Posted on 2010 December 15 by BBVM
Credit card companies that prevented card-holders from donating money to the secrets outlet WikiLeaks could have their operating licenses taken away in Iceland, according to members of the Icelandic Parliamentary General Committee. Representatives from Mastercard and Visa were called before the committee Sunday to discuss their refusal to process donations to the website, reports Reykjavik [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, Free Speech, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Andreas Fink, DataCell ehf, fascism, First Amendment, freedom, Iceland, Icelandic Parliamentary General Committee, Jeff Javis, Julian Assange, MasterCard, New York Times, Operation Payback, Paypal, Postfinance, Reykjavik Grapevine, Robert Marshall, secrecy, The Guardian, Visa, Wikileaks | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 December 15 by BBVM
Legalization ‘looking inevitable,’ spokesman says If there’s one group of people who get their way in Washington, it’s lobbyists. Now, advocates of marijuana legalization may have a reason to cheer that political reality: They’re getting their own marijuana lobby group. And just Big Pharma and Big Oil lobby for greater leeway for their businesses, so [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, DEA, Drugs, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Aaron Smith, Civil Liberties, civil rights, fascism, human rights, marijuana, medical marijuana, National Cannabis Industry Association, Prohibition | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 December 11 by BBVM
Republicans passed over Rep. Jerry Lewis in favor of a veteran Kentucky lawmaker Wednesday to chair the powerful House Appropriations Committee. The party’s steering committee rejected Lewis’s request to waive term limits that bar him from reclaiming the post he held when Republicans last held the majority. The decision deprives Lewis of a position that [...]
Filed under: ATF, Censorship, Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, Drugs, FBI, Free Speech, Guns, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex, San Bernardino County, SB DA, SB Judges, SB Military, SB Sheriff, SB Supervisors | Tagged: Army, California, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Jeremy Lewis, Corruption, democrat, Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, earmark, fascism, Fort Irwin, Fort Irwin Military Reservation, Fred Upton, Hal Rogers, Jerry Lewis, Joe Barton, Kentucky, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Michigan, National Security Agency, Navy, Republican, San Bernardino County, Tea Party Movement, Texas, Twentynine Palms, United States House Committee on Appropriations, United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, USAF, USCG, USMC | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 December 11 by BBVM
Continental Airlines has been found guilty and “criminally responsible” by a French court for the Concorde crash that occurred 10 years ago. The airline, now United Continental Holdings, was fined EUR 202,000 (USD 268,400). The ruling also stipulated that that Continental should pay 70 percent of any compensation claims to the families of the victims. [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Information | Tagged: Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde, Air France, Concorde, Continental Airlines, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N.V., John Taylor, MS Deutschland, Peter Deilmann Cruises, United Continental Holdings | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 December 1 by BBVM
Freedom of speech and dissent are always curtailed in times of war. Whenever soldiers occupy foreign nations, rational thinking is proscribed in favor of nationalistic hubris. Minority opinions, although grounded in ethics and reason, are repressed, often brutally. The majority becomes intolerant of dissenting views. Thoughtful dialog is suspended and irrational ideology gains ascendancy. Civil [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education Industrial Complex, Free Speech, Immigration, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Adam Smith, Afghanistan, AIPAC, Al Jazeera, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, American University, Anglo-Saxon, capitalism, Christianity, Corruption, democracy, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, depleted uranium, disinformation, dissent, ethnic cleansing, Eugene Victor Debs, exceptionalism, fascism, Freedom of Speech, Genocide, Ghost Dance, Henrik Ibsen, Hiroshima, human rights, Indigenous Peoples, Iraq, Islam, Jeremiah Alvesta Wright Jr., Joe Hill, Karl Marx, Kosovo, Malcolm X, manifest destiny, Martin Luther King, Marxism, Milton Friedman, misinformation, murder, Nagasaki, nationalism, North Korea, Palestine, Palestinian, Paul J. Balles, Propaganda, religion, repression, Ronald Reagan, smallpox, socialism, sociopath, Soviet Union, torture, War on Afghanistan, War on Iraq, World War I, World War II, Wounded Knee, Zionism | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 November 30 by BBVM
San Bernardino County executives have come down hard on one of their own employees who also operates a local political blog. A blog popular with readers, but not county leaders. Sharon Gilbert, an almost thirty-year county employee, has taken on county government with great success through her website www.iePolitics.com. A widely-read blog in Southern California’s [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, Free Speech, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, San Bernardino County, SB DA, SB Judges, SB Military, SB Sheriff, SB Supervisors | Tagged: Brad Mitzelfelt, Civil Liberties, civil rights, Corruption, David Zook, Edward Lee Faunce, Greg Devereaux, haron Gilbert, human rights, iePolitics.com, Inland Empire, Mark Uffer, Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, San Diego County | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 November 27 by BBVM
