Tag: watchlist
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#OccupyWallStreet US police ‘maced peaceful protesters’ in new york
from channel4: The #OccupyWallStreet campaign said police confined a small number of protesters before spraying them with mace. Clips of the alleged incident have appeared across social media – however, Channel 4 News cannot verify the footage independently. The New York Police Department has so far not responded to a Channel 4 News request for…
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Police State Updates: Portland Patsy & The DHS PSA’s
Portland Patsy’ as impetus for rejoining terrorism task force // Was FBI grooming Portland suspect for terror? // White House speechwriter’s standup routine about TSA & defrocked priests wins prize // Wal-mart running public service announcement from DHS on telescreens
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12/2 Newspurge: Watch Us Explode
Econocrash Updates: Iceland faring better than Ireland after letting banks fail* Fed employee pay freeze proposed to control deficit* Unemployment checks to 2m will stop without action* New data: foreign banks biggest recipients of fed money* Fed wants to strip a key protection for homeowners* 100s line up in Atlanta cold for help heating homes*…
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Police State Updates: Questioning Awakenings
Will Washington DC be nuked on July 4th? // What would life be like under martial law? // Jury convicts Chicago police torturer of lying under oath // White House preparing biometric nat’l online ID card for all Americans // Once America started waterboarding, major newspapers stopped calling it torture // Cops dressed as anarchists…
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police state updates: secret rooms, secret files
US postal service expands construction of secret rooms* homegrown terrorist threat to be part of national security strategy* document says number of attempted attacks on US is at all-time high* the toronto g20 police state crackdown* toronto gets ‘sound cannons’ for g20* canada: $1b on summit security well worth it* darpa cam spots the ‘non-cooperative’*…
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Ex-TSA Worker Sent Virus To Sabotage Terror Watchlist Computers
Federal prosecutors have charged a former Transportation Security Administration employee with attempting to sabotage terror watch list computers. Douglas Duchak, 46, of Colorado Springs, faces two charges of attempting to damage protected TSA computers.
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body scanners can store & send images, group says
from cnn: A privacy group says the Transportation Security Administration is misleading the public with claims that full-body scanners at airports cannot store or send their graphic images. The TSA specified in 2008 documents that the machines must have image storage and sending abilities, the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) said. In the documents,…
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fbi says 400,000 people on watch list; 1,600 names suggested a day
from washington post: Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation’s terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list. During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily basis that…
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police state int’l: propaganda, danger, threats & lists
pentagon clashes with media over control of information 27,000 work in pentagon pr & recruitingfrom danger room: Forget the drone stuff. Here is your eye-popping statistic of the day: “This year, the Pentagon will employ 27,000 people just for recruitment, advertising and public relations – almost as many as the total 30,000-person work force in…
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homeland stupidity to take over airline watchlist in ’09
govt to take over airline passenger vettingfrom washington post: The Department of Homeland Security will take over responsibility for checking airline passenger names against government watch lists beginning in January, and will require travelers for the first time to provide their full name, birth date and gender as a condition for boarding commercial flights, U.S.…
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author critical of bush on terror watch list
from raw replay: CNN’s Drew Griffin reports that an author who was critical of Bush is on the TSA’s terror watch list. Jim Moore is the author of several books including “Bush’s war for re-election,” “Bush’s Brain,” and “The Architect.” This video is from CNN’s American Morning, broadcast August 14, 2008.
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aclu launches terror watch list complaint website
from raw replay: Caroline Fredrickson, director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office spoke at the National Press Club about the need to reform the government’s terrorist watch list. The watch list now contains one million names based on the government’s own reported numbers. The ACLU says that the watch list could effect up to 5-10%…
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fbi terror watch list ‘out of control’
from abc: A terrorist watch list compiled by the FBI has apparently swelled to include more than half a million names. Privacy and civil liberties advocates say the list is growing uncontrollably, threatening its usefulness in the war on terror. The bureau says the number of names on its terrorist watch list is classified. A…