Year: 2016

The Register – by Darren Pauli

The super worm known as Stuxnet was but a cog in an active US war program in which hundreds of thousands of network implants and backdoors in Iran networks were actively maintained to facilitate a devastating barrage of hacking attacks, a documentary claims.

Zero Days, due to screen at the Berlin Film Festival today, claims that Stuxnet was just one part of an operation called “Olympic Games” that is itself part of a wider effort dubbed “Nitro Zeus” that involves hundreds of US defence personnel.   Continue reading “GCHQ intel used to develop Stuxnet, claims new documentary”

Free Thought Project – by John Vibes

Great Falls, MT — Sunday night, a family sat down to watch the mid-season premiere of the show “The Walking Dead,” and nearly ended up getting raided by dozens of police officers because their neighbors thought that they heard something suspicious. What they actually heard was the nearby family listening to the show at a high volume, but the neighbors alleged that they heard screaming, and talks of someone “having a gun.”

Without checking out the situation for themselves to see if anything truly suspicious was going on, the nosy neighbors instantly called the police, who showed up quickly and in large numbers.   Continue reading “Cops Swarm Family’s Home During ‘Walking Dead’ Because Neighbors Called 9-1-1 on the TV”

Reuters

Southern California Gas Co is to be arraigned on criminal charges on Wednesday over a huge methane leak near a Los Angeles neighborhood that forced thousands of residents from their homes, officials said.

SoCalGas, a division of San Diego-based Sempra Energy, faces four misdemeanor charges for failing to report the release of hazardous materials from Oct. 23 to Oct. 26, and discharging air contaminants beginning on Oct. 23.   Continue reading “Gas company to be arraigned over Los Angeles area methane leak”

Truthstream Media – by Aaron and Melissa Dykes

Of course, these days the concept of the Illuminati is much less a shadowy secret society bent on world domination than a cruel inside joke MTV has played out with borrowed symbolism.

But back in 1924, people were very worried about the Illuminati’s plans to take over the world by destroying it.   Continue reading “1924 Newspaper Article Outlines Six Goals of the Illuminati”

Mail.com

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran on Wednesday snubbed a proposal agreed to by four influential oil producers to cap their crude output if others do the same, with a senior Oil Ministry official saying Tehran has no intention of freezing oil output levels.

Mahdi Asali, Iran’s OPEC envoy, said his country will in fact keep increasing its crude exports until it reaches levels attained before international sanctions were imposed on Tehran over its nuclear program.   Continue reading “Iran snubs Doha proposal, won’t freeze on oil output levels”

Mail.com

ATLANTA (AP) — A former Navy crewman is set to be executed Wednesday in Georgia for killing a fellow sailor whose remains were found buried in two states. Travis Hittson, 45, is scheduled to receive an injection of the barbiturate pentobarbital at 7 p.m. at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted in the April 1992 killing of Conway Utterbeck.

The State Board of Pardons and Paroles, the only entity in Georgia authorized to commute a death sentence, rejected Hitton’s request for clemency after a hearing Tuesday. Hittson’s lawyers have said he was mistreated and neglected as a child and constantly craved the approval of others. That, they said, combined with alcoholism and relatively low intelligence, made it easy for his direct supervisor in the Navy, Edward Vollmer, to manipulate him into killing Utterbeck.   Continue reading “Georgia to execute ex-Navy crewman who killed fellow sailor”

Mail.com

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Dynel Lane went to extreme lengths to show those closest to her she was expecting a baby, sharing ultrasound images with her daughter and keeping photos of herself appearing pregnant on her cell phone.

She even arranged to meet her husband for a pre-natal appointment the same day prosecutors say she cut open the belly of a pregnant stranger and removed the woman’s unborn baby girl, passing the child off as her own before admitting the March 18, 2015 attack.   Continue reading “Trial opens for Colorado woman in case of baby cut from womb”

Breitbart – by Milo Yiannopoulos

Rumours that Twitter has begun ‘shadowbanning’ politically inconvenient users have been confirmed by a source inside the company, who spoke exclusively to Breitbart Tech. His claim was corroborated by a senior editor at a major publisher.