The spy agency has a venture capital arm that is funding an array of companies developing bleeding-edge technologies. Tiny cameras. Hearing devices for the teeth. Wi-fi for refrigerators. These are some of the products made by companies that have caught the eye of In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Filed under: ATF, Censorship, Communications, DEA, DHS, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, FBI, Guns, Immigration, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: AdaptivEnergy, Basis Technology, Carl Hoffman, Central Intelligence Agency, Cleversafe, Defense Intelligence Journal, Florida State Attorney's Office, FMS, FortiusOne, geolocation, Geosemble, global positioning system, Harvard Business School, Image Tree Corp., In-Q-Tel, Infinite Power Solutions, Josh Lerner, Lens Vecto, National Security Agency, Qynergy, Radio Frequency Identification, Recorded Future, Rick Yannuzzi, RSS, Sonitus Medical, StreamBase Systems, ThingMagic, Trimble Navigation, Visible Technologies, Wi-fi, William Strecker | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 November 27 by BBVM
Havana, Nov 26 (ACN-RHC) The worldwide prestige of Cuban rum is reaffirmed by the growing demand of Ron Legendario, whose sales show an annual 10 percent increase. The trademark’s deputy director of marketing, Carlos Sanchez, stated that Ron Legendario is currently available in more than 15 European countries. Ron Legendario is produced in six factories [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, Drugs, Information, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Añejo, Añejo Blanco, capitalism, Carlos Sanchez, Carta Blanca Superior, Communism, Corruption, Cuba, disinformation, Dorado, Elixir de Cuba, Imperialism, Matanzas, misinformation, Pinar del Rio, Propaganda, Reserva, Ron Legendario, rum, Valencian Legendario SL, Villa Clara | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 November 27 by BBVM
Washington, November 27 (RHC)– Protesters gathered Saturday in front of the White House in Washington to call for an end to the provocations against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The emergency anti-war rally was called in response to the latest escalation of hostilities in the Korean Peninsula. Organizers of the anti-war protest said the [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Uncategorized | Tagged: Army, capitalism, China, Communism, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, disinformation, human rights, Imperialism, Japan, Korean Peninsula, Korean War, misinformation, Navy, Okinawa, Propaganda, Republic of Korea, USAF, USMC, World War II | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 November 27 by BBVM
President Barack Obama has asked his bioethics council to look into the recent disclosure that in the mid-1940s, a United States Public Health Service scientist deliberately infected patients in Guatemala with syphilis. In a letter sent Wednesday to University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, chair of the 13-member Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education Industrial Complex, Information, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Amy Gutmann, bioethics, Guatemala, Gutmann, human rights, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, secrecy, Synthetic biology, syphilis, United States Public Health Service, University of Pennsylvania | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 November 27 by BBVM
So a bunch of high school teachers are upset that their students are bored with them. Well, that’s not how they say it. Instead, the New York Times has the backs of boring, stupid teachers everywhere: “Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction.” If kids didn’t have iPhones, they would pay attention in school. Really? What’s [...]
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Posted on 2010 November 27 by BBVM
The United States has briefed its key allies, including Britain, France, Germany and Saudi Arabia ahead of the mass release of classified documents by WikiLeaks. Whistleblower website WikiLeaks plans to release around three million leaked documents, including cables sent to Washington from American embassies throughout the world. The website had previously posted online secret details [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, DEA, DHS, Drugs, FBI, Free Speech, Guns, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Afghanistan, Asia, Britain, classified information, Corruption, fascism, France, Germany, Hillary Clinton, Imperialism, Philip Crowley, Russia, Saudi Arabia, secrecy, United Arab Emirates, United States Department of State, whistleblower, Wikileaks | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 November 27 by BBVM
An inquiry has found that organs and bones from the bodies of dead British nuclear industry workers at Sellafield were illegally harvested without their consent over a period of 30 years. The inquiry’s findings revealed that the relatives of 64 staff discovered their loved ones had been stripped of livers, tongues and even legs decades [...]
