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Seattle, WA – In February, the Seattle Police Department announced it bought what’s called a “mesh network,” that will be used as a dedicated wireless network for emergency responders. What SPD did not say is that the network is capable of tracking anyone with a device that has a Wi-Fi connection.

“They now own a piece of equipment that has tracking capabilities so we think that they should be going to City Council and presenting a protocol for the whole network that says they won’t be using it for surveillance purposes,” said Jamela Debelak of the American Civil Liberties Union.   Continue reading “DHS sponsored ‘Mesh Network’ allows police to track (spy) on any with a device that has a Wi-Fi connection”

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On a residential street in San Diego County, Calif., Chula Vista police had just arrested a young woman, still in her pajamas, for possession of narcotics. Before taking her away, Officer Rob Halverson paused in the front yard, held a Samsung Galaxy tablet up to the woman’s face and snapped a photo.

Halverson fiddled with the tablet with his index finger a few times, and – without needing to ask the woman’s name or check her identification – her mug shot from a previous arrest, address, criminal history and other personal information appeared on the screen.   Continue reading “Police have begun using the ‘Tactical Identification System’ a new mobile facial recognition program”

Blastr – by Trent Moore

A vintage documentary going behind the scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey has surfaced, delving into the making of the 1968 film two years before it blew our collective minds.

Rediscovered by Open Culture, the 20+ minute featurette looks at everything from the future of space exploration (circa the 1960s) to the making of Stanley Kubrick’s eventual classic. For sci-fi fans, this footage is a treasure trove of awesomeness.   Continue reading “Watch long-lost 1966 documentary that digs deep into 2001: A Space Odyssey”

A picture taken in the principalty of Monaco, shows yachts moored at Port Hercules. (AFP Photo / Valery Hache)RT News – by Robert Bridge

Amidst a sea of lost jobs, slashed wages and austerity measures, the super-rich seem super-resistant, with their wealth doubling since the financial crisis, adding $226 billion to their wealth in the last year alone.

The Wealth X and UBS Billionaire Census 2013 makes for sobering reading, in that it seems to confirm many peoples’ suspicions that the financial crisis, while a nightmare for so many, has actually been a windfall for the world’s richest.    Continue reading “What crisis? Billionaires’ fortunes double since 2009”

Still from YouTube video/SandiaLabsRT News

Move over, lightweight flying robots! The drone of the future is currently being developed at a government lab, and if all goes as planned it will do much more than just soar through the sky on its own.

While the United States continues to consider the merits behind its overseas weaponized drone program and efforts to allow surveillance unmanned aerial vehicles sail through domestic airspace, Sandia National Laboratories has released a video showing off a conceptual design meant to make the traditional UAV look like a thing of the past.   Continue reading “Newest drone to fly, swim and drive during missions”

Oconee Nuclear Station (Photo from wikipedia.org)RT News

A reactor at one of the nation’s largest nuclear power plants has been taken offline due to a radioactive leak within a containment building.

“Out of an abundance of caution,” service was temporarily removed from Unit 1 at the Oconee Nuclear Station in western South Carolina early Monday, according to ONS spokeswoman B.J. Gatten.    Continue reading “Radioactive leak found in reactor at S. Carolina nuclear plant, one of largest in US”

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Schools are increasingly confronting a controversial question: Should they do more to monitor students’ online interactions off-campus to protect them from dangers such as bullying, drug use, violence and suicide?

This summer, the Glendale school district in suburban Los Angeles captured headlines with its decision to pay a tech firm $40,500 to monitor what middle and high school students post publicly on Facebook, Twitter and other social media.   Continue reading “‘Big Brother’ is watching (spying) students online activity”

sunflipSoren Dreier

The sun’s polarity is getting closer to flipping. The star’s northern hemisphere’s polarity has already reversed, and the southern hemisphere should follow suit soon, scientists say.

Every 11 years or so, the two hemispheres of the sun reverse their polarity, creating a ripple effect that can be felt throughout the far reaches of the solar system. The sun is currently going through one of those flips in its cycle, scientists working at Stanford University’s Wilcox Solar Observatory, which has monitored the sun’s magnetic field since 1975, said.   Continue reading “Sun’s Magnetic Field Will Flip Soon”

World Events and the Bible

(Video, Daily Mail) – Thousands of bodies are being piled up on the streets of the Philippines after the devastating Typhoon Haiyan, as aid agencies warn the death toll will ‘rise sharply’.

