Washington’s Blog – by Carl Herman

“It is more correct to say that Truth is God than to say God is truth. …we must speak the Truth.”  ~ Gandhi on Truth (and here, pg. 20)

“One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances. Our duty is very simple and plain…. Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding… can be removed.”  ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi, Indian Opinion (1 October 1903)  

Continue reading “Don’t vote for evil; demand arrests of evil”

USA Today – by Brad Heath

WASHINGTON — Federal drug agents regularly mine Americans’ travel information to profile people who might be ferrying money for narcotics traffickers — though they almost never use what they learn to make arrests or build criminal cases.

Instead, that targeting has helped the Drug Enforcement Administration seize a small fortune in cash.   Continue reading “DEA regularly mines Americans’ travel records to seize millions in cash”

MassPrivateI

DHS’s Hometown Security Initiative (HSI) encourages businesses to spy on Americans. DHS admits to working closely with the private sector.

HSI’s four parts Connect, Plan, Train, and Report are designed to encourage spying on Americans.   Continue reading “Companies and landlords are spying on Americans for DHS”

Courthouse News Service – by Matt Reynolds

LOS ANGELES (CN) — California does not violate the equal protection rights of other licensed gun owners by allowing only retired peace officers to carry guns in schools, a federal judge has ruled.

In April, 11 individuals with licenses to carry guns and several gun rights groups sued Attorney General Kamala Harris over an exemption that allows former peace officers to carry guns in schools.   Continue reading “Retired Officers Exempt From CA School Gun Ban”

Daily Mail

Is it possible to predict whether someone will commit a crime some time in the future?

It sounds like an idea from the 2002 science-fiction movie Minority Report.

But that’s what statistical researcher Richard Berk, from the University of Pennsylvania, hopes to find out from work he’s carried out this year in Norway.   Continue reading “‘Minority Report’ computers may soon mark out children as ‘likely criminals’”

UPI – by Andrew V. Pestano

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 (UPI) — The Department of Justice has ordered about 1,000 of its attorneys to undergo additional ethics training following a Texas judge’s ruling that he was misled.

The additional one hour of training in a one-time program, on top of existing requirements, was ordered last month for attorneys in the Justice Department’s Civil Division, according to court documents made public Monday.
Continue reading “1,000 Justice Dept. attorneys to take ethics class after Texas judge says he was deceived”

ACLU – by Nathan Freed Wessler, Naomi Dwork

In response to an ACLU Freedom of Information Act request, the FBI has released more than 18 hours of video from surveillance cameras installed on FBI aircraft that flew over Baltimore in the days after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody in 2015. The videos, which were released to the ACLU before being posted online by the FBI this week, offer a rare and comprehensive view of the workings of a government surveillance operation. While the release of the footage addresses some questions, it leaves others unanswered.   Continue reading “FBI Releases Secret Spy Plane Footage from Freddie Gray Protests”

Courthouse News – by Kevin Lessmiller

(CN) — A public defender office claims in court that the New York Police Department won’t disclose how many millions of dollars it seizes in cash each year through civil forfeiture.

The Bronx Defenders sued the NYPD and outgoing Commissioner Bill Bratton on Thursday, seeking access to records “pertaining to the policies and procedures regarding, and accounting for, money and property seized from defendants incident to arrest.”   Continue reading “Public Defenders Sue for NYPD Seizure Info”

Courthouse News – by Victoria Prieskop

ALBUQUERQUE (CN) — Two Albuquerque police officers killed a man and dumped his body in an arroyo in 1976 and the Albuquerque Police Department covered it up for 40 years, the late José Farfan’s son claims in court.

Dino Farfan sued Albuquerque on Aug. 5 in Bernalillo County Court. He claims that on April 26, 1976, Albuquerque police Officers Robert Earl Davis and Robert Todd Hobson arrested his father, José Farfan, on misdemeanor charges of receiving stolen property.   Continue reading “Albuquerque Cops Accused of Murder & Coverup”

The Intercept – by Naomi LaChance

AFTER A WATCHDOG BLOG repeatedly linked him and other local officials to  corruption and fraud, the Sheriff of Terrebone Parish in Louisiana on Tuesday sent six deputies to raid a police officer’s home to seize computers and other electronic devices.

