Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Italy: Neo-Fascist ‘Blackshirts’ to Start Foot Patrols in Milan?
June 15th, 2009Please tell me this is nonsense. Via: Telegraph: A neo-Fascist group that claims it has thousands of recruits has announced plans to start anti-crime foot patrols on the streets of Milan. The resemblance between their outfits and those of Benito Mussolini’s Blackshirts has triggered a judicial inquiry. The Italian National Guard says that it has […]
BBC Video from Iran
June 15th, 2009I’m not coming down on any side here. While my gut feeling is that CIA/Mossad/MI6 are throwing gasoline on the fire, I can’t point to any evidence of that. The past doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with the present, but being familiar with how the U.S. has screwed with Iran in the past, it’s […]
CIA Chief Believes Cheney Almost Wants U.S. Attacked
June 15th, 2009Why not go all the way and detail Cheney’s role in 9/11? Or any of the dozens of other links between the regime and 9/11? Ah, because the same regime is in power! How’s the Change working out? Obama Exempts CIA Torture Staff from Prosecution Obama Signals His Reluctance to Look Into Bush Policies Obama […]
U.S. Rejects Victory Claim by Iran’s Ahmadinejad
June 14th, 2009Via: AP: The U.S. on Saturday refused to accept hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim of a landslide re-election victory in Iran and said it was looking into allegations of election fraud. Any hopes by the Obama administration of gaining a result similar to Lebanon’s recent election, won by a Western-backed moderate coalition, appeared to be […]
Unrest in Iran After Election
June 14th, 2009Via: The Age: A SEVERE crackdown on Iran’s emerging reform movement began on the weekend after incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scored a resounding win in Friday’s presidential elections. At least 10 leaders of two reformist groups who had backed opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi were under arrest last night as police used tear gas and clubs […]
U.S. Cities May Have to be Bulldozed in “Shrink to Survive” Strategy
June 13th, 2009Change. Via: Telegraph: Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline. The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land […]
U.S. Government Will Own 34 Percent of Citigroup
June 11th, 2009Via: New York Times: Many of its rivals are getting ready to throw back the government’s lifeline, but not Citigroup: To the contrary, Citi on Wednesday said it was moving forward with a plan to convert a large chunk of its preferred shares into common equity. The long-awaited move is expected to give the United […]
Bullion and Bandits: The Improbable Rise and Fall of E-Gold
June 9th, 2009Via: Wired: Jackson drew his inspiration from economist Vera Smith’s influential 1936 treatise The Rationale of Central Banking and the Free Bank Alternative, which challenged the tenets of banking. “She wrote in the depths of the Depression, and poses some of the most compelling questions about central banking systems,” Jackson says. “Central banks should attenuate […]
The Ascendancy of Black World Participants Continues at GM
June 9th, 2009First Kent Kresa, and now Edward Whitacre. What’s the big deal? Edward Whitacre looks like every other old, pink faced fat bastard that slithers from board room to board room, but let’s take a quick walk down memory lane. From 2006, in NSA Collected Phone Records in U.S., we learn: The U.S. National Security Agency […]
Federal Subpoena Seeks Names – and Lots More – of Web Posters
June 9th, 2009THE FEDS ALREADY HAVE THE DATA. Spend a few hours going through my Surveillance archive if you doubt it. Read about the Narus Intercept Suite, the Mark Klein-AT&T-NSA case and MAIN CORE. This is a little over two years old, but it describes the “full pipe” surveillance that federal law enforcement is doing: FBI turns […]
