Another fine example of the exemplary "service" the state's goon-squads provide "for our protection."
From NBC Miami:
The attorney for a man with Down Syndrome who was badly injured after a confrontation with Miami-Dade Police Saturday night says his family is shocked over what they say was an unnecessary attack.
"The family is very upset and really shocked, to be honest," attorney Philip Gold said Wednesday. "They can't believe that this could ha
I live near Covington, Louisiana, a charming, peaceful town of about 9,000 people located in the generally peaceful parish of St. Tammany on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Not much serious crime occurs here. The rampant violence that characterizes much of New Orleans, forty miles to the south, seems a world away.
Yet Covington has seen fit to equip its police department with a SWAT team, an armored vehicle, and God only knows what other paramilitar... (more)
This is one of the best interviews I've seen with Doug Casey, the host is a bit adversarial in a good way and it makes for a great interview. Filmed on Sept 9th.
In the US on September 11, 2011, the tenth anniversary of 9/11, politicians and their presstitute media presented Americans with “A Day of Remembrance,” a propaganda exercise that hardened the 9/11 lies into dogma. Meanwhile, in Toronto, Canada, at Ryerson University the four-day International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001, came to a close at 5pm.
During the four days of hearings, distinguished scientists and scholars and professional architects and eng... (more)
Last month, the National Drug Intelligence Center at the U.S. Department of Justice released its "National Drug Threat Assessment" for this year. No doubt hoping no one will notice or care, the report itself observes that "[t]he abuse of several major illicit drugs, including heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine, appears to be increasing, especially among the young."
Nevertheless, the report, like the statistical insanity emanating from the telescreens in Orwell's 1984, emphatic... (more)
George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984, got a few things wrong — for example, the date. But he was dead-on in depicting the cause-and-effect relationship between language and politics, between language and our ability to think clearly; the process of using words as social control was called Newspeak. What cannot be expressed cannot be effectively understood or opposed. Neutralizing language defuses the most powerful weapon against oppression: the ability to think.
"Imagine that President Obama could order the arrest of anyone who broke a promise on the Internet." That's what The Wall Street Journal's Orin Kerr thinks the latest cyber-security legislation will lead to: An assault on checking Facebook at work. Today the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on proposed changes to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which wo... (more)
Last month, an international rights tribunal slapped America across the face through a showcase ruling that has no legal force. The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights found that Jessica Lenahan could sue the Castle Rock, Colorado, police department for its refusal in 1999 to enforce a restraining order against her estranged husband. The American courts had dismissed her case.
The tribunal's finding has reignited the di... (more)
A recent article published by the BBC entitled “New Emotion Detector Can See When We’re Lying,” introduces a new concept to the prison camp known as Western airports -- the addition of “emotion detectors.” The “new” technology is essentially a system of video cameras connected to “a high-resolution thermal imaging sensor and a suite of algorithms.”
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Ranking member, and all distinguished members of this panel. Thank you for inviting me here today to offer my opinions as to how the government can help the American economy recover from the worst crisis in living memory.
Despite the understandable human tendency to help others, government spending cannot be a net creator of jobs. Indeed many efforts currently under consideration by the Administration and Congress will actively destroy jobs. These initiatives m... (more)
Is questioning 9/11 disrespectful to the victims’ families? Just ask one.
WeAreChange ran into a 9/11 family member during the 10th anniversary of 9/11. Max wanted to have his voice heard against the mainstream propaganda that uses the family members to justify the official story. We gave him the platform and this is what he said unedited.
Shoshana Hebshi will never forget where she was on the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11.
She and two other airline passengers were handcuffed and strip-searched after flying into Detroit on Sunday.
No charges were filed against Hebshi, a self-described "half-Arab, half-Jewish housewife living in suburban Ohio," or the two men sitting next to her, who were flying in from Denver when the crew of Frontier Airlines Flight 623 alerted authorities that they were reportedly be... (more)
During the recent memorial of the September 11 attacks, I heard a lot of discussion by people remembering where they were and how they felt when they first heard news of the attack on the World Trade Center. I remember it very vividly myself.
I was awakened by my clock radio while the local morning DJs were still excitedly discussing the plane impact on the first tower. Before long, another plane hit the second tower. It became pretty clear then that the first on... (more)
The fingerprints of the CIA have surfaced in a controversial federal criminal case pending in Chicago against Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, an alleged kingpin in the Sinaloa “drug cartel.”
US government prosecutors filed pleadings in the case late last week seeking to invoke the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA), a measure designed to assure national security information does not surface in public court proceedings.
Last Friday’s New York Times carried a front-page article entitled “Desperate Guatemalans Embrace an ‘Iron Fist,’” which showed how the failures of government interventionism inevitably lead toward calls for dictatorship to bring “order and stability” to society.
The article is about the drug war, perhaps the mo... (more)
ST. LOUIS • Police officials fighting to keep the public from seeing records of their investigation of the 2006 World Series ticket scandal are breaking the law and flirting with contempt of court, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union complained Wednesday. [....]
At issue is the breadth of the use of tickets seized by police as evidence from scalpers. Some officers and supervisors were disciplined — but none fired — after about 30 tickets were used by r... (more)
