Information Clearinghouse – by Jameel Jaffer and Brett Max Kaufman

James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, has been harshly criticized for having misled Congress earlier this year about the scope of the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities. The criticism is entirely justified. An equally insidious threat to the integrity of our national debate, however, comes not from officials’ outright lies but from the language they use to tell the truth. Continue reading “How to Decode the True Meaning of What NSA Officials Say”

Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

With the recent and ongoing revelations of the U.S. government’s Prism and NSA’s XKeyscore programs, spying has become a debate on what is too much, what amount of privacy are we willing to give up in the name of security and the natural progression of that debate leads to how much spying is the government capable of.   Continue reading “Spying Through Every Device- The Vast Reach Of Big Brother”

Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

The Chattanooga Times Free Press  fired editor Drew Johnson after an editorial titled “Take your jobs plan and shove it, Mr. President, (Titled now changed to “President Obama’s policies have harmed Chattanooga enough”) claiming his headline was “inappropriate” and “outside of normal editing procedures.”   Continue reading “Editor Fired For Anti-Obama Headline Speaks Out”

Before It’s News – by N. Morgan

A very intriguing article about Project Blue. The history behind this research is even more interesting. Serge Monast and another journalist who were researching and exposing Project Blue Beam, both died of heart attacks, just weeks apart and neither had had a history of heart disease. Monast’s daughter was also abducted by the Canadian government, to dissuade Monast from continuing his research. She was never returned or found.   Continue reading “Heart Attack Guns, Abductions, State Sanctioned Assassinations, And Project Blue Beam”

Gun RightsFreedom Outpost – by Tim Brown

I have been writing for Freedom Outpost for nearly a year and then at the former Front Porch Politics for six months before that. There was a commenter who would always come on and say that no one is coming for our guns, and yet, here we are. The evidence abounds that gun confiscation is the goal and is currently taking place. We first saw it in New York under the NY SAFE Act and then in California. Now we’re seeing it in Cook County, Illinois, former home to Barack Obama. This is why American patriots have warned against gun registration, because it inevitably leads to gun confiscation.   Continue reading “Illinois’ Cook County Begins Gun Confiscation”

photo courtesy of Joe Brusky, Overpass Light BrigadeWisconsin Citizen Media – by wcmcoop

A Lutheran pastor from Madison suffered cardiac symptoms while in police custody on Friday, July 26, after being arrested in the Wisconsin Capitol during what Capitol Police deemed an “unlawful assembly” of the Solidarity Sing Along.

As the Rev. Carter Dary, 67, was being taken to the basement of the Capitol for processing, he began experiencing chest pain. Capitol Police placed a nitroglycerin capsule from Dary’s keychain in his hand without removing his handcuffs. (His hands were cuffed in front of him instead of behind him after he told officers he was having chest pain.)  Patrick Knowles, who was also arrested, was with Dary at the time and said later, “I was told by someone released after me that they had to try three times to get his blood pressure. It is not known to me what his current condition is, but would characterize it by what I saw as grave. My prayers are with him.”  Knowles provided this eyewitness account:   Continue reading “Exercising Rights in Capitol May Be Harmful to Your Health”

Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

A Virginia State Police trooper hitting a kid on a skateboard and captured on a cell phone approximately nine months ago, went viral on the internet after famous professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, threw up a link to the video on his Twitter account On July 31.

The video now has over 300,000 hits on YouTube, showing the power of social media in driving news and traffic.   Continue reading “VA Trooper Car Hitting Skateboarder Video, Goes Viral 9 Months Later”

Infowars – by Steve Watson

The NSA head General Keith Alexander faced a hostile crowd Wednesday while attempting to defend mass surveillance programs at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas.

Around 30 minutes into his speech, Alexander claimed that the NSA had “stopped thirteen terrorist related activities in the United States,” flashing up a slide that stated the NSA had prevented fifty-four worldwide terrorist events. “Our nation takes stopping terrorism as one of the most important things.” Alexander stated, prompting a man in the crowd to shout “Freedom!”   Continue reading “Security Consultant Heckles NSA Head: Shouts “Freedom!”; “Read The Constitution!””