“Amnesty International just released a report that heavily implicates the United States in a number of criminal acts in Mosul, Iraq.”
Read more: http://theantimedia.org/white-house-war-crimes-office-closing-down/
“U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the Justice Department will issue new directives to increase the federal govenment’s use of civil asset forfeiture, a controversial practice that allows law enforcement to seize property from suspected criminals without charging them with a crime. He has already dismantled Obama-era directives on drug sentencing guidelines and ordered a review of all of the existing consent agreements between the Justice Department and police departments that were found to be violating residents’ constitutional rights.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2017/07/17/sessions-announces-justice-department-wi
“She’d called 911 earlier that night to report a possible assault behind her house. When she approached the police who responded to her call, she was shot and killed through the driver’s side door.”
Read more: http://www.cosmopolitan.com/lifestyle/a10317413/justine-damond-minneapolis-shooting/
“The officer’s alleged trickery was revealed by the fact that his body cam retained footage for 30 seconds before it was activated to begin recording. During that time, according to the footage and the Baltimore public defender’s office, Officer Richard Pinheiro puts a bag of pills in a can in an alley and walks out of the alley.”
“Senate Bill 1241 requires that anyone travelling beyond US borders declare his assets in writing and in detail, plus provide ongoing access to all accounts held by the individual. In essence, it’s providing the government with a license to track your cash, cryptocurrencies, and other assets in perpetuity. Should, at any point, your declaration come into question as to its accuracy, the entirety of those assets could be seized, not just those that were unreported. In addition, you could face a prison sentence of up to five years.”
Read more: http://www.internationalman.com/articles/the-second-half-of-the-pincer
“A unanimous Court declared that police should not be held liable for recklessly firing 15 times into a shack where a homeless couple—Angel and Jennifer Mendez—was sleeping.”
“Theresa May is planning to introduce huge regulations on the way the internet works, allowing the government to decide what is said online. The government intends to introduce huge restrictions on what people can post, share and publish online. The plans will allow Britain to become ‘the global leader in the regulation of the use of personal data and the internet’, the manifesto claims. It comes just soon after the Investigatory Powers Act came into law. That legislation allowed the government to force internet companies to keep records on their customers’ browsing histories, as well as giving ministers the power to break apps like WhatsApp so that messages can be read.”
“Increasingly, people are being asked to turn over and unlock their phones at the border, and doing that can expose a huge amount of data. Add in an app like 1Password — a central repository for a ton of private data — and it’s easy to see why someone would be worried about having to hand over their phone.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/23/15681990/1password-travel-mode-feature-added-security
“Republicans in the House and Senate recently introduced a bill they’re calling the Back the Blue Act of 2017. The bill would create new federal crimes, impose federal police over the will of local officials and voters and shield police officers from virtually any civil liability, even in cases of egregious misconduct.”
“Thanks to intrepid journalists, whistleblowers, hacktivists, and leakers, the human race continues to tear down the wall of lies erected by the corporatocracy.”
Read more: http://theantimedia.org/10-conspiracy-theories-2/