Month: October 2013

Yahoo News

Oslo (AFP) – A Norwegian man who purchased $24 worth of bitcoins and then promptly forgot about it for four years, was able to buy an apartment in central Oslo thanks to the massive appreciation of the virtual currency.

In 2009, Kristoffer Koch was doing research on encryption and on a whim decided to invest a small sum in the recently created bitcoins — a means of payment over the Internet.   Continue reading “Norwegian man buys flat with forgotten $24 bitcoin investment”

Have you read the headlines today?  There is certainly plenty to worry about, isn’t there?

• We may yet go to war with Syria (which will escalate into a World War with the Chinese and Russians)
• The economic rug is about to be pulled out from under our feet
• Food supplies are diminishing and are more threatened every day
• Military assets are being put into place – WITHIN THE U.S.! – in preparation for civil unrest   Continue reading “Stop Feeding the Beast”

Continue reading “Sprayed Like a Bug Today”

When the war with Syria failed miserably and all the escalated rhetoric for a global war came to a direct halt, people believed that our leaders listened and caved in to the demands of We the People. We thought we had the power to finally push back these elitists who have manipulated us all this time. While it may seem that we did just that, was it just another part of the elitists plan? Was it both a distraction and intentionally done in order to make the U.S. out to be the enemy and to turn the U.N. and the entire world against the U.S.?

If so, it would symbolize the dramatic shift from military warfare to social warfare. All the elites have done so far and are continuing to do is implement a social change rather than a military change, as social control rather than military dominance seems to be the key here.   Continue reading “Was the Attempted War with Syria Meant to Fail in Order to Shift the Entire World Against the U.S.?”

The New Yorker – by ANDY BOROWITZ [SATIRE]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — Responding to the firestorm of controversy over its spying on European allies, the head of the National Security Agency said today it would do everything in its power to avoid being caught doing it in the future.

“There are two important jobs for every spy agency: spying on people and avoiding detection,” said the N.S.A. chief General Keith Alexander. “Unfortunately, at the N.S.A. we have only done the first job well.”   Continue reading “N.S.A. Promises to Stop Getting Caught Spying on Allies”

RT News

The White House is currently evaluating whether to end surveillance programs allegedly targeting the leaderships of allied nations such as Germany.

This follows criticism from Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s chairwoman, who said that she was “totally opposed” to the collection of intelligence on US allies, and said that such surveillance of foreign heads of state would cease immediately.   Continue reading “White House considers halt to surveillance of allied leaders”

Gun Watch – by Dean Weingarten

Some handguns turned in for $100 at a Phoenix event in May.  Note the nice Ruger and Colt.

Georgetown County, South Carolina, will be having a gun turn in even on Saturday, 2 November,  2013.  While these events are commonly labelled with the propaganda term “buyback” the guns were never owned by the people attempting to buy them.  It appears that the event is for handguns only.   Continue reading “SC: Cheap Gun Opportunity Georgetown County Turn In (buy back)”

Texas Fred

TERRELL — An overnight manhunt in Kaufman County led to the arrest of a 36-year-old Terrell man after five people were found killed at four separate locations Monday.

Charles Everett Brownlow Jr. was arrested following a car chase with police, sheriff’s deputies and state troopers. The chase began Monday night and went into the early morning hours Tuesday. At about 1:30 a.m., the chase ended when Brownlow crashed his car on College Mound Road and fled into a wooded area south of U.S. 80, where he was later apprehended.   Continue reading “Five dead in Terrell crime spree; suspect in custody”

Yahoo News

CNN recently took a wrong turn while reporting on a giant hornet outbreak in China by putting Hong Kong on the map — in South America.

By the looks of things, someone at the network seemed to think that the vibrant Asian city was in or near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.   Continue reading “CNN report on giant hornets puts Hong Kong in South America”

Hyscience

One of the inconvenient truths about Obama is that his rhetoric rarely has any relationship with truth (e.g; purposeful Obamacare-related lies), this spying scandal being only the latest example.

Via the L.A. Times:   Continue reading “Liar-in-Chief Update: U.S. Intelligence Officials Angry Over Obama Claiming He Didn’t Know They Were Spying On World Leaders”

Orly Taitz – by Sheriff Mack

We bring you an update from Sheriff Mack at the the Liberty County Courthouse in Florida:

Well, I was wrong! I never thought the case against Sheriff Nick Finch would make it to trial, but that is exactly what is going to happen,tomorrow morning, October 29, 2013 at 0900. (Happy Halloween, nothing could be creepier!) The charges against this good man have been so flimsy and frivolous that I was certain a trial would be out of the question. But the tyrants are moving forward with their agenda to stop Sheriffs in their tracks and to make them answerable to the State! This case, this abuse of authority, and the inherent injustice associated with this case, puts everything at stake that we all have fought so long for; the power and independence of the county sheriff and his duty to stand for individual liberties.   Continue reading “Urgent appeal from the Constitutional Sheriffs association”

Lew Rockwell – by Walter E. Williams

According to a recent Fox News poll, 73 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, up 20 points from 2012. Americans sense that there’s a lot going wrong in our nation, but most don’t have a clue about the true nature of our problem. If they had a clue, most would have little stomach for what would be necessary to arrest our national decline. Let’s look at it.

Between two-thirds and three-quarters of federal spending, in contravention of the U.S. Constitution, can be described as Congress taking the earnings or property of one American to give to another, to whom it does not belong. Continue reading “Is There a Way Out?”

MassPrivateI

Article first appeared in the economicpolicyjournal:

California – I did have an interesting conversation with a salesman who sold night vision goggles to police SWAT teams. He said most of the training was aimed at battling terrorism. But then he added,“You know, the greater San Francisco area has more SWAT teams than any other part of the country.”   Continue reading “Universities secretive SWAT teams are being trained by Israeli SWAT teams”

Washington’s Blog – by Jim Q

Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
– Thomas Edison

The kabuki theater that passes for governance in Washington D.C. reveals the profound level of ignorance shrouding this Empire of Debt in its prolonged death throes. Ignorance of facts; ignorance of math; ignorance of history; ignorance of reality; and ignorance of how ignorant we’ve become as a nation, have set us up for an epic fall. It’s almost as if we relish wallowing in our ignorance like a fat lazy sow in a mud hole. Continue reading “Culture of Ignorance”

MassPrivateI

Look at Facebook, says Amie Stepanovich, director of the domestic surveillance project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C.

Facebook has the largest biometric database in the world — “and it’s all been formed by people voluntarily submitting pictures to Facebook and identifying who they belong to,” she says.

Theoretically, every time you label faces by tagging a picture, you’re chipping away at those two big challenges for universal facial recognition. First, you’re helping to build a super-database of labeled faces. Second, you’re uploading multiple versions of each person’s face, which can improve a system’s accuracy.   Continue reading “Facebook has the largest biometric database in the world and the potential to recognize anybody’s face”

MassPrivateI

The experimental library of TV news clips pertaining to recent revelations about the NSA and its oversight.

The library launched with more than 700 chronologically ordered television citations drawn from the Archive’s television news research service.    Continue reading “NSA library of TV news clips”