Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
U.S. Immigration Raids Are About to Get Ugly
May 8th, 2008Via: MySanAntonio: Letters listing millions of Social Security “no-match” workers are ready to mail to employers. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency personnel are trained and ready. Buses and vans are standing by for raids. Detention facilities have expanded. All that is lacking is clearance from the courts. Employers should be prepared in the coming […]
‘Retired’ Goldman Sachs Executive to Head Trading for Merrill Lynch
April 28th, 2008What we have here isn’t some, “unseen hand of the market.” It’s more like a bunch of tentacles. Henry Paulson is the United States Treasury Secretary. He’s also a former CEO of Goldman Sachs. Joshua Bolten is the current White House Chief of Staff. He served as Goldman’s executive director for legal and government affairs […]
FBI Wants to Move Hunt for Criminals Into Internet Backbone
April 26th, 2008In other words, FBI wants to look for “illegal activity” in the intercepts that the NSA is already collecting. Via: Ars Technica: I think legislation has to be developed that balances on one hand, the privacy rights of the individual who are receiving the information, but on the other hand, given the technology, the necessity […]
The Audacity of Depression
April 7th, 2008I don’t do it justice by just quoting this little bit. Settle in, pour yourself a nice, stiff drink. Via: Joe Bageant: Over the past couple of years I’ve had hundreds of encounters with reading Americans — and by encounters I mean conversations, not falling off chairs — which is to say book loving, thinking […]
U.S. Lawmakers Heavily Invested in Defense
April 4th, 2008One for your Not-News-to-Me file folder. Via: AP: Members of Congress have as much as $196 million collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department, earning millions since the onset of the Iraq war, according to a study by a nonpartisan research group. Not all the companies in which lawmakers invested are typical […]
Bush Administration Memo Says Fourth Amendment Does not Apply to Military Operations Within U.S.
April 3rd, 2008Chilling. Via: ACLU: A newly disclosed secret memo authored by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in March 2003 that asserts President Bush has unlimited power to order brutal interrogations of detainees also reveals a radical interpretation of the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protection from unreasonable search and seizure. The memo, declassified yesterday […]
The Deep Ones and the Madness of Crowds
March 28th, 2008This thing, this situation we all face, cannot be changed by mass protests, gradual applications of pressure or any legislative process. Realize the fact that WE HAVE ALREADY LOST. Say it with me, “We have already lost.” Everyone reading this site knows it, whether you want to admit it or not. We all know that […]
Sterilise Parents on Benefits, Says Tory
March 25th, 2008Via: Telegraph: A councillor is facing calls to resign after he said parents on benefits should be sterilised to stop them having more than one child. John Ward, a Conservative member of Medway Council in Kent, made the comments during a discussion about the hunt for the schoolgirl Shannon Matthews. He said her family was […]
Obama: “I would reach out to the first George Bush.”
March 22nd, 2008Imagine my shock. Via: CNN: KING: A couple of quick things, Senator. Would you, in your administration, make use of Bill Clinton? OBAMA: Absolutely. I think that, you know, Bill Clinton is a brilliant statesman and politician, and I think that any president would want to use his skills and his relationships around the world. […]
Bush: We’ll “Bring Order to Financial Markets”
March 17th, 2008That’s what I like to see! No more bullshit about a, “free market.” We’re all on the same page now: The financial system is being run like a Soviet ministry. For once, Dubya got it right! Via: CNN: President Bush, trying to calm turmoil in financial markets, said Monday that his administration is “on top […]
