Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
Black Ops Jungle: The Academy of Military Industrial Complex Studies
September 19th, 2007Via: Mother Jones: Dedicated to everything from architecture to sports medicine, “career academies” claim to offer high school kids focus, relevancy, and solid job prospects. Now add a new kind of program to the list: homeland security high. In late August, Maryland’s Joppatowne High School became the first school in the country dedicated to churning […]
Bush at OPEC, uh APEC
September 7th, 2007Oh man. Via: Yahoo / AP: President Bush had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day at the Sydney Opera House. He’d only reached the third sentence of Friday’s speech to business leaders, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, when he committed his first gaffe. “Thank you for being such a […]
Water Cannons, City Lockdown: Welcome to APEC
September 4th, 2007Via: Stuff: The security fence is in place. The warning systems are installed. The water cannon is loaded. Sydney is braced for Apec, for better or worse. Australian Prime Minister John Howard extolled the benefits of Apec week with his now-customary address via the internet, on YouTube, as 20 world leaders prepare to descend on […]
Bill Clinton ‘Shocked’ Hillary Donor Was a Fugitive
September 3rd, 2007Bill Mena Airport Clinton was shocked by the revelations… Via: Newsday: Former President Bill Clinton said he was “shocked” by revelations that a top fundraiser for his wife is a fugitive from justice and claimed he didn’t even know what “HillRaiser” Norman Hsu did for a living. “You could have knocked me over with a […]
Sydney’s Ring of Steel Security Plan for APEC: “Madness”
August 27th, 2007Via: Australian Broadcasting Corporation: This Saturday, construction will start on a three-metre high, five-kilometre long fence in Sydney’s CBD to protect leaders attending next week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference. The fence will cause major traffic disruptions throughout the city and local workers and residents will have to go through special ID checks at access […]
Brzezinski Embraces Obama Over Clinton for President
August 25th, 2007So, the Them like Obama. He just seems like Hillary in black face to me. And Hillary is Bush in drag. Of course, Ron Paul—who’s winning straw poles around the place—might need to be dealt with. That can’t be allowed to continue. None of this, of course, should be construed as me taking anything to […]
Australia Will Release Convicts to Make Room in Prisons for Mass Arrests During Bush Visit
August 25th, 2007Via: Sidney Morning Herald: The NSW Government has expanded the number of declared security zones for the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. The new areas include the airport, the RAAF base at Richmond, around Kirribilli and Admiralty houses, Bondi Icebergs and Sheraton on the Park, the Hilton, the Observatory and the Marriott on College Street […]
China Bans Buddhist Monks in Tibet from Reincarnating without Government Permission
August 18th, 2007Via: MSNBC: In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the law, which goes into effect next month and strictly stipulates the procedures by which one is to reincarnate, is […]
Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell Public Unrest if Martial Law Ever Declared
August 17th, 2007Yes, friends, the concentration camps represent the path to salvation. Praise the Lord! Via: ksla: Could martial law ever become a reality in America? Some fear any nuclear, biological or chemical attack on U.S. soil might trigger just that. KSLA News 12 has discovered that the clergy would help the government with potentially their biggest […]
Remember Real ID? Same Shit, Different Card
August 12th, 2007Via: The Times and Democrat: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday he will introduce legislation to replace all paper Social Security cards with plastic biometric cards that can’t be duplicated, so employers can be certain of the legal status of their workers. The South Carolina Republican said Congress must address the out-of-control illegal immigration problem, […]
