kellyramsey + police-state 93
How to Fund an American Police State (aka Weaponizing the Body Politic) (Stephan Salisbury | Fabius Maximus)
12 weeks ago by kellyramsey
" With Occupy protesters gearing up for a spring resurgence, Salisbury spells out just what activists will be up against — think unmanned drones, tanks, and super-sophisticated surveillance systems from New York City to Scottsbluff, Nebraska — in the months ahead. "
police-state
Occupy
protest
12 weeks ago by kellyramsey
Homeland Security Given Green Light to Monitor American Journalists (The Blaze)
january 2012 by kellyramsey
by way of Russia Today, but... " Under the National Operations Center (NOC)’s Media Monitoring Initiative that emerged from the Department of Homeland Security in November, Washington has written permission to collect and retain personal information from journalists, news anchors, reporters or anyone who uses “traditional and/or social media in real time to keep their audience situationally aware and informed.” "
journalism
police-state
protest-policing
from iphone
january 2012 by kellyramsey
Visibility before all (The Economist)
january 2012 by kellyramsey
" When all citizens are potential reporters, they risk being treated as journalists. "
journalism
police-state
from iphone
january 2012 by kellyramsey
Obama signs defense bill despite 'reservations' (Julie Pace, AP)
december 2011 by kellyramsey
Implicit: "My or a future administration *could* authorize the indefinite detention without trial of American citizens"
police-state
from twitter
december 2011 by kellyramsey
The TSA confiscated a cupcake. Can you really make a bomb from frosting? (Brian Palmer, Slate Magazine)
december 2011 by kellyramsey
All I'm saying is that this precious cupcake fad needs to end and at this point I don't much care how.
terrerrerr
police-state
from twitter
december 2011 by kellyramsey
Cops Tear Down House to Get Suspect (NBC Los Angeles)
april 2011 by kellyramsey
The demolition drone the cops will use to smash your house / compound / collective / vegan potluck
police-state
from twitter
april 2011 by kellyramsey
Architecture Matters (Julian Sanchez @ Cato)
september 2010 by kellyramsey
" A few decades ago, intelligence agents might have found it convenient to compare a list of everyone reading unsavory publications with a list of people who share group memberships with a suspicious number of subjects already under investigation — but they would have had no practical way of doing so. Now it is not only feasible, but inundated telecom providers and profit-seeking contractors are racing to find plug-and-play solutions that make the process ever cheaper and easier. "
police-state
september 2010 by kellyramsey
Are Cameras the New Guns? (Wendy McElroy, Gizmodo)
june 2010 by kellyramsey
"In response to a flood of Facebook and YouTube videos that depict police abuse, a new trend in law enforcement is gaining popularity. In at least three states, it is now illegal to record any on-duty police officer. Even if the encounter involves you and may be necessary to your defense, and even if the recording is on a public street where no expectation of privacy exists."
police-state
police-monitoring
june 2010 by kellyramsey
Scenes From a Crackdown (Radley Balko, Reason)
october 2009 by kellyramsey
"A number of police departments from across the country came to Pittsburgh to help police the summit, and nearly all were dressed in paramilitary garb. In one widely-circulated video from the summit, several police officers dressed entirely in camouflage emerge from an unmarked car, apprehend a young backpack-toting protester, stuff him into the car, and then drive off. It evoked the sort of "disappearance" one might envision in a Latin American junta or Soviet Block country."
police-state
october 2009 by kellyramsey
Secretive U.S. Prison Units Used to House Muslim, Animal Rights and Environmental Activists (Will Potter @ GreenIsTheNewRed)
april 2009 by kellyramsey
"The government is using secretive prison facilities on U.S. soil, called Communication Management Units, to house inmates accused of being tied to “terrorism” groups. They overwhelmingly include Muslim inmates, along with at least two animal rights and environmental activists."
police-state
april 2009 by kellyramsey
Mo. Panel's Report Links Immigration To Abortion (2006) (David A. Lieb, Washington Post)
november 2008 by kellyramsey
BREED FOR THE FACTORY (Would you like to know more?)
abortion
framing
police-state
november 2008 by kellyramsey
Students Quarantined in University As Epidemic Unfolds (Annalee Newitz, IO9)
november 2008 by kellyramsey
"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. But one woman student has been blogging about the ongoing ordeal, posting pictures and giving status updates several times a day."
