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History teacher suspended for lesson showing 'remarkable parallels" between rise of Trump and Hilter
Raw Story - Sat Nov 12, 2016
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California - Bay Area history teacher was suspended from teaching on Thursday over a lesson in which he examined parallels between the rise of Trump and German fascist dictator Adolf Hitler. More»

Hidden Microphones Exposed As Part of Government Surveillance Program In The Bay Area
KPIX-TV - Sat May 14, 2016
OAKLAND, California - Hidden microphones that are part of a clandestine government surveillance program that has been operating around the Bay Area has been exposed. More»

Largest Homeless Camp In US Evicted And Destroyed To Make Way For Tech Billionaires
Addicting Info - Sat Dec 6, 2014
More than 350 homeless Americans lived in their makeshift village, 'The Jungle' in San Jose, California - that is, until police and social services raided the camp, evicting tenants and destroying their self-made homes on Thursday. More»

Police fire tear gas at Oakland, 200 arrested
Associated Press - Sat Jan 28, 2012
OAKLAND, California - Riot police fought running skirmishes with anti-Wall Street protesters on Saturday, firing tear gas and bean bag projectiles and arresting more than 200 people in clashes that injured three officers and at least one demonstrator. More»

Bay Area woman trapped in airport for eight days-all for lack of a $60 baggage fee
The Lookout - Thu Nov 3, 2011
Sure, hurricanes and unseasonal blizzards can create major delays in air travel. More»

Occupy Oakland: second Iraq war veteran injured by police
The Guardian, UK - Thu Nov 3, 2011
Kayvan Sabehgi in intensive care with a lacerated spleen after protests in Oakland, a week after Scott Olsen was hurt. More»

Oakland Police Critically Injure Iraq War Vet During Occupy March
Huffington Post - Tue Oct 25, 2011
WASHINGTON - The Oakland Police Department fired tear gas on Occupy Oakland demonstrators Tuesday night as they marched through downtown, determined to reclaim the camp that officers destroyed that morning. More»

Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day Frontman, Kicked Off Southwest Flight For Baggy Pants
KGO-TV - Fri Sep 2, 2011
OAKLAND, California - Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong says he was kicked off of a Southwest Airlines flight Thursday night for wearing his pants too low. More»

Baggy pants lead to student's arrest at airport
Huffington Post - Wed Jun 15, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO - Police say a University of New Mexico football player's saggy pants led to his arrest at San Francisco International Airport. More»

Vets sue CIA, Defense over military experiments
Associated Press - Wed Jan 7, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - Six veterans who claim they were unwittingly exposed to dangerous chemicals and germs during government-sponsored Cold War experiments have sued the CIA, Department of Defense and other agencies. More»

Shooting by Oakland, Calif., officer sparks violent protests
Associated Press - Wed Jan 7, 2009
OAKLAND, California - Heavy police presence greeted Bay Area Rapid Transit commuters Thursday, a day after more than 100 people were arrested in violent protests over the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a transit police officer. More»

Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system
AFP - Thu Aug 21, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel on Thursday showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets. More»

French police come to California to look into mysterious death
Associated Press - Sat Apr 26, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - The last time anyone saw Hugues de la Plaza alive, he was out celebrating a promotion with a few friends at a nightclub. More»

Web site 'Wikileaks' shuttered over post
Associated Press - Mon Feb 18, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has set off a free speech tempest after shutting down a US Web site for posting internal documents accusing a Cayman Islands' bank branch of money laundering and tax evasion schemes. More»

Ex-Worker: Air Firm Aided CIA Renditions
Associated Press - Fri Dec 14, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO - A Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA secretly fly terrorism suspects to be tortured in overseas prisons openly acknowledged its role in the "extraordinary rendition" program, a former employee of the smaller company said in court papers Friday. More»

Judge Orders Bush Administration to Issue Global Warming Study
Bloomberg - Mon Aug 20, 2007
The Bush administration violated US law by failing to produce a study on the impact of global warming and must issue a summary by March, a federal judge ruled. More»

US psychologists to take stand on military torture tactics
AFP - Sat Aug 18, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO - The American Psychological Association will decide Sunday whether to condemn torture tactics and place a moratorium on members' involvement in interrogations at US military detention sites. More»

Flying Saucers Go Into Production
Sky News - Thu Aug 2, 2007
A "flying saucer" that glides three metres above the ground and carries two people has gone into commerical production. More»

Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room
Wired News - Tue Apr 11, 2006
AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company. More»

Monsanto Sues American Farmers for Saving Seeds
Associated Press - Wed Feb 9, 2005
SAN FRANCISCO - Monsanto Company's "seed police" snared soy farmer Homan McFarling in 1999, and the company is demanding he pay it hundreds of thousands of dollars for alleged technology piracy. More»

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