Archive for June, 2013
Australia: Government Building New Data Center for Communications Intercepts
June 16th, 2013Via: The Age: The Australian government has been building a state-of-the art, secret data storage facility just outside Canberra to enable intelligence agencies to deal with a ”data deluge” siphoned from the internet and global telecommunications networks. The high-security facility nearing completion at the HMAS Harman communications base will support the operations of Australia’s signals […]
Greenwald: ‘You have no idea what is coming’
June 16th, 2013The release of the documents without any censorship by the media? Information about NSA operations that we haven’t already known about for years? More pics of the pole dancing girlfriend? Via: Twitter: You have no idea what is coming; and I’m promoting the leaks, not myself
NSA Admits Listening to U.S. Phone Calls Without Warrants
June 16th, 2013Via: cnet: The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call […]
IRAN SENDING 4000 TROOPS TO SYRIA TO AID AL-ASSAD REGIME
June 16th, 2013Tick tock. Via: Independent: Washington’s decision to arm Syria’s Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region. For the first time, all of America’s ‘friends’ in the region are Sunni Muslims and […]
Philadelphia Closes 23 Schools, New $400 Million Prison Being Built
June 15th, 2013Via: Opposing Views: Philadelphia officials are closing almost two dozen schools and decimating the budgets of the remaining schools under a so-called “doomsday” education plan. However, amid all these cuts for education, the state of Pennsylvania is building a new $400 million prison for Philadelphia.
Chemical Weapons Experts Still Skeptical About U.S. Claim That Syria Used Sarin
June 15th, 2013Via: McClatchy: Chemical weapons experts voiced skepticism Friday about U.S. claims that the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad had used the nerve agent sarin against rebels on at least four occasions this spring, saying that while the use of such a weapon is always possible, they’ve yet to see the telltale signs of a […]
IRS’s Big Data Tracking
June 15th, 2013Via: MSN: The Internal Revenue Service is collecting a lot more than taxes this year — it’s also acquiring a huge volume of personal information on taxpayers’ digital activities, from eBay auctions to Facebook posts and, for the first time ever, credit card and e-payment transaction records, as it expands its search for tax cheats […]
Google’s Project Loon
June 15th, 2013As I was reading about this, I was expecting to see that they would trial it somewhere… Far far away from me. I almost fell out of my chair when I read that it’s happening in New Zealand. Ok, now let the SkyNet jokes begin. Via: Google: The Internet is one of the most transformative […]
Naomi Wolf: My Creeping Concern That The NSA Leaker Is Not Who He Purports To Be
June 15th, 2013Update: Even AP Admits that Prism Is Chicken Feed Compared to What We Learned Years Ago About Mass Intercepts Via: AP: With Prism, the government gets a user’s entire email inbox. Every email, including contacts with American citizens, becomes government property. Once the NSA has an inbox, it can search its huge archives for information […]
Sesame Street Designs Online Kit for Kids Who Have Parents in Prison
June 14th, 2013Via: KSLA: With the highest incarceration rate in the world, nearly 2 million children in the U.S. have a parent behind bars. In response, Sesame Street has designed an online kit to help children deal with the emotional problems of having incarcerated parents. The kit is targeted towards children between 3 and 8 years of […]
