From the Trenches World Report

Security Pros – by Lisa Vaas

Four cyber security experts have delivered to the US Congress a unanimous opinion: Americans shouldn’t use HealthCare.gov, given its security issues.

David Kennedy, CEO of information security firm TrustedSEC and former CSO of Diebold, was one of those who testified on Tuesday before a House Science, Space, and Technology committee hearing on security concerns surrounding the woebegone, very large attack target that is the government’s new healthcare website.   Continue reading “Security pros: If Healthcare.gov hasn’t been hacked already, it will be soon”

New York Post- by Philip Messing

J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI secretly monitored David Frost’s US program to keep tabs on his left-wing guests – and once even planted an undercover agent in his New York studio audience, according to the famed Brit talk show host’s FBI file, obtained by The Post.

Guests that got the feds’ attention included Johnson-era Attorney General Ramsey Clark, economist John Kenneth Galbraith and black nationalist Stokely Carmichael among others, according to the 45-page dossier obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.   Continue reading “FBI secretly spied on ‘David Frost Show’”

My Fox 8

DURHAM, N.C. — North Carolina Central University is on lockdown due to a “possible active shooter on campus.”

The school sent out an alert around 2:40 p.m. The alert reads:

“Active shooter. If safe, seek shelter away from gunfire. Active shooter. Seek shelter. Lock your door. Stay away from windows.”   Continue reading “NC Central University on lockdown due to ‘possible active shooter on campus’”

Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Mike

Well if this isn’t one of the more ridiculous things I have read in a while, I don’t know what is. Many of my readers are probably familiar with Mike “Mish” Shedlock, who writes a very popular economics/finance blog. He has a habit of doing what I like best, challenging propaganda, engaging in critical thought and a fearlessness when it comes to saying what he believes. It appears that such behavior is frowned upon by French banksters and their minions in government.   Continue reading “Blogger “Mish” is Fined 8,000 Euros by France for Freedom of Speech”

Mail.com

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean officials detained an 85-year-old American veteran of the Korean War last month as he sat in a plane set to leave the country, the man’s son said.

A uniformed North Korean officer boarded the plane on Oct. 26 and asked Merrill Newman, a tourist from Palo Alto, California, for his passport before telling a stewardess that Newman had to leave the plane, the son, Jeffrey Newman, said Wednesday.   Continue reading “North Korea detains US war veteran, 85, son says”

Mail.com

TOKYO (AP) — A volcanic eruption has raised an island in the seas to the far south of Tokyo, the Japanese coast guard and earthquake experts said.

Advisories from the coast guard and the Japan Meteorological Agency said the islet is about 200 meters (660 feet) in diameter. It is just off the coast of Nishinoshima, a small, uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain, which is also known as the Bonin Islands.   Continue reading “Volcano raises new island far south of Japan”

RT News

The governing council for Hawaii (or Big) Island Tuesday banned biotech companies from operating on the island while barring growth of genetically modified organisms.

The Hawaii County Council approved Bill 113 by a vote of 6-3, which would mandate a possible 30 days in jail and up to a $1,000 fine for any violator of the ban on growing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on Big Island, officially known as Hawaii Island, the largest and southernmost of the Hawaiian state.    Continue reading “Hawaii’s Big Island bans biotech companies, GMO crops”

Star Advertiser – by Allison Schaefers

State Rep. Tom Brower is retiring the sledgehammer that he has used over the past few weeks to demolish stolen and abandoned shopping carts that homeless people use to carry their belongings.

“It’s time to put down the sledgehammer. The point that I was trying to make has been made,” Brower (D-Ala Moana, Waikiki) told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Tuesday. “Now that the issue of shopping carts is on our minds, the question is are we going to move forward and try to solve it or just let it become status quo.”    Continue reading “Rep. Brower says he is putting down his sledgehammer”

The Organic Prepper

You know, people have had about enough of all of this racist garbage.  It’s time to put a stop to language that excludes others.  Take the mention of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for example.

One school administrator began the school year cracking down on exclusive language.  Verenice Gutierrez, principal of Harvey Scott K-8 School in Portland, Oregon, hears subtle racism every day.  And that’s just plain wrong.  She explained to the Portland Tribune in September how a simple example of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in a classroom indicated “white privilege”.   Continue reading “Portland School Cracks Down on Racist PB&J Sandwiches: “What about Somali or Hispanic students, who might not eat sandwiches?””

The Free Patriot – by Kevin Lake

King Hussein Obama continues his military purge of our armed forces, while still readying his Homeland Security private army with loyalists who will shoot and kill U.S. citizens, because their loyalty is to their Commander-in-Chief, not The Constitution. Too bad aforementioned Commander-in-Chief is not loyal to the constitution either.

On October 18, Col. Daren Margolin, a 24-year officer who was the security Battalion Commander at Quantico was removed from his post by Maj. Gen. Juan Ayala due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command, according to Capt. Maureen Krebs, a Marine Corps spokeswoman.   Continue reading “Obama’s Military Purge Continues: Ranking Officer Removed From Quantico”

MassPrivateI

Private companies employed former CIA, NSA, FBI, military and police officers to monitor and in some cases infiltrate nonprofit groups that have been critical of them, according to the report by Essential Information.

The corporate capacity for espionage has skyrocketed in recent years. Most major companies now  have a chief corporate security officer tasked with assessing and mitigating “threats” of all sorts –including  from nonprofit organizations. And there is now a surfeit of private investigations firms willing and able to conduct sophisticated spying operations against nonprofits.    Continue reading “Corporations hire former NSA, FBI, military & police officers to spy on nonprofits & activists”

MassPrivateI

Sobriety checkpoints and mandatory drug testing of student athletes and railroad workers are among the legal precedents justifying the U.S. government’s now-defunct and court-approved secret email metadata dragnet surveillance program, according to documents the authorities released late Monday.

38 states and the District of Columbia permit sobriety checkpoints.   Continue reading “Sobriety checkpoints paved the way for NSA email spying”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

While the last few days’ hearings have focused on the nefarious aspects of the crypto-currency, it would appear that the adoption of Bitcoin is growing in the broad market place. While drugs, assassinations, and money-laundering are the headline-grabbing reasons why this unregulated asset is under the US (and European) government’s eye, from ATMs, Subway (sandwich shops), and online retailers, the appeal is growing… and now, as AP reports, Cyprus’ largest university will start accepting the digital currency Bitcoin as an alternative way to pay tuition fees.   Continue reading “Drugs, Assassinations And Now: College Tuition – The Bitcoin Adoption Spreads”