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Video Exposing Google CEO Schmidt Censored by You Tube
June 19, 2011
Google-owned You Tube has sensationally censored a video clip showing CEO Eric Schmidt at the 2011 Bilderberg Group conference, by removing the “honors” associated with the Alex Jones Channel and preventing the clip from going viral, while You Tube has also threatened to terminate the account altogether after baseless accusations of racism were made against an Obama Joker video for the second time. Google chief Eric Schmidt betrayed his notorious disregard for online privacy in 2009 when he told...
June 19, 2011
Google-owned You Tube has sensationally censored a video clip showing CEO Eric Schmidt at the 2011 Bilderberg Group conference, by removing the “honors” associated with the Alex Jones Channel and preventing the clip from going viral, while You Tube has also threatened to terminate the account altogether after baseless accusations of racism were made against an Obama Joker video for the second time. Google chief Eric Schmidt betrayed his notorious disregard for online privacy in 2009 when he told...
You’re Going to Need a Warrant For That, Officer
June 16, 2011
Last year Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old U.S.-born citizen, found a strange device attached to his car. When he posted a photo of it online, the FBI showed up at his home two days later. They wanted their GPS tracking device back. The FBI had been tracking Afifi’s movement for months without his knowing about it. Moreover, the agency did so without a warrant and apparently based on the flimsy rationale that his friend wrote a blog they felt was questionable. This type of warrantless tracking seems...
June 16, 2011
Last year Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old U.S.-born citizen, found a strange device attached to his car. When he posted a photo of it online, the FBI showed up at his home two days later. They wanted their GPS tracking device back. The FBI had been tracking Afifi’s movement for months without his knowing about it. Moreover, the agency did so without a warrant and apparently based on the flimsy rationale that his friend wrote a blog they felt was questionable. This type of warrantless tracking seems...
“Fast and Furious” a “Catastrophic Disaster”
June 15, 2011
As a follow up to Monday’s hearing on a government program intended to track weapons and Mexican drug cartels, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee continued its inquiry today. The Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) program “Operation Fast and Furious" allowed gun stores near the Mexican border to sell semiautomatic weapons in bulk to "straw purchasers" and then track their journey. Many of the guns were linked to crimes, including the killing of a Border Patrol...
June 15, 2011
As a follow up to Monday’s hearing on a government program intended to track weapons and Mexican drug cartels, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee continued its inquiry today. The Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) program “Operation Fast and Furious" allowed gun stores near the Mexican border to sell semiautomatic weapons in bulk to "straw purchasers" and then track their journey. Many of the guns were linked to crimes, including the killing of a Border Patrol...
Schools May Punish Students for Off-Campus, Online Speech
June 14, 2011
Public schools may discipline pupils for their online speech spoken off-campus, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in two long-running cases testing student speech in the online world. However, in the cases decided Monday, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Pennsylvania school districts overreacted and breached the First Amendment rights of two students by disciplining them for mocking their principals online, using computers that were off campus. 4790
June 14, 2011
Public schools may discipline pupils for their online speech spoken off-campus, a federal appeals court ruled Monday in two long-running cases testing student speech in the online world. However, in the cases decided Monday, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Pennsylvania school districts overreacted and breached the First Amendment rights of two students by disciplining them for mocking their principals online, using computers that were off campus. 4790
Hunt for Man Who Violated Parole, Fired at Police Turns into Domestic Terror Propaganda
June 14, 2011
Once again, the government and the corporate media are busy at work trying to portray anti-government activists as murderous terrorists. “Montana authorities are on a manhunt for an ‘extremely dangerous’ former militia leader who triggered a shootout with cops and fled into the wilderness with a cache of weapons,” reports the NY Daily News. “David Burgert, 47, a former head of a violent anti-government militia group, traded gunfire with Missoula County deputies along a logging trail...
June 14, 2011
Once again, the government and the corporate media are busy at work trying to portray anti-government activists as murderous terrorists. “Montana authorities are on a manhunt for an ‘extremely dangerous’ former militia leader who triggered a shootout with cops and fled into the wilderness with a cache of weapons,” reports the NY Daily News. “David Burgert, 47, a former head of a violent anti-government militia group, traded gunfire with Missoula County deputies along a logging trail...
F.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds
June 13, 2011
WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing...
June 13, 2011
WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing...
Curfew call: Teens face being locked indoors after 9pm to reduce crime
June 12, 2011
A town with the worst youth crime in England and Wales may slap a curfew on all youngsters - and teenagers could face being locked indoors at 9pm every night. One in every 130 child aged 16 and 17-year-olds in the Merthyr Tydfil has been taken into custody in a year, the highest rate in England and Wales. A leader on one of the most crime-riddled estates in the Valleys town wants a curfew to keep all under-16s kept indoors at night - before they turn to crime. 4680
June 12, 2011
A town with the worst youth crime in England and Wales may slap a curfew on all youngsters - and teenagers could face being locked indoors at 9pm every night. One in every 130 child aged 16 and 17-year-olds in the Merthyr Tydfil has been taken into custody in a year, the highest rate in England and Wales. A leader on one of the most crime-riddled estates in the Valleys town wants a curfew to keep all under-16s kept indoors at night - before they turn to crime. 4680
Post A Picture That ‘Causes Emotional Distress’ And You Could Face Jailtime In Tennessee
June 9, 2011
Over the last few years, we've seen a troubling trend in various state laws which attempt to come up with ways to outlaw being a jerk online. Many of these are based on politicians and/or the public taking an emotional reaction to something bad happening after some does something online that angered someone else. Of course, while it would be nice if jerks would go away or jerky behavior would cease, that's just not realistic. The real issue is: how can it be constitutional to outlaw being a jerk?...
June 9, 2011
Over the last few years, we've seen a troubling trend in various state laws which attempt to come up with ways to outlaw being a jerk online. Many of these are based on politicians and/or the public taking an emotional reaction to something bad happening after some does something online that angered someone else. Of course, while it would be nice if jerks would go away or jerky behavior would cease, that's just not realistic. The real issue is: how can it be constitutional to outlaw being a jerk?...
Tenn. law bans posting images that “cause emotional distress”
June 9, 2011
A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to "transmit or display an image" online that is likely to "frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress" to someone who sees it. Violations can get you almost a year in jail time or up to $2500 in fines. 4708
June 9, 2011
A new Tennessee law makes it a crime to "transmit or display an image" online that is likely to "frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress" to someone who sees it. Violations can get you almost a year in jail time or up to $2500 in fines. 4708
Chicago State’s Attorney Lets Bad Cops Slide, Prosecutes Citizens Who Record Them
June 8, 2011
When Chicago police answered a domestic disturbance call at the home of Tiawanda Moore and her boyfriend in July 2010, the officers separated the couple to question them individually. Moore was interviewed privately in her bedroom. According to Moore, the officer who questioned her then came on to her, groped her breast and slipped her his home phone number. Robert Johnson, Moore's attorney, says that when Moore and her boyfriend attempted to report the incident to internal affairs officials at the Chicago...
June 8, 2011
When Chicago police answered a domestic disturbance call at the home of Tiawanda Moore and her boyfriend in July 2010, the officers separated the couple to question them individually. Moore was interviewed privately in her bedroom. According to Moore, the officer who questioned her then came on to her, groped her breast and slipped her his home phone number. Robert Johnson, Moore's attorney, says that when Moore and her boyfriend attempted to report the incident to internal affairs officials at the Chicago...
