‘Don’t Daze Me, Bro!’ Meet A Non-Lethal Weapon from Homeland Security
So as the court system starts to regulate more and more the use of tasers by police, I have a feeling these “non-lethal” options will come into more widespread use. Here’s a video from some folks who...
View ArticleLA Prisons To Use Burning Heat Ray On Unruly Inmates
As if beatings from wardens and guards weren’t bad enough… from Salon.com: A device designed to control unruly inmates by blasting them with a beam of intense energy that causes a burning sensation is...
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U.S. Army Wants Rapid-Fire Rubber Bullets For Crowd Control
David Hambling writes in New Scientist: The US army is planning to field “rubber bullets” for machine guns. Military officials claim the ammunition will allow them to more effectively quell violent...
View ArticleOccupy Oakland Police Following Brutal Raid: ‘Just Following Orders’
Abby Martin of Media Roots went out to cover the immediate aftermath of the brutal police raid of Occupy Oakland at 6:20 a.m. on October 25, 2011. 500+ Oakland PD used tear gas, rubber bullets and...
View ArticleFox News On Police Pepper Spraying: ‘It’s A Food Product, Essentially’ (Video)
Bill O’Reilly and Megyn Kelly break down the tumult between police and students at UC Davis: the police sprayed the sit-in protesters with a “food product.” O’Reilly adds, “I don’t think we have the...
View ArticleU.S. Military Fights Negative Perception of ‘Pain Ray’
Al Jazeera English reports: In order to gain stronger public perception of new crowd control technology, the US miltary has been showcasing a new weapon dubbed the “pain ray” [as informally called the...
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A Handy Guide To Crowd-Control Weapons
Assuming you made it through May Day without injuries, Vice UK has a preview of the most common weapons coming soon to a riot near you: We spoke to buddies of ours in Germany, Egypt and...
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A ‘Sonic Weapon’ Can Be Deployed At the London Olympics (If Needs Be)
Reports Gavin Thomas for BBC News: The Ministry of Defence has confirmed a device which can be used as a “sonic weapon” will be deployed in London during the Olympics. The American-made Long Range...
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Pentagon Creates ‘Mega Stun Gun’
USMC Wired reports on the latest invention from the Pentagon agency known as the Joint Non Lethal Weapons Directorate, which is responsible for developing such non-lethal devices as “sticky foam guns,...
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So Ray Kurzweil Wants To Live Forever…
Ok, so Ray Kurzweil is a man of above average intelligence and achievement, even if he only just got his first job (Google, of course), but is a desire to live forever a wise choice or foolish hubris?...
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An Open Letter to TED
Ken Jordan, Publisher & Editorial Director, Evolver/Reality Sandwich, has written an open letter to TED’s Chris Anderson in an attempt to get the TED organization to stop squirming around for a...
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Christian Fundamentalism’s War on Higher Mathematics
I’ll be the first to admit that my math skills are rudimentary. I’d go so far as to say they’re borderline non-existent. To quote that famous plastic scholar Barbie, “Math is tough!” If you can do...
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60,000-Ton Underwater Pyramid Detected Beneath Sea Of Galilee
Deep sea diving teams will be dispatched to attempt to decode the meaning of the monolith, Live Science reports: A giant “monumental” stone structure discovered beneath the waters of the Sea of...
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Police Chief Eats Entire Marijuana Cake for Breakfast
There’s no end of delicious schadenfreude in this story: Cop eats entire cake for breakfast. What a pig! Then it turns out to be a marijuana edible. There’s nothing funny about dosing someone with...
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Shell’s Plot to Take Away Your First Amendment Rights
Picture: Catherine Hammond (CC) Greenpeace’s executive director Phil Radford writes at Huffington Post: Corporations want to work in secret. It’s what they do, and why they have lawyers. In secret,...
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Wrongly Convicted Rapist Set Free After 38 Years in Prison
Picture: NY Daily News (C) David Bryant had his youth stolen for him because his court-appointed attorney neglected to mention that he had a different blood type from body fluids from those collected...
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MJ Harris and Martyn Bates: ‘The Bramble Briar’
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Is The Loch Ness Monster Just A Conspiracy To Boost Scottish Tourism?
Every kid in Britain grows up with the Loch Ness Monster as part of their cryptozoological cultural heritage, but could it just be a conspiracy to boost tourism in Scotland? Emma Ailes reports for BBC...
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The Twelve Most Awful Products Made By Monsanto
Via GMO Awareness, it may seem cartoonish to brand one company as an evil empire reaping misery over the course of a century, but it’s hard not to when they have created artificial sugar substitutes,...
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Elizabeth Warren’s Foreclosure Settlement Bombshell: Banks Determined the...
via Wall Street on Parade There is only one thing more Kafkaesque than the ongoing Wall Street frauds and that is watching a live United States Senate investigation of a diabolical settlement the banks...
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