What Do You Like About Not Living in a Democracy?
Posted: April 1, 2018 Filed under: Censorship, China, History, Politics, Russia, Think Tank | Tags: Civil Rights, Communism, Democracy, Left Wing, Marxism, Police state, Progressivism, propaganda, Socialism, Soviet Union, Totalitarianism, Tyranny Leave a comment
EXCLUSIVE: Fidel Castro Health Update
Posted: December 21, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Entertainment, Global, Humor, Politics, Terrorism | Tags: Communism, Cuba, Death of Fidel Castro, Dictatorship, Fidel Castro, Havana, Marxism, Miami, murder, Police state, Socialism, Stalinism, Tyranny Leave a comment
Hillary Clinton & NRA: Who’s More Popular?
Posted: October 27, 2015 Filed under: Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics, Self Defense, Think Tank, White House | Tags: Andrew C. McCarthy, Barack Obama, Charles C. W. Cooke, Civil Rights, Foley & Lardner, Gun laws, Gun rights, Hillary Clinton, Judicial Watch, National Review, NRA, Police state, Progressivism, Tom Fitton, United States 1 Comment
“Seductive as it might be, there is little within the facts to recommend this approach. As Gallup confirmed just this week, the NRA is not a fringe organization that has managed somehow to impose a greatly undeserved octopus’s grip, but a mainstream plank of American civil society with approval ratings of which the vast majority of national politicians could only dream. ‘Despite a year of blistering criticism,’ the polling firm notes, ‘58% in the U.S. have a favorable opinion” of the NRA — a number that “includes the highest recording of ‘very favorable’ opinions (26%) since Gallup began asking this question in 1989.’ That trend line is moving upwards.”
— Charles C.W. Cooke
Source: National Review Online
Peter Moruzzi: Havana Before Castro, When Cuba was a Tropical Playground
Posted: August 3, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, History | Tags: Advertising, Authoritarian, Capitalism, Communism, Cuba, Dictatorship, Fidel Castro, Free market, Glamour, Havana, Hotels, Police state, Poverty, Resorts, Totalitarian, travel, Tropical, Tyranny, vintage 1 Comment
Rumors About Fidel Castro’s Death Again Circulate on the Internet
Posted: January 9, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Diplomacy, Mediasphere | Tags: Attention seeking, Barack Obama, Cold War, Communism, Cuba, Dictator, Fidel Castro, Havana, Marxism, Police state, Poverty, The Washington Post, Twitter, Tyranny 1 Comment
It’s true that Castro hasn’t been seen in public in about a year, and it’s been a few months since one of his last columns were published. Castro, 88, has not said one public word about the historic announcement by President Obama last month about his goal of moving toward normal relations with Cuba after a half-century Cold War stand-off.
Twitter went wild Thursday night with speculation about his demise. Why? There are rumors about that, too. One of them is that another Fidel Castro, this one the son of a prominent Kenyan politician, died a few days ago (Fidel Castro Odinga of Nairobi), and maybe this was all a social media mash-up of mistaken identity. Read the rest of this entry »
War Gear Flows to Police Departments
Posted: June 9, 2014 Filed under: Law & Justice, U.S. News | Tags: Kevin Wilkinson, Louisiana, Neenah, Neenah Wisconsin, Police, Police state, Seminole County Sheriff's Office (Florida), SWAT 1 Comment
A military-style armored personnel carrier, top, that the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office in Florida bought off a contractor. Credit Jacob Langston
NEENAH, Wis. — For NYTimes, Matt Apuzzo reports: Inside the municipal garage of this small lakefront city, parked next to the hefty orange snowplow, sits an even larger truck, this one painted in desert khaki. Weighing 30 tons and built to withstand land mines, the armored combat vehicle is one of hundreds showing up across the country, in police departments big and small.
The 9-foot-tall armored truck was intended for an overseas battlefield. But as President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America’s “long season of war,” the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice.
Kevin Wilkinson, the police chief of Neenah, Wis., said having a vehicle built for combat would help protect his officers. Credit Darren Hauck for The New York Times
During the Obama administration, according to Pentagon data, police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft. Read the rest of this entry »
Americans Sign Petition to Support ‘Nazi-Style Orwellian Police State’
Posted: October 21, 2013 Filed under: Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: low information voter, Nazi, Obama, Orwell, Orwellian, Petition, Police state, satire Leave a commentPaul Joseph Watson writes: After illustrating their enthusiasm for repealing the Bill of Rights, a video shows Americans happily signing a petition to support a “Nazi-style Orwellian police state,” in what easily represents the most shocking footage of its kind to date.
Citing issues with how the government shutdown has impacted the ability of the police to “keep the community safe,” Dice tells San Diegans that there is a need to “increase the Orwellian system.”
“Not a problem,” responds one man as he signs the petition.
“We just want to model it after the Nazi Germany system to keep people safe and secure,” Dice tells another individual.
After signing the petition to “implement the Orwellian police state,” another man responds, “You find the pot of money though,” apparently more concerned about how much a Nazi-style police state would cost than its actual consequences.
“They’re trying to cut the budget by 20 per cent so we just want to make sure that we can model the police state after the Nazi Germany system,” Dice tells another couple who sign the petition, before adding, “Thanks for supporting the police state.” Read the rest of this entry »
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