Archive for February, 2007
Poor Among Plenty
February 6th, 2007Via: MSNBC: Once prized as a leafy haven from the social ills of urban life, the suburbs are now grappling with a new outbreak of an old problem: poverty. Currently, 38 million Americans live below the poverty line, which the federal government defines as an annual income of $20,000 or less for a family of […]
U.S. Immigration Cavity Search Results in Medical Emergency
February 6th, 2007Welcome to the United States. Dr. Mengele will see you now. Via: Register: US immigration officials insisted the sufferer of an anal infection remove a small piece of medical thread which was being used by doctors to treat the condition. The man required treatment under general anaesthetic as a result. The man had an anal […]
Cryptogon Reader Signs Up for Hosting with Blue Host
February 5th, 2007Many thanks to the Cryptogon reader who decided to host his site with Blue Host. Cryptogon receives $65! (Waiting until the site is ready for me to post a link…) Related: Hosting with Blue Host via Cryptogon
Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror
February 5th, 2007Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror by Robert Young Pelton: “Pelton reveals how the U.S. military-industrial complex has created its own dark version of the nonstate warrior [and] asks if companies like Blackwater and Executive Outcomes could become the new Hessians for both multinational corporations and overstretched armies.†—Jonathan Taplin, professor, […]
U.S. Contractors Becoming a Fourth Branch of Government
February 5th, 2007The shop has already been looted; this is the final sweep to pull the fixtures off the walls before the criminals torch the place. Via: International Herald Tribune: In June, short of people to process cases of incompetence and fraud by federal contractors, officials at the General Services Administration responded with what has become the […]
Uncle Sam Robs You to Pay Lockheed
February 5th, 2007If we could know just how much control this one corporation exerted over the domestic and foreign policies of the United States, I’m quite sure that it would be so astonishing that hardly anyone would believe it. Via: Corpwatch: Even without all the specifics, it is clear that Lockheed is supplying the U.S. war in […]
Subprime Credit Crunch Could Trigger Collapse
February 5th, 2007Via: Autodogmatic: Some of you might have seen my new informational site, the Mortgage Lender Implode-O-Meter. But for those who haven’t, I started this site to coherently track a story that is otherwise only quietly developing on a smattering of disparate finance blogs and message boards, with little treatment in the mainstream media (MSM). That […]
U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling
February 5th, 2007Via: New York Times: The Justice Department is completing rules to allow the collection of DNA from most people arrested or detained by federal authorities, a vast expansion of DNA gathering that will include hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, by far the largest group affected. The new forensic DNA sampling was authorized by Congress […]
Stalin’s Inspiration for State Propaganda: Walt Disney
February 5th, 2007Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! Via: Los Angeles Times: “After the Bolshevik Revolution, about 200,000 [Communist] party members inherited a land mass of mostly illiterate people,” said Borsten. “Lenin said film was the best media for propaganda. Within the film genre, animation was by far the easiest way to say what was bad […]
Nice Machine Name
February 4th, 2007evil.ramstein.af.mil 132.25.0.206
