Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
DHS Sets Guidelines For Possible Swine Flu Quarantines
May 1st, 2009Via: CBS News: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has sent a memo to some health care providers noting procedures to be followed if the swine flu outbreak eventually makes quarantines necessary. DHS Assistant Secretary Bridger McGaw circulated the swine flu memo, which was obtained by CBSNews.com, on Monday night. It says: “The Department of […]
Top Senate Democrat: Bankers “Own” the U.S. Congress
April 30th, 2009Update your Captain Obvious file. Via: Salon: Sen. Dick Durbin, on a local Chicago radio station this week, blurted out an obvious truth about Congress that, despite being blindingly obvious, is rarely spoken: “And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created […]
Will NorthCom Take Over in Swine Flu Outbreak?
April 30th, 2009Via: The Progressive: The swine flu outbreak raises a lot of fears. Here’s one you might not have thought of yet: The Pentagon may be taking over more and more of our civil society in this crisis. Back in 2002, President Bush created NorthCom, the Pentagon’s Northern Command, which has jurisdiction over the United States. […]
Obama’s 100 days – The Mad Men Did Well
April 30th, 2009Via: John Pilger: The BBC’s American television soap Mad Men offers a rare glimpse of the power of corporate advertising. The promotion of smoking half a century ago by the “smart” people of Madison Avenue, who knew the truth, led to countless deaths. Advertising and its twin, public relations, became a way of deceiving dreamt […]
On the Terrorist Watch List? Don’t Even Try to Fly Over the U.S.: Air France Flight Diverted Because a Journalist, Who Is Critical of U.S. Foreign Policy, Was On Board
April 28th, 2009Madness. Via: Progreso Weekly: Air France Flight 438, from Paris, was to land at Mexico City at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 18. Five hours before landing, the captain’s voice announced that U.S. authorities had prohibited the plane from flying over U.S. territory. The explanation: among the passengers aboard was a person who was not […]
Britain: Top Income Tax Rate Increasing to 50%
April 22nd, 2009Via: AFP: The government will increase its top rate of income tax to a higher than expected 50 percent from next year, Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Wednesday as he delivered the government’s annual budget. The tax band had originally been due to rise to 45 percent from 40 percent in April 2011 as Britain […]
Feinstein Sought $25 Billion for Agency that Awarded Contract to Spouse
April 21st, 2009Via: Washington Times: On the day the new Congress convened this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation to route $25 billion in taxpayer money to a government agency that had just awarded her husband’s real estate firm a lucrative contract to sell foreclosed properties at compensation rates higher than the industry norms. Mrs. Feinstein’s intervention […]
Name Not on Our List? Change It, China Says
April 21st, 2009Chinese newspeak. Via: New York Times: “Ma,” a Chinese character for horse, is the 13th most common family name in China, shared by nearly 17 million people. That can cause no end of confusion when Mas get together, especially if those Mas also share the same given name, as many Chinese do. Ma Cheng’s book-loving […]
For Official Use Only: Department of Homeland Security Document Predicts Violence in Response to New Gun Restrictions
April 13th, 2009Via: Infowars: (U//FOUO) Many rightwing extremist groups perceive recent gun control legislation as a threat to their right to bear arms and in response have increased weapons and ammunition stockpiling, as well as renewed participation in paramilitary training exercises. Such activity, combined with a heightened level of extremist paranoia, has the potential to facilitate criminal […]
“The Obama DOJ is now squarely to the Right of an extremely conservative, pro-executive-power, Bush 43-appointed judge on issues of executive power and due-process-less detentions.”
April 13th, 2009Via: Salon: It was once the case under the Bush administration that the U.S. would abduct people from around the world, accuse them of being Terrorists, ship them to Guantanamo, and then keep them there for as long as we wanted without offering them any real due process to contest the accusations against them. That […]
