Father facing fines for teen's truancyAUSTIN (KXAN) - A father from Hutto is searching for his missing daughter, 17, and facing hundreds of dollars a day in fines from the court because she is missing school.
Michael Moreno said he has not seen his daughter since Dec. 3, when school officials at Hutto High School told him she left school during her seventh-period class. She has not been back home or back to school since that day.
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Family charged 'death tax' for baby who lived one hourSEATTLE -- Olivia Clark lived for only one hour. Doctors didn't even expect her to survive birth. Now her family has a hard time understanding why the King County Medical Examiner has to review her death and charge $50. [...]
"There was a little line on there near the bottom of the bill that said 'King county death tax: $50.' And we looked at that, and looked at that and looked at each other and said 'what is that?' Couldn't believe that a little girl that lived for an hour has t... (more)
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TSA Warns That If You Wear Scanner Resistant Clothing, They'll Have To Grope YouWith the new TSA naked scanners getting so much attention late last year, a number of different folks started offering up special clothing to wear while going through the scanners. My favorite might be the undergarments with the 4th Amendment printed in metallic ink, so that whoever is viewing the scan can see the "message" left for them. Others apparently created special "flying pasties" (possibly NSFW). While it looks... (more)
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Chinese Crackdown On Piracy Enters The Digital DomainSince late last year there have been rumblings that China would soon carry out another crackdown on piracy. During the last week reports suggested that the country’s actions were mainly in the physical domain but now, alongside reports that 4,000 people have been arrested, it seems China is conducting both a music and video piracy purge. More than 200 sites are under orders to remove music and some of the country’s leading video sites are deleting illicit content and cuddling up to H... (more)
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N.J. Town To Vote On Randomly Drug Testing Middle School StudentsBELVIDERE, N.J. (CBS 2) – A proposal to conduct random drug tests of young students in one New Jersey town is raising some eyebrows.
Students at Belvidere Elementary School could be adding drug testing to their list of lessons when they move into middle school.
The Board of Education will vote Wednesday on a plan to randomly test sixth, seventh and eighth graders to see if they are under the influence of drugs. School administrators said they were confident t... (more)
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SPLC blames Ayn Rand, David Icke and Others for Arizona ShootingWho is to blame for Jared Loughner’s bizarre shooting yesterday? According to Mark Potok, anyone with even the vaguest links to his bizarre and disjointed online ramblings.
As a shocked world looks to the background of accused shooter Jared Lee Loughner for clues as to why he would shoot a Congresswoman, a Federal judge and others, Mark Potok, spokesman for the Southern Poverty Law Center, predictably stepped forward on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC program to paint a broad... (more)
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Fla. university bans all tobacco useMIAMI, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- A Florida university says it has instituted a campus-wide ban on smoking, including recreational areas, dorms, and even outdoors and in cars.
Florida International University is the second school in the state to announce a tobacco ban after the University of Florida, which went smoke-free in July, The Miami Herald reported Friday.
Everyone who drives into or sets foot on campus, whether faculty, staff, students or visitors, must comply, the un... (more)
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Obama Eyeing Internet ID for AmericansSTANFORD, Calif. - President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.
It's "the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government" to centralize efforts toward creating an "identity ecosystem" for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.
That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the dep... (more)
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DOJ subpoenas Twitter records of several WikiLeaks volunteersLast night, Birgitta Jónsdóttir -- a former WikiLeaks volunteer and current member of the Icelandic Parliament -- announced (on Twitter) that she had been notified by Twitter that the DOJ had served a Subpoena demanding information "about all my tweets and more since November 1st 2009." Several news outlets, including The Guardian... (more)
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Icelandic MP fights US demand for her Twitter account detailsA member of parliament in Iceland who is also a former WikiLeaks volunteer says the US justice department has ordered Twitter to hand over her private messages.
Birgitta Jonsdottir, an MP for the Movement in Iceland, said last night on Twitter that the "USA government wants to know about all my tweets and more since november 1st 2009. Do they realize I am a member of parliament in Iceland?"
She said she was starting a legal fight to stop the US getting hold of her m... (more)
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IPCC Professor Calls For "Elite Warrior Leadership" To Rule Over Eco-DictatorshipAn influential professor who worked as an assessor for the United Nations IPCC has called for democracy to be replaced with an eco-dictatorship where enslaved masses are ruled over by an “elite warrior leadership” and forced to adhere to a new green religion, in yet another shocking example of how prominent global warming alarmists are revealing themselves as dangerous eco-fascists.
Professor David Shearman, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Ad... (more)
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South Korea: Google violates privacy laws...Do you see how this works here?
The SK government can spy on their citizens carte blanche, they force everyone to use National ID cards to do almost everything, just to play games in a PC bang you need to log in with your National ID card, yet here they hunt down Google for supposedly violating people's privacy.
What's Google going to do with the info?
Use it to sell people things they already want to buy? Oh, the horror!
The government on the other hand actively uses the information it gathers on it's citizens *against* them, spying on them like a Stasi police force in order to protect the state's power monopoly. - Chris, InfoLib |
TSA = DEAThe damnable "duties" of the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) perverts frequently overlap those of the DEA’s thugs. The former with their warrantless searches haven't discovered any terrorists, but they often find drugs that compete with Big Pharma's for our dollars and which Our Rulers therefore prohibit. Even "paraphernalia" for these disfavored substances earn the victim a fine from the real cops that the TSA's fake ones summon.
This isn't anything new. The ... (more)
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Planned-Opolis: Elitist Agenda For Eco-EnslavementNot content with depicting children being slaughtered in the name of preventing non-existent global warming, climate change alarmists have embarked on a new propaganda campaign lecturing us all about how we will be forced to live in a “planned-opolis,” where car use will be heavily restricted, CO2 emissions will be rationed, meat will be considered a rare delic... (more) “With this many people around, I’m glad there’s a mega-computer in charge.”
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Utah Welcomes NSA Mega-Snoop CenterUtah will be home to NSA’s mega-surveillance program under the aegis of the formerly secret Comprehensive National Cyber-security Initiative.
"Today’s groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Administration data center is being billed as important in the short term for construction jobs and important in the long term for Utah’s reputation as a technology center," reports Deseret News today.
“This will bring 5,000 to 10,000 new ... (more)
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Florida Professor Arrested for Having a "Suspicious" Bagel on a PlaneA Florida professor was arrested and removed from a plane Monday after his fellow passengers alerted crew members they thought he had a suspicious package in the overhead compartment.
That "suspicious package" turned out to be keys, a bagel with cream cheese and a hat. [...]
When confronted by the US Airways crew about his "suspicious package," Milatovic got on his cell phone. The crew asked him to hang it up and sit down. When he refused, he was cuffed.
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