Archive for the 'Dictatorship' Category
UK Chancellor Gordon Brown Wants ‘New World Order’ to Fight Global Warming
March 13th, 2007A few of you just don’t want to accept that your most precious, deeply held religious beliefs were created by evil people to control you. If you want to spout off like a deranged, Pentecostal snake handler, that’s fine with me, but if you’re still capable of critical thinking, spend a few minutes with these […]
Visa Chief: Cashless Society by 2012
March 12th, 2007Sure. Via: Independent Online: Paying for goods with notes and coins could be consigned to history within five years, according to the chief executive of Visa Europe. Peter Ayliffe said that, by 2012, using credit and debit cards should be cheaper and more convenient than cash. Some retailers could soon start surcharging customers if they […]
UK: Don’t Like ID Cards? Hand Over Your Passport
March 11th, 2007And then it was too late. Via: Daily Mail: Anybody who objects to their personal details going on the new “Big Brother” ID cards database will be banned from having a passport. James Hall, the official in charge of the supposedly-voluntary scheme, said the Government would allow people to opt out – but in return […]
Tape of Padilla Interrogation Is Missing
March 9th, 2007The BBC’s dog ate it. Via: AP: A videotape showing Pentagon officials’ final interrogation of al- Qaida suspect Jose Padilla is missing, raising questions about whether federal prosecutors have lost other recordings and evidence in the case. The tape is classified, but Padilla’s attorneys said they believe something happened during that interrogation that could explain […]
The Pentagon Wants TiVo (to Watch You)
March 7th, 2007Via: Wired: Reuters yesterday reported on a recently issued study on future technologies written by the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board. More than anything, it seems these outside advisers want a surveillance system that would put Big Brother to shame, and they’re looking at the commercial sector to provide it: William Schneider, the board’s chairman, said […]
Nutricide – Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs
March 6th, 2007Via: healthfreedomusa.org: The Codex Alimentarius is a threat to the freedom of people to choose natural healing and alternative medicine and nutrition. Ratified by the World Health Organization, and going into Law in the United States in 2009, the threat to health freedom has never been greater. This is the first part of a series […]
Escape from America
March 2nd, 2007Brother, I’ll drink to that! Most people reading Cryptogon inside the U.S./Britain are familiar with nonstop feelings of impending doom and frequently asking themselves questions like: Am I next? Is this it? Can I escape? Is it too late? Has everyone gone nuts? Have I gone nuts? Is this job killing me? What booze is […]
De Facto U.S. Flat Tax: 40%
February 25th, 2007You godda problem wid dat? Via: MSN: Politicians… generally talk about only one tax: the federal income tax, which offers graduated rates from 10% to 35%. Politicians rarely talk about what real people experience: the true maze of taxes and government benefits. If someone put them all together, we could see what our actual tax […]
A Fascist for Every Occasion
February 25th, 2007Honestly, I haven’t looked too closely at the Neoconservative literature. Why? I read The Prince when I was eighteen years old. The whole Neocon thing just seems like a Machiavelli fan club/psychopath cult to me; a rehash, in other words. So, why do the Neocons appear to be in control? Politics, for most of the […]
Nichols: Timothy McVeigh’s Handler Was a High Ranking FBI Official
February 23rd, 2007Via: Salt Lake Tribune: Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official “apparently” was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah. The official and other […]
