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UK government now leaking documents about itself
from theguardian.com: The Independent this morning published an article – which it repeatedly claims comes from “documents obtained from the NSA by Edward Snowden” – disclosing that “Britain runs a secret internet-monitoring station in the Middle East to intercept and process vast quantities of emails, telephone calls and web traffic on behalf of Western intelligence…
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Police Now Can Switch off iPhone Camera and Wi-Fi
from veteranstoday.com: Police throughout the globe have been embarrassed to see online videos of their officers pepper spraying tied captives. In our age of mobile gadgets the pictures can be uploaded online in seconds, making supervisors to answer the questions. But now the police may not need to fear scrutiny anymore, because Apple has recently…
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Advocate of Secret Infiltration, Cass Sunstein selected for Obama’s NSA Review Committee
from emptywheel.net: ABC reports that, along with former CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell, former Homeland Security Czar Richard Clarke, and former Obama special assistant for economic policy Peter Swire, the White House (or James Clapper — who knows at this point) has picked Cass Sunstein for its Review Committee on NSA programs. Frankly, a lot…
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#Solutions: Greek community creates an off-the-grid Internet
from dailydot.com: In an effort to buck the expensive rates of unreliable corporate telecom companies, a community in Athens, Greece has created its own private Internet. Built from a network of wireless rooftop antennas, the Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network (AWMN) now has more than 1,000 members. Data moves “through” the AWMN mesh up to 30…
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Bradley Manning Gets 35 Years For Leaking Classified Files
from csmonitor.com: The 35-year sentence given Pfc. Bradley Manning – he could be out in 10 years – for the largest leak of classified information in US history reflects the complexity of the case, including harm to national security and how the Army dealt with his problems. Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for Espionage…
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‘Snowden data destruction won’t harm our reporting’ – Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger
from Russia Today: The British government’s attempts to stem the tide of articles on mass surveillance have gone beyond intimidating the journalist behind the publications. Just a day after Glenn Greenwald’s partner was detained at Heathrow airport, The Guardian’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, came forward describing how the authorities pressured the newspaper to destroy documents provided…
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Government’s War Against the Citizens: Farmers Being Arrested for Trying to Survive
Farmers in America are increasingly being subject to fines or even prison sentences for selling food directly to customers. from Intellihub.com: The US government is now acting as if The Constitution never existed, as they kill with impunity, arrest peaceful farmers, and ensure their dominance. They have destroyed all economic opportunity with regulations and other…
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Researchers create kit to diagnose new strains of #flu in just five minutes
from japantimes.com: A team of researchers at an Osaka University institute said Tuesday they have developed a kit that can diagnose infection with new strains of flu in about 5 minutes through the identification of genes and proteins in the virus. Although the university’s Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research designed the kit for the…
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Domestic Drone Industry Booms
from ActivistPost.com: The drone arms race has gone global. But inside the United States, a study by the Association For Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) showed why drone proliferation continues to ramp up at a nearly exponential rate: it has become one of the fastest growing areas of the U.S. economy. A report entitled, “The…
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DARPA wants computers that fuse with higher human brain function
from networkworld.com: In the never-ending quest to get computers to process, really understand and actually reason, scientists at DARPA want to look more deeply into how computers can mimic a key portion of our brain. The military’s advanced research group recently put out a call, or Request For Information (RFI), on how it could develop…
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5 #GMO Myths Busted
from The Corbett Report: Every year, a greater and greater percentage of our food supply sources back to genetically modified ingredients. Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont and the other biotech giants have made GMOs into a multi-billion dollar industry and unsurprisingly have launched one of the largest pr campaigns in the history of the food industry…
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Bernard Gui: Inquisitorial Technique
from Gnosis.org: Bernard Gui was Inquisitor in Toulouse, 1307-1323. The medieval inquisition had been created during the reign of Pope Gregory IX (1227-1241). Its main technique was to extract confessions. Bernard describes the techniques used in interrogations. When a heretic is first brought up for examination, he assumes a confident air, as though secure in…
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A Critique of the Power of Positive Thinking
from Philvas: The opinion of a Christian man consists of critiquing the legendary self improvement book “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill, which was written in 1937 and inspired by Andrew Carnegie. There is very interesting content in this article, especially relating to the psyche of the elite and how they think. Is it true that…
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Ronald Reagan and the Occult
from TheWashingtonPost: “Ronald Reagan had an interest in lucky numbers and newspaper horoscopes. Less known is that a certain scholar of occult philosophy had a lifelong influence on the 40th president of the United States. Mitch Horowitz, editor-in-chief of Tarcher/Penguin and the author of “Occult America: The Secret History of How Mysticism Shaped Our Nation,”…
