Photo - Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., said the latest revelations in the NSA controversy came because "this is what happens when you have secret laws." (AP/Carlos Osorio)Washington Examiner – by ASHE SCHOW 

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., an ardent opponent of the National Security Agency’s bulk private-data collection program, said the latest revelations in the controversy came because “this is what happens when you have secret laws.”

Amash’s comment appeared on his Facebook page and Twitter, condemning the NSA for, as reported by the Washington Post, violating privacy rules thousands of times and “accidentally” targeted Americans, something supporters of the program claim didn’t happen.   Continue reading “Justin Amash on latest NSA scandal: ‘This is what happens when you have secret laws’”

meth lab cleanupMother Jones – by Jonah Engle

With big profits on the line, the drug industry is pulling out campaign-style dirty tricks to keep selling the meds that cooks turn into crank.

THE FIRST TIME she saw her mother passed out on the living room floor, Amanda thought she was dead. There were muddy tracks on the carpet and the room looked like it had been ransacked. Mary wouldn’t wake up. When she finally came to, she insisted nothing was wrong. But as the weeks passed, her 15-year-old daughter’s sense of foreboding grew. Amanda’s parents stopped sleeping and eating. Her once heavy mother turned gaunt and her father, Barry, stopped going to work. She was embarrassed to go into town with him; he was covered in open sores. A musty stink gripped their increasingly chaotic trailer. The driveway filled up with cars as strangers came to the house and partied all night.   Continue reading “Merchants of Meth: How Big Pharma Keeps the Cooks in Business”

Dan from Squirrel Hill’s Blog

I ask you to please show this list to as many people as possible – and especially, to please show it to as many Obama supporters as possible. Sunshine really is the best disinfectant. I can’t stop Obama from doing any of these horrible things, but I can tell people about what he is doing. So please share this list with others on Facebook, Twitter, etc. Thank you. The short link for this is http://tinyurl.com/ku9vxug     Continue reading “Obama supporters will go hysterical over this well sourced list of 252 examples of his lying, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, etc.”

A legislative change taking effect in Germany this November allows parents to opt out of determining their baby's gender. The law is the first of its kind in Europe.Spiegel Online – by Friederike Heine

Germany is set to become the first country in Europe to introduce a third, “indeterminate” gender designation on birth certificates. The European Union, which is attempting to coordinate anti-discrimination efforts across member states, is lagging behind on the issue.

The option of selecting “blank”, in addition to the standard choices of “male” or female” on birth certificates will become available in Germany from November 1. The legislative change allows parents to opt out of determining their baby’s gender, thereby allowing those born with characteristics of both sexes to choose whether to become male or female in later life. Under the new law, individuals can also opt to remain outside the gender binary altogether.   Continue reading “M, F or Blank: ‘Third Gender’ Official in Germany from November”

thinkdifferentCryptogon

Via: United States Patent 8,254,902:

As wireless devices such as cellular telephones, pagers, personal media devices and smartphones become ubiquitous, more and more people are carrying these devices in various social and professional settings. The result is that these wireless devices can often annoy, frustrate, and even threaten people in sensitive venues.   Continue reading “Apple Patents Kill Switch for Mobile Devices Because: “Covert Police or Government Operations May Require Complete ‘Blackout’ Conditions.””

Photo - Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, invited a rodeo clown who performed in a President Obama mask to come to Texas. (AP File)Washington Examiner – by JOEL GEHRKE

Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, invited a rodeo clown banned from the Missouri State Fair for a performance featuring an Obama mask to take the show to the Lone Star State.

“I’m sure any rodeo in Texas would be proud to have performers,” Stockman said in a statement today. “Disagreeing with speech is one thing. Banning it and ordering citizens into reeducation classes for mocking a liberal leader is another.”   Continue reading “Congressman invites rodeo clown to perform Obama act in Texas”

Washington Examiner – by CHARLIE SPIERING

In the wake of ‘Clown-gate’ at the Missouri State Fair, it appears that professional rodeo clowns will think twice before mocking the president.

But in 1994, Douglas A. Campbell, a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer chronicled a rodeo clown even featuring George H.W. Bush.   Continue reading “In 1994, there was a ‘George Bush’ rodeo clown dummy”

Tech Dirt -by Mike Masnick

from the either-you-help-us-spy-on-people-or-you’re-a-criminal dept

The saga of Lavabit founder Ladar Levison is getting even more ridiculous, as he explains that the government has threatened him with criminal charges for his decision to shut down the business, rather than agree to some mysterious court order. The feds are apparently arguing that the act of shutting down the business, itself, was a violation of the order:   Continue reading “Feds Threaten To Arrest Lavabit Founder For Shutting Down His Service”

Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside (ABC News)Yahoo News – by Kami Dimitrova | ABC News Blogs

An Ohio man expected the gun safe he ordered online to be empty, police said.

