• Agency given more than 200 numbers by government official • NSA encourages departments to share their ‘Rolodexes’ • Surveillance produced ‘little intelligence’, memo acknowledges James Ball The Guardian, Thursday 24 October 2013 14.14 EDT The NSA memo suggests… Read More ›
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Japan readies huge island war games amid YouTube PR push – Senkaku islands / Diaoyus ( Major Escalation )
By Shigemi Sato National Oct. 24, 2013 – 05:20PM JST TOKYO — Destroyers, fighter jets and 34,000 troops will take part in a huge exercise aimed at bolstering Japan’s ability to protect its remote islands, the government said Thursday, amid… Read More ›
Europe Furious Over US Spying Allegations ” Worse than Orwell’s 1984 ” Emergency meeting Called
‘Out of Hand’ The newest allegations of US spying have unleashed a torrent of criticism and concern in Europe. If suspicions unearthed by SPIEGEL that the US tapped Chancellor Merkel’s cell phone turn out to be true, the ramifications for… Read More ›
Call yourself a ‘hacker’, lose your 4th Amendment right against seizures
Court rules coder’s PC can be snatched in ‘software knockoff’ spat By John Leyden Posted in Law, 23rd October 2013 23:19 GMT A US district court has ruled that anyone calling themselves a “hacker” loses their Fourth Amendment protections… Read More ›
Russian representative denies US media claims of his involvement in espionage – Rossotrudnichestvo exchange program
Photo EPA/CJ GUNTHER WASHINGTON, October 24 (Itar-Tass) – Representative of Russia’s Federal Agency for Cooperation with Fellow-Countrymen Abroad /Rossotrudnichestvo/ in Washington, Yury Zaytsev, has expressed astonishment over publications in the U.S. media saying that the FBI suspects him of working… Read More ›
78 percent of Americans say they weren’t inconvenienced by government shutdown: survey
Only 11 percent of Americans reported being ‘majorly inconvenienced’ by the shutdown Experts warn that another shutdown could be on the horizon in coming months By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 18:08 EST, 23 October 2013 | UPDATED:… Read More ›
Btitain’s Monarchy will now regulate the country’s Press
Press curbs ‘will damage Queen’s standing’ Politicians’ “repressive” plans to regulate press will undermine country’s international standing, free speech groups warn Culture Secretary Maria Miller has unveiled her plans to regulate the press Photo: STEFAN ROUSSEAU/PA By James Kirkup, Political Editor… Read More ›
Computer Scientists ‘Prove’ God Exists
By David Knight Two scientists have formalized a theorem regarding the existence of God penned by mathematician Kurt Gödel. But the God angle is somewhat of a red herring — the real step forward is the example it sets of… Read More ›
Berlin Complains Chancellor Merkel’s Mobile Phone may of been tapped by US intelligence agencies for years
Did US Tap Chancellor Merkel’s Mobile Phone? By Jacob Appelbaum, Holger Stark, Marcel Rosenbach and Jörg Schindler Berlin is taking seriously indications that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mobile phone might have been tapped by US intelligence, according to SPIEGEL information. Merkel spoke with President… Read More ›
Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with US over response to conflict in Syria
Saudi Arabia is an important ally to the U.S. as it provides a secure source of oil Saudi diplomats now promise a ‘major shift’ in relations with the U.S. over inaction in the conflict in Syria Secretary of State… Read More ›
‘Kill everyone in China’: Outrage over comment during Jimmy Kimmel skit
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel has angered Americans with a skit that many did not find funny PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 23 October, 2013, 10:21am UPDATED : Wednesday, 23 October, 2013, 12:48pm Jeremy Blum jeremy.blum@scmp.com A screenshot of the segment on Kimmel’s show…. Read More ›
White House official fired over anonymous tweets ( Claimed Hillary was Whitewashing Benghazi )
Source: Reuters – Wed, 23 Oct 2013 03:50 AM Author: Reuters (Fixes Twitter links) By Roberta Rampton and Steve Holland WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – A senior White House official who was helping negotiate nuclear issues with Iran has been… Read More ›
Chessmaster Garry Kasparov suggests Putin behind Russia bombing
4:06 PM 10/22/2013 Brendan Bordelon Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov — no stranger to strategic deception — thinks there’s something fishy about Monday’s suicide bus bombing in Volgograd, Russia. “Very suspicious details from the Volgograd bus bombing,” Kasparov tweeted… Read More ›
For the first time ever, 10chief executives in the US received more than $100m in compensation/ Up to $6 million a day – A new world Record !!!
