Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Obama Requested $40 Billion in Additional “Defense” Spending for 2010
February 3rd, 2009Making the world safe for Hopenosis? Via: Salon: Obama’s 2010 fiscal year budget calls for $527 billion in defense spending (not including the costs of Iraq and Afghanistan). That is more than the U.S. allocated for defense in 2009 and equals what the Bush administration budgeted for 2010: The Obama administration has given the Pentagon […]
Violent Unrest Rocks China as Financial Crisis Hits
February 2nd, 2009Via: Times Online: Bankruptcies, unemployment and social unrest are spreading more widely in China than officially reported, according to independent research that paints an ominous picture for the world economy. The research was conducted for The Sunday Times over the last two months in three provinces vital to Chinese trade – Guangdong, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. […]
Rahm Emanuel: “If you are on that no fly list, your access to the right to bear arms is cancelled”
February 2nd, 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. —H. R. 645: To Direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to Establish […]
Change We Can Believe In: Obama to Expand CIA Rendition Program
February 2nd, 2009I guess there’s no need for the secret prisons if the victims just happen to die during “rendention.” Via: Chicago Tribune: The CIA’s secret prisons are being shuttered. Harsh interrogation techniques are off-limits. And Guantanamo Bay will eventually go back to being a wind-swept naval base on the southeastern corner of Cuba. But even while […]
Russian Newspaper Mourns Another Murdered Reporter
February 1st, 2009Via: AP: That journalist was Anastasia Baburova, a 25-year-old cub reporter. She and a human rights lawyer were shot execution-style by a masked man with a silenced pistol as they walked together a few blocks from the Kremlin. In a country considered one of the most dangerous for journalists, no Russian newspaper has suffered like […]
Humans ‘Will be Implanted with Microchips’
January 31st, 2009Via: NineMSN: All Australians could be implanted with microchips for tracking and identification within the next two or three generations, a prominent academic says. Michael G Michael from the University of Wollongong’s School of Information Systems and Technology, has coined the term “uberveillance” to describe the emerging trend of all-encompassing surveillance. “Uberveillance is not on […]
Defense Department Announces Civilian Expeditionary Workforce
January 30th, 2009Via: Infowars: The Defense Department has established a “civilian expeditionary workforce” that will see American civilians trained and equipped to deploy overseas in support of worldwide military missions. The move is seen by some as an initial step towards fulfilling president Obama’s promise to form a civilian national security force as powerful as the U.S. […]
Geithner Enlists Goldman Sachs Lobbyist as Top Aide
January 30th, 2009In other news, William Dudley, a former Goldman Sachs Chief Economist will replace Geithner at the New York Fed. Via: Politico: Newly installed Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner issued new rules Tuesday restricting contacts with lobbyists – and then hired one to be his top aide. Mark Patterson, a former advocate for Goldman Sachs, will serve […]
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 […]
