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Archive for the Month of October, 2005.
Viewing Police State / Military NEWS articles 1 through 66 of 66.
- The Bush administration has been using an extreme version of an obscure doctrine called the Unitary Executive Theory to justify executive actions that far exceed past presidents' power... - The FBI would not say how often these mistakes happen. And, though any incriminating evidence mistakenly collected is not legally admissible in a criminal case, there is no way of knowing whether it is used to begin an investigation.
- The Army is closing the books on one of the leanest recruiting years since it became an all-volunteer service three decades ago, missing its enlistment target by the largest margin since 1979 and raising questions about its plans for growth. - ARMY TO TAKE CONTROL DURING NATIONAL CRISES
- How did francisella tularensis (tularemia), a deadly bacteria, show up on the Washington Mall precisely at the time one of the largest antiwar demonstrations in U.S. history was underway?
- During this afternoon's White House press conference President Bush confirmed that he would attempt to impose military curfews and quarantines in case of a flu pandemic occurring in the United States. - Australia just became a place where a citizen can be detained for two weeks without charge, and where a person convicted of no crime at all can be forced to wear an ankle bracelet that continuously broadcasts their movements to an unknown watcher for up to a year. - On Thursday, two days before the march, the military conducted some sort of top secret exercise in the DC area; Bush and others cleared out of DC for the weekend; The CDC has found tularemia in filters placed around the Mall on Sept 24 and 25.
- Devices capture everything you ever type, then can send it via your ethernet card to the Dept. of Homeland Security without your knowledge, consent or a search warrant each time you log onto the internet! - "The US military might have to quarantine areas of the United States if there was a serious outbreak of the deadly avian flu." - Attorneys for the activists say the raids are the latest in a series of intimidation tactics used by federal prosecutors in their ongoing investigation. - A Pakistani-American who served four years in the United States Air Force as munitions personnel was beaten and brutalized by right-wing students and campus police last Thursday at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. - Legislation allowing military recruits to enter service up to age 42 and to create a new $1,000 finder’s fee for service members who tip off recruiters to good prospects has received tentative approval in the Senate.
- Could proposed new intelligence-gathering powers for the Pentagon lead to spying on U.S. citizens? The question is being asked as the White House considers new roles for the military inside America's borders.
- To require soldiers to serve as a police force, especially during the very tense periods that frequently follow natural disasters, would result in unnecessary conflicts. And fatalities would likely be commonplace.
- by Michel Chossudovsky - Militarization of Public Health; Multibillion Financial Bonanza for the BioTech Conglomerates - The shirt had pictures of members of the Bush Administration, and a phrase based on the movie "Meet the Fockers," but with one crucial vowel changed.
- According to a draft of the recommended change in state law, every woman in Indiana seeking to become a mother through assisted reproduction therapy such as in vitro fertilization, sperm donation, and egg donation, must first file for a "petition for parentage" in their local county probate court. Only women who are married will be considered for the "gestational certificate" that must be presented to any doctor who facilitates the pregnancy. - One student "had taken a photo of George Bush out of a magazine and tacked the picture to a wall with a red thumb tack through his head. Then he made a thumb’s down sign with his own hand next to the President’s picture, and he had a photo taken of that, and he pasted it on a poster." - ... two separate "preliminary" tests done at a local lab confirmed tularemia, but a third "conclusive" test sent to a Center for Disease Control [CDC] lab turned up negative. - For years, governments all over the world have secretly been collaborating with the high-end color laser printer industry in order to track the origin of every color copy made.
- Florida is the new California in terms of excitement. But it may not be the kind of excitement tourists had in mind, according to this article from Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine, unless of course they are looking for a good old fashioned shoot-out. - Connecticut libraries lost an emergency Supreme Court appeal on Friday in their effort to be freed from a gag order and participate in a congressional debate over the Patriot Act.
- New generation of microwave and laser weapons set to transform crowd control techniques - New evidence suggests US & Russia are embroiled in an illegal race to harness the power of hurricanes & earthquakes
- George Orwell, who imagined the ultimate dystopia more than 50 years ago, wouldn’t be surprised at developments in today’s technology-saturated workplaces. - IBM...filed a patent application in 2001 which contemplates using this wireless snooping technology to track people as they roam through ''shopping malls, airports, train stations, bus stations, elevators, trains, airplanes, rest rooms, sports arenas, libraries, theaters, museums, etc." An IBM spokeswoman insisted the company isn't really prepared to go this far. Patent applications are routinely written to include every possible use of a technology, even some the company doesn't intend to pursue. Still, it's clear somebody at IBM has a pretty creepy imagination.
