KS3Tech Crunch – by John Biggs

Further leaks have revealed an NSA project called XKeyscore that, with a few keystrokes, can give a data analyst access to nearly everything a user does on the Internet – from chat sessions to email to browsing habits.

The system requires an email because many behaviors online are completely anonymous and it is only via some sort of identifier — a username and domain — that the system can scour the database of collected Internet traffic and metadata.   Continue reading “NSA Project XKeyscore Collects Nearly Everything You Do On The Internet”

Century Link

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal judge has scheduled a hearing on Sept. 19 for Halliburton Energy Services to plead guilty to destroying evidence after BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The company was arraigned Wednesday in New Orleans on a misdemeanor charge. Although company attorneys entered a plea of not guilty during the arraignment, Halliburton has agreed to plead guilty to one count of destruction of evidence in a deal with the Justice Department.   Continue reading “Halliburton to plead guilty in Gulf oil spill”

The Common Sense Show

Most of you know the look you get when you honestly try and convince a member of the “Sheeple Nation” that America is on life support and that tens of millions are in grave danger.  Along these lines, I was recently speaking with a friend of mine from Tennessee and began to point out how bad things in this country have become. Inevitably, the discussion began to center around the subject of unwarranted detention centers called FEMA Camps. My friend rolled his eyes and repeated the national anthem of all sheep, “I didn’t know you were one of them conspiracy theorists.” He couldn’t hold back the laughter.   Continue reading “You Can Lead a Sheep to Knowledge, but You Can’t Make Them Think”

National Organization for MarriageNational Organization for Marriage

Dear Marriage Supporter,

Unprecedented, chilling, unconstitutional, and simply wrong.

Those were some of the words used to describe a San Antonio City Council ordinance that would ban from city government anyone who ever uttered a discriminatory word against same-sex marriage. Truth is stranger, and in this case more horrifying, than fiction.   Continue reading “Don’t Mess with Texas (Marriage Law)!”

Survival and Beyond – by Ed Corcoran

It seems lately that the mainstream media has been coming out with all kinds on reports that most of us “conspiracy theorists” (e.g. those of us who have been paying attention) have known for some time.  From Sean Hannity coming out on FOX hollering about the militarization of the police in America, to the following report from CNN correspondent Bruce Schneier declaring what most of  us have already known for ages.  Does this mean that the MSM is finally “coming around” and they’re not really controlled by the corporate power elite?  Or are they just trying to balance things out to make themselves appear more legitimate?   Continue reading “Well, it Must be “Official” Now that CNN Declares: “The Internet is a Surveillance State””

Before It’s News – by Mort Amsel

As soon as tomorrow afternoon votes are expected in the Uruguayan House of Representatives which will cast the country into the lead to become the first country to official end cannabis prohibition.

The country’s president, José Mujica, and the ruling party in the Uruguayan Senate, Frente Ampli, are also public supporters of replacing cannabis prohibition with a state monopoly on cannabis commerce.   Continue reading “Tomorrow Uruguay Legalizes Marijuana, First Nation In The World To End Marijuana Prohibition”

File photo of an employee working at a Goodwill in Toronto, Canada (© Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images)MSN – by Jason Notte

Is it still considered charity if Goodwill Industries only pays some of its employees 22 cents an hour? In Goodwill’s view, yes: They could be making nothing.

In a payroll decision that’s ideologically complex at best, Goodwill Industries outlets in Pennsylvania used a 75-year-old labor law loophole to pay disabled employees as little as 22, 38 and 41 cents per hour in 2011.    Continue reading “Goodwill pays disabled workers pennies an hour”

Bob Owens

“The plan we’ve been given in the past is ‘Well, lock your doors, turn off your lights and hope for the best,’” Superintendent David Hopkins said. But as deadly incidents continued to happen in schools, he explained, the district decided, “That’s not a plan.”

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Home to an annual peach festival, the town isn’t known for having dangerous schools. But Hopkins said he faced a flood of calls from parents worried about safety after the attack last year at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn.   Continue reading ““That’s not a plan.” Arkansas school district trains armed faculty and staff to confront active shooters, refuses the “hide and die” mantra of those cowardly districts that won’t protect students”

Truthstream Media – by Melissa Melton

A new article up at Forbes “Earth’s Future Forbidden Zones?” begins with all manner of coming world doom:

Science fiction is rife with planetary ‘forbidden zones’ — whole regions of a planet that have become virtually uninhabitable due to changes in climate; politics; nuclear, chemical or biological warfare; pollution; technology gone amok; or something even more exotic.   Continue reading “Future Earth: Agenda 21′s ‘Forbidden Zones’”

Public Intelligence

The following is a list of Twitter accounts followed by the official account of the Department of Homeland Security National Operations Center Media Monitoring Capability.  The document was obtained via FOIA request by Carlton Purvis using Muckrock.com.   Continue reading “List of Twitter Accounts Followed by DHS Media Monitoring Capability”

Infowars – by Alex Jones and Julie Wilson

In June, Infowars.com cited a report by WhoWhatWhy.com revealing that the “FBI was aware of an organization, possibly a local police department or private security company, that had plans to assassinate peaceful protesters during the Occupy Movement.”

