Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
More Openness and Transparency: Obama Regime Prevents Millions of Pages of Military and Intelligence Documents from Being Declassified; Had Been Scheduled for Release by the End of the Year
November 30th, 2009Via: Boston Globe: President Obama will maintain a lid of secrecy on millions of pages of military and intelligence documents that were scheduled to be declassified by the end of the year, according to administration officials. The missed deadline spells trouble for the White House’s promises to introduce an era of government openness, say advocates, […]
U.S. Antitrust Investigation of Monsanto
November 30th, 2009Oh sure. Obama Chooses Monsanto Creature, Tom Vilsack, for Secretary of Agriculture Obama Chooses Former Monsanto Lobbyist for Food Safety Post Has anyone tried to calculate how much public money Monsanto winds up with each year due to corrupt, broken and bat shit insane agricultural subsidies? I’d guess that the answer to that question would […]
U.A.E. Removes Sunday London Times From Newsstands
November 30th, 2009* chortle * Via: Wall Street Journal: The Sunday London Times newspaper was removed by authorities from shelves in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday amid intensive reporting of Dubai’s debt problems, an executive at the paper said. The National Media Council ordered the paper blocked by distributors without providing a reason, an executive at […]
Bankers from Rothschild Involved with Dubai Collapse
November 29th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Paul Reynolds, head of Rothschild’s advisory operations in the Middle East, was this week asked to work for the Dubai government’s chief restructuring officer alongside Aidan Birkett of Deloitte, who was appointed on Wednesday. The team is tasked with assessing the group’s assets, which is likely to result in a large scale sell-off […]
Senior Government Officials Killed in Russian Train Attack
November 29th, 2009Via: Guardian: Russia was tonight coming to terms with its most deadly terrorist attack in years after investigators confirmed that a powerful improvised bomb caused Friday’s devastating train crash in which at least 26 people, including several top government officials, were killed. The head of Russia’s FSB counter-terrorism agency, Alexander Bortnikov, said the bomb, hidden […]
Germany: Prosecutor to Homeschoolers: No Compromise—You’re Going to Jail
November 27th, 2009Via HSLDA: Juergen and Rosemary Dudek of Archfeldt, Germany, were sentenced to 90 days in prison in July 2008 because they homeschool their children. Their sentence was overturned by an appeals court because of a legal error, and a new trial was ordered. Their new trial began November 16. German news reports indicate the judge […]
The Secret Political Reach Of ‘The Family’
November 25th, 2009Via: NPR: You may recognize these names from recent headlines: Sen. John Ensign, Rep. Bart Stupak and Rep. Joe Pitts. Stupak and Pitts have become familiar names through the media’s health care overhaul coverage; their abortion funding amendment introduced an 11th-hour twist as the House of Representatives approached a vote on a landmark health care […]
UK Jails Schizophrenic for Refusal to Decrypt Files
November 24th, 2009Via: Register: The first person jailed under draconian UK police powers that Ministers said were vital to battle terrorism and serious crime has been identified by The Register as a schizophrenic science hobbyist with no previous criminal record. His crime was a persistent refusal to give counter-terrorism police the keys to decrypt his computer files. […]
Transsexual Linked to Italy’s Sex Scandal ‘Found Dead’
November 23rd, 2009Via: Guardian: A Brazilian transsexual named in a sex scandal involving a former Italian politician is believed to have been killed in a fire in her Rome flat. The media said a bottle of whisky was found near the body of the woman, known as Brenda. There is no confirmation. She was linked to the […]
