Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Breathtaking Abuse of the Constitution
October 20th, 2007Via: Phoenix New Times: This newspaper and its editorial staff — both current and former — are the targets of unprecedented grand jury subpoenas dated August 24. The authorities are also using the grand jury subpoenas in an attempt to research the identity, purchasing habits, and browsing proclivities of our online readership. It is, we […]
U.S. Armaments Industry Backing Hillary Clinton
October 19th, 2007In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing […]
Homeland Security Seizes Band’s New Album
October 18th, 2007Via: MTV News: Yes, it seems that recently, Walla’s solo record (which has been scheduled to come out at various points over the past, well, four years) took another step toward oblivion when the master hard drive — containing all song files — was confiscated by Homeland Security at the Canadian border, for reasons not […]
U.S. Government Wants Three Days to Issue Permission to Fly
October 14th, 2007Most Americans must be thinking something like, “Well, at least they’re not pointing the Active Denial Weapon at me right now. My TV works. Life is great.” Via: Register: Under new rules proposed by the Transport Security Administration (TSA) (pdf), all airline passengers would need advance permission before flying into, through, or over the United […]
Treasury Claims Power to Seize Gold and Silver — and Everything Else
October 14th, 2007Via: GATA: Because of recent inquiries to GATA about the possibility of an attempt by the U.S. Government to confiscate privately held gold and silver bullion and coins and shares in companies mining the precious metals, we’re republishing here the correspondence between GATA and the U.S. Treasury Department on the subject in 2005. The Treasury […]
1,000 Drive Through Flu Shots to be Given in 3 Hours for Terrorism Drill
October 11th, 2007I N C R E D I B L E Via: Arizona Republic: Chandler health officials are asking residents to roll down their car windows and roll up their sleeves for an emergency terrorism drill that will test the efficiency of mass drive-through vaccinations. The first drill of it’s kind at Chandler Regional Medical Center […]
Enemy Collaborator Democrats to Extend Wiretap Powers
October 9th, 2007Duh. Via: New York Times: Two months after insisting that they would roll back broad eavesdropping powers won by the Bush administration, Democrats in Congress appear ready to make concessions that could extend some crucial powers given to the National Security Agency. Administration officials say they are confident they will win approval of the broadened […]
Burma: Thousands of Executed Protesters Dumped in Jungle
October 2nd, 2007Via: This Is London: Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma’s ruling junta has revealed. The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: “Many more people have been killed in recent days than you’ve […]
Sarkozy Calls for “New World Order” at UN
September 27th, 2007Via: eux.tv: World powers turned to the United Nations on Tuesday to resolve protracted problems that have defied solutions, from climate change to the equal distribution of wealth and human rights issues. US President George W Bush urged the UN to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the document that led to other human […]
Orgiastic Spending on Technologies of Political Control
September 27th, 2007Via: Reuters: Americans are facing a brave new world of post-September 11 technology marvels that could soon find their way into billions of dollars of projected homeland security spending. Gee-whiz know-how — from swarms of tiny airborne sensors to ever-sharper satellite imagery — is being developed by companies chasing potentially lucrative federal, state and local […]
