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Local News | State pushes prescription painkiller methadone, saving millions but costing lives | Seattle Times Newspaper
For the past eight years Washington has steered people with state-subsidized health care — Medicaid patients, injured workers and state employees — to methadone, a narcotic with two notable characteristics. The drug is cheap. The drug is unpredictable.
mapping  drugs  usa  failure  oppression  grimmeathookfuture  methadone 
6 weeks ago by ignatz
info.publicintelligence.net/USArmy-LeadersUW.pdf
A Leader's Handbook to Unconventional Warfare from the US Army JFK Special Warfare Center
usa  military  socom  specialwarfare  oppression  pdf 
11 weeks ago by ignatz
West Virginia Unveils App for Suspicious Activity Reporting | Public Intelligence
"... a new mobile app, that enables West Virginians to submit tips concerning suspicious criminal and terrorist activity, is now available for smartphones."
panopticon  smartphone  oppression  surveillance  usa 
11 weeks ago by ignatz
What the FBI Wants to Hide From You In Their 2011 Gang Threat Assessment | Public Intelligence
gangs are cops, gangs are hooked up with huge gangs, gangs have crazy weapons, gangs are going cyberpunk. yay
crime  lawenforcement  failure  usa  gangs  oppression 
february 2012 by ignatz
Overview - Cyber Technology
"The ultimate rapid response hovering urban aerial vehicle."
surveillance  drones  aircraft  oppression  uav  want 
october 2011 by ignatz
Victor Serge: Repression (1926)
An acquaintance with the methods and proceedings of this police force is of immediate practical interest for every revolutionary; for the defence of capitalism everywhere uses the same tools; and moreover all police forces work together and are similar to each other.
revolution  politics  russia  reference  oppression 
may 2011 by ignatz
Online censorship now bordering on the ridiculous in Turkey - Reporters Without Borders
'access to websites containing words on the list would in theory be suspended and it would be impossible to create new ones containing them. However, it is not clear how and to what extent the directive will be implemented in practice. The TIB could decide to suppress or block pages for just one blacklisted word. ... The list, which borders on the ridiculous, includes words such as “etek” (skirt), “baldiz” (sister-in-law) and “hayvan” (animals).
via:jm  turkey  censorship  oppression  internet  filtering  failure  buttbuttination 
april 2011 by ignatz
New documents: Hitler-mocking dog enraged Nazis
Newly discovered documents have revealed a bizarre footnote to the history of the Second World War: a Finnish mutt whose imitation of the Hitler salute enraged the Nazis so deeply that they started an obsessive campaign against the dog's owner.
dogs  news  nazis  wwii  failure  politics  oppression 
january 2011 by ignatz
Cities and citizenship; fake security and the real thing « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
..."a progressive cordoning by way of which the right of free movement in cities is slowly replaced by a checkpoint mentality, the contours of public space are subtly conditioned by simulations of blast physics, and events like the Olympics or the G20 are used to field-test techniques and strategies of urban control that eventually make their way into everyday policing"
security  sociology  cityplanning  urban  oppression 
july 2010 by ignatz
The J-Walk Blog: Who Wants Nutra-loaf!
recipe for prison punishment food CONFINEMENT LOAF!
oppression  food  recipes  doom  grimmeathookfuture 
january 2010 by ignatz
BBC NEWS | Technology | Snooping through the power socket
Power sockets can be used to eavesdrop on what people type on a computer.
security  news  grid  privacy  doom  oppression 
july 2009 by ignatz
Med Center Official Tried to Silence Vet
Canady's story -- allegations of racial discrimination and a claim that he was twice given an overdose of morphine by a nurse who continues to work at the hospital -- peaked the interest of a local radio reporter who, when he tried to interview Canady, was interrupted by a hospital official.
government  military  oppression  journalism  VA  veterans  news  censorship 
april 2009 by ignatz
Strobe Weapons Go Black After 'Immobilization' Tests | Danger Room from Wired.com
The most ambitious project is the "immobilization device" built by Peak Beam Systems for the U.S. Army. Fitted to a small unmanned helicopter, "the Xenon based searchlight [can] be pulsed with a unique modulation (strobe) effect that results in immobilization to those within the beam," according to a contract announcement.
