View of the National Security Agency (NSA) in the Washington suburb of Fort Meade, Maryland (AFP Photo)RT News

While new disclosures this week have exposed inept oversight and gross privacy violations within the National Security Agency, news out of North Carolina has revealed that the NSA is spending $60.75 million on another brand new facility.

In the midst of an international debate focused on how the United States’ premier spy agency has conducted dragnet surveillance over much of the world, including at home, the NSA is expanding even further. The News & Observer reported on Thursday that North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC is receiving a $60.75 million grant from the NSA to develop a top-secret data analysis lab.   Continue reading “NSA to open new $60mln facility in N. Carolina university amid surveillance scrutiny”

Reuters / Shannon StapletonRT News

The 620,000 residents living in public housing projects should be fingerprinted as a crime-prevention measure, said New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but many city residents protest that the proposal is an invasion of privacy.

Bloomberg, 71, who has acquired a reputation for promoting controversial ideas, including imposing a ban on the sale of large soft drinks, says his latest proposal will make public housing safer.   Continue reading “Bloomberg seeks mandatory fingerprinting for NYC public housing residents”

The Last Resistance- by Frank Camp

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said: “Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”

Sometimes I become very agitated. I read and watch the news, and nothing ever seems to change. It’s as if this world is a living View-Master, with only so many possibilities. With every click, we go round and round, eventually finding ourselves looking at the same picture. It becomes tiresome to watch. Then—every once in a while—something changes; we get a new picture. I am beginning to see the new picture, and it is captivating.   Continue reading “Obama Loses Steam: Beginning of The End?”

Going door to door after Boston Bombing MarathonFreedom Outpost – by Fred DeRuvo

I’ve just started a new book about the growing police state in America. Because of my research, I’ve come across several things that prove to me that the police state is in fact, here already. It is simply in the process of growing. Of course, there will be much more detail in my book, but I’d like to present three areas of concern related to the existing police state.   Continue reading “War on Americans: The Coming Police State of America is Here”

Freedom Outpost – by Lawrence Sellin

In military operations, the enemy’s “center of gravity” is defined in JP 1-02 as “the source of power that provides moral or physical strength, freedom of action, or will to act.” It can also be a source of weakness and provide a point of attack.

Obama is the center of gravity for a corrupt political system. His center of gravity is transparency or, in this case, the lack thereof.   Continue reading “How to Take Down the Obama Administration and Restore the Constitution”

Breitbart – by AWR Hawkins

As Coloradans prepare for recall elections for State Senators John Morse (D-Colorado Springs) and Angela Giron (D-Pueblo), operatives from Obama’s Organizing For Action (OFA) have allegedly been sighted in and around several Colorado towns.

In fact, Jennifer Kerns, spokeswoman for Colorado Recalls Basic Freedom Defense Fund, alleges OFA operatives are actually “running the headquarters of one of the senators [being recalled],” Senator Giron.    Continue reading “Obama’s OFA Operatives Allegedly in Colorado Prior to Gun Control Recall Vote”

World Events and the Bible

(Video, RT) – The Muslim Brotherhood may be banned in Egypt, the country’s interim prime minister’s spokesman said. The threat comes after the Islamist movement called for a week of protest against a military crackdown that left over 700 dead.

Egypt’s current Prime Minister, Hazem el-Beblawi, proposed on Saturday that the Muslim Brotherhood be dissolved. The idea is being mulled, according to a government spokesman.  Continue reading “Cairo Burns: Egypt Mulls Ban of Muslim Brotherhood As It Calls Week of Protests”

AlterNet – by Alex Kane

A massive industry profits off the government-induced fear of terrorism.

Michael Hayden, the former director of the National Security Agency, has invaded America’s television sets in recent weeks to warn about Edward Snowden’s leaks and the continuing terrorist threat to America.   Continue reading “5 Companies That Make Money By Keeping Americans Terrified of Terror Attacks”

WhitehousesigninplaceOath Keepers- by Stewart Rhodes

Oath Keepers has placed a large sign featuring President Obama as “Big Brother” at the Washington D.C. Metro stop closest to the White House, praising Edward Snowden for exposing the NSA spying on Americans and urging White House employees to follow Snowden’s example by becoming whistle-blowers.   Continue reading “Oath Keepers Places Pro-Snowden Sign at White House Stop on D.C. Metro, Featuring Obama as “Big Brother.””

