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 | Government Agenda
By Tribune Washington bureau and The New York Times Other rulings “Extraordinary rendition”:The court refused to revive a lawsuit challenging a controversial post-Sept. 11 CIA program that flew terrorism suspects to secret prisons. The case involved five...
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...
Jan 27, 2012 | Video, WAR: By Design
Jan 27, 2012 | Events & Assassinations, Video
The Official Account of the Fukushima Disaster On March 11, 2011, a massive earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Japan, followed by a devastating tsunami that overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. The event was rated a magnitude 9.0 by the...
Jan 27, 2012 | Government Agenda, Video
Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye truth-out.org Wed, 30 Mar 2011 04:43 CDT Dr. Bruce Jessen’s handwritten notes describe some of the torture techniques that were used to “exploit” “war on terror” detainees in custody of the CIA and...
Jan 27, 2012 | Government Agenda
By Shane Richmond Internet Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has called for greater freedom of speech online and said that internet companies, such as Google, should refuse to support “politically-motivated censorship”. Of course, it was never...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power
By David Kravets, wired.com | Published 8 months ago The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected “agents” of a foreign power or terrorists on US soil last year, according to a Justice...
Jan 27, 2012 | Government Agenda
Do We Really Have To Prepare For The Fourth Box? 132 +1,430 Reflections Reflections As I watch the legislative abominations named SOPA, PIPA, and NDAA follow the lead of the DMCA and the Patriot Act in the United States, I realize that the worst possible scenario for...
Jan 27, 2012 | News, WAR: By Design
The Intel Hub December 20, 2011 According to reports from the Daily Kos and Russia Today, a company specializing in night raid equipment was awarded a 23 million dollar contract from the Department of Defense and subsequently went on to lobby for the NDAA which has...
Jan 27, 2012 | Government Agenda
Said it lacked documents to determine birth country Published: 05/09/2011 at 7:59 PM Editor’s note: Jerome Corsi’s “Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President” is available today for immediate shipping, autographed by the...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Virginia Roberts’ Account of Jeffrey Epstein’s Elite Connections and Her Encounters with Bill Clinton One of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts (now Virginia Giuffre), has provided a detailed account of the convicted sex...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Indiana Supreme Court Ruling Opens Door to Warrantless Entry In May 2011, a controversial Indiana Supreme Court ruling in Barnes vs. State of Indiana sent shockwaves through civil liberties communities across the country. The 3-2 decision effectively held that...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, News, Video
The Congressional Supercommittee and Agricultural Legislation In late 2011, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, commonly known as the “supercommittee,” became a focal point of controversy over legislative process and concentrated power. The...
Jan 27, 2012 | Government Agenda
Gingrich on Expanding FBI Powers Against Suspected Terrorists During a C-SPAN appearance at a book event in Huntington, New York, then-GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich laid out a vision of executive power that alarmed civil libertarians across the political spectrum. In...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Events & Assassinations, Video
Jan 27, 2012 | Taboo Terminology, Video, WAR: By Design
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power
Where has your PNR data gone? (click image for larger version or here for details) The U.S. government has filed its initial answer to our lawsuit against U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for illegally withholding records of its travel surveillance system, and...
Jan 27, 2012 | Government Agenda, Nature Body Mind
CDC Data Shows Zero Deaths From Raw Milk Over an 11-Year Period Between 1998 and 2008, not a single confirmed death in the United States was directly attributed to the consumption of raw milk, according to data obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and...
Jan 27, 2012 | Abuses of Power, Activism, Video
A remarkable and direct speech to the House regarding the current overreach of Government authority and the plans of Congress to expand War Powers beyond control....
Jan 27, 2012 | Leaks, WAR: By Design
In late March 2011, multiple government sources confirmed that President Barack Obama had signed a classified presidential directive authorizing covert CIA support for rebel forces fighting to remove Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi from power. The order, known as a...
Jan 27, 2012 | WAR: By Design
2011 January 4 by wemustknow.koen A report by Jeremy Scahill in The Nation (Blackwater’s Black Ops, 9/15/2010) revealed that the largest mercenary army in the world, Blackwater (now called Xe Services) clandestine intelligence services was sold to the multinational...
