Tag: schools
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Police State Updates: Tattle On the Cattle
TSA agent steals cash from wheelchair-bound woman // New terror monitors: parking attendants // UC Berkeley asking incoming students for DNA // UK to kill national ID card program
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FEMA/DHS Running ‘National Level Exercise 2010’ May 17-18
The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will conduct National Level Exercise (NLE) 2010 on May 17-18. NLE 2010 will engage federal, state and local partners in a series of events and opportunities to demonstrate and assess federal emergency preparedness capabilities pertaining to a simulated terrorist attack scenario involving an improvised nuclear…
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5/13 Binge & Purge: Raw Milk & Prison Food
Raw milk battle reveals FDA abandonment of basic human right to choose your food // Connecticut growing gardens at prisons to cut food costs // Explosion in bugs near Monsanto’s BT Cotton fields
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Police States Updates: NYCCTV, ISIS & Psycho Pig Rampage
Bloomberg wants ‘Big Brother Britain’ for NYC // White House denies reports of spy planes over NYC // Homeland Security tests 360-degree video cam: ‘Imaging system for immersive surveillance’ – ISIS sees all // Obama administration exploits Miranda loophole // Police plan to pillage & terrify community during ‘Operation: Psycho Pig Rampage’
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Defcon 5/6: Global Cooperation & Orwellian Legislation
Summit in Dallas targets cybercrime – sponsored by Goldman Sachs & Microsoft, etc // IBM’s city sim trains planners to tackle future problems for growing urban centers // Cyber attacks hyped to justify net regulation // Report reams admins for secretly snapping student pics
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Defcon 4/29: Global Strike, Space Planes & Electronic Warfare
Missing Soviet nuclear electrocar found on the Moon! // Ex-NSA official pleads not guilty to helping reporter // Chavez accuses US plane of ‘electronic warfare’ // Police seize Gizmodo’s computers in lost iPhone probe // Students struggle to go without media for 24hrs
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Webcamgate Expands As Lawyers Say 1000s of Pictures Taken
A webcam spying scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district is broadening, with lawyers claiming the district secretly snapped thousands of webcam images of students using school-issued laptops without the pupils’ knowledge or consent.
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Biowars/Envirohealth: Infection, Detection, Pollution
Obama to crush economy with massive co2 taxes next week // Pfizer ordered to pay up over ‘AIDS-like’ virus infections // Bayer beats out Exxon for most toxic corporate air polluter title // Bacteria detection is anti-terror effort // Government may have to waste millions of h1n1 vaccines // Anthrax scare leads to evacuation of…
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Defcon 4/1: CyberCensors & Torrents of Controversy
Censorship act: New amendment could block Wikileaks // Army intel ACORN-ing Wikileaks? Web publisher under attack // UK lords pass controversial internet piracy bill // Computer-controlled swarm of bacteria builds tiny pyramid
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Police State Updates: Brand New/Deal With It
The Eenemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention & Prosecution Act of 2010 // UK parents angry over CCTV in school toilets // USrael announces agreement to enhance joint aviation security // Obama appointing military intel official to run TSA
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Murder/Mayhem & the Ides of March
Gunman killed, officer wounded in Texas Wal-Mart shootout // Dallas office building shooting leaves at least 3 injured // Gunman kills 1, injures 2 at Ohio State
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free radical: jeff simmons, pra, radio23 & cascade community radio
from willamette week: On a plush couch in the back of Northeast Portland bar Tiga, Jeff Hylton Simmons asks if I know what time it is. “About 10 till 10,” I tell him. He opens his laptop. “All I’ve got to do is turn this thing off,” he explains, waiting for a five-second countdown to…
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New World Next Week #20
This week we go into schools spying on students via webcams, Obama’s rebranding of the Iraq War as political semantics and, finally, some good food news from Oregon.
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Police Escort Student From Class After Refusing to Pledge Allegiance
A middle school teacher in Montgomery County, Maryland, will have to apologize to a 13-year-old student after yelling at her and having her escorted out of class by school police when the student refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
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School Spied On Kids Via Webcams On School-Supplied Laptops
from pcworld: In case you haven’t been following the plot of Webcamgate, starring the Lower Merion School District in Southeastern Pennsylvania and a cast of thousands, here’s the skinny: Last week the Robbins family, whose son Blake attends LMSD’s Harriton High, filed a class-action suit against the district alleging that it’s been spying on its…