Jim Stone Freelance

Thank the Holonet for making this one a reality. I have received a report from a tech saavy friend who does not get burned by garbage like this often. This particular piece of scamware hit his machine after he spent some time alerting people to developing issues surrounding Snowden. He is not an idiot that falls into traps very easily, so this particular piece of malware is quite a bit more aggressive than most.   Continue reading “An interesting new scam is affecting alternative news sites”

ENE News

Title: Detailed Analysis Results in the Port of Fukushima Daiichi NPS
Source: Tepco
Date: Aug. 16, 2013
h/t Fukushima Diary

North side of Unit 1-4 water intake channel (Highest Dose)

Reuters/Jose Luis GonzaleRT

Ohio state officials have announced they are running out of the drug used in lethal injections, a problem that is becoming increasingly common throughout the US, and potentially forcing authorities to consider new methods of executing prisoners.

A recent court filing indicated that Ohio’s supply of the sedative pentobarbital will be gone by the end of September. The filing does not specify what drug Ohio plans to use to replace pentobarbital with but a change is expected by October 4, according to the Associated Press.     Continue reading “Lethal drug shortage has states scrambling for new execution methods”

The Last Resistance – by Frank Camp

Adlai Stevenson said: “A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.”

Hypocrisy and politics go hand in hand. They are best friends, walking down the street, skipping and holding hands. Our society has evolved in such a way that politicians make grand statements, telling people how they should live their lives, while simultaneously doing the exact opposite in their own lives. It’s become such an ingrained part of society, we almost don’t even notice it anymore.   Continue reading “The Story of Al Gore: A Big Bag of Wind Without A Sail”

SHTF Plan – by Joe Wurzelbacher

SHTFplan Editor’s Note: When Joe ‘The Plumber’ Wurzelbacher challenged then candidate Barrack Obama face-to-face on his plans for “spreading the wealth around” ahead of the 2008 Presidential election, it should have been a wake up call to America. Unfortunately, more than half of our voting population ignored the warnings. Now, many of those who supported the President’s policies and ideas are waking up, but the damage has already been done. The hope he promised is quickly fading away. In the following article, graciously contributed by Joe For America, Joe outlines the sheer hypocrisy of this President, who ran on a platform of transparency and change. Yeah, things have definitely changed, and it’s clear that the changes have been for the worse – at least for those of us living on Main Street.    Continue reading “If the Rest of Us Followed What President Barack Hussein Obama Said and Did…”

American Thinker – by Jeffrey W. Barrett

Mark Levin, the well-known constitutionalist talk show commentator, has written still another very good book.  This book, called the Liberty Amendments, is essentially an operator’s manual on how constitutionalists in America might restore constitutional government while bypassing the entrenched federal interests in Washington DC.

Levin’s strategy lies in taking advantage of Article 5 of the US Constitution that gives the power to the states to call a convention, propose amendments, send the amendments out to the state legislatures for passage and all the while, the states can completely ignore the powers in Washington DC.  (See Thomas Lifson’s book review.) Levin provides a list of suggested amendments which, if passed, would force the federal government to reverse its century old expansion of federal power and gradually restore a more balanced form of constitutionalist government that the Founders originally intended.    Continue reading “How to Make Mark Levin’s Vision of Constitutional Reform a Reality”

Little Green Footballs – by Charles Johnson

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has released the following Statement on NSA Compliance, in response to the Washington Post’s leaked internal NSA audit.

“By law, the Intelligence Committee receives roughly a dozen reports every year on FISA activities, which include information about compliance issues. Some of these reports provide independent analysis by the offices of the inspectors general in the intelligence community. The committee does not receive the same number of official reports on other NSA surveillance activities directed abroad that are conducted pursuant to legal authorities outside of FISA (specifically Executive Order 12333), but I intend to add to the committee’s focus on those activities.   Continue reading “Feinstein: No Evidence of Intentional NSA Abuse of Authority”

Passing along disinformation distracts from needed efforts and erodes from credibility.Examiner – by David Codrea

“Check this out … is this legit?” an email received over the weekend asked. The question was wholly appropriate, revealing a correspondent on his toes and interested in due diligence.

Attached was a genuine-looking document on apparent United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs letterhead, replete with bar and QR codes (the latter being too blurry in the jpg to read), lending it an air of authenticity (see photo accompanying this article). Titled “Disarmament Commission — Civilian Weapons Confiscation Study Group, New York, 29 -31 July 2013,” the August 5-dated document says its distribution is “restricted,” and proceeds to outline a seven-stage strategy for making civilian possession of “military grade weapons” illegal, progressing down to outlawing all firearms and ammunition, and ultimately establishing “a United Nations Police Taskforce with the specific mission of assisting member nations with the collection of weapons from civilian hands.”   Continue reading “Purported U.N. disarmament document long on hysteria, short on provability”