The classified document released by the FBI read:   Continue reading “Obama DHS Planned to Kill Peaceful Protesters in Sniper Attacks”

Video Rebel’s Blog

1) Why was the federal government allowed to kill the journalist Michael Hastings?

2) Why was DHS allowed to conspire to use snipers to kill leaders of the Occupy protests?

3) Why was there no media coverage when President Jimmy Carter said America was no longer a functioning democracy?   Continue reading “Questions For The Corporate Media And Politicians”

yogurtNatural News – by Jonathan Benson

Yogurt, fruit, and insect juice? This last ingredient might seem out of place, but it is precisely what global food giant Dannon is adding as a food coloring to many of its commercial yogurt products, unbeknownst to the majority of its customer base. And the non-profit consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is calling on the company to immediately remove the ingredient from its product formulations in the interest of public safety.   Continue reading “You want some bug juice with that? Insect-based dye revealed in Dannon yogurt products”

AFP Photo / Kent Nishimura RT News

Hawaii is set to embark on an unusual new program for reducing the size of the state’s homeless population by offering them a one-way ticket back home.

Under a program dubbed ‘return to home’ the Aloha State is looking to cut back on the expenditures currently going to food, shelter and other services for its homeless population, currently numbering some 17,000.   Continue reading “Aloha! Hawaii to offer homeless one-way ticket out of state”

NBC News – by Michael Isikoff

In a major victory for the Justice Department over privacy advocates, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that government agencies can collect records showing the location of an individual’s cell phone without obtaining a warrant.

The 2-1 ruling by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld the Justice Department’s argument that “historical” records showing the location of cell phones, gleaned from cell site location towers, are not protected by the Fourth Amendment.

A key basis for the ruling: The use of cell phones is “entirely voluntarily” and therefore individuals who use them have forfeited the right to constitutional protection for records showing where they have been used, the court held.   Continue reading “Government can grab cell phone location records without warrant, appeals court says”

Overpasses for ImpeachmentWhitehouse Dossier – by KEITH KOFFLER

A grassroots group with thousands of members is planning nationwide protests August 6 calling for President Obama’s impeachment.

The group, “Overpasses for Impeachment,” has gained steam since launching in mid-June and now appears to have a presence on all 50 states.

Scores of protests are on tap, with members taking to overpasses above major throughways during morning and afternoon rush hour brandishing signs calling for impeachment.   Continue reading “Nationwide “Impeach Obama” Protest Set for August 6”

Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

Hillary “what difference does it make” Clinton is set to receive the American Patriot Award from the National Defense University Foundation, according to a press release, to be presented on November 14, 2013 at a gala dinner hosted by the NDU Foundation at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC.

The award is given to “leaders who have strengthened America’s strategic interests and advanced global security.   Continue reading “Hillary Clinton To Receive American Patriot Award From NDU Foundation For ‘Defending Our Nation””

Common Dreams – by Jon Queally

Jeffrey Toobin, the CNN legal analyst who spent most of Tuesday on the air of his cable network commending the decision of the military judge who found Pfc. Bradley Manning guilty of nineteen criminal counts for leaking classified information to Wikileaks, was taken to task for his “inside the beltway” position during a primetime segment on Anderson Cooper’s 360.   Continue reading “Greenwald Slams “Establishment” Double-Standard for Manning”

Harsh sentence: Editor Raif Badawi set up a liberal website in Saudi ArabiaDaily Mail

The editor of a Saudi Arabian social website has been sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes for founding an Internet forum that violates Islamic values and propagates liberal thought, Saudi media reported on Tuesday.

Raif Badawi, who started the ‘Free Saudi Liberals’ website to discuss the role of religion in Saudi Arabia, has been held since June 2012 on charges of cyber crime and disobeying his father – a crime in the conservative kingdom and top U.S. ally.   Continue reading “Editor jailed for seven years and sentenced to 600 LASHES after starting ‘Free Saudi Liberals’ website”