Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
China: Six-Year-Old Aspires to Become a Corrupt Communist Party Official
September 4th, 2009She’ll go far. Via: Independent Online: A six-year-old girl has become a media darling in China on her first day of school by expressing her aspiration to become a “corrupt official” when she grows up, state media said on Friday. The young student stated her aspirations in a televised interview that was posted on a […]
Journalist Flees Russia Over Arctic Sea Story
September 4th, 2009Via: BBC: A journalist has fled Russia after suggesting the Arctic Sea cargo ship that was apparently hijacked in July may have been carrying illegal weapons. Mikhail Voitenko said he had been told to leave Moscow or face arrest. The editor of Sovfracht, an online maritime journal, fled on Wednesday, saying he may not be […]
Microsoft Pushes for Single Global Patent System
September 3rd, 2009Via: Cnet: A senior lawyer at Microsoft is calling for the creation of a global patent system to make it easier and faster for corporations to enforce their intellectual property rights around the world. In a blog posting on Tuesday, Microsoft’s Deputy General Counsel Horacio Gutierrez said that a backlog of patent applications internationally was […]
Bush’s Third Term? You’re Living It
September 3rd, 2009Please understand: THERE ARE NO POLITICAL SOLUTIONS TO THE PROBLEMS THE U.S. IS FACING. The outcome of this election is meaningless, one way or the other. The more you keep grasping for glimmers of hope within the political system, the worse off you will be. … Will a big Democratic win calm people down? Maybe […]
Florida and Iowa Quarantine Documents
September 1st, 2009These PDF files are hosted on the Centers for Disease Control website. I’ve dumped the unformatted text from the documents below. What and where are the detention quarantine secure facilities??? Florida: QUARANTINE DETENTION ORDER Department Of Health __________ County Health Department QUARANTINE DETENTION ORDER By authority of Chapter 381 and 252, Florida Statutes and Chapter […]
Cheney Says Cooperation with CIA Probe “Will Depend”
August 31st, 2009Via: Reuters: Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he might refuse to speak with a prosecutor investigating suspected CIA prisoner abuses, a probe he branded as political and bad for national security. Cheney has been one of the fiercest critics of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision last week to name a new special prosecutor […]
In 2006 a New Zealand Woman Was Held in a Psychiatric Ward for Saying 9/11 Was an Inside Job
August 31st, 2009Here’s the formal apology letter from the Northland DHB. Via: Clare Swinney: I was wrongly diagnosed as delusional by the psychiatric staff of Ward 7 at Northland Base Hospital in Whangarei and held hospital against my will for 11 days in mid-2006, because I maintained the attacks of 9/11 were orchestrated by criminal elements inside […]
ABC News on Swine Flu, “Conspiracy Theorists” and the Military Getting Involved
August 31st, 2009Via: ABC News: What might life be like during the kind of major swine flu pandemic predicted by the White House to hit the U.S. this fall? The worst-case scenarios percolate on the edges of thought: bans on public gatherings, restricting the movement of afflicted individuals, and compelled vaccinations. Conspiracy theorists go farther, suggesting that […]
Japan: Opposition Party Wins in Historic Election
August 30th, 2009Via: Washington Post: Breaking a half-century hammerlock of one-party rule in Japan, the opposition Democratic Party won a crushing election victory on Sunday with pledges to revive the country’s stalled economy and steer a foreign-policy course less dependent on the United States. But it was pent-up voter anger, not campaign promises, that halted 54 years […]
Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet
August 28th, 2009Via: Cnet: Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed […]