police-state
China
november 2008 by kellyramsey
Quova Powers WikiWatcher Suite of Wikipedia Monitoring Tools (Market Wire)
october 2008 by kellyramsey
"WikiScanner2 applies Quova's IP geolocation data to tracking anonymous edits in Wikipedia. Once edits are made, Quova data can provide data about the IP address of the editor including the ISP, top-level and second-level domain, city and state. Quova is also able to detect proxies and anonymizers, commonly used to mask location online, to better identify a user."
privacy
police-state
october 2008 by kellyramsey
Bush's Constitution-Lite Zone (John Taplin)
october 2008 by kellyramsey
ACLU: "The border, however, has always been an exception. There, the longstanding view is that the normal rules do not apply. For example the authorities do not need a warrant or probable cause to conduct a “routine search.” ... What we found is that fully TWO-THIRDS of the United States’ population lives within this Constitution-free or Constitution-lite Zone. That’s 197.4 million people who live within 100 miles of the US land and coastal borders."
police-state
october 2008 by kellyramsey
Report: Nonlethal Weapons Could Target Brain, Mimic Schizophrenia (Sharon Weinberger, Wired)
february 2008 by kellyramsey
report: "it seems possible that this technology could be developed to the point where words could be transmitted to be heard like the spoken word, except hat it could only be heard within a person's head."
torture
police-state
february 2008 by kellyramsey
Homeland Security Getting Flashlight Weapon For Law Enforcement (Brandi Hitt, Los Angeles CBS13)
february 2008 by kellyramsey
"You see green, white, and after a while it becomes very blurry. I didn't feel sick, but I could not tell where the operator was standing at one point. I also saw blotches in my vision, which stayed with me for about a half hour after the test."
police-state
february 2008 by kellyramsey
The CIA's Campus Spies (David H. Price, Counterpunch)
february 2008 by kellyramsey
"PRISP students study chemistry, biology, sociology, psychology, anthropology and foreign languages without their fellow classmates, professors, advisors, department chairs or presumably even research subjects knowing that they are working for the CIA"
police-state
academia
february 2008 by kellyramsey
U.S. Eyes 'Pain Beam' for Home Security, Law Enforcement (David Hambling, Wired)
december 2007 by kellyramsey
"the mfgr is exploring domestic U.S. uses, like industrial- and home-security systems... some U.S. law enforcement officials are eager to get their hands on the pain weapon, and the DoJ is funding a multimillion-dollar research project to give it to them"
police-state
december 2007 by kellyramsey
Joe Klein: Both factually false and stuck in the 1980s (Glenn Greenwald @ Salon)
november 2007 by kellyramsey
"For... its own credibility, Time Magazine needs immediately to prohibit Joe Klein from uttering another word about the eavesdropping and FISA controversy. He simply doesn't know what he's talking about and he publishes demonstrably false statements."
journalism
police-state
failure
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Here Come the Thought Police (Ralph E. Shaffer, R. William Robinson @ Baltimore Sun)
november 2007 by kellyramsey
"While Ms. Harman denies that her proposal creates “thought police,” it defines “homegrown terrorism” as “planned” or “threatened” use of force to coerce the government or the people in the promotion of “political or social objectives"
police-state
november 2007 by kellyramsey
A "Paper Coup," and Blackwater Eyes Midtown Manhattan (Naomi Wolf @ Huffington Post)
november 2007 by kellyramsey
batshit, stream-of-consciousness, go-back-on-the-meds crazy
police-state
cranks
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Pioneering 'heat wave' gun may be used in Iraq (Philip Sherwell, Jacqui Goddard, Telegraph)
november 2007 by kellyramsey
"Col Hymes said that all ADS operators were given a six-week training course that covered sophisticated crowd control techniques as well as handling the technology."
police-state
Iraq
november 2007 by kellyramsey
A 'battlefield of the mind' in Iraq (Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times)
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Yes, now the US military is brainwashing detainees. "Teachers, clerics, psychologists and other specialists use the Koran to moderate inmates' views, and provide counseling and basic education"
police-state
religion
Iraq
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Georgian police accused of brutality (RussiaToday @ YouTube)
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Bookmarked mostly for the US training and the DARPA-esque "sonic gun": "TV pictures showed officers and soldiers using a range of weapons to disperse crowds, including rubber bullets, tear gas and a sonic gun."
