Year: 2016

RT

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations on government mass surveillance have apparently scared a significant number of people away from searching for terrorism-related information on Wikipedia, as a new study shows readers are afraid of being investigated.

The conclusions come as the online encyclopedia giant showed a 30-percent drop in searches on terrorism-related topics – the most direct evidence yet of something called the “chilling effect,” described by University of Oxford and Toronto’s Jonathon Penney as the measure of the negative impact on legal conduct that arises out of the leaks by the former NSA contractor who exposed the PRISM program.   Continue reading “People too afraid to search privacy-sensitive topics after Snowden revelations – Oxford study”

RT

Several computer viruses have been detected in a German nuclear power plant in Bavaria, the station operator said. The malware can steal login credentials and allow a remote attacker to access the cracked computer.

The incident took place at Gundremmingen plant about 100km from Munich.

“In Gundremmingen nuclear power plant so-called office-malware has been found during … testing work in Unit B,” a statement released by the power plant said.   Continue reading “German nuclear plant in Bavaria infected with malware, logins compromised”

Mail.com

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Hecklers who shout down speakers on North Carolina’s college campuses could be punished under a proposal being floated before lawmakers that would make this state the newest battleground over free speech at U.S. universities.

Lt. Gov. Dan Forest is proposing that the state’s 17-campus public university system create a policy that includes punishments for “those who interrupt the free expression of others.” With their annual legislative session opening this week, North Carolina lawmakers are expected to join a half-dozen states that have taken up free-speech legislation for public campuses.   Continue reading “College free speech: Hecklers on NC campuses under scrutiny”

Mail.com

ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — There was an emergency in Room 14. Three girls injured, one with a broken thighbone and maybe something more serious. Snapping on sterile gloves and kneeling before the worst-off patient, two 17-year-olds went to work.

The pair cut open the girl’s pant leg, pinched her toes to see if she had feeling and fit her with a neck brace. Sweat flecked their faces by the time they had the patient — a perfectly healthy classmate — strapped to a back board 12 minutes later.   Continue reading “Career education making a comeback in US high schools”

Mail.com

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Supporters and opponents of Donald Trump clashed Tuesday outside City Hall, and five people, including two little girls, were pepper-sprayed by a demonstrator during the heated confrontation, police said.

No serious injuries and no arrests were reported in the clash as about 50 people confronted each other in the Orange County community. Backers waving U.S. flags and pro-Trump signs were met by opponents and a shouting match began before a City Council meeting where an anti-Trump resolution had been proposed that the council eventually chose to take no action on.   Continue reading “Pepper spray flies during Trump protest clash in California”

Fox 5  Vegas

LAS VEGAS (FOX5) – FOX5 has received an update from Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy. He’s currently in federal custody, awaiting trial.

FOX5 received a letter from him on Monday.

In the letter, addressed to FOX5’s Cyndi Lundeberg and dated April 7, Bundy again states the land his cattle were grazing on belongs to the people rather than the government.   Continue reading “Cliven Bundy provides FOX5 update from behind bars”

Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist

The criminal depths to which police will sink to bolster their budgets, apparently have no limit, as a recent case of police theft in Oklahoma illustrates. To keep society safe, sheriff’s deputies in Muskogee County, Oklahoma robbed a church and an orphanage of $53,000. Real American heroes.

Eh Wah, 40, a refugee from Burma, who became a US citizen more than a decade ago, was traveling with the cash to deliver it to the intended recipients when he was targetted by modern day, state-sanctioned pirates — for a broken tail light.   Continue reading “Worse than Criminals — Cops Use Asset Forfeiture to Steal $53K from an Orphanage and a Church”

Reuters

Two senior Obama administration officials wrote congressional leaders on Tuesday to urge legislation be passed to fund the fight against the Zika virus, as concerns mount the United States will soon face locally transmitted cases of the disease.

U.S. health officials concluded this month that the virus, spreading rapidly in the Americas, was a cause of microcephaly, a rare birth defect defined by unusually small head size that can hamper development. Zika is also linked to other health problems.   Continue reading “White House urges Congress to move on Zika funding”

Breitbart – by Ildefonso Ortiz

EDINBURG, Texas — An illegal alien convicted of crossing into Texas to rob illegal aliens and then cross back into Mexico will now spend five years in prison.

On Monday, Julio Cesar Velasquez, an illegal alien from Reynosa, Tamaulipas, appeared before Texas State Judge Rudy Delgado who handed down a five-year prison sentence for the charge of aggravated robbery.   Continue reading “Prison Time for Illegal Alien Who Crossed River to Rob other Illegal Aliens”

AlJazeera

The UN Security Council has rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that the annexed Golan Heights in Syria would “forever” remain under Israeli control.

The 15-member council agreed on Tuesday that the status of the Golan, which Israel seized from Syria in 1967, “remains unchanged,” Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi, who holds this month’s council presidency said.   Continue reading “UN rejects Israel’s claim over Syria’s Golan Heights”

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Anna Von Reitz

I was loping along, minding my own business when State of the Nation called me this morning and asked me about my choices in the upcoming federal elections.

“I don’t vote in federal elections,” I spluttered.

This is a sore spot with me, because the whole “election” process is a fraud—-and a nasty, tortuous one. It is designed to make you think that you have a voice and choice, when in fact, the voter registration itself is designed to enslave you as a “franchise” operator of the federal corporation. That is what “enfranchisement” means and that’s what happens when you register to vote.   Continue reading “Elections? What Elections? Big News. BIG.”

28 Tulane Law Review 22 (Suthon, 1953) (President Johnson vetoed the Reconstruction Act in an able message, stressing its harsh injustices and its many aspects of obvious unconstitutionality. He justifiably denounced it as “a bill of attainder against nine million people at once.”)

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Anna Von Reitz

Living Americans naturally inhabit their birthright estate and DO NOT “reside” in any “State of State” concocted by the Federal United States or any incorporated entity at all.

Each of us who were born on the land can reclaim their birth right estate and operate the land jurisdiction courts, legislatures, and executive branch of government on the land under the Last Man Standing Rule of our native Law.   Continue reading “Acting as a judge of a superior court – the Last Man Standing Rule of our native Law – Judge Anna von Reitz, Alaska”