Robert Schroeder MarketWatch Citing the strength of the U.S. economy and the dollar’s standing in the world, Standard & Poor’s on Monday raised its outlook on the U.S. credit rating — even as the ratings agency said Washington lawmakers have a “lesser ability” than others countries’ to deal with public finance pressure in the long term.
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The surveillance state is even bigger, and scarier, than we thought. And, as a result, it’s time that we broke up the failed national security experiment known as the Department of Homeland Security. Returning to dozens of independent agencies will return internal checks-and-balances to within the Executive branch, and actually make us both safer and less likely to be the victims of government snooping overreach.
By Erin Fuchs The revelation that the National Security Agency can monitor your every move online shouldn’t come as a total shock. A 1986 law lets the Feds read emails that have been stored on a server for at least six months.
It’s technology that looks like it’s straight out of a CSI TV episode — facial recognition software — and it’s being used here in Iowa to solve crimes. The software is one of the reasons why you can’t smile for your driver’s license anymore. Your DMV photo is stored in a secure database that helps put criminals behind bars.
Meet Professor Henry Graff, perhaps the most legendary and honored professor ever at Columbia University. He was THE American History and Diplomatic History professor at Columbia for 46 years. And he is more emphatic than yours truly that there are no Obama footprints at Columbia.
By Agence France-Presse WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Friday that the US justice system was suffering from a “calamitous collapse in the rule of law”, as Washington reeled from the sensational exposure of vast spy agency surveillance programmes.
A U.S. intelligence agency formally requested a criminal probe on Saturday into the leak of highly classified information about secret surveillance programs run by the National Security Agency, a spokesman for the intelligence czar’s office said.
So, it’s a coincidence this owl is seen over and over again.. beginning with the sandy hook image that was held up- an owl picture that also has a heart at its center.. and the owl just happens to again be featured in this shooting, a shooting with so many similarities to Sandy Hook.
President Richard Nixon resigned after wiretapping a handful of journalists, sparing the nation the ordeal of impeachment. We call on Obama to do the same. His administration vetted the NSA’s surveillance of millions of Americans and seriously violated the Fourth Amendment. He confiscated the personal records of reporters, thus violating the First Amendment
A new Iranian space monitoring center will track orbiting objects, the Iranian Defense Minister has said. It is the latest of Iran’s space program claims, which include sending a monkey into orbit. Iranian President Ahmadinejad praised the new center as a benchmark in the country’s space program.
By JohnThomas Didymus Kathleen Taylor, a neurologist at Oxford University, said that recent developments suggest that we will soon be able to treat religious fundamentalism and other forms of ideological beliefs potentially harmful to society as a form of mental illness. She made the assertion during a talk at the Hay Literary Festival in Wales on Wednesday. She said that radicalizing ideologies may soon be viewed not as being of personal choice or free will but as a category of mental disorder.
By Doug Hagmann Something quite unexpected happened just hours ago, in the dark of night, during a two-day layover in Washington, DC. My son and I are scheduled to take part in a seminar outside of Raleigh, North Carolina this weekend, so we combined our travels to include a side-trip to DC for a business meeting we had previously arranged. It was during this layover that something seemingly ripped from the pages of a spy novel took place.
Alex Jones caught up with UKIP and EU parliament member Gerard Batten for a discussion on Bilderberg, thought I’d share it. Very good watch, quite educational
George Orwell’s 1984 was published on June 8, 1949. Today is the anniversary.. If you’re interesting in reading the book, here it is:
Buying a new home is an adventure. Everyone has a wish list of what they want the home to have, from an open floor plan to granite countertops and stainless steel appliances in the kitchen, and a master bathroom with two sinks and a walk-in closet. One California couple who recently purchased a new home, got something with their home that they never would have dreamed of.
Nasa scientists say their Opportunity rover has made new discoveries about early water on Mars which may have been drinkable. The unmanned solar-powered vehicle, described as “arthritic” as it nears 10 years since its launch, has just analysed what may be its oldest rock ever, known as Esperance 6.
The red-haired Texas actress who last week told FBI agents her husband was behind the ricin-laced letters sent to President Obama and Mayor Bloomberg was arrested Friday for allegedly sending the letters herself. Shannon Rogers Guess, an actress who has appeared on “The Walking Dead” and “Vampire Diaries,” allegedly sent the vitriolic poison-tainted letters to Obama and Bloomberg, law enforcement officials confirmed Friday, just a week after she called authorities to turn her husband in for the same sinister deed.
Source: Michael Snyder, Guest Post Are you ready for a future where China will employ millions of American workers and dominate thousands of small communities all over the United States? Such a future would be unimaginable to many Americans, but the truth is that it is already starting to happen. Chinese acquisition of U.S. businesses set a new all-time record last year, and it is on pace to absolutely shatter that record this year. Meanwhile, China is voraciously gobbling up real estate and is establishing economic beachheads all over America. If China continues to build economic power inside the United…