police-state
future
november 2007 by kellyramsey
How to profit from a 'police state' (Jon Markman, MSN Money)
november 2007 by kellyramsey
"There are ways for cynical investors to make a buck off the new world disorder, and that is by considering investments in companies that supply security guards, build and staff prisons, and run psychiatric hospitals."
police-state
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Garrison America (Samuel Bowles & Arjun Jayadev)
november 2007 by kellyramsey
"Samuel Bowles and Arjun Jayadev estimate that America devotes about a quarter of its labor force to conflicts over dividing up the pie rather than producing it - far more than other nations,"
police-state
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Sen. Hagel says U.S. draft may be unavoidable (Leslie Reed, Omaha World-Herald)
november 2007 by kellyramsey
"Sen. Chuck Hagel, speaking to an audience of Lincoln High School students, warned Tuesday that the nation may need to turn to compulsory military service "or some kind of draft" to support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
military-service
police-state
Iraq
Afghanistan
november 2007 by kellyramsey
Iran tightens screws on internal dissent (Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times)
june 2007 by kellyramsey
"Those who damage the system under any guise will be punished," Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei declared in April... He accused women and student groups of attempting to overthrow the government under the guise of civil society movements"
Iran
police-state
june 2007 by kellyramsey
Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency (Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive)
may 2007 by kellyramsey
"In a new National Security Presidential Directive, Bush lays out his plans for dealing with a “catastrophic emergency.” Under that plan, he entrusts himself with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch."
police-state
may 2007 by kellyramsey
FBI denies investigating UCI (Ron Campbell, Orange County Register)
may 2007 by kellyramsey
"FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said the agent followed a "suspicious" truck onto campus. She said the truck "had the signage painted over and no visible license plates.""
UC-Irvine
police-state
may 2007 by kellyramsey
Tensions rise again at UC Irvine (H. G. Reza, Los Angeles Times)
may 2007 by kellyramsey
"FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said the agent was "in the course of an investigation that brought him to the campus" but declined to elaborate."
UC-Irvine
police-state
may 2007 by kellyramsey
FBI actions at UCI questioned (Marla Jo Fisher, Orange County Register)
may 2007 by kellyramsey
"Nearly a year after a top FBI official said the agency does not monitor students at UCI, police are investigating an incident in which a Muslim student says he was threatened by a federal agent."
UC-Irvine
police-state
may 2007 by kellyramsey
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law (Frank Morales @ Toward Freedom)
october 2006 by kellyramsey
"Public Law 109-364... allows the President to declare a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take control of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the governor or local authorities"
police-state
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Pentagon shows anti-war database's scope (New York Times)
october 2006 by kellyramsey
"Dozens of alerts on anti-war meetings and peaceful protests appear to have remained in the database even after analysts had decided that they posed no threat to military bases or personnel."
police-state
social-movements
TIA
october 2006 by kellyramsey
Video: BBC hidden cam shows China selling prisoners' organs (Raw Story)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"An undercover investigation by BBC News finds that China has a flourishing trade of organs from executed prisoners. China is becoming the destination of choice for rich foreigners in need of organ transplants."
China
police-state
mass-killing
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Sources: August terror plot is a 'fiction' underscoring police failures (Nafeez Ahmed, Raw Story)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, has suggested that the police and government story about the "terror plot" revealed on 10th August was part of a "pattern of lies and deceit.""
propaganda
terrorism
police-state
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Canadian wrongfully kidnapped, tortured, panel finds (Lindsay Beyerstein @ Majikthise)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"The American policy of extraordinary rendition poses an ethical dilemma for Canadian officials. Is it ethical to pass along inconclusive or fragmentary evidence... knowing that these tips might get one of your citizens kidnapped and tortured?"
torture
police-state
september 2006 by kellyramsey
TD Blog Interview with Dr. Steven Miles (@ The Talking Dog)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
S.M.: "Indeed in most cases, torture is used by authoritarian regimes with the intent of destroying civil society. To this end, journalists, activists, lawyers, teachers, students, labor organizers, and intellectuals are its primary targets."
torture
police-state
anti-intellectualism
september 2006 by kellyramsey
A New, Computer-Generated Voice (Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
China struggles with censorship and the suppression of online dissent. Meanwhile, various pissants in the West fret about not having 24-7 broadband access to free non-DRMed music and video.
