A previous article discussed institutionalized spying on Americans. Anyone can be monitored for any reason or none at all. Manufactured national security threats, silencing dissent, targeting whistleblowers, and challenging press freedom subvert constitutional rights. Doing so is worse than ever now. Obama bears full responsibility. He governs by diktat authority. He's waging war on humanity. He's spurning ...

A Florida couple's dream tree house has turned into a legal nightmare. A few weeks ago, Lynn Tran and Richard Hazen received a notice from a code enforcement officer saying that their two-story sanctuary in Holmes Beach, Fla., violated several building codes, and had to be taken down or they could be fined up to $500 a day. But Tran said the pair had gotten verbal permission from a former building official ...

Police have arrested the suspected Mothers’ Day shooter who opened fire into a crowd in New Orleans Sunday, injuring 19 parade attendees. Akein Scott, 19, was apprehended in the Little Woods section of eastern New Orleans, Louisiana. Police department spokeswoman Remi Braden told the Associated Press that no additional details would be made public until Thursday morning. Scott was previously arrested for il ...

Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em bro … oh. Those are tomatoes. Brooklyn Police descended upon a Lefferts Avenue apartment building this Wednesday, responding to a report that there were marijuana plants on the building’s roof. The report came from the building’s superintendent, but the cops didn’t check it out first. They should’ve, because the plants in question were not pot plants but tomato plants. For the curio ...

The Internal Revenue Service asked tea party groups to see donor rolls. It asked for printouts of Facebook posts. And it asked what books people were reading. A POLITICO review of documents from 11 tea party and conservative groups that the IRS scrutinized in 2012 shows the agency wanted to know everything — in some cases, it even seemed curious what members were thinking. The review included interviews wit ...

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Obama Administration’s decision to deny asylum to a German homeschooling family. The Romeike family fled their German homeland in 2008 seeking political asylum in the United States – where they hoped to home school their children. Instead, the Obama administration wants the evangelical Christian family deported. An Immigration judge granted them asylum in 2 ...

Dwolla users are unable to transfer money to and from leading Bitcoin trading platform Mt. Gox following a court order from the Department of Homeland Security. Users of Dwolla’s money-moving service began receiving this message as of Tuesday afternoon, first posted on Twitter by OkCupid cofounder Chris Coyne and reported upon by Betabeat. The Department Of Homeland Security appears to have shut down the ab ...

Satirical suggestion of banning cookers after Boston bombs becomes reality Steve Watson Infowars.com May 15, 2013 In the aftermath of the Boston bombings, where pressure cookers were used to house explosives, many satirically suggested that the government would immediately react by banning the household devices. Now it seems that may actually be happening. Two different reports in the last week have suggest ...

Homeowner to cops: “Martial law has not been established in this country” Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com May 15, 2013 In perhaps one of the most shocking police brutality videos of recent years, police in Cotati, California respond to a call about “domestic violence” by kicking down the door of a man’s home before tazing him and his wife as they scream in agony. The video begins with the cops standing on t ...

Part of ‘Intellistreets’ rollout? Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com May 15, 2013 Strange new street signs being installed across Las Vegas are prompting suspicions from concerned readers, one of whom sent us the following images. Are these new signs part of the nationwide ‘Intellistreets’ rollout of so-called “smart” hubs that eavesdrop on conversations? Image: Infowars.com “My neighbor brought it to my atten ...