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Judge Rules CIA Can Withhold Info about Illegal Metho...
By Escape The Illusion on July 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
A federal judge has backed CIA efforts to conceal information about treatment of detainees, even if the suppressed records contain details about illegal activity on the part of the intelligence agency. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled that he was unwilling to “second-guess the CIA Direc... -
Malawi court convicts gay coupleBy Escape The Illusion on May 18, 2010 | No Comments
A court in Malawi has convicted a gay couple of gross indecency and unnatural acts. Steven Monjeza, 26, and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, 20, were arrested in December 2009 after celebrating their engagement ahead of a wedding planned for 2010. They have been in jail ever since and now face 14 years in priso... -
9 indicted on charges of accessing Obama recordsBy Escape The Illusion on May 13, 2010 | 3 Comments
By MICHAEL J. CRUMB, The Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa — Nine people were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of accessing President Barack Obama’s student loan records while they were employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa. The U.S. attorney’s office said a gr... -
Troops, inmates try to protect coast as executives fa...By Escape The Illusion on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
By Steve Gorman and Timothy Gardner. Troops using helicopters and bulldozers, helped by prison inmates, rushed to shore up Louisiana’s coast against a huge oil slick on Tuesday as oil company executives traded blame in Washington over what could be the worst spill in U.S. history. For the comp... -
Frightening Taste Of Internet Censorship As Major Fre...By Escape The Illusion on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
With influential proponents recently calling for a newly regulated world wide web, we got a preview of how that might look this past weekend after both Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com were completely blocked to many Internet users in New Zealand. The block was only removed early this morning foll... -
Victory In San Diego: Medical Marijuana Patient NOT G...By Escape The Illusion on March 29, 2010 | No Comments
San Diego District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’s war on medical marijuana patients and providers suffered another crushing defeat Thursday afternoon, as activist Eugene Davidovich was acquitted by a jury of all charges stemming from his arrest last year as part of Operation Endless Summer. Davidov... -
In Public Without A Man = 300 Lashes in Saudi ArabiaBy Escape The Illusion on March 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Source: http://consciousape.com/news/in-public-without-a-man-300-lashes-in-saudi-arabia/ Saudi woman receives 300 lashes and 18 months in jail for attending court without a male guardian… Close on the heels of an American businesswoman in Saudi Arabia being jailed for having coffee with a man who... -
15 Reasons Why We Need a Revolt in This CountryBy Escape The Illusion on March 8, 2010 | 3 Comments
Government works quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the rich and powerful. But it does not work for people. It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations,... -
How the DEA Scrubbed Thomas Jefferson’s Montice...By Escape The Illusion on March 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
Visitors to Monticello don’t learn how Jefferson cultivated poppies, and his personal opium use may as well never have happened. Thomas Jefferson was a drug criminal. But he managed to escape the terrible sword of justice by dying a century before the DEA was created. In 1987 agents from the D... -
200 Days After They Went Missing, Mothers of Jailed U...By Escape The Illusion on February 25, 2010 | 1 Comment
“We’ve had no contact at all … We haven’t even had a phone call.” AMY GOODMAN: We begin today with an update on the three Americans who have been held in Iran for over six months. Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal were detained on July 31st after accidentally cr...
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