Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
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 […]
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. […]
