Angry BirdsThe Guardian – by James Ball

The National Security Agency and its UK counterpart GCHQ have been developing capabilities to take advantage of “leaky” smartphone apps, such as the wildly popular Angry Birds game, that transmit users’ private information across the internet, according to top secret documents.

The data pouring onto communication networks from the new generation of iPhone and Android apps ranges from phone model and screen size to personal details such as age, gender and location. Some apps, the documents state, can share users’ most sensitive information such as sexual orientation – and one app recorded in the material even sends specific sexual preferences such as whether or not the user may be a swinger.   Continue reading “NSA and GCHQ target ‘leaky’ phone apps like Angry Birds to scoop user data”

vintage-housewifeThe Organic Prepper

Amy Glass is clueless and apparently rather bitter.

Amy Glass is a feminist blogger that I’d never heard of before someone sent me a link to this post. Her bio includes links to such gems as I Use My Sexuality To Get Ahead At Work and Hillary Clinton Has Given Just As Much To This World As The Stay At Home Wife In My 11am Yogalates Class.  She also can’t spell very well, but it would be catty to say that. (oops)

I read her arrogant post called ”I Look Down On Young Women With Husbands And Kids And I’m Not Sorry” thinking that there had to be a punchline, some merit, some deep social concept that I had heretofore been missing.   Continue reading “I Look Down on Clueless Bitter Feminists and I’m Not Sorry”

Reuters – by Rod Nickel

Jan 25 (Reuters) – A natural gas pipeline operated byTransCanada Corp exploded and caught fire in a rural area of the western Canadian province of Manitoba early on Saturday, but there were no injuries, a federal regulator said.

The explosion happened near Otterburne, Manitoba, about 25 km (15.5 miles) south of the provincial capital, Winnipeg. The area was evacuated as a precaution, said the National Energy Board, which oversees parts of Canada’s energy industry.   Continue reading “TransCanada gas pipeline explodes in Manitoba, none hurt”

Courthouse News Service – by LISA BUCHMEIER 

MILWAUKEE (CN) – A medical staffing company blew off a court order, and its president told a pregnant employee to use an “Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force” so she could come back to work earlier, the woman claims in court.

The Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review Commission sued HCS Medical Staffing, of Milwaukee, and its president, Charles Sisson, in Milwaukee County Court.   Continue reading “This One Will Make Your Head Spin”

CenturyLink – by LAURAN NEERGAARD

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — Forget being sneezed on: Government scientists are deliberately giving dozens of volunteers the flu by squirting the live virus straight up their noses.

It may sound bizarre, but the rare type of research is a step in the quest for better flu vaccines. It turns out that how the body fends off influenza remains something of a mystery.   Continue reading “Want to get the flu? Volunteers sneeze for science”

White House warns Obama could go around CongressYahoo News – by Philip Elliot

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will work with Congress where he can and circumvent lawmakers where he must, his top advisers warned Sunday in previewing Tuesday’s State of the Union speech.

Obama faces a politically divided Congress on Tuesday and will use his annual address to demand expanded economic opportunity. Absent legislative action, the White House is telling lawmakers that the president is ready to take unilateral action to close the gap between rich and poor Americans.   Continue reading “White House warns Obama could go around Congress”

Slide1 Flu Vaccine is the most Dangerous Vaccine in the U. S. based on Settled Cases for InjuriesHealth Impact News

The last report issued in 2013 by the Department of Justice (Vaccine Court), for compensation made by the Health and Human Services for people injured or killed by vaccines, was released in December 2013, covering the period of 8/16/2013 through 11/15/2013. The report is available as a Power Point presentation here.

There were 139 claims settled during this time period, with 70 of them being compensated. So, just over 50% of the claims filed for vaccine damages were compensated during this period.   Continue reading “Flu Vaccine is the most Dangerous Vaccine in the U. S. based on Settled Cases for Injuries”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: This continues to happen around the globe. Markets have been very shaky the past few days. This week should be a bit more telling. Yesterday, South Korea held an emergency meeting to discuss economic markets. In addition we now seeHSBC limiting cash withdrawals.

(Sky News) – Lloyds Banking Group has apologised after customers were unable to withdraw money from cashpoints or pay for goods with their debit cards.   Continue reading “Lloyds Banking Group ‘Sorry’ Over IT Glitch”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The entire country better start praying for rain in California. California is in fact the bread bowl for this country. In addition much of our food is exported around the work as well, rice for example. If there is no water here, prices for the food on your plate are going to be extremely expensive. Things are looking very grim for The Golden State. Here are some photos of a Lake in Northern California.

(Video, Yahoo) – In January, business at the 101 Livestock Market’s cattle auction on California’s Central Coast is usually slow. The busy season is normally in June or July, when ranchers have had time to fatten their animals for weeks on spring grasses.   Continue reading “California Drought Has Ranchers Selling Cattle”

Before It’s News

The Trans-Pacific Partnership n. 1. A “free trade” agreement that would set rules on non-trade matters such as food safety, internet freedom, medicine costs, financial regulation, and the environment. 2. A binding international governance system that would require the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and any other country that signs on to conform their domestic policies to its rules.  3. A secret trade negotiation that has included over 600 official corporate “trade advisors” while hiding the text from Members of Congress, governors, state legislators, the press, civil society, and the public.   Continue reading “Biggest Threat to the Internet You’ve Probably Never Heard Of! TPP- STOP IT NOW!”

Before It’s News

“I say what I need to say when I need to say it!”
-Nancy Grace

hypocrite (see Nancy Grace)
hyp·o·crite [hip-uh-krit] Show IPA noun

1. a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs.   Continue reading “Nancy Grace vs. Nancy Grace On Smoking Pot!”

AccuWeather – by Kristina Pydynowski

The next blast of brutal cold will grip most of the eastern two-thirds of the United States early this week and could yield the lowest temperatures so far this winter in many communities.

While harsh cold is returning to the Midwest and Northeast this weekend, it will pale in comparison to what will follow for Monday through Wednesday.   Continue reading “Next Polar Plunge Could Be Winter’s Coldest”