New security cameras to keep eye on Muni buses
sf.municameras808web With a $6 million federal Homeland Security grant, hundreds of San Francisco’s Muni buses will soon have high-tech video surveillance cameras the transit agency can survey in real-time. While the transit system uses a surveillance system now, it is more than 10 years old, requires much upkeep, and footage is stored on tapes within [...]
Live Free Now featuring Guest Host Catherine Bleish
Episode #37 Hosted by John Bush w/ special guest host Catherine Bleish In this episode, Cat and John chat about their adventures at the Sunset Valley Farmers Market trading silver for veggies. We get in to the specter of “white al-qeada” with the latest DHS propaganda, we celebrate Pete and Ademo’s victory in MA, and [...]
Live Free Now featuring Marc Stevens
marcstevens-small Episode #36 Hosted by John Bush w/ special guest host Catherine Bleish This episode is all about question traditional paradigms! We chat about the debt ceiling propaganda and how Cat and John were living free NOW at the farmers market by trading in silver! Then Cat and John interview Marc Stevens of the No [...]
Live Free Now Featuring Ademo Freeman
Live Free Now Featuring Ademo Freeman July 13, 2011 By John Bush Leave a Comment LISTEN TO THE SHOW HERE Ademo thumbmail Episode #34 Hosted by John Bush with guest host Catherine Bleish John Bush is joined by Catherine “The MIAC Destroyer” Bleish in this week’s show which is all about the importance of mutually beneficial voluntary [...]
TX Says Bath Salts are Dangerous
A state ban on a product called bath salts goes into effect Sept. 1. Authorities said it’s a product some use as a cocaine substitute. Bath Salts Bath salts made headlines recently when a man was charged with injury to a child. Police accused him of ingesting the product and then going crazy July 18 [...]
Obama: We’ll All Share Cost of Birth Control
WASHINGTON (AP) — Health insurance plans must cover birth control as preventive care for women, with no copays, the Obama administration said Monday in a decision with far-reaching implications for health care as well as social mores. condom2 The requirement is part of a broad expansion of coverage for women’s preventive care under President Barack [...]
House panel approves broadened ISP snooping bill
cyber-security Internet providers would be forced to keep logs of their customers’ activities for one year–in case police want to review them in the future–under legislation that a U.S. House of Representatives committee approved today. The 19 to 10 vote represents a victory for conservative Republicans, who made data retention their first major technology initiative [...]
Anti-Terror Sensor That Scans Crowds for Bombers Tested in U.K.
A sensor that can scan huge crowds and pick out a lone suicide bomber by homing in on hidden explosives has undergone official tests, The Sun reported Thursday.
Tennessee Just Made Offensive Online Pictures Illegal
xlarge_pastamouth Goatse. Tub Girl. Lemonparty. They’re in the internet pantheon—and sharing them (or anything else that might shock or offend) will now land you in Tennessean jail, thanks to dubious new law of theirs. The war on JPEGs begins. The law prohibits the online distribution of any image that might “frighten, intimidate or cause emotional [...]
Janet Napolitano Visits NYU Law School to Discuss Need For Citizen Spies
250px-Janet_Napolitano_official_portrait from the Activist Post “We have to get to a place where every part of our society is cognizant of the kinds of threats that are out there, and empowered to take some common sense steps to counter that.” – Janet Napolitano Homeland Security head, Janet Napolitano, continued her campus tour in a recent [...]