Following in the footsteps of police in Pittsburgh and New York City, Chicago officials say they are ready to deploy the dreaded LRAD noise weapon at NATO protesters this May. The LRAD is a noise machine that can damage hearing, and is deployed both to convey messages to large crowds and to rapidly disperse them. It basically amounts to a free speech killer.
Yesterday the administration of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University sent out an email titled "Subject: Social Scientists needed - Army Human Terrain Systems program." The email reads as follows:
It’s no secret that the Department of Homeland Security with some 200,000 employees is a federal bureaucracy on steroids.
Drones exploded in the US public imagination in March 2012, when Congress directed the FAA to open US airspace to the flying robots. Since then, drones (or in military parlance, unmanned aircraft (UA) or remotely piloted aircraft (RPA)) have become a hot topic online and a target of activist and civil libertarian protest.
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Occupy the MBTA -- an offshoot of Occupy Boston -- began a temporary occupation of the Massachusetts State House steps to protest fare hikes and service cuts to public transportation. Last night the camp was evicted.
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The week of April 23rd is "Cyber Week" in the House, when debate on the Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Protection Act (CISPA) will begin. The bill's author and lead sponsor, Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan, describes it like this:
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How can a President who vowed to strive for “an unprecedented level of openness in Government” and ordered the CIA to make sure it followed the Army Field Manual interrogation guidelines on his first day in office become so totally obsessed with stopping leaks at the expense of achieving transparency and accountability?
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