December 2011
Montreal police use UV tattoos on arrested #occupy... →
youthiswasted:
An Occupy Montreal protester’s hand is shown under UV light after being marked by police. (Credit: Nina Haigh/Facebook)
Occupy protesters in Montreal were dismayed to find they had been marked by police with a special ink that is only visible in UV light after being arrested during a raid of Victoria Square Friday.
Police told CTV Montreal they borrowed the technique...
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A first-year hedge fund associate explains why... →
think-progress:
Excerpt:
If you aren’t in the .1%, you have no access to the derivatives markets, you have no access to the special deals that hedge funds and other wealthy investors get, and you have no access to the resources, information, strategic services, tax exemptions, and capital that the top .1% is getting.
… I’m a first-year analyst on wall street, and based on what I see day in...
“After the tear gas, many previously non-violent demonstrators turned much more...”
– Ex-Seattle police chief, Norm Stamper, discussing with the BBC the 1999 World Trade Organization protests, the militarization of police departments after 9-11, and using teargas on peaceful Occupy protesters
November 2011
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Researcher’s Video Shows Secret Software on... →
infoneer-pulse:
The Android developer who raised the ire of a mobile-phone monitoring company last week is on the attack again, producing a video of how the Carrier IQ software secretly installed on millions of mobile phones reports most everything a user does on a phone.
Though the software is installed on most modern Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones, Carrier IQ was virtually unknown...
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Media Choreography and the Occupy LA Raid →
futurejournalismproject:
Via Alexis Madrigal, The Atlantic:
During the Los Angeles Police Department’s forcible removal of the Occupy LA protest last night, they chose 12 reporters and photographers to represent the media as a whole. This is called a “media pool”…
…The LAPD deployed this old-school method in a decidedly 20th-century way. First, they didn’t select a single web-based...
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“I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world.”
– ‘Mayor’ Michael Bloomberg — ‘I Have My Own Army’
Deaf, Disabled Senior Citizen on Bicycle Deemed... →
socialismartnature:
If, in the euphemistic police state in which we currently live, pepper-spray is a taco condiment, that would make tasing…what? A joy-buzzing compliance aid? Sure, let’s call it that. Now can someone explain to me why Officer John Turner of Scotland Neck, North Carolina’s police department felt the need to use a joy-buzzing compliance aid on an 61-year-old, disabled man with...
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From New York Magazine's "The Absolute Moron's... →
inothernews:
So Europe, that’s some kind of soccer league, right? Europe is a continent.
Not ringing any bells. It’s the continent that hosted the most recent season of Jersey Shore.
Oh, Europe. Gotcha. But the current crisis mostly affects the seventeen-nation eurozone, a group of countries in Europe that use the same currency, the euro, which is like their version of the dollar.
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Hacking Group TeamP0ison Leaks Email, Passwords...
The e-mail addresses and account passwords for more than one thousand United Nations staff and other users of a UN development Web site were leaked online by the hacking group TeamP0ison, which has been linked to past attacks on governments in the U.S. and India.
The information, comprising was posted to the online file sharing site Pastebin.com on MOnday, along with a message castigating...
BREAKING: 61 senators voted to pass the NDAA,...
thelifetimenetwork:
thebluesader:
a-petro-manifesto:
Any word of if Obama will sign it in?
Are you talking about the guy who kept Gitmo open and authorized the murder of an American citizen in Yemen?
He’s probably warming his pen up now.
I recall reading that he said he wouldn’t
Good thing he has such a solid reputation of doing the things he says
New York Fed Brownshirt Jason Barker Urges Police... →
cultureofresistance:
I’ve deliberately waited a bit before examining the remark of one Jason Barker, an employee of the New York Fed, on a New York Post article that ran the day after the November 17 Occupy Wall Street protests. My initial negative reaction to his comment still holds.
The Post piece itself presented itself as a celebration of police bloodlust, but it was actually more nuanced...
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Alberta oilsands yielding a trove of fossils →
abcsoupdot:
From The Toronto Star:
It’s not just black gold that’s being mined from northern Alberta’s oilsands — the area is also yielding a virtual treasure trove of ancient fossils.
The area, which contains one of the largest proven crude oil reserves in the world, was once covered by an ancient sea.
Maggy Horvath, a heavy equipment operator at Syncrude, unearthed a nearly complete...
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Top 10 Most Censored Stories of 2011 →
mohandasgandhi:
anti-propaganda:
#10 Statistical Games with the Unemployment Rate. At Information Clearing House, Greg Hunter showed that instead of 9%, the real unemployment rate is over 22%. #9 Chemtrails. Atmospheric Geoengineering: Weather Manipulation, Contrails and Chemtrails, July 10, 2010. #8 The Truth on Nuclear Power. The Union of Concerned Scientists published a report describing...
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10 things you should know about International... →
1. One in three women die or are seriously injured as a result of gender-based violence. Violence against women results in more deaths among women ages 15 to 44 than the total number of women who die because of war, malaria, and cancer.
2. An estimated four million women and girls are bought and sold worldwide each year, either into marriage, prostitution or slavery.
3. One out of every six...
“Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear...”
– Bonard W. Overstreet
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President Obama has watered down more... →
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77 elephants have died in a three-month heat wave... →
climateadaptation:
The elephant’s died of thirst…
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Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B →
soupsoup:
The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income...
Assassination attempt on Libyan P.M. →
degadaffinated-libya:
In the Libyan capital Tripoli on Saturday an assassination attempt was made on the Prime Minister of Libya Abdel Rahim al-Kib. Read more
Why Ron Paul’s Racist Newsletters Matter →
idontlikeronpaul:
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/why-ron-pauls-racist-newsletters-matter/
Ron Paul is back in the hunt for the Presidency. Many see him as an appealing candidate, one who opposes the wars, wants drugs legalized and supports fiscal responsibility. What they don’t know, is his long history of racism and connection to white supremacists. He has dodged questions on...
