Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Chertoff Shills for Body Scanner Manufacturer
January 5th, 2010Via: Boston Globe: Since the attempted bombing of a US airliner on Christmas Day, former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff has given dozens of media interviews touting the need for the federal government to buy more full-body scanners for airports. What he has made little mention of is that the Chertoff Group, his security consulting […]
And Now… DARPA’s Flying Car Program
January 5th, 2010*chortle* Via: Network World: Military scientists are looking to ramp up research and development of a flying military vehicle that will hold up to 4 people and have the ability to launch vertically and soar when necessary. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will this month hold its first Proposers’ Day Workshop in support […]
Use of Potentially Harmful Chemicals Kept Secret Under Law
January 4th, 2010Via: Washington Post: Of the 84,000 chemicals in commercial use in the United States — from flame retardants in furniture to household cleaners — nearly 20 percent are secret, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, their names and physical properties guarded from consumers and virtually all public officials under a little-known federal provision. The policy […]
Proposed Legislation: IRS to Make Sure Americans Are Buying Health Insurance
January 4th, 2010Change. Via: USA Today: Internal Revenue Service agents already try to catch tax cheats and moonshiners. Under the proposed health care legislation, they would get another assignment: checking to see whether Americans have health insurance. The legislation would require most Americans to have health insurance and to prove it on their federal tax returns. Those […]
New Zealand Licks Uncle Scam’s Toes: Total Network Surveillance System Operational
January 4th, 2010I suppose the news here is that they admit it. Related: NZ Plugs Into Secret Pentagon Intranet NZ Attorney General on GCSB Intercepts in Urewera 16 Case: “That Evidence Will Never See the Light of Day.” US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand Building Biometric Database World Spy Chiefs Gather in New Zealand Secret Power, […]
U.S. Postal Service Will Deliver Drugs in Event of Bioattack
January 1st, 2010Via: AP: If the nation ever faces a large-scale attack by a biological weapon like anthrax, the U.S. Postal Service will be in charge of delivering whatever drugs and other medical aid Americans would need to survive. In an executive order released Wednesday, President Barack Obama put the Postal Service in charge of dispensing “medical […]
National Irish Bank Moves to Cashless Banking (Not The Onion)
December 29th, 2009What if you want more cash than whatever pissant amount they allow you to remove from the ATM each day? Oh, I almost forgot, only criminals need that much cash. Via: Irish Times: IT MIGHT sound like a contradiction in terms, but for the first time one of the main Irish consumer banks is moving […]
Balance of Terror: From Detroit City to Ghazi Khan
December 29th, 2009Via: Chris Floyd: A lone man on an airliner makes a badly botched attempt to ignite what appears to be some kind of hastily cobbled-together device that might or might not have caused some kind of unspecified but apparently non-crippling damage to the plane. The plane lands safely; no one is killed. Yet the reverberations […]
China: Clean Green Apocalypse
December 27th, 2009Via: New York Times: Some of the greenest technologies of the age, from electric cars to efficient light bulbs to very large wind turbines, are made possible by an unusual group of elements called rare earths. The world’s dependence on these substances is rising fast. Just one problem: These elements come almost entirely from China, […]
“I don’t understand how he had a valid visa if he was known on the terror watch list.”
December 27th, 2009More: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport: A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport. Kurt Haskell of Newport, Mich., who posted an earlier comment about his experience, talked […]
