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Breaking News: Feds Dismissing 11 Counts Against Journalist Barrett Brown
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How to spot a fake Facebook profile (infographic)
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Abby Martin on the Piers Morgan Show: 6 Corporations Control 90% of Media
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Bitcoin bank Flexcoin shuts down after theft
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Keystone pipeline approval in limbo after Nebraska ruling
Blogs
National
Govt. to spend 750K Training ‘High-Risk’ Inmates in Technology
By Melanie Hunter (CNSNews.com) – The Justice Department is planning to spend $750,000 to train “medium to high-risk” incarcerated adults and juveniles in the technology field. According to the grant solicitation, “the target population must include medium to high-risk offenders as identified using a validated assessment tool. ‘High-risk offenders’ are defined as individuals that score…
International
Putin: Troops to Bases; Warning Shots in Crimea
AP – Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered tens of thousands of Russian troops participating in military exercises near Ukraine’s border to return to their bases as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was on his way to Kiev. Tensions remained high in the strategic Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea with troops loyal to Moscow firing warning…
Solutions
Local Communities Dismantling Corporate Rule
From Zen Gardner – Community Rights educator Paul Cienfuegos explains how “We The People” are exercising the authority to govern ourselves and dismantle corporate rule. When small farmers in rural Pennsylvania wanted to say “no” to a corporate factory farm coming into their community, they learned they couldn’t, because it would violate the corporation’s “rights”…
Police State
Governments Stored Millions of Yahoo Webcam Images
(NEWSMAX) Britain’s communications spy agency GCHQ and the US National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted and stored images from webcams used by millions of Yahoo users, the Guardian newspaper reported on Thursday. GCHQ files leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden reportedly revealed how the Optic Nerve programme collected still images of webcam chats regardless of…
9/11
FBI had human source in contact with bin Laden as far back as 1993
By Guy Taylor and John Solomon (Washington Times) In a revelation missing from the official investigations of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the FBI placed a human source in direct contact with Osama bin Laden in 1993 and ascertained that the al Qaeda leader was looking to finance terrorist attacks in the United States,…
TSA
“He’s Wearing a Diaper!”: TSA Agent Humiliates Cancer Victim
By Paul Joseph Watson – Prison Planet.com – A cancer victim who suffers from incontinence was humiliated during an incident last week when a TSA agent loudly announced “he’s wearing a diaper” to waiting travelers, before laughing and subjecting the man to a strip search. The harrowing account of the man’s experience at the hands…
Economy
Bitcoin bank Flexcoin shuts down after theft
(Reuters) – Bitcoin bank Flexcoin said on Tuesday it was closing down after it lost bitcoins worth about $600,000 to a hacker attack. Flexcoin said in a message posted on its website that all 896 bitcoins stored online were stolen on Sunday. “As Flexcoin does not have the resources, assets, or otherwise to come back…
Technology
It’s about to get easier to 3D print with recycled plastic
Gigaom 3D printers generally print in one of two types of plastic; either ABS, which is used to make Legos, or PLA, typically found in some types of food packaging. Despite the abundance of ABS and PLA, it’s still expensive to buy the long strings of plastic filament that 3D printers require. A 2.2 pound…
GMO's
Monsanto’s Roundup: new deadly scam exposed
by Jon Rappoport – Roundup is the Monsanto herbicide that is touted as the cornerstone of GMO food crops. Monsanto claims these crops are genetically engineered to withstand heavy spraying of Roundup. Therefore, the crops live and the weeds die. Breakthrough. There are several key lies associated with these claims—but a new one has surfaced.…
Drug War
Man’s good deed lands his home on a list of meth labs
By Paul Brennan | (Iowa Watchdog) DES MOINES, Iowa — On Jan. 5, 2012, Paul Valin called the police to report he’d found a backpack containing what he believed to be meth-making equipment. That simple act of good citizenship landed his and wife Cindy’s house on the National Clandestine Laboratory Register, the federal Drug Enforcement…
Environment
DC’s green-approved buildings using more energy
By Sarah Hurtubise (Daily Caller) Washington, D.C. may have the highest number of certified green buildings in the country, but research by Environmental Policy Alliance suggests it might not be doing much good. The free-market group analyzed the first round of energy usage data released by city officials Friday and found that large, privately-owned buildings…
Globalization
Abby Martin on the Piers Morgan Show: 6 Corporations Control 90% of Media
Nick Bernabe | The Anti-Media Abby Martin has generated quite a few headlines recently after condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this despite working for the Russian government funded news channel RT. Abby, a folk hero in the independent journalism field, has now taken to the soon-to-be history Piers Morgan show to assert her journalistic…