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 ›
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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 ›
LSUHSC research finds combo of plant nutrients killed 100% of sample breast cancer cells
Contact: Leslie Capo lcapo@lsuhsc.edu 504-568-4806 Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, LA – A study led by Madhwa Raj, PhD, Research Professor in Obstetrics and Gynecology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans and its Stanley S. Scott… Read More ›
China rejects shipment of GMO ‘contaminated’ corn from US
China rejected a cargo of U.S. corn because it contained a genetically modified variety that is not approved for import. The GMO product is labeled as Syngenta AG’s AgrisureViptera corn, which is also known as MIR 162. This follows a… Read More ›
Stealth drone completes successful maiden flight
EEV: Since most clips of the story are being taken from 5 month old reports. We took the liberty of posting a better video of the drone. Unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, which may help monitor disputed territory, latest example of… Read More ›
China’s first stealth combat drone takes maiden flight – reports
Published time: November 22, 2013 01:40 Screenshot from YouTube user JDUS2020 The first Chinese stealth unmanned combat drone conducted a successful maiden flight Thursday, according to accounts by Chinese media and photos taken from a popular Chinese military website. Lijian,… Read More ›
Thousands protest against tough new official secrets law ( Japan )
By Kiyoshi Takenaka Politics Nov. 22, 2013 – 06:42AM JST ( 23 ) TOKYO — Thousands of people protested in Tokyo on Thursday against a proposed secrets act that critics say would stifle information on issues such as the Fukushima… Read More ›
US veteran of Korean war has been held in North Korea since last month
Family of Merrill Newman, 85, from Palo Alto, California, disclose he was taken off aircraft leaving the country without explanation. Associated Press in San Jose theguardian.com, Thursday 21 November 2013 03.40 EST Merrill Newman, 85, a retired finance executive… Read More ›
US and UK struck secret deal to allow NSA to ‘unmask’ Britons’ personal data
• 2007 deal allows NSA to store previously restricted material • UK citizens not suspected of wrongdoing caught up in dragnet • Separate draft memo proposes US spying on ‘Five-Eyes’ allies James Ball theguardian.com, Wednesday 20 November 2013 14.00… Read More ›
Fisa court documents reveal extent of NSA disregard for privacy restrictions
Incensed Fisa court judges questioned NSA’s truthfulness after repeated breaches of rules meant to protect Americans’ privacy Fisa court judge John Bates found that the NSA engaged in ‘systemic overcollection’. Photograph: Paul J Richards/AFP Newly declassified court documents indicate that… Read More ›
Obama was briefed earlier in year on health website problems
Source: Reuters – Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:17 AM Author: Reuters (Adds details of report and quotes from hearing) By Roberta Rampton and Caren Bohan WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, who has portrayed himself as surprised by… Read More ›
Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side ” Suboxone “
For Shawn Schneider, a carpenter and rock musician, the descent into addiction began one Wisconsin winter with a fall from a rooftop construction site onto the frozen ground below. As the potent pain pills prescribed for his injuries became his… Read More ›
Washington Insurance Official Is Ousted a day after he publicly questioned a decision by President Obama
By SUSANNE CRAIG and MICHAEL D. SHEAR The insurance commissioner for the District of Columbia was dismissed from his job just a day after he publicly questioned a decision by President Obama to reverse a provision of the Affordable Care… Read More ›
Spy fears: CIA, Pentagon ‘work against’ Russia building GLONASS station in US
Boris Zyryanov, chief of division of electric and radio tests of navigating satellites, supervises the electric testing of the GLONASS-M space navigation satellite (Reuters / Ilya Naymushin) US intelligence and military are pressing the State Department not to license… Read More ›
Obama permits Russian GPS stations to be built on U.S. Soil / While opposed by the CIA and Pentagon
American spy agencies don’t want Russian GPS sites in their backyard Planto let Moscow build monitor stationson US soil, as a gesture to improve diplomatic relations, is opposed by the CIA and Pentagon PUBLISHED : Monday, 18 November, 2013, 5:30am… Read More ›
Thousands protest press credibility in march against mainstream media
RT Published time: November 17, 2013 07:45
Revealed: Obamacare plans will cost MORE ‘in many cases’ even with government subsidies, officials admit for the first time
By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor PUBLISHED: 16:18 EST, 14 November 2013 | UPDATED: 17:04 EST, 14 November 2013 The Obama administration has directly conceded for the first time that ‘in many cases,’ health insurance plans offered through government… Read More ›
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) The Documents (HTML)
Today, 13 November 2013, WikiLeaks released the secret negotiated draft text for the entire TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) Intellectual Property Rights Chapter. The TPP is the largest-ever economic treaty, encompassing nations representing more than 40 per cent of the world’s GDP…. Read More ›
WikiLeaks publishes secret draft chapter of Trans-Pacific Partnership / ‘would trample over individual rights and free expression’
Treaty negotiated in secret between 12 nations ‘would trample over individual rights and free expression’, says Julian Assange Alex Hern and Dominic Rushe theguardian.com, Wednesday 13 November 2013 13.12 EST Demonstrators protest against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after… Read More ›
Wider use of statins ‘disturbing’
