Posts by Destroy All Monsters

Big Sister?

said he was baffled by the government's insistence that there is an emergency requirement to bring in new legislation before MPs break for the summer

Could be they are expecting a few Iraqi Fried Chicken coming home to roost. Could also be another risk of "economic uheavals" in heat of august.

The bill surprised many by quickly securing cross-party support prior to its publication last Thursday

Of course. Everyone was busy reserving their "well-deserved" vacation while the world burns, so pressing the YES button is done with the same haste shown when super urgent toilet break is required.

It should be forbidden to pass laws 1 month before the "recess".

P.S.:

In Independence Day, 2014, old fart Napolitano had this to say:

In one week, the Supreme Court told ... the president that he cannot wait until Saturday morning, when the Senate is not in session, to appoint high-level officials whose jobs require Senate confirmation, and then claim that they do not require Senate confirmation because the Senate was in recess.

These nasty tricks are as numerous as tax evasion attempts, but far more harmful.

Newspeak, we can haz it!

"watch over its arsenal of nukes"

In the same way as a car manufacturer "watches over its supply of cars". Only in this case, the cars are meant to do extreme drive-by shootings.

The current "nuclear posture" is all about keeping billions of the freshly printed money go to the nice people in the military-industrial complex:

The 2013 “Nuclear Employment Strategy” continued U.S. government reliance on a “nuclear triad” of ground-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles, and bomber-launched nuclear weapons. Although the need for one or more legs of this “triad” has been debated since the early 1990s, the 2013 report concluded that “retaining all three triad legs will best maintain strategic stability....

Another indication that the Obama administration is in no hurry to fulfill its promises about building a nuclear weapons-free world is found in its fiscal 2014 budget proposal to Congress. Here, amid sharp cuts for a broad variety of programs, there is a proposed 9 percent increase in federal funding for the Energy Department’s U.S. nuclear weapons activities, including upgrading nuclear warheads (like the B61 gravity bomb, slated for a $10 billion makeover) and modernizing nuclear weapons production facilities.

In particular the B61 is is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate-pushed retardation. Well, maybe Obama has information about Chtulhu's upcoming awakening, who knows:

Obama’s B61 Life Extension Program proposes to spend over $11 billion over several years to keep the variable-yield bombs “operational” through 2025 (nuclear weapons have limited shelf lives). This includes a billion dollars to add new tail fins in order to raise the intelligence of the things, to convert them from ‘dumb bombs’ subject solely to gravity to ‘smart bombs’ that can be steered to their targets. The new tail fins also permit B61s to be carried by the F-35 stealth fighter, perhaps the single greatest Pentagon boondoggle of all time. Not only does the proposed modernization violate the promise of the 2010 NPR to avoid new capabilities, it lowers the ‘nuclear threshold’ by making the bombs more ‘usable.’ This is because the F-35 can (hypothetically) get closer to its target prior to detection and attempted interdiction, reducing the required yield of the more precise bomb, reducing the radioactive fallout of the explosion, and reducing the consequences of its use.

Why in the world do the US and NATO need a refurbished nuclear bomb first imagined by weapons designers at Los Alamos shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis? They don’t, even by both parties own reckoning. There is no conceivable military use for the things today. NATO wrestled with its mission, its very reason for being, following the collapse of the Soviet threat in the early nineties. Rather than fold the tent, throw a party, and call it an era—as the peace movements of its member-states suggested—NATO expanded eastward, making new members of its former foes. The US ignored (often gleefully) the howling protests of successive Russian leaders who claimed NATO expansion violated an agreement between Boris Yeltsin and George H.W. Bush to keep the alliance where it was.

Uwe Boll is on the case

Really, ancient spacecraft collides with Moon due to meddling scientists? And one of them is female?

More like this, please!!

Polonium sushi is too good for them.

"It's really about misrepresenting human ingenuity and calling on the guns and badges of the state and allowing people to leech off that – it's been well recognized that the intellectual trades are the cancer of all of commerce"

Because "Intellectual Property" is not property. It's a landgrab and it's all about monopoly.

I prefer a Schrödinger's Pussy

Apple is TERRIFIED of women’s bodies

Frankly, who isn't?

Good!

Generalize the tooling off the "MUH WINDOWS RIGHT OR WRONG" platform?

That's something that should have happened even before the War on Terror proceeded to the "Mission Accomplished" stage.

And get rid of anyone who doesn't agree - with extreme prejudice.

AND get rid of the RIBBON, FFS!!

The attackers were apparently repelled, but only after their activities penetrated some defences.

I suppose they were repelled by the CVs. Neocon, room-temperature IQ, neocon, already bought, israel firster, room-temperature IQ, team USA member, ...

"That's enough Hu, just log off."

History shows insolvencies tend to spike in the wake of a recession as businesses spread themselves too finely and run out of cash.

Welcome to the definition of what a "recession" is about.

As to whether this one is over or whether there is "recovery" - I still bet on further redlining in the year ahead.

Madame Feinstein (D-Surveillance) confides...

Every week we hear about the theft of personal information from retailers and trade secrets from innovative businesses

It's good to hear that businesses that are less than innovative and are not retailers remain off the shortlist of attack targets.

"My information could well be of use to you, Stalker"

Also remember to wipe or crush your HDD/SDD before handing in your PC at the recycling center.