Archive for the 'Police State' Category
Debtors’ Prisons: Life Inside America’s For-Profit Justice System
August 17th, 2016Part 1 Part 2
DEA Regularly Mines Americans’ Travel Records to Seize Millions in Cash
August 11th, 2016“Basically, you’ve got to feed the monster.” Via: USA Today: Federal drug agents regularly mine Americans’ travel information to profile people who might be ferrying money for narcotics traffickers — though they almost never use what they learn to make arrests or build criminal cases. Instead, that targeting has helped the Drug Enforcement Administration seize […]
BBC to Spy on Internet Users Watching BBC Without Paying TV Licence Fee
August 5th, 2016Via: Mirror: The BBC is to spy on internet users in their homes – and sniff out those watching iPlayer without paying the TV Licence fee. The Beeb is set to employ Wi-Fi detection vans to prosecute people illegally watching its programmes online. From September the broadcaster will use information from private Wi-Fi networks in […]
British Woman Questioned After Being Seen Reading Book About Syria on Plane
August 4th, 2016Via: Guardian: Free-speech groups have condemned the detention of a British Muslim woman after a cabin-crew member reported her for “suspicious behaviour” while reading a book about Syrian culture on a flight to Turkey. Faizah Shaheen, a psychotherapist in Leeds, was detained by police at Doncaster airport on 25 July, on her return from her […]
Shooting Cops Across America: Guidance from Above
July 18th, 2016Via: Jon Rappoport’s Blog: The protests and the violence started as a response to what has been happening in inner cities: the police killing innocent people. That was the heavily promoted media and political narrative. And cops-killing-innocent-black-people was framed as the biggest problem of inner cities. Preposterous. Cops shooting innocent people in inner cities does […]
CNN Cuts Off Reporter When She Mentions Hillary’s Role in Mass Incarceration
July 14th, 2016Via: CNN:
Disabled Teen Sues TSA, Memphis Airport After Bloody Scuffle
July 11th, 2016Via: CBS: A disabled St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital patient was injured, and then arrested, by security workers at a Memphis International Airport checkpoint, a lawsuit alleges. CBS affiliate WREG-TV reports that 19-year-old Hannah Cohen was flying home to Chattanooga on June 30, 2015, after receiving treatment at Memphis-based St. Jude. Attorneys say Hannah Cohen […]
Tens of Thousands of People Every Year Sent to Jail Based on Results from Ridiculously Flawed Roadside Drug Test
July 8th, 2016“Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them?” The article doesn’t go anywhere near the reason, which is that large Wall Street banks profit from the private gulag system in America: The prison industry as a whole took in over $5 billion in revenue in 2011. According to journalist Matt Taibbi, Wall Street banks […]
Dallas: Multiple Snipers Ambush, Kill 5 Officers, Injure 11
July 7th, 2016Suspect Killed with Explosive Delivered by Robot Via: Los Angeles Times: Police used a “bomb robot” early Friday to kill a gunman after five police officers were killed and seven others wounded in downtown Dallas during a protest over recent police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana, officials said. “We cornered one suspect and we tried […]
Woman Streams Aftermath of Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting
July 7th, 2016The video advice below isn’t just for black people! The few times I’ve had encounters with cops, they have always rested hands on guns and been ready to draw. I’m as white as can be. Just like the guy below says: Keep your hands up on the steering wheel. If the cop asks to see […]