Wider use of statins will have minimal benefit and could needlessly expose thousands to severe side effects, doctors warn following change in US prescription guidelines New US guidelines on statins, issued on Tuesday by the American College of Cardiology and… Read More ›
Blue Cross Conspired to Destroy Company Serving Hemophiliacs, Firm Says
By IULIA FILIP WEST PALM BEACH (CN) – Blue Cross Blue Shield destroyed a health care company by refusing to pay claims of its hemophiliac patients and conducting a “witch hunt” that destroyed its reputation, the… Read More ›
Only 100,000 ‘select’ Obamacare plans in October and fewer than 27,000 have made it through
13 Nov 2013 Washington (AFP) Only 100,000 people have enrolled in the new US Obamacare health plan so far, and fewer than 27,000 have made it through a faulty federal sign-up website, the government said Wednesday. The figure of 106,185… Read More ›
Russian lawmaker wants to ban US Dollar
Thursday, 14 November 2013 Predicting the imminent collapse of the U.S. dollar, a Russian lawmaker submitted a bill to the country’s parliament on Wednesday that would ban the use or possession of the American currency. Mikhail Degtyarev, the lawmaker… Read More ›
U.S. government knew about al-Qaeda ‘pep rally for jihad’ in Benghazi that included calls for the murder of American diplomats – just months before terror attack
A report prepared for the government in August 2012 described a massive military presence of Ansar al-Sharia, the group behind the Benghazi attack It warned ‘assassinations’ would follow, and said the first attack on the U.S. diplomatic station quickly followed… Read More ›
Germany warns US facilities could be targeted in wake of NSA leaks
Published time: November 12, 2013 22:13 The entrance to the US Airbase is pictured in Ramstein, southern German (AFP Photo / Daniel Roland) Officials in Germany have cautioned authorities to prepare for possible attacks against United States facilities overseas as… Read More ›
Sweden closes four prisons as number of inmates plummets
Decline partly put down to strong focus on rehabilitation and more lenient sentences for some offences Richard Orange in Malmö theguardian.com, Monday 11 November 2013 11.33 EST Prison numbers in Sweden, which have been falling by around 1% a… Read More ›
China offers $100,000 aid to typhoon-ravaged Philippines
Tuesday, 12 November, 2013, 4:34am News›Asia DISASTER Staff reporters and agencies US and Japan send rescue teams China, the world’s second largest economy, has offered US$100,000 in aid to the Philippines in the wake of Super Typhoon Haiyan. It is the… Read More ›
Chinese nuclear forces, 2013 Chart
Chinese nuclear forces, 2013 Hans M. Kristensen Robert S. Norris Abstract The number of weapons in China’s nuclear arsenal is slowly growing, and the capability of those weapons is also increasing. The authors estimate that China has approximately 250 warheads… Read More ›
Paranoia Has Undermined US Democracy
By Dirk Kurbjuweit While far from a dictatorship, the United States has employed a number of paranoid tactics that delegitimize its democracy. This phenomenon is on display in the fictional TV series “Homeland,” which depicts hysterical CIA agents in a… Read More ›
Top US navy intelligence officers suspended as bribery scandal widens / Vice-Admiral, and Rear Admiral now cut off from access to classified material
Vice-Admiral Ted Branch and Rear Admiral Bruce Loveless have also been cut off from access to classified material Reuters in Washington theguardian.com, Friday 8 November 2013 23.33 EST Michael Misiewicz, the first officer charged. Photograph: Heng Sinith/AP Two of the… Read More ›
U.S. Media Consumption to Rise to 15.5 Hours a Day – Per Person – by 2015
New study issued by SDSC researcher with USC Marshall School of Business A new study by a researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, says that by 2015, the sum of media… Read More ›
US loses Unesco voting rights after stopping funds over Palestine decision
Some Americans warn of loss of influence over world culture and education after US misses deadline to pay debt Associated Press in Paris theguardian.com, Friday 8 November 2013 06.27 EST The Palestinian ambassador to Unesco, Elias Sanbar, at the agency’s… Read More ›
Millions in farm subsidies doled out to billionaires between 1995-2012
Millions of American taxpayer dollars were allocated to businesses owned by 50 billionaires between 1995 and 2012, according to a study from the Environmental Working Group. The left-leaning organization points out that the subsidies made their way to the billionaires,… Read More ›
Father sues child shrink after she labels him an unfit parent for not taking his son to McDonald’s
New York attorney David Schorr, 43, says his son Max demanded to go to McDonald’s recently and ‘threw a tantrum’ when he said no He says he refused because the boy had been eating ‘too much junk food’ The boy… 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 ›
Record 1 in 6 Americans living in poverty: New census says the number of poor people in the U.S. is 3 million higher than the official count
Last government census recorded the number of poor people across the country as 46.5 million New figures say the real number is a record-breaking 49.7 million Results come as Congress continues to negotiate further cuts of up to $4 billion… Read More ›
Obama Secret Service Agent: “Things are much worse than Americans can even imagine”
Wednesday, 06 November 2013 You may have your suspicions about what’s going on behind closed doors at the White House. But according to one of US President Obama’s former body guards it’s much worse than Americans can even imagine…. Read More ›
De Blasio ‘Needs To Explain Himself’ Over Cuba Honeymoon, Sandinista Support / Which he is proud of
The story of a Cambridge-raised Sandinista supporter who married a former lesbian and rose through the political ranks to become mayor of America’s largest city Bill De Blasio is a political insider who worked on campaigns of Bill and Hillary… Read More ›
Obama denies promising Americans they could absolutely keep their healthcare plans, but video shows him making that pledge – 29 times!
