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New Device Allows Cops to Download All of Your Smartphone Activity in Seconds
New Device Allows Cops to Download All of Your Smartphone Activity in Seconds (ANTIMEDIA) New York — “Any person who operates a motor vehicle in the state shall be deemed to have given consent to field testing of his or her mobile telephone and/or personal electronic device for the purpose of determining the use thereof […]
Lawmaker Who Pushed Bill to Protect People Filming Police Arrested for Filming Police
Lawmaker Who Pushed Bill to Protect People Filming Police Arrested for Filming Police An Arkansas State representative who helped pass a state law protecting people who film police was arrested Monday while filming Little Rock police as they put a black man in handcuffs after a traffic stop. The charges against Rep. John Walker have […]
Fed Up With The Corruption: Mexico on Brink of Revolution
Fed Up With The Corruption: Mexico on Brink of Revolution (COMMONDREAMS) The Mexican government’s deadly crackdown on a teacher’s union protest has rattled the nation in recent days, as 200,000 doctors on Wednesday joined the ongoing national strike against President Enrique Peña Nieto’s neoliberal reforms. Anti-government sentiment is mounting after police forces opened fire on a teacher protest […]
The Supreme Court Just Created a Full-Blown Police State – The End of the USA Cannot Be Far Behind
The Supreme Court Just Created a Full-Blown Police State – The End of the USA Cannot Be Far Behind The Supreme Court ruling in Utah v Strieff awarded the police total freedom to stop any citizen, at any time, to do whatever they desire. The Supreme Court determined that the “poisonous fruit” of a police officer’s […]
May Day rallies turn violent in Europe, Turkey as police & protesters clash (VIDEOS)
May Day rallies turn violent in Europe, Turkey as police & protesters clash (VIDEOS) German police use pepper spray against right-wing protestors during a demonstration in the town of Plauen, Germany, May 1, 2016 © Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters Thousands have taken to the streets globally to mark International Workers’ Day. In several European countries […]
Federal Court Rules You Can Be Arrested Simply for Filming the Police
Federal Court Rules You Can Be Arrested Simply for Filming the PoliceFederal Court Rules You Can Be Arrested Simply for Filming the Police (ANTIMEDIA) Philadelphia, PA — A federal court in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has ruled that filming the police without a specific challenge or criticism is not constitutionally protected. The cases of Fields v. City […]
Neofeudalism vs. Socialism
Neofeudalism vs. Socialism QUESTION: Martin, Your grasp (and evidently the computer’s) of historical forces–the Shakespearen drama of it all–is awesome. But you seem more worried about possible socialism than neofeudalism, in which he rich take us back to the Middle Ages. Why? And which way do you think it will go, or a third way? […]
Militarizing Police Does Not Serve Or Protect Canadian Citizens
Militarizing Police Does Not Serve Or Protect Canadian Citizens This week, we learned that the Toronto Police Service will be ordering C8 carbine semi-automatic assault rifles for front-line police officers. The assault rifles, produced by arms manufacturer Colt Canada for the Canadian Forces, will cost $2,500 each, and will be in patrol cars on the streets […]
Meet “Beware” – The New Police Tool That Data Mines Your Life
Meet “Beware” – The New Police Tool That Data Mines Your Life As officers respond to calls, Beware automatically runs the address. The searches return the names of residents and scans them against a range of publicly available data to generate a color-coded threat level for each person or address: green, yellow or red. Exactly […]
Data-Grabbing ‘Stingrays’ Are Attacking Our Civil Liberties
Data-Grabbing ‘Stingrays’ Are Attacking Our Civil Liberties Carolina K. Smith MD / Shutterstock A recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed that Michigan police have been using portable cellphone tracking devices—so-called Stingrays and Kingfish among them—to investigate crimes since 2006. These devices are designed to imitate cell phone towers in order to gather metadata from […]
U.K. Police ‘to Be Given Powers to View Everyone’s Entire Internet History’
U.K. Police ‘to Be Given Powers to View Everyone’s Entire Internet History’ Ministerio TIC Colombia / CC BY 2.0 British police are to be given the power to view the entire Internet history of everyone in the U.K. in a new surveillance bill to be published next week, reports say. Under the proposed plan, telecoms and Internet […]
Attacks On the Press Escalate Ahead of Turkish Elections
Attacks On the Press Escalate Ahead of Turkish Elections ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, Turkish riot police stormed the offices of Koza Ipek Holding, a media group in Istanbul housing the Bugun TV channel and the Bugun and Millet newspapers. “Dear viewers,” a Bugun TV anchor casually announced during the early morning broadcast, “do not be surprised if you see police in […]
Japanese police drag away elderly protesters as work starts on controversial US airbase (VIDEO)
Japanese police drag away elderly protesters as work starts on controversial US airbase (VIDEO) Protesters lie on the ground as they try to block work on a contentious U.S. air base in front of the gate of the U.S. Marine Corps Camp Schwab in Nago on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, in this photo […]
German police deploy water cannon as far-right, antifascists rally in Cologne
German police deploy water cannon as far-right, antifascists rally in Cologne © Ruptly Thousands rallied in Cologne on Sunday as supporters of the ‘Hooligans against Salafists’ far-right group and their left-wing opponents took to the streets. Police had to deploy a water cannon in an attempt to control the counter-protest. Law enforcers had earlier sought […]
Things Are Getting Scary: Global Police, Precrime and the War on Domestic ‘Extremists’
Things Are Getting Scary: Global Police, Precrime and the War on Domestic ‘Extremists’ Are you afraid that the government is plotting to confiscate your firearms? Do you believe the economy is about to collapse and the government will soon declare martial law? Do you display an unusual number of political and/or ideological bumper stickers on your car? If you answered […]
