Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Change We Can Believe In: How About the End of Farmers Markets? Say Hello to H.R. 875: Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
March 9th, 2009Update: The Husband of the Bill’s Sponsor Does Work for Monsanto Reader CW tipped me off to this. It checks out. Rosa DeLauro is married to Stanley B. Greenberg. Here’s a bio on Greenberg: Stanley B. Greenberg is Chairman and CEO of Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. He has served as polling advisor to President Bill […]
Brother, Can You Spare a Trillion?
March 7th, 2009Via: Solari: The full page ad in Ruppert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal for its “Future of Finance Initiative” starts off by saying that the financial system has stopped working. I completely disagree. The financial system is working for the first time since Bob Rubin and his colleagues created the “strong dollar policy” complete with gold […]
Obama Says to Buy Stocks
March 6th, 2009Via: Automatic Earth: President Obama must be starting to sweat, maybe hyperventilate and perhaps even panic. In a move that is prone to kill a political career if it turns out wrong (and it will), he suggested today that this may be a good time for Americans to buy stocks. Now, I don’t care if […]
The International
March 5th, 2009The International – Official Site Via: Wikipedia: Plot Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world’s most powerful banks, the International Bank of Business and Credit. Uncovering illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of […]
Unopened Claims Letters Hidden at VA Offices
March 5th, 2009Via: Army Times: A new report about Veterans Affairs Department employees squirreling away tens of thousands of unopened letters related to benefits claims is sparking fresh concerns that veterans and their survivors are being cheated out of money. VA officials acknowledge further credibility problems based on a new report of a previously undisclosed 2007 incident […]
Obama Regime Continues to Prevent Illegal Wiretapping Case from Going Forward
March 3rd, 2009Illegal wiretaps we can believe in. Via: Ars: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the government’s plea to stay a January ruling allowing an Islamic charity that alleges it was subject to illicit warrantless wiretapping to proceed with its lawsuit. But Obama administration attorneys have signaled that they plan to continue fighting tooth […]
Some of Bush’s Secret Memos on Presidential Power Released
March 3rd, 2009The documents available from the U.S. Department of Justice: http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/documents/olc-memos.htm Via: Chicago Tribune: The Obama administration on Monday made public nine long-secret legal memos setting out an extraordinarily broad interpretation of presidential power that was used by the Bush White House to justify its actions in the war on terror, including one 2001 opinion authorizing […]
UK: Contingency Plan for Deployment of British Army in Case of Bank Riots
March 2nd, 2009Let me know if there’s a better source on this. Via: Daily Express: TOP secret contingency plans have been drawn up to counter the threat posed by a “summer of discontent” in Britain. The “double-whammy” of the worst economic crisis in living memory and a motley crew of political extremists determined to stir up civil […]
Gordon Brown: ‘Globalisation is Not an Option , it is a Fact’
March 2nd, 2009I have obtained secret surveillance video from inside Number 10 that sheds some light on Gordon Brown’s “Global New Deal”: Via: Times Online: Historians will look back and say this was no ordinary time but a defining moment: an unprecedented period of global change, and a time when one chapter ended and another began. The […]
Obama to Seek New Assault Weapons Ban… To Stop Violence in Mexico?
February 26th, 2009Well, I said, “Don’t dawdle.” And here we are. Via: ABC News: The Obama administration will seek to reinstate the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 during the Bush administration, Attorney General Eric Holder said today. “As President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like […]