But instead, he found $425,000-worth of tightly wrapped marijuana bricks inside.

“I’ve been in law enforcement for 47 years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Shelby County, Ohio, Sheriff John L. Lenhartsaid. “It’s quite effective if you think about it: wrapped airtight to withstand high temperatures. Drug-sniffing dogs probably couldn’t smell it.”   Continue reading “Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside”

lightworkersxm    Continue reading “Egypt Protests : Boston and Woolwich style : Pallywood comes to Egypt : Crisis Actors Caught faking Injury : Morsi is a gonner: Message from Egypt : This is the real news:”

Defence One – by Aliya Sternstein 

He works at one of the three-letter intelligence agencies and oversees construction of a $1.2 billion surveillance data center in Utah that is 15 times the size of MetLife Stadium, home to the New York Giants and Jets. Long Island native Harvey Davis, a top National Security Agency official, needs that commanding presence. His role is to supervise infrastructure construction worldwide for NSA, which is part of the Defense Department. That involves tending to logistics, military installations, as well as power, space and cooling for all NSA data centers.     Continue reading “The NSA’s New Spy Facilities are 7 Times Bigger Than the Pentagon”

Damaged Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) number 1 daiichi nuclear power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture (AFP Photo)RT News

Even the tiniest mistake during an operation to extract over 1,300 fuel rods at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan could lead to a series of cascading failures with an apocalyptic outcome, fallout researcher Christina Consolo told RT.

Fukushima operator TEPCO wants to extract 400 tons worth of spent fuel rods stored in a pool at the plant’s damaged Reactor No. 4. The removal would have to be done manually from the top store of the damaged building in the radiation-contaminated environment.   Continue reading “Fukushima apocalypse: Years of ‘duct tape fixes’ could result in ‘millions of deaths’”

News.com.au

THE Israeli army has fired into Syria after shells from the neighbouring country hit the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights, a military spokesman says.

“Today, several shells fired from Syria landed in the central Golan heights, adjacent to the Israel-Syria border,” he told AFP on Saturday.   Continue reading “Israel retaliates after Syria shells hit”

Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

A Texas woman in the Cloverleaf area of East Harris County accused a Texas Sheriff’s deputy of raping her while her three youngchildren were in the apartment, according to the first video news report seen below. In the second news report, it is said the cop resigned.

The woman’s name was released because she wanted her story to be known. Her name is Lisa Rodriguez and she claimed that her three daughters were inside the apartment when the deputy showed up to question her about making harassing phone calls, insisted she go upstairs with him, raped her and left.   Continue reading “Cop Accused Of Raping Mother In Front Of Her Children, Resigns (Video Reports)”

Activist Post – by Christina England

Parents in South Africa are facing life in prison for the murder of their baby girl who died just days after receiving routine vaccinations. Baby A had received all her vaccinations on time. On September 25, 2012, when she was aged just five months, her parents took her to their local clinic, where she received a total of eight vaccinations before being sent home.   Continue reading “Five-Month-Old Baby Dies Just Days After 8 Vaccinations – Parents Are Charged With Her Murder”

Veterans Today – by Stew Webb

A BUSH CRIME FAMILY COMPANY

Fraudsters, Scamsters, Blackmailers, Narcotics Money Launderers, and Murderers, Fake Mortgage and Bank Bailout Scamsters that exeeded $100 Triilion U.S. Dollars that  have ties to George W. Bush, Leonard Millman, Larry Mizel, Harkin Oil, the missing 10 Trillion Dollar Pension Fund Frauds and every major scandal of the 1980s, 1990s, and today.   Continue reading “Frauds Are Us At MDC-NYSE”

A majority of Americans say oversight on NSA’s spying is inadequate.Press TV 

Results from a new poll have shown that the majority of American people believe oversight of the US National Security Agency’s surveillance is not adequate

According to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll conducted August 9-10, only 18 percent of Americans say that “federal courts and rules in place by Congress provide adequate oversight” of the spying programs run by the US government’s premier spy agency.   Continue reading “Poll: Americans says oversight of US spying is inadequate”