Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Greece: Cash Business Transactions Over €1500 Will Be Outlawed in 2011
February 15th, 2010Via: Reuters: “From 1. Jan. 2011, every transaction above 1,500 euros between natural persons and businesses, or between businesses, will not be considered legal if it is done in cash. Transactions will have to be done through debit or credit cards”
Societe Generale: Breakup of the Euro Region?
February 15th, 2010I doubt it. The Plan is for fewer currencies, not more. Ordo ab chao. Via: Business Week: The Greek budget crisis is a symptom of imbalances that will lead to the breakup of the euro region, according to Societe Generale SA strategist Albert Edwards, and Harvard University Professor Martin Feldstein said monetary union “isn’t working” […]
$100 Billion a Year is Escaping U.S. Sales and Income Taxes in Locales Like Aruba and St. Kitts
February 15th, 2010My personal tax minimization strategy involves not making much money in the first place. Via: Business Week: Greg Hennessy designs software in New York, where his $2 million-a-year company, SWAT, is based. His customer credit-card payments go to a bank in Panama, where his business is incorporated. As a result, he pays taxes at Panama’s […]
Flashback 2002: Bush Given Plans for Worldwide War Against Al-Qaida Two Days Before 9/11
February 14th, 2010Via: MSNBC: President Bush was expected to sign detailed plans for a worldwide war against al-Qaida two days before Sept. 11 but did not have the chance before the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, U.S. and foreign sources told NBC News. The document, a formal National Security Presidential Directive, amounted to a “game […]
Obama Regime Readying Executive Orders on Several Issues
February 14th, 2010The Wikipedia page on executive orders is worth reading for anyone who is unfamiliar with the matter. Via: New York Times: With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities. […]
Obama Signs Law Raising Public Debt Limit from $12.4 Trillion to $14.3 Trillion
February 14th, 2010Via: ABC News: Behind closed doors and with no cameras present, President Obama signed into law Friday afternoon the bill raising the public debt limit from $12.394 trillion to $14.294 trillion. The current national debt is $12.3 trillion. Check out the National Debt Clock, which tells you your share of that — roughly $40,000 per […]
Feds Push for Tracking Cell Phones
February 12th, 2010Tice said his information is different from the Terrorist Surveillance Program that Bush acknowledged in December and from news accounts this week that the NSA has been secretly collecting phone call records of millions of Americans. “It’s an angle that you haven’t heard about yet,” he said. —AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance For […]
700 Military Bases Spread Across Afghanistan
February 12th, 2010Via: Alternet: Today, according to official sources, approximately 700 bases of every size dot the Afghan countryside, and more, like the one in Shinwar, are under construction or soon will be as part of a base-building boom that began last year. Existing in the shadows, rarely reported on and little talked about, this base-building program […]
Court Keeps White House Spy Docs Secret
February 11th, 2010Via: Wired: A federal appellate panel on Tuesday blocked a court order requiring disclosure of e-mail between the White House, Justice Department, National Security Agency and Office of the Director of National Intelligence — communications that paved the way for new spy legislation. The 2008 messages were a precursor to legislation that year to kill […]
Just Released 9/11 Images Taken by NYPD Helicopter Pilot
February 11th, 2010Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth Niels Harrit: “Once you have realized this, there is no way back.” Via: Telegraph: The images were taken by a police helicopter pilot, Detective Greg Semendinger, who was first into the air after the attacks and on the scene within minutes. Mr Semendinger took the pictures as his co-pilot […]
