Prison Planet

BBC | Further protests in opposition to controversial anti-piracy measures have taken place, with another 100 expected to happen in Europe this week.

abc.net.au | Civil libertarians are worried by proposed legislation meaning passengers will not be able to opt out of undergoing full body scans at Australian airports.

Kova | The suspect was in a car when the officer fired.

Zero Hedge | Officials face a formal inquiry over the selection criteria that could rescind the last three years’ awards.

The Mirror | A controversial ­scientist flew 20,000 miles to Tahiti and back… to preach about global warming.

Austin Chronicle | At 10.45pm last night, after days of speculation and rumor, Occupy Austin was evicted from the steps of City Hall.

Declan McCullagh | Rep. Lamar Smith, author of the Stop Online Piracy Act, is being targeted a second time.

UK Daily Mail | European regulators have written to Google CEO Larry Page calling on the search giant to halt the introduction of its new ‘one-size-fits-all’ privacy policy.

Agence France-Presse | A Muslim businessman in Canada became a terror suspect for telling his sales staff in a text message to “blow away” the competition at a New York City trade show.

The American Dream | When you use the Internet in a public place, do you prefer to have as much privacy as possible? Well, that makes you a potential terrorist.

Paul Joseph Watson | VIPR search teams to be out in force before Sunday’s big game.

Cryptogon | People are figuring out that handing over their children for social engineering is an act of madness.

Marc Morano | Poor Al: Antarctica has been cooling and sea ice extent has been at or near record extent in past few summers’.

Eric Blair | Google and Twitter have been under great pressure to censor content on their platforms from several countries.

Washington’s Blog | President Obama has accumulated his own massive list of high crimes and misdemeanors.

Politico | The number of people placed on a no-fly list has more than doubled in the last year.

Mlive.com | Amash is wary that the chips will be able to be read by private entities and mined for personal data.

Forbes | Users can report an ongoing crime with the push of a button.

UK Daily Mail | Sugar is a poison and its sale should be as tightly regulated as cigarettes and alcohol, scientists say.

The Hill | Google quietly revealed earlier this month it will allow censorship in some countries of content on its Blogger service.

Natural News | The hypocrisy of the war on drugs is outrageous when compared to the amount of drug trafficking that benefits the CIA and international banking system.

Heather Callaghan | Homeland Security is making more enemies after seizing two British tourists over ridiculously misconstrued tweets.

The American Dream | With each passing year, the difference between America’s prisons and America’s public schools becomes smaller and smaller.

CNN | A New York airport screener who removed two pipes from a traveler’s bag and set them aside Monday morning prompted a security scare six hours later.

Prisonplanet.com | As America wakes up and passes local laws removing fluoride from water supplies, the Feds are pressuring States into forcing fluoridation.

Kurt Nimmo | In politically correct San Francisco, a six year old boy was charged with sexual assault after playing a game of tag on the playground.

Mike Adams | The criminal tendencies of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were on full display.

RT | The Mayor of Oakland has asked courts to throw any Occupy activist with a record of protest arrests out of the city.

UK Daily Mail | Two British tourists were barred from entering America after joking on Twitter that they were going to ‘destroy America’ and ‘dig up Marilyn Monroe’.

RT | Police in London have been accused of excessive force in their efforts to clear out Occupy demonstrators.

RT | A U.S. Park Police officer used an electronic stun gun on an Occupy DC protester.

Brandon Smith | Think SOPA and PIPA have been buried? Think again.

London Telegraph | British troops are being trained in riot control tactics amid fears that violence and looting will return to Britain’s streets this summer.

Sun Sentinel | “Warning: You are under video surveillance,” reads the bold message on the side of the truck.

Prisonplanet.com | Former Army Ranger Captain Antonio Buehler of the Austin Police Victims Legal Defense.

London Independent | Twitter is facing a backlash from its users after the website said it had the technology to censor tweets on a country by country basis.

Saman Mohammadi | The government in Washington is a failed terrorist state.

Declan McCullagh | A Hawaii politician who proposed requiring Internet providers to record every Web site their customers visit is now backing away from thecontroversial legislation.

Kurt Nimmo | Google and British government working together to sweep websites into Orwell’s memory hole.

AFP | The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a tool to mine social media for intelligence tips.

Brandon Smith | Crime and terrorism prevention has always been the go-to rationalization for Orwellian surveillance.

AFP | A 16 kilo (35.5 pounds) consignment of cocaine that Mexican drug traffickers recently lost has turned up in an unlikely place.

Declan McCullagh | Hawaii’s legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal.

EPIC | EPIC has filed suit against the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation under the Freedom of Information Act.

AFP | International action to snuff out cybercrime is desperately needed, officials and business leaders said.

AP | Capturing tens of thousands of people’s face, all to help the children of course.

New Yorker | In truth, there are more black men in the grip of the criminal-justice system—in prison, on probation, or on parole—than were in slavery.

Shauna Myers | MegaBox was going to be an alternative music store that was entirely cloud-based and offered artists a better money-making opportunity than they would get with any record label.

cryptogon.com | In other words, Google now admits doing things that Cryptogon readers have known it has been doing for about a decade: Tracking everything.

UK Daily Mail | Mayor Michael Bloomberg has blasted the use of a controversial movie portraying American Muslims as extremists to help train New York police officers.