How Public Schools Keep Your Child a Prisoner of the State

Karen De Coster LewRockwell.com January 31, 2012 Public education, in its current state, is based on the idea that government is the “parent” best equipped to provide children with the values and wisdom required to grow into intelligent, functional adults. To echo what former first lady Hillary Clinton professed, these public school champions believe “it [...]

‘Predictive policing’ could come to UK

Nigel Morris The Independent January 26, 2012 A pioneering technique to predict crime before it happens could be imported from the United States to this country, a senior British police chief said yesterday. Pilots of the scheme – under which officers are dispatched to crime hotspots identified by computer – have had early success in [...]

DNA sample to be taken from students before allowed to take SAT college entrance exams

Thursday, January 26, 2012 by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer (NaturalNews) Standardized testing is a common method by which colleges and universities evaluate the competency of applying high school students. But an increasing amount of students are cheating on such tests, which has caused lawmakers in New York to consider actually harvesting “digital DNA” from students [...]

Investigation Underway After Man, 76, Injured In Police Custody

(Photo Credit: KDKA) PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -Was a 76-year-old man beaten by police during a traffic stop? Ruffing was stopped by police on Waddell Avenue because a man in his car was wanted by police. “His injuries were facial fractures which included the orbital bone, the maxillary sinus. He also ended up with inner-cranial bleeding. He [...]

DOJ Wants to Know Who’s Rejecting Your Friend Requests

BY JENNIFER LYNCH, Electronic Frontier Foundation In the latest turn in our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for records related to the government’s use of social networking websites, the Department of Justice finally agreed to release almost 100 pages of new records. These include draft search warrants and affidavits for Facebook and MySpace and [...]

No Trial, No Doctor, No Judge: Man Held in Solitary Confinement 2 Years After DWI Gets $22M

By Greg Wilson A man who spent two years in solitary confinement after getting arrested for DWI was awarded $22 million for suffering inhumane treatment in New Mexico’s Dona Ana County Jail. Stephen Slevin was arrested in August of 2005 for driving while intoxicated, according to NBC station KOB.com. He said he never got a [...]

3-D Facial Scans Being Sold To The Public Under The Guise That It Could Help Children

Shock Docs: Total Federalization of Police Under New Homeland Security Mission

Mission Creep: DHS Agency Abandons Fighting Terrorism, Shifts to Hiring Police, Taking Over America Aaron Dykes Infowars.com January 24, 2012 A new white paper presented to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence carves out an ‘evolving mission’ for Homeland Security that moves away from fighting terrorism and towards growing a vast domestic intelligence apparatus [...]

The Cato Institute Fact Checks Obama’s State of the Union Speech

10 to the Chest: Cops Murder Man with ‘Electrical Bender’ at Carl’s Jr.

The Intel HubJanuary 24, 2012 A man shot dead outside a Los Angeles Carl’s Jr. fast food chain by trigger happy cops (unfortunately) sets the stage for more of what is to come with the looming economic collapse. This is a sign of the times as people (some more desperate than others) will sometimes go [...]

Federal Judge Says States Not Allowed to Regulate Nuclear Safety

Noel Brinkerhoff, David Wallechinsky All Gov January 25, 2012 The state of Vermont’s effort to shut down a nuclear power plant has been halted by a federal judge who ruled officials exceeded their authority. In 2010, the State Senate voted 26-4 to cause the 40-year-old Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, which has leaked radioactive material, [...]

Google Admits It Will Track Everything Its Users Do, No Opt Out

January 25th, 2012 In other words, Google now admits doing things that Cryptogon readers have known it has been doing for about a decade: Tracking everything. Via: Washington Post: Google said Tuesday it will follow the activities of users across e-mail, search, YouTube and other services, a shift in strategy that is expected to invite [...]

Idiot Politicians Propose Regulating Oil Companies With ‘Reasonable Profits Board’

by Christopher Helman, Forbes Staff In a scene straight out of Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged,” a group of congressmen have submitted a bill that would create a “Reasonable Profits Board” to regulate how much profit oil and gas companies are allowed to make. The board would consist of three members, appointed by the President of [...]

Department of Justice Misdirection on Cloud Computing and Privacy

Cindy Cohn & Katitza Rodriguez EFF Does using cloud computing services based in the United States create a risk of US law enforcement access to people’s data? The US Department of Justice (DOJ) seems to be trying to placate international concern by saying one thing in international fora; but it says something quite different quite [...]

LA Military Exercises

David Perez KFI News January 24, 2012 Joint military training exercises will be held evenings in downtown Los Angeles through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The LAPD will be providing support for the exercises, which will also be held in other portions of the greater Los Angeles area, police said. Training sites [...]

Fascism For Dummies

Pete Kofod The Dollar Vigilante January 24, 2012 Here at TDV fascism is frequently referred to as the increasingly prevalent form of government in the West. We recognize that this conjures strong emotions and we often get a few angry emails voicing displeasure with our characterization of their homeland. We understand that the word fascism [...]

Is The NYPD Experimenting With Drones Over The City? Evidence Points To Yes

CBSNewYork January 24, 2012 They’re used in war zones for surveillance and military strikes. But are there plans to deploy drones in the Big Apple to keep an eye on New Yorkers? More and more people believe it’s inevitable, reports CBS 2’s Don Dahler. Drones are unmanned aircraft that can fly at low altitudes and [...]

Stalinist Stanford “Visiting Scholar” Wants Search Engines to Warn People About Websites That Contain Conspiracy Theories, Browsers Should Flag Information That Does Not Conform to Mainstream Views

Via: Slate: Well, perhaps, it’s time to accept that many of these communities aren’t going to lose core members regardless of how much science or evidence is poured on them. Instead, resources should go into thwarting their growth by targeting their potential—rather than existent—members. Today, anyone who searches for “is global warming real” or “risks [...]

MegaUpload Loses Top Lawyer After ‘Outside’ Pressure

by Ernesto, TorrentFreak A few days after top lawyer Robert Bennett announced he would defend MegaUpload vigorously in their upcoming trial, he has been forced to withdraw from the case. A source says that this drastic decision was made because the case conflicts with the interests of another client of Bennett’s law firm Hogan Lovells. [...]

Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops

American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case. Judge Robert Blackburn ordered a Peyton, Colo., woman to decrypt the hard drive of a Toshiba laptop computer no later than February 21–or [...]