Tag: schools
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Envirohealth: autism, bpa, hpv, cdc & pot
officials call off controversial autism studyfrom reuters: Health officials have called off plans for a study examining a controversial type of treatment that some autism activists have touted as alternative medical therapy for children with the condition. The National Institute of Mental Health, or NIMH, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, said in…
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police state usa: pitt police, purse ban, txt snitch & shooter drill
new pittsburgh police cruisers to include video camerasfrom post-gazette: Video cameras will be mounted in at least 27 new police cruisers expected to roam the streets in upcoming weeks, a technological first for Pittsburgh police. “It’s going to help everybody,” fleet operations Sgt. Gordon McDaniel said yesterday. “If you know you’re being recorded, you’re going…
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dc cops, madd hoax, wargames, drugwars & la radar
dc cops getting semiautomatic riflesfrom upi: Civil rights activists say the move to arm District of Columbia Police Department patrol officers with semiautomatic weapons is going overboard. Officers will be given AR-15 rifles this summer as a way to combat dangerous criminals on the streets, The Washington Post reported Saturday. It is reported 352 officers…
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ohio parents told of school explosion, not told it’s a drill
from toledo blade: An automated message system told parents of a large explosion at a southwest Ohio elementary school, sending moms and dads into a panic before officials could clarify that it was all just a drill. The Mason School District outside Cincinnati had informed parents last week that there would be a disaster drill…
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blair gets protested & booed at yale
from daily mail: Tony Blair was left reeling last night after students disrupted his debut speech at Yale University to protest at his role in taking Britain and America to war in Iraq. The former Prime Minister, who is normally immensely popular in the US for his support for President George W Bush’s ‘war on…
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arresting research & wrecking babylon
uk student researching ‘al-qaeda tactics’ turned in by academic informer at nottingham university from guardian: A masters student researching terrorist tactics who was arrested and detained for six days after his university informed police about al-Qaida-related material he downloaded has spoken of the “psychological torture” he endured in custody. Despite his Nottingham University supervisors insisting…
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high schoolers arrested for reading ‘1984’ over intercom
from south coast today: Two students were arrested and another 15 to 20 staged a sit-in at Old Rochester Regional High School Wednesday in a protest that began after students briefly commandeered the intercom system during MCAS testing, school officials and students said. Thomas Buckley… and Zachary Sherman… were charged with disorderly conduct, disturbing the…
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prof accused of passing drone tech to china
from danger rom: A retired university professor is accused of passing information to China about high-tech work on drones. J. Reece Roth, a 70-year old professor who used to work at the University of Tennessee’s Plasma Sciences Lab got caught up in the complex web of regulations that surrounds non-classified data subject to export controls.…
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choose one: prison, family detention center or xenu u
US to build vast prison in afghanistanfrom afp: The United States plans to build a vast, new detention camp at its main military base in Afghanistan… “I can confirm there are indeed plans to build a new detention facilty at Bagram airfield,” spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Mark Wright told AFP. “And the overall size is expected…
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Operation Sudden Fall
A new short film about the DEA’s recent SDSU drug bust, the conclusion of a sting operation that resulted in almost 100 arrests, including students majoring in criminal justice and Homeland Security.
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uk crossing guards join the surveillance state
from danger room: “If you wanted a sure sign that the Orwell-ization of Great Britain is underway, then look no further than this,” says Gizmodo. “Lollipop ladies, those kindly old women who man the main roads next to school, similar to the US crossing guard, have been issued video cameras to record lollipop rage -…
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cameras, cops, confiscation & corruption
in more public places, cameras are on watchfrom boston globe: Over the past few years, some patrons of Lexington’s Cary Memorial Library have had the misfortune of encountering a person exposing himself. Five such incidents, along with vandalism that destroyed about $13,000 worth of property, prompted library officials and police to consider installing surveillance cameras,…
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carolina teen charged with wmd
from ap: An 18-year-old accused of planning to bomb his high school will be charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a possible life sentence, the top federal prosecutor in South Carolina said Tuesday. Ryan Schallenberger also will face two lesser federal charges stemming from what authorities say was a…
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thoughtcrime, hydrant cams, recycle cops & dc detectors
could soldiers be prosecuted for thoughtcrime?from danger room: The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding a number of technologies that tap into the brain’s ability to detect threats before the conscious mind is able to process the information. Already, there is Pentagon-sponsored work on using the brain’s pattern detection capabilities for enhanced goggles…
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student directories, cheney, yoo & the border fence
pentagon wants student directoriesfrom thinkprogress: The Army Times reports that the Pentagon “has announced a new get-tough policy with colleges and universities that interfere with the work of military recruiters and Reserve Officer Training Corps programs… Under rules that will take effect April 28, defense officials said they want the exact same access to student…