Author: Larry

The Intercept – by Trevor Aaronson

AZLIDDIN KURBANOV IS a barrel-chested man from Uzbekistan who came to the United States in 2009, when he was in his late 20s. A Christian who had converted from Islam, Kurbanov arrived as a refugee and spoke little English. Resettled in Boise, Idaho, he rented an apartment, worked odd jobs, and was studying to be a truck driver.

But about three years after entering the U.S., around the time he converted back to Islam, Kurbanov was placed under FBI surveillance. According to emails and internet chat logs obtained by the government, Kurbanov was disgusted by having seen Americans burn the Quran and by reports that an American soldier had tried to rape a Muslim girl. “My entire life, everything, changed,” Kurbanov wrote in a July 31, 2012 email.
Continue reading “NSA Secretly Helped Convict Defendants in U.S. Courts, Classified Documents Reveal”

Breitbart – by Chris Tomlinson

Volunteers have criticised the Red Cross charity after receiving a communication telling them to remove crucifixes from the walls of their branches as the organisation looks to become more secular.

The Belgian branches of the international aid organisation received an email from the Provincial Committee of the Red Cross in Liège to remove all crucifixes. André Rouffart, president of the Red Cross in Verviers, said: “We were asked to respect the principles of the Red Cross”, and not to distinguish between race or religious belief 7sur7 reports.  Continue reading “Red Cross Demands Branches Remove Crucifixes to Be More Secular”

Jon Rappoport

The Surveillance State has created an apparatus whose implications are staggering. It’s a different world now. And sometimes it takes a writer of fiction to flesh out the larger landscape.

Brad Thor’s novel, Black List, posits the existence of a monster corporation, ATS, which stands alongside the NSA in collecting information on every move we make. ATS’ intelligence-gathering capability is unmatched anywhere in the world.   Continue reading “The Surveillance State is creating new meta-crimes”

Activist Post – by Derrick Broze

In one of the most important Fourth Amendment battles of the digital age, the Supreme Court is preparing to tackle a case involving law enforcement accessing cellphone records without a warrant.

On Wednesday the US Supreme Court is scheduled to address the case of Carpenter v. United States to determine whether or not law enforcement should be required to obtain a warrant before accessing the cellphone records of an individual. The case deals with a set of armed robberies that took place between December 2010 and March 2011. Several men worked together to rob RadioShack and T-Mobile stores in the Michigan and Ohio areas, stealing cell phones and holding store employees and customers hostage in the process.  Continue reading “Supreme Court to Debate Warrantless Collection Of Cellphone Records in Huge Fourth Amendment Battle”

Intellihub – by Shepard Ambellas

WASHINGTON (INTELLIHUB) — A twelve-page “protocol agreement” between the governments of the United States and Russia concerning the “management and disposition of plutonium” bears former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s signature and dovetails several other agreementsmade in August and September of 2000.

Under Article 7, which can be found on page 5 of the agreement, it is clear that Rosatom (a Canadian proxy) is involved, as I reported in the Jan. 23, 2016, article titled “Clinton Foundation took massive payoffs, promised Hammond Ranch and other publicly owned lands to Russians along with one-fifth of our uranium ore” when I broke all of this wide open.   Continue reading “Government document bearing Hillary Clinton’s signature proves US-Russian Federation uranium deal occurred”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Back in 2008, one of the biggest arguments in favor of Obamacare was that the legislation would help alleviate bad debt at hospitals created by people who required emergency care but didn’t have health insurance or the financial means to cover their treatment.  Of course, like most promises made about Obamacare, the exact opposite of the Left’s original theories has played out in reality as restructuring lawyers are now warning that the healthcare industry is about to experience a massive wave of hospital bankruptcies.  Per Bloomberg:   Continue reading “Obamacare Set To Drive New Wave Of Hospital Bankruptcies”

Ars Tecnica – by Jon Brodkin

For years, Comcast has been promising that it won’t violate the principles of net neutrality, regardless of whether the government imposes any net neutrality rules. That meant that Comcast wouldn’t block or throttle lawful Internet traffic and that it wouldn’t create fast lanes in order to collect tolls from Web companies that want priority access over the Comcast network.

This was one of the ways in which Comcast argued that the Federal Communications Commission should not reclassify broadband providers as common carriers, a designation that forces ISPs to treat customers fairly in other ways. The Title II common carrier classification that makes net neutrality rules enforceable isn’t necessary because ISPs won’t violate net neutrality principles anyway, Comcast and other ISPs have claimed.  Continue reading “Comcast hints at plan for paid fast lanes after net neutrality repeal”

Arkansas Online – by Linda Satter

A mother’s 30-year quest to uncover secrets she hopes will shed light on her son’s mysterious death in 1987 has led a federal judge to order a private review of several tightly guarded government documents.

The documents may or may not reveal anything new about the death of Linda Ives’ 17-year-old son, Kevin, whose body was discovered before dawn on Aug. 23, 1987, alongside that of his friend, Don Henry, 16, on a dark stretch of Saline County railroad tracks. But the Benton woman says it’s time to find out.   Continue reading “Judge to look at files in 1987 deaths of 2 boys found on central Arkansas railroad tracks”

Asia Times – by Alan Boyd

Asian military forces are rolling out killer robots for a range of battlefield roles as diplomats wrestle with legal semantics over efforts to control artificial intelligence (AI) powered weapons that many fear could trigger the next arms race.

Experts at a session of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva this week, attended by delegates from more than 80 nations, could not even agree on how to define the weapons. They have been struggling to answer the same question since 2013.   Continue reading “Rise of the killer machines”

The Malay Mail Online – by Syed Jaymal Zahiid

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 — Efforts for sustainable development that meet global standards are often hindered by politics and an adversarial work culture among civil servants of all levels, planners said today.

Political and personal friction between federal, state and local authorities have prompted officials to ignore guidelines, create division and block efforts to address entrenched problems, the National Planners Congress here was told.   Continue reading “Politics, zero-sum culture hampering good development, planners say”

Euractiv

The widespread rollout of 5G technology in the coming years will make digitalisation and the Internet of Things an integral part of all aspects of our daily lives, writes T-Systems.

T-Systems is a German company that operates information and communication technology (ICT) services. 

With driverless cars, smart heating controls, sensors for monitoring machines and data glasses to help engineers, digitalisation is expanding ever further and covering an increasing number of areas. This continuous growth applies above all to the Internet of Things (IoT).   Continue reading “5G Rollout Is Vital For Digitalisation And Internet Of Things”