Apr 26, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
(Left) Tom Vanden Brook (on C-Span in 2010), a senior reporter for USA Today apparently targeted by a cyber-attack of misinformation and harassment. Photograph: guardiannews.com The report by USA Today in which two of the paper’s employees became targets of...
Apr 26, 2012 | Abuses of Power
In 2008, Congress enacted a statute that authorized the National Security Agency to carry out dragnet surveillance of Americans’ international communications. Almost four years later, the statute — called the FISA Amendments Act — has yet to be reviewed by the...
Apr 26, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
Check out this infographic on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing & Protection Act (CISPA), a bill making its way through U.S. Congress now. Why are Facebook, AT&T and various other tech companies supporting it? Click here to see why those company reps say they are...
Apr 26, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News, Video
It looks like the power of the IRS to revoke passports is merely a drop in the tyrannical bucket. The Senate has voted to approve Bill 1813, which is now on its way to the House. The insidious bill has so many attacks on freedom that the most serious one has been...
Apr 25, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A bill authored by a Southland lawmaker that could potentially allow the federal government to prevent any Americans who owe back taxes from traveling outside the U.S. is one step closer to becoming law. Senate Bill 1813 was introduced back in...
Apr 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power
1. The prison system in the United States is a profit-making industry. Private corporations operate over 200 facilities nationwide and are traded on the New York Stock Exchange. 2. Six corporations control virtually all American media. News Corp. owns over 27...
Apr 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Government Agenda
Glenn Greenwald has a horrifying look at the repeated harassment to which filmmaker Laura Poitras, who has made a series of powerful documentaries about the impact of the War on Terror, has been subject when she’s returned home to the United States from trips abroad:...
Apr 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
(NaturalNews) The state of Michigan is only days away from engaging in what can only be called true “animal genocide” — the mass murder of ranch animals based on the color of their hair. It’s all part of a shocking new “Invasive Species...
Apr 24, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
Update: I’ve clarified two aspects of this story below. First, Micro Systemation’s XRY tool often requires more than two minutes to crack the iPhone’s password. The two minutes I originally cited were a reference to the time shown in the video (now removed by Micro...
Apr 16, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Globalist Corporations
H.R. 3523 – Letters of Support AT&T Boeing BSA Business Roundtable CSC COMPTEL CTIA – The Wireless Association Cyber, Space & Intelligence Association Edison Electric EMC Exelon Facebook The Financial Services Roundtable IBM Independent Telephone...
Apr 16, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
“A mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits (of government) is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.” – James Madison, Federalist...
Apr 16, 2012 | Abuses of Power
The Arizona legislature passed Arizona House Bill 2549, which would update the state’s telephone harassment law to apply to the Internet and other electronic communications. The bill is sweepingly broad, and would make it a crime to communicate via electronic means...
Apr 16, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Video, WAR: By Design
The April 2012 issue of Harper’s Magazine includes “The Warrior Class,” a feature by Charles Glass on the rise of private-security contractors since 9/11. The conclusion to the piece describes a series of videos shown to Glass by a source who had worked for the...
Apr 16, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is quickly becoming the Internet’s new most-hated piece of legislation. But is it really “the new SOPA,” as critics are calling it? Here, a comprehensive rundown of what CISPA is, what it...
Apr 10, 2012 | Abuses of Power
About Cop Block is a decentralized project supported by a diverse group of individuals united by their shared goal of police accountability. We highlight the double standard that some grant to those with badges by pointing to and supporting those harmed. By...
Mar 31, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Nature Body Mind
(NaturalNews) NaturalNews exclusive report, please credit with link. NaturalNews can now report that 65-year-old senior citizen James Stewart, a raw milk farmer with no criminal history, was nearly tortured to death in the LA County jail this past week. He survived a...
Mar 12, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Black Technology
Japanese researchers have created a hand-held gun (pictured above) that can jam the words of speakers who are more than 30 meters (100ft) away. The gun has two purposes, according to the researchers: At its most basic, this gun could be used in libraries and other...
Mar 2, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
http://youtu.be/Evg4xppTEPg Marine Sergeant Manuel Loggins Jr. was shot and killed by an Orange County Sheriff’s deputy in the parking lot at San Clemente high school. According to the Sheriff’s department the deputy watched Loggins crash...
Jan 31, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Leaks
Another international conflict, another horrific taxpayer-funded sex scandal for DynCorp, the private security contractor tasked with training the Afghan police. While the company is officially based in the DC area, most of its business is managed on a satellite...
Jan 31, 2012 | Abuses of Power, WAR: By Design
(AP) (CBS News) The White House is signing off on a controversial new law that would authorize the U.S. military to arrest and indefinitely detain alleged al Qaeda members or other terrorist operatives captured on American soil. As the bill neared final passage in the...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Written by Joe Wolverton, II Friday, 15 April 2011 10:35 On March 30, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y., picture, left) and 15 co-sponsors (including Republican leaders) introduced S. 679, the “Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act.” The measure would...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Video
Posted on | September 26, 2011 | 12 Comments Up close shot of Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna’s badge Newer Fresher Update: Pepper Spray happy NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna Is punished…not really Update: Correction he’s not a Captain he’s Deputy...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Video
By VC | April 20th, 2011 | CelleBrite Michigan state police (or should we say police state?) have been using a handheld mobile forensics device to steal information from cell phones belonging to motorists stopped for minor traffic violations. The high-tech device...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News
EFF activist Eva Galperin interviews EFF criminal defense attorney, Hanni Fakhoury, on the newest edition of Line Noise, the EFF podcast. Whether law enforcement wants to search your home computer, tries to browse through your smart phone at a traffic stop, or seeks...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton exits a limousine. AP State Department dominates the limo count, says purchases reflect need to protect diplomats and foreign visitors in a dangerous world By Joe Eaton 2:00 am, May 31, 2011 Updated: 1:03 pm, August 29, 2011...
