Archive for the 'Police State' Category
COVID-911: From Homeland Security to Biosecurity
September 12th, 2020Via: Corbett Report: 9/11, as we were told repeatedly in the days, weeks, and months after the attack, was the day that changed everything. And now a new event has come along to once again throw the world into chaos. But whereas the post-9/11 era introduced America to the concept of homeland security, the COVID-19 […]
The COVID-19 Pandemic Keeps Proving Deadly to Liberty
September 12th, 2020Via: Reason: As the pandemic rages on, nominally free countries are sliding down a path blazed by authoritarian regimes. This week, the British government announced limits on gatherings of people who don’t live together to groups of no more than six. Although the restriction seriously attacks freedom of assembly, it barely raised an eyebrow in […]
Australia Flies Journalists Out of China After Questioning by State Security Officials
September 9th, 2020The irony is incredible. Who will fly the Australian journalists experiencing late night police shakedowns… out of Australia? Via: CBC: Two Australian foreign correspondents were flown out of China for their safety after being questioned by China’s state security ministry, the Australian government said on Tuesday. The correspondents for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and […]
U.S. Government Asks Mitre Corp to Build Creepy Surveillance Technologies
September 7th, 2020Via: Forbes: Among the government’s wilder Mitre orders: a prototype tool that can hack into smartwatches, fitness trackers and home thermometers for the purposes of homeland security; software to collect human fingerprints from social media websites like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for the FBI; support in building what the FBI calls the biggest database of […]
Florida: Pasco County Sheriff Terrorizes Citizens
September 3rd, 2020Via: Tampa Bay Times: Deputies gave the mother of one teenage target a $2,500 fine because she had five chickens in her backyard. They arrested another target’s father after peering through a window in his house and noticing a 17-year-old friend of his son smoking a cigarette inside. As they make checks, deputies feed information […]
Australia: Pregnant Woman Arrested and Handcuffed in Front of Her Two Children Over a Facebook Post About Lockdown Protest
September 2nd, 2020Via: Daily Mail: A pregnant woman has been arrested in her own home over a Facebook post allegedly inciting anti-lockdown protest in Victoria. Zoe Buhler, 28, was handcuffed in her lounge room in front of her children and partner on Wednesday afternoon and charged with incitement. Several officers entered the house in Miners Rest, Ballarat, […]
Total Media Freakout Over CDC COVID-19 Death Statistics
September 1st, 2020Via: Ron Paul: Over the weekend the Centers for Disease Control dropped a bombshell report on coronavirus/Covid deaths: of the approximately 165,000 “Covid deaths” less than ten thousand died from Covid. The rest – a vast majority – had on average 2.6 serious additional diseases, with the addition in most cases of extreme advanced age. […]
Police Across Canada Are Using Predictive Policing Algorithms
September 1st, 2020Via: Vice: Police across Canada are increasingly using controversial algorithms to predict where crimes could occur, who might go missing, and to help them determine where they should patrol, despite fundamental human rights concerns, a new report has found. To Surveil and Predict: A Human Rights Analysis of Algorithmic Policing in Canada is the result […]
“Ketamine That’s Injected During Arrests”
August 23rd, 2020Via: AP: On Monday, it will have been a year since McClain, 23, was stopped by officers responding to a 911 call about a suspicious person wearing a ski mask and waving his arms. Police put him in a chokehold twice and multiple officers pressed their body weight into him. Paramedics were called and injected […]
Security Leak Reveals Chinese Government Surveillance of More Ethnic Minorities
August 17th, 2020Via: Sky News Australia:
