Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
In Ashcroft’s Darkened Hospital Room…
May 17th, 2007Like they’ve never soared before! Via: NPR: One senator called it some of the most dramatic testimony he’s heard in 25 years as a legislator. Comey was the only witness at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where for the first time, he publicly told the story of a dramatic confrontation at a hospital bedside between […]
Enemy Collaborator Democrats Keep War Going
May 17th, 2007Duh. Democrats = Republicans in Jackass Costumes Via: AP / Myway: Anti-war Democrats in the Senate failed in an attempt to cut off funds for the Iraq war on Wednesday, a lopsided bipartisan vote that masked growing impatience within both political parties over President Bush’s handling of the four-year conflict.
Arizona Trying to Stop Sales of T-Shirts with Names of Dead Soldiers
May 16th, 2007Would you like some freedom fries with that? Via: Arizona Daily Star: State lawmakers voted Monday to approve a law blocking the sale of anti-war T-shirts with the names of dead soldiers on them — a measure one media lawyer says is “unconstitutional about three or four different ways.” The Senate agreed to make it […]
U.S. Government Forces E-gold Redemptions — Seizes Gold
May 15th, 2007I don’t have any reason to believe that this isn’t the case, I just can’t confirm it. If you have additional information, please share it with all of us here. Via: Moneynetnews: In an unprecedented move on or just before Wednesday May 9th, 2007, the United States of America has forced Omnipay et al E-gold […]
Government Working on Plan for Aftermath of Nuclear Bombing of Major City
May 14th, 2007In, Waiting for Clarity on the Brink of Oblivion, I wrote: You do not want to try to reach the exit as millions of other people attempt to do the same thing. Waiting for clarity is not often rewarded. Many Cryptogon readers think that they’re going to hedge their bets, and stay put for as […]
WHITE HOUSE TO RUN SHADOW GOVERNMENT
May 11th, 2007Would you like any freedom fries with that? Via: Washington Post: President Bush issued a formal national security directive yesterday ordering agencies to prepare contingency plans for a surprise, “decapitating” attack on the federal government, and assigned responsibility for coordinating such plans to the White House.
Liberty Dollar Defies U.S. Mint Warning
May 10th, 2007You’re allowed to have these coins, just don’t use them to buy anything from someone who’s willing to accept them as payment. That’s illegal. Via: PR Newswire / Yahoo: Liberty Dollar announced today that it has issued a new $1 Copper Liberty that defies the U.S. Mint’s previous warning that only the use, not possession, […]
Bush Wants Phone Companies Immune to Privacy Suits
May 5th, 2007Via: Washington Post: The Bush administration is urging Congress to pass a law that would halt dozens of lawsuits charging phone companies with invading ordinary citizens’ privacy through a post-Sept. 11 warrantless surveillance program. The measure is part of a legislative package drafted by the Justice Department to relax provisions in the 1978 Foreign Intelligence […]
Cheney Hosts Queen’s Tour of Jamestown
May 4th, 2007I wonder if anyone in these crowds has ever heard of the Declaration of Independence? Via: CNN: Several hundred people rose early Friday to position themselves at Jamestown Settlement for a glimpse of Queen Elizabeth II. The British monarch is visiting the site of the first permanent English settlement in America to commemorate Jamestown’s 400th […]
Blueprint for Dictatorship
May 2nd, 2007Via: Antiwar: America is headed for a military dictatorship – and recent legislation makes this all but inevitable. Last September, Congress passed the Defense Authorization Act, which empowered the president to declare martial law with very little provocation, namely in the aftermath of a “terrorist attack or incident.” Having determined that “the execution of the […]
