Posted on 2009 October 16 by BBVM
This file, marked “confidential”, describes development of an EU-funded intelligence gathering system (“INDECT work package 4″) designed to comb webblogs, chat sites, newsreports, and social-networking sites to in order to build up automatic dossiers on individuals, organizations and their relationships.
“The aim of work package 4 (WP4) is the development of [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 15 by BBVM
Former Colombian President Cesar Gaviria on Tuesday strongly criticized the United States’ approach to fighting drugs.
“Just putting all consumers in jail, as the U.S. does, is not a solution,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “You have to reduce consumption.”
In a wide ranging interview, Gaviria said the United States now has [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, Drugs, FBI, Immigration, Interpol, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Mexico, Prohibition, War on Drugs, Colombia, Cesar Gaviri, Christiane Amanpour, Fernando Cardoso, Ernesto Zedillo | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 14 by BBVM
A new poll shows a substantial majority of Americans have resigned themselves to the reality of our nation’s perpetual foreign wars. They don’t like it, but they see it happening and know there is nothing they can do about it. The poll, conducted by Clarus Research Group, showed that 68 [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 14 by BBVM
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, October 12, 2009
United Nations and Interpol officials will meet today to discuss the formation of a “global police force” that would enjoy access to a worldwide database of DNA, biometric and fingerprint records. The effort will be spearheaded by a man known as “The Enforcer” [...]
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Posted on 2009 September 21 by BBVM
Vancouver in British Columbia, Ciudad Juárez in northern Mexico and Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan are unlikely cousins. But together these three places and their ilk have wrought a remarkable change in one of the world’s most important debates over the past two years.
For decades, the idea of legalizing narcotics was [...]
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Posted on 2009 September 18 by BBVM
Sources indicate nails and screws were forced into the tires on at least a dozen marked and unmarked police cars as well as a number of private cars.
Pittsburgh Bureau of Police sources say at least a dozen police cars and a number of private cars were vandalized.
Sources also confirm police investigators [...]
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Posted on 2009 June 23 by BBVM
This year marks the 40th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s start of the war on drugs, and it now appears that drugs have won.
“We’ve spent a trillion dollars prosecuting the war on drugs,” Norm Stamper, a former police chief of Seattle, told me. “What do we have to show for it? [...]
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Posted on 2009 May 26 by BBVM
May 7, 2009
Yesterday, 72 Mexican civil society organizations and a Brigadier General of the Mexican Army sent the following letter to US Congress demanding that all military aid to Mexico be immediately halted. The letter comes as the US House of Representative is considering more than doubling 2009 funding for the war [...]
Filed under: CBP, Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, Drugs, FBI, Free Speech, ICE, Immigration, Information, International, Interpol, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Amnesty International, Hillary Clinton, Janet Napolitano, Judd Greg, Kay Granger, Merida Initiative, Mexico, National Human Rights Commission, Nita M. Lowey, Patrick Leahy, Plan Mexico, Prohibition | 1 Comment »
Posted on 2009 January 22 by BBVM
See also:
Domestic Militarization Comes to San Bernardino County
Patriot Act – The War on Civil Liberties
The Second Amendment Versus The Police State?
Veterans for Peace (VFP) Opposes Combat Brigade’s Permanent U.S. Assignment
Assignment America: Keep juries dumb
Excellent Article on the Corrupt Prison-Industrial Complex
Court Rules Patriot Act’s “National Security Letter” Gag Provisions Unconstitutional
SoCal [...]
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Posted on 2009 January 11 by BBVM
THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.
The move, which follows a decision by the European Union’s council of ministers in Brussels, has angered civil liberties groups and opposition Members of Parliament. They described it [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Communications, Information, Interpol, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Britain, Cambridge University, council of ministers, Damian Green, Dominic Grieve, EU, European Union, Home Office, House of Commons, Liberty, MI5, Richard Clayton, Shami Chakrabarti, Tory | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2008 December 28 by BBVM
More than 2,000 opponents of the federal Labor government’s plans to censor the Internet rallied in cities across Australia on December 13—the second national protest in the past two months. The demonstrations, which were convened by the Digital Liberty Coalition (DLC), are another indication of the growing concern of [...]
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Posted on 2008 December 22 by BBVM
The former intelligence chief Baroness Neville-Jones today urged Scotland Yard to drop one of its anti-terror advisers, Mohamed Ali Harrath, after The Times discovered that he is wanted by Interpol because of his links to an alleged terror organization in his home country.
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Communications, Information, Interpol, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Baroness Neville-Jones, Bechir Tekkari, British Home Office, Interpol, Joint Intelligence Committee, Metropolitan Police, Mohamed Ali Harrath, Scotland Yard, Shadow Security Minister, Tunisia, Tunisian Justice and Human Rights Minister | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2008 December 7 by BBVM
On January 17, 1920, The 18th Amendment went into effect and what is known as Prohibition became reality. What did not become reality were the predictions of the benefits it would have vis-a-vis Organized Crime.
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Posted on 2008 November 27 by BBVM
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Posted on 2008 November 21 by BBVM
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) — A vicious turf war between drug cartels and Mexican authorities that has left as many as 4,300 dead so far this year may have caused a breach in the internal security systems of Interpol, the international police organization.
Background
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Posted on 2008 November 19 by BBVM
When one walks into a business, most often you are greeted. As part of treating customers as their very livelihood, companies usually enact policies that make it a requirement for employees to acknowledge the arrival of a client or customer.
Imagine, however, if instead of getting a “hello” or “good morning,” the manager of the store [...]
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Posted on 2008 November 19 by BBVM
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 18 — A senior Mexican police official who worked as the country’s liaison with Interpol was arrested Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation into information leaks from top law enforcement authorities to the nation’s notorious drug cartels.
Filed under: Drugs, International, Interpol, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Interpol, Mexico, Ricardo Vargas | Leave a Comment »