Month: July 2013

  • VIDEO: Russian Proton-M rocket crashes, erupts in ball of fire

    from RT.com: A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying three GLONASS navigation satellites crashed soon after takeoff from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur cosmodrome. Immediately after takeoff, the rocket swerved to one side, tried to correct itself, but instead veered in the opposite direction. It then flew horizontally and started to come apart with its engines in full thrust. Making…

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  • Meet PRISM’s little brother: #SOCMINT

    A secretive unit is developing tools for blanket surveillance of social media. from wired.com: For the past two years, a tight-lipped and little talked about unit within the Metropolitan Police has been conducting blanket surveillance of British citizens’ public social media conversations. Following an unintentional leak and a detailed investigation, we are finally able to see…

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  • Quelling Laughter: Watching Politicians Struggle With the Phrase “NWO”

    Quelling Laughter: Watching Politicians Struggle With the Phrase “NWO”

    from HolyHexes: When people use phrases they don’t understand to promote their political positions, the result is nothing short of unintentional satire. Such is the art form of politricks. Misinterpretation at its best. Conducting research on the hefty phrase “new world order” as many of you know, produces many Google results, some full of disinformation…

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  • Monsanto unapproved GMO wheat govt-stored up to 2011

    Monsanto unapproved GMO wheat govt-stored up to 2011

    from RT.com: Monsanto’s unapproved GMO wheat, which made its way onto an Oregon field and is feared to have contaminated US wheat supplies, was stored at a US government-controlled facility until at least late 2011. The confirmation that the controversial strain of wheat was stored at the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation in Fort…

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  • Anti-virus software shows Facebook app stole Android users’ phone numbers without their consent

    from EndTheLie.com: The mobile anti-virus and anti-malware software produced by Norton discovered that the Facebook application for Android was secretly identifying users’ phone numbers and sending them to Facebook’s servers. This news is especially interesting given Facebook’s role in the recently revealed National Security Agency (NSA) programs. Indeed, Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs…

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  • Voyager 1 Has Almost Left The Solar System

    from forbes.com: Voyager 1 was launched in September of 1977 – and now nearly 36 years later, it’s on the cusp of being the first human-made object to ever leave our solar system. Scientists at NASA believe it’s currently in the last region of the solar system before entering interstellar space. The boundary line (well, less…

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