Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Iceland to be Fast-Tracked Into the EU
January 30th, 2009Imagine my shock. Via: Guardian: Iceland will be put on a fast track to joining the European Union to rescue the small Arctic state from financial collapse amid rising expectations that it will apply for membership within months, senior policy-makers in Brussels and Reykjavik have told the Guardian.
A Quiet Windfall for U.S. Banks: With Attention on Bailout Debate, Treasury Made Change to Tax Policy
January 29th, 2009This is a good one. Well, not really good. More like Must Read. It’s from November 2008. Open a window, though. You’ll want to get a breeze going in your room because the sweet musk of evil could become overpowering otherwise. Full text. Via: Washington Post: The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as […]
H. R. 645: To Direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to Establish National Emergency Centers on Military Installations
January 28th, 2009Tens of millions of Americans have been emptying gun stores of weapons of every description and ammunition for months. I have no idea what PSYOP is planned to get the thought criminals to go quietly, but it’s probably going to be a doozy. There are lots of flim flam Obama-Will-Save-Us zombies out there who will […]
Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case
January 25th, 2009Via: Wired: The Obama administration fell in line with the Bush administration Thursday when it urged a federal judge to set aside a ruling in a closely watched spy case weighing whether a U.S. president may bypass Congress and establish a program of eavesdropping on Americans without warrants. In a filing in San Francisco federal […]
Anna Politkovskaya’s Lawyer Stanislav Markelov Shot Dead in Moscow
January 21st, 2009Via: Times: A campaigning Russian lawyer was shot dead in central Moscow today after giving a press conference to draw attention to the early release of an army colonel convicted of the murder of a young woman during the war in Chechnya. Officials said that Stanislav Markelov, who also represented the slain journalist Anna Politkovskaya, […]
MySpace Celebrity and Katalyst Present the Presidential Pledge
January 21st, 2009Britain Could be Facing National Bankruptcy
January 21st, 2009Is Britain using the Euro yet? Nope. Not yet. Just wait… I’m not so convinced that this is incompetence, like the article implies. National currencies are the enemy. And Gordon Brown is such a tool (yes, tool, not fool). What do you expect from a crook who sold half of the British people’s public treasure […]
Obama to Defend Telco Spy Immunity
January 20th, 2009Via: Wired: The incoming Obama administration will vigorously defend congressional legislation immunizing U.S. telecommunication companies from lawsuits about their participation in the Bush administration’s domestic spy program. That was the assessment Thursday by Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for attorney general, who made the statement during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. […]
Obama’s Inauguration Has Been Financed Partially by Bailed-Out Wall Street Executives
January 20th, 2009Change. Via: ABC: The country is in the middle of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, which isn’t stopping rich donors and the government from spending $170 million, or more, on the inauguration of Barack Obama. … But there are plenty of rich donors willing to pick up the tab. “They are not […]
Obama Reaches Out for McCain’s Counsel
January 19th, 2009Change. Via: New York Times: Not long after Senator John McCain returned last month from an official trip to Iraq and Pakistan, he received a phone call from President-elect Barack Obama. As contenders for the presidency, the two had hammered each other for much of 2008 over their conflicting approaches to foreign policy, especially in […]
