When it comes to privacy – we’re screwed. According to the Los Angeles Times – unmanned Predator drones aren’t just for hunting terrorists in the Middle East anymore – they’re being used to hunt American citizens too. Three men were arrested in North Dakota on suspicions they stole cattle from a nearby farm – and they were located thanks to the help of a Predator drone conducting surveillance above. Local police are now saying they’ve used Predator drones to run at least two dozen surveillance flights in North Dakota alone since June.

Although Congress authorized the drones to be used domestically in 2005 to patrol our Northern and Southern borders – their use for local law enforcement is increasing – with virtually no input by the American people. And privacy experts warn continued use of drones radically threatens the privacy of all of us. As Ryan Calo – the director of privacy and robotics at Stanford University – said, “Any time you have a tool like that in the hands of law enforcement that makes it easier to do surveillance, they will do more of it." The rise of the military industrial complex – and the militarization of our police are nearly complete.

As the chant goes – “this is what a police state looks like.”

-Thom

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The Daily Stack

Hour One: Covering "Occupy the Ports" day of action
- Joshua Holland, AlterNet

Article: "Goldman Sachs Top Target of Occupy Protests at West Coast Ports" by Alison Vekshin.

Article: "How Goldman Sachs and Other Companies Exploit Port Truck Drivers — Occupy Protesters Plan to Shut Down West Coast Ports in Protest" by Tara Lohan.

Article: "Six Banks Control 60% of Gross National Product -- Is the U.S. at the Mercy of an Unstoppable Oligarchy?" by Bill Moyers.

Video: "Elizabeth Warren: Fight Back".

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Article: "President Obama: The full "60 Minutes" interview".

Article: "Occupy SF: Police clear last camp, arrest 55" by Carolyn Jones.

Article: "Police employ Predator drone spy planes on home front" by Brian Bennett.

Dizzy alert: "VIDEO REPORT: Newt Gingrich’s Top Three Flip-Flops" by Jeff Spross.

Article: "PRESS Pass: Americans Elect" by David Gregory.

Articles: "Americans Elect" by Irregular Times.

Article: "Arno Political Consultants" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Americans Elect: internet-based group gaining steam ahead of election: New organisation wants to challenge America's two-party system, but has drawn critical fire over the source of its funding" by Paul Harris.

Article: "The slick shtick of Americans Elect" by Justin Elliott.

Article: "Thomas Friedman Is Flat: More Nonsense on Economics in the NYT" by Dean Baker.

Article: "Make Way for the Radical Center" by Thomas L. Friedman.

Article: "2012: The Year of the Independent?" by Lynn Forester de Rothschild.

Occupy Seattle update
- Mark Taylor-Canfield, Occupy Seattle

Article: "Longview port shuts down after Occupy protest" by Manuel Valdes.

Article: "Occupy aims to shut down West Coast ports - live coverage" by Guardian.

Article: "Police arrest 18 Occupy protesters in New York " by AP.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Article: "Obama And Maliki Prepare For "Equal Partnership"" by TRNS.

Article: "Supreme Court Will Take Up Arizona's Immigration Law" by TRNS.

Article: "Rick Perry campaign clarifies context on Supreme Court count" by Jason Clayworth.

Article: "Supreme Court to hear challenge of Arizona’s restrictive immigration law" by Robert Barnes.

Article: "Supreme Court to hear Texas redistricting dispute" by Biskupic.

Article: "A Petition to Support the Saving American Democracy Amendment " by Bernie Sanders.

Article: "GOP payroll tax cut package vote set for Tuesday" by Felicia Sonmez.

Book: "Self Empowerment: Nine Things the 19th Century Can Teach us About Living in the 21st " by B. Anne Gehman and Ellen Ratner.

Hour Three: How raising taxes on job creators affects hiring...or does it?
- Mark Finkelstein, News Busters

Article: "GOP Objects To 'Millionaires Surtax'; Millionaires We Found? Not So Much" by Tamara Keith.

Hutchinson, KS Tea Party ad depicts President Barack Obama as a skunk...
- Darrell Pope, NAACP local chapter, Hutchinson, KS

Article: "Kansas tea party illustration draws racism claims" by AP.

The good: "San Francisco minimum wage to top $10 an hour" by AP.

The bad: "Another Oops: Perry Says Solar Company Solyndra Is A Country" by Marie Diamond.

The very, very ugly: "McLaughlin: Did Obama’s Roosevelt speech sound like Hugo Chavez?" by Andrew Jones.

Article: "Michael Jackson's hair auctioned off for $10,871" by Gerrick D. Kennedy.

Article: "Regulation Is Policing" by spicoli.

Article: "Ohio election law repeal to appear on ballot" by Ann Sanner.

Article: "As Many As 5 Million Voters Disenfranchised By Voter ID Laws" by karoli .

Article: "Swiss and U.S. inch closer to tax-row deal: reports" by Reuters.

Article: "Agreements reached at the 2011 UN Climate Summit" by John Austin.

Article: "Winners and losers of U.N. climate deal" by Reuters.

Article: "Has Higgs been discovered? Rumors of watershed news build".

Hour Three: "I Am the 1%"
- Wayne Root, Libertarian National Congressional Committee

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