Filed under: Information, Military Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Chris Huhme, Michael Redfern, nuclear power, secrecy, Sellafield, United Kingdom | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 June 25 by BBVM
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, DEA, Drugs, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: children, Civil Liberties, civil rights, disinformation, fascism, human rights, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, LEAP, marijuana, misinformation, police state, Prohibition, Propaganda, racism, War on Drugs, women, youth | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 June 1 by BBVM
Two Norview High School teachers were placed on paid administrative leave this week after a parent complained that they distributed classroom materials that gave advice on how to deal with police if stopped. The materials – a one-page handout and a video distributed and aired in a 12th-grade government class – are sponsored by two [...]
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Posted on 2010 May 31 by BBVM
Measure ensures Texas standards don’t ‘creep into our textbooks,’ senator tells Raw Story The California Senate on Friday approved legislation that sends a clear message to Texas and textbook publishers: don’t mess with our kids’ minds. “My bill begins the process of ensuring that California students will not end up being taught with Texas standards,” [...]
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Posted on 2010 May 31 by BBVM
Yesterday, researchers led by John Craig Venter reported that they had built a genome from scratch and used it to control a cell. We asked if you had any questions about the discovery—which raises important scientific and ethical issues—and you responded in force. Below is a selection of some of our favorites (edited for length [...]
Filed under: Education Industrial Complex, Information | Tagged: Celera Genomics, Elizabeth Pennisi, genome, Institute for Genomic Research, J. Craig Venter Institute, John Craig Venter, Mark Beda, Reed College, Synthetic biology | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 29 by BBVM
This compilation is dedicated to the latest and most competent resources for knowledge discovery available over the Internet. The key is to be able to find the important knowledge discovery resources and sites both in the visible and invisible World Wide Web. The following selected knowledge discovery resources and sites offer excellent knowledge and information [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Education Industrial Complex, Information, Media | Tagged: disinformation, information, Internet, Journalism, knowledge, misinformationpropaganda, research | 1 Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 29 by BBVM
The Iraq war is still being touted by Washington and the Pentagon as a war for progress and stability in the region. A study released May 26, however, reveals a radically different reality. The Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranked Baghdad last in a list of “most livable cities.” The study took into account political, [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Information, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Baghdad, BP, British Petroleum, capitalism, disinformation, fascism, fraud, Imperialism, Iraq, Mercer Quality of Living Survey, misinformation, petroleum, Propaganda, racism, Rumaila field, war crime, War on Iraq | 1 Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 29 by BBVM
See also: Nature: Shut Down Army’s Human Terrain Program A member of the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command management team in Afghanistan, according to sources, is a “gun runner.” That individual is allegedly listed in an “Federal Bureau of Investigation database” and has “ties to Ahmad Wali Khan Karzai and the drug business.” Another [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, Guns, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Christianity, Civil Liberties, civil rights, disinformation, fascism, Federal Bureau of Investigation, House Armed Services Committee, human rights, Human Terrain, John Stanton, Judaism, Marilyn Mitchell, misinformation, Montgomery McFat, opium, Prohibition, Propaganda, racism, Stryker Brigade, TRADOC, Training and Doctrine Command, United States Agency for International Development, University of Notre Dame, War on Afghanistan, War on Drugs, William James Lennox Jr. | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, Drugs, Free Speech, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Canada, Civil Liberties, civil rights, David Bratzer, human rights, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, police state, Prohibition, War on Drugs, youth | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
The former defendant in a real estate fraud case has sued her former attorney, alleging he breached attorney-client privilege and libeled her by posting false information on his campaign Web site. Jane Un filed the lawsuit Thursday in San Bernardino Superior Court against Frank H. Guzman, who is running against incumbent Michael A. Ramos for [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Information, Prison Industrial Complex, San Bernardino County, SB DA | Tagged: attorney-client privilege, C. Patrick Milligan, California State Bar, Frank H. Guzman, Gary R. Fagan, Jane Un, Michael Ramos, San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
The interior ministry of the north-German state Schleswig-Holstein has made membership in local chapters of the Hell’s Angels and Bandidos biker gangs illegal. Over 300 police officers raided the headquarters of the “Hells Angels MC Charter Flensburg” und “Bandidos MC Probationary Chapter Neumuenster” on Thursday morning, as a ban against the groups came into effect. [...]
