In the wake of the JAR-16-20296 dated December 29, 2016 about hacking and influencing the 2016 election, the need for real evidence is clear. The joint report adds nothing substantial to the October 7th report. It relies on proofs provided by the cyber security firm Crowdstrike that is clearly not on par with intelligence findings […]
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Your Weekly Alarming Anonymous Friday Night WaPo Dump: Vermont Electrical Grid Edition…
It seems like every Friday this month, there has been an alarming Friday night news dump in the WaPo based off anonymous leaks. This time, it’s a story claiming that, Russian hackers penetrated U.S. electricity grid through a utility in Vermont. The anonymous officials behind this story have just squandered the efforts of a slew […]
Fake News Roundup: Guardian Publishes ‘Shoddy and Misleading’ Article on Interview with Julian Assange…
The shoddy and misleading Guardian article, written by Ben Jacobs, was published on December 24. It made two primary claims — both of which are demonstrably false. The first false claim was hyped in the article’s headline: “Julian Assange gives guarded praise of Trump and blasts Clinton in interview”…
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Mainstream Media is Now Whining About the “Fake News” Hysteria It Created…
After coming under attack, the alternative media successfully appropriated and reassigned the now ubiquitous term “fake news” to a variety of disingenuous mainstream media outlets. The corporate media is not too happy about this, and is doing what it does best (aside from cheerleading for war). It’s whining about it to its readers…
Amazon Refuses To Hand Over Privacy Data To Feds…
The U.S. government completely forfeited its moral standing when it was revealed that agencies like the NSA spy on every aspect of day-to-day life. Or at least they try to. In 2016, there is one last bastion of privacy – what is said in the confines of one’s own home. And in 2016, the government […]
Intel Agencies Sued After Refusing To Divulge Records On Possible Russian Election Interference…
Journalist Jason Leopold and PhD candidate Ryan Shapiro are suing the U.S. intelligence community for failing to produce records related to claimed Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. The CIA has been the most aggressive agency in the intelligence community in terms of stating that not only did Russia interfere in the election, but…
Facebook Admits Handing Thousands of Its Users’ Details Over to British Authorities…
Social media giant Facebook has confessed to giving the personal details of thousands of its users to the British government this year. Facebook says that officials requested access to 7,199 profiles between January and June of 2016 – a 30 percent increase on last year…
About the Antarctic Melting…
…Antarctica is heating up and melting down, due to “carbon pollution.” He says it could raise sea level ten feet. Only problem is, the article is fake news. NASA’s top climate expert said in 2004 that Antarctica had cooled significantly in recent decades.
John Brennan, Doing the Holiday Friday News Dump Wrong…
Help me understand…How would retaliating in kind — so, a cyberattack against Russia — how would that undermine American democratic principles? – B: Well, I think if we hold dear the principles of democracy, liberty, freedom and freedom of speech and the right of people everywhere to have governments of their choosing, preventing the conduct […]
Extensive British Spying Throughout Africa Revealed in Le Monde…
U.S. Government Can Legally Access Your Facebook Data — and Now We Know How…
According to Facebook’s Global Government Requests Report, government’s requests for Facebook account data rose 27 percent in the first half of 2016. Facebook’s official announcement explained that requests for user data went from 46,710 in the last half of 2015 to 59,229 in the first half of 2016…
Obama Quietly Signs The “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act” Into Law…
Late on Friday, with the US population embracing the upcoming holidays and oblivious of most news emerging from the administration, Obama quietly signed into law the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which authorizes $611 billion for the military in 2017…
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Fitness Tracker Prezzies Could Bump Up Insurance Premiums & Leak Personal Data on the Dark Web…
GADGETS to help you lose weight are being used by private companies to track you and could have terrible consequences in the future, experts have warned. They claim companies’ unprecedented access to smartwatches and fitness band data could eventually bump up your insurance premium, affect your job and even lead to your identity being stolen…
House Report Claims Snowden ‘has contact’ with Russia Spy Agencies…
Edward Snowden has reacted to a damning House Intelligence report analyzing his life and possible motives for revealing NSA surveillance. The 37-page review with 237 footnotes goes through some episodes of Snowden’s focusing on his incompetencies and disagreements with supervisors…
The Shadow Brokers: “A Nice Little NSA You’ve Got Here; It’d Be a Shame If…”…
When President Obama discussed how to retaliate against Russia for hacking the DNC last Friday, he described the trick of finding “an appropriate response that increases costs for them for behavior like this in the future, but does not create problems for us.” Aside from questions of efficacy, Obama raised something that…
California DMV Rescinds Registration of 16 Uber Driverless Cars, Halts Pilot Program in San Francisco…
One week after the test was launched, Uber sent out a statement that said: “We have stopped our self-driving pilot in California as the DMV has revoked the registrations for our self-driving cars. We’re now looking at where we can redeploy these cars but remain 100 percent committed to…
7-Eleven Convenience Stores Deliver Items by Drone…
US drone delivery service Flirtey on Monday announced that its self-piloting flying machines have whisked flu medicine, hot food and more from 7-Eleven convenience stores to customers’ homes…
Internal Documents Reveal Bizarre Facebook Rules for Censorship of ‘Hate Speech’…
Facebook has come under fire after German Newspaper SZ-Magazin revealed internal secret rules of deletion that show the platform flagging up the content as hate speech if it doesn’t abide to bizarre mathematical formulas. The newspaper has acquired internal documents created by the department at Facebook that sets the rules of deletion…
Whistleblower John Kiriakou Critiques the CIA’s Behavior Following the 2016 U.S. Election (AUDIO & Transcript)…
Kiriakou discusses President-Elect Trump’s refusal to receive daily intelligence briefings, the relationship between the CIA and the White House and how it may change under Trump, and the condition of fellow CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling…
NSA Inspector General Facing Termination For Whistleblower Retaliation…
“This is a man, who runs an office that is supposed to protect whistleblowers, yet he described them as manic thieves and other such terminology and was quite hostile and intimidating”…
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