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Secret Arrests By Police In Wisconsin: Is This Big Brother’s Future For Americans?

Secret Arrests By Police In Wisconsin: Is This Big Brother’s Future For Americans?

| May 22, 2013 | 2 Comments

(Eric Litke)  Police work that has traditionally been conducted in public view is increasingly being shielded, as insurance companies and municipal attorneys throughout Wisconsin push departments to withhold names from reports due to liability concerns. A long-ignored federal privacy law is driving the redactions, interpreted by some municipal leaders to overrule a state public records [...]

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Drone Spies On Kids At Swim Meet In Florida

Drone Spies On Kids At Swim Meet In Florida

| May 22, 2013 | 2 Comments

(NTEB)  This is conspiracy, but not a theory. I saw it with my own eyes. It happened tonight at a children’s swim meet in Northeast Florida. I was watching my children participate in the season-opener swim meet, and it was nearly over, just one more race to go. When, without warning, a drone appeared seemingly [...]

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13 Ways To Know If The Government Is Reading Your Email

13 Ways To Know If The Government Is Reading Your Email

| May 21, 2013 | 1 Comment

(DB Grady, Marc Ambinder)  The National Security Agency is the primary cryptographic and signals-intelligence agency of the United States. To spy on foreign communications, it operates data collection platforms in more than 50 countries and uses airplanes and submarines, ships and satellites, specially modified trucks, and cleverly disguised antennas. It has managed to break the cryptographic [...]

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DHS Training Local Police To Enforce Martial Law

DHS Training Local Police To Enforce Martial Law

| May 20, 2013 | 0 Comments

(Dave Hodges)  Bakersfield, CA resident, David Silva, was executed for being drunk in his own home. He was executed by the Kern County Sheriff’s Department. What happened to Silva was clearly an abuse of power but is representative of what the federal government has in store for all of America in which the people are [...]

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U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect: Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over Civil Disturbances

U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect: Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over Civil Disturbances

| May 15, 2013 | 22 Comments

(Jed Morey)  The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a window into the stunning military-style capabilities of our local law enforcement agencies. For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the United States have benefitted from the government’s largesse in the form of military weaponry and training, incentives offered in the ongoing [...]

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Video: Government Surveillance Plane Hovers Over U.S. Town For Weeks

Video: Government Surveillance Plane Hovers Over U.S. Town For Weeks

| May 13, 2013 | 0 Comments

(Mac Slavo)  According to residents of Quincy, Massachusetts a low flying plane has been hovering over their town non-stop for the last several weeks, leaving many puzzled as to why it’s there. No one in the Federal government is talking, and the FAA says they are aware of the “authorized” flight pattern but are not [...]

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America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A Revenue Generating Surveillance Grid

America’s Roads Have Been Turned Into A Revenue Generating Surveillance Grid

| May 13, 2013 | 2 Comments

(Michael Snyder)  What do speed traps, parking tickets, toll roads, speed cameras and red light cameras all have in common? They are all major revenue sources for state and local governments.  All over America today there are state and local governments that are drowning in debt.  Many have chosen to use “traffic enforcement” as a [...]

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Police State: Black Man Arrrested For Drinking Iced Tea In Parking

Police State: Black Man Arrrested For Drinking Iced Tea In Parking

| May 2, 2013 | 0 Comments

Warning, video contains strong language (Adam Salazar)  A recent YouTube video captured an overzealous security guard accusing a 24-year-old man of drinking alcohol in the parking lot of a liquor store, and then subsequently arresting him. The kicker, of course, was that the 24-year-old was only drinking Arizona brand Half and Half Iced Tea. As [...]

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Sheriff: ‘We Want People To Call Us If Guy Down Street Hates Government”

Sheriff: ‘We Want People To Call Us If Guy Down Street Hates Government”

| May 2, 2013 | 1 Comment

(Dara Kam)  Florida House and Senate budget leaders have awarded Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw $1 million for a new violence prevention unit aimed at preventing tragedies like those in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., from occurring on his turf. Bradshaw plans to use the extra $1 million to launch “prevention intervention” units featuring [...]