Sheriff Jerry Larpenter’s deputies submitted affidavits alleging criminal defamation against the anonymous author of the ExposeDAT blog, and obtained search warrants to seize evidence in the officer’s house and from Facebook.   Continue reading “Sheriff Raids House to Find Anonymous Blogger Who Called Him Corrupt”

Common Dreams – by Deidre Fulton

A new legal opinion penned by two former Justice Department officials bolsters warnings that the proposed merger between agroindustrial giants Bayer and Monsanto “is a five-alarm threat to our food supply and to farmers around the world.”

The white paper (pdf) by Maurice E. Stucke and Allen P. Grunes, both former employees of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, states that Bayer’s proposed takeover of Monsanto would:   Continue reading “Bayer-Monsanto merger is ‘five-alarm threat’ to food and farms: Legal experts”

Consumerist – by Mary Beth Quirk

Why would the state need to know your name, phone number, where you live, wand how old you are when you buy beer? It’s unclear, but that kind of detailed info is exactly what Alabama regulators have proposed craft brewers collect from anyone buying beer to bring home.

The Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Board is considering a new rule [PDF]what would require brewers to collect that kind of information from anyone who purchases beer at a brewery for off-premise consumption, the Associated Press reports, and industry groups are not pleased: they’re calling it an invasion of privacy, and an administrative nightmare.   Continue reading “State Wants Craft Brewers To Keep Info On Every Person They Sell Beer To”

Think Progress – by Celisa Calacal

New York has become the latest state to introduce a Blue Lives Matter bill, which would classify assaulting an officer as a hate crime. The bill was introduced today by New York Assemblyman Ron Castorina (R), with support from Council Member Joseph C. Borelli (R) and NYPD Sergeant Joe Imperatrice, the president and founder of Blue Lives Matter NYC.

Hate crime legislation currently only applies to attacks based on race, sexual orientation, national origin, and religious affiliation. But this new legislation would classify cops as a protected class, aligning them with ethnic and religious minorities and the LGBT community.   Continue reading “New York’s Blue Lives Matter Bill Would Make Cops a Protected Class”

MassPrivateI

DHS, has turned America into a Police State and now they want to take control of our elections!

According to a NY Times article, the Obama administration wants DHS to run our electronic ballot casting system. DHS wants to classify our election process as “critical infrastructure.”   Continue reading “DHS to run elections, wants voting classified as “critical infrastructure””

Jon Rappoport

As my readers know, I’ve reported on a number of scandals concerning the toxicity of medical drugs, including shocking death numbers in the US.

These scandals are leaks from inside the National Security State.

If you visit Wikileaks, Cryptome, Public Intelligence, and other similar sites, how many purely medical documents do you find posted?   Continue reading “Which is worse: the NSA or the FDA?”

The Intercept – by Murtaza Hussain

AN 18-YEAR-OLD RECENTLY arrested on terrorism charges in Arizona has the mental capacity of a child and had been in regular contact with the FBI for years before his arrest, according to family members, former teachers, and medical documents reviewed by The Intercept. Mahin Khan was arrested July 1 on charges of plotting to support the Taliban as well as the militant group the Islamic State and commit acts of terrorism in the local community.   Continue reading “18-Year-Old Arrested on Terrorism Charges Is Mentally “Like a Child””

AllGov – by Michael Biesecker, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — North Carolina’s top public health official acted unethically and possibly illegally by telling residents living near Duke Energy coal ash pits that their well water is safe to drink when it’s contaminated with a chemical known to cause cancer, a state toxicologist said in sworn testimony.

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the 220-page deposition (pdf) given last month by toxicologist Ken Rudo as part of a lawsuit filed against Duke by a coalition of environmental groups. The nation’s largest electricity company has asked a federal judge to seal the record, claiming its public disclosure would potentially prejudice jurors.   Continue reading “Top N. Carolina Health Official Lied to Public about Duke Coal Ash-Contaminated Drinking Water, Says Toxicologist”

MV Times – by Barry Stringfellow

It’s been some years since Islanders have seen a black helicopter crisscrossing the Island, its crew scanning Martha’s Vineyard woodlands and backyards for homegrown cannabis. Last Tuesday and Wednesday the black bird was back.

Massachusetts National Guard personnel, operating under a grant from the DEA, and in conjunction with mainland State Police, confiscated 392 plants that were sighted from above. Four of those plants belonged to Edgartown resident Paul Jackson, an 81-year-old former cancer patient who grows the plant for medicinal tea.   Continue reading “MA State Police, National Guard seize elderly cancer survivor’s pot plants”