A screenshot from silentcircle.comRT News

Silent Circle, a secure email service that provides customers with an encrypted way of sending messages, announced Thursday that it is shutting down only hours after a company offering a similar product said the same.

Shortly after the owner and operator of Lavabit.com wrote that his nine-year-old encrypted email service was shutting down in order to avoid becoming “complicit in crimes against the American people,” Silent Circle said Thursday they’d be following suit.   Continue reading “Another encrypted Internet service shutting down after Lavabit”

Japan Gets to Know a Quadrillion as Debt Hits New HighBusiness Week -by Bruce Einhorn

The late Senator Everett Dirksen (R-Ill.) is famous for allegedly saying, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.”  It might be apocryphal—the Dirksen Congressional Center has found no evidence that the late Illinois Republican ever made the quip—but it certainly resonates as the political parties spar over sequestration and Americans become even more accustomed to thinking somewhat casually about what should be unfathomably big numbers.   Continue reading “Japan Gets to Know a Quadrillion as Debt Hits New High”

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“Sheltering in Place” is what the goose-steppers refer to when they need to lock down a town or city so they can send in heavily-armed teams of thuggish goon squads that go door-to-door, sometimes kicking the doors in, so they can look for some patsy for a recent False Flag, like the Boston Marathon FF.   Continue reading “Red Cross “Sheltering in Place,” for the Sheeple”

WSWS – by Thomas Gaist

At least 34 people have been killed as a result of eight separate US drone attacks during the past two weeks, according to military officials in Yemen. US drones have been attacking targets in Yemen almost every day since intensified operations began on July 27.

A primary purpose of the drone barrage is to stage yet another display of the destructive power of US military technology, as a warning to any country that might stand in the way of US control of the key global geostrategic regions.   Continue reading “US launches more strikes against Yemen, expands terror alert to Pakistan”

Activist Post – by Heather Callaghan

What do you say to your friends and family who want to know why you are passionate about growing your own, buying local organic, and refusing genetically modified ingredients?

What do you say to the increasing amount of pro-GMO activists who call anti-GMOers dumb, heartless, and lacking real information?   Continue reading “Top 5 GMO Myths Debunked”

apricots1 263x164 An Argument for Consuming Apricot Seeds: MisInformation is Endangering an Inexpensive Cancer Therapy Natural Society – by Paul Fassa

The mere mention of consuming apple seeds, cherry pits, apricot seeds, or bitter almonds tends to cause almost panic attacks or angry reactions in some. Why? Cyanide is in them. But this concern is ballooned out of proportion.

As a rumor based on too little knowledge, their concern is understandable. All you have to do is Google cyanide alongside any of the foods mentioned above and you’ll get a plethora of articles that all support the cyanide dangers from those seeds and nuts.   Continue reading “An Argument for Consuming Apricot Seeds: MisInformation is Endangering an Inexpensive Cancer Therapy”

PHOTO: President Barack Obama gestures during his news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 9, 2013.ABC News – by Mike Levine

President Obama surprised aides when he revealed today the existence of a sealed indictment in the Benghazi, Libya, attack, leaving some wondering if he crossed a legal line.

At a press conference at the White House, President Obama was asked whether justice would come to those responsible for the terrorist attack nearly a year ago in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador.   Continue reading “President Obama’s Surprise Revelation of Sealed Benghazi Indictment”

Prevent Disease – by DAVE MIHALOVIC

I have yet to meet a Physician that will sign this form now downloaded by hundreds of parents. The reason they won’t sign is two-fold: First, they do not want to place themselves in a vulnerable position of being negligent for not providing informed consent to thousands of other parents; and second, many of them realize after their own extensive research that the risks far outweigh any benefits when it comes to vaccination.   Continue reading “You Want To Vaccinate My Child? No Problem, Just Sign This Form”

blood blue Victor HabbickMetabolic Healing – by Michael McEvoy

Epidemiological data complied from 164 countries by the World Health Organization (WHO) and from BHF Heart Stats reveal something quite stunning: people with the lowest total cholesterol levels have the HIGHEST levels of mortality from all causes. Conversely, total cholesterol levels between 200-240 is associated with the LOWEST levels of mortality from all causes. People with the LOWEST total cholesterol also have the highest levels of infectious and parasitic diseases. Those with total cholesterol greater than 200 have very low levels of infection.   Continue reading “LOW Cholesterol: The Risks, Dangers & The Reality”

DriehausWND – by Bob Unruh

A legal team for the Susan B. Anthony List is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review Ohio’s “false statement” law that when applied to political speech and elections, gives bureaucrats the authority to determine what is true.

