Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
And Then They Came for Me: Journalist Writes His Own Obituary and Is Assassinated Days Later
January 19th, 2009Via: The Sunday Leader: No other profession calls on its practitioners to lay down their lives for their art save the armed forces and, in Sri Lanka, journalism. In the course of the past few years, the independent media have increasingly come under attack. Electronic and print-media institutions have been burnt, bombed, sealed and coerced. […]
Bush Declares a State of Emergency for Obama Inauguration
January 14th, 2009Via: CBS News: President Bush today declared an emergency in Washington, DC in preparation for the Obama inauguration. By declaring an emergency, Mr. Bush opened the door for D.C. to get additional Federal funding to deal with the unique challenges that will accompany the influx, reports CBSNews.com’s Brian Montopoli. An emergency declaration doesn’t mean that […]
Neocon Columnist Calls For Military Draft, Cites Possible Invasion Of Pakistan
January 14th, 2009Rahm Emanuel 2006: “This is not a draft. It’s a universal service.” The U.S. will probably wind up with a conscription plan that falls somewhere between the plans being pushed by these two assholes. Via: Prison Planet: A Washington Times columnist has claimed that a universal military draft is a key necessity if America is […]
Why Are so Many Oligarchs, Royal Families, and Special-Interest Groups Giving Money to the Clinton Foundation?
January 14th, 2009Via: Slate: Here is a thought experiment that does not take very much thought. Picture, if you will, Hillary Clinton facing a foreign-policy conundrum. With whom will she discuss it first and most intently: with her president or her husband? (I did tell you that this wouldn’t be difficult.) Here’s another one: Will she be […]
Obama’s Neocon Dinner
January 14th, 2009Here’s yet another one for the Yes-We-Can-KoolAid-Cult to forget about, or simply ignore in the first place. Via: Yahoo / McClatchy: This could ruin their reputation: President-elect Barack Obama Tuesday evening attending a dinner party at the home of conservative columnist George Will, attended by fellow conservatives William Kristol and David Brooks. The press pool […]
Zimbabwe Introduces $50 Billion Note
January 12th, 2009The old (from July 2008) $100 billion notes used to buy three eggs. The government has since slashed off the zeros and started again. But the zeros came back with a vengeance. How about using scientific notation? Via: CNN: Zimbabwe’s central bank will introduce a $50 billion note — enough to buy just two loaves […]
Obama Signals His Reluctance to Look Into Bush Policies
January 12th, 2009The same regime has been getting away with the same types of crimes for nearly 50 years. Obama is complicit in the latest iterations of it. What do the dumbshit “liberals” think he’s going to do, throw himself in jail? Via: New York Times: President-elect Barack Obama signaled in an interview broadcast Sunday that he […]
Auto Bailout Federal Loan Deals Bar Strikes
January 9th, 2009Oh sure, bankers buy new palaces with their bailout money, but if autoworkers get any funny ideas… Via: AP: Provisions of General Motors’ and Chrysler’s $17.4 billion in federal loans automatically places them in default if union workers go on strike. A General Motors Corp. filing this week with the Securities and Exchange Commission detailed […]
Holocaust Denied: The Lying Silence of Those Who Know
January 9th, 2009Full text. Via: John Pilger: Writing in the New Statesman, John Pilger calls on 40 years of reporting the Middle East to describe the ‘why’ of Israel’s bloody onslaught on the besieged people of Gaza – an attack that has little to do with Hamas or Israel’s right to exist. “When the truth is replaced […]
Enduring Priorities in an Age of Change: War and Profits Over People
January 9th, 2009Via: Chris Floyd: Yet it is here, on “entitlements,” that Obama wants to make a “tough stand” on government spending. It will be a “central part” of his entire economic program. Getting “entitlements” under control will be one of the first major campaigns of his administration, he says, promising plans in February, just days after […]
