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Samsung Granted RoboCop Patent

01-17-2011 • Blacklistednews.com/

Samsung just received confirmation for a patent that describes an unmanned automatic shooting mechanism that is designed to support and replace security forces in locations such as airports, harbors, and nuclear power plants.

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The State of the Nation: Are We “Approaching Spiritual Death”?

01-17-2011 • rutherford.org/

Iris scanners can capture scans on individuals in motion who are six feet away, laying the groundwork for iris scans to become de facto national ID cards, which can be implemented without our knowledge or consent.

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Biometric Police State: "Secure communities" comes to Wisconsin

01-16-2011 • jsonline.com

All 72 counties in Wisconsin are now participating in the U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) program called “secure communities,” a federal information sharing system that uses biometrics, or fingerprints, to identify both legal and illeg

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Big Brother Squared: Multi-biometrics combined in one system

01-16-2011 • upi.com/Business

Software that integrates fingerprint, iris, facial and palm-print biometrics into a single system has been launched by Lithuania's Neurotechnology.

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Biometrics: Top Secret America - Expensive, Chaotic and Dangerous

01-15-2011 • thenewamerican.com/

The Post found that the technologies and techniques which were “honed for use on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan have migrated into the hands of law enforcement agencies in America. The FBI is building a database with the names and ...

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Congress quietly prepares to renew Patriot Act

01-14-2011 • RawStory.com

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) has introduced a little-noticed bill that intends to once again renew controversial provisions of the Bush administration's USA Patriot Act that are due to expire this year.

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Texas school police ticketing students as young as 6

01-14-2011 • Yahoo News

Children as young as 6, who under past disciplinary practices would have been sent to the principal's office, are being dragged to court. Social engineering at work.

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R.I. governor defends talk radio ban; says may be temporary

01-13-2011 • www.projo.com/news

“We just want to focus on the job at hand, getting the economy rolling again, and we can’t be diverted with all the nonsense on talk radio,” he told a reporter

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In Arizona, anyone concerned can report odd behavior to mental-health experts

01-11-2011 • Washington Post

Unlike many other states, any person in Arizona can petition the court for a psychiatric evaluation solely because a person appears to be mentally ill and doesn't know it.

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Submit Or Else: The Police State Now Wants To Blind You

01-11-2011 • EconomicPolicyJournal.com

The "Dazer Laser" is an "ocular distraction device" that emits a laser pattern that temporarily blinds a person. Some of them will work up to 1.5 miles!

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Police Accountability Report

01-10-2011 • copblocknews.blip.tv

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Botched Paramilitary Police Raids

01-10-2011 • www.cato.org

An Epidemic of "Isolated Incidents"

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Meet Your Future: Pocket Sized Iris Scanners

01-10-2011 • hispanicallyspeakingnews.com

The Nano has roughly the footprint of a dollar bill, and I think it’s going to allow us to target virtually everything...

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Utah's $1.5 billion cyber-security center under way

01-07-2011 • deseretnews.com/

Thursday's groundbreaking for a $1.5 billion National Security Agency 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.

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Construction Begins on $1.5 Billion Cyber-security Center in Utah

01-06-2011 • Desert News

Officially named the Utah Data Center, the facility's role in aggregating and verifying dizzying volumes of data for the intelligence community has already earned it the nickname "Spy Center." Its really long moniker is the Community Comprehensive Na

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‘Birther’ arrested during Constitution reading

01-06-2011 • prisonplanet.com

A woman was arrested in the House gallery Thursday after interrupting a reading of the Constitution by yelling out her belief that President Barack Obama is not a natural born citizen of the United States.

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Calif. Supreme Court approves warrantless data seizures by police

01-05-2011 • RawStory.com

If you're arrested in California, data stored on your mobile phone, tablet or other portable computing devices could be seized by police without so much as a search warrant.