Police and soldiers have the grim task of searching through the wreckage for bodies after entire villages and parts of cities were flattened.   Continue reading “Philippine typhoon rescue teams warn death toll will ‘rise sharply’ from the 10,000 already confirmed”

Land Ownership Bloomberg –  by Andro Linklater

The 102 Pilgrims who sailed to the New World in 1620 were destined to be communists. Under the terms of their agreement with the Plymouth company, they were to work communally for the first seven years, ‘‘during which time, all profits & benefits that are got by trade, traffick, trucking, working, fishing or any other means … remaine still in ye comone stock.’’ After that time the proceeds would be shared with the investors in England.   Continue reading “When Pilgrims Privatized America”

Washington’s Blog

Even Threatens the International Space Station

In their obsession to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the U.S. and Israel created a computer virus (called “Stuxnet”) to take out Iran’s nuclear reactors.

The virus appears to have spread to other countries.   Continue reading “America and Israel Created a Monster Computer Virus Which Now Threatens Nuclear Reactors Worldwide”

Members of the Federal Police patrol in Nuevo Leon state, Mexico on Feb. 20, 2013. [AFP]Raw Story – by Agence France-Presse

Authorities have detained a former US soldier accused of leading a gang of kidnappers in northern Mexico, officials said Monday.

The 32-year-old suspect spearheaded a band of 16 people who operated in the states of Nuevo Leon, Coahuila and Tamaulipas in the past four years, said Nuevo Leon security spokesman Jorge Domene.  Continue reading “Mexico accuses ex-U.S. soldier of leading kidnapping gang”

This photo Aug. 1, 2013 photo, courtesy of Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., shows from left, Inhofe's son Perry Inhofe, Inhofe's grandson Cole Inhofe and Sen. Inhofe in Oshkosh, Wis. Dr. Perry Inhofe, who was killed in a weekend plane crash in northeast Oklahoma. Photo: Ryan Jackson, AP / Sen. James InhofeABC News – by SEAN MURPHY Associated Press

The son of U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe was killed in a weekend plane crash in northeast Oklahoma, the U.S. Secretary of Defense confirmed.

Dr. Perry Inhofe, a 52-year-old orthopedic surgeon, died when the small plane he was piloting crashed Sunday near Owasso, a Tulsa suburb. Col. Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said Monday that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel “was informed of Sen. Inhofe’s son’s death.”   Continue reading “Okla. Sen. Inhofe’s Son, 52, Killed in Plane Crash”

Project Censored

This is a chapter excerpt from the new e-book by Peter Byrne

DiFi and the Blumpire

Senator Feinstein pressured the Postmaster General

Last December in San Francisco, a few score protestors made a loud demonstration at the offices of Blum Capital Partners in North Beach to protest the closure and sale of historic post offices. Escorted by police on motorcycles, they marched downtown to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein’s office. A common theme of the many speeches made that day was that Feinstein had somehow gotten her husband’s firm the contract to sell off the nation’s post offices. FactCheck.org checked the facts and announced that there was no evidence of any conflicts of interest with the CBRE contract.   Continue reading “U.S Senator Dianne Feinstein’s Husband Selling Post Offices to Friends”

History of Political CorrectnessMilitia News

The origins of “political correctness” or “cultural Marxism” can be found in the early parts of the 20th century from the Frankfurt School, which was the headquarters for the Communists scheming in Germany. Max Horkheimer, T.W. Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, Leo Lowenthal, and Erich Fromm were all there.

The role of the Frankfurt School is creating the victim groups that constitutes the politically correct coalition.   Continue reading “The History of Political Correctness”

Sen. Charles Schumer (credit: Getty Images)CBS New York

Chicken from China has officials on alert, including U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.)

As WCBS 880’s Jim Smith reported Sunday, Schumer said first, the U.S. Department of Agriculture only allowed chickens that had been processed in China to be sold in the U.S. Now, he said the USDA plans to green-light poultry raised and slaughtered in China.   Continue reading “Schumer: Chicken Slaughtered, Raised In China Could Pose Major Risk”

US Veteran Disabled Texas Pic #2 Getty ImageInternational Business Times – by Jamie Reno

The United States has likely reached a grim but historic milestone in the war on terror: 1 million veterans injured from the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. But you haven’t heard this reported anywhere else. Why? Because the government is no longer sharing this information with the public.

All that can be said with any certainty is that as of last December more than 900,000 service men and women had been treated at Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics since returning from war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that the monthly rate of new patients to these facilities as of the end of 2012 was around 10,000. Beyond that, the picture gets murky. In March, VA abruptly stopped releasing statistics on non-fatal war casualties to the public. However, experts say that there is no reason to suspect the monthly rate of new patients has changed.   Continue reading “VA Stops Releasing Data On Injured Vets As Total Reaches Grim Milestone”