Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
FBI Wants Records Kept of Web Sites Visited *Yawn*
February 7th, 2010I’m posting this to let those of you (who are submitting this) know that I don’t understand why you find it noteworthy. With all the posts I’ve done on network surveillance, I’m getting story submissions about retention of URLs? Guys, splash some cold water on your faces, break out the smelling salts, wake up. It […]
South Carolina Now Requires ‘Subversives’ to Register, Pay Fee
February 6th, 2010The Onion couldn’t have done it better than South Carolina. Via: Raw Story: Terrorists who want to overthrow the United States government must now register with South Carolina’s Secretary of State and declare their intentions — or face a $25,000 fine and up to 10 years in prison. The state’s “Subversive Activities Registration Act,” passed […]
Airport Body Scanning Raises Radiation Exposure
February 5th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Air passengers should be made aware of the health risks of airport body screenings and governments must explain any decision to expose the public to higher levels of cancer-causing radiation, an inter-agency report said. Pregnant women and children should not be subject to scanning, even though the radiation dose from body scanners is […]
U.S. Doing ‘Scientific Research’ to Boost Interrogations
February 4th, 2010Via: AFP: An elite US interrogation unit will conduct “scientific research” to find better ways of questioning top suspected terrorists, US intelligence director Dennis Blair said Wednesday. “It is going to do scientific research on that long-neglected area,” Blair told the House Intelligence Committee, without elaborating on the nature of the techniques being tested. A […]
Ron Paul Warns of Social Unrest and Martial Law
February 3rd, 2010Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power
February 3rd, 2010Via: New York Times: In a federal budget filled with mind-boggling statistics, two numbers stand out as particularly stunning, for the way they may change American politics and American power. The first is the projected deficit in the coming year, nearly 11 percent of the country’s entire economic output. That is not unprecedented: During the […]
China Threatens U.S. Sanctions Over Arms Sale
February 3rd, 2010Via: Sydney Morning Herald: China will erect trade sanctions against Boeing and other large US companies unless the US Congress blocks the Obama administration’s planned $US6.4 billion ($7.2 billion) weapons sales program to Taiwan, a senior defence strategist said. Rear Admiral Yang Yi told the Herald yesterday China was prepared to hurt itself in order […]
Pentagon Black Budget Sees Year Over Year Record Funding; Tops $56 Billion
February 2nd, 2010More Change. Via: Wired: The Defense Department just released its king-sized, $708 billion budget for the next fiscal year. Much of the proposed spending is fairly detailed — noting exactly how many helicopters the Pentagon plans to buy and how many troops it plans on playing. But about $56 billion goes simply to “classified programs,” […]
Obama Budget Seeks More Money for Nuclear Weapons
February 2nd, 2010Even I never thought Change we can believe in would include the biggest increase in nuclear weapons related activities since the, “Early years of Ronald Reagan.” Via: Canadian Press: President Barack Obama is seeking increased funding for nuclear weapons research and security next year, even as his administration has pledged to reduce the world’s stockpile […]
Airstrip Built at Zimbabwe Diamond Field
February 1st, 2010Via: Telegraph: A secret airstrip is being built in a diamond field illegally seized by the Zimbabwean army 14 months ago which would enable clandestine weapons shipments. Diplomats and analysts believe that the mile-long runway is intended for arms shipments, probably from China, for which troops loyal to President Robert Mugabe would pay on the […]
