Tech Crunch – by Alex Wilhelm

Today the National Security Agency (NSA) discussed its program that collects billions of cellphone location records each day. The NSA targets foreign phones but also absorbs data on the phones of American citizens.

“The NSA does not target Americans’ location data by design, but the agency acquires a substantial amount of information on the whereabouts of domestic cellphones ‘incidentally,’” according to the Washington Post, which broke the story concerning program based on documents provided by Edward Snowden.   Continue reading “NSA Claims Collecting Cellphone Location Data Is Legal Under Executive Order — From 1981”

Slash Dot – by Kevin Fogarty

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have passed a milestone on the road to maturity of any new digital technology: they can now be hacked and taken over by strangers while still carrying markers that make it look as if they’re operating under directions from their proper owners.

Convicted hacker Sammy Kamkar announced on his personal blog Dec. 2 that he’d programmed a Parrot AR.Drone 2 WiFi-controlled quadricopter to patrol an area autonomously, searching for other drones, then hack and take over their control software using a battery of tools installed on a Raspberry Pi Kamkar installed on the drone.   Continue reading “Hacker Posts Drone-Hijacking App as Freeware”

13Institute for Historical Review – by Roger A. Stolley

Each year near the anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941, I get angry at the lie perpetrated upon the U.S. people that it was a surprise attack.

It may have been a surprise to the U.S. people, but it certainly was not a surprise to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the select few persons who surrounded him or the U.S. Army intelligence officer working under his direct orders.   Continue reading “Pearl Harbor Attack No Surprise”

Veterans Today – by Jim Fetzer,  Leuren Moret, and  Christopher Busby

HEAVY FIRE POWER WAS USED IN FALLUJAH IN 2004: U.S. Marines fire Nov. 11, 2004, on Fallujah with a 155 mm Howitzer.

One of the weapons originally designed for this artillery piece was a tactical nuclear weapon (that could include a neutron warhead) designed by Samuel Cohen, to be fired in eastern Europe on Soviet troops during President Ronald Reagan’s term in office. [Photo: Lance Cpl. Samantha L. Jones]   Continue reading “Scientists Insist Iraq Nuked by US”

At Philadelphia International, travelers walk through electronic scanning devices between Terminals D and E. The TSA wants to expand such applications.Philly.com – by Linda Loyd, Inquirer Staff Writer

Airports across the country have sued to block a new Transportation Security Administration directive that requires them, starting Jan. 1, to begin guarding exit security doors as passengers leave flights and head for baggage claims.

The agency, created in the aftermath of the September 2001 terrorist attacks, said the change will save $88.1 million a year. The TSA wants its workers to focus on screening passengers and baggage, and said exit-lane monitoring is an airport function.   Continue reading “Airports sue TSA over who guards the exits”

In Death, as in Life, Truth About Mandela OverlookedThe New American – by Alex Newman

With the widely anticipated passing of South African revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela late Thursday, December 5, presidents and dictators from around the world — as well as everyday people, and especially the press — are in mourning. Lost amid the tsunami of praise and adoration, almost canonization even according to some of his supporters, however, is the truth about the man himself, who was, after all, still just a man.   Continue reading “In Death, as in Life, Truth About Mandela Overlooked”

AlterNet – by Paul Armentano

The mainstream media is in a frenzy over claims that marijuana smoking is causing an epidemic of ‘man boobs’ (a relatively common condition known scientifically as gynecomastia).

The incredulous claim first got legs in late November when Philadelphia Inquirer reporter Melissa Dribben posed the question, “Do doobies make boobies?” Responding to her inquiry, area plastic surgeon Adrian Lo admitted that data on the subject is scarce. But he nonetheless argued, “[I]n my experience, it’s very simple. If you’re a guy and you’re worried about gynecomastia, you shouldn’t smoke pot because there’s a link.” To which Robert X. Murphy Jr., president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, added, “That is the prevailing opinion.”   Continue reading ““Do Doobies Make Boobies?” The Mainstream Media Wants You To Think So”

pelosiCNS News – by Susan Jones

Almost 11 million people couldn’t find a job in November, and for those who don’t earn a paycheck, unemployment benefits work for the economy, too, a leading Democrat says.

