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A blogger who calls himself DoctorBeet wrote in a blog post earlier this week that he’d run a traffic analysis on his home router and found that whenever he switched the channel, his LG Smart TV would ping LG’s servers with the name of the channel, along with his TV’s individual identification number.

So whenever he switched from say, the BBC to Scuzz, his TV would report back to the mothership. Err, LG. Even when he went to his TV settings and switched the “Collection of watching info” that was set to “on” by default to “off,” it still sent that information to LG’s servers.   Continue reading “LG Smart TVs are spying on you while you change channels”

John BoehnerClimate Progress – by EMILY ATKIN

The House is likely to vote on a number of GOP bills this week related to the oil and gas industry, arguably the most sweeping of which is the Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act.

The bill, introduced by Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO), is broad legislation designed to make it much easier for oil and gas companies to obtain permission to drill on public lands. If signed into law, the legislation would automatically approve onshore drilling permits if the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) failed to act on them in 60 days.   Continue reading “House To Vote On Bill That Would Impose $5,000 Fee For Protesting Drilling Projects”

Potentially Fatal ‘Knockout’ Game Targeting White Strangers Spreading Across AmericaNow the End Begins

The Cowardly Knockout Game Has Real Life Consequences.

On Monday, we here at NOW THE END BEGINS brought you the story of something called the ‘knockout game‘, where inner city black teens will randomly attack helpless and innocent white men and women by blindsiding them with a sucker punch. As you saw in the video, the results are dramatic and terrifying.   Continue reading “Teen Playing Knockout Game Gets Shot Twice By Intended Victim Then Jailed”

All Gov – by Matt Bewig

The federal government must release documents explaining how, when and why it might decide to shut down the nation’s wireless networks because of a “national crisis,” U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled last week. His ruling came in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in February 2013.   Continue reading “Judge Orders Homeland Security to Release Details for Shutting Down Wireless Networks”

Cask with 22 fuel rods is lifted and moved by workers during operations to move the cask from the reactor building to another building where a common fuel pool is located, at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plantYahoo News

TOKYO (Reuters) – The operator of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant completed on Thursday the removal of the first fuel rods from a cooling pool high up in a badly damaged reactor building, a rare success in the often fraught battle to control the site.

The batch of 22 unused fuel assemblies, which each contain 50-70 of the fuel rods, was transferred by a trailer to a safer storage pool, the last day of a four-day operation, Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, said in a statement.   Continue reading “In start of long operation, Fukushima removes first fuel rods”

Power Outage Cripples BlueHost and HostGator ServersNewswire – by DE Brown

Websites hosted at Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI) the corporate entity behind Bluehost, HostGator, iPage, FatCow, and other household internet hosting names suffered a major disruption of service, effecting tens of thousands of customers.

(Newswire.net — November 21, 2013)  — Wednesday morning the internet  went dark for tens of thousands of small businesses.   Continue reading “Power Outage Cripples BlueHost and HostGator Servers”

Video Rebel’s Blog

The United States has had three coups if you count the first one as being Jekyll Island in November of 1910. The coup plotters met at Jekyll Island and secretly wrote the law that became the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. All of the bankers who met in secret were Rothschild agents. This included Paul Warburg of the Rothschild dominated Kuhn Loeb bank. Nelson Aldrich was a Senator who married into the Rockefeller family. The Rockefellers were created by the Rothschilds as were J P Morgan, the Harrimans and the Bush family. Senator Aldrich was head of the National Monetary Commission created by President Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt had become President after the Jews had successfully assassinated President McKinley. They previously had assassinated President Lincoln. John Wilkes Booth was Jewish. But I prefer not want to count these earlier assassinations as coups. The remaining members of the Jekyll Island Six were Treasury Department employees who did what they were told to do by the Jews.   Continue reading “Jekyll Island, The JFK Assassination And 911. Three American Coups”

The front page of The Assassination Market.RT News

A new site allows anyone to set bounties on the death of any individual and anonymously pay a hit man who fulfills the contract with digital currency bitcoin. Barack Obama, Ben Bernanke and the prime minister of Finland are already on the hit list.