Filed under: Free Speech, Information | Tagged: Bandidos MC Probationary Chapter Neumuenster, Flensburg, Germany, Hells Angels, Hells Angels MC Charter Flensburg, Klaus Schlie, Nazism, racism, Schleswig-Holstein, White Supremacists | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
Biologists turned snails into tweakers to learn more about how crystal meth seems to improve memory in humans. According to the Washington State University and University of Calgary researchers, memories formed while on methamphetamine may be more durable. (They ran another snail study in 2006 using cocaine instead of meth.) Their work could someday provide [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Civil Liberties, civil rights, disinformation, human rights, memory, methamphetamine, misinformation, Prohibition, Propaganda, University of Calgary, War on Drugs, Washington State University | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
Scientists, including two Nobel Laureates, and public health groups have joined protests against a new, highly controversial UNESCO award sponsored by and named after Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the president of Equatorial Guinea. In a letter sent yesterday to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Director-General Irina Georgieva Bokova, a group of organizations [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Education Industrial Complex, Information, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Belita Koiller, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Equatorial Guinea, International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies, Irina Georgieva Bokova, John Charles Polanyi, Nobel Prize, Open Society Institute, Patrick Leahy, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, United Nations Educational | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
A major California labor union is organizing medical cannabis workers in Oakland, a move that analysts say will help efforts to legalize marijuana and open the door for the union to organize thousands more workers if state voters pass a measure in November to allow recreational marijuana use by adults. The 26,000-member United Food and [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: AMCD, California, Carl Anderson, cibil liberties, civil rights, Dan Rush, disinformation, human rights, Jeff Jones, Ken Jacobs, marijuana, medical marijuana, misinformation, Oakland, Patient ID Center, Prohibition, Propaganda, Public Policy Institute of California, San Jose, UC Berkeley Labor Center, United Food and Commercial Workers, War on Drugs | 1 Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
The California Statewide Direct Primary Election will be held on Tuesday, June 8, and those voters who plan to request a vote-by-mail ballot have until June 1 to do so. In addition to five statewide measures on the June 8 ballot, San Bernardino County voters will have opportunity to vote for the San Bernardino County [...]
Filed under: Drugs, Guns, Immigration, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Religion Industrial Complex, San Bernardino County, SB Assesssor, SB Sheriff | Tagged: Alfred Castorena Palazzo, Big Bear Chamber of Commerce, Democratic Club of Big Bear Valley, Dennis Draeger, Ensen Mason, Larry Walker, Mark Averbeck, Paul Schrader, Rod Hoops, San Bernardino County, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department | 1 Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
A former investigator in the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office was sentenced to probation Thursday for accessing criminal rap sheets in a law enforcement database for his personal benefit and that of his friends and colleagues. Christopher Cardoza, 46, was sentenced to three years probation and 420 hours of community service by Judge Kyle [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, San Bernardino County, SB DA | Tagged: Christopher Cardoza, fraud, James Vincent Reiss, Kyle Brodie, Long Beach Police Department, Ontario Police Department, police state, San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office, surveillance | 1 Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
In Maryland, it is a felony to record thuggish cops as they push around skateboarding teenagers, beat sports patrons, and pull guns on motorists for speeding. “Several Marylanders face felony charges for recording their arrests on camera, and others have been intimidated to shut their cameras off,” reports WJZ 23 in Baltimore. Maryland cops are [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, Education Industrial Complex, Free Speech, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Civil Liberties, civil rights, fascism, human rights, Maryland, police state, racism, surveillance, University of Maryland, WJZ | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
Filed under: ATF, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, DEA, DHS, Drugs, FBI, Free Speech, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: domestic militarization, fascism, police state, racism, Radley Balko, surveillance | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
Federal lawmakers are using the purse strings to coax more states into adopting rules that require suspects who are arrested for various crimes — but not charged — to submit to DNA sampling for inclusion into a nationwide database. It doesn’t matter if the suspect was charged or even acquitted. Sponsored by Harry Teague (D-New [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: American Civil Liberties Union, California Department of Justice, Constitution, Declan McCullagh, DNA, Harry Teagu, HR 4614, Katie’s Law, police state, surveillance, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
Residents of San Mateo County, California are hearing an unusual sound on the 89.3 frequency of their FM radios these days. Commercial-free radio programmed by real, local people. San Francisco-based Pirate Cat Radio has put KPDO on the air full-time. The station’s new home, nestled among coastal farmlands, is about an hour south from the [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, Education Industrial Complex, Free Speech, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Californi, Daniel Roberts, Federal Communications Commission, KLSI, KPDO, Pescadero, Pescadero Radio Service, Pirate Cat Radio, pirate radio, San Mateo County, University of California Santa Cruz | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 27 by BBVM
Yesterday, the Associated Press moved a story completely devoid of historical context. The piece, titled “Deadly, Ultra-Pure Heroin Arrives in U.S.,” claims that in “recent years”—a time frame that goes undefined—Mexican dealers have started peddling “ultra-potent” black tar heroin and are selling it for as little as $10 a bag. In alarmist prose, the article [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Drugs, Immigration, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Civil Liberties, civil rights, disinformation, heroin, human rights, immigrant, Latino, Mexico, misinformation, Prohibition, Propaganda, War on Drugs | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 13 by BBVM
Current and former service members living in Georgia could soon add a new piece of information to their driver’s license: a posttraumatic stress disorder diagnosis. Under a law recently pushed through the state legislature, post-traumatic stress disorder would be noted on the license in the same way that a person’s license might indicate corrective lenses [...]
