Fly Your Own Spy Drone ... For $300
For example, protesters in Warsaw used a spy drone last month to see what police were doing. As diydrones.com notes:
People tend to assume that UAVs will be used by the police to keep watch on us, but as … video, taken by a RoboKopter of riots in Warsaw, shows, they can equally be used by citizens to keep tabs on the police. No need to wait for the local news to send a helicopter to get the aerial scene of a demonstration, just Do It Yourself!
EPIC Sues DHS Over Covert Surveillance of Facebook and Twitter
"The agency plans to create fictitious user accounts and scan posts of users for key terms. User data will be stored for five years and shared with other government agencies.The legal authority for the DHS program remains unclear. EPIC filed the lawsuit after the DHS failed to reply to an April 2011 FOIA request.
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23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health? - YouTube
Great 9 minute video about your health!
thanks to Smo for the link
thanks to Smo for the link
A whole new meaning for thinking on your feet: Brains of small spiders overflow into legs
AMAZING!
"The smaller the animal, the more it has to invest in its brain, which means even very tiny spiders are able to weave a web and perform other fairly complex behaviors," said William Wcislo, staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. "We discovered that the central nervous systems of the smallest spiders fill up almost 80 percent of their total body cavity, including about 25 percent of their legs."
MIT Scientists Create Camera That Allows Photons To Be Seen Moving In Slow Motion
the researchers were able to create slow-motion movies, showing what appears to be a bullet of light that moves from one end of the bottle to the other.
Thousands Sterilized, North Carolina Weighs Restitution
More about the NC sterilization program.
The reports begin when he was barely a teenager, fighting at school and masturbating openly. A social worker wrote that he and his parents were of “rather low mentality.” Mr. Holt was sent to a state home for people with mental and emotional problems. In 1968, when he was ready to get out and start life as an adult, the Eugenics Board of North Carolina ruled that he should first have a vasectomy.
Author Schweizer: Pelosi Made Killing Off of Most In-Demand IPO in History
I realize this is from Newsmax but this quotation is striking.
Los Angeles votes to end corporate personhood
"The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to support a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment that would assert that corporations are not entitled to constitutional rights, and that money is not the same as free speech.
The resolution was backed by Move to Amend, a national coalition working to abolish corporate personhood and overturn U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United ruling. The decision gave corporations and unions the ability to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections, so long as their actions are not coordinated with a candidate’s campaign."
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