hear a presentation by experts about state budgets and the national economy, a move that open government advocates called baffling. The unusual secret gathering is being billed as a “joint caucus” of the majority Democrats and […]
France Moves to Increase Internet Controls, Censorship of Websites
February 17th, 2010Via: Register: France yesterday put in its bid for an unlikely prize, becoming the first western country to make to make even Australia look liberal when it comes to state powers of internet censorship. In the teeth of fierce opposition both inside and outside parliament, the National Assembly approved, by 312 votes to 214 against, […]
Australian Government Asks Google to Censor YouTube
February 17th, 2010Via: Sydney Morning Herald: Google says it will not “voluntarily” comply with the government’s request that it censor YouTube videos in accordance with broad “refused classification” (RC) content rules. Communications Minister Stephen Conroy referred to Google’s censorship on behalf of the Chinese and Thai governments in making his case for the company to impose censorship […]
Is DARPA Calling for Improvements to ECHELON’s Voice Recognition Systems?
February 16th, 2010I’ll just plonk my entire commentary from U.S. Allegedly Listened In on Calls of Americans Abroad—I Know, You’re Shocked into this post: This is probably the biggest not-news-to-you-or-me post ever to appear on Cryptogon. What is described below has been standard operating procedure for NSA for decades. What seems strange, though, is the amount of […]