Filed under: Education Industrial Complex, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Vietnam Veterans Alliance Inc., John Douglas, Lea R. Flowers, posttraumatic stress disorder, Ronald Ramsey, Veteran | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 11 by BBVM
The US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan contains a facility for detainees that is distinct from its main prison, the Red Cross has confirmed to the BBC. Nine former prisoners have told the BBC that they were held in a separate building, and subjected to abuse. The US military says the main prison, now called [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Drugs, Information, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Afghanistan, Bagram, Bagram Air Base, disinformation, fascism, human rights, Imperialism, International Committee of the Red Cross, misinformation, Parwan, petroleum, Propaganda, Robert Harward, torture, War on Afghanistan | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 10 by BBVM
SAN DIEGO — The San Diego metro area has one of the largest immigrant populations in the country. A new study out today from the Brookings Institution says more than 22 percent of San Diego’s population was born in another country. The State Of Metropolitan America report looked at the changing demographics of the 100 [...]
Filed under: Education Industrial Complex, Immigration, Information | Tagged: Audrey Singer, Brookings Institution, Diverse Giant, Elizabeth Jarosz, Hispanic, immigrant, Latino, San Diego, San Diego Association of Governments, San Diego County, State Of Metropolitan America | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 10 by BBVM
See also: Derry buys more police protection Another Nazi Pig Comes to Town: San Bernardino County supervisor hires controversial activist Last week, The Alpenhorn News revealed that Third District Supervisor Neil Derry had appointed Wanda Nowicki to his staff as an administrative analyst, even though her background check had revealed a criminal history. At the time, the [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Immigration, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, San Bernardino County, SB Assesssor, SB DA, SB Judges, SB Military, SB Sheriff, SB Supervisors | Tagged: Colonies Partners, Elizabeth Sanchez, Human Resources Department, Jeffrey Burum, Jim Erwin, Neil Derry, San Bernardino County, San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors, San Bernardino County Safety Employees Benefit Association, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, Wanda Nowicki | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 10 by BBVM
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Immigration, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: California, capitalism, Civil Liberties, civil rights, Communism, disinformation, fascism, human rights, immigrant, imperialsim, Latino, Los Angeles, Mexico, misinformation, Propaganda, racism, revolution, socialism | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 10 by BBVM
Source A freelance news videographer in Seattle lost his gig with a television station over a police abuse video they rejected after he posted the video on Youtube. The video showed the customary abuse we expect from the Seattle Police Department; a cop kicking a detained suspect in the head after threatening to beat the [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Civil Liberties, civil rights, Corruption, human rights, immigrant, Jud Morris, KIRO TV, Latino, police state, racism, Seattle, Seattle Police Department, secrecy, Shandy Cobane, Washington | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 10 by BBVM
Last week, prosecutors in the case of Thomas A. Drake, the former National Security Agency official who is charged with unlawfully retaining classified information that he allegedly disclosed to a reporter, asked the court to hold a pre-trial conference on the use of the Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) in that case. CIPA was passed [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: civil liverties, civil rights, classified information, Classified Information Procedures Act, Congressional Research Service, disinformation, espionage, fascism, human rights, Imperialism, misinformation, National Security Agency, Propaganda, secrecy, State Secrets Protection Act, surveillance, Thomas A. Drake | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 10 by BBVM
Back in early 2009, when guys like David Kilcullen and Andrew Exum warned that the American drone war in Pakistan could create more terrorists than they kill, they were pilloried by the national security establishment for their views. Since the failed Times Square bombing — a terror attack allegedly in response to the drone strikes [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Drugs, Guns, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Andrew Exum, Civil Liberties, civil rights, David Kilcullen, fascism, human rights, Imperialism, Iraq, jihad, murder, Muslim, Pakistan, petroleum, Predator, racism, Terrorism, unmanned aerial vehicle, War on Terror | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 10 by BBVM
According to preliminary statistics released today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 48 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty during 2009. Geographically, 21 of the victim officers were killed in the South, 13 in the West, seven in the Northeast, and five in the Midwest. Two officers were slain [...]
