This guy went to prison for two years because he wouldn't back off on saying that waterboarding is torture. He came to my school to speak last year, his story is pretty fucked. If you ever thought that the Obama administration was different from Bush, this guy might change your mind.
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: h on June 02, 2017, 01:31:01 pm
This guy went to prison for two years because he wouldn't back off on saying that waterboarding is torture. He came to my school to speak last year, his story is pretty fucked. If you ever thought that the Obama administration was different from Bush, this guy might change your mind.
people are pretty shitty on average
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on June 02, 2017, 08:58:23 pm
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on June 03, 2017, 08:25:49 am
Want to grow food with your neighbors? Get to know the local community and provide for yourselves? Nah.
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Across the globe, an awakening is happening in which people are realizing the power of growing your own food. Detroit, Michigan is a prime example. People have turned many areas, essentially brought to ruins through government neglect, into a food oasis. Edible landscapes are increasing throughout the world; however, when government gets involved, this self-sustainability through community gardening can often be thwarted.
The residents of Sunshine Coast, whose city council just unapologetically laid waste to a 7-year-old organically grown fruit tree forest spanning 11 streets, are finding this out the hard way.
A single complaint about a permit sent the city council into a fruit-hating tyrannical whirlspin ? eventually leading to the destruction of the entire project.
Want to grow food with your neighbors? Get to know the local community and provide for yourselves? Nah.
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Across the globe, an awakening is happening in which people are realizing the power of growing your own food. Detroit, Michigan is a prime example. People have turned many areas, essentially brought to ruins through government neglect, into a food oasis. Edible landscapes are increasing throughout the world; however, when government gets involved, this self-sustainability through community gardening can often be thwarted.
The residents of Sunshine Coast, whose city council just unapologetically laid waste to a 7-year-old organically grown fruit tree forest spanning 11 streets, are finding this out the hard way.
A single complaint about a permit sent the city council into a fruit-hating tyrannical whirlspin ? eventually leading to the destruction of the entire project.
Want to grow food with your neighbors? Get to know the local community and provide for yourselves? Nah.
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Across the globe, an awakening is happening in which people are realizing the power of growing your own food. Detroit, Michigan is a prime example. People have turned many areas, essentially brought to ruins through government neglect, into a food oasis. Edible landscapes are increasing throughout the world; however, when government gets involved, this self-sustainability through community gardening can often be thwarted.
The residents of Sunshine Coast, whose city council just unapologetically laid waste to a 7-year-old organically grown fruit tree forest spanning 11 streets, are finding this out the hard way.
A single complaint about a permit sent the city council into a fruit-hating tyrannical whirlspin ? eventually leading to the destruction of the entire project.
"Let's put trees bearing big as fuck fruit RIGHT NEXT TO ROADWAYS WHERE CARS PASS!!! What could possible go wrong??"
Typical communists. Seriously you can have your gay trees. The city even offered to foot the tab for future insurance claims if they JUST REGISTERED FOR FREE, but in typical commie form they figured they could do whatever they want without concern for anyone else (http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/8576888-3x2-700x467.jpg)
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: redheron on June 05, 2017, 01:15:18 am
does this count (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect)
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: here cums the fuck truck on June 05, 2017, 01:47:41 am
does this count (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jul/13/us-food-waste-ugly-fruit-vegetables-perfect)
no thats just capitalism
shit
what about this (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/26/us-immigration-crime-database-victim-data-exposed)
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on August 18, 2017, 02:43:38 am
The parents of a severely mentally disabled man are speaking out on how the FBI groomed him as a right-wing terrorist, knowing he?s paranoid schizophrenic.
http://newsok.com/article/5560334
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What the public should be looking at is the fact that the FBI gave our son the means to make this happen. He has no job, no money, no vehicle, and no driver?s license, due to the fact that he is schizophrenic and we; his parents do everything we can possible to keep him safe and functional.
...
His brain does not work like a normal person and never will due to the nature of his mental illness. He has suffered through countless serious full-blown schizophrenic delusional episodes and he has been put in numerous mental hospitals since he was 16 years old. The FBI came and picked him up from our home, they gave him a vehicle, gave him a fake bomb, and every means to make this happen none of which he had access to on his own.
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on August 29, 2017, 01:39:42 am
A Salt Lake City police detective asked for a blood sample. After explaining to the detective that the police needed a warrant, consent from the unconscious patient or that the patient needed to be under arrest before the blood sample could be drawn, she was arrested.
