UK: Police take DNA from schoolchildren WITHOUT parental consent in murder case April 19, 2012 Print Version Source: Daily Mail Police hunting the murderer of a 13-year-old girl in California have taken DNA swabs from students at a her former school in an effort to nail her killer in a crime that has baffled [...]
Source: Ap MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — Police in Georgia handcuffed a kindergartner after the girl threw a tantrum and the police chief defended the action. The girl’s family demanded Tuesday that this central Georgia city change policy so that other children aren’t treated the same way. They say the child was shaken up by being put [...]
Georgia signs welfare drug-testing bill into law April 17, 2012 Print Version Source: RawStory Georgia’s Governor Nathan Deal has signed House Bill 861 into law, a controversial measure which will require drug testing of all applicants for public assistance, according to the Associated Press. The Social Responsibility and Accountability Act was passed by the [...]
Human-Made Earthquakes Reported in Central U.S. April 18th, 2012 Via: Reuters: The number of earthquakes in the central United States rose “spectacularly” near where oil and gas drillers disposed of wastewater underground, a process that may have caused geologic faults to slip, U.S. government geologists report. The average number of earthquakes of magnitude 3 or [...]
Web freedom faces greatest threat ever, warns Google Founder. April 15, 2012 Print Version Source: Guardian Threats range from governments trying to control citizens to the rise of Facebook and Apple-style ‘walled gardens’ The principles of openness and universal access that underpinned the creation of the internet three decades ago are under greater threat than [...]
UAE Signs Deal to Integrate National IDs Into Mobile Phones April 15, 2012 Print Version Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation The United Arab Emirates signed a dealwith telecommunications company, Etisalat, to embed citizens’ national ID information into mobile phones. They will now be exploring a system that would utilize an NFC or Near Field Communication application, [...]
Tobacco Farmers Claim Monsanto, Philip Morris and Other U.S. Tobacco Giants Knowingly Poisoned Them, Causing “Devastating Birth Defects” in Their Children April 11th, 2012 Via: Courthouse News Service: Monsanto, Philip Morris and other U.S. tobacco giants knowingly poisoned Argentinean tobacco farmers with pesticides, causing “devastating birth defects” in their children, dozens of workers claim [...]
LA police fire 90 rounds at fleeing, unarmed teen April 13, 2012 Print Version Source: RawStory A Los Angeles teen was killed by a hail of police gunfire on Wednesday night after eight officers fired 90 rounds in total as he appeared to point an object at them, according to The Associated Press. Police [...]
Jailing Americans for Profit: The Rise of the Prison Industrial Complex April 13, 2012 Print Version By John W. Whitehead “Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today—perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850. In truth, there are more black [...]
‘Proposed ‘Natural Health Products Bill’ in New Zealand Would Fine Individuals $50,000 for Making a Cup of Unapproved Herbal Tea’ April 12th, 2012 I tried to determine if one could theoretically wind up on the wrong side of this thing for producing, for example, one’s own chamomile tea. The following is from Natural Health [...]
Explosive: Monsanto ‘Knowingly Poisoned Workers’ Causing Devastating Birth Defects April 11, 2012 Print Version Anthony Gucciardi BlacklistedNews.com In a developing news piece just unleashed by a courthouse news wire, Monsanto is being brought to court by dozens of Argentinean tobacco farmers who say that the biotech giant knowingly poisoned them with herbicides and pesticides and subsequently caused ”devastating [...]
Goldman Sachs Gets Lousy £25,000 Fine For Manipulating Oil Prices April 10, 2012 Print Version Source: Higgins Blog In another example of the two tiered justice system for the globe’s financial elite, Goldman gets a measly £25,000 fine after getting caught manipulating oil prices. If a Muslim were caught doing this it would be [...]
Netflix creates pro-SOPA super-PAC April 9, 2012 Print Version Source: RT As United States lawmakers continue to consider anti-piracy legislation in Congress, they’ve found an ally in Netflix. Now the streaming content giant has created its own super PAC, whose main goal is to promote SOPA-like legislation. Hollywood and record industry support didn’t help [...]
UK To Impose ‘Green Taxes’ On Home Improvements April 9, 2012 Print Version Source: London Telegraph Millions of home owners will be forced to pay hundreds of pounds more to build conservatories or replace broken boilers because of “green taxes” to be introduced from October. New regulations proposed by the government will prevent people making [...]
Tax Bill Is Beginning of Formal Debt Criminalization April 8, 2012 Print Version Anthony Wile Daily Bell The United States Congress is steadily headed to a place where those who owe money to the US government shall be treated criminally. This phenomenon is advancing domestically and now, increasingly, internationally. The first shot in this [...]