censorship
police-state
China
unrest
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Airports – a symbol of freedom – have become dehumanizing (Blair Kamin @ Chicago Tribune)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
With enough sunlight, headroom, windows, and collaboration from architects, perhaps any amount of social control can feel tolerable - even refreshing. Just look at Saudi Arabia.
police-state
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Official: Test nonlethal weapons in U.S. (Lolita C. Baldor, AP)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"Domestic use would make it easier to avoid questions in the international community over any possible safety concerns, said Wynne. ... the [Air Force] isn't likely to spend more money on development until injury issues are reviewed by medical experts"
police-state
september 2006 by kellyramsey
Plan gains to publicly identify accused (Toledo Blade)
september 2006 by kellyramsey
"would allow sex offenders to be publicly identified and tracked EVEN IF THEY'VE NEVER BEEN CHARGED WITH A CRIME. ... the person would be subjected to the same registration and community notification requirements and restrictions on where he could live."
police-state
demagoguery
BuSab
september 2006 by kellyramsey
The Incredible Shrinking Bomb Plot (Kevin Drum @ Washington Monthly)
august 2006 by kellyramsey
""Mounting" evidence? Shouldn't we already have lots of evidence after over a year of intensive surveillance? WTF is going on here?"
propaganda
terrorism
police-state
august 2006 by kellyramsey
Groundhog Day (James K. Galbraith @ The Nation)
august 2006 by kellyramsey
"So far as we know at this point, no bombs have been found. No chemicals. No equipment. No labs. No testing ground. Maybe this will come out later, but it hasn't so far, even though the authorities seem anxious to tell just about everything they know."
police-state
propaganda
terrorism
august 2006 by kellyramsey
"Wait, Aren't You Scared?" (John Rogers @ Kung Fu Monkey)
august 2006 by kellyramsey
"BE AFRAID!! Oh God, the Brown Bad people could strike any moment! ... AAGAGAHAHAHHAG! Quick, do whatever we tell you, and believe whatever we tell you, or YOU WILL BE KILLED BY BROWN PEOPLE!! PUT DOWN THAT SIPPY CUP!!"
damn-straight
propaganda
police-state
terrorism
august 2006 by kellyramsey
The UK Terror plot:: what's really going on? (Craig Murray)
august 2006 by kellyramsey
"Both in desperate domestic political trouble, they longed for "Another 9/11". The intelligence from Pakistan, however dodgy, gave them a new 9/11 they could sell to the media. The media has bought, wholesale, all the rubbish they have been shovelled."
police-state
propaganda
journalism
terrorism
august 2006 by kellyramsey
Zimbabwe Eyes Plan to Spy on Citizens (Terry Leonard, AP)
july 2006 by kellyramsey
"Parliament plans to debate proposals next month to empower the secret police to eavesdrop on mail, e-mail and phones without any court approval."
Zimbabwe
privacy
police-state
july 2006 by kellyramsey
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites (Paul Marks, New Scientist)
june 2006 by kellyramsey
"New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks."
public-identity
police-state
TIA
june 2006 by kellyramsey
China 'selling prisoners' organs' | BBC News
april 2006 by kellyramsey
"The British Transplantation Society says an accumulating weight of evidence suggests the organs of thousands of executed prisoners in China are being removed for transplants without consent."
China
police-state
mass-killing
april 2006 by kellyramsey
More Sinister Than A Wicker Basket | Warrenellis.com
april 2006 by kellyramsey
I knew it! Skeleton farms.
China
police-state
mass-killing
april 2006 by kellyramsey
Online sexual material is obscene if any community in US objects | Boing Boing
march 2006 by kellyramsey
Your Internet has an "off" button, too.
police-state
march 2006 by kellyramsey
Japan's Rich Buy Organs from Executed Chinese Prisoners | Independent
march 2006 by kellyramsey
next up: skeleton farms
China
police-state
mass-killing
march 2006 by kellyramsey
Concentration Camp for Falun Gong Disclosed; Prisoners Killed for Organ Harvesting | Indymedia Ireland
march 2006 by kellyramsey
Any confirmation from other than IMC and Falun Gong? No, the Epoch Times doesn't count.
China
police-state
mass-killing
march 2006 by kellyramsey
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