A New Jersey boardwalk that was just rebuilt after Hurricane Sandy has been destroyed again by a massive fire, with flames engulfing an ice cream shop and other buildings along the coastline in the span of just a few hours. The blaze originated at about 2:15 pm EST at Kohr’s Ice Cream and, fueled by a strong wind to the southeast, quickly spread to at least 19 structures within 15 minutes, a Seaside Heights police officer told the New Jersey Star-Ledger.
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A hacker stole private data from two million customers of Vodafone Germany, the mobile phone operator said Thursday. The information compromised by the attacker included customer names, addresses, bank account numbers and birth dates. “Vodafone discovered and stopped the attack, and quickly filed charges,” Vodafone said in a statement. “The attack was only possible due to…insider knowledge, and occurred deep in the company’s IT infrastructure.”
Once the most-wanted hacker in the US, Kevin Mitnick, the cracker extraordinaire and virtual ghost in the wires, spoke with RT about NSA snooping, Snowden’s status as a whistleblower or traitor and the virtues of VPNs in our surveillance saturated world. RT: You actually broke into National Security Agency. Why did you do it, when did you do it, how did you do it; did you do it for fun? Kevin Mitnick: I didn’t actually break into the NSA. When I was a juvenile, I was interested in hacking the telephone switches, so I thought, what would be the most…
One-third of all food produced globally remains uneaten and gets thrown away, making the wastage the world’s third-biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions after industry in the US and China, a new UN study reveals. A total of 1.3 billion tons of food a year, worth $750 billion, is thrown away, emitting 3.3 billion tons of carbon dioxide, according to data collected by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
The California Senate approved raising the state’s minimum wage on Thursday to $10 an hour by 2016, one of the highest rates in the nation. The state Senate passed AB10 by a party-line vote, 26-11, approving a gradual minimum wage jump from $8 to $10 over two years. The bill now goes to the state Assembly for what will be an almost assured passage, and then to Gov. Jerry Brown, who has expressed support for the measure.
The international community would enforce “further measures” under Chapter VII of the Security Council, in case Syria fails to pass a “continuous review” of the chemical disarmament process, the draft UN resolution submitted by France suggests. The French resolution demands that the Syrian government provides “unfettered access to its chemical weapons sites” and allows “international inspectors to make surprise visits to locations of their choice,” according to al-Arabiya.
By Dominic Rushe Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook struck back on Wednesday at critics who have charged tech companies with doing too little to fight off NSA surveillance. Mayer said executives faced jail if they revealed government secrets. Yahoo and Facebook, along with other tech firms, are pushing for the right to be allowed to publish the number of requests they receive from the spy agency. Companies are forbidden by law to disclose how much data they provide.
The NSA regularly shares raw US intelligence data with Israel without even removing information about American citizens, according to the latest revelation published by the Guardian. The report is based on a document leaked by Edward Snowden. On Tuesday, September 11, the Guardian published a previously undisclosed document which revealed top-secret policies in place since 2009 that are used to share personal phone and Internet data pertaining to United States citizens with American ally Israel.
Police in California have arrested a former Transportation Security Administration employee and accused him of making terrorist threats at an airport just before the anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Nna Alpha Onuoha, 29, is in police custody after being apprehended just before midnight on Tuesday outside of a church in Riverside, California near Los Angeles.
Russia has handed over its plan for putting Syria’s chemical weapons under international control to the US. Meanwhile the UN Security Council’s five permanent members have held a closed-door session to discuss an effective way out of the crisis. “We have handed over to the Americans our plan for establishing international control over Syria’s chemical weapons and we hope to discuss it in Geneva,” said a source in the Russian delegation that will accompany Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov during his consultations with US Secretary of State John Kerry.
By Michael Degerald Since early June when the first stories were released, we have seen a wave of leaked information drastically change our understanding of the United States government. Its activities in intelligence gathering have been shown to be much wider than previously thought; its relationships with major tech corporations have been shown to be much murkier and of a darker nature than was publicly known. Its relationship with the people of the United States is on shaky ground — revelations have been met with untrue explanations time after time, each exposed as false by further leaks.
by user Three_Letter_Agency I will preface this all with saying, I do not intend for any bullet point list to effectively prove an inside job. Instead, this list will serve as evidence for the necessity of an independent Citizens Investigation into 9/11. The totality of circumstances are too great to ignore. Continuity of Government. I have to start with the Continuity of Government. Verification here, CBS, Wikipedia here. Essentially a secret government was legally established on 9/11 and has been operating ever since.
The iPhone 5s’s new Touch ID sensor, embedded in the home button, will allow for faster and more secure logins, Apple said today at its event in Cupertino. The scanner, which uses technology Apple acquired last year when it bought security company AuthenTec for $356 million, will ship with the new iPhone on September 20th. The system is comprised of a flat sapphire crystal, stainless steel detection ring and fingerprint sensing array, all built into the tactile iPhone 5s home button.
By Bonnie Mceneaney 9/11/10 – DailyMail On the morning of September 11, 2001, Eamon, my 46-year-old husband, had a sudden attack of vertigo as he prepared to go to work. Such attacks weren’t unprecedented, but Eamon hadn’t had one for more than a year. I wanted him to stay home, but characteristically he wouldn’t. A determined and dutiful man, he pressed on, pausing only to say ‘see you later’ before heading out to begin the two-hour dawn commute he so hated from our home in Connecticut to downtown New York.
Following the case of David Miranda, whose electronic devices were confiscated in August by British authorities at Heathrow Airport, a US watchdog reports that similar abuses of power are happening at US borders. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has released documents showing how US authorities, exceeding their powers in the name of protecting the country from terrorism and other threats, are involved in a widespread, largely secretive program that empowers the government to search and seize American citizens’ electronic devices at the border.
By Paul Kurtz There’s been a growing movement led by some architects and engineers to take a second look at the collapse of the New York City skyscrapers in the attacks on September 11th 2001. “Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth” focuses primarily on Building 7 of the World Trade Center. Not many people know that a third building fell on 9-11. Tony Szambotti is a mechanical engineer from Blackwood, New Jersey. He says the 47 story skyscraper was not hit by a plane…yet collapsed into its own footprint at 5:20 in the afternoon.
The National Security Agency isn’t making many friends, apparently: a new poll published this week suggests that a majority of Americans continue to have complaints with the NSA’s surveillance practices amid a myriad of recent disclosures. According to the results of survey released this week by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, anti-NSA sentiment remains rampant in the United States more than three months after former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden first began disclosing top-secret documents exposing the inner-workings of a vast surveillance apparatus operated by America’s premier spy agency.
Israel will pay $1 million in compensation to the family of a Mossad agent who committed suicide in custody. State prosecutors insist the deal, which contains a confidentiality clause, is not an “admission of alleged wrongdoing.” The family of Australian-born Ben Zygier, also known as “Prisoner X,” will receive 4 million shekels ($1.1 million) in various payments over the next four years. In exchange, Zygier’s family will not pursue legal action against the Israeli government regarding his suicide in an Israeli prison in 2010.