Tag: police state
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robotwars, saic, target cities, l-rad & vampire cams
automated killer robots ‘threat to humanity’from afp: Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP. “They pose a threat to humanity,” said University of Sheffield professor Noel Sharkey ahead of a…
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bird flu, nazi loot, wilkes fraud, rule by law & nyfd spies
indonesia’s health minister: bird flu a US bioweaponfrom paul joseph watson: Indonesia’s Health Minister has implicated the U.S. government in an international conspiracy to develop the bird flu virus into a deadly bio-weapon in a new book which is also endorsed by Indonesia’s President. Indonesia has been worst hit by the bird flu virus, with…
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amtrak says ‘papers please’
amtrak to randomly screen bags & step up patrolsfrom reuters: Amtrak, the only long-haul passenger rail service in the United States, will for the first time randomly screen passengers’ bags and deploy armed security officers on trains and platforms, the railroad said on Monday night. Details of the shift in security strategy at Amtrak will…
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ohio mayor kicks out marine’s urban warfare drills
mayor kicks marines out of toledofrom wnwo: Mayor Carty Finkbeiner on Friday ordered some 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines from Grand Rapids, Michigan, out of Toledo just before the unit was supposed to start a weekend of urban warfare training downtown. The mayor’s spokesperson, Brian Schwartz said, “The mayor asked them…
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critics attack sonic youth blaster
from danger room: Sonic blasters are all the rage these day, but one device used in the United Kingdom that specifically targets teenagers is attracting criticism, reports CNN: The Children’s Commissioner for England, who oversees children’s rights, has called for a ban on the ultra-sonic gadget, known as “The Mosquito,” which disperses young people by…
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enjoy the super bread & circus bowl!
i hope the red team doesn’t win… fetzer fears a super bowl attackfrom i-newswire: Multiple reports that internet cables connecting Iran to the rest of the world have been “cut” are raising suspicions in the minds of experts on 9/11 that something serious may be in the works. According to James H. Fetzer, founder of…
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satellites, chavez, rfid & army ranger coke sting
broken US spy satellite could fall to earth from time: A large U.S. spy satellite has lost power and propulsion and could hit the Earth in late February or March, government officials said Saturday. The satellite, which can no longer be controlled, could contain hazardous materials, and it is unknown where on the planet it…
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random breathalyzer tests planned for uk motorists
from telegraph: Motorists face being subjected to random breath-testing as part of the biggest shake-up of drink-drive laws since the introduction of the breathalyser 40 years ago, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. Ministers are convinced that tougher enforcement is the key to cutting the number of alcohol-related road deaths. Their plans for random testing will…
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nyc’s subway spycam network stuck in the station
from danger room: New York City’s plan to secure its subways with a next-generation surveillance network is getting more expensive by the second, and slipping further and further behind schedule. A new report (68kb PDF) by the New York State Comptroller’s office reveals that “the cost of the electronic security program has grown from $265…
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executed reichstag arsonist finally wins pardon
from guardian: An unemployed Dutch bricklayer who was made a scapegoat for one of the defining moments of 20th-century German history has been pardoned for his crime 75 years later. Marinus van der Lubbe, 24, was beheaded after being convicted of setting fire to the Reichstag, an event Hitler used as a pretext to suspend…
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uk prisoners ‘to be chipped like dogs’
Hi-tech ‘satellite’ tagging planned in order to create more space in jails. Civil rights groups and probation officers furious at ‘degrading’ scheme from independent/cryptogon: Ministers are planning to implant “machine-readable” microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space in British…
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december clearinghouse
top economist says america could plunge into recession * ohio guard call-up said to be largest since wwii * how to lose your job on your own time * mexico to microchip central american migrants * eli lilly knew prozac had 1200% higher suicide rate than other antidepressants * wtc7: a tale of three broadcasters…
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operation falcon, profiling, fingerprinting & vandalism
operation falcon: police state america in real timefrom pan-african news: Mike Whitney won a 2008 Project Censored Award for his February, 2007 article titled “Operation FALCON and the Looming Police State.” In it, he reported that the Bush administration “carried out three massive sweeps in the last two years, rolling up more than 30,000 minor…
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mountain dew ad campaign portends fascist future
from truth news: In a marketing strategy certainly in tune with the times, Mountain Dew envisions the not unlikely concept of a future fascist police state. An earlier Mountain Dew advert featured a hapless window puppeteer raided by a SWAT team in New York. Does Mountain Dew and PepsiCo know something the rest of us…
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house passes thoughtcrime prevention bill
from rogue government: The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission and…