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on September 29, 2017, 01:26:35 am
Mysterious metal towers are popping up at local tunnels, and soon they?ll start appearing at bridges, too.
But even people on the MTA board in charge of the towers can?t say why they?re being used or what?s in them
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It?s a $100 million MTA project shrouded in secrecy, with 18 of them for tunnels and bridges. So what are they exactly?
The MTA?s man in charge of the bridges and tunnels, Cedrick Fulton, dodged Carlin?s questions Wednesday.
?I said no comment,? he said.
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?It?s a bit mind-boggling that the MTA is approving $100 million for what appears to us to be big, decorative pylons,? says John Kaehny, the leader of the watchdog group Reinvent Albany. ?What we?re asking for is transparency from the MTA.?
Carlin: ?Some of your own board members say they don?t know the specifics.?
Lhota: ?The base of these new pieces that are going up include whatever fiber optics are necessary for those Homeland Security items.?
In other words, anti-terror technology. Could that one day include facial recognition? We don?t know and Lhota won?t say.
?I?m not at liberty to discuss that,? he told Carlin.
The latest civil rights abuse came from hardline home secretary Amber Rudd. She?s spearheading a Tory effort to criminalize readership of so-called extremist content online ? punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
?I want to make sure those who view despicable terrorist content online, including jihadi websites, far-right propaganda and bomb-making instructions, face the full force of the law,? Rudd blustered
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on October 22, 2017, 11:44:16 pm
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on October 23, 2017, 04:52:43 am
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In August 1977 over 30,000 miners went on strike in Romania complaining of low pay and poor working conditions. In the years after the strike, the majority of its leaders died of cancer. After 1989, it was revealed that government doctors gave the strike leaders 5-minute chest X-rays to ensure the development of cancer.
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on December 30, 2017, 05:01:51 pm
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16:43 < zero-one> i love how the cops can be used as hitmen on demand 16:44 < zero-one> system definitely isn't broken 16:44 <@ppants> it was a random fake address which the victim gave the swatter, anotehr father of 2 ded just like that 16:44 <@ppants> total unrelated 3rd party 16:44 <@ppants> the police blew him away the moment he opened his front door i read 16:44 <@ppants> why the fuck knock then
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: here cums the fuck truck on December 30, 2017, 05:08:24 pm
16:43 < zero-one> i love how the cops can be used as hitmen on demand 16:44 < zero-one> system definitely isn't broken 16:44 <@Emcy_> it was a random fake address which the victim gave the swatter, anotehr father of 2 ded just like that 16:44 <@Emcy_> total unrelated 3rd party 16:44 <@Emcy_> the police blew him away the moment he opened his front door i read 16:44 <@Emcy_> why the fuck knock then
so the guy who called in the cops *might* go to jail.. but probably not because its across state lines. the police will never be held accountable for this of course.
you guys ever notice that a cops first priority is 1) the system 2) property 3) his own life
like the lives of others is waaaay down there. and "i was scared!" is somehow a defense when they have the burden of *responsibly* escalating force (civilians aren't allowed to escalate)
anyway
fuck cops, acab, etc
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on January 09, 2018, 09:57:03 pm
RIP James Dolan who committed suicide today at age 36. He was the co-creator of SecureDrop, a whistleblower submission system, alongside Aaron Swartz and Wired editor Kevin Poulsen.
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on September 13, 2018, 01:59:19 am
(https://i.imgur.com/QFgjiVy.jpg)
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on October 04, 2018, 07:13:16 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/RdPDHyI.jpg)
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on November 10, 2018, 08:11:10 pm
Not an exact source of that screenshot, but here's a related article containing the same quote - https://theintercept.com/2014/09/04/former-l-times-reporter-cleared-stories-cia-publication/
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on April 19, 2019, 07:10:08 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/aMEGgiq.jpg)
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on May 05, 2019, 10:13:55 pm
The Central Intelligence Agency used American modern art - including the works of such artists as Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko - as a weapon in the Cold War.
In the 1950s and 1960s, when the great majority of Americans disliked or even despised modern art - President Truman summed up the popular view when he said: "If that's art, then I'm a Hottentot." As for the artists themselves, many were ex- communists barely acceptable in the America of the McCarthyite era, and certainly not the sort of people normally likely to receive US government backing.
Why did the CIA support them? Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US. Russian art, strapped into the communist ideological straitjacket, could not compete.