Filed under: Information, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reporting Program | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 9 by BBVM
Whether they’re preschoolers from Australian suburbs or Kalahari Bushmen, children copy adults to a fault, according to a new study. The findings suggest that over-imitation—in which a child copies everything an adult does, even irrelevant or silly actions—is a universal human trait that may contribute to our complex culture. Researchers already knew that over-imitation was [...]
Filed under: Education Industrial Complex, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Andrew Whiten, children, Laura Schuz, Mark Nielsen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, punishment, University of Queensland, University of St. Andrews, youth | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 9 by BBVM
The Heritage Foundation and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers have just released a new report which provides the results of a joint study of the federal legislative process for all studied non-violent criminal offenses introduced in the 109th Congress in 2005 and 2006. Sponsored by Representatives Robert Cortez “Bobby” Scott and Louis Buller [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Bobby Scott, Civil Liberties, civil rights, Heritage Foundation, Louis Gohmert Jr., mens rea, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, police state, United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime Terrorism and Homeland Security, youth | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 9 by BBVM
While the State of California begins to debate the consequences of taxing and regulating cannabis for personal use, it’s important to note the state is already taxing and regulating the agricultural product used by 2.9 million Californians monthly. California Board of Equalization official Anita Gore told the Express this week that the board estimates it [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Drugs, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Anita Gore, California, California Board of Equalization, Civil Liberties, civil rights, economics, economy, human rights, marijuana, medical marijuana, Prohibition, War on Drugs | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 9 by BBVM
The Rural Blog brings us this post about the U.S. Forest Service prohibiting its law enforcement and investigations (LEI) employees from speaking to local media without approval from Washington. The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility obtained a memo outlining the policy, which critics say stifles access to government records. “Until further notice all LEI employees [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Corruption, David Ferrell, disinformation, misinformation, Propaganda, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, secrecy, United States Forest Service | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 9 by BBVM
A judge in Brooklyn has excluded Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) lie-detector evidence from a trial there. However, the decision will not set a precedent, as it was made without even conducting a hearing on the method’s validity, but on the principle, argued by the defense, that ‘juries are supposed to decide the credibility of [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Cephos, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, J. Houston Gordon, Jessica Corte, Lorne Semrau, magnetic resonance imaging, Stephen Laken | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 8 by BBVM
Perhaps the new airport body scanners are a bit too revealing. A Transportation Security Administration worker in Miami was arrested for aggravated battery after police say he attacked a colleague who’d made fun of his small genitalia after he walked through one of the new high-tech security scanners during a recent training session. Rolando Negrin, [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, DHS, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, TSA | Tagged: Miami International Airport, police state, Rolando Negrin, surveillance, Transportation Security Administration | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 5 by BBVM
Washington, May 4 (Cubadebate-RHC) Radio and TV Martí, financed media by the U.S. government for subversion in Cuba, “must undergo a huge reform to ensure its survival”, estimated a U.S. congressional report released Monday. The report of the Senate’s US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations identified numerous flaws on the “materials”, they’ve been broadcasting to [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Communications, Free Speech, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex | Tagged: Cold War, Cuba, disinformation, espionage, Florida, International Telecommunication Union, John Kerry, misinformation, Office of Transmissions to Cuba, Propaganda, Radio MARTI, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Space Law, TV Marti, Voice of America | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 5 by BBVM
Privacy groups gave an overwhelming thumbs down Tuesday to proposed legislation by Rep. Frederick Carlyle “Rick” Boucher (D-Virginia) that for the first time would mandate the length of time online consumer information could be kept. The proposal would require websites to discard data collected from their users after 18 months. Some suggested the retention limit for consumer [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Communications, Free Speech, Information, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Center for Democracy and Technology, Center for Digital Democracy, Civil Liberties, civil rights, Evan Hendricks, Leslie Harris, Privacy Times, Progress and Freedom Foundation, Rick Boucher, surveillance, Virginia, World Privacy Forum | Leave a Comment »