US CEOs break pay record as top 10 earners take home at least $100m each Pay gaps within companies widen as top two earners, led by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, earn billion-dollar paychecks Dominic Rushe in New York theguardian.com, Tuesday… Read More ›
TSA searching passengers before they even arrive at the airport by using property, work and car records
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:10 EST, 22 October 2013 | UPDATED: 17:26 EST, 22 October 2013 The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its searches to check a number of personal records before passengers even arrive at the airport,… Read More ›
Penalty flag? Super Bowl champs Baltimore Ravens are being PAID $130,000 to promote Obamacare in Maryland
By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor PUBLISHED: 15:57 EST, 22 October 2013 | UPDATED: 16:25 EST, 22 October 2013 The Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens inked a sponsorship agreement in September with Maryland Health Connection, the state’s Obamacare insurance… Read More ›
China’s influence over the media growing globally, says US think tank
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 22 October, 2013, 9:00pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 22 October, 2013, 9:36pm Patrick Boehler patrick.boehler@scmp.com Africa Live presenter Beatrice Marshall says that through her news show Africans “are telling the story from our perspective”. Photo: AFP China’s government… Read More ›
China says 99.9 per cent of graft defendants found guilty
AFP Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013 BEIJING – A total of 99.9 per cent of the verdicts reached against Chinese corruption defendants find them guilty, judicial authorities said Tuesday. Nearly 200,000 people were investigated for embezzlement or bribery between January… Read More ›
Stoning for adulterers and amputation for thieves: Sultan of Brunei announces strict punishments for criminals under new Islamic laws
The punishments are set to come into force over the next six months John Hall Tuesday, 22 October 2013 The Sultan of Brunei has announced strict new Islamic punishments for criminals – including amputation for theft and stoning for adultery…. Read More ›
Senior officer, NCIS agent are among those arrested in Navy bribery scandal
By Craig Whitlock, Published: October 19 The U.S. Navy is being rocked by a bribery scandal that federal investigators say has reached high into the officer corps and exposed a massive overbilling scheme run by an Asian defense contractor that provided… Read More ›
Navy hit with bribery scandal as high profile commander charged with accepting Lady Gaga tickets and prostitutes in exchange for classified information
Also charged were Leonard Glenn Francis, the CEO of defense contractor Glenn Defense Marine Asia Ltd And John Bertrand Beliveau II, a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service – NCIS By James Nye PUBLISHED: 00:20 EST, 22 October… Read More ›
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutionally tries to mine protected attorney-client and financial data, Claimed in court
Agency Data-Mining Case Shifts to California By JAMIE ROSS ShareThis (CN) – A company’s claim that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutionally tries to mine protected attorney-client and financial data should be argued in a pending California case, a federal… Read More ›
U.S. Army says only two brigades fully trained due to budget cuts ( That is only 7,000 to 10,000 soldiers )
Source: Reuters – Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:44 PM Author: Reuters * Spending reductions this year fell heavily on training dollars * Top Army leaders appeal for greater budget certainty By David Alexander WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Two years… Read More ›
Singapore firm barred from U.S. contracts over bribery case -( Navy ) Three charged in case, including Navy officer
Source: Reuters – Tue, 22 Oct 2013 12:06 AM Author: Reuters * Three charged in case, including Navy officer * Captain of U.S. amphibious assault ship relieved of duty * Travel, prostitutes and Lady Gaga tickets WASHINGTON, Oct 21… Read More ›
Scientists REFUSE to release a list of 1,500 outdated Los Angeles homes, offices, and factories at risk of collapse from an earthquake / For fear of being sued