“Killing is in most cases wrong, yes. However, as this is an inevitable direction in the technological evolution, I would rather see it in the hands of me than somebody else. By providing it cheaply and accurately I hope that more immoral alternatives won’t be profitable or trusted enough. This should primarily be a tool for retribution,” says the text of the Assassination Market, written by a man using the pseudonym Kuwabatake Sanjuro.   Continue reading “‘Assassination market’: Bernanke tops ‘kill-list’ in crowd-sourced bitcoin fundraiser for wannabe hitmen”

President Barack Obama takes the oath of offic...Forbes – by M. Northrop Buechner

Since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, he has changed it five times. Most notably, he suspended the employer mandate last summer. This is widely known, but almost no one seems to have grasped its significance.

The Constitution authorizes the President to propose and veto legislation. It does not authorize him to change existing laws. The changes Mr. Obama ordered in Obamacare, therefore, are unconstitutional. This means that he does not accept some of the limitations that the Constitution places on his actions. We cannot know at this point what limitations, if any, he does accept.   Continue reading “Obama’s Disdain For The Constitution Means We Risk Losing Our Republic”

A fresco is pictured inside the catacomb of Priscilla in Rome November 19, 2013. The catacomb, used for Christian burials from the late 2nd century through the 4th century, reopened on Tuesday to the public after years of restoration. The complex will also be viewable in a dedicated section of Google Maps, according to a Vatican press release. REUTERS/Max RossiYahoo News – by Philip Pullella | Reuters

ROME (Reuters) – Proponents of a female priesthood say frescoes in the newly restored Catacombs of Priscilla prove there were women priests in early Christianity. The Vatican says such assertions are sensationalist “fairy tales”.

The catacombs, on Rome’s Via Salaria, have been fully reopened after a five-year project that included laser technology to clean some of the ancient frescoes and a new museum to house restored marble fragments of sarcophagi.   Continue reading “Restored Rome catacomb frescoes add to debate on women priests”

A permanent twinkle! Lucy Luckayanko got a piece of platinum jewelry inserted in her eye to set herself apart from the crowdDaily Mail – by SADIE WHITELOCKS

A New York woman has told how she got a piece of platinum jewelry inserted in her eye to set herself apart from the crowd.

Lucy Luckayanko visited Dr Emil Chynn at Park Avenue Laser Vision to get a ‘cute’ heart-shaped sequin, measuring 3.5mm, placed on the white of her of right eye ball.   Continue reading “A permanent twinkle in the eye! Woman gets platinum jewelry implanted in her optic membrane for $3,000 to make herself ‘unique’”

CenturyLink – by TAMI ABDOLLAH

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration officer who was killed in a gunman’s attack at Los Angeles International Airport died two to five minutes after he was shot, coroner’s officials said Wednesday.

The detail comes after The Associated Press reported Friday that agencies are investigating whether paramedics could have come to TSA Officer Gerardo Hernandez’s aid sooner after the Nov. 1 shooting.   Continue reading “Coroner: TSA officer died minutes after being shot”

hanksyHuffington Post

Well, this is one way to welcome Bill de Blasio to the New York City mayoral office.

The slightly terrifying street art homage to the newly elected mayor comes courtesy of Hanksy, the pun-happy graffitist who likes to combine wordplay with caricature portraits of celebrities, and artist Alex Pardee. This particular design riffs off the horror of Buffalo Bill (yup, of “Silence of the Lambs” fame) and is giving us all kinds of feelings.   Continue reading “You Know You’re The Mayor Of New York City When Street Artists Do This”

Developing Story 16x9 DLCBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – More than a dozen people have been charged in connection with a food stamp fraud investigation, according to authorities.

Grocery stores in Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan were raided Wednesday as part of a joint investigation between Homeland Security, the New York State Attorney General’s Office and the New York State Department of Health.   Continue reading “Authorities: 16 Charged In NYC Food Stamp Fraud Scheme”

The Organic Prepper

This is from the “Believe-It-or-Not-This-Isn’t-Satire” files.

If you don’t get lined up for this year’s lethal injection – ahem – I mean flu shot – you just might get a push from a well-meaning (but brainwashed) friend or neighbor. A national campaign has begun with the intention to shame and peer pressure everyone to get the flu shot.   Continue reading “Look Out, Flu Shot Resistors: The “FLUgitive” Propaganda Campaign Aims to Shame You Into Getting Jabbed”

Huffington Post

As the saying goes, “Don’t Mess With Texas.” And as the saying might go now, “Don’t Mess With 92-Year-Old Women From Texas.”

One night last week, Opal Phelps, 92, was asleep in her Jasper County, Texas home when a masked man broke in, woke her up and demanded $20.   Continue reading “92-Year-Old Woman Fights Off Home Intruder By Kicking Him In Face”