Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Fannie, Freddie Spent Millions on Lobbying
July 20th, 2008Via: AP: For years, mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac tenaciously worked to nurture, and then protect, their financial empires by invoking the political sacred cow of homeownership and fielding an army of lobbyists, power brokers and political contributors. New attention is being focused on the bruised mortgage companies as the Bush administration presses […]
U.S. Air Force Comfort Capsules
July 18th, 2008The U.S. is a banana republic with nuclear weapons. Via: Washington Post: The Air Force’s top leadership sought for three years to spend counterterrorism funds on “comfort capsules” to be installed on military planes that ferry senior officers and civilian leaders around the world, with at least four top generals involved in design details such […]
OBAMA WILL ESTABLISH A “CIVILIAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCE”
July 17th, 2008I can’t wait to hear the Cult of Obama break out into glossolalia over this one. Via: Chicago Tribune: From Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, presidents and those who aspire to be president have long put forth calls for greater public service. Some found success, while […]
Court Affirms: Bush Can Order Indefinite Military Detentions of Civilians in the United States
July 16th, 2008Via: New York Times: President Bush has the legal power to order the indefinite military detentions of civilians captured in the United States, the federal appeals court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Tuesday in a fractured 5-to-4 decision. But a second, overlapping 5-to-4 majority of the court, the United States Court of Appeals for the […]
ALL ITALIANS TO BE FINGERPRINTED
July 16th, 2008Via: Reuters: Italy may demand all its citizens be fingerprinted, a move aimed at defusing widespread criticism of government plans to force Roma people and their children to provide fingerprints as a way of tackling criminality. That policy has been condemned by the European Parliament, by Romania, where many Roma come from, and by religious […]
Terrorist Watch List Hits One Million Names
July 16th, 2008Via: ACLU: The nation’s terrorist watch list has hit one million names, according to a tally maintained by the American Civil Liberties Union based upon the government’s own reported numbers for the size of the list. “Members of Congress, nuns, war heroes and other ‘suspicious characters,’ with names like Robert Johnson and Gary Smith, have […]
Bachelor of Arts in Homeland Security Corporate Management and Assessment
July 14th, 2008Do they learn effective placement of the goo gun? Via: Midway College: Specifically, this program is designed to prepare Homeland Security Corporate Management and Assessment professionals who are equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to function as managers of corporate or industrial security programs and who are knowledgeable in state-of-the-art vulnerability assessment, risk management, […]
Bush Lobbyist in Cash for Access Video
July 13th, 2008Via: Times Online: A lobbyist with close ties to the White House is offering access to key figures in George W Bush’s administration in return for six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency. Stephen Payne, who claims to have raised more than $1m for the president’s Republican party in […]
“Then There Are the Science Fiction-Like Weapons”
July 13th, 2008Ah yes, free speech zones, goo guns and directed energy weapons. It must be (s)Election time in America. Via: CNN / Youtube:
U.S. Defends Laptop Searches at the Border
July 12th, 2008I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve posted about this situation. I can’t seem to get over how fully nutso fascist this is. I wonder what happens if they find that you’re using encrypted volumes, etc.? Via: Christian Science Monitor: Is a laptop searchable in the same way as a piece of luggage? The […]
