Friday, 08 August 2014 On August 5th, the NY Times published a story titled “Russian Hackers Amass Over a Billion Internet Passwords ” which was, in fact, a “Native Advertising” venture between this once respected newspaper and a relatively new… Read More ›
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Eccentric philanthropist is taking 1,000 homeless New Yorkers out to lunch in the hope it will inspire Wall Street to open its pockets
EEV Note – If you have any love of country left, do not let this happen Article Quotes: – they must sing for their supper – the patriotic ditty Learn from the Good Model Citizen Lei Feng, named after the supposedly… Read More ›
Billionaire Chen Guangbiao invites 1,000 poor Americans to dinner in Central Park
Controversial entrepreneur sets out to change Americans’ perceptions about wealthy Chinese .PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 18 June, 2014, 1:16am Mimi Lau in Guangzhou mimi.lau@scmp.com . // Billionaire Chen Guangbiao invites 1,000 poor Americans to dinner in Central Park | South China… Read More ›
Wealth of US middle class now lower than Canada’s – report
Published time: April 23, 2014 00:59 Reuters / Emmanuel Foudrot American workers who previously made up the wealthiest middle class in the world have lost that distinction, according to new research that attributes the economic stagnation on rising income inequality… Read More ›
China blocks foreign news sites that revealed elite’s offshore holdings
• Guardian among sites blocked over reports • China Digital Times publishes details of directive Tania Branigan in Beijing and James Ball in New York theguardian.com, Thursday 23 January 2014 14.44 EST The Chinese government has recently concentrated on improving… Read More ›
Fun With Genetic Engineering: Why Letting Students Tinker With Microorganisms Is Good For Education And Society
Posted: 01/14/2014 1:26 pm By Charles Gersbach, Assistant Professor, and Tom Katsouleas, Dean, Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering Elaborate competitions to build the best robot or design cages to protect falling eggs have been a rite of passage for… Read More ›
Chinese tycoon Chen Guangbiao says he is in talks to buy New York Times
UPDATED : Wednesday, 01 January, 2014, 1:15pm Agence France Press in Beijing Chen Gunagbiao. Photo: Simon Song First he handed out cash to victims of China’s 2008 earthquake. Then he sold “canned fresh air” to residents of smog-ridden Beijing. Now… Read More ›
Michael Bloomberg ‘spent $650 million of own money’ as New York mayor
– ” The mayor’s free-spending ways are also being felt in London, where he has been cultivating political leaders and the cultural elite and is expected to spend much of his post-mayoral time “ Outgoing mayor spent vast amounts of personal… Read More ›
Benghazi attack not work of Al-Qaeda: report but may be from those we helped
– criminal probe into the killings, alleged that a local rebel leader named Ahmed Abu Khattala, said to have disdain for the United States despite its help to overthrow Kadhafi, is the prime suspect for orchestrating the Benghazi killings. UPDATED… Read More ›
How GCHQ Monitors Germany, Israel and the EU
– suspicion arising from the documents that their organization engages in large-scale industrial espionage By Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach and Holger Stark Documents from the archive of whistleblower and former NSA worker Edward Snowden show that Britain’s GCHQ signals intelligence… Read More ›
Over 700,000 people on US watch list: and once you get on, there’s no way off
Published time: December 02, 2013 20:59 A US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent checks the identification and boarding pass of a passenger as she passes through security in the terminal at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia… Read More ›
Secretive trade pact called ‘most harmful ever’ for affordable medicine
Closed to the public, but some 600 corporations, including Walmart and Monsanto are the Trade advisors. Global health advocates say the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed trade agreement between the US and 11 other countries, is an attack on public health…. Read More ›
NSA’s goal to continually expand surveillance abilities “anyone, anytime, anywhere.”
