Archive for August, 2009

Keene Resident Stopped By Police For Biking (Video)

Posted by antijingoist on Sunday, 30 August, 2009

KPD stops a Keene res­i­dent for bicy­cling on Cen­tral Square. Res­i­dent was afraid he might be hit by a car and had the bicy­cle on the side­walk.
KPD issued a warn­ing, after forc­ing him to iden­tify himself.


This Week's News for 2009-08-30

Posted by antijingoist on Sunday, 30 August, 2009

Bill Would Give President Control of Internet

Posted by antijingoist on Friday, 28 August, 2009

The new ver­sion would allow the pres­i­dent to “declare a cyber­se­cu­rity emer­gency” relat­ing to “non–gov­ern­mental” com­puter net­works and do what’s nec­es­sary to respond to the threat. Other sec­tions of the pro­posal include a fed­eral cer­ti­fi­ca­tion pro­gram for “cyber­se­cu­rity pro­fes­sion­als,” and a require­ment that cer­tain com­puter sys­tems and net­works in the pri­vate sec­tor be man­aged by peo­ple who have been awarded that license.


Man Catches Fire From Being Tasered

Posted by antijingoist on Tuesday, 25 August, 2009

A home­less per­son was tasered for attempt­ing to get high off an spray can, and bursts into flames.


NY Judge Orders Release of Fed Emergency Loan Reports

Posted by antijingoist on Tuesday, 25 August, 2009

Via Bloomberg: NY Judge Loretta Preska ruled that the Fed­eral Reserve is not exempt from FOIA requests and must pro­vide records of it’s emer­gency loans to the public.