oppression  bigbrother  doom  weapons  sublethal 
march 2009 by ignatz
Disaster: Students Quarantined in University As Epidemic Unfolds
Apparently there's been an outbreak of cholera, and the local officials dealt with it Resident Evil style: Lock everybody in, give them no information, and see if they survive.
china  failure  cholera  publichealth  epidemic  oppression  health  via:tinymammoth 
november 2008 by ignatz
Supremes Mull Whether Bad Databases Make for Illegal Searches | Threat Level from Wired.com
If a false entry in a database leads to a unconstitutional police search that reveals illegal drugs, does the government get to hold it against you?
usa  privacy  27bstroke6  data  tuttle  buttle  failure  cops  civilrights  oppression 
october 2008 by ignatz
Man charged with encrypting BlackBerrys for drug ring
Not only was he a drug dealer but he was ENCRYPTING BLACKBERRYs! Throw away the key.
crypto  crime  drugs  oppression  usa  blackberry 
october 2008 by ignatz
QIK | Streaming video right from your phone: The uptake
Protestors preemptively arrested in Minneapolis. See handcuffed lawyer for extra fun.
oppression  video  usa  elections  gop  journalism  bigbrother 
september 2008 by ignatz
Terror watchlist "upgrade" is "imploding," legislator says
"Okay guys who has the watchlist open on the shared disk? I have to go home..."
oppression  failure  ha  usa  tsa  dhs  databases  noflylist 
august 2008 by ignatz
Prescription Data Used To Assess Consumers
A "credit score" drawn from your prescription drug use is given to health plans. It's used for risk analysis. Nice.
oppression  healthcare  commerce  villainy  privacy  medical  databases 
august 2008 by ignatz
NASA drone assisting in Big Sur wildfire fight — West Coast 911
As much as it's useful I can't say I'm happy about Predator drones used on US territory.
oppression  aviation  drones  predator  firefighting 
july 2008 by ignatz
AT&T Whistleblower: Spy Bill Creates 'Infrastructure for a Police State' | Threat Level from Wired.com
"Klein saw a network monitoring room being built in AT&T's internet switching center that only NSA-approved techs had access to."
oppression  law  politics  surveillance  telecom 
june 2008 by ignatz
Subtopia: MOUT Urbanism - (Military Operation on Urban Terrain)
Large-scale city simulators for the oppressive occupying armies of the near future
military  architecture  urban  simulation  war  oppression  warfare  via:regine 
february 2008 by ignatz
irrepressible.info
Put a badge on your website that publishes random bits of censored material from all over the world. Neato
censorship  internet  widgets  webtoys  politics  oppression  distributed 
august 2007 by ignatz
TASER XREP
Great, the Taser people are bringing out a wireless "incapacitating" electrical projectile for shotguns.
weapons  oppression  taser  torture  yikes  room101  1984  no 
july 2007 by ignatz
Penn versus TSA
Oldie but goodie. Penn of Penn and Teller versus the national security state. Penn 1, oppression 0.
pennandteller  tsa  oppression  celebs  celebrities  law  1984  homelandsecurity  ha 
april 2007 by ignatz
MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
60s/70s So Cal right wing terrorist group with at least one bombing and assassination attempt
terrorism  usa  nixon  paranoia  70s  california  1972  sandiego  FBI  conspiracy  oppression  COINTELPRO 
march 2007 by ignatz
TSA: Service Animals
TSOs have been trained to not touch the monkey during the screening process.
government  tsa  homelandsecurity  dhs  monkeys  oppression  simians  usa  baddates 
august 2006 by ignatz
Caelesti's Realm
mix two or more, double your oppression
subcultures  subculturebingo  mashups  oppression  what  msngroups 
july 2006 by ignatz
Mini- Gallery of Digital Art by Nigel Ayers
Norman Rockwell-ish art about the wars on terror and drugs
art  drugs  oppression  society  politics  irony  kitsch 
december 2005 by ignatz
Penn Gillette versus the TSA: 11/13/02
The magician stands up for his rights at the airport
politics  civilliberties  oppression  law  humor  fuckyou  1984 
november 2005 by ignatz
LI ZHENSHENG
Photos from the Cultural Revolution in China
china  history  photography  photojournalism  communism  oppression  art 
november 2005 by ignatz
A Menace to Society by Peter Bagge
Four pager comic about medical marijuana oppression
oppression  drugs  bagge  reason  marijuana  warondrugs  law  comics 
august 2005 by ignatz

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