Unfortunately, I often only have a short time in the early morning each day to post stories on this blog. Given the pressures of classes, litigation, and traveling, I will often miss typos or automatically “corrected” words that are errors. I apologize for those errors, but we have no staff or copy editors on this blog. We welcome any suggested corrections. Thanks again for your help and your understanding.
‘A New Level of Secrecy and Control’: Jill Abramson on the Obama White House
http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/new-level-secrecy-and-control-nytimes-chief-jill-abramson-obama-white-house/
Nevada situation about to break out into the start of something big
http://drudgereport.com/
http://www.infowars.com/breaking-sen-harry-reid-behind-blm-land-grab-of-bundy-ranch/
CIA’s use of harsh interrogation went beyond legal authority, Senate report says
By Ali Watkins, Jonathan S. Landay and Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Washington BureauApril 11, 2014
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/04/11/224085/cias-use-of-harsh-interrogation.html#storylink=cpy
Homeless woman arrested 87 times for resting on sidewalk
February 20, 2014
By Dan Bluemel
http://www.laactivist.com/2014/02/20/homeless-woman-arrested-87-times-for-resting-on-sidewalk/
Hayden Fienstein:
Hayden took to the airways to champion torture by attacking the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D, Cal.) and
saysaid that she was just being “emotional” and should not be involved in such a serious debate.https://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/the-battle-over-a-teen-s-pink-mohawk
A Michigan high school student says he’s been forced to leave his track team simply because of his hair. Mike Barker, a 17-year-old junior at West Iron County High School, recently styled his hair into a bright pink Mohawk to support his mother, who is battling breast cancer.
Chilling.
http://politicker.com/2014/03/antonin-scalia-has-a-civil-liberties-debate-in-brooklyn/
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia last night weighed in on some of the most heated civil liberties debates in the country, including the legality of mass surveillance programs.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3dd_1393454953
Texas student suspended after bringing beer to school by mistake
(LIVINGSTON, Texas) — A Texas mother says her son made an honest mistake while packing his school lunch bag, but now that mistake is costing him dearly.
Christi Seale says her 17-year-old son Chaz accidentally confused a beer can for a soda can and packed it in his lunch.
“He was in a hurry, running late. We were talking about school and he put it all together and took off for school,” she said.
When he realized his mistake at school, Chaz gave the unopened beer to his teacher. But that teacher then reported it to the principal at Livingston High School, J. Bakewell Barron, who suspended the boy for three days and then sent him to an alternative school for two months.
Chaz said, “I gave it to the teacher thinking I wouldn’t get in trouble, and I got in trouble.”
Today:
http://www.cuny.tv/SourcesAndSecrets
Link to Salon article did not work in previous post.
Good article at Salon about what went wrong at the Zimmerman trial.
03/03/2014
Stingray tracking devices
Police Hide Use of Cell Phone Tracker From Courts Because Manufacturer Asked
By Nathan Freed Wessler, Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project at 9:01am
https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/police-hide-use-cell-phone-tracker-courts-because
Can you recommend a good lawyer to sue obama over his new ” My Brothers Keeper” program ? My grandson is a “white” young man who obama has determined does not qualify for this program because of his skin color. I await a response, plz and thank u. Missy
UK spy agency intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users
• Optic Nerve program collected Yahoo webcam images in bulk
• 1.8m users targeted by GCHQ in six-month period alone
• Yahoo: ‘A whole new level of violation of our users’ privacy’
• Material included large quantity of sexually explicit images
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/27/gchq-nsa-webcam-images-internet-yahoo
You were highly recommended by Megan last night on the Kelly File. So I came to your blog. Excellent. Every website, blog, media outlet, public person, should have a page called CORRECTIONS. In the case of the President, he could use his CORRECTIONS page for his misspeaks, you can keep your healthcare, his overreaching, executive orders, change of laws, unconstitutionality. My compliments Prof Turley.
Professor Turley
Just so you know, on the blog posting
PETA Accused Of Pursuing Bloggers After Criticism Of Its Animal Shelter
1, May 28, 2013 by jonathanturley
this person
n 1, June 2, 2013 at 5:28 pmRandy DeCarlo
writes
I am fully aware of the situation with the poster who goes by the comic name of “Lucy Van Pelt”. Lucy is close friends with No Kill antion’s Debi Day and a supporter of the Winograd lead assault on Peta. Lucy’s REAL NAME is Maria Venuto and she resides in East Roxbury Ma. Ms Venuto has participated in an orchestrated attack on me which includes the likes of Huff Po writer Douglas Anthony Cooper as well.
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now i feel like i’m tattling on someone
pete
“Lunches seized from kids in debt at Salt Lake City elementary
School officials cite unpaid balances on students’ meal accounts.”
By lisa schencker
| The Salt Lake Tribune
First Published Jan 29 2014 05:29 pm • Last Updated Jan 29 2014 11:06 pm
“Up to 40 kids at Uintah Elementary in Salt Lake City picked up their lunches Tuesday, then watched as the meals were taken and thrown away because of outstanding balances on their accounts — a move that shocked and angered parents.”
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/57468293-78/lunches-olsen-lunch-district.html.csp
Still no way to submit stories that I can find…
I think the popular “Candy Crush” game securing a trademark of the word “candy” is worth mentioning.
Good catch OS!!