Category: News

The Guardian – by Ed Pilkington

The US government has moved to drop key charges against the activist-journalist Barrett Brown, including the most controversial count that he transferred stolen property by posting a hyperlink to a website containing hacked material.

Federal prosecutors had come under widespread criticism for seeking to prosecute Brown for the republishing of a hyperlink. Lawyers, publishers and internet freedom campaigners had warned it could set a precedent that would have put a chill on the culture of linking across the web.   Continue reading “US government moves to drop key charges against Barrett Brown”

Paul Craig Roberts

Gerald Celente calls the Western media “presstitutes,” an ingenuous term that I often use. Presstitutes sell themselves to Washington for access and government sources and to keep their jobs. Ever since the corrupt Clinton regime permitted the concentration of the US media, there has been no journalistic independence in the United States except for some Internet sites.   Continue reading “Propaganda Rules The News”

It didn’t take very long to monetize the crisis in Ukraine. Or was that part of the plan all along.

Oil & Gas Journal – by Nick Snow 

An American Petroleum Institute official and two Republican US senators separately called for accelerated US LNG exports in response to the Russian-Ukrainian confrontation over control of the Crimean Peninsula.   Continue reading “US urged to export more LNG in response to Russia-Ukraine crisis”

Examiner

Yesterday Pope Francis, Jesuit Superior Adolfo Pachon and Church of England Archbishop Justin Welby were served summons to answer charges for aiding, abetting and conspiring to conceal evidence in the rape, torture, trafficking and genocide of children. Litigation against them and Queen Elizabeth was scheduled to begin 31 March 2014 in a Brussels international court.   Continue reading “Child abuse, genocide charges mount on Pope Francis, Queen, Jesuit, Archbishop”

Yahoo News- by JULIE PACE and LARA JAKES

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration slapped new visa restrictions Thursday on pro-Russian opponents of the new Ukraine government in Kiev and cleared the way for financial sanctions as the West began punishing Moscow for its occupation of Ukraine’s Crimea region.

The new restrictions targeted an unspecified and unidentified number of people and entities that the Obama administration accused of threatening Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial borders. They were announced in Washington as Secretary of State John Kerry headed into a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Rome.   Continue reading “US announces visa restrictions on Russians”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: There will be no WWIII to the extent that people think. It may start, however Satan will step in claiming to be Christ which will stop the war. Man will not destroy themselves it simply is not written in God’s Word, quite the contrary.

(The Common Sense Show) – Look, up in the sky, is it a bird, is it a plane, no, it’s Super Putin. He is single handedly taking on the evil bankers and winning.   Continue reading “Putin Controls the Fate of Ukraine, but Who Controls Putin?”

MassPrivateI

President Obama proposed hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending toward consolidation of the Department of Homeland Security on the west campus of St. Elizabeths hospital and creation of a new civilian cyber campus in his budget proposal. (Creating a new spying cyber center? Isn’t there one called the NSA, where does it stop?)   Continue reading “Obama wants a DHS spying campus at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital”

Reuter – by Alissa de Carbonnel

SIMFEROPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Crimea’s parliament voted to join Russia on Thursday and its Moscow-backed government set a referendum within 10 days on the decision in a dramatic escalation of the crisis over the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula.

The sudden acceleration of moves to bring Crimea, which has an ethnic Russian majority and has effectively been seized by Russian forces, formally under Moscow’s rule came as European Union leaders gathered for an emergency summit to seek ways to pressure Russia to back down and accept mediation.   Continue reading “Crimea votes to join Russia, accelerating Ukraine crisis”

Electronic Frontier Foundation – by NADIA KAYYALI

UPDATE- March 5, 2014:

After a grueling meeting where dozens of speakers expressed concerns about privacy, racial profiling, and political repression, the Oakland City Council voted to move forward with a reduced Domain Awareness Center. The motion that was approved will remove city cameras and ShotSpotter from the DAC components, but does not address many of the questions EFF and others have raised. The final vote was a 4-4 tie, with Council members Rebecca Kaplan, Libby Schaaf, Noel Gallo, and Lynette Gibson McElhaney voting no and Council members Dan Kalb, Pat Kernighan, Desley Brooks, and Larry Reid voting yes. Mayor Jean Quan cast the tie-breaking yes vote, and has indicated that she will seek to add more systems to the DAC “one at a time” in the future. EFF will now be scrutinizing the development of the privacy policy and the DAC system itself very closely.   Continue reading “EFF Fights Back Against Oakland’s Disturbing Domain Awareness Center”

