My bus from Xi’an, China, passed by the giant apple-shaped structure on the edge of the city of Luochuan. At the core of the apple is an empty convention center; next to it is the apple museum and apple hotel. All this anticipates an apple tourist boom to match the apple-production explosion here. But the miracles don’t end at the bottom of your cup of coffee. The bluejeans you slip into before rushing off to work were crafted from swaths of denim in a factory in a country you probably can’t find on a map.
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With the radioactive seaweed in Santa Barbara and the continued spewing of radiation from Fukushima, could the nuclear disaster be starting to affect the West Coast?
An online campaign is hoping to raise money to pay for NSA leaker Edward Snowden’s travel to Venezuela. Snowden, who applied for temporary asylum in Russia and has been living in limbo at the Moscow international airport for nearly a month, hopes to be granted a certificate for temporary asylum on Wedesday, Snowden’s lawyer announced on Monday. Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua have offered Snowden asylum. None can be reached by direct commercial flight from Moscow, so taking a commercial flight could make Snowden vulnerable to arrest during a stopover and he could be returned to the United States, where he…
by Eric London The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that New York Times reporter James Risen can be forced to testify against former CIA officer and alleged leaker Jeffrey Sterling in a case brought against Sterling by the Obama administration.
Trevor Mogg Digital Trends When Apple’s developer site went down on Thursday, the company put up a short notice saying that maintenance work was taking place. However, after 24 hours, the site was still offline, leading some to believe that it was more than just a bit of routine tinkering taking place. And they were right. Three days after the site went down, and with developers becoming increasingly concerned about the reasons for the outage, Apple sent out an email explaining that, in fact, the site had suffered a security breach.
We recently wrote about Rep. Justin Amash’s plan to strip the NSA of funding by adding an amendment to the defense appropriations bill making its way through the house. The plan was not without its obstacles, not the least of which was a last-minute change in rules deliberately aimed at preventing actions like Amash’s.
A 50-year-old community college student in Arizona has been suspended — her crime: asking that class discussions be conducted in English. When the nursing student filed a complaint about the issue, claiming that Spanish-dominated class discussions were preventing her from learning, her program director at the college found the complaint discriminatory against Hispanic students and responded by suspending her, even calling the student “a bigot and a b–ch.” The student has now filed a lawsuit. Here’s the story:
Der Speigel magazine has revealed German intelligence operated one of NSA’s spying programs. Chancellor Angela Merkel had denied any previous knowledge of NSA’s tactics, adding that she first learned about them through the media. Germany’s foreign intelligence service, the BND, along with the domestic intelligence agency the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), used American National Security Agency’s (NSA) XKeyScore program, according to Spiegel which claims to have seen the US intelligence service’s secret documents.
Stephen C. Webster The Raw Story University of Florida linebacker Antonio Morrison was arrested in Gainesville Sunday morning for allegedly barking at a police dog as officers were in the process of an investigation. The Gators player also faces a charge of resisting arrest for allegedly fighting back when an officer began handcuffing him. It is the college football player’s second arrest in just five weeks after spending time in jail for punching a bouncer at a nightclub in June.
George Zimmerman, who has not been seen publicly since his acquittal in the murder of Trayvon Martin earlier this month, surfaced last week to rescue an unidentified family trapped in an overturned vehicle on a Florida highway, police said Monday. Sanford Police Department Capt. Jim McAuliffe told Fox News that Zimmerman, 29, was identified by a crash victim as the man who pulled him from the mangled vehicle.
Never had any problems with USPS before today…
EU governments have agreed to put the military wing of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on the EU’s terror list. “We took this important step today, by dealing with the military wing of Hezbollah, freezing its assets, hindering its fundraising and thereby limiting its capacity to act,” Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said on the sidelines of a meeting of EU foreign ministers who decided on the blacklisting.
A New York man was arrested for making a terroristic threat after he posted a Facebook status about the George Zimmerman verdict. “Kill all whites,” the post read, in part. Remel Newson, a 20-year-old Queens, N.Y., man, was angry after a jury in Sanford, Fla., on July 13 found Zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager. Newson took to Facebook to air his grievances, posting a status update about how blacks cannot get justice, according to WNYC. He used the hashtag “#killall whites” and wrote, “let’s kill cops nd neighborhood watcher [sic].”
The death toll from the earthquake that hit China’s northwest Gansu Province has risen to 89, Xinhua News Agency reported; 412 people have been injured. Local authorities continue to search for victims of the 6.6 magnitude quake. At least five people are still reported as missing after the disaster.
The former head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, said he’s going to reveal new details behind the ‘dodgy dossier’ if he disagrees with the findings of the Chilcot Inquiry into UK’s role in the Iraq War. Dearlove provided intelligence about Saddam Hussein’s Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) that was allegedly exaggerated and “sexed-up” by Tony Blair’s government.
UPI The Ugandan government said Monday it would start monitoring Internet activity to protect the public from emerging national security issues. James Saaka, director of Uganda’s National Information Technology Authority, said the government would monitor conversations online to protect the public against cybercrimes.
Finland’s parliament will become the first in the world to examine a citizen-drafted copyright law, after an outline of an “anti-lobbyist” intellectual property bill garnered over 50,000 votes on a legal initiatives website. The Common Sense in Copyright Act seeks to roll back stricter punishments for infringements that have been in force since 2005. Among the proposed measures are reducing illegal downloading from a crime to a misdemeanor, allowing people to make copies of digital data they own, and widening “fair use” of copyrighted materials.
20 Firetrucks, 4+ ambulance and police showed up.. There is zero media coverage about this beside Stopmotions stream of the event and a few locals tweeting about it. (Is This A False Flag?) This is supposedly where JP Morgan keeps their gold. The very same gold that has been dwindling down at astonishing rates lately. JP Morgan warehouse 100 feet below CMP 1 on Wall Street.