“Economists agree that unemployment benefits remain one of the best ways to grow the economy in a very immediate way,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (R-Calif.) said at a news conference on Thursday.   Continue reading “Pelosi: Extending Unemployment ‘One of Best Ways to Grow the Economy’”

The UN security council meets in New York. Photograph: Eskinder Debebe/APGolden Age of Gaia – by Sage

sage:  Do I see some shenanigans going on here?  Saudi Arabia rejects their seat on the UN Security Council and Jordan is elected to step into it (Story 1).  Meanwhile in Story 2, the US is sending missiles to Saudi Arabia in an effort to bring resolution to the Middle East because “…This region is dangerous, it’s combustible, it’s unstable…”  So, is this telling me that bringing in more weapons and having the US big brother influence is going to help bring peace?  Sorry, I don’t buy it.  It’s that kind of thinking that got us into our predicament in the first place.   Continue reading “Jordan Took UN Seat that Saudi Arabia Rejected, Then Saudi Arabia Got Missiles”

AlterNet- by S.E. Smith

In 2011, a 13-year-old student in Albuquerque, New Mexico burped audibly in class (perhaps the school lunch didn’t agree with him). His instructor summoned the school resource officer, one of a new generation ofpolice officers and specially trained go-betweens stationed in school environments, and the student found himself booked into a juvenile detention facility. He had fallen victim to his school’s zero-tolerance policy, a framework used across the nation to crack down fast and hard on unwanted behaviors, but one that has resulted in what critics are calling a school-to-prison pipeline, as students are fast-tracked to juvenile courts for offenses like writing their names on desks.   Continue reading “Zero-Tolerance Policies in Schools are Often Destructive, Fueling a School to Prison Pipeline”

NESARA

I of all people am for independent thinking and action on the part of people, but we have been sooo brainwashed by the government and U.S. press most people don’t have a clue as to what is happening.

You should certainly do what you want, but I HIGHLY suggest you DO NOT sign up for Obamacare until you read this CAREFULLY.  Chief Justice Roberts carefully worded his ruling and left out any requirement to participate for 95% of Americans.   Continue reading “How Chief Justice Roberts Saved America in His Obamacare Ruling”

Washington’s Blog – by David Swanson

Google may have been, until now, the Obama of hip internet monopolies.  No matter how many nations the President bombs, people still put Obama peace-sign stickers on their cars.  No matter how many radical rightwing initiatives Google funds, people still think it’s a “progressive corporation” — How could it not be? It’s making progress!

Google is funding Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society, the American Conservative Union, and the political arm of the Heritage Foundation.   Continue reading “I Googled “Evil” and it Took Me to Google”

staples fightHuffington Post

One evening this past August, an employee at a Staples office supply store in a Wake Forest, N.C., strip mall heard a bang, and then a woman’s cry for help.

The worker and another shopper rounded a corner to discover Danielle Hayes, 29, bleeding from her hand. The pistol she kept in her purse had accidentally discharged as she was trying to keep it away from her 2-year-old son, Hayes said.   Continue reading “The New Front In The Gun Control War Is Your Local Shopping Mall”

Huffington Post – by Foster Klug

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday deported an elderly U.S. tourist, apparently ending the saga of Merrill Newman’s return to the North six decades after he advised South Korean guerrillas still loathed by Pyongyang.

North Korea made the decision because the 85-year-old Newman, who was detained since late October, apologized for his alleged crimes during the Korean War and because of his age and medical condition, according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency.   Continue reading “Merrill E. Newman, American Vet Detained In North Korea, Reportedly Deported”

RBS said there had been a "deliberate" surge in internet traffic aimed at its NatWest websiteBT.com

Royal Bank of Scotland said its websites were the victim of a cyber attack that left some customers unable to access their accounts in the group’s second computer crash in less than a week.

The group’s sites went down for about an hour today and yesterday evening after a “deliberate” surge in internet traffic aimed at its NatWest website, according to the lender.

It said sites were now back up and running and there was no risk to customers.   Continue reading “Cyber attack on RBS websites”

NC Renegade – by David

David,

I read your article and the Esquire piece on Batemen and got furious. I wrote him and the banter is below.

I am waiting to reply to his arrogant response. I am thinking that waging war on law abiding US citizens is not treason? Did we not fight the Revolutionary war on the basic principles we are being subjected to today? Does he really think this Congress would declare a war given the track record of their reluctance to do so ever since Korea?   Continue reading “Lt. Col. Robert Bateman’s Response to A Patriot”