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World’s Largest Organization for Computer Professionals Comes Out Against CISPA

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Mark M. Jaycox Electronic Frontier Foundation The US Public Policy Council of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), representing ACM, came out against CISPA, the cybersecurity legislation recently passed by the US House. ACM is the world’s largest organization for computer professionals. They are joining a diverse group of individuals and organizations opposing this bill, [...]

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Possible NATO-FSA False Flag Attack in Syria ?

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Tony Cartalucci Land Destroyer Unconfirmed reports warn of possible plot to deploy chemical weapons, then blame Syrian government. RT has warned of a possible plot being fomented by Syrian rebels inside NATO member Turkey. The plot involves Syrian rebels deploying chemical weapons obtained in Libya against Syrian civilians, then blaming the Syrian government for the [...]

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The Human Cost of the War on Terror Body Counts

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M. REZA PIRBHAI Counter Punch In the early days of the ‘War on Terror,’ US General Tommy Franks declared, “We don’t do body counts.”  He was referring, of course, to the dead of Afghanistan. That the names of 9/11 victims have been appropriately written in stone, only makes it doubly striking that the war waged [...]

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Alien Invasion Agenda Kicks In – Olympic Style

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Zen Gardner zengardner It’s here, folks. Looks like the London Ziolympics is gonna have it all! After all, it’s the big stage, why not jam in everything you can! Seem hokey? Hey, if public opinion stinks and they’re getting pissed off at all the militarization, up the ante. “It’s not just terrorists, people, it’s aliens [...]

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Words the Government Uses to Spy on You

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Anthony Cuthbertson WhoWhatWhy A short burst of hail and sleet falling from a cloud over San Diego has caused delays on the subway. Bad organization through social media means that my team exercise drill has been cancelled. It’s actually a relief as I’ve been feeling sick after eating some pork that had a worm in [...]

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Obama’s data advantage

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LOIS ROMANO Politico CHICAGO — On the sixth floor of a sleek office building here, more than 150 techies are quietly peeling back the layers of your life. They know what you read and where you shop, what kind of work you do and who you count as friends. They also know who your mother [...]

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Three Oil Zones Mapped Out Off Iceland’s Shores

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Three Oil Zones Mapped Out Off Iceland’s Shores

IcelandReview Icelanders can expect that after 2025 there will be three oil zones north of the country, in the Dragon Zone, off eastern Greenland and by Jan Mayen, as stated in a speech by Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs Össur Skarphéðinsson at a meeting hosted by Arion Bank on Thursday. The Icelandic government plans to [...]

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Nixon ‘far worse’ than thought say Watergate reporters

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Tuoitrenews Almost four decades after the infamous Watergate break-in, the reporters who broke the story have concluded that then-president Richard Nixon was “far worse” than they thought. Nixon resigned in August 1974 for his administration’s role in a June 17, 1972, burglary of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in the US [...]

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UK hires human rights abusers to protect Olympics

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Russia Today The British government is up for questioning from Parliament over why it has handed over the Olympic Games’ security to a company accused of human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. The UK-based G4S, which describes itself as the “world’s leading international security solutions group,” was selected as the “official provider of security and cash [...]

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Japan’s leader wants nuclear plants restarted

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BostonGlobe In a blunt appeal on national television, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda asked for his nation’s support Friday in restarting one of Japan’s idled nuclear plants, saying the loss of energy could bring blackouts and economic chaos. In the 10-minute speech, Noda took his case directly to the Japanese people, explaining why he wants to [...]

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New Wyoming supercomputer expected to boost atmospheric science

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Scott Gold LA Times Here in the shortgrass prairie, where being stuck in the ways of the Old West is a point of civic pride, scientists are building a machine that will, in effect, look into the future. This month, on a barren Wyoming landscape dotted with gopher holes and hay bales, the federal government [...]

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Wish it away: US government ignores archipelago of Japanese debris heading its way

By   /  June 10, 2012  /  Environment, World  /  1 Comment

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Russia Today The dock that travelled from northern Japan to Oregon The United States is awaiting the arrival of a blot of debris three times its own size from Japan. But despite new objects washing up daily on the West Coast, Washington is hoping the problem will literally just disappear. ­Earlier this week, a 70-foot [...]

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