Month: January 2015

Medium – by Nafeez Ahmed

Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet—part 2

Mass surveillance is about control. It’s promulgators may well claim, and even believe, that it is about control for the greater good, a control that is needed to keep a cap on disorder, to be fully vigilant to the next threat. But in a context of rampant political corruption, widening economic inequalities, and escalating resource stress due to climate change and energy volatility, mass surveillance can become a tool of power to merely perpetuate itself, at the public’s expense.   Continue reading “Why Google made the NSA”

Natural News – by Jonathan Benson

A petition is circulating to persuade three of the top infant formula brands in the U.S. — Abbott Laboratories (Similac), Mead Johnson Nutrition (Enfamil) and Nestle (Gerber Good Start) — to stop using genetically modified (GM) ingredients in their baby products. Each of these powdered formulas is loaded with corn and soy byproducts, along with sugar, which means they are more than likely GM in nature and harming children.   Continue reading “Baby formula is loaded with GMOs – Avoid these brands”

File Hippo

Microsoft’s event has finally revealed all its secrets surrounding Windows 10; some were expected, while others not so. There is clearly something to appeal to everyone in this major update, whether you are a heavy Internet browser or a gamer. Microsoft’s focus seems to be set on providing cross-platform access to a variety of users and obviously, winning back haters of Windows 8.   Continue reading “Windows 10 Will Be Free, And All The Details From The Windows 10 Event”

Don’t forget! This weekend only, you can watch the important film American Mustang the Movie for free on Hulu.com! Hulu Plus members pay a subscription fee to access most movies and TV shows online. But from now through the 25th, no fee is required to watch AM3D.

Bring the whole family together to watch American Mustang the Movie, a film that is as entertaining as it is compelling, uniquely weaving dramatic documentary footage of horses in the wild with an engaging story about a young girl’s growing affection and concern for a newly captured wild mustang.   Continue reading “Watch AMERICAN MUSTANG Free on Hulu This Weekend”

The Common Sense Show – by Dave Hodges

The Obama administration has a new partner in crime and it is the American Psychiatric Association (APA).  The APA created the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (5th Edition) which was recently adopted. DSM 5 is highly controversial and has sparked outrage from the mental health practitioners. As many of these practitioners point out, the new DSM-V makes a pathology out of simple and normal behaviors such as grieving for the loss of a loved one.

This constitutes a new subjective approach in diagnosing of mental illness in that it promises to end free speech and any form of political dissent. The federal government has already declared anyone who opposes its unconstitutional policies as having “political paranoia,”  which is now diagnosed as a type of mental illness.   Continue reading “New Psychiatric Diagnosis Targets “Internet Conspiracy Theorists””

Forbes – by Robert W. Wood

This time of year, the IRS likes to remind us that just about everything is taxed. It isn’t just your paychecks that get tallied on a W-2 and end up on your tax return. Income means income from all sources. So as you start getting organized for the annual drudgery of filing taxes this year, don’t forget about some of the odder one

1. If you sell unwanted clothes, cars, furniture, even family heirlooms, are they taxed? You bet. If you sell something for $100 you bought for $50, that’s a $50 gain. But in many cases you may not know what your tax basis is. If you can’t prove your basis, IRS will view the whole $100 as income. Maybe its capital gain, but it’s still income.   Continue reading “10 Surprising Items IRS Says To Report On Your Taxes”

Asia First Newsletter

A total of 3.65 million newly-founded companies were established in China in 2014, a 46% growth from a year earlier, the latest data released by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) showed. The number meant that 10,600 new companies were set up in China each day since March 2014.   Continue reading “3.65 million new firms established in China in 2014”

Yahoo News – by AUDREY HOROWITZ

REHOVOT, Israel (AP) — An Israeli barber has fashioned what he calls “magic” yarmulkes out of hair, designed to allow religious Jews to cover their heads without attracting unwanted attention from anti-Semites.

