Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
America’s Impending Master Class Dictatorship
January 23rd, 2010Holy shit, this one will scorch your eyeballs! Forget my excerpts. Click through and read the whole thing. Highly recommended. Via: Kitco: Thanks to the endless barrage of feel-good propaganda that daily assaults the American mind, best epitomized a few months ago by the “green shoots,” everything’s-coming-up-roses propaganda touted by Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke, the […]
Iraq Spent $85 Million Useless Bomb Detectors
January 22nd, 2010Via: BBC: A BBC Newsnight investigation has found that a so-called “bomb detector”, thousands of which have been sold to Iraq, cannot possibly work. Leading explosives expert Sidney Alford told Newsnight the sale of the ADE-651 was “absolutely immoral”. “This type of equipment does not work,” he said. “I wouldn’t mind betting that lives have […]
Taking Tea with the Lizards
January 22nd, 2010Via: Joe Bageant: But we know the truth. And the truth is that the same pack of greaseball oligarchs have done it again. Managed to slip the schnickle to the proles – again. Because in the big picture, the one where the money is counted (and money is the only thing that counts in capitalism’s […]
Supreme Court: Corporations Can Spend What They Want in Political Races
January 22nd, 2010Via: MSNBC: In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down laws that banned corporations from using their own money to support or oppose candidates for public office. By 5-4 vote, the court overturned federal laws, in effect for decades, that prevented corporations from using their profits to buy political campaign ads. […]
TSA Employee Planted Bag of White Powder in Traveler’s Bag as a Joke
January 22nd, 2010Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler Via: philly.com: In the tense new world of air travel, we’re stripped of shoes, told not to take too much shampoo on board, frowned on if we crack a smile. The last thing we expect is a joke from a Transportation Security Administration screener – particularly one this stupid. […]
Democrats Propose $1.9 Trillion Increase in Debt Limit
January 21st, 2010Must See: In 2009, the Federal Reserve Bought 80% of U.S. Debt?! Via: AP: Senate Democrats on Wednesday proposed allowing the federal government to borrow an additional $1.9 trillion to pay its bills, a record increase that would permit the national debt to reach $14.3 trillion. The unpopular legislation is needed to allow the federal […]
Google Postpones Release of Android Phones in China
January 20th, 2010Via: BBC: Google says it has postponed the launch of two Android based mobile phones in China following a dispute with the government over censorship. The formal launch was due to take place on Wednesday, a spokesperson said. The announcement came as the Chinese government said Google and other foreign firms must obey the country’s […]
FBI Broke Law for Years in Phone Record Searches
January 19th, 2010* pfft * But rest easy, citizen, “FBI officials said they are confident that the safeguards enacted in 2007 have ended the problems.” Conveniently, the article doesn’t mention domestic NSA intercept operations. Via: Washington Post: The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that […]
Bush as President Occasionally Phoned Clinton
January 18th, 2010But first… From: Bush, the Little Voice in Hillary’s Head: What is thy bidding, my Master? And this set from: Change We Can Believe In: Obama Honors George H.W. Bush for Public Service: And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. Via: AP / New York Times: George W. Bush had a special phone friend […]
Italy to Require Anyone Who Uploads Video to the Internet to Obtain Government Authorization
January 17th, 2010Via: The Industry Standard: New rules to be introduced by government decree will require people who upload videos onto the Internet to obtain authorization from the Communications Ministry similar to that required by television broadcasters, drastically reducing freedom to communicate over the Web, opposition lawmakers have warned. The decree is ostensibly an enactment of a […]
