The Atlantic Wire – by Philip Bump

As an aside during testimony on Capitol Hill today, a National Security Agency representative rather casually indicated that the government looks at data from a universe of far, far more people than previously indicated.

Chris Inglis, the agency’s deputy director, was one of several government representatives—including from the FBI and the office of the Director of National Intelligence—testifying before the House Judiciary Committee this morning. Most of the testimony largely echoed previous testimony by the agencies on the topic of the government’s surveillance, including a retread of the same offered examples for how the Patriot Act and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act had stopped terror events.   Continue reading “The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People’s Data Than Previously Revealed”

U.S. Automakers Fleeing Detroit Thrive Amid Motor City’s Decline Bloomberg – by Jeff Green & Mark Clothier

The Motor City was the car capital of the world when David Cole graduated from a Detroit high school in 1955 and headed off to college to study auto engineering. Six decades later, the “motor” has mostly moved out, he said.

Many of the factories that used to dot the city and employ thousands moved to suburbs, other U.S. states or to China and Brazil as the auto industry became global and manufacturing focused on getting faster and less expensive, said Cole, chairman emeritus of the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and son of a General Motors Co. (GM) president.   Continue reading “U.S. Automakers Thrive as Detroit Goes Bankrupt”

Wake Up America – by Susan Duclos

A Pima Community Collegein Arizona is being sued by student, Terri Bennett, for allegedly labeling her a “bigot” and punishing her with a long-term suspension for daring to request English be used in her nursing studies class so she could learn the subject.

Read Terri Bennett’s entire legal complaint here.    Continue reading “AZ Student Sues School For Suspension For Daring To Request Studies Be Conducted In English”

World Events and the Bible

WEB Notes: The destruction most definitely draws nigh (Isaiah 17:1). We have documented all of the preparations being taken by world powers. The war games in Jordan, Israel’s testing of a nuclear missile, while Russia conducts the biggest war games in post Soviet times. Historically, there is a financial collapse before war, we witnessed that in WWI and WWII. Before anything major breaks out I would expect that. It is very possible the Syrian invasion starts pre-collapse and that collapse is imminent as well.    Continue reading “The Destruction of Damascus Draws Nigh: US General, ‘We Are Preparing for Military Action in Syria’”

Blacklisted News – by Andrew Gavin Marshall

This July, Bank of America was expecting to report an earnings increase of 32% from last year. The Washington Business Journal declared the bank among the top 10 “most improved brands” of the year. Bank of America is the second-largest bankin the United States following JPMorgan Chase.

So why does this bank deserve such an “improved” reputation? Perhaps it’s worth looking at a little of the bank’s record for some clarity.   Continue reading “Banking on Influence With Bank of America”

Sac Bee – by Melody Gutierrez

California license plates could get a high-tech makeover with a digital screen and wireless capabilities as part of a Senate bill making its way through the Legislature.

Senate Bill 806 authorizes the Department of Motor Vehicles to create a pilot program at no cost to the state with as many as 160,000 cars testing the digital plates patented by San Francisco-based Smart Plate Mobile. The state hopes the technology will improve efficiencies in vehicle registrations and potentially save the DMV some of the $20 million spent each year in postage for renewals.   Continue reading “Privacy group warns against California plan for digital license plates”

Image_36186185.jpgStars and Stripes- by Matthew M. Burke

SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — Talisman Saber 2013 — a joint U.S. and Australian military and humanitarian exercise — kicked off this week as approximately 20,000 U.S. troops descended on Australia’s east coast.

The focus of this year’s exercise has shifted to amphibious operations as the training moved from the Northern Territory to Australia’s east coast and the Coral Sea. It also marks the first time the MV-22 Osprey hybrid aircraft will touch down on Australian soil. Federal agencies such as the FBI will also have an expanded role as they train with their Australian counterparts.   Continue reading “20,000 US troops descend on Australia for training”

Information Clearinghouse – by Linh Dinh

The corner of Broad and Erie is the Times Square of North Philly, but instead of flashy signs pushing Kodak, Samsung, Canon or Virgin Airlines, you have stark billboards urging you to “ELIMINATE YOUR DEBT” and “REBUILD YOUR CREDIT.” On utility poles, styrofoam signs promise, “JOBS! $400-$600 PER WEEK. CALL TODAY, START TOMORROW.” Is it legit? Ring to get sucked in, or you can stock your fridge, finally, by ditching your junk wheels for “$400,” according to one flyer, or “$250-$400,” per another. The biggest billboard touts “RAND SPEAR 1-800-90-LEGAL. He Eats Insurance Companies for BREAKFAST!” Are you aching all over, your skeleton permanently askew from that bus accident you weren’t even involved in? Are you emotionally spavined from having to dodge that abruptly swinging door? Now you know who to call!   Continue reading “Postcard from the End of America: North Philly”

The Kansas City Star – by KELSEY RYAN

More than 240 patients who underwent colonoscopies at Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center in Chanute may have been exposed to Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B and HIV, among other diseases, due to improper scope sanitization, the hospital announced in a media telebriefing Tuesday afternoon.

