Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
T. Boone Pickens on Iraq: ‘We leave there with the Chinese getting the oil’
October 23rd, 2009Seems fair, since the Chinese financed the atrocity in the first place. Via: World Tribune: A leading energy developer said the United States has been excluded from Iraq’s revived energy market. T. Boone Pickens told Congress that U.S. companies were losing opportunities in the Iraqi crude oil and natural gas sectors to competitors from China […]
Sid the Science Kid Gets a Flu Shot
October 22nd, 2009Stalin could learn a thing or two about propaganda from the present day U.S. Government. Via: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
Gary Null on Vaccines: New York State Assembly Hearing
October 21st, 2009The date on these is 10-13-2009:
Hank Paulson Held A Secret Meeting With Goldman Sachs In Moscow
October 21st, 2009Via: Business Insider: During that long summer between the collapse of Bear Stearns and the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Hank Paulson held a secret meeting with the board of Goldman Sachs in Moscow. Andrew Ross Sorkin tells the tale of the meeting in his new book, Too Big To Fail: When Paulson learned that Goldman’s […]
Afghanistan: “Hundreds of Thousands” of Ballots for Hamid Karzai Tossed Out
October 20th, 2009Via: Chicago Tribune: A United Nations-backed panel Monday tossed out hundreds of thousands of ballots cast in August for Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and independent election observers said the new figures dictated that a runoff election should take place. Karzai and election officials loyal to the president appeared to balk at accepting the fraud investigators’ […]
U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets
October 20th, 2009Via: Wired: America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon. In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part […]
Russia’s Leaders See Chinese Fascism as Template for Governance
October 18th, 2009Via: New York Times: Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Communist Party, Russia’s rulers have hit upon a model for future success: the Communist Party. Or at least, the one that reigns next door. Like an envious underachiever, Vladimir V. Putin’s party, United Russia, is increasingly examining how it can emulate the Chinese […]
Change We Can Believe In: Obama Honors George H.W. Bush for Public Service
October 17th, 2009And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter… The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for […]
Goldman Exec Named First COO of SEC Enforcement
October 17th, 2009The money is so dirty now, the gains so ill-gotten, that the most diabolical of ALL Wall Street firms needs to create a PRIVATE exchange because the existing bogus securities laws (WorldCom, Enron, blah blah) are too cumbersome and time consuming!? Watch this space; if you dare. —Goldman Sachs Creates Private Stock Exchange for Unregistered […]
Britain: Supranational Banking Organization May Be Needed
October 16th, 2009Funny how BIS isn’t mentioned. Via: Reuters: A global body with legal powers may be needed over time to enforce the world’s new financial rules, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) said on Wednesday. The FSA’s newly appointed and first director of international affairs, Verena Ross, said the Financial Stability Board (FSB) was key to ensuring […]
