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The United States of SWAT?
Military-style units from government agencies are wreaking havoc on non-violent citizens. Regardless of how people feel about Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s standoff with the federal Bureau of Land Management over his cattle’s grazing rights, a
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Gulag Amerika- It’s Already Here
For those who've read Gulag Archipelago by A.I. Solzhenitsyn, they know that the term 'gulag' is not a 'prison' in the sense citizens of the USA understand what a prison to be; large buildings
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Torture becomes mainstream in US policy
As Rebecca Gordon notes in her new book, Mainstreaming Torture, polls find greater support in the United States for torture now than when Bush was president. And it's not hard to see why
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Police State America Local Government Style
We do not have to wait for a Constitutional Convention for America to be robbed blind when it comes to their liberties and freedoms. Americans do not have to wait for some rogue President
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WATCH: Is your phone now a weapon? Police illegally take cellphone, claim it is dangerous…
The Supreme Court has ruled that citizens have the Constitutional right to record law enforcement– but that message apparently hasn’t reached Lee County, Florida. While being detained but not under arrest at a traffic
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More Torture Pics: Torture by U.S. continues under Obama administration
We have been hearing all the gush about how the Obama Administration will make a clean break from the illegal practices of the Bush Administration but the Obama DOJ is maintaining the position espoused
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Microsoft Windows Enters The Internet of Things Surveillance Matrix
Following other behemoth tech companies IBM, AT&T and Google, Microsoft has finally come along to state their intentions for promoting The Internet of Things. Where Google sees adding robotic intelligence to every home, and the
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Yes, you are under surveillance
In "private" online forums, at malls, and even at home, someone is tracking you SHARON AND BILAL couldn't be more different. Sharon Gill is a 42-year-old single mother who lives in a small town in
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CIA Torture and the Threat of Dictatorship
Only one conclusion can be drawn from the report published in the Washington Post Tuesday giving grisly details of CIA torture of prisoners and systematic lying by government officials to cover it up: the
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U.S. confirms warrantless searches of Americans
The Obama administration has conducted warrantless searches of Americans' communications as part of the National Security Agency's surveillance operations that target foreigners located outside of the U.S., the administration's top intelligence official confirmed in
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Yes, Your Xbox Can Spy on You
Kinect has lots of military and intel uses The Microsoft Kinect is a powerful technology many gamers fear will be used to spy on them while they play Call of Duty. This betrays a lack of
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Police State…70 Year Old Man Arrested for Having Colorado Plates
An Idaho State Trooper pulled over a 70-year-old man solely because he had Colorado plates on his car, prompting the driver to sue the officers and the state for license plate profiling. The
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How Much Microsoft Charges the FBI for User Data
It's no mystery that government agencies compel tech companies to give them (totally legal) access to user data. It's also pretty well known that the tech companies charge the government for the trouble. We've
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Elon Musk And Mark Zuckerberg Have Invested $40 Million In A Mysterious Artificial Intelligence Company
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla's Elon Musk are investing $40 million into an artificial intelligence company called Vicarious alongside actor and tech investor Ashton Kutcher, reports the Wall Street Journal
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NSA System Can Record an Entire Country’s Calls for 30 Days at a Time
Remember all that business about the NSA saying it only collects phone metadata? Yeah, that's not true. Not only can the NSA listen in on foreigners' phone calls. It can record "every single" conversation
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Police State: Massive Car To Car Warrantless Search In DC Region
The ‘Police State’ in America officially exploded into the DC Capitol Region as hundreds of cars were stopped in a massive roadblock and a warrantless car to car search ensued for alleged bank robbers
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg lashes out at Obama over NSA spy program
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg shared harsh words for United States President Barack Obama on Thursday amid ongoing complaints from the tech community about the administration’s role with regards to the internet
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Big Brother Surveillance – It Is Not Just For Governments Anymore
Traditionally, when we have thought of “Big Brother technology” we have thought of government oppression. But these days, it isn’t just governments that are using creepy new technologies to spy on all of
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Lights, Camera, Arrested: Americans Are Being Thrown in Jail for Filming Police
Once again, the U.S. government is attempting to police the world when it should be policing its own law enforcement agencies. We’ve got a warship cruising the Black Sea, fighter jets patrolling the Baltic
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Police State: Ohio Man Jailed for 13 Days…You’ll Never Believe Why
An Ohio high school student training to be an EMT was charged with a felony and sent to jail for 13 days because police found a pocketknife during an unauthorized search of his car. Jordan
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