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NSA gets early access to zero-day exploit data from Microsoft, others

"The NSA isn’t alone in the business of swapping secrets with the corporate world. The FBI, CIA, and DOD also have programs enabling them to exchange sensitive government information with corporate 'partners' in exchange for information that relate to network security. The NSA’s dual role as the security arbiter for many government networks and as point organization for the US government’s offensive cyberwarfare capabilities means that the information it gains from these special relationships could be used to craft exploits to gain access to the computer systems and networks of foreign governments, businesses, and individuals." Continue reading →

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Perjury as a State Privilege

"Every year, hundreds of U.S. citizens are threatened with prosecution for lying to federal agents. Former Major League baseball star Roger Clemens was threatened with a prison term over supposedly lying to Congress over his alleged steroid use. Lying to federal investigators or during Congressional testimony is thus treated as a grave criminal offense – unless, apparently, it is done by the Director of National Intelligence. Clapper’s reply was: 'No, sir' – a statement that is now known to be a direct, conscious lie, as he subsequently admitted. If this were a society of laws, Clapper would be prosecuted for perjury. Then again, in such a society the NSA wouldn’t exist." Continue reading →

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With Scandals Raging At Home, Obama Discovers Chemical Weapons Use in Syria

"In a time of choking scandal, a light at the end of the tunnel has appeared for the Obama regime: his old friend war! The entirety of the US corporate media is breathlessly -- and, predictably, in lockstep -- amplifying the Obama administration's sudden amazingly convenient discovery that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons after all! Just a few weeks ago the US Intelligence Community did not believe claims that the Syrian government used chemicals. Now, with no formal investigation at all and no word on the chain of evidence or its source, we are told with absolute certainty that the Assad government has used the weapons." Continue reading →

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Utah Woman Killed Allegedly “Assassination Style” By Now Disbanding Special Narcotics Unit

"Melissa Kennedy and Frederick Willard, parents of the late Danielle Willard, are suing local police in an extraordinary case in which they say that their daughter was shot to death 'assassination style' by a now disbanded special narcotics unit that has been accused of corruption and abuse. They are using West Valley City, its police Officers Shaun Cowley and Kevin Salmon, Lt. John Coyle, Police Chief Thayle 'Buzz' Nielsen, and 10 Doe officers, in Federal Court. The unit was disbanded after the disappearance of money and drugs as well as the tossing out of roughly 100 drug cases. What is odd is that there are no criminal charges given this record of the unit." Continue reading →

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IRS Refunds 4 Billion Dollars a Year to Illegal Immigrants While Pursuing US Citizens Abroad

"FATCA is … probably … coming in some form or other and hiding will do a person no good in the longer run (although truthfully, no one is truly invisible anymore thanks to technology), but allowing fear of an agency that isn’t even able to control fraud and evasion within its own borders be the driving factor behind decisions is something that might be cause for pause. It’s not new news in terms of the hysteria in the US about undocumented workers and fraud, but it puts the dilemma, at least for me, of USP’s who’ve emigrated in another context. The point of FATCA and the offshore jihad on expats is not about money. It’s about information, and information is power." Continue reading →

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Hacker who turned Bradley Manning in takes the stand

"Tuesday marked the second day of Private First Class Bradley Manning's trail and the hacker responsible for turning the whistleblower in took the witness stand. Adrian Lamo alerted federal authorities of the information leak and the former hacker gave detailed information on how he communicated with Manning. RT's Adriana Usero is at Fort Meade with the latest." Continue reading →

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Congress resumes attacks on emigrants: the Ex-PATRIOT Act is back

"It would seem that Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senator from the State of New York, has learned a few tricks from Carl Levin about gaming the U.S. legislative process. Now, instead of trying to get his bill to pass on its own merits, he’s snuck it into an existing bill with a greater chance of passing — just as FATCA died in committee before being snuck into the HEART Act. Other countries both developing and developed — ranging from the Philippines to Denmark to South Korea — have easy-to-obtain diaspora visas for their former citizens. The United States, on the other hand, is once again proposing exile for its own former citizens." Continue reading →

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Florida man’s attorney claims NSA phone records will prove client’s innocence

"An attorney for a Florida man accused of robbing armored bank cars in 2010 filed a motion this week demanding that the government turn over phone location records theoretically stored in the National Security Agency’s (NSA) massive archives, which he believes could exonerate his client on at least one of the charges against him. In the trial of Terrance Brown, this is a twist not even his attorneys could have seen coming, all predicated upon NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s explosive revelations." Continue reading →

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Secession and Nullification in Colorado

"In response to a few years of anti-rural, anti-gun, and high tax government in Denver, some rural counties in northern and eastern Colorado have proposed that they secede from Colorado. At the center of the effort is the Weld County government, which is controlled by rural and agricultural interests, and relatively more bible-belt-ish compared to much of the state. In addition, the northeastern part of the state is experiencing an oil-driven boom thanks to oil discovered in the Niobrara formation. These newly oil-rich counties also want to opt out of regulations they anticipate will be coming from Denver." Continue reading →

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