The decision to include culture and art in the US Cold War arsenal was taken as soon as the CIA was founded in 1947. Dismayed at the appeal communism still had for many intellectuals and artists in the West, the new agency set up a division, the Propaganda Assets Inventory, which at its peak could influence more than 800 newspapers, magazines and public information organisations. They joked that it was like a Wurlitzer jukebox: when the CIA pushed a button it could hear whatever tune it wanted playing across the world.
Not true: https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-shot-herself-in-the-head-while-cuffed-with-hands-behind-her-back-during-traffic-stop-police-say (https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-shot-herself-in-the-head-while-cuffed-with-hands-behind-her-back-during-traffic-stop-police-say)
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: redheron on May 08, 2019, 09:29:55 am
Not true: https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-shot-herself-in-the-head-while-cuffed-with-hands-behind-her-back-during-traffic-stop-police-say (https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-shot-herself-in-the-head-while-cuffed-with-hands-behind-her-back-during-traffic-stop-police-say)
(https://i.imgur.com/EM4BgNn.png)
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: Diabolizer on May 23, 2019, 11:03:22 pm
Not true: https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-shot-herself-in-the-head-while-cuffed-with-hands-behind-her-back-during-traffic-stop-police-say (https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-shot-herself-in-the-head-while-cuffed-with-hands-behind-her-back-during-traffic-stop-police-say)
(https://i.imgur.com/EM4BgNn.png)
I know it's a little inappropriate to say this, but if this is happening to young hot white girl, what chance do the rest of us have?
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on May 30, 2019, 03:08:07 pm
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US Department of Energy is now referring to fossil fuels as “freedom gas” The Department of Energy is on its path to "energy dominance" with bizarre re-branding.
US Department of Energy is now referring to fossil fuels as “freedom gas” The Department of Energy is on its path to "energy dominance" with bizarre re-branding.
In the 1920s, the influential American intellectual Walter Lippman argued that the average person was incapable of seeing or understanding the world clearly and needed to be guided by experts behind the social curtain. In a number of books he laid out the theoretical foundations for the practical work of Edward Bernays, who developed “public relations” (aka propaganda) to carry out this task for the ruling elites. Bernays had honed his skills while working as a propagandist for the United States during World War I, and after the war he set himself up as a public relations counselor in New York City.
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In the following years, Bernays, Lippman, and their ilk were joined by social “scientists,” psychologists, and sudry others intent on making a sham out of the idea of democracy by developing strategies and techniques for the engineering of social consensus consonant with the wishes of the ruling classes. Their techniques of propaganda developed exponentially with the development of technology, the creation of the CIA, its infiltration of all the major media, and that agency’s courting of what the CIA official Cord Meyer called in the 1950s “the compatible left,” having already had the right in its pocket. Today most people are, as is said, “wired,” and they get their information from the electronic media that is mostly controlled by giant corporations in cahoots with government propagandists. Ask yourself: Has the power of the oligarchic, permanent warfare state with its propaganda and spy networks increased or decreased over your lifetime. The answer is obvious: the average people that Lippman and Bernays trashed are losing and the ruling elites are winning.
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on December 22, 2019, 11:38:19 pm
She leaned back in her chair, hands up, palms outfaced. Now she was on the defensive.
“I’m not trying to tread upon your First Amendment rights,” she said. “All I’m saying is: Couldn’t you have run those First Amendment rights past the legal department first?”
She dismissed me with the assurance that we would discuss the matter further at some point in the future.
Most TSA officers I talked to told me they felt the agency’s day-to-day operations represented an abuse of public trust and funds.
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: fluffy on December 24, 2019, 12:21:14 am
This is a topic I could go on for hours about, if not days.
Truth be told many are mad at the government for their corruption, and I am too. But I tend to dislike the slaves loyal to a corrupt tyrant.
Let's start with Gary Webb
(https://imgur.com/a/50FPZTl)
Gary Webb was found dead with two bullets to the head, and they ruled it a suicide.
When the UK launched their first hydrogen bomb, they used their own military as test subjects. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/secret-documents-reveal-servicemen-were-12624594
Don't forget the US Government tested on their own as well. I'm not talking about the time the Army gave soldiers LSD (which can be found here) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4872112/President-Eisenhower-s-Army-test-LSD-soldiers.html
I'm talking about things like this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood_Arsenal_human_experiments
It seems to me if you were a tyrant and had loyal soldiers, you'd take care of them. I suppose not.
I could go on, but that'd be boring.
