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Rise Of The Police State: “Commando Cops” Proliferating in the US

More SWAT teams exist than ever and the line between police officer and soldier is becoming more obscured.

Les Neuhaus
بواسطة Les Neuhaus
Police break up demonstrators at the end of their march through the streets of Chicago to protest the NATO Summit taking place in the city on May 20, 2012. (Photo Norbert Schiller/MintPress New)

The combination of a post-9/11 America and a government bent on prosecuting a war on drugs has not only expanded law enforcement powers in recent years, it's created a new breed of police officer -- commando-cops. Now the police officers and sheriff deputies are armed with a grade of equipment previously reserved for the military, such as

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Does a Qatar-Sponsored ‘Smoking Gun’ Report Reveal An Ulterior Motive?

The documentation, gathered and carried out by a London law firm and paid for by Qatar, shows photos taken by an unidentified source.

Les Neuhaus
بواسطة Les Neuhaus
Qatari Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani addresses the opening of the high-level segment of the annual U.N. climate talks in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

A report released exclusively this week to CNN and The Guardian has been touted as evidence possibly proving widespread torture, starvation and the cause of thousands of prisoner deaths by the Syrian regime. However, the allegations are drawn from documentation acquired by a legal firm hired by the Qatari government, who is known to be a

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Civil Rights Groups Turn To Unorthodox Attempts To Stop The NSA At It’s Headquarters

The “anti-commandeering doctrine,” a 170-year-old legal principle, says the federal government cannot commandeer state agencies or resources to “administer or enforce a federal regulatory program.”

Matthew Heller
بواسطة Matthew Heller
An aerial view of the NSA's Utah Data Center in Bluffdale, Utah, Thursday, June 6, 2013. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

LOS ANGELES -- Deep in the heart of Mormon country, the Utah Data Center is a vital cog in the National Security Agency's surveillance network, intercepting and analyzing telecommunications from around the world. Despite all the technical sophistication, the heavily-fortified $2 billion facility depends on something very basic to keep operating —

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Is Google Chrome’s Voice Technology Listening To Your Conversations?

“Malicious” websites can eavesdrop on you through the microphone on your computer and Google knows about it, but they have yet to fix the problem.

Les Neuhaus
بواسطة Les Neuhaus
Google recently announced it will start alerting users when there is a possibility of a breach from state-sponsored cyberattacks. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, file)

Sound the alarm, because if you visit voice-controlled websites using Google Chrome, you’ll want to pay attention here because your computer’s microphone could be used against you. All a malicious website needs is to get you to activate voice control for any legitimate purpose and it can potentially access your computer's microphone well after

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Communities Resist As Tar Sands Flow Through South

Sacrificing the health of the people and planet, 590,000 additional barrels of oil will now flow to refineries on the Gulf.

Lauren McCauley
بواسطة Lauren McCauley

Activists in Portland, Maine showing solidarity with communities along the pipeline by locking themselves to TD bank. (Photo: Meaghan LaSala)Tar sands oil began flowing through the the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline Wednesday as operations commenced delivering the "the dirtiest fuel on Earth" to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. The

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Number Of Uninsured Drops

The overall drop in the uninsured rate would translate to approximately 2 million to 3 million people gaining coverage.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index found that the uninsured rate for U.S. adults dropped by 1.2 percentage points in January, to 16.1 percent. The biggest change was for unemployed people, a drop of 6.7 percentage points. That was followed by a 2.6 percentage-point decline for nonwhites. Traditionally both groups are far more likely to be

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