Sunday, October 27, 2013

What are world leaders proposing to do about NSA snooping at this point? / Guardian, CNN

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From the Guardian : [A new NSA document revealed in Germany's Bild newspaper said there was a]  "...  not legally registered spy...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

Anger Growing Among Allies Over U.S. Surveillance / Obama Lies / NY Times, Reuters, WaPo

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 From the Times: Leaders and citizens in Germany, one of America’s closest allies, simmered with barely contained fury on Thursday over ...

StopWatching.us: New anti-surveillance coalition video (w/Hollywood stars), Rally, Websites

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From the organization itself: StopWatching.us is a coalition of more than 100 public advocacy organizations (especially the Electronic F...
Wednesday, October 23, 2013

NSA spying programs galore: "everything you've ever done on the internet"--spyware--phone recordings / Le Monde, CNN

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Le Monde (France's leading newspaper) discussed spyware and various NSA programs used to obtain information.   Discussing internal mem...
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Monday, October 21, 2013

Dianne Feinstein remains NSA's biggest defender, while she herself was subject of NSA wiretaps early on / Business Insider

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I've wondered why Dianne Feinstein so persistently defends NSA and other surveillance abuses.  Now she is proposing a bill designed to ...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

NSA collects millions of e-mail address books globally (and plenty more) / Washington Post

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How does NSA avoid the legal restrictions that exist in FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) regarding data collection on US pe...
Monday, October 14, 2013

Privacy Fears Grow as Cities Increase Surveillance / NY Times

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The NY Times details how (borrowed) federal money spares no expense to equip US cities to achieve a level of surveillance of citizens thoug...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

"What, in Fact, Is the Evidence That Vaccinating Healthcare Workers against Seasonal Influenza Protects Their Patients? A Critical Review" / Int'l J Family Medicine

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Israeli doctor Zvi Howard Abramson reviewed the literature on healthcare worker flu vaccinations in 2012 and found the evidence to support ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Libya's Prime Minister asks for help securing 3-8,000 surface to air missiles (SAMs) and other loose weapons / BBC

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Rumors of Syrian rebels being armed through weapons coming from and transiting through Libya abound.  Rumors I cited earlier suggest that t...

Don't forget to charge your homing device, I mean cellphone / NY Times

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The Times titled this article: In Test Project, N.S.A. Tracked Cellphone Locations .   In his testimony, Mr. Clapper revealed few deta...
Sunday, September 29, 2013

Despite some hype, the yearly flu epidemic has NOT begun in the US yet/ CDC

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From CDC:  (the numbers at the bottom of the graph refer to the year followed by the week (by week number)).  Even in the midst of summer, t...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Ex-top US nuclear regulator counsels end to atomic power/ Japan Times

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From yesterday's  Japan Times  comes a sobering piece quoting the last chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Jaczko only ste...

US informed by Iran in July 2012 that Syrian rebels had chemical weapons/ Christian Science Monitor

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From the CSM , citing leaked diplomatic correspondence it had acquired: ... According to leaked diplomatic correspondence, Iran has been w...

Still shameless: Obama's silver, forked tongue at the UN

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No proof has surfaced to assign blame for Syria's sarin attack of August 21.  The US government document that was supposed to lay out th...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Disposing of chemical weapons / BBC

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You can hire mobile units to destroy chemical weapons (including those in munitions) from Eisenmann Corp. near Stuttgart, Germany  if the US...