Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
PetroChina: First Firm Worth $1 Trillion
November 5th, 2007Via: AP: PetroChina became the world’s first company worth more than $1 trillion on Monday, surging past Exxon Mobil as the Chinese oil producer’s shares nearly tripled in their first day of trading in China. State-owned PetroChina Co., a unit of state-owned China National Petroleum Corp., is the country’s biggest oil and gas producer. Its […]
Saudi Prince Loses $4 Billion on Citigroup
November 5th, 2007Priceless. Via: Telegraph: The lift in Prince AlWaleed bin Talal’s Saudi Arabian Kingdom Holdings building has just two buttons. One is marked “ground floor”, while the other says, simply, HRH. AlWaleed is Saudi’s most famous businessman, a nephew of King Abdullah, the grandson of a former prime minister of Lebanon and a friend of Charles […]
Pakistan Under Martial Law
November 3rd, 2007Via: BBC: Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf has declared emergency rule and suspended the country’s constitution. He defended his actions in a national address, saying he was curbing a rise in extremism in Pakistan. Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has been replaced and the Supreme Court surrounded by troops, who also entered state-run TV and radio stations. […]
China: Birth Defects Soar Due to Pollution
November 1st, 2007These are just the numbers released by the diabolical Chinese regime. What are the real numbers!? Via: Guardian / Reuters: Birth defects in Chinese infants have soared nearly 40 percent since 2001, a government report said, and officials linked the rise to China’s worsening environmental degradation. The rate of defects had risen from 104.9 per […]
AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance
October 31st, 2007Please indulge me by re-reading this extended passage from Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation: Remember Russell Tice, the NSA SIGINT officer who had knowledge of a special access NSA operation that was so disturbing that he tried to tell the U.S. Congress about it? What was Tice talking about here: Tice said his information […]
How Much of Cryptogon Has Google Disappeared?
October 29th, 2007Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that Google has been dropping Cryptogon material from their index. I’ve also noticed fewer referrals from Google searches. Google is a particularly evil organization, but, for a long time, search worked well (unless you happened to be in China). Not anymore. Well, not for people looking for information […]
Travelers: Homeland Security is Googling You
October 29th, 2007Via: Cleveland Leader: Andrew Feldman, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who’s currently a psychotherapist in Vancouver, was recently detained for four hours, fingerprinted, and then barred entry into the United States after Homeland Security googled him and found an article he wrote in a literary and scientific journal in which he talked about using LSD and […]
Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007
October 27th, 2007This is an effort to devise a coherent legislative package that is geared toward counterinsurgency operations inside the United States. But… Why? Americans, in general, are the most docile and gullible people I have ever encountered. They have proven, time and time again, that they are willing and able to swallow any manner of excrement […]
Pandemic Test Undertaken by Financial Services Paints Dire Scenario
October 26th, 2007Mmmm Hmmm. Via: Computerworld: If a pandemic strikes the U.S., it will kill about 1.7 million people, hospitalize 9 million, exhaust antiviral medications and reduce basic food supplies, according to a planning scenario developed by financial service firms preparing for such a catastrophe. This particular disaster occurred only on paper. But those grim numbers are […]
Terror Watch List Swells to More than 755,000
October 25th, 2007Via: USA Today: The government’s terrorist watch list has swelled to more than 755,000 names, according to a new government report that has raised worries about the list’s effectiveness. The size of the list, typically used to check people entering the country through land border crossings, airports and sea ports, has been growing by 200,000 […]
