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Georgia rushes to complete executions before lethal drug supply runs out

“Georgia’s difficulties procuring execution drugs is a reflection of the gradual stranglehold that is being put on the US death penalty by authorities and companies around the world refusing to act as accomplices in the death sentence. The European Commission, following unilateral action by the UK, has imposed restrictions on the export of medicines to all US corrections departments. One of the leading manufacturers of pentobarbital, the Danish firm Lundbeck, has introduced tough restrictions on the distribution of the drug to prevent it falling into the hands of US executioners.” Continue reading →

Undocumented immigrant to Obama: Stop tearing families apart with deportations

“The president’s latest proposal for immigration reforms includes a section that his administration said is focused on keeping families together. But Obama’s refusal to curtail a policy that has led to a record 410,000 deportations during his first term has been cause for concern from immigrant rights groups. ‘The border has been the most secure that it has ever been,’ Caballero said. ‘There’s more money and more troops there, and we need more?'” Continue reading →

Texas bans shooting immigrants from helicopters

“Officials in Texas announced on Thursday that State Troopers would no longer be allowed to open fire on suspects from helicopters after the recent killing of two immigrants. While announcing the new policy, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw insisted that the ban on aerial shootings had nothing to do with the October 2012 death of two Guatemalan immigrants, who were gunned down by troopers in helicopter while they were hiding in the back of a speeding pickup truck near La Joya.” Continue reading →

Homeland Security Expands Electronics Seizure In “Constitution-Free” Zones

“The latest development in 4th Amendment violations is the scariest I’ve heard yet. The Department of the Fatherland has approved a policy which states in no uncertain terms that electronic devices can be seized without a warrant within 100 miles of the border. The kicker? The ‘border’, according to this policy, is any national barrier, political or physical. THIS INCLUDES BODIES OF WATER. So, that means that the United States has, in effect, ‘Constitution-free zones’ stretching 100 miles inland from every coast and 100 miles from our northern and southern borders.” Continue reading →

U.S. Government: The Truth Is Too Complicated and Dangerous to Disclose to the Public

“Secretive, unaccountable agencies are making life and death decisions which effect our most basic rights. They provide ‘secret evidence’ to courts which cannot be checked … and often withhold any such ‘evidence’ even from the judges. The government uses ‘secret evidence’ to spy on Americans, prosecute leaking or terrorism charges (even against U.S. soldiers) and even assassinate people. All of this happened in Germany – as in America today – because the governments whipped up so much fear of attack by demonizing the enemy and declaring an open-ended war that people became complacent and stopped thinking for themselves.” Continue reading →

“Klaatu, Barada, Bar Code”: Bar Codes Visible from Outer Space

“What are these all about? We are told that they were camera calibrating devices. American spy planes in the 1950s and 1960s flew overhead, taking photos. But to take a good photo, a camera needs precise measurements for focusing. These bar codes provided the masters. Anyway, that’s the official line. In half a century, none of this leaked out. It makes you wonder. How many things have never leaked out? How many don’t leak out today, and won’t for 50 years?” Continue reading →

At least six tanks leaking at military nuclear waste dump in Washington state

“The Hanford nuclear site in the southwest of the US state was used to produce plutonium for the bomb that brought an end to World War II. Output grew after 1945 to meet the challenges of the Cold War, but the last reactor closed down in 1987. Its website says:’“Weapons production processes left solid and liquid wastes that posed a risk to the local environment.’ The ecological threat extends to the Columbia River, it added, noting that in 1989 US federal and Washington state authorities agreed a deal to clean up the Hanford Site.” Continue reading →

Activists launch campaign against ‘autonomous weapons’: Killer robots must be stopped

“A new global campaign to persuade nations to ban “killer robots” before they reach the production stage is to be launched in the UK by a group of academics, pressure groups and Nobel peace prize laureates. The Stop the Killer Robots campaign will be launched in April at the House of Commons and includes many of the groups that successfully campaigned to have international action taken against cluster bombs and landmines. They hope to get a similar global treaty against autonomous weapons.” Continue reading →