Category: News

Politico – by Tony Romm

President Barack Obama hosted Apple CEO Tim Cook, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, Google computer scientist Vint Cerf and other tech executives and civil liberties leaders on Thursday for a closed-door meeting about government surveillance, sources tell POLITICO.

The session, which Obama attended himself, followed a similar gathering earlier this week between top administration officials, tech-industry lobbyists and leading privacy hawks, the sources said. Those earlier, off-the-record discussions centered on the controversy surrounding the NSA as well as commercial privacy issues such as online tracking of consumers.   Continue reading “Apple’s Tim Cook, tech executives meet with Barack Obama to talk surveillance”

The New American – by William F. Jasper

America is staring at a fast-approaching energy disaster that needn’t happen. The recent discovery and development of vast deposits of oil and natural gas, now recoverable with new technologies, have provided the U.S. economy with a much-needed boost over the past several years. These new energy sources also offer promise of increasing America’s competitive advantage by drastically lowering energy costs and reducing American dependence on foreign oil. This is of critical importance to luring manufacturing and industry back to the United States.   Continue reading “Obama EPA War on Coal to Shut 200+ Coal-Fired Plants, Devastate Economy”

IntelliHub – by Cassius Methyl

Employees for the government sometimes are required to inform the agency about relationships with foreign people, allegedly to confirm that the person is not a threat to ‘national security’. Apparently, one of Obama’s bodyguards, Rafael Prieto, had an affair, and killed himself for some reason while under investigation. His secret was revealed by other agents during their investigation for another sex scandal.   Continue reading “Obama Bodyguard Found Dead After Having an Affair With a Foreign National”

Real Currencies – by Anthony Migchels

30 million people starve per year, poor countries pay up to ten times more interest on their foreign debts than they receive in development aid.   Continue reading “Ten Atrocities that would not exist without Usury”

Business Week -by Bruce Einhorn

WSWS – by Thomas Gaist

At least 34 people have been killed as a result of eight separate US drone attacks during the past two weeks, according to military officials in Yemen. US drones have been attacking targets in Yemen almost every day since intensified operations began on July 27.

A primary purpose of the drone barrage is to stage yet another display of the destructive power of US military technology, as a warning to any country that might stand in the way of US control of the key global geostrategic regions.   Continue reading “US launches more strikes against Yemen, expands terror alert to Pakistan”

Natural Society – by Paul Fassa

The mere mention of consuming apple seeds, cherry pits, apricot seeds, or bitter almonds tends to cause almost panic attacks or angry reactions in some. Why? Cyanide is in them. But this concern is ballooned out of proportion.

As a rumor based on too little knowledge, their concern is understandable. All you have to do is Google cyanide alongside any of the foods mentioned above and you’ll get a plethora of articles that all support the cyanide dangers from those seeds and nuts.   Continue reading “An Argument for Consuming Apricot Seeds: MisInformation is Endangering an Inexpensive Cancer Therapy”

ABC News – by Mike Levine

President Obama surprised aides when he revealed today the existence of a sealed indictment in the Benghazi, Libya, attack, leaving some wondering if he crossed a legal line.

At a press conference at the White House, President Obama was asked whether justice would come to those responsible for the terrorist attack nearly a year ago in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.   Continue reading “President Obama’s Surprise Revelation of Sealed Benghazi Indictment”

Prevent Disease – by DAVE MIHALOVIC

I have yet to meet a Physician that will sign this form now downloaded by hundreds of parents. The reason they won’t sign is two-fold: First, they do not want to place themselves in a vulnerable position of being negligent for not providing informed consent to thousands of other parents; and second, many of them realize after their own extensive research that the risks far outweigh any benefits when it comes to vaccination.   Continue reading “You Want To Vaccinate My Child? No Problem, Just Sign This Form”

Metabolic Healing – by Michael McEvoy

Epidemiological data complied from 164 countries by the World Health Organization (WHO) and from BHF Heart Stats reveal something quite stunning: people with the lowest total cholesterol levels have the HIGHEST levels of mortality from all causes. Conversely, total cholesterol levels between 200-240 is associated with the LOWEST levels of mortality from all causes. People with the LOWEST total cholesterol also have the highest levels of infectious and parasitic diseases. Those with total cholesterol greater than 200 have very low levels of infection.   Continue reading “LOW Cholesterol: The Risks, Dangers & The Reality”

WND – by Bob Unruh

A legal team for the Susan B. Anthony List is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review Ohio’s “false statement” law that when applied to political speech and elections, gives bureaucrats the authority to determine what is true.

As WND reported, a federal judge sided with the Susan B. Anthony List in its two-year long free speech battle with a former congressman who alleged the organization cost him his job and “loss of livelihood” when it educated constituents on his voting record.   Continue reading “They’re Here: Election Speech Cops”

Common Dreams – by Sarah Lazare

Critics charge that an aggressive NSA purge of 90 percent of its system administrators—in an apparent attempt to prevent the next Edward Snowden from having access to secret information—is evidence that the agency seeks to hide the truth about spying from the public and remove the roll of human conscience from the agency, instead of curbing spying in response to mass anger.

“It would be nice if they reduced the amount of information they are collecting on people by 90 percent,” Dave Maass, spokesperson for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Common Dreams.   Continue reading “NSA to Can 90% of Admins to ‘Purge Potential Whistleblowers’”

Common Dreams – by Glenn Greenwald

A Texas-based encrypted email service recently revealed to be used by Edward Snowden – Lavabit – announced yesterday it was shutting itself down in order to avoid complying with what it perceives as unjust secret US court orders to provide government access to its users’ content. “After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations,” the company’s founder, Ladar Levinson, wrote in a statement to users posted on the front page of its website. He said the US directive forced on his company “a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit.” He chose the latter.   Continue reading “Lavabit’s Brave Stand: Email Service Shuts Down”

The Daily Caller – by Patrick Howley

Charitable hospitals that treat uninsured Americans will be subjected to new levels of scrutiny of their nonprofit status and could face sizable new fines under Obamacare.

A new provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, which takes effect under Obamacare, sets new standards of review and installs new financial penalties for tax-exempt charitable hospitals, which devote a minimum amount of their expenses to treat uninsured poor people. Approximately 60 percent of American hospitals are currently nonprofit.   Continue reading “Obamacare installs new scrutiny, fines for charitable hospitals that treat uninsured people”

The Telegraph – by Andrew Trotman

When Dmitry Argarkov was sent a letter offering him a credit card, he found the rates not to his liking.