Author: mediahitman

Al-Qaeda is planning to declare a government of its own in north of Syria in August, establishing a stronger base for the terrorist group in the war-torn country. Lebanon’s daily Asharq Al-Awsat quoted a source in the so-called Free Syrian Army (FSA) which has been leading a deadly insurgency in Syria for more than two years, that their al-Qaeda partners are planning to announce their rule by end of the holy month of Ramdan (August 7th)

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The events of September 11, 2001 can lead to the biggest insurance fraud scandal in U.S. history as New York developer Larry Silverstein is collecting billions of dollars in damage claims, says Dr. Kevin Barret, a founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance. On Monday, a federal judge in New York heard initial arguments in a non-jury trial in which Silverstein argued he should recover billions of dollars from airlines for damages to the World Trade Center. Silverstein has already collected over $4 billion in insurance.

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by Dan Seitz f you get a virus on your computer, you’re faced with a difficult choice. Do you pretend that you’re stupid enough to click random links in your inbox? Or do you just own up to whomever that you’ve been visiting InsaneClownP****.info? Fortunately, the gullibility of webmasters on religious sites has given you a whole new excuse: It turns out religious sites are a hotbed of malware.

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Army leaders at Fort Bliss say radiation has been detected at a former nuclear weapons bunker and that they’re investigating exposure to people on the West Texas post. Military officials said Tuesday that contaminated residue was buried in the 1950s and 1960s, when the post was operated by the Air Force. A man who worked there at the time contacted officials earlier this year expressing concern should additional housing be built on the sprawling post.

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The Russian Migration Service confirmed it has received whistleblower Edward Snowden’s application for temporary asylum. It can take authorities up to three months to consider his request. In the meantime, Snowden may be transferred to a refugee center. “We can confirm that the documents have been received,” a Federal Migration Service spokeswoman said. The FMS promised to review his application within a three month period.

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By Scott Powers The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday afternoon appealed to civil rights groups and community leaders, nationally and in Sanford, for help investigating whether a federal criminal case might be brought against George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, one advocate said. The DOJ has also set up a public email address to take in tips on its civil rights investigation.

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By Ian Johnston A North Korean cargo ship was stopped near the Panama Canal and searched on suspicion of drugs, but it was carrying something sweeter — the apparent parts of a surface-to-air missile system, hidden inside containers of brown sugar. The State Department said any shipment of arms or related material aboard the freighter would violate at least three U.N. resolutions.

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Many people dread not being able to use their legs – but for one woman, it’s her dream come true. Chloe Jennings-White suffers from a rare psychological condition known as Body Integrity Identity Disorder.  An able-bodied 58-year-old woman, Jennings-White fantasizes about being a paraplegic and wants to undergo spinal surgery to make her legs stop working, The Sun reported.

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It’s being branded by proponents as an attempt at transparency, but critics of a new law say the United States government just got the green-light to use propaganda made for foreign audiences on the American public. Until earlier this month, a longstanding federal law made it illegal for the US Department of State to share domestically the internally-authored news stories sent to American-operated outlets broadcasting around the globe. All of that changed effective July 2, when the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) was given permission to let US households tune-in to hear the type of programming that has previously only…

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Imagine you have a brother and he’s an alcoholic. He has his moments, but you keep your distance from him. You don’t mind him for the occasional family gathering or holiday. You still love him. But you don’t want to be around him. This is how I lovingly describe my current relationship with the United States. The United States is my alcoholic brother. And although I will always love him, I don’t want to be near him at the moment.

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UK border police can seize mobile phone data from anyone entering Britain without any justification. Under an anti-terror law, authorities can examine personal information and retain it for as long as they deem necessary. Independent British judge, David Anderson QC, published the information in a blog post and will present his concerns over the sweeping powers in a report to parliament on Wednesday.

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Despite the size and scope of Edward Snowden’s NSA whistleblowing, there’s little sign of Washington DC changing its practices, and even less of an indication that any of its European allies will actually hold it to account. Germany’s change of direction on this issue reveals a lot about the scale of the problem. Angela Merkel’s initial public response seemed to be that of outrage. “We are no longer in the cold war,” said Angela Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert.

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Police officers in Chicago, Illinois can remotely access video shot from any of the city’s 24,000 closed-circuit television cameras, and they are already using that ability to nab suspects who thought they could outsmart surveillance. According to a recent Chicago Sun-Time article by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Frank Main, police officers in the Windy City recently issued their first arrest stemming from the use of space-age facial-recognition technology coupled with thousands of cameras that collect live video in real-time at all hours of the day.

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