Latest Snowden leak reveals NSA’s goal to continually expand surveillance abilities Published time: November 23, 2013 04:05 The National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland (AFP Photo / Saul Loeb) In a mission statement last year the… Read More ›
AT&T gets paid $10 million/ year by the CIA to give up user data and customers phone logs
Published time: November 07, 2013 16:57 AFP Photo/Etienne Franchi The second-largest telecom country in the United States has been on the Central Intelligence Agency’s payroll to the tune of $10 million a year in exchange for voluntarily handing over… Read More ›
Chinese architect defends ‘phallic’ £154m skyscraper
Critics say the new People’s Daily headquarters in Beijing resembles a super-sized phallus but its designer argues that “unexpected interpretations” are part of architecture’s beauty The new office building of People’s Daily newspaper Photo: REX FEATURES By Tom Phillips,… 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 ›
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 ›
China pays 2 million people to monitor Internet
05 Oct 2013 Beijing (AFP) China is employing two million people to keep tabs on people’s Internet use, according to state media, in a rare glimpse into the secret world of Beijing’s vast online surveillance operation. Many of the employees are… Read More ›
The science behind Doritos – ” the chip avoids so-called sensory specific satiety “
So they truly are irresistible! The science behind why you just can’t stop eating nacho cheese Doritos Chemicals, cheese, and colors all add to the magic of Doritos science Frito-Lay made $5 billion on Doritos in 2010 When the developer… Read More ›
Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the ‘pathetic’ American media
Pulitzer Prize winner explains how to fix journalism, saying press should ‘fire 90% of editors and promote ones you can’t control’ Seymour Hersh exposed the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam war, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize…. Read More ›
American women’s wages won’t be equal to those of American men for another 45 years, says a recent study
Women earned 77 cents for every dollar men earned last year Most full-time employed women will be retired by the time wages are equal between women and men Stagnant wages may have to do with poor family and medical leave… Read More ›
NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records • $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products • Security experts say programs ‘undermine the fabric of the internet’
US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet James Ball, Julian Borger and Glenn Greenwald The Guardian, Thursday 5 September 2013 15.00 EDT Through covert partnerships with tech companies, the spy agencies have inserted secret vulnerabilities into… Read More ›
The Psychiatric Drug Crisis / 20% of Americans now regularly take mind-altering drugs prescribed by their doctors
Posted by Gary Greenberg It’s been just over twenty-five years since Prozac came to market, and more than twenty per cent of Americans now regularly take mind-altering drugs prescribed by their doctors. Almost as familiar as brands like… Read More ›
REVEALED: Secret program gives federal agents nearly instant access to BILLIONS of AT&T phone records without a court order
Hemisphere program allows federal agents to access details on rolling database of 4billion calls a day that are process through AT&T switches Secret program in place since 2007 includes records dating back to 1987 Federal agents can issue ‘administrative subpoena’… Read More ›
Revealed: How the NSA will spy on you if you just put the word Osama in an email, text message or Facebook chat
An message sent to a cousin named Osama may now be enough to make any American a target of surveillance The information was couched in a set of rules leaked by Edward Snowden about a 2008 domestic surveillance law The… Read More ›
Jimmy Carter: ‘America no longer has a functioning democracy’
Posted By Katie McHugh On 8:56 PM 07/17/2013 In Politics Former president Jimmy Carter condemned the effect U.S. intelligence programs had on U.S. moral authority in the wake of NSA revelations brought to light by leaker Edward Snowden, Der Spiegel… Read More ›
Stores now tracking your behavior and moods through cameras and cell phones
Retailers across the globe are tracking shoppers without their consent Technology providers will not name the stores Nordstrom ended their use of this technology in May By Ryan Gorman PUBLISHED: 18:50 EST, 15 July 2013 | UPDATED: 19:28 EST, 15… Read More ›
US diplomats cry foul as Obama donors take over top embassy jobs / $1.8m per post
Former ambassador likens practice to ‘selling of public office’ as figures show average amount of cash raised is $1.8m per post Dan Roberts in Washington The Guardian, Wednesday 10 July 2013 15.50 EDT US officials are increasingly concerned about the… Read More ›
How the cost of giving birth in the U.S. has TRIPLED since 1996 to $9,775 – thanks to expensive fees for everything from an epidural to placenta removal
The average cost of a hospital delivery in America is $9,775, the highest in the world In France, delivery costs $3,541, and in the UK it is just $2,641 Many industrialized countries offer flat fees for prenatal care and delivery,… Read More ›
Retired 4-star general probed over Stuxnet details leak – report
Marine Corps man under investigation over malware revelations By Jasper Hamill Posted in Security, 28th June 2013 14:34 GMT A retired general has been named as the target of a US Department of Justice probe into the release of confidential… Read More ›
How Skype developed a secret program called ‘Project Chess’ to make it easier for law enforcement and government officials to spy on customers’ data
By Hayley Peterson PUBLISHED: 09:56 EST, 21 June 2013 | UPDATED: 09:56 EST, 21 June 2013 The web-based calling service Skype allegedly developed a secret program called ‘Project Chess’ to make it easier for the government to spy… Read More ›
‘The smell of burning flesh filled the room’: Workers reveal hellish conditions in Chinese labour camp where man hid letter pleading for help that was found U.S. store’s decorations box
American woman found plea for help in Halloween decorations she bought Letter came from Chinese labour camp worker who has now come forward He wrote workers were suffering ‘torturement, beat and rude remark’ Inmates at the labour camp work seven… Read More ›
