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Is Obama Starting A War With Syria Just To Distract Us From All The Scandals?

By   /  June 14, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Michael Snyder | Economic Collapse Well, isn’t that convenient?  At the moment when the Obama administration is feeling more heat then ever before, it starts another war.  Suddenly everyone in the mainstream media is talking all about Syria and not about the IRS scandal, Benghazi,NSA snooping or any of the other political scandals that have [...]

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Why does USA need panic on gold market?

By   /  June 13, 2013  /  Economy, World  /  No Comments

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By Sergei Paliy | Pravda.ru Why investors are sometimes misled? Perhaps, the goal is to further scare and disorient the investment funds and individuals so that they quickly get rid of their gold (and earlier – silver) because the gold has allegedly lost its former appeal and reliability, and stock quotes have sharply declined. Likely, someone [...]

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US cuts number of prosecutions for Guantanamo Bay detainees

By   /  June 13, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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Only 20 of the 166 detainees held at the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison complex will be prosecuted in the war crimes tribunal, an official says.

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Pentagon Five-Year Cybersecurity Plan Seeks $23 Billion

By   /  June 13, 2013  /  News, Politics, World  /  No Comments

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By Tony Capaccio | Bloomberg A Pentagon cybersecurity budget outline calls for spending almost $23 billion through fiscal 2018, as efforts are expanded on initiatives from protecting computer networks to developing offensive capabilities. The Defense Department already has proposed $4.65 billion for such programs in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, an 18 percent increase from the [...]

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FBI’s Use of Patriot Act to Secretly Obtain Americans’ Business Records Increased by 1,000% Under Obama

By   /  June 13, 2013  /  News, Politics, World  /  No Comments

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By Noel Brinkerhoff, Danny Biederman | AllGov Under President Barack Obama, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has dramatically increased its use of a controversial provision of the Patriot Act (pdf) to pry into the business records of U.S. citizens. The probing involves Section 215 of the Patriot Act, which permits the FBI to obtain business records and other “tangible things”—including “books, [...]

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Only One Big Telecom CEO Refused To Cave To The NSA … And He’s Been In Jail For 4 Years

By   /  June 13, 2013  /  Police State, World  /  No Comments

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By Michael Kelly | Business Insider Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio is currently serving a six-year sentence after being convicted of insider trading in April 2007 for selling $52 million of stock in the spring of 2001 as the telecommunications carrier appeared to be deteriorating. During the trial his defense team argued that Nacchio, 63, believed Qwest was about [...]

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Google Opens Up Some More: The ‘Secret’ Computer System It Uses To Give Info To NSA Is Secure FTP

By   /  June 13, 2013  /  News, Police State, World  /  No Comments

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By Mike Masnick | TechDirt Google is continuing to open up about the supposed “secret” program by which it hands data over to the NSA that has been subject to so much attention over the last week. And, once again, the story seems to be less than what was originally reported. Google’s now said that when it receives [...]

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House committee looks into IRS seizure of 60 million medical records

By   /  June 13, 2013  /  News, Politics, World  /  No Comments

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By Caroline May | Daily Caller Republican members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are looking into allegations that the Internal Revenue Service seized 60 million medical records from a California health care provider. “(T)he Committee on Energy and Commerce is investigating allegations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in the course of executing a [...]

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Scandalous CIA Deputy Director Morell retires amid Snowden revelations

By   /  June 13, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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VOR Michael Morell, Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has decided to retire to spend more time with his family, American mass media are reporting with reference to Morell’s statement. The retirement announcement was made amid a swirling scandal over information leaked to the media by Edward Snowden about an extensive surveillance program by [...]

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NSA ‘snoopgate’ whistleblower determined to expose more about US surveillance

By   /  June 13, 2013  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

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ANI NSA ‘ snoopgate’ whistleblower Edward Snowden who is hiding in Hong Kong in an attempt to escape US prosecution said that he will be furnishing more details about the US surveillance targets soon. According to News.com.au, Snowden in an exclusive interview to the Hong Kong media said that he is going to fight the [...]

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U.S. government has given Afghan National Army more than $1 billion in ammo

By   /  June 10, 2013  /  Conflict, News, World  /  No Comments

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By Adam Kredo | Free Beacon The U.S. government has given the embattled Afghan National Army (ANA) more than $1 billion in taxpayer-funded ammunition, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s (SIGAR) latestoversight report. This is in addition to $288 million that has been spent on ammunition for the troubled Afghan National Police (ANP), which has [...]

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Obama Homeland Security Says Reasonable Suspicion not Needed for Laptop and Cellphone Searches…Hunches Good Enough

By   /  June 10, 2013  /  News, Police State, World  /  No Comments

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By Noel Brinkerhoff  | All Gov Crossing the border to enter or leave the U.S. can mean border agents legally searching, and even confiscating, a person’s laptop, cell phone and other electronic devices—solely on the grounds of having a “hunch” that something may be amiss. This policy comes from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which revealed in [...]

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