By Aliya Sternstein NextGov.com 10/07/2011 The FBI by mid-January will activate a nationwide facial recognition service in select states that will allow local police to identify unknown subjects in photos, bureau officials told Nextgov. The federal government is embarking on a multiyear, $1 billion dollar overhaul of the FBI’s existing fingerprint database to more... »
Archive for October 7th, 2011
NY State Senators Say We’ve Got Too Much Free Speech; Introduce Bill To Fix That
FederalJack.com October 7, 2011 We’ve been pointing out a variety of attempts to push back on the First Amendment lately. One fertile ground for such attacks are local politicians carrying the “cyberbullying” banner, in various attempts to magically outlaw being a “jerk” online, usually by making it illegal to offend someone online. Of course,... »
Rand Paul: Obama’s Rhetoric Could Turn ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Violent
Senator tells Judge Napolitano demonstrators remind him of “Paris mob” Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Friday, October 7, 2011 During a Fox Business interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano, Senator Rand Paul warned that Barack Obama’s implicit support for the grievances of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters could provoke them to turn into a violent... »
At The Gates of The Great Beast: Occupy The Treasonous Fed Revolution Begins in Dallas, Texas
Saman Mohammadi The Excavator October 7, 2011 “Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be.” – David Graham Phillips, The Treason of the Senate.... »
Moody’s Continues Euro Downgrade Spree, Cuts Portuguese, British Banks
by Tyler Durden Zerohedge.com 10/07/2011 This morning Moody’s resume its Freudian transference experiment borne out of its inability to downgrade the US by continuing to downgrade insolvent European banks, by downgrading a whole bunch of Portuguese and UK as of several hours ago. Per Bloomberg: “Nine Portuguese banks had their debt ratings cut by... »
Libertarian Wall Street Protesters Demand End to the Fed
by George Washington ZeroHedge.com 10/06/2011 Ron Paul says that the Wall Street protests are legitimate, and that they are really protesting against the Federal Reserve. One of the protest organizers tells me that a large proportion of the protesters are Ron Paul supporters. Most of them believe that ending the Federal Reserve is the... »
The Way Out Of Our Economic Mess
By Terry Coxon, Casey Research ZeroHedge.com “A rock and a hard place” is a long-running theme of Casey Research publications. It refers to the dilemma the US government has wandered into with its continued policy of rescue inflation. The “rock” is what will happen if the Fed pauses for long in printing still more... »
General strike brings Greece to a standstill as public sector closes down
Protesters flood into streets of Athens By Helena Smith in Athens Guardian.co.uk Greece edged deeper into chaos as workers brought the country to a standstill with a general strike. The closure of the entire public sector – from schools to hospitals to government offices – left Athens airport looking like a ghost town and... »
It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong
The Case for Personal Freedom by Andrew P. Napolitano LewRockwell.com Where Do Our Rights Come From? After a trip to the American Midwest in 1959, Nikita Khrushchev, then the ruler of the Soviet Union, became convinced that corn could solve many of the USSR’s economic woes. Russia had long struggled with miserably inadequate food... »
Obama’s Very Real Death Panel
by Anthony Gregory LewRockwelll.com It’s official. The American dystopia is here. Obama administration officials admit that the CIA assassination program that snuffed out Anwar al-Awlaki last Friday is guided by a secret panel that decides who lives and dies. According to Reuters: American militants like Anwar al-Awlaki are placed on a kill or capture... »