As WND reported, a federal judge sided with the Susan B. Anthony List in its two-year long free speech battle with a former congressman who alleged the organization cost him his job and “loss of livelihood” when it educated constituents on his voting record.   Continue reading “They’re Here: Election Speech Cops”

Common Dreams – by Sarah Lazare

Critics charge that an aggressive NSA purge of 90 percent of its system administrators—in an apparent attempt to prevent the next Edward Snowden from having access to secret information—is evidence that the agency seeks to hide the truth about spying from the public and remove the roll of human conscience from the agency, instead of curbing spying in response to mass anger.

“It would be nice if they reduced the amount of information they are collecting on people by 90 percent,” Dave Maass, spokesperson for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told Common Dreams.   Continue reading “NSA to Can 90% of Admins to ‘Purge Potential Whistleblowers’”

Common Dreams – by Glenn Greenwald

A Texas-based encrypted email service recently revealed to be used by Edward Snowden – Lavabit – announced yesterday it was shutting itself down in order to avoid complying with what it perceives as unjust secret US court orders to provide government access to its users’ content. “After significant soul searching, I have decided to suspend operations,” the company’s founder, Ladar Levinson, wrote in a statement to users posted on the front page of its website. He said the US directive forced on his company “a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit.” He chose the latter.   Continue reading “Lavabit’s Brave Stand: Email Service Shuts Down”

Common Dreams – by Abbey Zimet

Insult to Injury: Police at the Wisconsin capitol are not just continuing to arrest protesters, Solidarity Singers and residents – including at least one legislator – for simply watching democracy in action; they are arresting veterans, including Veterans for Peace attending their annual convention in Madison.   Continue reading “Give Us Our Flag!”

The Daily Caller – by Patrick Howley

Charitable hospitals that treat uninsured Americans will be subjected to new levels of scrutiny of their nonprofit status and could face sizable new fines under Obamacare.

A new provision in Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code, which takes effect under Obamacare, sets new standards of review and installs new financial penalties for tax-exempt charitable hospitals, which devote a minimum amount of their expenses to treat uninsured poor people. Approximately 60 percent of American hospitals are currently nonprofit.   Continue reading “Obamacare installs new scrutiny, fines for charitable hospitals that treat uninsured people”

A selection of credit cards in a fan.The Telegraph – by Andrew Trotman

When Dmitry Argarkov was sent a letter offering him a credit card, he found the rates not to his liking.

But he didn’t throw the contract away or shred it. Instead, the 42-year-old from Voronezh, Russia, scanned it into his computer, altered the terms and sent it back to Tinkoff Credit Systems.   Continue reading “Man who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms”

Max Velocity Tactical

Following my recent post ‘The Home Invasion Dilemma – Discussion& Scenarios’ I have received many comments asking me for the ‘solution’ and pointing out that the scenario as laid out in my article is a no-win situation, or at least one with no good outcome.

Well, there are two solutions to the scenario laid out. It’s just that you may not like either of them. That is really the point isn’t it? The scenario ‘as laid out’ is actually the situation that most of us find ourselves in, so if we are victims of a HIT raid these are the choices we face. As such, it really points out the unacceptable situation we live in today, suffering from this authoritarian tyranny. As one commenter described: “Something has just gone seriously wrong in the US culturally, a mild discursive / ideological pseudo-mental illness that may not be healed any time soon.”   Continue reading “Solutions – Follow Up to The Home Invasion Dilemma”