A Saudi Arabian man injured by one of the two bombs that detonated at last year’s Boston Marathon is suing conservative commentator Glenn Beck in federal court for defamation. Abdulrahman Alharbi, then 20, was among the hundreds hurt during last April’s footrace in the metropolitan Massachusetts city after a pair of homemade pressure cooker bombs exploded near the finish line, killing three.
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Things aren’t getting much better for the gap between America’s rich and poor: a new study reveals that inequality within the United States is only getting worse. The Sadoff Investment Research firm of Wisconsin has released the results of a recent report, and it indicates that the ongoing issue of inequality is continuing to keep America’s poor vastly separated from the more financially fortunate.
Billed as one of the toughest gun control laws in the United States when it was passed in early 2013, New York’s assault weapons ban is being sidestepped in a way that appears to be surprisingly easy. Signed into law by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the Safe Act banned high-capacity magazines and semi-automatic weapons – similar to the one used by Adam Lanza in the Sandy Hook school shooting. Additionally, the law established rules requiring tougher background checks related to gun sales.
A team of researchers has found that the American security firm RSA implemented two different encryption tools built by the National Security Agency, both of which were designed to be exploited easily for surveillance purposes. According to Reuters, the revelation was made by professors from multiple universities – including the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois – and indicates the NSA was able to infiltrate the company’s security systems even more than previously believed.
US web giant Google has accused Turkish internet providers of mimicking their Domain Name System (DNS) service, citing “credible reports” and research. The tactic allows it to effectively block access to Google services in Turkey, the company said. As Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whose AKP party was triumphant in Sunday’s local elections, on Monday promised that his political opponents “will pay the price,” it has become clear that Ankara’s ban of popular Google services used by the opposition may last for good.
An energy company is hoping to use a little-used, 53-year-old Pennsylvania law in order to launch a fracking operation on land even if landowners oppose the action. The incident revolves around a potential oil and gas site in New Bedford, Pennsylvania, where four landowners have refused to sign leases authorizing a new drilling operation by Texas-based Hilcorp Energy.
Reeling from the leak of classified data, NSA officials have anticipated future leaks by sometimes announcing them to the media preemptively, a minimization tactic according to one of the journalists still holding the intel agency’s documents. Glenn Greenwald, formerly of The Guardian and now of First Look Media, penned a column Monday criticizing both US National Security Agency brass and what he sees as complicit reporters for their role in repeating unverified claims about the intelligence agency.
Has anyone noticed lately the massive IP Address Ban on Godlikeproductions.com? I know this because they have banned all my Ip’s including my newly setup VPN, which I have no clue how they banned the IP so fast. So are you also blocked from this website, not like I care that I’m blocked because I never even posted on it. Why are they censoring normal users who are not even going on the website? But I found this info below which might explain why you’re blocked from the website:
28 paintings and 6 icons were reported missing from the recreational center ‘Bear oak grove’ after Right Sector members left its premises, said Ukraine’s Interior Ministry adding that the damage is estimated at about US$ 1 million. The head and owner of the recreational center ‘Bear oak grove’ (Medveja dubrova) in Transcarpathian region has filed a complaint with the police about the missing works of art, said the ministry.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspected bombers behind the Boston Marathon bombing last year, was approached by the FBI because of his extremist views and asked to work as an informant, according to court records filed by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team. Attorneys for the younger Tsarnaev are expected to claim that he was under the influence of the dominating Tamerlan, 26, who was killed during a shootout with police days after the bombing killed three people and injured over 260 others on April 15.
The NSA’s data base contains information obtained during the surveillance of over a hundred world leaders, new leaks by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed. Der Spiegel has looked through a top secret presentation by NSA’s Center for Content Extraction, which is responsible for automated analysis of all types of text data.
Last week the website Pando.com wrote an article about how google is partnering up with various military contractors, private intelligence firms to sell the Google services to these corrupt corporations/organizations. The official Google “Enterprise Government” webpage that listed the contractor companies; no longer loads correctly on purpose. Most likely to hide some of the important info they mistakenly released:
By Zachary Keck While much Western attention has been bestowed on Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine, Moscow also began a massive nuclear offensive exercise on Thursday. According to the Russian daily Nezavisimaya Gazeta, on Thursday Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces began a massive three-day exercise involving 10,000 soldiers and 1,000 pieces of equipment from more than 30 units.
A US court dismissed a lawsuit against a Chinese internet giant Baidu, which the plaintiff argued blocks material critical of China’s democratic credentials, a decision that could have far-reaching impact on how US search engines sift information.
A 4.8 magnitude quake rocked Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming near the border with Montana, the US Geological Survey said. There were several aftershocks with a magnitude over 3. The earthquake occurred 37 kilometers northeast of West Yellowstone, Montana at 6:34 am local time (1234 GMT) Sunday.
Just by reading the name, the average American would believe that a new bill being crafted by the Obama administration to end NSA data collection, or a simultaneous effort being pushed through the House Intelligence Committee by Rep. Mike Rogers would lead to the end of data collection on hundreds of millions of Americans. After all, these bills with names like “End Bulk Collection Act” sound like they will free the American people from NSA spying.
The student loan industry is booming, saddling over 37 million college students and graduates with $1.08 trillion in loans in 2013, even as President Barack Obama and lawmakers work to rein in the crippling debt young people face in the US. The average cost of a Bachelor’s degree at a private college or university is $45,000, according to The College Board’s Trends in Higher Education. Students attending public schools in their home state pay just under $23,000 on average, while those paying out-of-state tuition can expect to pay more than $36,000 a year.
One of the US Air Force’s most mysterious projects – an unmanned space-faring plane – has broken its own longevity record by staying in orbit for more than 469 days. There aren’t many details floating around in public regarding the X-37B – a classified project that’s seen three launches into space thus far – but a new report by the IDG News Service suggests the plane is being used to test out the Air Force’s new space capabilities while also boosting the intelligence community’s surveillance capacity.