Shalom Koresh said his skullcap, known as a yarmulke in Yiddish and a kippa in Hebrew, was inspired by rising anti-Semitism in Europe and elsewhere. He said he has seen particular interest from buyers in France and Belgium.   Continue reading “Israeli’s ‘magic’ yarmulke made to protect Jews from attacks”

Washington Post – by Dan Lamothe

The new top general in the Marine Corps released a 16-page plan on Friday detailing his vision for the service, emphasizing a realignment of troops to meet demands in the Pacific and Africa, better coordination with Special Operations units, and new psychological testing to assess resiliency in recruits.

Commandant Gen. Joseph F. Dunford’s planning guidance is intended to outline how the Marine Corps “will set the conditions to fight and win against future enemies,” he wrote. He took over as the service’s top officer on Oct. 17, replacing the retiring Gen. James F. Amos.   Continue reading “New top Marine Corps general releases plan to shake up the service”

ProPublica – by Paul Keil

Sen. Charles Grassley said nonprofit hospitals could be breaking the law when they sue poor patients over unpaid bills and issued a stern warning to one Missouri hospital that he hopes reverberates nationwide.

Citing a ProPublica and NPR report, Grassley, R-Iowa, sent a letter Friday to Heartland Regional Medical Center, a nonprofit hospital in St. Joseph, Missouri, that has seized the wages of thousands of lower income workers who were unable to pay their medical bills.   Continue reading “Senator to Hospitals: Stop Suing Poor Patients”

Hot Air – by Jazz Shaw

The whole idea of community policing – so popular among cable news talking heads these days – involves actually getting involved with the community. A big part of that might be to support the residents in higher crime neighborhoods when they call the cops to ask for help. Sadly, this was not the experience of 67 year old Arles Cepeda in the Bronx, who found herself being arrested after calling the police “too many times” about drug dealers in her building and other unsafe conditions.   Continue reading “What’s wrong with NY? Bronx woman arrested for calling police about drug dealers”

American Everyman – by Scott Creighton

“Late Houthi leader Hussein Badr Addin al-Houthi was an outspoken critic of the government’s dependence on foreign allies like the U.S. and oil-rich Saudi Arabia.”Global Issues

According to reports (here and here) there are “thousands” of protesters on the streets in Yemen rising up against the new Houthi government while demanding the return of their dictator President Abdurabuh Mansur Hadi (our dictator installed in a one candidate “election” by Hillary Clinton with the aid of the Saudi regime)   Continue reading “Is Washington Staging a Color Revolution in Yemen?”

TASS

DONETSK, January 22. /TASS/. Dead bodies in NATO uniforms and a great number of US-made weapons have been recovered from under the debris of the Donetsk airport, Eduard Basurin, a spokesman for the defense ministry of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) said on Thursday.

“While examining the building of the Donetsk airport, we found a great number of American firearms, assault rifles and hand mortars, equipment and communications devices,” he said. “We also found publications in European languages, including on religious matters.”   Continue reading “Dead bodies in NATO uniforms, US weapons recovered from under debris of Donetsk airport”

Graham Cluley

Adobe has released a critical security patch for an Adobe Flash vulnerability that is being exploited by online criminals.

The vulnerability, known as CVE-2015-0310, can be used by hackers to “circumvent memory randomization mitigations” on versions of Windows.

Obviously it would be sensible to ensure that your version of Flash is updated as soon as possible.   Continue reading “Running Adobe Flash? You need to read this today”

RT

A police officer accused of repeatedly kicking and hitting a mother looking after a sick child in hospital has been cleared of actual bodily harm (ABH).

The woman was left with over 40 injuries after Warren Luke, a Metropolitan police officer, kicked and hit her after hospital staff told him she was refusing to leave.

Luke was cleared on Thursday of any crime at Wood Green Crown Court.   Continue reading “UK: Police officer who kicked mother tending to sick child cleared”

Natural Society – by Christina Sarich

Would you ever think that staple condiments used at sushi bars could help treat bladder cancer? While brown seaweed is excellent at destroying lymphoma cells, a compound in brown mustard called allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) was 100% effective at keeping cancer from spreading to muscles’ cells from the bladder, and bladder cancer growth within the organ was reduced by 34% in a recently conducted experiment.   Continue reading “Vegetable Compound 100% Effective in ‘Preventing Cancer from Spreading’”