Archive for June, 2013
Boundless Informant
June 9th, 2013Via: Guardian: The National Security Agency has developed a powerful tool for recording and analysing where its intelligence comes from, raising questions about its repeated assurances to Congress that it cannot keep track of all the surveillance it performs on American communications. The Guardian has acquired top-secret documents about the NSA datamining tool, called Boundless […]
Mass Shooting Half Hour After President Obama’s Motorcade Passed Through Area
June 8th, 2013Via: New York Daily News: A berserk black-clad gunman carrying an AR-15 assault weapon went on bloody rampage in Santa Monica on Friday, shooting eight people — six fatally — before cops gunned him down near a college library. The violence erupted about noon during an apparent domestic dispute at a modest, single-story home in […]
GCHQ Also Accesses PRISM
June 7th, 2013It’s probably not just the U.S. and Britain. See Five Eyes, which also includes Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Via: Guardian: The UK’s electronic eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, has been secretly gathering intelligence from the world’s biggest internet companies through a covertly run operation set up by America’s top spy agency, documents obtained by […]
NSA Whistle-Blower: “Now We Are All Persons of Interest”
June 7th, 2013Via: Salon: For Thomas Drake, the former National Security Agency employee who blew the whistle on the agency’s expansive post-9/11 surveillance programs in 2006, the latest revelation of blanket surveillance is simply “déjà vu.” Drake, who was indicted under the Espionage Act and faced life in prison before federal charges against him were eventually dropped, […]
Nicaragua Gives Chinese Firm Contract to Build Alternative to Panama Canal
June 7th, 2013Via: Guardian: Nicaragua has awarded a Chinese company a 100-year concession to build an alternative to the Panama Canal, in a step that looks set to have profound geopolitical ramifications. The president of the country’s national assembly, Rene Nuñez, announced the $40bn (£26bn) project, which will reinforce Beijing’s growing influence on global trade and weaken […]
San Onofre nuclear Power Plant Closing Down
June 7th, 2013Via: CBS: The troubled San Onofre nuclear power plant in Southern California is closing, after an epic 16-month battle over whether the twin reactors could be safely returned to service, officials announced Friday. Operator Southern California Edison said in a statement it will retire the twin reactors because uncertainty about the future of the plant, […]
NSA Building $860 Million Data Center in Maryland
June 7th, 2013Via: Data Center Knowledge: As its current data collection makes headlines, the National Security Agency is continuing to expand its data storage and processing capabilities. The agency recently broke ground on an $860 million data center at Fort Meade, Maryland that will span more than 600,000 square feet, including 70,000 square feet of technical space. […]
NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies’ Servers, Including Google and Facebook
June 7th, 2013*snore* Why is the media losing its mind over this now? Thanks to Mark Klein, we learned way back in 2007 that NSA was getting everything. Update: And Now… Customer Records from the Three Major Phone Networks, Emails, Web searches, and Credit-Card Transactions Via: Wall Street Journal: The National Security Agency’s monitoring of Americans includes […]
Robo-Raven
June 6th, 2013Via: Military.com: A robotic bird created by Army and University of Maryland researchers is tricking real flocks — and hawks — midair, making it a potential unsuspecting future war agent. Robo-Raven glides, soars and flaps like a real bird. Complete individual wing control allows for extreme aerobatics that no other mechanical bird has ever been […]
Britain: Armed Checkpoints on Local Roads Around Bilderberg, Residents Must Show Passports to Enter Their Own Driveways
June 6th, 2013Via: Telegraph: No such encounters will take place in Watford this week, as the Bilderberg, the annual conference for 140 of the world’s most powerful, meet for four days at The Grove, a £300-a-night golf hotel close to the M25. The entire hotel has been booked out, and a high fence erected around the exclusion […]