Neosho Memorial CEO Dennis Franks said the potential infections would have occurred in patients who received colonoscopies between January and July 3. The hospital is using priority mail to notify the 244 patients it thinks may have been affected.   Continue reading “Patients at Chanute hospital possibly exposed to hepatitis, HIV”

Demostrators hold a banner in front of the parliament during a protest as lawmakers prepared to vote late July 17, 2013 on a controversial new austerity package involving a huge shake-up of the civil service with thousands of jobs on the line. (AFP Photo/Aris Messinis)RT News

The Greek Parliament approved the redeployment of 25,000 public sector workers by the end of the year in order to secure its next much needed aid installment of $9.2 billion (7 billion euro) from the Troika of creditors.

A total of 12,500 public sector workers, mainly teachers and municipal police will enter a ‘mobility pool’, in which they are given eight months to find new work or be fired, and another 15,000 face the same fate next year.    Continue reading “Austerity in action: Greece approves to lay off 25,000 teachers, police”

davidspalace.jpgFox News

Archaeologists in Jerusalem have uncovered two large buildings fit for a king– Biblical King David, that is.

Over the past year, archaeologists have excavated a site that they believe to be the fortified Judean city of Shaarayim, where David smote Goliath as described in the Bible.   Continue reading “Archaeologists say they uncovered King David’s Palace”

Annunaki-Statues-HybridsLeft Hook- by Dean Henderson

The Rothschild family combined with the Dutch House of Orange to found Bank of Amsterdam in the early 1600’s as the world’s first private central bank.  Prince William of Orange married into the English House of Windsor, taking King James II’s daughter Mary as his bride.  The Orange Order Brotherhood, which more recently fomented Northern Ireland Protestant violence, put William III on the English throne where he ruled both Holland and Britain.  In 1694 William III teamed up with the Rothschilds to launch the Bank of England.   Continue reading “The House of Rothschild”

SHTF School- by Selco

Lots of people wrote about George Zimmerman case that followed the shooting of Trayvon Martin.

To sum up story, Zimmerman was local neighborhood watch volunteer and followed Trayvon Martin who he considered suspicious. Then they got into fight and Martin was shot by Zimmerman.   Continue reading “Self Defense in Survival Situations”

Popsci – by Rose Pastore

On June 7 in Birmingham, Ala., a blood-soaked, unconscious 41-year-old man arrived at a hospital in the passenger seat of a car. The man had lost 75 percent of his blood through two bullet holes in his armpit, and when nurses pulled him from the car at 4:50 p.m., he was less than 5 minutes away from dying.

At 4:53 p.m, a former Army surgeon and inventor named John Croushorn strapped an inflatable tourniquet around the limp man’s chest. “We were all covered in blood. The nurse was applying pressure, and I told her to remove her hands,” Croushorn tells Popular Science. “She said ‘No, blood’s just going to go everywhere again.’ And I said ‘It’s okay, you can take your hands away.’ So she did, and she was shocked. There wasn’t a drop of blood coming out once the tourniquet was on.” They rushed the man to the operating room, where a surgeon was able to repair the damage to his arteries.   Continue reading “Ingenious Tourniquet Invention Saves Lives”

Max Velocity Tactical

First off, I’ll say that I decided to write this post because I was looking at WRSA as I do every day and saw a link over to a post by Mountain Guerrilla HERE on ‘Patrolling for Preparedness’. It’s really good stuff and I could not agree more.

(Along with the video of Civil War veterans doing the Rebel Yell. Awesome!)   Continue reading “An Unconventional Patrolling Option”

Despite Participation in PRISM, Microsoft Warns of Threat to ConstitutionNew American – by  Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.

“The Constitution is suffering.” That was the message sent July 16 by Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.

The purpose of the letter was to ask Holder “to get involved personally in assessing the Constitutional issues raised by Microsoft and other companies that have repeatedly asked to share publicly more complete information about how we handle national security requests for customer information.” Continue reading “Despite Participation in PRISM, Microsoft Warns of Threat to Constitution”