Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
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 […]
UK Police: Designate Children as Pre Criminals Based on DNA
March 17th, 2008Via: Guardian: Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain’s most senior police forensics expert. Gary Pugh, director of forensic sciences at Scotland Yard and the new DNA spokesman for the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), said […]
Chinese Security Forces Swarm Tibet
March 16th, 2008The world smiles uncomfortably and applauds the gold medal fascism. Via: AP: Soldiers on foot and in armored carriers swarmed Tibet’s capital Saturday, enforcing a strict curfew a day after protesters burned shops and cars to vent their anger against Chinese rule. In another western city, police clashed with hundreds of Buddhist monks leading a […]
Dubya: “I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines…”
March 14th, 2008I wonder if Bush knows the one about the most severely wounded American soldier? Via: Reuters: U.S. President George W. Bush got an earful on Thursday about problems and progress in Afghanistan where a war has dragged on for more than six years but been largely eclipsed by Iraq. In a videoconference, Bush heard from […]
