Posted on 2009 November 26 by BBVM
The German army’s chief of staff has stepped down after reports of Afghan civilian deaths in a September air strike involving German troops.
Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg told parliament on Thursday Wolfgang Schneiderhan had submitted his resignation.
Schneiderhan “has released himself from his duties at his own request,” zu Guttenberg [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
As the chronology of California correctional policies shows, many of the punitive measures in sentencing, corrections, and risk management, emerged from voter initiatives. Whether or not the public is punitive, or is being pushed in that direction by politicians and the media, and what can be done to [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 25 by BBVM
A wide-ranging affidavit by Washington Times editorial page editor Richard Miniter in the lawsuit he is filing against the Times provides a detailed picture of the inner workings of the newspaper that has been rocked in recent weeks by the canning of three executives and the resignation [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 24 by BBVM
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, Drugs, FBI, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Prohibition, War on Drugs, Clifford Thornton Jr. | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
Microsoft is holding talks with News Corporation and other media-companies to convince them to remove their news content from the Google search engine while continuing to feature their material on the Microsoft search engine. One source told the Financial Times that this initiative had originated with Keith Rupert [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 23 by BBVM
The Citizen Media Law Project announced the launch of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University’s Online Media Legal Network (OMLN), a new pro bono initiative that connects lawyers and law school clinics with online journalists who need legal help. OMLN will provide [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 20 by BBVM
The Broadcasting Board of Governors oversees the United States Government’s non-military broadcasting. Its function is to provide managerial guidance from talented private sector leaders. The combined audience of the broadcasting it oversees is over 171 million, an increase of 71% over 2003, according to the BBG. Programming is in [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 20 by BBVM
The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which acted as America’s political police during the Cold War, spent several decades watching Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel, who died earlier this year at age 96. The revelation was made by the City University of New York’s NYCity News Service, which [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 19 by BBVM
Rod Hoops
Bart Gray
I am not surprised to hear that you are going to try and let the issue with Captain Bart Gray and his wife die a quiet death. More on that in a moment.
I direct these statements to you because you are the Sheriff. As you know you [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 18 by BBVM
Filed under: Censorship, Communications, DHS, Drugs, Free Speech, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Bill O'Reilly, Cable News Network, CNN, Lou Dobbs, Lou Dobbs Tonight | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 17 by BBVM
Twenty years ago, the world was transfixed by images of spirited Germans clambering on top of the forbidding Berlin Wall and beginning to dismantle its legacy with each swing of their pickaxes and hammers.
The events of Nov. 9, 1989 — the day the wall fell — became the primary symbol [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 17 by BBVM
The declining state of the US economy has convinced a growing number of American analysts that the US capitalist financial system is doomed to disintegrate.
Citing the works of other leading economists such as Jack Bogle and Marc Faber, Market Watch commentator Paul B. Farrell gives 20 reasons, in [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 17 by BBVM
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism (laissez-faire).
In the global poll for the BBC World Service, only 11% of those questioned across 27 countries said that it was working well. Most thought regulation and reform of the capitalist [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 17 by BBVM
Industrial espionage is no longer the part-time job of secret agents from spy movies. It is prospering in everyday life and growing at a phenomenal rate.
Billions of dollars and thousands of jobs are being lost due to the theft of trade secrets.
In recent years the definition of industrial espionage has [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 17 by BBVM
It didn’t have to end this way for Lou Dobbs. He could have been a contender.
But Dobbs, a supremely self-confident man who often mentions his Harvard University education in private conversation, just wouldn’t listen. Time after time, as the “Lou Dobbs Tonight” show he has hosted on CNN (Cable [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 16 by BBVM
A television news cameraman in New Jersey has filed a 17-count lawsuit against a Newark Police Department officer and the city of Newark, alleging that he was assaulted while covering demonstration against street violence, The Star-Ledger reported.
Longtime cameraman James Quodomine was on assignment for Newark’s WCBS-TV when [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 15 by BBVM
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, Education Industrial Complex, Free Speech, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: ACTA, anti, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 14 by BBVM
A New Jersey appeals court on Monday ruled that police use-of-force reports — generated any time a police offer uses force against a citizen — are public records and cannot be withheld as criminal investigatory records.
Attorneys for West Milford, a township in northern New Jersey, appealed a state trial court’s [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 14 by BBVM
A list naming the 662 Chicago Police Department officers with 10 or more complaints filed against them will remain closed.
A journalist and 28 Chicago alderman sought access to the list compiled in connection with a 2004 suit against the Chicago Police Department. Because that case has been settled, the federal [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 14 by BBVM
The Department of Justice earlier this year served and shortly thereafter withdrew a grand jury subpoena that sought information about all visitors to the journalism website Indymedia.us for one day, and also contained a gag order “not to disclose the existence of [the] request,” CBSNews.com reports.
