Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
China’s All-Seeing Eye
May 19th, 2008The one is a bit long, but very worth reading, especially if you liked/were terrified by, The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE. If you plan on reading this, click through to the main story because my excerpt includes the grim spoiler ending. Via: Rolling Stone: China today, epitomized by Shenzhen’s transition from mud to megacity in […]
Democracy: U.S. Planning Big New Prison in Afghanistan
May 18th, 2008Via: New York Times: The Pentagon is moving forward with plans to build a new, 40-acre detention complex on the main American military base in Afghanistan, officials said, in a stark acknowledgment that the United States is likely to continue to hold prisoners overseas for years to come. The proposed detention center would replace the […]
The Last Roundup: MAIN CORE
May 18th, 2008In my case, there’s no way the programs I want to talk to Congress about should be public ever, unless maybe in 200 years they want to declassify them. You should never learn about it; no one at the Times should ever learn about these things. —Russell Tice, Former NSA SIGINT Officer I’m going to […]
Texas: U.S. Citizenship to be Checked During Emergency Evacuation
May 16th, 2008I knew there were going to be different camps. Look back at, Texas: Background Check Required Before Evacuation; Different Buses for “Criminals”: What do you want to bet that the thought criminals will wind up on the buses with the wanted felons, and that those buses will go to different camps. Surely, if there are […]
Not-So-Safe-Deposit Boxes: States Seize Citizens’ Property to Balance Their Budgets
May 15th, 2008Via: ABC News: The 50 U.S. states are holding more than $32 billion worth of unclaimed property that they’re supposed to safeguard for their citizens. But a “Good Morning America” investigation found some states aggressively seize property that isn’t really unclaimed and then use the money — your money — to balance their budgets. Unclaimed […]
It Is Definitely Fascism When it Happens to You
May 15th, 2008Via: Common Dreams: In Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s world of an “Israelized” America, the terms SPOT (Screening Passengers by Observation Technique) and BDO (Behavior Detection Officer) are the new acronyms of Stasi-like control of the American citizenry by a government that treats anyone as a suspicious person in the same manner that Israel mistreats […]
U.S. Government Letters Tell Students They’re Security Threats
May 13th, 2008Via: New York Times: A German graduate student in oceanography at M.I.T. applied to the Transportation Security Administration for a new ID card allowing him to work around ships and docks. What the student, Wilken-Jon von Appen, received in return was a letter that not only turned him down but added an ominous warning from […]
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 […]
