Sep 5, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
The only remedy for the abuse of Bradley Manning and the government’s violation of the law is dismissal of all charges. Every time I attend a Bradley Manning hearing the prosecutors show their outrageous disrespect for the law, demonstrate they cannot be trusted and...
Sep 5, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Leaks, News
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) really has gone rogue; at least that’s what a high-level FBI official believes. Among the 5 million emails the group Anonymous hacked from the servers of private intelligence firm Stratfor in February, one seems to not...
Aug 23, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Activists threaten legal action over failure to investigate Corporations in the UK who used a secret “blacklisting” database to screen out ‘left wing trouble-makers’ and union sympathizers as potential job recruits are facing renewed scrutiny after the...
Aug 17, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVWA_u6Uk_Q The Police, FBI and Secret Service swarmed in and took Brandon Raub to John Randolph Metal Hospital. This patriotic Marine had posted 5 posts on the Dont-Tread-On.Me blog linked below. Just glancing over them they seem to...
Aug 14, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
The FinFisher spyware made by U.K.- based Gamma Group likely has previously undisclosed global reach, with computers on at least five continents showing signs of being command centers that run the intrusion tool, according to cybersecurity experts. FinFisher can...
Aug 14, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Government Agenda
Big Brother is watching. No kidding. And the warning is coming from none other than Google, which says government spies may be spying on you. Some believe the Google announcement may be related to the recent discovery of the data-mining virus named...
Aug 7, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Video
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Aug 6, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Taboo Terminology
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Aug 6, 2012 | Abuses of Power
We’ve certainly talked quite a bit about the institutional-level corruption of the way Congress and lobbying works, but a recent This American Life episode, done in partnership with thePlanet Money team takes a much deeper dive into how lobbying works. You...
Jul 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
James Stewart, the 65-year-old raw “milk man” and founder of Rawesome Foods, was assaulted near his home today by three armed men driving unmarked luxury vehicles with no license plates. Carrying firearms on their hips and dressed in gangster-style street...
Jul 15, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
Information technology, among all that it does, brings together two things which are wonderful when apart, and frightening when combined: children, and sex. For the past couple decades, this has, understandably, freaked us all out. We need to calm down and have a talk...
Jul 13, 2012 | Abuses of Power
The following may look familiar to you: It’s the FBI’s special “anti-piracy” warning. For the past few years, under a special “pilot” program, the FBI has allowed the RIAA, MPAA, BSA, ESA and SIIA (basically, the big record labels,...
Jul 12, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
There was some surprise in the comments of yesterday’s post over the fact that the United Kingdom has effectively outlawed encryption: the UK will send its citizens to jail for up to five years if they cannot produce the key to an encrypted data set. First of all,...
Jul 10, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
Totalitarian governments, like persistent forms of cancer, have latched onto the long history of man, falling and then reemerging from the deep recesses of our cultural biology to wreak havoc upon one unlucky generation to the next. The assumption by most is that...
Jun 28, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
Published: 28 June, 2012, 10:15 The High Court of New Zealand has ruled that the police raid on Kim Dotcom’s mansion was unlawful along with seizure of the hard drives that were later cloned and illegally taken from New Zealand to the US by the FBI. The warrants...
Jun 22, 2012 | Abuses of Power
When an athlete-turned-humanitarian and an energy executive tried to buy gold in Kenya, they found themselves mired in Congo’s dangerous world of conflict minerals — and totally outmatched. Former NBA player Dikembe Mutombo, left, on a humanitarian trip...
May 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
WASHINGTON – The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted Thursday that he was behind a series of websites used to discredit two USA TODAY journalists who had reported on the contractor. Screengrab from home page of leoniegroup.comCamille...
May 10, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
It has emerged that Michigan State Police have been using a high-tech mobile forensics device that can extract information from over 3,000 models of mobile phone, potentially grabbing all media content from your iPhone in under two minutes. The CelleBrite UFED is a...
May 10, 2012 | Abuses of Power
In a five-four ruling this week, the supreme court decided that anyone can be strip-searched upon arrest for any offense, however minor, at any time. This horror show ruling joins two recent horror show laws: the NDAA, which lets anyone be arrested forever at any...
May 9, 2012 | Abuses of Power
ACLU affiliates across America requested information on local law enforcement’s use of cell-phone tracking, and received a wealth of disturbing information about the extent of wireless tracking. They produced a map showing which police departments were...
May 9, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Anonymous
Coltan: What You Should Know What is Coltan? Coltan is short for Columbite-tantalite – a black tar-like mineral found in major quantities in the Congo.. The Congo possesses 80 percent of the world’s coltan. When coltan is refined it becomes a heat...
May 4, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
The tiny town of Lakota, N.D., is quickly becoming a key testing ground for the legality of the use of unmanned drones by law enforcement after one of its residents became the first American citizen to be arrested with the help of a Predator surveillance drone. The...
Apr 30, 2012 | Abuses of Power
If police officers were to file a subpoena for your Facebook information, they would receive a printout of the data from the social network. This printout would be so detailed, complete and creepy that you should strive to be a good law-abiding citizen, just to...
Apr 28, 2012 | Abuses of Power
In the future, if you tweet out a photo of a hilarious, meme-tastic kitten, it might be best not to include terms like “white powder,” “dirty bomb,” or “Death to America.” Since late January, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has...
Apr 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
COME TOGETHER TO STOP CISPA! WHAT IS CISPA? The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (H.R. 3523) is a bill introduced in the United States House of Representatives by Reps. Mike Rogers (D-MI) and C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD) in late 2011. It amends the...
