Nuremberg Code, Geneva Convention, and Medical Informed Consent Rights
Nuremberg trials are now regarded as a milestone toward the establishment of a permanent international court, and an important precedent for dealing with later instances of genocide and other crimes against humanity.
Pedos in our Politics: Republicans & Democrats Now Implicated in Pedophilia
#GiselleMaxwell’s list became unsealed some time yesterday and here’s what happened WHAT THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IGNORED COMPLETELY Republican Tim Nolan, chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in Kentucky, pled guilty to child sex trafficking and on...
Why Police Solve Fewer Crimes Than Ever Despite Better Technology
If you were murdered today, statistical data suggests there is only about a 60 percent chance that law enforcement would identify and charge the person responsible. For rape cases, that figure drops to roughly three percent. Five decades ago, crime-solving rates were...
Cop Reveals That Planting Evidence And Lying Are Just ‘Part Of The Game’
Palm Beach County, Florida – Journalists at the DC Post were looking through message boards that are frequented by law enforcement officers, when they found a post where one officer was causally talking about planting evidence on “mouthy drivers” and “street lawyers.”...
Homan Square: Chicago Police Black Site for Detaining Americans
For years, a nondescript warehouse on Chicago’s west side operated as something civil liberties attorneys would come to describe as the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site. Known as Homan Square, the facility housed special police units that, according to...
The Senate Torture Reports and the Road to the Iraq War
Two Senate Reports on Torture: Why the Armed Services Committee Findings Matter More In December 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee released its long-anticipated report on the CIA’s detention and interrogation program. The document generated enormous media...
How Watergate Changed American Journalism — and What Went Wrong After
The relationship between the press and the public has always been built on an implied contract: reporters pursue truth, and citizens trust the information they receive. Over the past several decades, that contract has frayed badly. Understanding how we arrived at...
Eric Holder Exposed: No Wall Street Bankers Jailed for 2008 Crisis
Holder’s Revolving Door Between Justice Department and Wall Street When NPR broke the news that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder intended to resign once his replacement was confirmed, the most revealing detail appeared buried at the bottom of the story....
FBI Rapid DNA Program Sought to Turn Local Police Into Genetic Data Collectors
FBI Rapid DNA Initiative Targets Local Police Departments In 2014, the FBI announced plans to dramatically accelerate the collection of DNA profiles for its expanding biometric identification database. The initiative sought to enlist local police departments across...
Private Military Contractors Conduct Warrantless Raids on US Cannabis Farms
Few developments in domestic law enforcement should alarm Americans more than the quiet emergence of private military-style contractors conducting armed raids on U.S. soil. In 2014, two largely overlooked incidents in California signaled a troubling new chapter in the...
Court Documents Reveal Government Threatened Yahoo With 250K Daily Fines Over PRISM
Government Threatened Yahoo With Daily Fines Over PRISM Compliance In September 2014, approximately 1,500 pages of previously classified court documents revealed how the United States government coerced Yahoo into participating in the NSA’s PRISM surveillance...
InfoGraphic: Where Does Gitmo Fit In? The Long, Winding History of Prison Camps
The history of prison camps dates way back to the dawn of time, with victorious battles leading to enslavement and eventual death for the defeated. In the middle ages, these practices moved to trades and ransoms. From those ancient times until now, civilizations have...
DEA Gets Unchecked Access To Call Records; Taught To Lie About Where They Got Them
Shortly after the Snowden leaks began exposing the NSA’s massive collection efforts, the New York Times uncovered the DEA’s direct access to AT&T telecom switches (via non-government employee “analysts” working for AT&T), from which it...
NSA FBI Warrantless Searches Under FISA Section 702 Exposed
The bulk phone records program under the Patriot Act drew intense public backlash against the National Security Agency for years. But a far more expansive and arguably more invasive surveillance apparatus deserved equal scrutiny: the warrantless search capabilities...
NSA Codewords and Program Names: A Comprehensive Reference Guide
Understanding NSA Naming Conventions The National Security Agency and related U.S. intelligence organizations use a structured system of nicknames and codewords to identify their surveillance programs, tools, databases, operations, and targets. These designations...
Science Faction?
In a somewhat disturbing case of life imitating art, it seems that real world turmoil is catching up with classic science fiction projections of a dystopian future as envisioned by writers like George Orwell and Ray Bradbury — a world where the general populace...
NSA Paid RSA $10 Million to Install Encryption Backdoor
In December 2013, a Reuters investigation revealed that the National Security Agency paid security firm RSA $10 million to deliberately weaken its encryption products — a transaction that raised fundamental questions about the integrity of commercial...
Anti-American Sleeper Cell Identified
We’re being destroyed from within by a socialistic bureaucracy who’s overriding goal is its own survival at the cost of National Security, which as the historian Thomas Cahill asserts was one of the major reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire.
DARPA Hackers Show How Cars Can Be Remotely Controlled
Hackers Chris Valasek and Charlie Miller have demonstrated from the backseat of a Toyota Prius that all you need is a Macbook and a USB cable in order to hack into a computer-controlled car. Valasek is the director of security intelligence for IOActive and Miller is a...
Vitamin D3 Supplementation: Why Federal Guidelines Lag Behind the Science
The Gap Between Vitamin D Science and Federal Guidelines A growing body of medical research has pointed to significant health benefits from Vitamin D3 supplementation at levels far exceeding what the US government recommends. Yet federal agencies and mainstream...
Classified Documents the US Government Keeps Hidden
The United States government routinely classifies documents to protect genuine national security interests. However, the classification system also provides a convenient mechanism for officials to bury materials that would expose embarrassing, unethical, or outright...
FEMA Camp Survival: Historical Lessons for Detention Preparedness
Over the past several decades, a wave of controversial legislation has systematically weakened constitutional protections for ordinary Americans. Laws like the Military Commissions Act, the Patriot Act (both iterations), the John Warner Defense Authorization Act, and...
Gun Owners: Invasions of Privacy & How to Properly Answer Questions
A common Rule of Thumb….when ever a bureaucrat asks you a question, a safe “answer” is to ask them a question in return. Be polite, but be firm. They often want to extract information out of you without you being the wiser. There is no transparency...