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The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is pushing to fast-track legislation that would require police to obtain a warrant before accessing emails and other private online messages.
Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) goal is for the Senate to unanimously approve his bill before the August recess, according to one of his committee aides. Any opposition could delay a vote until after Congress returns in the fall. Continue reading “Bill requiring warrants for email searches nears Senate vote”
The power, reach and influence of the Central Intelligence Agency is a staple of conspiracy theories.
The news that the CIA is reportedly part-funding a scientific geoengineering study into how to control the weather is unlikely to dampen speculation over their activities. Continue reading “CIA backs $630,000 study into how to control global weather through geoengineering”
Last week, Detroit declared bankruptcy, becoming the largest city in U.S. history to take such drastic action in the face of financial insolvency. A declaration of bankruptcy isn’t what most people think it is, though: it’s not just a statement of “we’re broke!” It’s actually a way for the city to clear its slate of all financial obligations and not pay the retirees it owes.
What are the largest financial obligations the city facing? Pensions. $3.5 billion worth of pensions, to be exact. Continue reading “Warning to all police, firefighters, schoolteachers: Most government pensions to be confiscated within a decade”
A 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck central New Zealand near the capital on Sunday, prompting flights in and out of the nearby airport to be suspended, according to local reports.
Nevertheless, initial reports indicated damage was light. The Pacific tsunami warning center did not issue a tsunami warning.
One News reported on its website that all flights in and out of Wellington Airport were suspended indefinitely amid fears of damage to equipment. Continue reading “6.5 earthquake strikes near Wellington, New Zealand”
Would you trust thousands of low-level Federal bureaucrats and contractors with one-touch access to your private financial and medical information? Under Obamacare you won’t have any choice.
As the Obamacare train-wreck begins to gather steam, there is increasing concern in Congress over something called the Federal Data Services Hub. The Data Hub is a comprehensive database of personal information being established by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement the federally facilitated health insurance exchanges. Continue reading “Move over NSA, here comes the Obamacare Big Brother database”
Freedom Outpost – by John Risselada
If you haven’t been able to put two and two together yet, the spectacle we just witnessed as the George Zimmerman trial wasn’t really about George Zimmerman at all. It wasn’t a trial to find real justice and it wasn’t even a trial where George Zimmerman was the accused. It wasn’t about Trayvon Martin or the perceived injustice of a white guy who wasn’t white being racist against a poor, oppressed black kid. Nope, this was a trial where the nation’s self-defense laws were the accused and it was designed explicitly to get the new generation of ding dongs educated in social change and social justice to believe that drastic steps need to be taken to change our nations out dated gun laws. Ding dongs incidentally, that haven’t had an honest discussion about liberty and the constitution since the third grade. Continue reading “The Zimmerman Trial Was Ultimately About Going After Guns & Self-Defense Laws”
I’m reaching out to you all with words of assurance as I write this story. By now, I think we all are overwhelmingly convinced that we live in an insane world. I call it the “post-reason era.”
It’s a world full of irrational people, criminal corporations, deceptive government, the abandonment of law and even the “dogmatizing” of the sciences which once claimed to be based on reason. In popular culture, we’ve got the insanity of the Trayvon Martin drama in which the abandonment of law is now institutionalized in the justice system itself, where prosecutors are allowed to commit crimes as part of a “trial,” and state attorneys are encouraged to misapply the justice system so that it might be used as a political weapon. Continue reading “The fall of reason: How to protect your sanity in an insane world (and achieve spiritual victory in the process)”
President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly would be “very well-qualified” to lead the Department of Homeland Security, but added that there would be numerous strong candidates for the job.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has announced she is stepping down to lead the University of California. Continue reading “Obama: New York’s police chief ‘well-qualified’ to lead Homeland Security”
Over a decade ago, it was discovered that the NSA embedded backdoor access into Windows 95, and likely into virtually all other subsequent internet connected, desktop-based operating systems. However, with the passage of time, more and more people went “mobile”, and as a result the NSA had to adapt. And adapt they have: as Bloomberg reports, “The NSA is quietly writing code for Google’s Android OS.” Continue reading “The NSA Has Inserted Its Code Into Android OS, Or Three Quarters Of All Smartphones”
NEW YORK — A judge presiding over the civil trial of a former Goldman Sachs trader accused of misleading investors about the true prospects of their bet on a package of mortgage-based securities has summed up the charges against him with a fairy tale, saying it’s as if he’s accused of handing Little Red Riding Hood an invitation to grandmother’s house while concealing the fact the invitation was written by the Big Bad Wolf. Continue reading “Ex-Goldman Sachs trader faces NY SEC civil trial”
Skype now has a backdoor that permits government surveillance of users’ video and audio calls, according to a new report in the Guardian.
The report, based on leaked slides from the National Security Agency, appears to confirm growing suspicions about the popular video chat service — and indicates calls may be monitored as easily as an old-fashioned phone call. Continue reading “NSA docs boast: Now we can wiretap Skype video calls”
Business Daily Africa – by CHARLES MWANIKI
Soon before you can get money from the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) a finger print will be required.
The simple act of withdrawing money from your accounts is about to enter a new phase of the digital age, following the introduction of ATM machines with a biometric fingerprint scanner. Continue reading “Fingerprint based ATMs now launched to protect your money”
The American people have suffered a coup d’etat, but they are hesitant to acknowledge it. The regime ruling in Washington today lacks constitutional and legal legitimacy. Americans are ruled by usurpers who claim that the executive branch is above the law and that the US Constitution is a mere “scrap of paper.”
An unconstitutional government is an illegitimate government. The oath of allegiance requires defense of the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” As the Founding Fathers made clear, the main enemy of the Constitution is the government itself. Power does not like to be bound and tied down and constantly works to free itself from constraints. Continue reading “Coup d’etat”
Story Leak – by Anthony Gucciardi
As the world reacts to the Trayvon Martin case, including prominent rappers calling out the media over its race baiting, reports detail around 160,000 Russian troops were called to ‘combat readiness’ following an Israeli strike on Russian-made missiles in Syria.
Is the nation too distracted by the George Zimmerman trial’s 24/7 news cycle to even know about this developing situation that coincides with escalating tensions between Russia and US-affiliated nations around the world? Continue reading “WW3 Brews as Nation Distracted by Trayvon Martin Case”
Oath Keepers – by Stewart Rhodes
The Washington Times reports:
An Internet talk show host was arrested at his home in Herndon on Tuesday night after a videotaped July Fourth stunt in which he loaded a shotgun in the District’s Freedom Plaza — a violation of the city’s gun laws. Continue reading “Thoughts on the Police Raid on Adam Kokesh – and On His Canceled “Armed March” on D.C.”
The Hill – by Brendan Sasso
Independent – by Rob Williams
Natural News – by Mike Adams 
NBC News – by Gil Aegerter 
Rare – by James S. Robbins
Natural News – by Mike Adams 
Zero Hedge- by Tyler Durden
C-Net – by Declan McCullagh