Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
2,500 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen Deployed for G-20 Security
September 23rd, 2009Via: Lebanon Daily News: More than 2,500 Pennsylvania National Guardsmen – including several from Lebanon County – are in Pittsburgh for the G-20 summit, set to take place Thursday and Friday. During the mission, dubbed Operation Steel Kickoff, the Guardsmen will fall under the direction of the U.S. Secret Service and will support local, state […]
AIG May Not Repay Its Taxpayer Tab
September 23rd, 2009Mmm hmm. Via: ABC News: One year after the biggest corporate bailout in the country’s history, a government watchdog office Monday warned that American taxpayers may not recoup the full $182 billion given to embattled insurance giant American International Group. “AIG’s ability to restructure its business and repay the government is unclear at this time,” […]
And Now… FDIC Could Seek Bailout from Banks
September 22nd, 2009Oh man, I’ve heard it all at this point. Here are the details of how this will work. Note: Get ready to close the tab that opens or your eyes may start to bleed after just a few seconds. Via: AP: Regulators may borrow billions from big banks to shore up the dwindling fund that […]
Change: U.S. Charges Obama Fund-Raiser in $290 Million Fraud
September 22nd, 2009Via: Reuters: Hassan Nemazee, a fund-raiser for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and other Democrats, has been indicted for defrauding Bank of America, HSBC and Citigroup Inc out of more than $290 million in loan proceeds, U.S. prosecutors said on Monday. The announcement follows last month’s indictment of Nemazee, head of a private equity firm and […]
EU Funding Artificial Intelligence Plan to Monitor Public for “Abnormal Behavior”
September 20th, 2009It looks like 2002 all over again. Also: Did Bush Continue to Secretly Operate Total Information Awareness? Via: Telegraph: The European Union is spending millions of pounds developing “Orwellian” technologies designed to scour the internet and CCTV images for “abnormal behaviour”. A five-year research programme, called Project Indect, aims to develop computer programmes which act […]
U.S. Justice Department Investigates Former Secretary of the Interior’s Ties to Shell
September 19th, 2009Via: New York Times: The Justice Department is investigating whether a former secretary of the interior, Gale A. Norton, violated the law by granting valuable leases to Royal Dutch Shell around the time she was considering going to work for the company after she left office, officials said Thursday. The officials said investigators had recently […]
Police to Get Access to Classified Military Intelligence
September 17th, 2009Via: U.S. Department of Defense: IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 713-09 September 14, 2009 DoD Announces New Information-Sharing Access to Help Fusion Centers Combat Terrorism The Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) today announced an initiative to grant select state and major urban area fusion center personnel access to classified terrorism-related information residing in DoD’s […]
Israeli Government Ads Warn Against Marrying Non-Jews
September 14th, 2009U.S. Taxpayer money (a lot of it borrowed from China) is being used to promote crackpot religious purity propaganda in Israel. This is off the rails. Via: Alternet: The Israeli government has launched a television and Internet advertising campaign urging Israelis to inform on Jewish friends and relatives abroad who may be in danger of […]
Vladimir Putin Signals Plan to Reclaim Old Job as Russian President
September 13th, 2009Via: Guardian: Vladimir Putin dropped the heaviest hint so far that he aims to return to his former post as president in 2012, a move that could see him still in the Kremlin in 2024 – aged 72. Speaking to a group of international scholars and journalists at his country residence, the Russian prime minister […]
Sonic Crowd Control Weapons at Congressional Townhall Meetings in San Diego County
September 12th, 2009Listen closely around 1:40: Via: East County Magazine: “Long-range acoustic devices [LRADs] for crowd control can be extremely dangerous. These are used in Iraq to control insurgents. They can cause serious and lasting harm to humans…We want to know WHY our Sheriff Dept has this weapon,” Sal Magallanez of San Diego-based Liberty One Radio said […]
