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US reportedly bugged EU offices, computer networks
from spiegel.de: America’s NSA intelligence service allegedly targeted the European Union with its spying activities. According to Der Spiegel information, the US placed bugs in the EU representation in Washington and infiltrated its computer network. Cyber attacks were also perpetrated against Brussels in New York and Washington. Information obtained by Der Spiegel shows that America’s National Security…
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Digital Alchemy: Sir Isaac Newton’s Papers
from TheConversation.com: The notebooks of Sir Isaac Newton, who was famously reported to have suffered a (scientifically) earth-shaking blow to the head from an apple, are being scanned and published online by the University of Cambridge. “It was certainly far more common in the 17th and 18th centuries for scientists to be interested in magical…
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Monsanto lifts stake, angers farmers in Australia
from news.yahoo.com: Monsanto has increased its stake in local crop breeding company InterGrain in a move condemned by a group of farmers fearful of links to the global agribusiness giant. The Australian arm of Monsanto paid $4.5 million to increase its shareholding from 19.9 per cent to 26 per cent yesterday under a partnership with…
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Neonicotinoids Destroy 600 Hives, 37 Million Bees in Canada
from naturalsociety.com: A bee here or a hive there may be chalked up to chance of a landscaping company with heavy-handed pesticide applications, like the case where an estimated 25,000 bees were killed in a small Oregon town. But when millions of bees are dying at once, in locales across Canada, there may be something more serious…
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Car Hacking Assassins
from PressForTruth.ca: George Orwell once said that “in a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” Today activists, journalists and whistleblowers who are known for exposing corruption within our governments are finding themselves in the crosshairs of the information war. Many of the technologies at our disposal act as a double…
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#FBI sued over secretive facial recognition program
from RT.com: Soon the FBI will be done building a database containing the photographs, fingerprints and other biometric data for millions of Americans, but the agency has been far from forthcoming with the details. A new lawsuit filed this week aims to change that. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit digital rights group based out…
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Ex-US general under investigation for leaks
Reports say former second-highest-ranking general at Pentagon is probed for leaks linked to Iran nuclear programme. from AlJazeera.com: One of the highest ranking military officers in the US is under investigation for allegedly leaking top secret information about a cyber attack on Iran’s nuclear programme, according to reports. NBC news reported on Thursday that retired…
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New World Next Week: Episode159 – Insider Threats, Poor Food, Supreme Genes
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode159 – Insider Threats, Poor Food, Supreme Genes Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: ‘Insider Threat’ Program Forces Federal Employees To Spy On Co-Workers Questions And Answers…
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The Secret of Oz
from moneymasters.com: What’s the movie about? It is commonly known in economics academia that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz written by L. Frank Baum in 1900 is loaded with powerful symbols of monetary reform which were the core of the Populist movement and the 1896 and 1900 presidential bids of Populist Democrat William Jennings Bryan.…
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Know Your History: What is Project #ECHELON?
from nsawatch.org: Q – What is Project ECHELON? ECHELON is the term popularly used for an automated global interception and relay system operated by the intelligence agencies in five nations: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (it is believed that ECHELON is the code name for the portion of the…
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Flashback: The 1960 Snowdens: #NSA Agents Who Showed Up in Moscow Bearing State Secrets
from motherboard.vice.com: Fifty-three years ago a pair of NSA agents pulled a Snowden – they told their bosses they were going on vacation, went to Mexico before slipping off to Havana en route to the Soviet Union, where they surfaced in September 1960. Unlike Snowden, they were deliberate defectors, eager to work for a new…
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80% of Pre-Packaged Foods in America Are Banned in Other Countries
from babble.com: If you or your kids enjoy pre-packaged convenience foods commonly found in grocery stores across the U.S. such as Froot Loops, Swanson dinners, Mountain Dew, and frozen potato and bread products, you may think twice before purchasing them after hearing what they contain: dangerous chemicals that other countries around the globe have deemed toxic…
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#NSA takes surveillance fact sheets off website
from Politico.com: Following a complaint from two senators, the National Security Agency has removed from its website two fact sheets designed to shed light on and defend a pair of surveillance programs. Users now trying to access the documents detailing surveillance under legal authorities known as Section 215 and Section 702 receive an error message…