Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Kissinger on Obama: “A New World Order Can Be Created”
January 6th, 2009Change we can believe in.
China Seen Facing Wave of Unrest in 2009
January 6th, 2009Via: Reuters: China faces surging protests and riots in 2009 as rising unemployment stokes discontent, a state-run magazine said in a blunt warning of the hazards to Communist Party control from a sharp economic downturn. The unusually stark report in this week’s Outlook (Liaowang) Magazine, issued by the official Xinhua news agency, said faltering growth […]
Rahm Emanuel 2006: “This is not a draft. It’s a universal service.”
January 6th, 2009New Law in Russia Ends Jury Trials for ‘Crimes Against State’
January 2nd, 2009Via: Los Angeles Times: President Dmitry Medvedev signs the controversial measure with little publicity. A pending Putin-backed law widens the definition of treason. Government critics fear the stage is set for a crackdown. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev paused in the last, quiet hours of a dying year to sign into law a controversial bill that […]
Rice: People Will Soon Thank Bush for What He’s Done
December 29th, 2008Bitch, please. Via: CNN: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said that despite President Bush’s low approval ratings, people will soon “start to thank this president for what he’s done.” “So we can sit here and talk about the long record, but what I would say to you is that this president has faced tougher circumstances […]
Hiring Window Is Open at the Foreign Service
December 25th, 2008Besides the rhetorical reasons for this, it might also indicate A) that the U.S. is increasingly going to be relying on the kindness of others to survive, which will require diplomatic personnel at multiple levels, and B) that some very major changes are afoot with regard to the North American Union, the Amero and other […]
Deep Throat: Mark Felt Dies
December 22nd, 2008Via: AP: W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as “Deep Throat” 30 years after he helped The Washington Post unravel the Watergate scandal, has died. He was 95. Felt died Thursday at his home in Santa Rosa under hospice care after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months, said family […]
Banks Not Disclosing What They Did with Bailout Cash
December 22nd, 2008Total, blatant, shameless, top to bottom fraud. Via: AP / CNBC: It’s something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where’s the money going? But after receiving billions in aid from U.S. taxpayers, the nation’s largest banks say they can’t track exactly how they’re spending the money or they simply refuse […]
George Bush: “I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.”
December 18th, 2008Double plus good, comrade! * Queue applause * Translation: Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic German’ could […]
California: U.S. Marines to Staff Vehicle Checkpoint Along with Law Enforcement Agencies
December 18th, 2008Via: DUI Blog: The Morongo office of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in conjunction with the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department and the USMC military police will conduct a joint sobriety/driver license checkpoint on Friday, December 12, 2008, somewhere in the unincorporated/incorporated area of San Bernardino County. Research Credit: DT
