From the Trenches World Report

Cryptogon

Via: United States Patent 8,254,902:

As wireless devices such as cellular telephones, pagers, personal media devices and smartphones become ubiquitous, more and more people are carrying these devices in various social and professional settings. The result is that these wireless devices can often annoy, frustrate, and even threaten people in sensitive venues.   Continue reading “Apple Patents Kill Switch for Mobile Devices Because: “Covert Police or Government Operations May Require Complete ‘Blackout’ Conditions.””

Washington Examiner – by JOEL GEHRKE

Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, invited a rodeo clown banned from the Missouri State Fair for a performance featuring an Obama mask to take the show to the Lone Star State.

“I’m sure any rodeo in Texas would be proud to have performers,” Stockman said in a statement today. “Disagreeing with speech is one thing. Banning it and ordering citizens into reeducation classes for mocking a liberal leader is another.”   Continue reading “Congressman invites rodeo clown to perform Obama act in Texas”

Washington Examiner – by CHARLIE SPIERING

In the wake of ‘Clown-gate’ at the Missouri State Fair, it appears that professional rodeo clowns will think twice before mocking the president.

But in 1994, Douglas A. Campbell, a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer chronicled a rodeo clown even featuring George H.W. Bush.   Continue reading “In 1994, there was a ‘George Bush’ rodeo clown dummy”

Tech Dirt -by Mike Masnick

from the either-you-help-us-spy-on-people-or-you’re-a-criminal dept

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Yahoo News – by Kami Dimitrova | ABC News Blogs

An Ohio man expected the gun safe he ordered online to be empty, police said.

But instead, he found $425,000-worth of tightly wrapped marijuana bricks inside.

“I’ve been in law enforcement for 47 years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Shelby County, Ohio, Sheriff John L. Lenhartsaid. “It’s quite effective if you think about it: wrapped airtight to withstand high temperatures. Drug-sniffing dogs probably couldn’t smell it.”   Continue reading “Ohio Man Orders Empty Gun Safe, Finds 300 Pounds of Pot Inside”

Defence One – by Aliya Sternstein 

He works at one of the three-letter intelligence agencies and oversees construction of a $1.2 billion surveillance data center in Utah that is 15 times the size of MetLife Stadium, home to the New York Giants and Jets. Long Island native Harvey Davis, a top National Security Agency official, needs that commanding presence. His role is to supervise infrastructure construction worldwide for NSA, which is part of the Defense Department. That involves tending to logistics, military installations, as well as power, space and cooling for all NSA data centers.     Continue reading “The NSA’s New Spy Facilities are 7 Times Bigger Than the Pentagon”

RT News

Even the tiniest mistake during an operation to extract over 1,300 fuel rods at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan could lead to a series of cascading failures with an apocalyptic outcome, fallout researcher Christina Consolo told RT.

Fukushima operator TEPCO wants to extract 400 tons worth of spent fuel rods stored in a pool at the plant’s damaged Reactor No. 4. The removal would have to be done manually from the top store of the damaged building in the radiation-contaminated environment.   Continue reading “Fukushima apocalypse: Years of ‘duct tape fixes’ could result in ‘millions of deaths’”

News.com.au

“Today, several shells fired from Syria landed in the central Golan heights, adjacent to the Israel-Syria border,” he told AFP on Saturday.   Continue reading “Israel retaliates after Syria shells hit”

Activist Post – by Christina England

Parents in South Africa are facing life in prison for the murder of their baby girl who died just days after receiving routine vaccinations. Baby A had received all her vaccinations on time. On September 25, 2012, when she was aged just five months, her parents took her to their local clinic, where she received a total of eight vaccinations before being sent home.   Continue reading “Five-Month-Old Baby Dies Just Days After 8 Vaccinations – Parents Are Charged With Her Murder”

Veterans Today – by Stew Webb

A BUSH CRIME FAMILY COMPANY

Fraudsters, Scamsters, Blackmailers, Narcotics Money Launderers, and Murderers, Fake Mortgage and Bank Bailout Scamsters that exeeded $100 Triilion U.S. Dollars that  have ties to George W. Bush, Leonard Millman, Larry Mizel, Harkin Oil, the missing 10 Trillion Dollar Pension Fund Frauds and every major scandal of the 1980s, 1990s, and today.   Continue reading “Frauds Are Us At MDC-NYSE”

Press TV 

Results from a new poll have shown that the majority of American people believe oversight of the US National Security Agency’s surveillance is not adequate

According to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll conducted August 9-10, only 18 percent of Americans say that “federal courts and rules in place by Congress provide adequate oversight” of the spying programs run by the US government’s premier spy agency.   Continue reading “Poll: Americans says oversight of US spying is inadequate”

The Atlantic – by Gregory Johnson

On Thursday, October 25, 2012, as Barack Obama and Mitt Romney crisscrossed America in a final mad scramble along the campaign trail, three officers from Yemen’s elite Republican Guard were holding an unusual meeting half a world away, on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula. That day was Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, which in the Islamic tradition commemorates Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael. Eid al-Adha is one of the holiest days on the Islamic calendar, but the men had likely forgone the traditional meal with their families to join the meeting that evening.    Continue reading “Did an 8-Year-Old Spy for America?”