Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Change: Obama Extends Bush 9/11 National Emergency
September 11th, 2009Via: whitehouse.gov: THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release September 10, 2009 NOTICE – – – – – – – CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN TERRORIST ATTACKS Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for 1 year the national […]
Glock’s Secret Path to Profits
September 11th, 2009You can’t even shake a stick at all the weird stuff in this one. Via: Business Week: Allegations of corruption permeate Gaston Glock’s empire. His former business associate, Charles Marie Joseph Ewert, now resides in a prison in Luxembourg, having been convicted in 2003 of contracting to have Glock killed. The murder plot—thwarted when the […]
Kucinich Responds to Obama’s Address to Congress: Windfall for Insurance and Pharmaceutical Companies
September 10th, 2009Britain: Question a Doctor and Lose Your Child
September 10th, 2009Via: Sunday Times: PARENTS are being threatened with having their children taken into care after questioning doctors’ diagnoses or objecting to their medical care. John Hemming, a Liberal Democrat MP, who campaigns to stop injustices in the family court, said: “Very often care proceedings are used as retaliation by local authorities against ‘uppity’ people who […]
Family Values: California Republican Assemblyman Has Sex with Utility Company Lobbyist, Brags About It—Woops, the Mic is On
September 10th, 2009Via: AP: Mike Duvall’s second term as a member of the California Assembly was progressing pretty much like his first — in relative obscurity, with few notable legislative accomplishments. The Orange County Republican is now a YouTube hit after his racy comments about his sexual conquests were caught on an open microphone in a Capitol […]
Good Billions After Bad
September 9th, 2009Via: Vanity Fair: Last October, Congress passed the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, putting $700 billion into the hands of the Treasury Department to bail out the nation’s banks at a moment of vanishing credit and peak financial panic. Over the next three months, Treasury poured nearly $239 billion into 296 of the nation’s […]
Van Jones
September 7th, 2009I’m baffled by the interest Cryptogon readers have in this story. It has been sent in using email, the suggestion form and posted to the subreddit. Maybe I’m too numb at this point to see why people find this story interesting. Is it the 9/11 part? I mean… Come on guys. Don’t tell me that […]
Vladimir Putin’s Dark Rise to Power: GQ Censors Article About False Flag Bombings in Russia
September 6th, 2009Gawker: Scans of English Version and Attempts at Russian Translation The article is definitely worth reading. Via: NPR: For war journalist Scott Anderson, the most confounding part of his recent assignment for GQ magazine to explore the root of terrorist acts in Russia a decade ago wasn’t the suggestion of treachery and subterfuge he found. […]
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 […]
