Tag: police state
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thumbscanning for lunch in oregon
from fox: A new finger scanning system aimed at speeding up the lunch line at an Oregon middle school is raising security concerns. Instead of swiping an ID card or entering a pin number, students at Stayton Middle School press their thumb on an infrared scanner and are matched with their lunch account, according to…
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evicted nuns curse polish police as ‘servants of satan’
from raw story: BBC News reports that a group of excommunicated Roman Catholic nuns has been evicted by riot police from a convent in eastern Poland which they had been occupying illegally for the last two years. The Vatican expelled ten nuns from the Sisters of Bethany order a year ago, when they refused to…
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2,000+ dead in US during arrests in three years
from afp: More than 2,000 people died in the United States during arrests between 2003 and 2005, according to data published by the Department of Justice for the first time Thursday. As many as 54 percent were killed by police… According to the statistics, almost all succumbed to gunfire, while 17 were killed by “Taser”…
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pain compliance. coming soon to a protest near you?
from kurt nimmo: Last September, Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne indicated the military would use “nonlethal weapons” against “fellow citizens” before they use them in “a wartime situation.” In other words, the American people are considered little more than guinea pigs, especially dissenting Americans in need of “crowd control.” Before zapping antiwar demonstrators with an…
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news on the march
american labs mishandle deadly germsfrom ap: American laboratories handling the world’s deadliest germs & toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country are approved to do the work. american lockdown: law enforcementout of control & beyond the palefrom carolyn…
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violent crackdown launched in myanmar
from ap: Security forces in Myanmar opened fire on demonstrators Wednesday, and witnesses said police beat & dragged away dozens of Buddhist monks. The government said at least one person was killed, while dissident groups & media reported up to eight dead. The military junta’s announcement on state radio and television was the first acknowledgment…
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tasers and censors and god, oh my!
56yr old wheelchair-bound woman dies after being tasered 10 times from local6: A Clay County woman’s family said it’s seeking justice after their loved one died shortly after being shocked 10 times with Taser guns during a confrontation with police. The family of 56-year-old Emily Delafield said it would take the Green Cove Springs Police…
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police state surveillance: made in china
in china, a high-tech plan to track peoplefrom new york times: At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China and will soon be guided by sophisticated computer software from an American-financed company to recognize automatically the faces of police suspects and detect unusual activity. Starting this month in…
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surveillance cameras win broad support
from abc: Crime-fighting beats privacy in public places: Americans, by nearly a 3-to-1 margin, support the increased use of surveillance cameras – a measure decried by some civil libertarians, but credited in London with helping to catch a variety of perpetrators since the early 1990s. Given the chief arguments, pro and con – a way…
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flag-defiling charge ends in fight & arrest
from asheville citizen-times: A couple who said they were protesting the state of the country by flying the U.S. flag upside down with signs pinned to it found themselves in jail following a scuffle with a deputy Wednesday morning. Mark and Deborah Kuhn were arrested on two counts of assault on a government employee, resisting…
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oregon police terrorize children in the name of safety
from thought criminal: I found this absolutely disgusting. These children learned nothing from this except how to flop on the ground and grovel. These police officers are using aggressive behavioral modification techniques. Changing how kids behave around handguns or rifles. Essentially they are training them to be snitches for the police department. They will be…
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‘maybe people who think there’s a conspiracy are right’
from oregonian: Oregonians called Peter DeFazio’s office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure “bubbleroom” in the Capitol and…
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paul craig roberts: ‘something’s in the works’
from raw story: Thom Hartmann began his program on Thursday by reading from a new Executive Order which allows the government to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies. He then introduced old-line conservative Paul Craig Roberts — a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan who has recently become…
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doctors back plan to microchip you
from yahoo/afp: Doctors could soon be storing essential medical information under the skin of their patients, the American Medical Association says. Devices the size of a grain of rice that are implanted with a needle could give emergency room doctors quick access to the records of chronically ill patients, the nation’s largest doctors group said…
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national id: biometrics pinned to social security cards
from cryptogon/wired: The Social Security card faces its first major upgrade in 70 years under two immigration-reform proposals slated for debate this week that would add biometric information to the card and finally complete its slow metamorphosis into a national ID. The leading immigration proposal with traction in Congress would force employers to accept only…