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Over the years, the American Central Intelligence Agency has gained a reputation for being the most far-reaching, sophisticated, and effective government intelligence agency on the planet. At the same time, the CIA has also become known for its incredible paranoia and propensity to undertake costly, sometimes illegal, and often downright absurd projects in the name [...]
Source: Wired
CIA director Leon Panetta got into hot water with Congress, after he revealed an agency program to hunt down and kill terrorists. A recent report from the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations University argues that the CIA didn’t go far enough (.pdf). Instead, it suggests the American government should set up something like a [...]
Source: Information Week
Businesses are increasingly looking to social media to monitor and manage their brands online. U.S. intelligence agencies now have similar capabilities as part of their technology portfolios.
In-Q-Tel, the investment firm established by the CIA to support U.S. intelligence agencies, has invested in Visible Technologies, a start-up that monitors social media content on the [...]
Source: Therearenosunglasses’s Weblog – Mark Thomas
I was sent the now notorious “police spotter card” through the post. It’s an official laminated card for “police eyes only” and labelled as coming from “CO11 Public Order Intelligence Unit”. The card contained the photographs of 24 anti-arms trade protesters, unnamed but lettered A to X. My picture appeared [...]
Source: Contra Costa Times
Armed officers in full battle gear will be scattered throughout the Bay Area this weekend, rescuing hostages, fighting bank robbers and quelling terrorism at the Oakland Airport, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, the NASA Ames Research Center and 22 other high profile sites.
There will be the sound of gunfire and blasts — all part [...]
By Matthew Moore
Published: 1:43PM BST 22 Oct 2009
A hand-picked team from CO19 will carry Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns in gun crime hotspots Photo: PA
A hand-picked team from CO19, the Metropolitan Police’s elite firearms unit, will walk the beat in gun crime hotspots where armed gangs have turned [...]
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Britain: Man Arrested for Shining Flashlight at Apache Helicopter Hovering Over His House
October 21st, 2009
Via: BBC:
A man who was arrested after he shone a torch at an Apache attack helicopter flying “10ft” above his garden will not be charged, police have said.
Torben Merriott, 63, of Stradbroke, Suffolk, was arrested on “suspicion of “acting in [...]
Mom Arrested for Washing Kid’s Mouth With Soap
A Florida couple is behind bars for some old school discipline
By [...]
DHS Video Portrays Average Americans As Terrorists
Owning gold or firearms, donating to charity, finding out information about things all constitute suspicious activity to be reported to the authorities
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
A new video produced in association with the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI and narrated by former Denver [...]
Source: videogames.yahoo.com
The next step in the War on Terrorism?
Nervous flyers, beware: a Department of Homeland Security-funded project is investigating whether Wii Fit Balance Boards might be good ways to detect signs of tension or unease in airport security lines.
As somewhere over 20 million Wii Fit owners know, the Balance Board can detect [...]
By Paul Joseph Watson
Man who both approved and covered-up government slaughter of 76 people, including 20 children, will lead move to establish international model of law enforcement
UN and Interpol officials will meet today to discuss the formation of a “global police force” that would enjoy access to a worldwide database of DNA, biometric and fingerprint [...]
NEW YORK (AP) – A teenager trying to get into his apartment after school is confronted by police. A man leaving his workplace chooses a different route back home to avoid officers who roam a particular street.
These and hundreds of thousands of other Americans in big cities have been stopped on the street by [...]
A south suburban Chicago police officer was caught on a security camera beating up a high school special education student, CBS2 reports.
Marshawn Pitts, 15, was walking down his school hallway when he says a Dolton, Ill. police officer went from berating him for his untucked shirt to slamming him to the ground and beating him.
“The [...]
Source: Reason – Radley Balko
So as it turns out, even the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has its own SWAT team.
You don’t need to know. You can’t know.” That’s what Kathy Norris, a 60-year-old grandmother of eight, was told when she tried to ask court officials why, the day before, federal agents had subjected her [...]
Daniel Tencer
Raw Story
Sunday October 4th, 2009
‘Where you at?’ officer allegedly asked as suspect lay under squad car
The police department in Pensacola, Florida, has suspended an officer who allegedly attempted to Taser a suspect from inside his squad car before running the man over, resulting in the suspect’s death, news reports say.
Officer Jerald Ard has [...]
AP – Los Angeles Police chief William Bratton talks to the media during a news conference introducing iWatch,
Associated Press | Oct 3, 2009
by Eileen Sullivan And P. Solomon Banda
DENVER – A store clerk’s curiosity about why Najibullah Zazi was buying large quantities of beauty supply products indicated that something about the transaction wasn’t quite right [...]
Source: New Scientist
THE Pentagon’s efforts to develop a beam weapon that can deter an adversary by causing a burning sensation on their skin has taken a step forward with the development of a small, potentially hand-held, version. The weapon, which is claimed to cause no permanent harm, could also end up being used by police [...]
Exposed: American Police Force Is A Blackwater Front Group
APF web page admits it runs Blackwater-controlled U.S. Training Center, proving that the two organizations are one and the same
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, October 1, 2009
UPDATE: The American Police Force website page which clearly states that they run the Blackwater-controlled U.S. Training Center is back [...]
Now this video is a bit difficult to explain. It appears that police took an arrested protester, made him kneel in front of them, and then took a group picture in Pittsburgh.
From my own protest cases, I can confirm that police departments will often take a picture with arresting officers for purposes of creating [...]
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