According to the source, Twitter maintains a ‘whitelist’ of favoured Twitter accounts and a ‘blacklist’ of unfavoured accounts. Accounts on the whitelist are prioritised in search results, even if they’re not the most popular among users. Meanwhile, accounts on the blacklist have their posts hidden from both search results and other users’ timelines.   Continue reading “Twitter Shadowbanning ‘Real and Happening Every Day’ Says Inside Source”

Sovereign Man – by Simon Black

According to financial research firm ICI, total retirement assets in the Land of the Free now exceed $23 trillion.

$7.3 trillion of that is held in Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs).

That’s an appetizing figure, especially for a government that just passed $19 trillion in debt and is in pressing need of new funding sources.   Continue reading “Here’s why (and how) the government will ‘borrow’ your retirement savings”

Watchdog – by Eric Boehm

This week’s Nanny State involves a trip into the Way-Back Machine, to a time almost 100 years ago.

You see, kids, back in the early 20th Century, there was actually a time when drinking alcohol was illegal in this country. It was called Prohibition, and for about 12 years it was a serious crime to be caught making or selling booze.   Continue reading “Nanny State of the Week: Minnesota men facing felony charges for selling beer”

The Salt Lake Tribune – by Pamela Manson

A federal magistrate on Tuesday ordered a Utahn charged with conspiracy in the armed takeover of a wildlife refuge in Oregon to be detained, ruling the defendant is a flight risk and a danger to the community.

Wesley Kjar, a 32-year-old Manti native who lives in Salt Lake City, will be sent to Oregon to face prosecution there.   Continue reading “Utahn who allegedly served as Ammon Bundy’s bodyguard will face charge in Oregon”

Washington Post – by Simon Denyer

BEIJING — China apparently has deployed surface-to-air missile batteries on a disputed island in the South China Sea, officials in Taiwan and the United States said, even as President Obama met leaders from nations making rival maritime claims in the region.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense said in a statement that it had “grasped that Communist China had deployed” missiles on Woody Island in the Paracel group, and urged “relevant parties to refrain from any unilateral measure that would increase tensions.”   Continue reading “Chinese missiles apparently deployed in South China Sea as Obama meets rivals”

Yahoo News

The debate over encryption has reached new heights in a legal battle between Apple and the FBI.

In response to a federal magistrate’s order requiring Apple to assist the agency in accessing data from the phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters, the company is pushing back, pledging to challenge the request in the name of its customers’ privacy.   Continue reading “Apple vows to fight federal order to unlock San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone”

Free Thought Project – by Justin Gardner

One of the most insidious abuses of state power lies in the practice of civil asset forfeiture (CAF), where government agents can seize cash and property from citizens who are not charged with a crime. Law enforcement needs only the suspicion (often concocted) of a crime to immediately steal a person’s belongings, and the person must then prove his or her innocence with costly attorney’s fees to get their property back.   Continue reading “Co-creator of Civil Asset Forfeiture Wants to Abolish It, No More Policing for Profit”

The Daily Sheeple – by Piper McGowin

We’ve reported before on how calling the police for help these days in the modern American police state usually ends in less help and more death, pets included.

This time the woman was actually calling for an ambulance and not the cops, but since all first response tech is now integrated, the cops were sent anyway.   Continue reading “Police Shoot Suicidal Dad 11 Times… While He Lay In Bed Crying”

Rueters

The handgun used in last week’s apparent murder-suicide of two 15-year-old girls found shot dead at their suburban Phoenix high school was furnished by a fellow student at the request of one of the girls, police said on Tuesday.

Sergeant David Vidaure, a spokesman for the police department in Glendale, Arizona, said the girl had obtained the weapon from her classmate, a 15-year-old boy, on the eve of last Friday’s fatal shooting after telling him “she needed it for protection”.   Continue reading “Police find classmate gave gun to Arizona girls in murder-suicide”