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Yahoo has announced it has fully encrypted traffic moving between its data centers, as well as mail between servers and other mail providers in order to protect private users from mass surveillance. The move helps put a lid on NSA spooks and hacking.

“We implemented the latest in security best-practices, including supporting TLS 1.2, Perfect Forward Secrecy and a 2048-bit RSA key for many of our global properties such as Homepage, Mail and Digital Magazines,” Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer, wrote in his Tumblr blog post.   Continue reading “Yahoo introduces new encryption methods to protect users from spying”

Mississippi State Flag (Photo by Ken Lund / flickr.com)RT News

The Mississippi Legislature passed a bill on Tuesday that would allow individuals and businesses to legally discriminate on the basis of their religion.

The state House and Senate approved a conference report on SB 2681, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, despite previous indications from the House that its version of the bill was on hold based on objections about the implications for discrimination.   Continue reading “Mississippi Legislature passes bill allowing legal discrimination on basis of religion”

People walk along a cracked road in Iquique, northern Chile, on April 2, 2014 a day after a powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake hit off Chile's Pacific coast. (AFP Photo / Aldo Solimano) RT News

A rash of earthquakes within the last week along a section of the Earth infamous for seismic activity is causing concern that more tremors will soon occur near the ominously named “Ring of Fire.”

Experts don’t think that a series of quakes in recent days are related to one another, but all seem to agree that three major incidents in both North and South America share at least one common bond: each quake and their subsequent aftershocks were located along the circum-Pacific seismic belt, or “Ring of Fire,” where scientists with the United States Geological Survey say 90 percent of the world’s earthquakes occur.   Continue reading “‘Ring of Fire’ fears renewed following earthquakes in California, Chile and Panama”

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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Attorneys for a serial killer have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his execution until the state releases information about who supplied its new lethal injection drug stock.

Serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells is set to die Thursday evening with a recently obtained supply of pentobarbital. Texas prison officials say the pharmacy that supplied the drug needs to be kept secret to protect it from threats of violence.   Continue reading “Supreme Court to decide Texas execution drug case”

A UPS driver gets into his truck to make downtown deliveries Wednesday, April 23, 2008, in Atlanta. UPS  Inc., the world's largest shipping carrier, said Wednesday its profit rose 7.5 percent in the first quarter, though it was affected by the weakening U.S. economy. (AP Photo/John Amis)Business Insider – by HAYLEY PETERSON

UPS is firing 250 Queens, N.Y., drivers for walking off the job during a 90-minute protest in February.

The company dismissed 20 of the workers after their shifts Monday and issued notices of termination to another 230 employees, notifying them that they will be fired once the company has trained their replacements, UPS spokesman Steve Gaut told Business Insider.   Continue reading “UPS Fires 250 Employees For Staging A 90-Minute Protest To Defend Co-Worker”

YJN – by Aarav Sen

“It is just not kosher,” a Hasidic matzah bakery spokesperson said after being questioned as to why the prime minister’s matzahs were thrown into the trash.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, visited the Kfar Chabad matzah bakery to bake some Passover matzahs.   Continue reading “Hasidic Passover matzah bakery throws away matzahs that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touched”

Home in Los Angeles County in CaliforniaBBC

US online property site Zillow Inc has announced a partnership with Chinese real estate portal Beijing Yisheng Leju Information Services (Leju).

Zillow’s site helps users find information about homes and mortgages and connects homeowners with agents.

The partnership with Leju will give Chinese investors access to home search information in the US.   Continue reading “Zillow real estate website partners with China’s Leju”

90 Miles From Tyranny

A politician honored for his gun control efforts is arrested for attempted arms smuggling. He held press conferences denouncing violent video games and helped pass legislation in California prohibiting sales of such games to minors. And yet, secretly, he was living the life of a Grand Theft Auto character.

The downfall of Calif. State Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco should be an utterly captivating, fascinating story, and the national media should be sinking its teeth into the details. I joked when Yee was first arrested about how he is destined to be parodied in Grand Theft Auto.   Continue reading “The California Senator that lived the life of a Grand Theft Auto character”

Tenth Amendment Center

SALT LAKE CITY, April 2, 2014 – On Monday, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert signed a bill which thwarts some of the effects of the growing surveillance state.

HB0128, which previously passed the state senate by a vote of 28-0 and the house by a vote of 71-2, makes any electronic data obtained by law enforcement without a warrant inadmissible in a criminal proceeding.   Continue reading “Banning Warrantless Data: Utah Governor Signs Privacy Bill into Law”

 

Activist Post – by Stephen Lendman

Jobar is a Damascus area suburb. On April 1, Syria’s permanent UN envoy Bashir al-Jaafari said terrorists plan attacking it with chemical weapons.

He knew days earlier. He sent two identical letters to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Security Council President Joy Ogwu.

He said Syrian authorities monitored a landline call between two Jobar area terrorists. They discussed distributing gas masks to their elements to protect against a planned toxic gas attack.   Continue reading “Another False Flag Chemical Weapons Attack Planned”

sotomayorThe Shark Tank – by Javier Manjarres

The not-so-qualified Supreme Court Judge President Obama appointed, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, recently spoke to a Yale University students telling them that she was insulted by the labeling of illegal immigrants as being criminals.

“I think people then paint those individuals as something less than worthy human beings and it changes the conversation.”-Justice Sonia Sotomayor   Continue reading “Justice Sotomayor Insulted By Criminal Labeling Of Illegal Immigrants”

Military personnel wait for a press conference to begin at Ft. HoodPat Dollard

Excerpted from NBC NEWS: The soldier who shot three people to death at Fort Hood apparently did not see combat during a tour in Iraq three years ago but was clearly troubled, under treatment for depression and anxiety and being evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder.

As authorities tried to piece together a motive on Thursday for the rampage, a picture began to emerge of the gunman, identified as Spc. Ivan Lopez, 34, a married father who transferred from another base in Texas in February.   Continue reading “Fort Hood Gunman Did Not See Combat In Iraq Tour”