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TSA Detains Travelers For Discussing Sandwich

TSA Detains Travelers For Discussing Sandwich

| April 16, 2013 | 0 Comments

(RT)  Using slang at an airport could get you in trouble with the TSA: after a 29-year-old airline passenger described his lunch as “the bomb” – thereby indicating the deliciousness of his sandwich – he was detained, questioned and missed his flight. His lunch was “the bomb,” but the security process was not: Jason Michael [...]

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Seattle Has Been Taken Over By The Department Of Homeland Security

Seattle Has Been Taken Over By The Department Of Homeland Security

| April 14, 2013 | 141 Comments

(Montana Pike Hunter)  I’m writing to you today to bring light to share with you some curious things I noticed this weekend. In order to put them into perspective, I must let you know a little about myself.  I was born in Seattle Washington and moved to Missoula Montana in July of 2001.  I still have [...]

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The DHS Is Turning Into A Mini-Army: A List Of Their 5 Most Shocking Purchases

The DHS Is Turning Into A Mini-Army: A List Of Their 5 Most Shocking Purchases

| April 14, 2013 | 2 Comments

(John Hawkins)  The Department of Homeland Security has alarmed people, including members of Congress like Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.) and Doug LaMalfa (R-Kan.), with the truly massive amounts of militaristic gear that it’s buying. Why does the DHS need enough gear to equip an army on the move? Is there an ominous reason behind it or [...]

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Man Charged With Terrorism For Criticizing School Security

Man Charged With Terrorism For Criticizing School Security

| April 14, 2013 | 0 Comments

(Mr. Conservative)   History has shown us that one of the most dangerous things an individual can have in a totalitarian state is an opinion. In Hitler’s German, Mao’s China, or Stalin’s Soviet Union, it was always the same – have an opinion, go to jail. What’s completely discouraging is that America is starting to be the [...]

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Big Brother: Your iPhone Can Read Fingerprints, Scan Irises & ID Your Face

Big Brother: Your iPhone Can Read Fingerprints, Scan Irises & ID Your Face

| April 13, 2013 | 1 Comment

(Spencer Ackerman)  Cops and soldiers may soon be able to pull out their iPhones to track the eyes, facial features, voice and fingerprints of suspected criminals and combatants. The California-based company AOptix rolled out a new hardware and app package that transforms an iPhone into a mobile biometric reader. As first reported by Danger Room [...]

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Nevada Police To Collect You DNA Under New Law

Nevada Police To Collect You DNA Under New Law

| April 11, 2013 | 0 Comments

(News 3)  The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a measure to collect DNA from anyone arrested on felony charges at the time of arrest. SB243 is also known as “Brianna’s Law,” named after Brianna Denison who was murdered in early 2008. A similar measure failed in 2011. The bill advanced Thursday allows DNA to be [...]

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Maryland Governor Passes Unconstitutional “Rain Tax”

Maryland Governor Passes Unconstitutional “Rain Tax”

| April 11, 2013 | 11 Comments

(Blair Lee)  Consider all the ways we’re taxed. When we’re born (birth certificate), when we die (death certificate), when we make money (income tax), when we spend money (sales tax), when we own property (property tax), when we sell property (capital gains tax), when we go to a concert or ball game (amusement tax), when [...]

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FBI To Spend $100 Million On Ammunition In The Next Five Years

FBI To Spend $100 Million On Ammunition In The Next Five Years

| March 29, 2013 | 0 Comments

(Steve Peacock)  WND recently reported that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has purchased well over a billion rounds of ammunition over the past year. The magnitude of the federal government’s ammunition buildup has made headlines as members of the military, police departments and consumers find shelves bare. But the full impact may yet to be [...]

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Government Mobilizing Armored Trucks In Preparation For Civil Unrest?

Government Mobilizing Armored Trucks In Preparation For Civil Unrest?

| March 26, 2013 | 0 Comments

(Thomas Dishaw)  The southwest region of the United States seems to be a hotbed of Military action lately. First another shipment of bullets has been requested to The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Artesia, New Mexico bringing the total to 600,000 at that facility. Recently an alert citizen in Arizona shot a video of  Military style vehicles [...]

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DHS Preparing For A Total Police State Takeover

DHS Preparing For A Total Police State Takeover

| March 24, 2013 | 3 Comments

(Thomas Dishaw) The Department of Homeland Security, better known as the liberty destroying arm of the Government, is not fiscally responsible or Constitutionally correct. Founded in 2002 as a  response to the Governments false flag attack on 9/11, the Department of Homeland Security has quickly eroded your personal rights at an extremely alarming rate. The [...]