In the [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 14 by BBVM
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Posted on 2009 November 12 by BBVM
Pot smoker in Mexico City. Mexicans consume an estimated 342 tons of marijuana a year. Photo by Castillo / AP.
Legalization is the only answer…
Mexico’s massive drug problem
As poet Juan Pablo Garcia posited long ago in his 1985 Pacheco (marijuana user) Manifesto: ‘drugs don’t make us criminals but laws against [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 11 by BBVM
Posted on 2009 November 11 by BBVM
Through interviews with former narcotics agents, politicians, and bureaucrats, this exposé documents previously unknown aspects of the history of federal drug law enforcement from the formation of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs and the creation of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) up until the present day. Written in [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 10 by BBVM
Economic Progress Via Legalization: Lessons from the Last Legalization Program
Would legalizing currently undocumented immigrants in the United States place an unneeded amount of strain on the economy?
Not according to a recent report issued by the Immigration Policy Center. This report, titled “Economic Progress Via Legalization: Lessons from the Last Legalization [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 10 by BBVM
Paris, November 3, 2009 – It is possible that the creation of an all-professional American army was the most dangerous decision ever taken by Congress. The nation now confronts a political crisis in which the issue has become an undeclared contest between Pentagon power and that of a newly elected [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 10 by BBVM
The Supreme Court of Virginia has withdrawn a controversial proposal that would have automatically withheld the identities of jurors in all criminal cases, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.
Several open government organizations, including the Virginia Press Association and the Virginia Coalition for Open Government, opposed the rule. The Reporters Committee [...]
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Posted on 2009 November 10 by BBVM
The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document we wrote about on Wednesday appeared on Wikileaks today, and our source has cleared us to publish it here as well.
We wrote that the document, (.pdf) if true, amounted to policy laundering at its finest -– that the United States was pushing the [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, Free Speech, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, Australia, Canada, copyright, European Union states, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, surveillance, Switzerland | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 November 2 by BBVM
The news of this unbelievable episode was presented to me a couple weeks ago and I wasn’t able to gather more details until this weekend.
It looks like a major U.S. corporation recently embarked on a mission to San Bernardino County.
That mission? Establish a campus in the Victor Valley region of the [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 31 by BBVM
Reporting from Mexico City – Los Tigres del Norte, Mexico’s superstar norteño band, abruptly canceled its participation Wednesday in a major awards show after it was barred from performing a song critical of the government’s campaign against drug cartels.
The band, best known for its corridos, or Spanish ballads, [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 30 by BBVM
The Arizona Supreme Court today ruled that metadata – information about the history, tracking and management of an electronic document – is subject to the state’s public records law.
Several national media organizations supported Phoenix Police Department officer David Lake’s challenge that the city improperly denied his 2006 public records [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Free Speech, Information, Media, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Arizona Supreme Court, First Amendment Coalition, metadata, Gannett Company, E.W. Scripps, Lake v. City of Phoenix, Society of Professional Journalists, Arizona Newspapers Association, First Amendment Coalition of Arizona | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 30 by BBVM
Filed under: Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, FBI, Free Speech, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: AB 390, Alex Woon, Drug Policy Alliance, Kraig Negrete, marijuana, Marijuana Policy Project, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, NORML, Prohibition, San Jose State University, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, Tom Ammiano, University of California Berkeley, War on Drugs | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 29 by BBVM
The British Government’s chief drug adviser has sparked controversy by claiming ecstasy, LSD and cannabis are less dangerous than cigarettes and alcohol.
Professor David Nutt, chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, attacked the decision to make cannabis a class B drug.
He accused former home secretary Jacqui [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, FBI, Free Speech, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, David Nutt, ecstasy, England, Great Britain, Home Office, Jacqui Smith, King's College, LSD, marijuana, Prohibition, War on Drugs | 1 Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 29 by BBVM
The new organization dedicated to rooting out political corruption in San Bernardino County held its first public meeting on October 6 in Redlands. The meeting was relocated at the last minute when the San Bernardino Public Employees Association (SBPEA) reneged on its agreement to allow the group to use its [...]