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: redheron on December 25, 2019, 02:18:23 pm
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on February 07, 2020, 09:17:05 pm
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on March 20, 2020, 05:54:20 pm
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Republican senator Richard Burr faced demands to resign on Friday after it was reported that he sold off millions of dollars’ worth of stocks just before the market dropped amid fears of the coronavirus pandemic.
Burr and his wife sold between around $628,000 and $1.7m in more than 30 separate transactions in late January and mid-February, ProPublica and the Center for Responsive Politics reported. Several of the stocks were in companies that own hotels.
On Friday, Burr asked congressional investigators to probe whether his actions amounted to insider trading. “I relied solely on public news reports to guide my decision on the sale of stocks February 13,” he said in a statement.
Numerous human radiation experiments have been performed in the United States, many of which were funded by various U.S. government agencies[3] such as the United States Department of Defense, the United States Atomic Energy Commission, and the United States Public Health Service. Experiments including:
feeding radioactive material to mentally disabled children[4] enlisting doctors to administer radioactive iron to impoverished pregnant women exposing U.S. soldiers and prisoners to high levels of radiation[4] irradiating the testicles of prisoners, which caused severe birth defects[4] exhuming bodies from graveyards to test them for radiation (without the consent of the families of the deceased)[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plutonium_Files
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: kayimbo on December 29, 2020, 04:56:06 am
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
so, the factory owners and operators knew the shit was radioactive and was harmful, but the people who were harmed only got money. ??? what? Why didn't they mass hang everyone who conspired to give those women cancer?
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: tawd on December 29, 2020, 05:08:21 am
so, the factory owners and operators knew the shit was radioactive and was harmful, but the people who were harmed only got money. ??? what? Why didn't they mass hang everyone who conspired to give those women cancer?
*sigh*
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: kayimbo on December 30, 2020, 12:00:58 pm
Lol, california hired an auditor, and the auditor said 'hey, 200 million dollars is missing' and they said 'you're a bad employee and also you're fired'
Lol, california hired an auditor, and the auditor said 'hey, 200 million dollars is missing' and they said 'you're a bad employee and also you're fired'
My dad used to work for UNICOR, which is the slave labor program for inmates. They do everything from sewing clothes, to making furniture, to repairing government vehicles. He noticed that a shipment of military trucks which were supposed to be sent to Texas were instead diverted to Arizona, and the cost to repair the trucks at the other location was thousands of dollars more per truck.
My dad reported this discrepancy, which cost the government over $400,000, to the Office of the Inspector General and was promptly fired from his position at UNICOR.
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: here cums the fuck truck on January 02, 2021, 06:18:31 pm
:(
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on March 01, 2021, 01:47:02 am
Yay! This missile is sooo inclusive! It has a rainbow Boeing logo, the trans flag, and a black lives matter sticker on it!!
That definitely makes up for, y'know, spending billions of dollars killing people for oil
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on March 03, 2021, 11:06:17 am
In case you missed it, George W Bush was pretending to be stupid during his presidency so that average americans would relate with him, the media could mock him, and political opponents would underestimate him.
This is the same tactic they used with Trump's presidency. If the media is spending all of their time talking about all the stupid things the president says, they don't have to talk about corruption or war.
"You fool me once, shame on you, you fool me twice -- well, you can't fool me again!"
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: rachel on January 21, 2022, 10:15:38 am
Title: Re: Government corruption thread
Post by: standard on February 20, 2022, 06:36:21 pm
(https://i.imgur.com/R6vOIlj.png)
"Police abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws has shaken our nation’s conscience. Civil forfeiture allows police to seize — and then keep or sell — any property they allege is involved in a crime. Owners need not ever be arrested or convicted of a crime for their cash, cars, or even real estate to be taken away permanently by the government."
"Police abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws has shaken our nation’s conscience. Civil forfeiture allows police to seize — and then keep or sell — any property they allege is involved in a crime. Owners need not ever be arrested or convicted of a crime for their cash, cars, or even real estate to be taken away permanently by the government."
"Police abuse of civil asset forfeiture laws has shaken our nation’s conscience. Civil forfeiture allows police to seize — and then keep or sell — any property they allege is involved in a crime. Owners need not ever be arrested or convicted of a crime for their cash, cars, or even real estate to be taken away permanently by the government."
found a graph from 2014 until 2019, for half of those years asset forfeiture was higher than burglary
Are those numbers all civil forfeiture, or is that counting all asset seizures including when the Feds return stolen property from a thief, or when the Feds recover a disaster survivor's belongings?