- Some form of twisted logic has the people believing they are defeating the "terrorists" by doing absolutely nothing and allowing the authorities to trample all over their civil liberties. - Two New Orleans police officers repeatedly punched a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication, and another city officer assaulted an Associated Press Television News producer as a cameraman taped the confrontations. - How do legally manufactured AK-47 bullets get into the hands of mercenaries and child soldiers? Their journey tells us much about the modern world... - The Fight for Free Speech at Union Square
- Hutchinson-Central Technical High School automatically enrolls freshmen in Jr. ROTC. But parents may keep their children out of the program by signing a statement. Some parents and the New York ACLU say that the process of opting out, in effect, makes the program compulsory, mandatory and illegal.
- Chips that track boxes on trucks and ships soon may be sophisticated enough to monitor every move of consumers... - Is it possible the police—increasingly militarized, trained in SWAT-tactics, often toting automatic weapons instead of sidearms—are not serving our interests at all and are in fact serving the interests of the sociopaths who pass themselves off as our rulers? - Filipino security officials said they were unaware of the presence of the US ship. Nothing on its bow identified what class the vessel was, except a US flag hoisted on the deck.
- by Michel Chossudovsky - The Road towards Martial Law
- Ron Paul says indictment story is far more damaging than media is portraying, avian flu martial law provisions aimed at gun confiscation - One major focus will involve identifying a larger active-duty force that will be organized and trained to respond immediately...to a domestic crisis... - Called the "Hugs and Kisses" infant protection system, manufactured by VeriChip, this tracking technology involves a tiny RFID (radio-frequency identification) radio transmitter that is placed on the baby's ankle.
- The US has announced the creation of a new intelligence agency led by the CIA to co-ordinate all American overseas spying activities
- Driving to work, you notice the traffic beginning to slow. And because you have your cell phone on, the government senses the delay, too. - Being poor is a big hazard when it comes to mistreatment by police officers and the legal system. So is being a person of color.
- Looking back at the Bali bombing and new whistleblowers - "Underground democracy movements ... will always need the anonymity of simple paper documents, but this technology makes it easier for governments to find dissenters...Even worse, it shows how the government and private industry make backroom deals to weaken our privacy by compromising everyday equipment like printers."
- Want to keep your DNA out of the hands of the government? Think your DNA is too private to be forced to give to government bureaucrats to analyze, catalog, share, retain indefinitely and possibly abuse? Tough luck. - The "final mission" is two-fold: destruction of nation-states, and establishment of a New Age global-socialist New World Order.
- We now have a Homeland Defense organization that has ever-reaching powers over the citizenry and a blank check to, if not shackled by law, become our version of the Geheime Staatspolizei-the Gestapo or Secret State Police
- ...with Congress restoring nearly all of the PATRIOT Act's sun-setting provisions to their scorching, oppressive noon day glory, the time has come to ask ourselves—has freedom finally fallen to the fatalistic tandem of fear and security? - The Pentagon paid $20 each for plastic ice-cube trays that once cost 85 cents.
- The FBI has conducted clandestine surveillance on some U.S. residents for as long as 18 months at a time without proper paperwork or oversight... - The separation of the power of declaring war from that of conducting it, is wisely contrived to exclude the danger of its being declared for the sake of its being conducted. - The Militarization of "Civil Society" Relief Organizations - Pot Smokers Arrested In America At A Rate Of One Every 41 Seconds
- US military experts are attempting to create an army of super-human soldiers who will be more intelligent and deadly thanks to a microchip implanted in their brains.
- All US passports will be implanted with remotely readable computer chips starting in October 2006, the Bush administration has announced. - Dozens of active and former soldiers have abused their military uniforms and authority in a drug smuggling ring, government sources tell ABC News. - One wonders how curbing the freedom of every man, woman and child in this country better prepares us for the next catastrophe.
- The teenager was standing on the side of the road holding a sign that said “F*ck Bush”.
- It’s all part of a classified military exercise slated to begin November 1, an exercise that, with the inclusion of North Korea and a terrorist attack in the United States, suggests up-to-the-minute relevance - Another month, another nuclear drill. Will it go live?
- Please take sensible precautions on Saturday the 5th November 2005 - ...in the quest for national security, Americans are subjected to ubiquitous surveillance, the loss of our right to privacy, and the abridgement of personal liberties, who is going to protect us from our own government?
- Kent State Administration Threatens Iraq Veteran with Expulsion for Counter-Recruitment Protest - "Rummy Flu" - Skills acquired playing video games put to use with real weapons
- The school she was protesting -- originally called the School of the Americas -- is now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
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