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BERLIN (AP) — The fingerprint-based security system used to unlock Apple’s latest iPhone can be bypassed using a household printer and some wood glue, a German hacking group has claimed.

A spokesman for the Chaos Computer Club said the group managed to fool the biometric sensor in the iPhone 5S over the weekend by creating an artificial copy of a genuine fingerprint. “It was surprisingly easy,” Dirk Engling told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Monday, a day after the group announced the exploit on its website.   Continue reading “German group claims iPhone fingerprint hack”

Screen shot 2012-09-18 at 12.51.34 PMCongressman Keith Ellison

“A lot of people in Washington like to talk about reducing the debt and deficits. Well if you really care about reducing the deficit, how about asking Wall Street speculators to pay their fair share? This bill will add a tax of a fraction of a percent on transactions made by the same Wall Street firms and stock traders who crashed our economy in 2008. This tax alone will generate up to $300 billion a year in revenue, stabilizing the deficit and allowing us to invest in the things that matter—education, roads and bridges, and health care for our seniors and veterans.”- Rep. Keith Ellison   Continue reading “The Inclusive Prosperity Act”

Right Wing Watch – by Brian Tashman

Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, now with the Family Research Council, said that the House GOP’s massive food stamp cuts that could remove around 4 million people from the program next year was an act of Christian compassion.

While many churches and Christians organizations denounced the move, Blackwell told the Christian Post that there was “nothing more Christian” than kicking low-income families off food stamps. He referred to food aid as part of the “plantation of big government” and said that churches and charitable organization will replace such government assistance.   Continue reading “FRC: ‘Nothing More Christian’ Than Massive Food Stamp Cut”

The Jewish Daily Forward

The top security official for Jewish organizations was named to a consulting body to the Department of Homeland Security.

Paul Goldenberg, the director of the Secure Community Network, was appointed to a three-year term on the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

The Jewish Federations of North America, a sponsor of the SCN, announced Goldenberg’s appointment on Monday, which was made by Janet Napolitano before she resigned earlier this month as secretary of Homeland Security.  Continue reading “Jewish ‘Expert’ Named to Homeland Security Panel”

Image from flickr.com user@uneditedmediaRT News

Hundreds of protesters gathered in a North Dakota town on Sunday to speak out against plans by an American Nazi group to buy up property and take over the local government in an effort to build a bastion against diversity.

About 300 protesters, including some 200 Native Americans from nearby reservations, gathered outside the Leith City Hall where Jeff Schoep, leader of the National Socialist Movement presented his plans for turning the tiny North Dakota town  – population 24 – into a segregated place where whites can live among themselves.    Continue reading “‘Go home!’ Hundreds protest neo-Nazi plan for ‘whites only’ town in North Dakota”

The drive to raise $2000 for the Live 365 for Liberty Tree Radio has been a success.  This labor has been accomplished via the unselfish contribution of free individual US nationals and indeed freedom loving listeners in other countries around the world.  The success in our endeavor is no doubt causing aggravation and worry among our enemies as they see our power through unity, increasing exponentially day by day.

Liberty Tree Radio is becoming very powerful as is From the Trenches World Report, and we have accomplished this status as free individuals advocating for our Bill of Rights.  No one has joined any collective and is not bound by any collective ideology, as our absolute assertion is individual freedom and liberty, possessed and maintained through the assertion of individual will.  Continue reading “A Salute to the Individuals Fighting in the Trenches”

Recently, I have been shopping for a new computer and have been looking for any computer that does not have Windows 8, as I am an American and I FREELY CHOOSE to NOT want that operating system on my computer. I am fully aware of all of the bugs in the new operating system, including the fact that Microsoft has a default setting in their system that allows the NSA to go in, view and copy any information on your computer to be used against you WITHOUT your explicit authorization and going against any or all privacy laws.

Microsoft’s basically uses the pathetic excuse, “Well, we already had the default setting checked in order to prevent us from giving any information to the government before and no one knew about it in our earlier operating systems, so we are just going to leave that default unchecked and the user can have the option to check it if they want.”   Continue reading “Microsoft Forcing People To Accept Windows 8 and NSA’s Prism Technology”

Kerry Says UN Must Act Next Week on Syria Weapons

Boolmberg – by Nicole Gaouette

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry laid the groundwork for President Barack Obama’s speech at the United Nations tomorrow by meeting with Arab officials to discuss Syria, Egypt, and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Kerry is in New York this week to join diplomats and world leaders who are taking up issues from development and disease to global conflict at the annual opening of the UN General Assembly. The bulk of his time and attention may be focused on tensions between the U.S. and Russia over terms for Syria’s handover of its chemical weapons.   Continue reading “Kerry Sets Stage for Obama Visit to UN With Mideast Meetings”

Activist Post

In an effort to restore the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, 11th Ward Councilman Anton Konev of the Albany, NY Common Council, has introduced Resolution 80.92.13, the strongest resolution in the nation, designed to protect Albany’s citizens from any application of sections 1021 and 1022 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), or the Law of War in the City of Albany.   Continue reading “Albany, NY Introduces Strongest Resolution in America Against NDAA”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks in Moscow, on 16 September, 2013.BBC News

Russia can send its military personnel to help in the proposed operation to eliminate Syria’s chemical arms, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.