Filed under: ATF, Censorship, Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, DMV, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, FBI, Free Speech, Guns, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex, Riverside County, SB DA, SB Judges, SB Military, SB Sheriff, SB Supervisors, San Bernardino County | Tagged: American Civil Liberties Union, Californians Aware, Cassie MacDuff, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Citizens Inspiring Victory by Impeachment of Corruption, Common Cause, CopWatch, Ethics Truth and Honesty In the County of San Bernardino, First Amendment Coalition, Howard Jarvis, Inland Empire, Judicial Watch, Press-Enterprise, San Bernardino County, San Bernardino County Anti-Corruption Group, San Bernardino County Ethics Commission, San Bernardino Public Employees Association | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 27 by BBVM
Just search this site for anything military, and see if you want this scum infiltrating the educational system to propagandize, indoctrinate and poison your child’s mind. Here are some examples:
Military Accepting Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, Probe Finds
The rise of low-IQ in the US military
The US military and its cult of cruelty
America’s Child Soldiers: [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 26 by BBVM
A company called the Audit Bureau of Circulations measures how many actual newspapers are sold by US dailies and has just released its September 2009 six-month report. Newspaper companies pay the Audit Bureau to conduct this measurement to be able to show potential advertisers how many readers – especially the upscale [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, Free Speech, Guns, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Audit Bureau of Circulations, El Libertador, Frances Robles, Journalism, Los Angeles Times, Markos Moulitsas, Miami Herald, New York Times, Por Esto!, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 26 by BBVM
In the chronicle of America’s war against its marijuana users, conservative columnist George Will may have just earned credit for his own Walter Cronkite moment.
Appearing on ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos on Sunday, the Pulitzer-winning journalist and longtime icon of America’s political right declared that with President Barack [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Drugs, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: marijuana, Prohibition, War on Drugs, Tom Ammiano, medical marijuana, Gallup Poll, Walter Cronkite, La Familia Michoacana, George Will, John Podesta, Laura Ingraham, Al Hunt, Cynthia Tucker, George Stephanopoulos, Field Research Corporation | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 25 by BBVM
Nonviolence can be a major force for democratic social change, but not when it becomes a tool for covert intervention.
A close-cropped, no-nonsense infantry officer, Col. Robert Helvey was studying at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs on an Army fellowship. One day in 1987, he happened upon a seminar led by Gene [...]
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, Free Speech, Guns, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Albert Einstein Institution, Army, Belgrade, Burma, CANVAS, Caspian Sea, Caucuses, Center for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies, Center for International Affairs, Central Intelligence Agency, Chris Miller, Defense Intelligence Agency, Democratic Alliance of Burma, Department of State, Gandhism, Gene Sharp, George Soros, Green Revolution, Harvard University, Hugo Chavez, Institute of Peace, Iran, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Marigold Revolution, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, National Endowment for Democracy, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Open Society Institute, Orange Revolution, Otpor!, Pascal Fletcher, Peter Ackerman, Radio Caracas Televisión, Robert Helvey, Rose Revolution, Slobodan Milošević, Soviet Union, Srdja Popovic, Strategic Forecasting, STRATFOR, Tulip Revolution, Ukraine, United States Agency for International Development, USAID, Venezuela, Yugoslavia | 1 Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 25 by BBVM
Filed under: ATF, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, DEA, DHS, DMV, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, FBI, Free Speech, Guns, Immigration, Information, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: democracy, Naomi Wolf | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2009 October 25 by BBVM
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Posted on 2009 October 23 by BBVM
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Drugs, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: CNN, Lou Dobbs, marijuana, medical marijuana, Prohibition, Tim Lynch, War on Drugs | 2 Comments »
Posted on 2009 October 23 by BBVM
Posted on 2009 October 22 by BBVM
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Posted on 2009 October 22 by BBVM
Figure in Bush propaganda operation remains Pentagon spokesman
In Part I of this series, Raw Story revealed that Bryan Whitman, the current deputy assistant secretary of defense for media operations, was an active senior participant in a Bush administration covert Pentagon program that used retired military analysts to generate positive wartime [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 16 by BBVM
In this embedded video from Wednesday night’s program, NewsHour interviews California city council members and activists who want to help improve the state’s budget by legalizing and taxing marijuana.
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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 [...]
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Posted on 2009 October 15 by BBVM
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed two bills this week that were designed to bring greater transparency and accountability to California’s public colleges. This is the latest in a string of actions Schwarzenegger has taken against increased transparency since assuming the governor’s office in 2003.
The first, S.B. 218, overwhelmingly passed the legislature and would have [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: ATF, Censorship, Civil Liberties, Communications, DEA, DHS, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, FBI, Free Speech, Guns, Immigration, Information, Interpol, Media, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Taliban, Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Barack Obama, Harry S. Truman, Korean War, Republican, Joe Biden, Pew Research Center, Clarus Research Group, Stanley A. McChrystal, Douglas MacArthur, Lawrence Eagleburger, Pepe Escobar | Leave a Comment »