Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Black Ops Jungle: The Academy of Military Industrial Complex Studies
September 19th, 2007Via: Mother Jones: Dedicated to everything from architecture to sports medicine, “career academies” claim to offer high school kids focus, relevancy, and solid job prospects. Now add a new kind of program to the list: homeland security high. In late August, Maryland’s Joppatowne High School became the first school in the country dedicated to churning […]
Clotheslines in America: The Right to Dry
September 19th, 2007The Farmlet is far, far away from Irvine, California Via: Wall Street Journal It was a sunny, 70-degree day here in Awbrey Butte, an exclusive neighborhood of big, modern houses surrounded by native pines. To Susan Taylor, it was a perfect time to hang her laundry out to dry. The 55-year-old mother and part-time nurse […]
Question Kerry About Skull and Bones Membership, Get Tased
September 18th, 2007Via: Youtube:
Unauthorized Motorcade Drives Into APEC High Security Zone, Punter Emerges from Limousine Dressed as Bin Laden
September 6th, 2007I wonder if they drew straws to see who would have to wear the Bin Laden outfit. Via: news.com.au: ELEVEN members of the ABC’S The Chaser team have been detained by police while performing a prank at Sydney’s InterContinental Hotel, ABC management said today. Among those arrested were on-screen stars Julian Morrow and Chas Licciardello. […]
Joel Salatin and Polyface Farms
August 30th, 2007For me, comprehension of the way industrial scale (including “Organic”) food worked was the last straw. Many aspects of politics and society are disturbing, but toxic—and or long distance—food isn’t some theoretical, far out, future threat. The wolf is at the door. It’s right here, right now. The food issue, more than anything else, drove […]
Behavior Detection Officers in U.S. Airports
August 17th, 2007Facecrime and passports required for domestic travel… Would you like to supersize your freedom fries? Via: msnbc: It was bound to happen. Now even a frown or grimace can get you into trouble with The Man. “Specially trained security personnel†will be watching passengers for “micro-expressions†that will reveal treacherous agendas and insidious intentions at […]
Citizens of States That Rejected RealID: Passports May be Required for Domestic Flights, Visiting National Parks
August 17th, 2007Via: CNN: Americans may need passports to board domestic flights or to picnic in a national park next year if they live in one of the states defying the federal Real ID Act. The act, signed in 2005 as part of an emergency military spending and tsunami relief bill, aims to weave driver’s licenses and […]
U.S. to Expand Domestic Use of Spy Satellites
August 16th, 2007Pigs in Spaaaaaaaaaaace… Via: Wall Street Journal: The U.S.’s top intelligence official has greatly expanded the range of federal and local authorities who can get access to information from the nation’s vast network of spy satellites in the U.S. The decision, made three months ago by Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell, places for the […]
Remember Real ID? Same Shit, Different Card
August 12th, 2007Via: The Times and Democrat: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday he will introduce legislation to replace all paper Social Security cards with plastic biometric cards that can’t be duplicated, so employers can be certain of the legal status of their workers. The South Carolina Republican said Congress must address the out-of-control illegal immigration problem, […]
In China, a High-Tech Plan to Track People
August 12th, 2007I thought the British fascists would have implemented this by now, but it looks like the Chinese fascists are going to try to take the lead. Also note the collusion between the Chinese and American firms. Via: New York Times: At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along streets here in southern China […]
