Tag: at and t
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Emergency Alert ‘Plan’ Coming to Your ‘Smart’ Phone
The emergency broadcast system is coming to cellphones. Updating the national emergency alert system, federal officials planned to announce on Tuesday in Manhattan that some cellphone users in New York and Washington will soon be able to receive alerts by text message in the event of a national or regional emergency.
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3/24 defcon: mobile, micro, mystery, messenger
at&t to purchase t-mobile for US$39b; as strangling of the free internet begins continues* microsoft, feds pull plug on spam network* fbook traffic mysteriously passed through chinese isp* goldman programmer gets 8yrs for code theft* tracking your wi-fi trail at the airport* first tweet & other communication firsts* nasa ‘messenger’ enters orbit around mercury* chavez…
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3/24 Newspurge: On The Wings of a Snow-White Dove
Drugwar: US paved the way for cocaine traffickers… literally* pennsylvania cavity search produces 50 bags of heroin* video: arrest in minnesota mass overdose that killed one* History/mystery: rosenberg co-conspirator sobell reveals more about his role* US govt demands st. louis museum return stolen mummy mask to egypt* Murder/mayhem: amanda knox asks italian court to block…
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3/3 Defcon: Fascism, Fake Friends, FOIA
Obama joins critics of nonprofit group that oversees internet; Or, Obama & China agree: Fascist dictators should control the net
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what happened to telstar?
Whatever happened to Telstar? The first communications satellite (COMSAT) to relay television signals launched from Cape Canaveral on July 10, 1962. A video of the launch can be viewed here. Telstar’s Wikipedia entry reveals the COMSAT was a victim of the cold war. “The day before Telstar 1 was launched, the United States had tested…
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cyber/spacewar: attacks & anniversaries
world wide wiretap: cyber attacks traced to the uk & USfrom threat level: International fingerpointing in the recent cyberattacks against U.S. and South Korean web sites has widened to include the UK and U.S., as researchers examining the attacks trace them to a server in the United Kingdom. But the UK company that owns the…
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at&t accused of fixing ‘american idol’ vote
from raw replay: AT&T is being accused of swaying the outcome of Fox’s American Idol final vote. Employees of the company are said to have shown fans of one the contestants how to send in multiple votes with the single press of a button. AT&T is one of the largest corporate sponsors of Fox’s hit…
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econocrash: bailouts, sellouts, jobcuts & war
US jobless rolls climb to 26yr highfrom bloomberg: More Americans are collecting jobless benefits than at any time in the last 26 years as companies rush to cut costs in a sinking economy. The number of people on unemployment benefit rolls rose to 4.09 million in the week ended Nov. 22, the most since December…
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police state usa: talking cameras, preemptive war & domestic troops
north hollywood installs ‘talking cameras’ from infowars: North Hollywood is going the way of Baltimore, Martin County, and Middlesbrough, England. It has installed “talking cameras,” ostensibly to ward off taggers and people who dump trash. “Los Angeles police are using motion-activated cameras to warn vandals that they’re being watched,” reports WOAI for NBC News. “The…
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spy sat shootdown lies, ‘surveillence in a box’ & vidal
contradiction on spy satellite shootdown explanationfrom usnews: When the Pentagon ordered a Navy ship to shoot down a crippled U.S. spy satellite last February, it claimed the operation was necessary to prevent a harmful fuel from being dispersed in the atmosphere. At the time, critics charged that the Bush administration was using the toxic fuel…
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fisa ‘compromise’ completes police state transformation
from larry chin: On Wednesday, the US Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation permitting government spying, including giving immunity to telecommunications companies involved in secret domestic surveillance programs. With the stroke of George W. Bush’s pen, the US is now a police state by definition. The extent of the spying program, and its larger implications, have been…
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pnac, un, nra, ocp, at&t, apra & bg
pnac site goes downfrom thinkprogress: Eleven years ago, the neoconservative Project for a New American Century (PNAC) set out its statement of principles advocating the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, putting the country on the road to a preventative invasion of Iraq. Signatories included future Iraq war architects Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Elliott…
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April 2008 Clearinghouse
false reporting link to polygamy case?*schools deemed emergency vaccination sites*mainstream economist makes passing comment about explosives taking down towers*mystery lights spotted flying ‘in formation’ in florida skies*sky watchers abuzz over mystery lights*mystery lights reported over phoenix*torture yoo refuses to testify*scientists aim to alter weather*cloak of protection for cops & bureaucrats*out of the way, peasants*court sees…
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billboard liberation front touts at&t & nsa collaboration
from threat level: The Billboard Liberation Front has struck again – this time rewriting a billboard in San Francisco’s Mission District that was hosting AT&T’s latest ad campaign touting the breadth of its network coverage. The billboard now reads: “AT&T works in more places, like NSA Headquarters.” Formerly the sign bragged of service in Chilondoscow.…
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wv’s rockefeller let’s slip the spying truth
from threat level: In a Senate floor speech, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) inadvertently made plain that the proposed changes to the nation’s spying laws radically expand how the government wiretaps inside the United States. Rockefeller was decrying an amendment that would require the government to discard non-emergency evidence if a court later finds that…