Scientists refuse to pass on details they collected on unsafe buildings Non-reinforced concrete structures are a deadly trap during major quakes Separate list by LA Times shows Capitol Records building, Pantages Theater, and Avalon nightclub among dangerous buildings Scientists confirm… Read More ›
New study shows 6 million youth out of school and work as 49 states see INCREASE in families living in poverty
15 per cent of those aged 16 to 24 who have neither desk nor job, according to report by the The Opportunity Nation coalition Idle young adults are missing out on a window to build skills they will need later… Read More ›
China to restrict satellite TV stations to one foreign programme to push “morality-building”
Source: Reuters – Mon, 21 Oct 2013 03:18 AM Author: Reuters SHANGHAI, Oct 21 (Reuters) – China will allow satellite television stations to buy the right to broadcast only one foreign programme each year from 2014 as part of… Read More ›
US spy agency snooped on French citizens: Report ( code-named “US-985D” )
AFP Monday, Oct 21, 2013 PARIS – The US National Security Agency (NSA) secretly recorded millions of phone calls made in France, daily Le Monde reported on Monday, citing documents from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden. The spy agency taped… Read More ›
How foreign authors are willing to bow to China’s censors
Foreign writers who allow their books to be altered find results can be frustrating and time-consuming but extremely profitable PUBLISHED : Monday, 21 October, 2013, 4:09am UPDATED : Monday, 21 October, 2013, 8:41am The New York… Read More ›
How China Fights: Lessons From the 1962 Sino-Indian War ( Oct 20th, 1962 Anniversary )
EEV: Historical Re-Post Oct 29, 2012 1:00 AM EDT China gave India a “lesson” in 1962. Study it now. The rest of the world may have forgotten the anniversary, but a neglected border war that took place 50 years ago… Read More ›
China and The Art of (losing) War
Benjamin CarlsonOctober 20, 2013 06:05 Follow @bfcarlson For centuries, China’s leaders have relied on Sun Tzu’s masterpiece of strategy. The result? Tragedy, weakness and defeat to inferior forces. These traditional Russian Matryoshka dolls feature Chinese leaders since the overthrow of… Read More ›
Whom is benefiting economically from NSA spying ( A moderator question ) ?
EEV: It is highly evident that individuals are benefiting from using the U.S. Governments spy network to gain an unfair advantage in the investment markets. The NSA spying is alluding to being used more as a personal tool of enrichment… Read More ›
Kenya will tag rhino horns with microchips: suck it, poachers!
Posted October 19, 2013 – 19:35 by Emory Kale The Kenyan Wildlife Services (KWS) is going all 2013 on poachers’ asses by making rhino horn 100% traceable. Now that’s what you call disruptive technology that really makes a difference. –… Read More ›
All Chinese journalists ordered to censor supportive stances toward Japan
Kyodo Oct 20, 2013 BEIJING – China’s Communist Party has begun ordering all Chinese journalists not to take supportive stances toward Japan when writing about territorial and historical issues between the two countries, participants of a mandatory training program revealed… Read More ›
One in three women remove wedding rings fearing they will ‘damage employment prospects’
A third of women remove rings when it isn’t necessarily normal to do so Of those, 35% remove them at work and 29% at job interviews 22% do so when out socialising More than half who ditch ring when socialising… Read More ›
George Osborne: ‘Second-rate Britain’ needs to be more like China
Chancellor dismisses suggestions that China has a ‘sweatshop’ economy and wishes Britain would be more like the communist country Lewis Smith Friday, 18 October 2013 Britain is no longer great, is defeatist and unambitious and needs to be more like… Read More ›
Obamacare woes widen as insurers get wrong data and experts say website built on ten-year-old technology will need to be constantly fixed and then totally overhauled
Technology experts say the flaws could do lasting damage Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius criticized for declining to testify before an oversight panel Administration officials blame problems on an unexpectedly high volume of 14.6 million visitors in its… Read More ›
Blank check: The U.S. government borrowed $328billion on the first day after a debt deal without a debt ceiling was agreed upon
