Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Obama Promises More than 600,000 Stimulus Jobs; “Including Hundreds of Maintenance Projects at Military Bases”
June 8th, 2009They’re going to give Summer Camp a whole new meaning. Via: AP: President Barack Obama promised Monday to deliver more than 600,000 jobs through his $787 billion stimulus plan this summer, with federal agencies pumping billions into public works projects, schools and summer youth programs. Obama is ramping up his stimulus program this week even […]
Swedish Pirate Party Enters EU Parliament
June 8th, 2009Via: AFP: A Swedish party that wants to legalise Internet filesharing and beef up web privacy scored a big victory Sunday by winning a European parliament seat, results showed. The Pirate Party won 7.1 percent of votes, taking one of Sweden’s 18 seats in the European parliament, with ballots in 5,659 constituencies out of 5,664 […]
Obama Regime Wants to Allow Detainees Charged with Capital Offences to Plead Guilty, Which Would Result in the Detainees Being Executed Without Trials
June 6th, 2009Via: New York Times: The Obama administration is considering a change in the law for the military commissions at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that would clear the way for detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial. The provision could permit military prosecutors to avoid airing the details of […]
Rik Clay’s Interviews on Red Ice Creations
June 5th, 2009I stumbled across Rik Clay’s interviews on Red Ice Creations. Rik Clay was a blogger and researcher who focused on 2012 issues and the religion of the elite. He was dead about two months after he gave these interviews. Some of you might find these interviews interesting. I did.
Fisk: “I suspect that what the Arab world wants to hear is that Obama will take his soldiers out of Muslim lands.”
June 5th, 2009Via: Independent: More and more, it looks like the same old melody that Bush’s lads used to sing. We’re not against the Muslim world. In fact, we are positively for it. We want you to have democracy, up to a point. We love Arab “moderates” and we want to reach out to you and be […]
Government Posts Sensitive List of U.S. Nuclear Sites By Mistake
June 3rd, 2009Via: Wikileaks: States that are signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty are required to confidentially provide the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) with a description of the location and purpose of each of their nuclear sites. The document presents a sensitive 5 May, 2009 draft of all US nuclear sites for Congressional review together with […]
Government Motors: Majority of GM Bondholders Back Debt-for-Equity Deal
May 31st, 2009Via: Wall Street Journal: General Motors Corp. moved a step closer to what it hopes will be a smooth bankruptcy process after a majority of investors holding $27 billion in the company’s bonds agreed to forgive the debt for equity in the new company, people familiar with the situation said. A battle with the group […]
Once Considered Unthinkable, U.S. Sales Tax Gets Fresh Look
May 28th, 2009Via: Washington Post: With budget deficits soaring and President Obama pushing a trillion-dollar-plus expansion of health coverage, some Washington policymakers are taking a fresh look at a money-making idea long considered politically taboo: a national sales tax. Common around the world, including in Europe, such a tax — called a value-added tax, or VAT — […]
Less Than 32% of Australia’s Secret Internet Censorship List is Related to Underage Images
May 28th, 2009Via: Wikileaks: The Australian government told a Senate estimates hearing this week that less than 32% of the country’s secret internet censorship list is related to underage images. During the hearing, the government also stated that the WikiLeaks publication of the full list in March has now been officially referred to the Australian Federal Police […]
CIA Briefers Regularly Mislead Hill Intelligence Panels, Ex-Spy Charges
May 27th, 2009This has only been standard operating procedure for about the last 62 years. Via: Congressional Quarterly Politics: A former deep-cover CIA operative says the spy agency’s congressional briefers routinely shade the truth or hide facts altogether from congressional overseers. “They mumble, they dissemble, and there’s a lot of ‘on the one hand . . .’” […]
