Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Wikileaks: A Billion Dollars Worth of Quazi Secret Congressional Reports
February 9th, 2009For those who want to cut right to the chase: Torrents. Via: Wikileaks: Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation, from […]
Obama’s NSC Will Get Sweeping New Powers
February 8th, 2009Via: MSNBC: President Obama plans to order a sweeping overhaul of the National Security Council, expanding its membership and increasing its authority to set strategy across a wide spectrum of international and domestic issues. The result will be a “dramatically different” NSC from that of the Bush administration or any of its predecessors since the […]
CIA Warns Barack Obama that British Terrorists Are the Biggest Threat to the U.S.
February 8th, 2009Here’s what I took from this ridiculous article: CIA is running “terror” networks inside the UK. With professional case officers on the job, and the economic situation off the rails, it might be time for more false flag operations to ensure that people remain on their dual hamster wheels of poverty and fear. British people, […]
Pass the Next Phase of the “Bailout” Now, or the Whores Face Catastrophe
February 8th, 2009Hope… For high end prostitutes? Via: Telegraph: A New York madam who ran one of the city’s biggest escort agencies claims that prominent bankers and businessmen paid for her prostitutes with corporate credit cards. … ABC News said Davis provided it with a print-out of her computerised client list, a copy of which she offered […]
Obama Sent Kissinger to Russia
February 7th, 2009* chortling * Via: Telegraph: Henry Kissinger, the pioneer of Cold War detente during the Nixon era, has made a return to frontline politics after President Barack Obama reportedly sent him to Moscow to win backing from Vladimir Putin’s government for a nuclear disarmament initiative. The Daily Telegraph has learned that the 85-year-old former US […]
House of Lords Report on British Surveillance State
February 7th, 2009Via: Guardian: The House of Lords report on Britain’s surveillance society is a devastating analysis of the systems that have been installed by the authoritarian Labour government and the controlling forces emerging in local government. There is no question now that Britain’s free society is under threat, and it is time for the public and […]
Tony Blair: World Needs More Religion
February 6th, 2009If you haven’t read the one about The Family, don’t miss it. (Also, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet.) They’re the people behind the National Prayer Breakfast. Via: Independent: Tony Blair gave an extraordinary speech about the global importance of religion yesterday, telling an audience which included […]
CHINA DECLARES DROUGHT EMERGENCY
February 6th, 2009Via: BBC: China has declared an emergency in eight northern and central drought-hit regions, where nearly four million people are suffering water shortages. Nearly half of China’s winter crop – some 10m hectares (24m acres) of wheat and rape seed – are also under threat. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao ordered all-out efforts […]
New Orleans: Residents on Notice of Upcoming Police Training
February 5th, 2009Via: KATC: The New Orleans Police Department is warning residents not to panic if they see helicopters flying around the city after dark. The department will be hosting military training in and around the city between Jan. 27 and Feb. 8. The training includes the use of military helicopters flying after dark throughout the city. […]
Cheney Warns of New Attacks
February 4th, 2009Yesterday, Cryptogon reader offthereservation suggested that I look at a list of U.S. State Department notices on the U.S. Embassy site for Japan. This person said to look at the notices dated 09/07/01 and 09/10/01. Obviously, those were just before The Big Day. Offthereservation noted that a brand new Worldwide Caution was just released on […]
