Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Ben Bernanke on Ron Paul’s Proposed Leglslation to Audit the Federal Reserve
June 26th, 2009“My concern about that legislation is that if the GAO is auditing not only the operational aspects of our programs and the details of the programs, but is making judgments about our policy decisions, that would effectively be a takeover of monetary policy by the Congress, a repudiation of the independence of the Federal Reserve, […]
Gerstner Says Short-Term Gains Should Be Taxed at 80%
June 26th, 2009The margin is the problem. Take margin out of the picture. End it all. Deleverage the trades. Make it so that you can only trade the amount of equities that you have in cash. Sheesh! What a concept. Now, I’m not so keen on the 80% tax part because this would eliminate the potential for […]
Saddam Hussein Bluffed About WMDs Fearing Iranian Arsenal, Declassified FBI Files Show
June 26th, 2009Via: New York Daily News: Saddam Hussein feared Iran’s arsenal more than a U.S. attack, and even considered asking ex-President George W. Bush “to protect” Iraq from its neighbor, once secret FBI files show. The FBI interrogations of the toppled tyrant – codename “Desert Spider” – were declassified after a Freedom of Information Act request. […]
H.R. 675: Building Obama’s Civilian National Security Force
June 25th, 2009Via: Prison Planet: In January, without any recognizable corporate media coverage, Rep. Bob Filner, a California Democrat, introduced H.R. 675. The bill would amend title 10 of the United States Code and extend to civilian employees of the Department of Defense the authority to execute warrants, make arrests, and carry firearms. The bill was referred […]
Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order
June 25th, 2009Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian Democracy in the New World Order by F. William Engdahl: For the faction controlling the Pentagon, the military industry, and the oil industry, the Cold War never ended. They engineered an incredible plan to grab total control of the planet, of land, sea, air, space, outer space and cyberspace. Continuing ‘below […]
Dick Cheney Working on Grimoire
June 24th, 2009Working title: “It Rubs the Lotion on Its Skin or Else It Gets the Hose Again.” Via: AP: Former Vice President Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster and said he hopes readers of all ideologies will be interested in his story. The memoir by Cheney, widely […]
China: Hundreds of Riot Police Battle the People of Shishou
June 22nd, 2009The text below is an AP piece, but you should really click through to see the images and videos. This is just a sample. Via: AP / East South West North: Hundreds of baton-wielding police on Sunday dispersed protesters and cordoned off a city hotel in central China after a young man’s mysterious death sparked […]
The Empire Strikes Back: FTC Plans to Regulate Blogs That Have Affiliate Relationships
June 22nd, 2009What has happened is that bloggers have blown the support columns out from underneath traditional media and the people who run the show don’t like that. The fact that some of us are able to survive by maintaining blogs must have come as an incredible shock to fat bastards in boardrooms across the land. That […]
Japan Considering Taxing Cash; “Nominal Rates of -4% Might be Closer to What is Required to Rescue the Economy from Another Deflationary Spiral”
June 21st, 2009Japanese people will just buy more gold and park their speculative yen back in the carry trade pachinko parlor (this may already be happening). Why wouldn’t they? If holding cash means a guaranteed loss of 4% a year, that’s a pretty good incentive to gamble. Bonus points to the state for the totalitarian surveillance grid […]
At Least 19 Dead in Iranian Protests
June 21st, 2009Via: CTV: Iranian state television has raised the death toll from anti-government demonstrations to at least 19 and reported Sunday that the daughter of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, along with four other family members, has been arrested for participating in the protests. According to the report, authorities made the arrests late Saturday. The names of […]