Mr Lavrov told Russian TV that military observers could help Syria destroy its stockpiles under a US-Russian deal.   Continue reading “Russian offers troops to help remove Syria chemical arms”

34 Ways to Use Duct Tape for Survival   Backdoor SurvivalBackdoor Suvival – by Gary Levy

I have always claimed – and not altogether jokingly – that you could build a house with Elmer’s glue and Duct Tape.  Both items are readily available, relatively inexpensive and easy to tote around.  I will set aside the Elmer’s for another time, though.  Today, I thought it would be fun to look as some of the practical uses of duct tape around the house, camping and of course, in a survival situation.   Continue reading “34 Ways to Use Duct Tape for Survival”

Vice President Joe Biden in Mexico CityCNS News – by Terence P. Jeffrey

Speaking at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Mexico City on Friday, Vice President Joe Biden said that the international partnerships he and President Barack Obama are seeking to build–including one between the United States and Mexico–are “literally going to shape the future for my country for the next 10, 20, 30, 40 years.”

Part of that future, Biden said, should involve letting “undocumented” people “out of the shadows” in the United States—terminology the administration and others  have used to describe a policy that would legalize illegal aliens and allow them to eventually become U.S. citizens.   Continue reading “Biden in Mexico: U.S. Needs ‘to Bring 11 Million Undocumented … Out of The Shadows’”

Obama EPA Climate Decrees Will Further Damage U.S. EconomyThe New American – by Alex Newman

The Obama administration’s Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a series of far-reaching executive decrees on carbon dioxide Friday, supposedly aimed at dealing with “climate change” based on largely debunked United Nations theories about man-made “global warming.” Drawing a furious and immediate response from critics on both sides of the aisle, opponents slammed the proposed EPA regulations as everything from wildly unconstitutional overreach to another assault on the embattled U.S. economy and even a “war on coal.”    Continue reading “Obama EPA Climate Decrees Will Further Damage U.S. Economy”

illustration for Facebook deep learningMIT Technology Review- by Tom Simonite

Facebook is set to get an even better understanding of the 700 million people who share details of their personal lives using the social network each day.

A new research group within the company is working on an emerging and powerful approach to artificial intelligence known as deep learning, which uses simulated networks of brain cells to process data. Applying this method to data shared on Facebook could allow for novel features, and perhaps boost the company’s ad targeting.   Continue reading “Facebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts”

Buzz Feed – by Andrew Kaczynski

Several of the House Republicans who voted Thursday for a bill that slashed billions of dollars from the food stamp program personally received large farm subsidies for family farms. The bill cutting the food stamp program narrowly passed on a mostly party line 217 to 210 vote.

During the food stamp debate, GOP Rep. Stephen Fincher, who received thousands in farm subsidies, responded to a Democratic Congressman during the debate over the cuts by quoting the bible, saying “the one who is unwilling to work shall not eat.”   Continue reading “These Republicans Who Voted To Cut Food Stamps Personally Received Large Farm Subsidies”

1950s. Evil apple.Buzz Feed – by copyranter

Big Sugar

The Sugar Association was started in 1947, and its PR division, Sugar Information, soon followed.

And over the ensuing years, Big Sugar, through Sugar Information, didn’t just settle for “the treat” sell. They expanded their messaging to include “the energy” sell and “the weight loss” sell, until the FDA put a soft-stop to those ads. (They weren’t outright banned, but Big Sugar stopped them.)  Continue reading “One Of The Biggest Con Jobs In Advertising History, Part 2”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The United States continues to fund terrorism. August 1st we posted an article titled, “Al-Qaeda, Taliban Receive U.S. Government Contracts Despite Being Sworn Enemy.” Where is the outrage among my American brethren? The American people do not support this, yet our tax dollars do. Our prayers go out to those affected by this travesty.

(VideoCNN) – Choir members and children attending Sunday school were among 81 people killed in a suicide bombing at a Protestant church in northwest Pakistan.   Continue reading “Taliban Funded by U.S. Kills 81 in Suicide Attack at Church in Peshawar, Pakistan”