By Todd Leopold It’s not the Internet to Evgeny Morozov. It’s “the Internet” — with quotation marks. Morozov is trying to make a point. Thanks to the Web’s rapid spread and overwhelming influence on 21st-century society, we’ve come to think of cyberlife as something distinct from our everyday interactions. To proponents, it has brought a cornucopia of information that will allow society to fix its most intractable problems.
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Matthew Haley was filming from a public sidewalk at the corner of 4th Street and Walton Way when he says he was first approached by deputies. Cellphone video shows the encounter with deputies that put 28-year old Haley in jail. “Sir, I’m in public. I’m not committing any type of crime,” Haley says to deputies as they approach and ask for his ID several times.
President Barack Obama is considering using military force in Syria, and the Pentagon has prepared various scenarios for possible United States intervention. Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Obama administration is deliberating whether or not it should use the brute of the US military in Syria during a Thursday morning Senate hearing.
The Obama administration has won the latest battle in their fight to indefinitely detain US citizens and foreigners suspected of being affiliated with terrorists under the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. Congress granted the president the authority to arrest and hold individuals accused of terrorism without due process under the NDAA, but Mr. Obama said in an accompanying signing statement that he will not abuse these privileges to keep American citizens imprisoned indefinitely.
The American Civil Liberties Union has released documents confirming that police license plate readers capture vast amounts of data on innocent people, and in many instances this intelligence is kept forever. According to documents obtained through a number of Freedom of Information Act requests filed by ACLU offices across the United States, law enforcement agencies are tracking the whereabouts of innocent persons en masse by utilizing a still up-and-coming technology.
By Kimberly Dvorak Details uncovered by this reporter shed new light into the June 18 death of journalist Michael Hastings. Hastings’ friend and confidant SSgt. Joe Biggs disclosed a macabre twist in the award-winning journalist’s death in a suspicious single-car accident. According to SSgt. Biggs, “Michael Hastings’ body was returned to Vermont in an urn.” He further alleged, “Family members did not want Michael’s body cremated.”
The CDC has quickly removed a page from their website, which is now cached here, admitting that more than 98 million Americans received one or more doses of polio vaccine within an 8-year span when a proportion of the vaccine was contaminated with a cancer causing polyomavirus called SV40. It has been estimated that 10-30 million Americans could have received an SV40 contaminated dose of the vaccine.
The Alaskan HAARP Facility Website has been down for quite sometime, having many ask the question on what is going on with it. An announcement was made that the resources to fund the project have been spent and the project has shutdown. But that isn’t the case. As it stated in their official release, the facility is being bought by the highest bidder. HaarpStatus updates at TheWeatherSpace.com are continuing so either the facility is still on
A United States military drone presumed to be a QF-4 crashed, exploded and sent up a large black cloud of smoke Wednesday morning at Tyndall Air Force Base. Local news outlets from the Florida panhandle region reported Wednesday morning that an unmanned aerial vehicle crashed on the drone runway at Tyndall AFB during take-off at 8:20 a.m. EST that morning.
The FBI has ordered a Florida medical examiner’s office not to release the autopsy report of a Chechen man who was killed during an FBI interview in May over his ties to one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers. The autopsy report for Ibragim Todashev, 27, killed by an FBI agent during an interrogation which took place in his apartment on May 22 was ready for release on July 8. However, the FBI barred its publication, saying an internal probe into his death is ongoing.
Google is considering encrypting users’ data generated on its Google Drive as a protection from the US government’s invasive meta data collection policies revealed just over a month ago, according to a new report. The privacy protection initiative remains in the experimental phase, but could comfort customers shaken by the revelation that the National Security Agency has a policy of indiscriminately pulling millions of communication records. Google, according to the CNET report that first revealed the testing, already encrypts a small percentage of Google Drive files.
Since everyone is talking about the possible false flag at the Boy Scouts Jamboree, I decided to archive all the possible information that was pointing to an attack. Please take the information below with skepticism but so far; every attack has coincided with a FEMA/DHS or police drill at the same location and the same time period.. You be the judge: A State of Emergency During Jamboree?:
Gary Kinghorn, TDV Correspondent Over years of studying government tyranny, monetary reform and freedom, I’ve run across a lot of information about how unconstitutional the US Income Tax is, how the 16th Amendment was never ratified by the requisite number of states, and how there’s really no law that compels citizens to pay Federal Income Tax. One of the best documentaries on this topic was the late Aaron Russo’s film “From Freedom to Fascism”. At one of Ron Paul’s early campaign rallies in the Bay Area in July, 2007, I even arranged for Joe Banister, a former IRS enforcement agent…
(Translated From German Site) By Gregor Peter Schmitz Former US President Jimmy Carter has in the wake of the NSA spying scandal the American political system severely criticized. “America has currently no functioning democracy,” Carter said Tuesday at a meeting of the “Atlantik-Brücke” in Atlanta. Previously Democrat had been very critical about the practices of the US intelligence services. “I think the invasion of privacy has gone too far,” said Carter to CNN.
I LEARNED that my 16-year-old grandson, Abdulrahman — a United States citizen — had been killed by an American drone strike from news reports the morning after he died. The missile killed him, his teenage cousin and at least five other civilians on Oct. 14, 2011, while the boys were eating dinner at an open-air restaurant in southern Yemen.
The decision by Rolling Stone magazine to feature Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its August 3 cover has sparked global outrage. Tsarnaev, who the magazine simply refers to as “The Bomber”, can be seen on the cover in a self-portrait frequently circulated by media since the April 15 bombings.
By Rebecca Greenfield Anonymous claims to have hacked the emails and passwords of some Congress persons and a bunch of their staffers, revealing that the members of our esteemed government have terrible password habits. The passwords on the list do not match Congress password credentials, a system administrator in the Senate told The Atlantic Wire. Here’s the official e-mail the IT department sent out to Hill staffers confirming that the credentials aren’t accurate:
Hacktivist group Anonymous threatens to target all government facilities across the globe on November 5 2013, calling activists to mark the day with protests in support of the Occupy movement. “Now it’s time to occupy everywhere” says the video named “Anonymous #NOV5TH 2013 – the lion sleeps no more” posted on Youtube. It calls for “a day of global civil disobedience” to mark Guy Fawkes Day in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement. The video urges to ‘relight the flame of protest’ and claims that unions from around the world are supporting actions of Anonymous and the Occupy movement,…