FOX News Two southeast companies that make U.S. military uniforms are shedding hundreds of jobs, as the government looks to federal inmates for the fatigues. American Power Source makes military clothing in Fayette, Ala., but its government contract expires in October. Federal Prison Industries – which also operates […]
By Adam Gopnik Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss.
Mother Jones By James Ridgeway A Kentucky inmate is admitted to the hospital. Click here to see more of Tim Gruber’s great photos from inside a prison nursing unit.
Perhaps stoners should consider pan-secessionism. By Paul Armentano More Americans and local politicians than ever before are demanding an end to marijuana prohibition — but for change to happen, we need federal officials to start listening. July 10, 2012 |
By Laurence Vance Introduction to Laurence M. Vance, The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom (Vance Publications, 2012), xvi + 103 pgs., paperback, $9.95. This is not a book about the benefits of drugs; this is a book about the benefits of freedom. I neither use […]
CNN Tunisian women protest Tuesday, October 2, in front of a courthouse in Tunis where a young woman faces charges of indecency by two police officers accused of raping her.
Affiliate KTVK reports on a student fighting felony assault charges resulting from a high school food fight. Watch the video.
Business Insider The Obama Administration will argue today that warrantless tracking of the location of Americans’ mobile devices is perfectly legal, Declan McCullagh of CNET reports. In 2010 a court ruled against government requests for mobile location data, declaring that “[c]ompelled warrantless disclosure of cell site data violates the […]
From Just Khaotic. Bloke sounds like their perfect candidate. _______________ You would expect that the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) would do good background checks on its prospective employees. But this doesn’t appear to be the case, after it was determined that the organization hired a priest who’d been […]
By Jessica Testa Photo by @daneyvilla. Via: instagram.com About 650 people protested a major Walmart distribution center Monday in Elwood, Illinois, the Chicago Tribute reports. At Walmart contractor Roadlink, workers have been on strike since mid-September, claiming unsafe working conditions and unfair wages. From the movement’s website: No […]
Should be viewed after taking a look at Vince’s recent article. Video referenced:
Video from YouTube user Gisela Valentin appears to show a police officer punching a woman after the Philadelphia Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday. By Jackie Gailey NBC10 Philadelphia Cell phone video that appears to show a woman being struck by a police officer at the Festival de la […]
LiveLeak.Com Duluth Police released surveillance video on Friday of an alleged assault that took place between Officer Richard Jouppi and a 50-year-old wheelchair bound man. The incident happened Friday, September 21st at detox.
An Israeli soldier leads a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinain man after he was arrested at an Israeli checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah on 17 September 2012. (Photo: AFP – Abbas Momani) By Linah Alsaafin Al Akhbar Scores of political detainees held in Israeli jails are […]
CNN Video from Pittsburgh Co. Sheriff’s office shows a woman in handcuffs being Tasered by a police officer.
Freedom Outpost The Department of Justice funded a training manual used in the State and Local Anti-terrorism Training (SLATT) program for law enforcement. Apparently certain political bumper stickers can put you on the “could be a terrorist” list, including opposition to the United Nations and support for the […]
From Animal New York On Sunday, September 16th at around 1am, a white van—labelled with “Van Wagner’s” blue logo and topped by a yellow strobe light—circled through permanently lit Times Square. Inside the vehicle, the driver and passenger, both dressed as construction workers, were nervous. They had just […]
CNN (CNN) — A Houston police officer shot and killed a schizophrenic, wheelchair-bound double amputee threatening people with a pen at a group home for the mentally ill after authorities said the man advanced on the officer’s partner. The shooting occurred early Saturday morning after police responded to […]
From PrWeb. Doug Darrell beat the odds and walked home from his trial as a free man on Friday, a major win for the state’s new jury nullification law. Facing felony drug cultivation charges for growing marijuana plants behind his house, the 59-year-old Rastafarian saw all of the […]
By William N. Grigg Pro Libertate Robert Paudert refers to May 20, 2010 – the day his son Brandon was killed — as the “worst day of my life, ever.” Given that losing a child is the worst thing that can happen to a parent, Paudert isn’t exaggerating. […]
An anti-Che article on…HuffPo!? That is a turn-up for the books! Thor Halvorssen lays the smack down…. ___________ Ted MarlowCEO, Urban Outfitters30 Industrial Park Blvd.Trenton, SC 29847 Dear Mr. Marlow, The Human Rights Foundation recently became aware of the sale of merchandise at Urban Outfitters emblazoned with the […]
MO of BO :”I’ll CHANGE my mind and HOPE you forget, silly, slavish voters!” Glenn Greenwald elaborates via The Guardian. _________ The Obama administration‘s aggressive, full-scale whitewashing of the “war on terror” crimes committed by Bush officials is now complete. Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the closing […]
Just in case it hasn’t been said here before: fuck Obama! From Russia Today. ____________ A lone appeals judge bowed down to the Obama administration late Monday and reauthorized the White House’s ability to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or due process. Last week, a federal judge […]
Colin Patrick Barth’s critique of democracy. Up there with those of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Hans-Herman Hoppe, and H.L Mencken, even surpassing them in certain vital respects…. From Promethea.org. _______________ Part One Democracy, The Equivocal Standard Just what is democracy? If you were to define it, the definition would […]
By Anthony Gregory Pat Robertson began publicly criticizing the drug war in December 2010, and he has become more vocal since. Unlike the vague critiques often heard from prominent figures—even Barack Obama has called the drug war a failure—Robertson’s insights have been precise, and consistent, and deeply-rooted. “We […]
