The Stasi Comes to Wal-Mart
• YouTubeDHS Secretary Janet Napolitano's PSA on behalf of Wal-Mart.
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Police State
TSA-Style Pat Downs Hit The Streets
• prisonplanet.comIn Philly, You Don’t Have To Go To The Airport To Be Molested By The Government
UK Uncut protesters spied upon by undercover police
• The GuardianScotland Yard has deployed undercover officers to spy on a network of activists whose viral campaign against tax avoiders threatens to close down hundreds of shops in the run-up to Christmas. The surveillance officers were first used at a protest in
Terrorism makes NYC more wary, gradually
• APNot far from the New York Stock Exchange, a small crowd of tourists stopped to watch as a bomb-sniffing dog checked out a delivery van. The cobblestoned street was blocked by a line of brass cubes with holes that glowed red like the inside of a toast
FBI Targets Barbie Video Girl as Tool for Predators
• Speak Truth 2 PowerWhat next? Maybe we should just outlaw all cameras, telephones, Barbie Dolls and anything else that people use. After all, anything could be used to “lure children.”
Honduras: Latin America's Murder Capital
Stephen LendmanMurder is out of control in fascist Honduras
Nine Obama Pardons Mock Equity and Justice
Stephen LendmanGross presidential hypocrisy
WikiLeaks Reveals Diplomatic Cables on Aafia Siddiqui
Stephen LendmanNo smoking guns
Think you can avoid the TSA by driving? Think again.
• Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionLocal law enforcement and federal agents conducted a checkpoint operation Tuesday afternoon in Douglas County, the Federal Air Marshal Service told the AJC. But the operation, which also involves the Transportation Security Administration, is top-sec
Aaron Huey: America's native prisoners of war (Publisher: Powerful Video... expect this for us)
• Ted TalkPine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people -- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson in this bold, courage
Lawyer: Sweden investigating Assange for sex without condom
• RawStory.comProsecutors 'making it up as they go along' - A lawyer who recently represented Julian Assange says the Swedish sex assault investigation into the WikiLeaks founder is based on claims he didn't use condoms during sex with two Swedish women.
We Are Change Colorado Opts Out of Naked Body Scanners
• Sharlene Holt, Musicians 4 FreedomI had the privilege on Wednesday, Nov. 24th, of accompanying the We Are Change Colorado “Underwear Interviewers” for “Opt-Out Day” at the Denver “New World” Airport. Some folks from Campaign for Liberty were there, as well, distributing literature
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange: How much trouble is he in?
• Christian Science MonitorWikileaks founder Julian Assange could be prosecuted under the Espionage Act, but the US has historically avoided pursuing leak recipients. His primary concern is a 'red alert' issued by Interpol for alleged sex crimes in Sweden.
The New York Times Endorses Haiti's Coup d'Etat "Elections"
Stephen LendmanThe process was bad enough to make a despot blush
Incarceration's Effect on Economic Mobility
Stephen LendmanEconomic harm from imprisonment
Staggering Picasso trove turns up in France
• JAMEY KEATEN via Yahoo! NewsPablo Picasso almost never stopped creating, leaving thousands of drawings, paintings and sculptures that lure crowds to museums and mansions worldwide. Now, a retired electrician says that he has 271 of them.
TSA - You don't HAVE to fly
• TSA.Gov YouTubeThis video explains the seven simple steps to make travelers' security screening as liberty-depriving as possible while doing very little to keep anyone safe.
Mask-wearing protestors in D.C. can now be arrested
• washingtonexaminer.comWearing a mask while protesting outside a residence without telling D.C. police first could now get you arrested.
Mohamed Osman Mohamud: Terrorist or Victim?
Stephen LendmanMohamud appears to be another victim of an FBI sting
Zodiac actor placed on terror list for opposing oil drilling method
• RawstoryIndie actor Mark Ruffalo found himself on the Pennsylvania Homeland Security office's terror watch list for organizing screening of an oil-drilling documentary. He found it "pretty fucking funny" that he would be suspected of terrorism for raising th
What the TSA is NOT Telling You about Full Body Scans...
• News LinkLAWSUIT - According to the group, the imaging machines constitute a suspicionless search of all airport travelers in an extremely invasive way -- so invasive that it violates the reasonable standard contained in the Fourth Amendment.
Willie Nelson charged with pot possession in Texas
• Rolling Stone(d)Willie Nelson was arrested yesterday at a border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas after agents reportedly found 6 ounces of marijuana on his tour bus.
Oscar Lopez Rivera: Imprisoned for Supporting Puerto Rican Independence
Stephen LendmanRivera is one of hundreds of political prisoners in America's homeland gulag.
Big Sis’ Street Scanners Target Of FOIA Request
• PrisonPlanet.comFOIA request that seeks to unveil the truth behind Homeland Security’s hundreds of roaming backscatter devices that are now radiating Americans in their homes and vehicles at internal checkpoints in the name of “safety”.
Man Charged With Resisting Arrest for Covering Head During Beating
• RawStory.com"All he tried to do is cover his head, until he passed out. They beat him until he was unconscious, and they had to take him to Jackson [Memorial Hospital]," said Martinez-Cid.
Drug War: Land Forfeiture Gang Strikes Musical Festival Property
• LewRockwell.comUnder the Orwellian standards governing federal "civil asset forfeiture," Tebeau's property has already been found "guilty" of involvement in a crime. The agencies that seized it will be permitted to keep and divide it among themselves...
Music Linking Site Raided By Dept. of Homeland Security / ICE
• TorrentFreakA large file-sharing link site dedicated to rap and hiphop music and news has been raided by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The servers of RapGodFathers, a site with close to 150,000 members, were seized
Sting Lures Alleged Malaysian Hacker to U.S. for Arrest
• Kim Zetter via WIRED.comA Malaysian man has been arrested after Secret Service agents caught him in a sting operation and found 400,000 bank card numbers on his computer.
Protests Over Patdowns - TV12 Phx
• KNXV TV 12Jewel, ASU Students for Liberty / Tom Jenny, Americans for Prosperity
FCC Updating 911 for the Texting Generation, SRSLY
• Ryan Singel via WIRED.comIn a bid to bring the life-saving emergency service 911 into the 21st century, the FCC is looking at letting citizens report crimes through text messages and even stream video from their mobile phones to emergency centers.
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