Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
UK: Maniac Nanny State Kidnaps Obese Children
October 30th, 2008Via: Telegraph: Obtained under Freedom of Information laws, reports showed one boy aged six in Derby was taken from his home by social workers because he was dangerously obese. Another boy in London, aged 12, was put into care with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 28 – 60 per cent above the 17.5 average […]
Massachusetts State Senator Accepted Bribes, Stuffed Cash Into Bra
October 29th, 2008I don’t normally pay any attention to corruption cases involving elected officials, any more than I pay attention to taking a dump or thinking about the sun rising in the sky each morning. All of these things just happen. They’re not newsworthy. But this one just made me chuckle. Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson stuffed […]
UK: Parents to be Fingerprinted by Nursery Schools
October 29th, 2008Why would anyone who thinks that it’s ok to send a three-month-old baby to a day care center have any problem with this? In general, people’s baseline values are so f*cked up now that the core dystopian elements can flow through society, filling in any gaps of sensibility that a person might have managed to […]
‘Constitution-Free’ Zones Extend 100 Miles from the Border
October 28th, 2008Set your freedom fries down and step out of the vehicle. Via: Wired: Government agents should not have the right to stop and question Americans anywhere without suspicion within 100 miles of the border, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday, pointing attention to the little known power of the federal government to set up […]
Top International Military Officials Meet in Adirondacks?
October 24th, 2008I haven’t been able to find any confirmation of the information presented in this story at all. Maybe someone out there knows more. Via: Adirondack Daily Enterprise: SARANAC LAKE – Powerful generals and admirals from some of the most powerful nations on Earth are reportedly meeting somewhere in the local area this weekend after flying […]
Adolf Hitler ‘Planned Propaganda Cable TV’
October 23rd, 2008Via: Telegraph: Plans for the system were first found when Soviet soldiers entered Berlin but have recently been reexamined by researchers for a new Russian documentary. The Orwellian screens would have been set up in public places and would show “people’s television”, depicting how the Aryan race should live, with the Nazis focusing on news, […]
Treasury Blacks Out Parts of Private Bailout Contracts Dealing with Compensation to Firms
October 23rd, 2008Via: BailoutSleuth: When the Treasury Department’s bailout czar provided an update this week on the government’s $700 billion plan to rescue troubled financial institutions, he vowed that it would be an “open and transparent program with appropriate oversight.” The next day, the Treasury Department put out an announcement about a major bailout-related contract with Bank […]
Mutant Seeds for Mesopotamia
October 22nd, 2008Via: Uruknet: One would think that Iraqi farmers, now prospering under “freedom” and “democracy,” would be able to plant the seeds of their choosing, but that choice, under little-known Order 81, would be illegal. … What makes this Order 81 even more outrageous is that Iraqi farmers have been saving wheat and barley seeds since […]
U.S. Policymakers Mull Creation of Domestic Intelligence Agency
October 22nd, 2008Via: CNN: The United Kingdom has MI-5, which roots out spies and terrorists in the British Isles. Canada has CSIS — the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Now Congress is asking: Should the U.S. have its own domestic intelligence agency? On Monday, at the request of Congress, the RAND Corporation outlined the pros and cons of […]
Centuries of British Freedoms Being ‘Broken’ by Security State
October 21st, 2008Full text. Via: Telegraph: Centuries of British civil liberties risk being broken by the relentless pressure from the ‘security state’, the country’s top prosecutor has warned. Outgoing Director of Public Prosecutions Sir Ken Macdonald warned that the expansion of technology by the state into everyday life could create a world future generations “can’t bear”. In […]
