Amazon will open major new outposts in Northern Virginia’s Crystal City and in New York City, splitting its much-sought investment of up to 50,000 jobs between the two East Coast sites, the company announced Tuesday. “We are excited to build new headquarters in New York City and Northern Virginia,” Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos […]
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Procurement Docs Indicate DEA, ICE Putting Surveillance Cameras in Streetlights…
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have hidden an undisclosed number of covert surveillance cameras inside streetlights around the country, federal contracting documents reveal. According to government procurement data, the DEA has paid a Houston, Texas company called Cowboy Streetlight Concealments LLC roughly $22,000 since June 2018 for “video […]
Inside China’s Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking…
In 2015, when Lazarus Liu moved home to China after studying logistics in the United Kingdom for three years, he quickly noticed that something had changed: Everyone paid for everything with their phones. At McDonald’s, the convenience store, even at mom-and-pop restaurants, his friends in Shanghai used mobile payments. Cash, Liu could see, had been […]
Edward Snowden: Saudi Used Israel Spyware to Khashoggi…
US whistle-blower Edward Snowden yesterday claimed that Saudi Arabia used Israeli spyware to target murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Addressing a conference in Tel Aviv via a video link, Snowden claimed that software made by an Israeli cyber intelligence firm was used by Saudi Arabia to track and target Khashoggi in the lead up to […]
Accused CIA Leaker Faces New Charges of Leaking Information from Prison…
Joshua Adam Schulte, a 30-year-old former CIA computer programmer who was indicted over four months ago for masterminding the largest leak of classified information in the agency’s history, has now been issued three new charges. The news comes just hours after Schulte wrote a letter to the federal judge presiding over his case, accusing officials […]
CIA’s ‘Surveillance State’ Is Operating Agaist Us All by Sharyl Attkisson…
Maybe you once thought the CIA wasn’t supposed to spy on Americans here in the United States. That concept is so yesteryear. Over time, the CIA upper echelon has secretly developed all kinds of policy statements and legal rationales to justify routine, widespread surveillance on U.S. soil of citizens who aren’t suspected of terrorism or […]
Falsehood Shames Clapper, Brennan and Pledge to Protect Whistleblowers…
In the summer of 2014, then-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sent a letter assuring Sens. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) that enhanced monitoring of Intelligence Community workers was designed to find leakers and insider threats, and was not intended to thwart lawful whistleblowing. Specifically, America’s top spy told the two senators that […]
CIA Gathered Congressional Communications on Whistleblowing; After 4 Years of Pressing, Grassley Gets Notifications Declassified…
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley pressed for more than four years to declassify two Congressional Notifications indicating that, during the Obama administration, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) obtained congressional communications about pending and developing whistleblower complaints. Those two notifications were finally declassified this week. In response to Grassley’s most recent letter on this issue, […]
CIA Secretly Intercepted Congressional Communications About Whistleblowers…
Newly-declassified documents show the CIA intercepted sensitive Congressional communications about intelligence community whistleblowers. The intercepts occurred under CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. The new disclosures are contained in two letters of “Congressional notification” originally written to key members of Congress in March 2014, but kept secret until now. In […]
A School Security Guard in Gabon Hammers to Pieces Students Cellphones…
An amateur video showing a man using a hammer to smash dozens of mobile phones has caused quite a stir in Gabon. And for good reason: the phones belong to the students of the high school in Port-Gentil – many of whom watched, dumbstruck, as their phones were destroyed. The video was filmed on October […]
Chinese-Style ‘Digital Authoritarianism’ Grows Globally…
Governments worldwide are stepping up use of online tools, in many cases inspired by China’s model, to suppress dissent and tighten their grip on power, a human rights watchdog study found Thursday. The annual Freedom House study of 65 countries found global internet freedom declined for the eighth consecutive year in 2018, amid a rise […]
Ecuador’s Government Cuts Off All Access to Julian Assange Including to His Lawyers…
According to the Courage Foundation, which has campaigned against the persecution of Julian Assange, the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has forbidden access to all visitors to the WikiLeaks publisher, including his lawyers, until Monday, amid an urgent lawsuit. Most immediately, the ban obstructs a legal appeal by Assange against an Ecuadorian judge’s decision last week […]
Inventor of Web: Facebook and Google May Need to Be Broken Up…
The man credited with inventing the World Wide Web says that dominant tech giants such as Facebook and Google may need to be broken up unless viable challengers emerge, or shifting preferences result in people gravitating away from dominant names. London-born computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee told Reuters that he is disappointed with the evolution of […]
Ever Wonder How Gov Uses Ginormous Database on You and Me?…
In July 1996, flight TWA 800 exploded in mid-air, 12 minutes after taking off from JFK International Airport in New York. All 230 passengers on board were killed. It would be four years before an investigation concluded the likely cause of the explosion was a short circuit in the plane’s fuel tank. But at the […]
DOJ Indicts Two Chinese Intelligence Operatives in Corporate Hacking Scheme…
In an indictment that amounts to the Trump Administration’s latest escalation of its crackdown on Chinese spying and intellectual technology theft, the Department of Justice on Tuesday indicted two Chinese intelligence officers for helping to direct “co-opted company insiders” and hackers to carry out “repeated intrusions” into internal company systems in the US and overseas. […]
Microsoft Has Been Sharing Indian Bank Customers’ Data with U.S. Intelligence Agencies…
An investigation by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revealed that Microsoft has been passing user data that it gathers from Indian banks that are Office 365 customers to various U.S. intelligence agencies, upon demand. The outcome of this investigation was compiled into a Risk Assessment Report (RAR), which was submitted to these banks […]
Facebook Censorship of Alternative Media ‘Just the Beginning,’ Warns Top Neocon Insider…
This October, Facebook and Twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds of users, including many alternative media outlets maintained by American users. Among those wiped out in the coordinated purge were popular sites that scrutinized police brutality and U.S. interventionism, like The Free Thought Project, Anti-Media, and Cop Block, along with the pages of journalists like […]
NSA Has Top Secret Documents on Seth Rich…
But now there is new information that may corroborate what the human sources quoted in the Fox article claimed about Seth’s role in getting the DNC documents to Wikileaks. Borne from a FOIA request filed in November 2017 by attorney Ty Clevenger, who requested any information regarding Seth Rich and and Julian Assange. The NSA […]
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Attack on Gab Proves Speech Was Never Free…
The First Amendment protects your right to say whatever you want free from government prosecution. It does not protect you from saying hateful things on private properties or privately-owned forums without fear of repercussion. That is the very definition of freedom of association. Friday’s attack by an unhinged, vile piece of human excrement on a […]
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