The new debt deal has no debt ceiling, giving the federal government a blank check until February The previous one day borrowing record was $238billion By Ryan Gorman PUBLISHED: 23:27 EST, 18 October 2013 | UPDATED: 23:27 EST, 18 October… Read More ›
House panel nixes Grayson’s request for Syria intelligence / No access to why Obama wanted to attack Syria
By JOSH GERSTEIN | 10/18/13 1:51 AM EDT In a highly unusual move, the House Intelligence Committee voted this week to deny an outspoken Florida lawmaker access to classified information supporting President Barack Obama’s call for a military strike in… Read More ›
Why the Germans can’t help being rude: Historic divisions mean they are used to being surrounded by enemies
EEV: ??? Germans like ‘stability and structure’ because of nation’s fractured past Respected German institute produce video showing the difference between them and their foreign counterparts By Hayley O’keeffe PUBLISHED: 23:40 EST, 17 October 2013 | UPDATED: 07:20… Read More ›
Prisons now over 99 per cent full – official ( U.K. )
Prisons in England and Wales are virtually full, official figures show. Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: ‘Cramming ever greater numbers of people into overcrowded prisons with fewer staff and less time out of cell is no… Read More ›
Leaky security could scuttle global ship-tracking system / Nuke-carrying Iranian ghost ships could be on the USA’s radar right now
By Phil Muncaster 17th October 2013 06:28 GMT Security researchers have found a major flaw in the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a mandatory tracking system for ships, which could leave the 400,000 vessels currently using it globally wide open to… Read More ›
Walmart fires employee for coming to the aid of woman being assaulted by her boyfriend in the parking lot
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 00:36 EST, 18 October 2013 | UPDATED: 00:59 EST, 18 October 2013 Kristopher Oswald says he was doing the right thing when he jumped to the aid of a woman being assaulted in the… Read More ›
Students’ right to wear American flag shirts on Cinco de Mayo heads to federal appeals court
Published time: October 17, 2013 23:48 Edited time: October 18, 2013 00:25 Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP A federal appeals court is considering whether administrators of a school marred by racial tension and gang activity went too far when they sent… Read More ›
400-Meter-Wide Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2032
400-Meter-Wide Asteroid Could Hit Earth in 2032 © Fotolia/ Paul Fleet 15:27 17/10/2013 MOSCOW, October 17 (RIA Novosti) – Ukrainian astronomers have discovered a large asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032, though the impact risk is minimal, according to… Read More ›
China openly tries to destablize U.S. bond market : Xinhua ” US Treasury bonds may no longer be safe investment.”
China welcomes US debt agreement, but Xinhua pours scorn on politicians But Xinhua commentary says the deal will only prolong the fuse of the ‘debt bomb’ and delay ‘bankruptcy’ of global confidence in America PUBLISHED : Thursday, 17 October, 2013,… Read More ›
China holds two bloggers as it expands crackdown on rumors
Sui-Lee Wee Reuters Thursday, Oct 17, 2013 BEIJING – Police in China have arrested an influential blogger and are holding a cartoonist in a widening crackdown on online “rumour-mongering”, friends and a lawyer for one of them said on Thursday…. Read More ›
Social mobility report: Work ‘may be no route out of poverty’
Alan Milburn is producing a series of reports on social mobility for the coalition For millions of families, work no longer pays enough to provide a route out of poverty, the government’s social mobility tsar is expected to warn…. Read More ›
Current Black Market Prices for People and Organs
EEV: This list helps brings the reality of human exploitation a little closer to home. These are generalized estimates, based on few sources. Click dollar figure to see original post and source information. Last update: October 9, 2013. TRANSPLANT PRICE… Read More ›
If the police are allowed to lie and cheat, we are heading for anarchy ( U.K. )
The Andrew Mitchell case is not isolated, and there are grounds for a Royal Commission Few who spend time in British courts wait long before coming across cases where the police have misrepresented, or made up, or suppressed evidence Photo: Getty… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 