Archive for January, 2007
History Professor Thrown to the Ground, Arrested for Asking Cop for ID
January 10th, 2007Via: HNN: On Thursday, just after noon, the Tufts historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto was arrested by Atlanta police as he crossed the middle of the street between the Hilton and Hyatt hotels. After being thrown on the ground and handcuffed, the former Oxford don was formally arrested, his hands cuffed behind his back. Several policemen pressed […]
Mexican Army Disarms Tijuana Police
January 9th, 2007That thing is D O W N. And it’s all happening within sight of the United States. Via: TVNZ: Local police patrolled without their guns in Mexico’s tough border city of Tijuana on Saturday after soldiers disarmed them to check if the weapons had been used in drug gang crimes. In the latest stage of […]
Microsoft Vista Developed with Help from U.S. National Security Agency
January 9th, 2007What exactly did NSA do for Microsoft? Well, that can’t be disclosed… Apple, Novell and other companies routinely request and get assistance from NSA… I almost fell out of my chair after I read this one. I was mumbling things. My wife was asking, “What? What’s that, Honey? Microsoft, did what?” Via: Washington Post, full […]
Is the New Zealand Real Estate Bubble the Biggest of Them All?
January 9th, 2007I’m shocked by the number of “For Sale” signs that have disappeared lately. For months, it seemed like every other property was for sale out here in the middle of nowhere. Not now. “Lifestyle blocks” are being snapped up, and prices continue to rise. It’s tough to imagine that flippers would be buying properties around […]
China: Power, Corruption and Lies
January 9th, 2007Via: Guardian: Absolute power corrupts, and the Chinese Communist party has become one of the most corrupt organisations the world has ever witnessed. The combination of absolute power and an ideology that palpably no longer describes reality is a virus that is morally and psychologically undermining the regime. And if the regime wobbles, then its […]
Bush’s Rush to Armageddon
January 9th, 2007Via: Consortium News: George W. Bush has purged senior military and intelligence officials who were obstacles to a wider war in the Middle East, broadening his options for both escalating the conflict inside Iraq and expanding the fighting to Iran and Syria with Israel’s help. On Jan. 4, Bush ousted the top two commanders in […]
Iran Threatens to Block Strait of Hormuz
January 9th, 2007If you haven’t read The Strait of Hormuz: It’s Not That Bad, It’s Worse, it might be worth checking out now. Additionally, when oil was trading near record highs, I wrote that oil could, “Easily go to $45 before it goes to $200.” Oil is now trading around $55. Could the world go from relatively […]
Democrats May Deny Funds for Iraq Surge
January 9th, 2007Knowing that the entire thing is theater, one can only assume that we’re going to see a false flag op soon; something that will shut down talk about ending the war. Woops, the Dems aren’t even considering scaling down the war. It wouldn’t take much to get even the crackpot left onboard this thing. Maybe […]
Bush Senior Early CIA Ties Revealed
January 9th, 2007Via Real News: Newly released internal CIA documents assert that former president George Herbert Walker Bush’s oil company emerged from a 1950’s collaboration with a covert CIA officer. Bush has long denied allegations that he had connections to the intelligence community prior to 1976, when he became Central Intelligence Agency director under President Gerald Ford. […]
Britons to be Scanned for FBI Database
January 9th, 2007And then it was too late… Via: Guardian: Millions of Britons who visit the United States are to have their fingerprints stored on the FBI database alongside those of criminals, in a move that has outraged civil rights groups. The Observer has established that under new plans to combat terrorism, the US government will demand […]