One of the graphic images posted on the Houston brothers’ property (Saul Young/Knoxville News Sentinel/AP) Two brothers who shot and killed a sheriff’s deputy have placed photos of the slain lawman outside the entrance of their farm, calling it a “warning” to other law enforcement officials. The Associated […]
Falkvinge turning necks again. Take notes, Infoshoppers. —- falkvinge.net by Rick Falkvinge Child pornography is a toxic subject, but a very important one that cannot and should not be ignored. This is an attempt to bring the topic to a serious discussion, and explain why possession of child […]
USA Today NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Clutching a .38-caliber revolver stashed in her sparkly blue purse makes 36-year-old Nikki Goeser feel more secure when walking to her car at night. By Jae S. Lee, Gannett Nikki Goeser shows a card that she hands to restaurant and bar owners asking […]
ZOG Heil, I guess…. From Global Research. ______________ By Tom Carter Last month, the California State Assembly passed a resolution urging state educational institutions to more aggressively crack down on criticism of the State of Israel on campuses, which the resolution defines as “anti-Semitism.” The anti-democratic resolution is […]
File photo of a police car with its lights on. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) [LOL] MIAMI (CBS Tampa) – An officer with the Miami-Dade police department was arrested by federal authorities for stopping female drivers for no other reason than to initiate “sexually suggestive conversations.” According to the Miami […]
From MyFoxDC.com A Cottage City 19-year-old spent nearly 4 months in jail after Corporal Donald Taylor claimed Ryan Dorm assaulted him and the gun went off as Taylor struggled with him. The surveillance video is from a business on Perry Street near Rhode Island Avenue in the Brentwood […]
“Leftist” : not always a dirty word… …unlike “Jacobin”. From Mises.org. __________ The first leftist would not be popular in America today. That is true because the original leftists wanted to abolish government controls over industry, trade, and the professions. They wanted wages, prices, and profits to […]
By Kurt Nimmo Prior the latest round of violence attributed to the so-called “sovereign citizen movement,” the FBI ramped up its propaganda campaign and declared that “extremists” opposed to the government pose a domestic terror threat and a danger to law enforcement. The FBI’s Counterterrorism Analysis Section produced […]
By Paul Craig Roberts Does anyone remember when National Public Radio was an independent voice? During the 1980s NPR was continually on the case of the Reagan administration. NPR certainly had a Democratic slant, and a lot of its reporting about the Reagan administration was one-sided. Yet, NPR […]
From The Scientific American. _____________ Despite decades of denials, government records confirm that the U.S. Census Bureau provided the U.S. Secret Service with names and addresses of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Great primer documentary from the JPFO. Make a gun-control-happy Obamacrat cry… Oh yeah – gotta love the narration!
I think an armed, bearded march across the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon is in order. Oh, and boobs. From Katu Portland By Meghan Kalkstein PORTLAND, Ore. – It’s a scene that practically defines the phrase “keep Portland weird.” Portland police shut down the Burnside Bridge on Wednesday […]
Looks like our favorite thuggish sheriff finally crossed the line one too many times. His brand of oppression appears to be out of style with the ruling class these days. Even organized crime has it’s rules, and refraining from harassing the media is one of them! From Indian […]
[Editor’s Note: If anyone had any doubts at who the ANC and it’s government in South Africa serves, it should be clear not that it is not the working class: English, Bohr, or Black. This rail-roading of striking miners makes that clear, and complacency of union labor aristocracy makes […]
The Self Destruction of Africa’s ANC By Horand Knaup and Jan Puhl South Africa’s legendary African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela, is destroying itself. Corruption, cronyism, internal divisions and, more recently, the mine massacre in Marikana are draining support from the party’s base — and destroying […]
Courts are supposed to check the abuse of executive power, not cravenly serve it. But in the US and Israel, that is now the case by Glenn Greenwald The US military announced on Monday that no criminal charges would be brought against the US marines in Afghanistan who […]
I’m actually knowing more about the Juggalo phenomena that has been popular in American small towns for more than a decade. A musician friend recently turned me onto Insane Clown Posse — very much artists in a class by themselves. Although as vulgar as rap and hip-hop tends […]
The Huffington Post New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said all nine bystanders wounded in Friday’s Empire State Building shooting had been hit with police gunfire, CNN reported Saturday morning. According to Kelly, of the nine wounded, three suffered gunshot wounds and six were hit by fragments. Gunfire […]
The late Elizabeth Wright takes black neocons to task. From Issues & Views. ______________ Conservative by default The passage of just a few short years has made it hard to remember when only the views blessed by the progressive left found a path into the public arena. And, […]
From News.com Australia. ______________ Parents are being warned to educate their kids about the criminal repercussions of online trolling. PARENTS are being warned to tell their kids they could face criminal convictions for online trolling after a Bendigo man was sentenced to jail for making an offensive Facebook […]
guardian.co.uk Naomi Wolf If you think that 24/7 tracking of citizens by biometric recognition systems is paranoid fantasy, just read the industry newsletters Tom Cruise as John Anderton in the futuristic film Minority Report, where the advertisements use recognition technology to call out to the shoppers. Photograph: Allstar/20th […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
Recent Comments