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McClatchy DC – by JONATHAN S. LANDAY, ALI WATKINS AND MARISA TAYLOR
WASHINGTON — The CIA Inspector General’s Office has asked the Justice Department to investigate allegations of malfeasance at the spy agency in connection with a yet-to-be released Senate Intelligence Committee report into the CIA’s secret detention and interrogation program, McClatchy has learned. Continue reading “Probe sought of CIA conduct in Senate study of secret detention program”
Facebook is currently working with two anti-gun groups to further restrict firearm discussions on its various pages in a move that will likely lead to the outright censorship of gun topics throughout the social media site.
Facebook has also bought out a drone company as well. Sending 11000 drones to Africa. Continue reading “Facebook Joins Bloomberg To Ban Pro-Gun Speech, Seek To Limit First Amendment Rights”
(Video, Activist Post) – The fact that the United States leads the world in prison population is becoming common knowledge. Somewhat lesser known is the direct connection between corporate prisons and incarceration rates. There is no starker example of this than Louisiana which leads the world in for-profit prisons and, just coincidentally, happens to have the world’s highest prison population per capita. Continue reading “Kids For Cash Scheme Exposes Horrors of For-Profit Prisons: Documentary”
WEB Notes: Pay attention to the signs taking place in the world, this is a major one. Do not forget1 Thes 5:3.
(Video, Ynet) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants an accord with the Palestinians, but the onus is on them to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, he told the annual conference of the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC on Tuesday. Continue reading “Netanyahu at AIPAC: Ready for ‘historic peace’, but Palestinians must recognize Jewish state”
Putin is not playing games with the west. He just announced that if the U.S. imposes sanctions on Russia, Russia will default on all loans from the western world and the western banking system. Now Putin is playing hard ball with the west.
Obama is in a game with a seasoned war veteran, and a man who has no fear of the US and the western powers. It will be interesting to watch Obama squirm his way out of this situation. Continue reading “Russia Warns It Will Dump The U.S. Dollar And Stiff The Western Banking Cartel”
At first blush, a lawsuit filed last week by the ACLU on behalf of a sociology professor at Indiana University wrongly detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection seems to be about whether CBP is exceeding the limitations on its police powers, and detaining US citizens for purposes unrelated to customs and borders.
That’s bad, but unsurprising in light of the history of abuse of limited administrative search powers as a pretext for unrelated police purposes by CBP and other DHS components, notably the TSA. Continue reading “DHS uses email intercepts to question US citizen about her sex life”
Department of Defense Instruction 3025.22
Mother Jones – by Asawin Suebsaeng
Here’s one way the US government is trying to combat terrorism without the use of controversial explosions. A tiny portion of your tax dollars—just a few million dollars annually—is funding the State Department’s trolling of jihadists on Twitter.
One of the State Department’s official (and verified) Twitter accounts, called “Think AgainTurn Away” and going by the handle “@ThinkAgain_DOS,” is devoted to speaking “some truths about terrorism” online. If you follow the account, you’ll notice that this truth often manifests itself in the form of the State Department directly tweeting at Islamists and their supporters in English, and countering their beliefs. Continue reading “The State Department Is Actively Trolling Terrorists on Twitter”
Computer World – by Robert L. Mitchell
Privacy is under attack from all quarters, but even today, there are things you can do to protect your personal data. Here are some tips.
Who says privacy is dead? While it’s true that marketers, the government, data aggregators and others are gathering and analyzing more data than ever about every individual, you can still exert some control over what’s out there, who’s tracking you and what they do with that information. Continue reading “The paranoid’s survival guide, part 1: How to protect your personal data”
New Ooga Booga No Longer Effective … So Government Switches Back to Tried-And-True Old-Timey Ooga-Booga
Preface: I’m not siding with Putin on the Ukrainian dispute. I don’t like Communism. I was born in the U.S. and have lived here all of my life. I hate Stalin with a passion – a man who killed countless protesters, and sent numerous others away to insane asylums – and have railed against the “useful idiots” who naively supported the Soviets. I also think that Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat. I’m just pointing out that the U.S. Government is completely overreacting and fear-mongering. This is taking place on the other side of the world, and doesn’t effect America’s national security (although we may have heavily invested in the outcome). Continue reading “The Americans’ Fear of Islamic Terrorists Has Worn Off, So the Government Pulls Out the EVIL RUSSIAN Card Again”
What did Washington expect to gain from a successful coup d’état in Ukraine? It gained little enough from the “Orange Revolution” in 2005, that first put Viktor Yuschenko and Yulia Tymoshenko into power in independent Ukraine. Their power produced rivalry, as well as a return of corruption to national government (the Orange Revolution, so-called, was itself inspired by popular protests against corruption in the preceding government of Viktor Yanukovych, causing his ouster). Yanukovych, of course, returned to power in 2010 (with 48 percent of the vote), after which Yulia Tymoshenko was conveniently charged and imprisoned on corruption charges. Continue reading “What Happens Now in Ukraine?”
Truth Dig – by Harvey Wasserman
Sixty years ago this week, a misfired hydrogen bomb test plastered with lethal radiation the Japanese fishing boat Daigo Fukuryu Maru—“Lucky Dragon”—and its 23-man crew. The March 1, 1954, test, code-named Castle Bravo, spewed a deadly ash cloud into wrongly predicted winds, contaminating a huge swath of the Pacific Ocean.
The Dragon’s crew fell ill with burns, hair loss, joint pain, nausea, headaches and other ailments diagnosed by medical experts as acute radiation syndrome. Radio operator Aikichi Kuboyama died six months later at the age of 40, praying that he would be “the last victim of an atomic or hydrogen bomb.” Liver cancer eventually killed more than a quarter of the crew. Continue reading “The USS Reagan Is Fukushima’s Unlucky Dragon”
Truth Dig – by Peter Z. Scheer
Breaking a barrier for the legal pot industry, this ad for Marijuana Doctors.com “appeared on Fox, CNN, ESPN, Comedy Central, AMC, and Discovery,” The Verge reports.
Comcast agreed to air the ad in the same time slot ghetto as alcohol commercials, which is to say late at night when only adults are likely watching. Continue reading “This Marijuana Commercial Airs on National Television”
Natural Society – by Elizabeth Renter
In an about-face, two California organizations who previously opposed any state-level efforts to regulate medical marijuana are now backing a bill that would create the basis of state licensing and regulation while limiting doctors who can prescribe pot. According to the Fresno Bee, SB 1262 has the backing of the League of California Cities and the California Police Chiefs Association. And while their support of any marijuana measure is progress, this bill is not likely to gain support of marijuana advocacy groups. Continue reading “California Bill Would License Medical Pot Dispensaries but Limit Patient Access”
Golden Age of Gaia – by Stephen Cook
Stephen: There’s not a photo of her to be found anywhere on the internet,. Nor any info (well, not in English anyway). My gut is though, that she has an open heart and will use some of that fortune to help those struggling. Her father, pictured at right, recently donated HKD$1,000,000 to to The Community Chest of Hong Kong to help those in need, which is wonderful to hear. But oh, what many of us could do to have even a portion of that abundance to help build a world that works for everyone, eh? Continue reading “24-Year-Old Hong Kong Chinese Woman is World’s Youngest Billionaire”
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