Portland Oregon Police Bureau

On Tuesday March 4, 2014, at 3:47 p.m., North Precinct and Transit Police Division (TPD) officers responded to Northeast 82nd Avenue and Sandy Boulevard on the report of an armed man on a TriMet bus.

As officers were en route to the scene, additional information was received that the suspect claimed to have a “loaded and cocked” handgun.    Continue reading “Man Arrested on TriMet Bus After Implying He Had a Gun”

Sipsey Street Irregulars – by Mike

The night is gathering gloomily, the day is closing fast —
The tempest flaps his raven wing in loud and angry blast;
The thunder clouds are driving athwart the lurid sky —
But “put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry.”
— “Oliver’s Advice,” a poem by William Blacker, 1834.   Continue reading “On the proper response to Connecticut tyranny going operational. “Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your powder dry!””

The Weekly Standard – by  STEPHEN F. HAYES

Activist Post – by Heather Callaghan

There once was a guy who wrote a book about his journey out of crippling brain fog. He warned that to get out of it he and others needed to use extreme caution about what they brought into the house. With gloves, anything he purchased was unwrapped and placed into more natural vessels like glass, wood and stainless steel. Furthermore, most of those purchases were avoided in the first place.

Does that seem extreme to you?   Continue reading “The Longterm Health Impact of Toxic Food Packaging”

Cryptogon

Just about everyone I know with XP won’t budge, despite my warnings.

Maybe Microsoft has plans to try to convert millions of XP users over to Windows 8 with the rumored Windows 8.1 with Bing, which will supposedly be free.

Still, tens of millions of people will probably refuse to deal with the situation. I wouldn’t use Windows 8.x if someone paid me to use it. But I wouldn’t use XP on the Internet after that cut off date either. No way.   Continue reading “Windows XP Market Share Climbs Again as Customers Dig Their Heels In”

Information Liberation – by Chris

From the Baltimore Sun:

A city police officer is accused of beating a Jack Russell terrier puppy with a mop, then choking the dog and sending a picture of its dead body to its owner — his girlfriend.   Continue reading “Cop Strangles Puppy to Death, Sends Picture to Owner”

RT

Turkey has given a US Navy Warship the green light to pass through the Bosphorus within the next two days as tensions in Ukraine’s Crimea region continue to divide world powers.

Turkish sources, speaking with the Hurriyet Daily News on Wednesday, declined to elaborate on the name of the US warship. The same officials told the daily on condition of anonymity that the ship in question was not the USS George H.W. Bush nuclear aircraft carrier as suggested in some news reports, as it did not meet the standards specified by the 1936 Montreux Convention in terms of weight.    Continue reading “Turkey grants US warship permission to enter Black Sea”

Npr.org – by Mark Memmott

Russian President Vladimir Putin is among the 278 nominees for a 2014 Nobel Peace Prize,according to Peace Research Institute Oslo, an institution that closely tracks the Nobel committee’s work.

Putin, who of course is now at the center of one of the world’s most dangerous situations — the crisis in Ukraine — has been “nominated by the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation Among the Nations of the World and backed by Russian MP Iosif Kobzon, for his averting of an air strike on Syria after the chemical gas attacks in August 2013,” PRIO reports.   Continue reading “Putin Reportedly Joins List Of Nobel Peace Prize Nominees”

PJ Tatler – by Bridget Johnson

In a somewhat unusual move, the State Department issued a fact sheet titled “President Putin’s Fiction: 10 False Claims about Ukraine” Wednesday evening.

The fact sheet was released after Secretary of State John Kerry admitted that talks with his counterpart, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in Paris today didn’t get anywhere.    Continue reading “State Department Issues Fact Sheet on Why Putin’s a Lying Liar”