Posted on 2010 December 15 by BBVM
Marijuana has been a cash crop for many years in this country. The only problem is that most of that crop had been grown illegally. Now, that medical marijuana is legal in 15 states and the District of Columbia, legalized marijuana has quickly become so popular it is attracting attention from hedge fund managers and [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, DEA, Drugs, FBI, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: CannBe, Civil Liberties, civil rights, Corruption, Drug Enforcement Administration, fascism, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Gallup Poll, Harborside Health Center, hedge fund, human rights, LSD, marijuana, medical marijuana, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Prohibition, Steve DeAngelo, venture capital | 4 Comments »
Posted on 2010 December 15 by BBVM
Four Queens men claim they were locked up for more than 30 hours by cops seeking revenge on a crowd of men who laughed at an officer who couldn’t catch a fleeing drug suspect. The men insist they didn’t even laugh, says their lawyer Gabriel P. Harvis, who filed suit against the NYPD and 10 [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Drugs, Free Speech, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: 103rd Precinct, Abdul Kabba, Civil Liberties, civil rights, fascism, Gabriel P. Harvis, Hasan Allen, human rights, Isaiah Barnes, Ishmial Deas, Jamaica, marijuana, New York, New York City Police Department, police state, Prohibition, Queens, Rufus King Park | 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 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
[ The idea that a living, breathing human being can be effectively assassinated over a traffic code violation, stinks in a most vile fashion. Mr. Grossich's Facebook memorial page address is http://www.facebook.com/people/Gary-Grossich/100001806082821 Search "high-speed chases" on this site for stats and other info. ] A 22-year-old Bloomington motorcyclist who was killed last night in a [...]
Filed under: Prison Industrial Complex, San Bernardino County, SB Sheriff | Tagged: Billy Green, Bloomington, Fontana, Gary Grossich, high speed chase, police brutality, police state, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department | 5 Comments »
Posted on 2010 November 30 by BBVM
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 30 by BBVM
A medical marijuana collective engaged in a legal battle against Wildomar re-opened its storefront location Monday in defiance of a citywide ban on dispensaries. The move by the Wildomar Patients Compassionate Group comes a week after the collective filed a legal petition seeking to block the city from enforcing its ban. General Manager William Sump [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, DEA, Drugs, MedPot, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex, Riverside County, Riverside DA, Riverside Sheriff | Tagged: Civil Liberties, civil rights, Compassionate Use Act of 1996, Corruption, fascism, Frank Oviedo, human rights, Inland Empire Patients Health and Wellness Center, J. David Nick, Lake Elsinore, marijuana, medical marijuana, Propaganda, Proposition 215, Riverside, Superior Court of California, Temecula, Wildomar, Wildomar City Council, Wildomar Patients Compassionate Group, William Sump, WPCG | 1 Comment »
Posted on 2010 November 30 by BBVM
While in the pool, the officer allegedly inappropriately touched one of the women, according to Michael Jeandron of the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. A Cathedral City Police Department officer, who is accused of stripping off his uniform and jumping into a pool with two women while on duty, has been fired from the department, [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Prison Industrial Complex, Riverside DA | Tagged: Cathedral City, Cathedral City Police Department, Chuck Robinson, John Fox Jr., Michael Jeandron, sexual assault, women | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 November 28 by BBVM
A Danish-British security company has sold torture instruments to the Israeli prisons, holding Palestinians inmates, a Danish newspaper has written. The firm, named G4s, sells the devices to the detention facilities in the occupied West Bank, which provide the necessary means for torture of the Palestinian prisoners, Berlingske Tidende reported on Nov. 23.
Filed under: Censorship, Civil Liberties, Immigration, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Berlingske Tidende, Denmark, G4s, Group 4 Securicor, human rights, Israel, Merav Amir, Palestinian, Palestinian Ministry of Detainees, torture, United Kingdom, West Bank, Who Profits?, youth | 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
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 [...]
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Posted on 2010 November 23 by BBVM
Filed under: ATF, Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, DMV, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, FBI, Free Speech, Guns, Immigration, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Riverside Sheriff, SB Sheriff | Tagged: humor | 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 8 by BBVM
LOS ANGELES – A former Chino prison guard convicted of abusing inmates was sentenced Monday to more than four years in federal prison. Robert McGowan of Bloomington was convicted by a federal jury three years ago in connection with a May 9, 2002, incident in which, prosecutors said, he and two other correctional officer hurled [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Prison Industrial Complex, San Bernardino County | Tagged: Bloomington, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California Institution for Men, Chino, Otis D. Wright II, prisons, Robert McGowan | 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 June 1 by BBVM
DESERT HOT SPRINGS — A security guard at Desert Springs Middle School is behind bars, today, and faces charges that forced sex on a child. Marvin Cash was arrested at his home in Desert Hot Springs by police, and brought in for questioning, Tuesday. He will be transported to the Riverside County Jail, where is [...]
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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 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
OAKLAND, Calif.—Trouble at an amateur boxing match has resulted in the Oakland Police Department being banned from future events.The head of the International Association of Boxing says after a fracas at the Sacramento Radisson Friday night, Oakland police officers will be banned from fights sanctioned by the association until tape of the incident is reviewed. [...]