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Government Prosecutes Homeowner For Backyard Chickens That Produce Organic Eggs

Government Prosecutes Homeowner For Backyard Chickens That Produce Organic Eggs

| March 18, 2013 | 2 Comments

( Summer Tierney)  An ongoing debate over the rights of homeowners to raise and keep their own chickens may soon gain an audience in the Virgina Supreme Court. Attorneys at the Rutherford Institute have filed a Petition for Appeal on behalf of Virginia Beach resident Tracy Gugal-Okroy, who faces criminal charges related to zoning ordinance violations [...]

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Man Faces Five Years In Prison For Releasing Balloons On Beach As A Romantic Gesture

Man Faces Five Years In Prison For Releasing Balloons On Beach As A Romantic Gesture

| March 13, 2013 | 2 Comments

(JD Heyes)  We’ve seen it in the movies and perhaps even witnessed it in person, but most of us never realized it was an offense punishable with lots of prison time. When Anthony Brasfield released a dozen heart-shaped balloons into the sky over Dania Beach, Fla., for his his sweetheart, all he wanted was to create the perfect [...]

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Obama Administration To Give Spy Agencies Full Access To Your Finances

Obama Administration To Give Spy Agencies Full Access To Your Finances

| March 13, 2013 | 1 Comment

(Emily Flitter)  The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy agencies full access to a massive database that contains financial data on American citizens and others who bank in the country, according to a Treasury Department document seen by Reuters. The proposed plan represents a major step by U.S. intelligence agencies [...]

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Armed Troopers Raid Home, Confiscation Guns After Mental Health Visit

Armed Troopers Raid Home, Confiscation Guns After Mental Health Visit

| March 12, 2013 | 1 Comment

(Michael B. Marois)  Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying 40-caliber Glock pistols, nine California Justice Department agents assembled outside a ranch-style house in a suburb east of Los Angeles. They were looking for a gun owner who’d recently spent two days in a mental hospital. They knocked on the door and asked to come in. About 45 minutes [...]

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Mother Charged With Terrorism, Ordered To Turn Over Guns After Reading The Constitution Protesting Property Tax Increase

Mother Charged With Terrorism, Ordered To Turn Over Guns After Reading The Constitution Protesting Property Tax Increase

| March 12, 2013 | 1 Comment

(Erica Ritz)  A New Jersey mother was arrested and told to turn over her guns after reading the Constitution and peacefully protesting at a tax dispute forum, she says. Eileen Hart was with her husband Keith and her 7-year-old daughter on Saturday at the Gloucester Community Center to dispute a mandatory home re-evaluation that would roughly [...]

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Michigan School Confiscates 3rd-Grader’s Cupcakes Decorated With Toy Soldiers

Michigan School Confiscates 3rd-Grader’s Cupcakes Decorated With Toy Soldiers

| March 9, 2013 | 0 Comments

(Steve Watson)  The nationwide panic over anything remotely related to guns continues apace as a third grader in Michigan was reprimanded by school officials when he brought a cupcake to school with a plastic toy soldier on top of it. The school allows students to bring cupcakes to class when it is their birthday. However, [...]

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Ready For War: DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks & Army Robots

Ready For War: DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks & Army Robots

| March 6, 2013 | 0 Comments

(Jesse Herman)  The Department Of Homeland Security has been stockpiling weapons and artillery within the United States at alarming rates. They have 1.6 billion bullets on reserve, a 4.5 Million contract with Heckler & Koch and their newest investment comes in the form of 2,700 light-armored tanks. This is not your daddy’s hummer or even monster truck, [...]

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DARPA Scientists Want To Create Database Of All Conversations

DARPA Scientists Want To Create Database Of All Conversations

| March 6, 2013 | 0 Comments

(RT)  Your digital footprint could be getting a whole lot bigger: Pentagon scientists are searching for a way to transcribe every real-world conversation that happens into computer-readable files. Robert Beckhusen of Wired’s Danger Room says it wouldn’t be unlike a real-life Twitter feed or an“email archive for everyday speak.” “Imagine living in a world where every errant [...]

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