Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Some Guesses About 2008
January 2nd, 2008WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. This took me a bit longer to write than I thought it would. Apologies. Here are some issue areas that I think will be interesting to watch in 2008. Economy I don’t see the U.S. Dollar catching much of a break […]
Hoover Planned Mass Jailings in 1950: He Wanted to Suspend Habeas Corpus and Detain 12,000
December 23rd, 2007“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” —William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun Via: San Francisco Chronicle – New York Times: A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the long-time director of the FBI, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty. Hoover […]
No Trial, No Conviction: FBI Steals Millions of Dollars Worth of Gold from Individuals on Deposit with Liberty Dollar, Plans Auction
December 23rd, 2007That the cops have stolen people’s gold and intend to sell it isn’t news to me, but rather a real world lesson on why I keep my gold in a vault in Switzerland. The U.S. is “behind enemy lines” in my opinion. People in the U.S. are in grave danger. It’s not complicated, if you’ve […]
U.S. Says it has Right to Kidnap British Citizens
December 3rd, 2007Via: Times: AMERICA has told Britain that it can “kidnap†British citizens if they are wanted for crimes in the United States. A senior lawyer for the American government has told the Court of Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it. The […]
Forget the Green Technology – The Hot Money Is in Guns
December 1st, 2007Naomi Klein gets close, but misses the mark. For those of us who understand clean, green fascism, it’s not a question of clean energy technology OR armaments and surveillance; it’s both. You won’t have viable clean technology without a total, fascist lockdown. I’ve said it from the beginning, and I’m saying it now. The technology […]
The Plot to Seize the White House: The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR
November 23rd, 2007The fascist plot to overthrow the U.S. Government in the 1930s is definitely one They’d rather you forgot about, or, better yet, never heard of in the first place. The first time that I was introduced to this information, I thought, “This can’t be true.” In case you don’t want to read the book, or […]
Facing Jail and Fines, Parents Summoned to Court to Have Children Vaccinated
November 22nd, 2007The part I like is that the parents of 900 students ignored this absurd fascist decree. Via: Baltimore Sun: Scores of grumbling parents facing a threat of jail lined up at a courthouse today to either prove that their school-age kids already had their required vaccinations or see that the youngsters submitted to the needle. […]
Wave Power Attracts Investors
November 10th, 2007BIG investors. And it’s fascinating, the shit-for-brains level of context that Business Week manages here: “…if wave power becomes commercially viable.” A far more fascinating question is why and how it didn’t become viable over forty years ago?! Who died, and who made a killing? Think of it another way: The U.S. landed guys on […]
Arraignment and Federal Indictments for Bernard Kerik, Close Giuliani Associate and Botched Nominee to Head Department of Homeland Security
November 9th, 2007Tax evasion, corruption, mafia connected construction businesses: Fuggetaboutit. Windfall stock options payout on taser related swindling: $6 million. A filthy, sycophantic crook like this almost becoming the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Priceless. Via: AP: Bernard Kerik, the police commissioner under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani who nearly became head of the Homeland […]
Mark Klein on AT&T/NSA Domestic Surveillance Program: “The NSA is Getting Everything.”
November 8th, 2007Must see related stories: NSA, AT&T and the NarusInsight Intercept Suite Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance Via: Washington Post: A Story of Surveillance Former Technician ‘Turning In’ AT&T Over NSA Program By Ellen Nakashima Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 7, 2007; D01 His first inkling that […]
