Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Anonymous Takes Down Australian Parliament and Other Government Websites with Distributed Denial of Service Attack
February 10th, 2010Via: AFP: A shadowy group of cyber-activists blocked key Australian government websites on Wednesday to protest against controversial plans to filter the Internet. The main government website, www.australia.gov.au, and parliament’s www.aph.gov.au were both affected along with the sites for Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy. Web activists had earlier warned the sites […]
Family Spends $5000 Per Year on Screen Related Services
February 10th, 2010You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it. —Morpheus, The Matrix Don’t breathe the air, don’t drink the water, don’t eat the food, but, being saturated with endless electronic […]
Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism: Criticism of Obama Regime Serves “The Goals of Al-Qaeda”
February 9th, 2010U.S. Intelligence Cleared to Assassinate Americans Without Trial Via: ABC News: In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan — Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism — responds to critics of the Obama administration’s counterterrorism policies by saying “Politically motivated criticism and unfounded fear-mongering only serve the […]
Senior Chinese Military Officers: Sell U.S. Bonds
February 9th, 2010Via: Reuters: Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan. The calls for broad retaliation over the planned U.S. weapons sales to the disputed island came from officers at China’s […]
What Would Be The Odds?
February 9th, 2010I happen to know the name of the person mentioned in the story below. However, a New Zealand blogger is currently facing charges for releasing the name, so I will not publish it here. If you’re reading Cryptogon, you’re more cunning than most, so I’m confident that, if you want to know the name, you […]
Canada: Sales Halt Ordered for Thousands of Natural Health Products
February 9th, 2010Via: National Post: Makers of natural-health products say they are bracing for widespread layoffs and millions of dollars in losses after Canada’s pharmacy regulators issued a surprise directive recently urging druggists to stop selling unlicensed natural remedies. The order affects thousands of herbal treatments, multi-vitamins and other products, most of them waiting for approval from […]
Australia’s Largest Ever Export Deal: Coal to China
February 8th, 2010Via: ABC: Queensland billionaire Clive Palmer has signed a deal to sell millions of tonnes of coal to China in what’s believed to be Australia’s largest export contract. Mr Palmer says the $69 billion, 20-year offtake deal was signed last Friday with China Power International. Another $8.6 billion agreement was signed with the Metallurgical Corporation […]
U.S. Intelligence Cleared to Assassinate Americans Without Trial
February 8th, 2010The difference between past eras and now is that a person who’s high up the kill chain is publicly admitting that the U.S. regime has given itself the power to murders its own citizens. Via: ABC News: The director of national intelligence affirmed rather bluntly today that the U.S. intelligence community has authority to target […]
Audi 2010 Green Car Super Bowl Commercial
February 8th, 2010German Homeschoolers Granted Political Asylum in U.S.
February 8th, 2010Via: TheLocal: A US court has granted asylum to an evangelical Christian family who fled Germany because they were not allowed to homeschool their children. An immigration judge in Nashville, Tennessee ruled that parents Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, and their five children, are free to stay in the US, where they have been since 2008, […]