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Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Guns, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Civil Liberties, civil rights, Constitution, domestic militarization, Gun Control, human rights, police state, self defense | 1 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
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
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
At Tuesday’s Beaumont Unified School District board meeting, trustee Mark Orozco called on his fellow board members to consider a resolution opposing Arizona’s SB1070 immigration law, which he pointed out gives police in that state the right to detain anyone who is suspected of being in this country illegally, or for failing to provide proper [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Education Industrial Complex, Free Speech, Immigration, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Barry Kayrell, Beaumont High School, Beaumont Unified School District, Brian Wood, children, Civil Liberties, civil rights, David Sanchez, fascism, human rights, immigrant, Latino, Marilyn Saucedo, Mark Orozco, Nazism, Peter Herman, police state, racism, San Gorgonio Middle School, SB1070, Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, surveillance, Susie Lara, women, youth | Leave a 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
A former community center manager in San Bernardino’s anti-crime program was sentenced this morning to 28 years in state prison in his child molestation case. Michael Steven Miller, 50, was sentenced according to a plea bargain that he had initiated with prosecutors. As part of that agreement, he admitted in March to 10 felony counts [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Prison Industrial Complex, San Bernardino County, SB City | Tagged: children, Lynn M. Poncin, Master's Plan Church of the Nazarene, Michael Steven Miller, Operation Phoenix, San Bernardino, sexual assault, youth | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 28 by BBVM
A retired Redlands Police Department lieutenant jailed in a 2008 molestation probe posted $100,000 bail over the weekend and was given a July court date. Billy Lee Cranfill, 55, of Redlands, had been held on suspicion of lewd acts with a minor under 14 years old. San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department detectives arrested him Thursday [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Education Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Bill Cranfill, children, Redlands Police Department, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, sexual assault, University of Redlands, youth | 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
TACOMA, Wash. — Tacoma Police Department officials say a Pierce County Sheriff’s Department deputy who fatally shot his in-laws and then killed himself told his teenage daughter as the violence unfolded that it was all the fault of his wife and her parents. Police also revealed Thursday that Deputy Allen Myron‘s wife Sara Myron had [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Allen Myron, Monty Multanen, Pierce County Sheriff's Department, Sara Myron, Sue Multanen, Tacoma Police Department | 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 27 by BBVM
President Obama’s 2010 National Drug Control Strategy uses a multifaceted approach to combat drug abuse and drug use in America’s communities. This Strategy “provides a collaborative and balanced approach that emphasizes community-based prevention, integration of evidence-based treatment into the health care system, innovations in the criminal justice system, and international partnerships to disrupt drug trafficking [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, DEA, DHS, Drugs, Education Industrial Complex, FBI, Immigration, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: children, Civil Liberties, civil rights, fascism, Imperialism, National Drug Control Strategy, police state, Prohibition, racism, War on Drugs, women, youth | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 27 by BBVM
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Drugs, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Privacy | Tagged: Civil Liberties, civil rights, Columbia, human rights, Ken Burton, marijuana, Missouri, Prohibition, War on Drugs | Leave a Comment »
Posted on 2010 May 13 by BBVM
One of the nation’s most sophisticated cannabis testing labs has yielded powerful results this spring, isolating a “low-anxiety” strain of the plant by closely tracking the potency of local crops. The strain of medical marijuana from Oakland’s Harborside Health Center is based on findings from the dispensary’s new Steep Hill laboratory. The strain is a [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, DEA, Drugs, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex | Tagged: Blueberry, Civil Liberties, civil rights, Harborside Health Center, human rights, Legalization Nation, marijuana, medical marijuana, OG Kush, Russ Jones, San Jose Police Department, Steep Hill, Stephen DeAngelo, tetrahydrocannabinol, War on Drugs | 1 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 13 by BBVM
The Billings, Montana, City Council will take up the issue of regulating medical marijuana on Monday night in a meeting expected to be intense in the wake of the firebombings of two of the city’s medical marijuana storefronts in the last two days. The southern Montana city’s dispensaries legally provide marijuana to medical patients who [...]
Filed under: ATF, Civil Liberties, DEA, Drugs, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: Big Sky Patient Care, Billings, Billings City Council, Billings Police Department, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Civil Liberties, civil rights, fascism, human rights, Kevin Iffland, marijuana, medical marijuana, Montana, Montana Therapeutics | 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
For the first time in over 18 years, Congress has held hearings on the use of Corporal Punishment in U.S. Schools. In the coming weeks, Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (NY) will introduce a bill to institute a federal ban of corporal punishment in all US Schools. Every 20 seconds of the school day, a child is [...]
Filed under: Civil Liberties, Education Industrial Complex, Military Industrial Complex, Prison Industrial Complex, Religion Industrial Complex | Tagged: American Psychological Association, Anthony David Adams, Carolyn McCarthy, Center for Effective Discipline, children, Civil Liberties, civil rights, Committee on the Rights of the Child, corporal punishment, Department of Education, human rights, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, National Association of School Nurses, torture, United Nations, violence, youth | Leave a Comment »