Top Democratic spokesman causes Twitter explosion with complaint about news organizations boycotting ‘off the record’ briefing with US attorney general
‘Some in the media refuse to meet with’ Eric Holder, wrote top DNC flack Brad Woodhouse. ‘Kind of forfeits your right [to] gripe.’ The DO staff ‘can just find how [reporters] feel via subpoenaed email and phone records,’ snarked one… Read More ›
Courts? US Admits killing 4 Americans in Drone strikes
Wednesday, 22 May 2013 One day before US President Obama is due to deliver a major speech on national security, his administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged that the United States had killed four American citizens in drone strikes in… Read More ›
Red faces as Pentagon leases Chinese satellite
It’s ok, we’ve added ‘additional transmission security’ By Phil Muncaster Posted in Government, 1st May 2013 04:04 GMT Free whitepaper – Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement US lawmakers are up in arms after it emerged that the… Read More ›
Afghan President Hamid Karzai admits to millions of dollars of US payments to national security
Monday, 29 April 2013 Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that his national security team has been receiving payments from the US government for the past 10 years. Mr Karzai confirmed the payments when he was asked about… Read More ›
Millions in CIA “ghost money” paid to Afghan president’s office -NYT
Source: Reuters – Mon, 29 Apr 2013 01:43 AM Author: Reuters April 29 (Reuters) – Tens of millions of U.S. dollars in cash were delivered by the CIA in suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags to the office of Afghanistan… Read More ›
Now officials claim Boston bombing suspect was NOT armed in boat showdown – despite police account of firefight and him ‘shooting himself’
Officials now claim that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was unarmed as he hid in boat in Watertown Contradicts Boston Police Commissioner’s account of hour-long firefight with Tsarnaev New York Times said M4 rifle had been found on boat Police sources suggested… Read More ›
‘Biggest cyber-attack in history’ slows down global internet after quarrel between web-hosting company and anti-spam group
Internet services across the world have been disrupted and widespread congestion risks jamming crucial online infrastructure say experts Rob Williams Wednesday, 27 March 2013 A row between an anti-spam group and a web-hosting company has caused a slowdown in the… Read More ›
New York Times says Royal Charter harms free speech
Small publishers and websites under threat, says paper that helped expose hacking scandal IAN BURRELL Wednesday, 20 March 2013 The New York Times has warned that British proposals to regulate the press through a Royal Charter will “chill free speech… Read More ›
US Commander in Afghanistan issues threat advisory after Karzai’s anti-American comments
Mar 14, 2013 21:29 Moscow Time Photo: EPA The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has been put on heightened alert in connection with bellicose rhetoric by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, local media reported on Thursday. Earlier this week,… Read More ›
John Brennan as Counterterror Czar Gave Bogus Intel to Bush White House
EEV: Reposted as per request from 01 OCT 2012 Obama’s Counterterror Czar Gave Bogus Intel to Bush White House As head of the multi-agency Terrorist Threat Integration Center in 2003 and 2004, John Brennan, now counterterrorism adviser to President Obama,… Read More ›
“Egypt is descending into chaos,” Paul chief of staff Doug Stafford told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “We should not be arming them with advanced weapons”
Rand Paul: No fighter jets, tanks for Egypt Posted By W. James Antle III On 1:20 PM 01/31/2013 @ 1:20 PM In Daily Caller News Foundation,World | No Comments Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul sought Thursday to block the transfer… Read More ›
New York Times claims huge attack by Chinese hackers
Stories about wealth of outgoing premier Wen Jiabao appeared to be catalyst for attack, possibly by military, says paper Jonathan Kaiman in Beijing guardian.co.uk, Thursday 31 January 2013 01.02 EST Chinese hackers, possibly from the country’s military, hacked the New… Read More ›
Senators’ secret plan to give Amgen half a billion in fiscal cliff deal reveals Capitol Hill’s ‘sordid swamp’
By Bill Moyers and Michael Winship Friday, January 25, 2013 12:55 EST The inauguration of a president is one of those spectacles of democracy that can make us remember we’re part of something big and enduring. So for a… Read More ›
Morsi blames media : Muslim children “must be nursed on hatred. The hatred must continue!,” Morsi 2010 Quote
Morsi blames media for his ‘apes and pigs’ comment Posted By Neil Munro On 11:02 AM 01/17/2013 @ 11:02 AM In DC Exclusives – Original Reporting,World | No Comments Egypt’s moderate Islamist president is complaining to U.S. Senators that his… Read More ›
Japan summons China’s envoy in latest escalation of tension over disputed islands
News On Japan via New York Times — Jan 09 The Japanese Foreign Ministry summoned China’s ambassador on Tuesday after Chinese ships entered Japanese-controlled waters for 13 hours, a prolonged incursion that seemed to escalate a standoff over a… Read More ›
NYC mayor pins crime rate spike on iPhone, iPad theft
If it weren’t for Apple kit, crime would be down By Neil McAllister in San Francisco Posted in Security, 29th December 2012 06:31 GMT Free whitepaper – Media and Entertainment Goes Digital Major crime is on the rise in New… Read More ›
Independent inquiry faults U.S. State Department in Benghazi attack
Wed, 19 Dec 2012 02:20 GMT Reuters WASHINGTON, Dec 18 (Reuters) – An independent inquiry into the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans on Sept. 11, sharply criticized… Read More ›
Tax This! Depardieu gives up French Citizenship
Monday, 17 December 2012 The actor Gérard Depardieu will be French no more, so exasperated is he with French taxes and the French government, he declared in an angry open letter to France’s prime minister on Sunday, The New York… Read More ›
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