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http://reagancoalition.com/articles/2014/women-sues-chicago-pd-after-cop-shot-her-puppy-8-times-in-her-yard-in-front-of-5-year-old-daughter.html
Woman Sues Chicago PD After Cop Shot Her Puppy 8 TIMES in Her Yard in Front of 5-Year-Old Daughter
Student Turned Over to Police for a Doodle
http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/05/15/67895.htm
Great story Bob.
Everyone should know just how much the government lied to defend the NSA
A web of deception has finally been untangled: the Justice Department got the US supreme court to dismiss a case that could have curtailed the NSA’s dragnet. Why?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/17/government-lies-nsa-justice-department-supreme-court
Your Mary Willingham post contained incorrect information. I’ve sent you details by email.
And just when I thought that I seen some of the more disturbing “news” of the day?
“Shocking Kids into Compliance”
https://www.aclu.org/blog/defending-targets-discrimination/shocking-kids-compliance
Carlyle Mouton,
“Does the FBI Use Stasi-Style Tactics Against Muslims?”
by Conor Friedersdorf
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/a-lawsuit-alleges-that-the-fbi-uses-stasi-tactics-against-muslim-americans/361146/
http://www.ccrjustice.org/tanvir (includes the complaint)
(The FBI uses Stasi-style tactics against non-Muslims, so it only stands to reason that they’re being used against Muslims, as well.)
FBI using no fly list to blackmail Muslims into becoming informants:-
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/24/cliven-bundy-reminds-the-conservative-press-the-dangers-of-touting-extremist-cranks-as-national-heroes/
UK,s MI5/6 doing likewise and punishing those that resist by framing as terrorists and stripping of UK citizenship and arranging for them to be tried as terrorists in a New York Court:-
http://www.cageuk.org/case/mahdi-hashi
“A fatal wait: Veterans languish and die on a VA hospital’s secret list”
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/23/health/veterans-dying-health-care-delays/
Communications Crackdown
DNI directive forbids unauthorized talk with journalists
http://freebeacon.com/issues/communications-crackdown/
Government Accountability Project:
http://www.whistleblower.org/press/clapper-directive-clear-extension-war-whistleblowers
“The directive requires IC employees to report any inadvertent contact with the broadly defined “media” to superiors”.
Here is an article you might find interesting as part of your collection of police brutality series. Chinese police began to beat a woman on the street & a man started photographing the beating. This caused the police to beat the man to death which attracted a crowd that attacked and killed 5 policemen. WARNING: the photos at the end of the story are very graphic
http://shanghaiist.com/2014/04/21/rioting-crowd-beats-5-chengguan-for-killing-civillian.php
‘The House Is Clean … We’re Gonna Spike Him’
http://www.courthousenews.com/2014/04/21/67198.htm
Excerpt:
While Ross was being held outside, she says, she overheard a deputy say that they had been denied a search warrant for the home.
Because the deputies failed to find any drugs in the home, “they planted narcotics which were kept in one of the sheriff’s vehicles. Statements to this effect can be heard over the vehicle dash camera on one of the defendant’s vehicles,” the lawsuit states.
The Incident Report states that two bags of white powder were found and confiscated. However, pursuant to the vehicle dash camera video and transcript, the officers are heard on the recording saying: ‘the house is clean, there is no meth in the house’, ‘we’re gonna spike that and we’re gonna spike him.’ ‘I got the meth in the ——- car,'” the complaint states. (Epithet deleted in complaint.)
Answers and Questions About Military, Law Enforcement and Intelligence Agency Chatbots
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/answers-questions-about-military-law-enforcement-and-intelligence-agency-chatbots
“Sgt. Star is the U.S. Army’s dedicated marketing and recruitment chatbot, and he isn’t going to turn whistleblower any time soon. There’s no use threatening him for answers either—he’s programmed to report that kind of hostility to the Army Criminal Investigation Division.”
KKK imperial wizard: Neighborhood watch underway in Fairview Township
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/04/kkk_imperial_wizard_announces.html
http://www.tpnn.com/2014/04/14/former-cbs-reporter-calls-out-obama-and-youll-never-believe-what-she-says/
Sharyl Attkisson is a highly acclaimed investigative journalist. She had 20 year career with CBS News which she walked out on earlier this year The title of her new book, Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington, speaks volumes as to what drove Attkisson to leave her job as a journalist with CBS. In short, Attkisson witnessed time and again manipulation of the media by the Obama in an effort to control the news. She appeared on FOX News’ Media Buzz with Howard Kurtz to discuss this unprecedented secrecy by the Obama White House. (w
You have your facts wrong in your post: Hour of Power [Grab]: Robert Schuller Thrown Out Of Crystal Ministries 1, July 5, 2011. Please double check the names in the story and correct. Carol Schuller Milner had no involvement in the running of the ministry.
Snowden the ‘traitor’ looms over Pulitzers
http://news.yahoo.com/snowden-traitor-looms-over-pulitzers-041946322.html;_ylt=AwrSyCSTFkpTtFEAXeTQtDMD?bcmt=comments-postbox
Do we “err” on the side of safety or do what’s best for this country, in spite of the risk? How does what’s taking place in the U.S. impact bloggers, as they try to decide what to write and post?
http://www.vocativ.com/culture/society/special-ed-student-recorded-bullies-accused-felony-wiretapping/
“In Pennsylvania, a high school sophomore with developmental disabilities was convicted of a crime after recording classmates threatening to “pull down his pants”