Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Britain: Parents to Sign ‘Behaviour Contracts’ to Send Children to State Schools
July 24th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Pupils and their families will be required to agree to the deal – setting out minimum standards of behaviour and attendance – before the start of term. Contracts, known as Home School Agreements, will also establish parents’ responsibilities for the first time. They face court action and possible fines of up to £1,000 […]
Citing an Argument Used by the Bush Administration, White House Declines to Disclose Visits by Health Industry Executives
July 23rd, 2009Via: Los Angeles Times: Invoking an argument used by President George W. Bush, the Obama administration has turned down a request from a watchdog group for a list of health industry executives who have visited the White House to discuss the massive healthcare overhaul. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sent a letter to […]
Obama on U.S. Economic Crisis: “The fire is now out”
July 23rd, 2009HAHA! This is “Mission Accomplished” V2.0. Via: AFP: US President Barack Obama defended his administration’s response to the economic crisis over the last six months, declaring: “The fire is now out.” “I think that we have stepped back from the abyss. I think we’ve put out the fire,” he said in an interview with PBS, […]
NSA Using Cloud Model for Intelligence Sharing; Open Source Software; Commodity Hardware
July 22nd, 2009Whooooo weeeee, a lot of bozos are going to draw salary for years off of this boondoggle. (Assuming the whole damn show doesn’t go up in flames before then.) Via: Information Week: The National Security Agency is taking a cloud computing approach in developing a new collaborative intelligence gathering system that will link disparate intelligence […]
Obama Administration Takes Aim At Gun-Rights Revolt
July 21st, 2009Someone better blink, or this could get weird. Via: CBS News: The Obama administration is raising the stakes in a fight over states’ rights and firearm ownership by arguing that new pro-gun laws in Montana and Tennessee are invalid. In the last few months, a grass-roots, federalist revolt against Washington, D.C. has begun to spread […]
Obama Authorizes Extended Secret Service Guard for Cheney
July 21st, 2009Touching. Via: New York Daily News: Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s Secret Service protection has been extended for at least another six months, beginning Tuesday. Normally, ex-veeps only get six months of protection at taxpayer expense. But Cheney asked for an extension, and President Obama – whom Cheney has excoriated in several interviews since leaving […]
Obama Nominates Goldman Sachs Executive for State Department’s Undersecretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs
July 20th, 2009If the Obamatards think I’m enjoying this, they’re wrong. Via: Wall Street Journal: The Obama administration picked Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Vice Chairman Robert Hormats to be the State Department’s undersecretary for economic, energy and agricultural affairs, the White House announced Friday. Mr. Hormats, if confirmed by the Senate, will buttress Secretary of State Hillary […]
Cliff Stearns vs. Henry Paulson
July 20th, 2009In a sane world, Paulson would be sitting in a cage and wearing an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs as he gave this testimony before congress.
The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted
July 18th, 2009Full text backup below. Via: ComputerWorld: The NSA Wiretapping Story Nobody Wanted Whistleblower Mark Klein tells in his new book of how he was ignored. He spoke with IDG News. By Robert McMillan July 17, 2009 07:35 PM ET They sometimes call national security the third rail of politics. Touch it and, politically, you’re dead. […]
And Now… Tony Blair for President of EU?
July 18th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Downing Street has been forced to admit that it is backing Tony Blair to be President of the European Union. The intervention came after Baroness Kinnock embarrassed Gordon Brown by admitting that the Government wants Mr Blair to take up the newly created role. The position will come into force if the Lisbon […]
