Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Tens of Thousands Rally Against Berlusconi in Rome
December 7th, 2009Via: BBC: Tens of thousands of people have rallied in Rome, demanding the resignation of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The No B (Berlusconi) Day march was organised by grassroots groups via the internet and social networking sites. Mr Berlusconi faces separate tax fraud and bribery trials after he lost his immunity from prosecution in […]
Family Doesn’t Earn Enough to Satisfy the IRS Magic 8 Ball, Gets Audited
December 6th, 2009It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if a minimum income law was passed… —Men Who Took Food in Trash Sentenced to Six Months in Jail Via: Seattle Times: Rachel Porcaro knows she’s hardly rich. When you’re a single mom making 10 bucks an hour, you don’t need government experts to tell you how broke […]
U.S. Senator Jim Bunning on Ben Bernanke: “Your Fed has become the The Creature from Jekyll Island”
December 5th, 2009Related: The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin
Vanity Fair on Blackwater’s Erik Prince
December 3rd, 2009Blackwater is a CIA cutout that got so big that it just happened to become a household name. —Feds Investigating Blackwater USA for Selling Weapons to Iraqi Insurgency We get into the Coincidence? category because the article just happens to be written by a “former” CIA attorney. Via: Vanity Fair: The truth about Prince may […]
Yahoo, Verizon: Our Spy Capabilities Would ‘Shock’, ‘Confuse’ Consumers
December 3rd, 2009Via: Wired: Want to know how much phone companies and internet service providers charge to funnel your private communications or records to U.S. law enforcement and spy agencies? That’s the question muckraker and Indiana University graduate student Christopher Soghoian asked all agencies within the Department of Justice, under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request […]
North Korea Implements 100 to 1 Reverse Split on Currency
December 2nd, 2009When a medium of exchange isn’t tied to anything but the whims of psychopaths, this kind of thing is the inevitable result. Thank you, Dear Leader. Via: Telegraph: In an alleged bid to curb inflation and suppress its growing black market, North Korea implemented a currency revaluation on Monday, according to Yonhap, the South Korean […]
State of Texas Saving Newborn DNA Samples
December 2nd, 2009Via: KXAN: When Andrea Beleno was expecting her first child, she never dreamed his blood would become the focus of a federal lawsuit. Neither did the other families who are suing the State of Texas to protect the medical privacy of their children. Each year, more than 400,000 babies are born in Texas. State law […]
Sprint Nextel Geotracking Info Given to Law Enforcement Eight Million Times from September 2008 and October 2009
December 1st, 2009My running hypothesis is that MAINCORE targets are geotracked on a persistent basis. Via: Slight Paranoia: Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with its customers’ (GPS) location information over 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009. This massive disclosure of sensitive customer information was made possible due to the roll-out by Sprint of […]
Bankers Arming Themselves
December 1st, 2009Big deal. These corporations control the U.S. Military. Have a nice day. Via: Bloomberg: “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a […]
Another Escalation: Obama to Send 30,000 More Troops to Afghanistan
December 1st, 2009Via: New York Times: President Obama issued orders to send about 30,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan as he prepared to address the nation Tuesday night to explain what may be one of the most defining decisions of his presidency. Mr. Obama conveyed his decision to military leaders late Sunday afternoon during a meeting in […]