Obama suddenly pivoted Monday night, adding conditions to his pledge that no one would lose insurance plans that they liked The Affordable Care Act requires policies to include a set of coverage items including maternity and pediatric care, whether or… Read More ›
N.Korea ‘making progress’ on ballistic missile that could strike US
05 Nov 2013 Seoul (AFP) North Korea is making progress on an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering a first-generation nuclear warhead to the continental United States, a leading US think-tank said Tuesday. The closely followed 38 North website of the… Read More ›
Pentagon’s security chief misused authority, probe shows
The head of Pentagon security forces misused his authority by treating employees to a golf outing during the workday, relying on others to fetch his lunch and improperly getting a relative into an agency firing range, a Pentagon investigation… Read More ›
Big Brother blinded: Security fears in China as smog disrupts surveillance cameras
Teams of scientists assigned to find a solution as heavy pollution makes national surveillance network useless, raising fear of terror attack PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 05 November, 2013, 2:36am UPDATED : Tuesday, 05 November, 2013, 10:47am Stephen Chen binglin.chen@scmp.com As… Read More ›
Afghanistan: There Is No Law
November 2, 2013: The 2013 fighting season in Afghanistan has come to an end and the Taliban have failed to overwhelm the Afghan security forces, who took over security responsibility for most of the country this year. The… Read More ›
Mass spy programmes threaten freedom of expression: Snowden
03 Nov 2013 Berlin (AFP) US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden says mass secret service surveillance poses a threat to freedom of expression and open society, in a text published in a German news magazine Sunday. Snowden, who faces criminal charges… Read More ›
How a war game brought the world to the brink of nuclear disaster
Former classified documents show how close the Soviet Union came to launching an attack in 1983 Jamie Doward The Observer, Saturday 2 November 2013 12.43 EDT Prime minister Margaret Thatcher was alarmed by intelligence reports about the Soviet Union’s reaction…. Read More ›
Snowden document reveals key role of companies in NSA data collection
NSA leverages relationships with commercial partners to collect vast quantities of data from fibre-optic cables, file shows • Tapping fibre-optic cables – see the NSA slide Ewen MacAskill and Dominic Rushe in New York theguardian.com, Friday 1 November 2013… Read More ›
China reveals its ability to nuke the US: Government boasts about new submarine fleet capable of launching warheads at cities across the nation
State-run media claims the Chinese military has missiles capable of hitting cities all across the U.S. China’s submarine fleet currently is on ‘routine patrol.’ According to Chinese media, this is the first time China has possessed ‘effective underwater nuclear deterrence… Read More ›
Mexican Social Security Deal Files Face Release / ‘could provide Mexican nationals with U.S. Social Security benefits “
By DAN MCCUE (CN) – A group deserves more information from government agencies on a treaty that could provide Mexican nationals with U.S. Social Security benefits, a federal judge ruled. At issue is a “totalization agreement” Mexico and… Read More ›
Obama’s new climate council to regulate economy ( Executive Order Nov 1st. )
Posted By Neil Munro On 12:20 PM 11/01/2013 President Barack Obama has given the nation a new “Council on Climate Preparedness and Resilience” that expands government bureaucrats’ role in how Americans use their lands, energy, waters and property…. Read More ›
Obesity expands amid federal anti-obesity campaign
Posted By Neil Munro On 4:40 PM 11/01/2013 The national obesity rate has expanded since 2012, even as federal regulators and first lady Michelle Obama exhort the nation to slim down, eat less and exercise. The adult obesity rate… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 