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Knowing How the Global Internet Works – And How It Can Crash
truther April 6, 2014 0We all know about websites crashing, or institutional infrastructure crashing, but can the Internet crash? The answer is ‘yes’. As we’ve pointed out before to 21WIRE readers, roughly 99% of TED Talks are pretty useless
Read More »More Torture Pics: Torture by U.S. continues under Obama administration
truther April 5, 2014 1We have been hearing all the gush about how the Obama Administration will make a clean break from the illegal practices of the Bush Administration but the Obama DOJ is maintaining the position espoused
Read More »How the FBI Goes After Activists
truther April 4, 2014 1Tom Burke was driving through a sleepy part of Grand Rapids, Michigan—an empty neighborhood full of abandoned warehouses—when he first noticed the vehicle tailing him. “I was like, Why is this car turning left
Read More »CIA Torture and the Threat of Dictatorship
truther April 4, 2014 0Only one conclusion can be drawn from the report published in the Washington Post Tuesday giving grisly details of CIA torture of prisoners and systematic lying by government officials to cover it up: the
Read More »Social media: Weapon of PsyWar & you’re the target
truther March 27, 2014 0For centuries the most powerful intelligence gathering service on the planet was the Catholic rite of ‘confession’, where millions of people told vital info to the Pope on guilty acts which could then be
Read More »Middle School Assignment: Second Amendment Requires Gun Registration
truther March 24, 2014 1A workbook handed out to seventh grade students in Springfield, Ill., states that all Americans must register their firearms in order to have a Second Amendment right
Read More »Gates Foundation Lobbies for Feds to Collect Data on College Graduates’ Lives
truther March 23, 2014 2A study released by the Gates Foundation is promoting a system that would track the careers of college graduates long after they receive their degrees, attacking the National Association for Independent Colleges and Universities
Read More »The outrageous and criminal cover-up by Obama and the CIA
truther March 17, 2014 2Imagine you commit a heinous crime. Then imagine that, once facing charges in court, you’re allowed to withhold incriminating evidence brought forth by the prosecutors, keeping the jury in the dark about the details
Read More »Sen. Feinstein Suddenly Discovers Surveillance can be Bad…if She’s being Spied on
truther March 15, 2014 0Being a staunch defender of government spies comes at great risk, considering such loyalty means standing by those whose very business is to snoop and lie for a living. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-California) now
Read More »Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Case On ‘No-Knock’ Police Raids
truther March 14, 2014 0Cops are using lawful gun ownership as justification for entering homes unannounced The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal and refused to hear the case of a man in Texas who was SWAT teamed by
Read More »Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee, senator claims
truther March 7, 2014 0White House declines to comment after Mark Udall says agency spied on staffers preparing scathing report into CIA torture after 9/11 A leading US senator has said that President Obama knew of an “unprecedented action”
Read More »Yes, There Are Paid Government Trolls On Social Media, Blogs, Forums And Websites
truther March 3, 2014 0Do you want solid proof that paid government shills are targeting websites, blogs, forums and social media accounts? For years, many have suspected that government trolls have been systematically causing havoc all over
Read More »California Police Unveil Armored Surveillance Vehicle
truther February 28, 2014 1“We are focusing on public areas, we’re not trying to impede anyone’s privacy” Police in Modesto, California unveiled a newly acquired surveillance vehicle this week which will video and audio record local residents throughout the
Read More »Dragonfly: World’s Smallest Autonomous Drone Takes Flight
truther February 27, 2014 0The mimicking of nature heralds a new focus in the development of drones. While DARPA and their contractors have been working on true nano surveillance with biological components, it is the modeling of
Read More »NY State Hires Bill Gates Firm to Collect Data on Children
truther February 24, 2014 0New York state authorities are outsourcing data collection on school kids. The program, which is to be launched state-wide, is supposed to gather information on students starting from the age of five to better
Read More »White House: No more information about drone killings will be released to public
truther February 22, 2014 0White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters Thursday that the Obama administration will not be releasing any more information about the controversial use of drones to kill American citizens
Read More »CIA confirms agency obliged to follow federal surveillance law
truther February 11, 2014 0The CIA has confirmed that it is obliged to follow a federal law barring the collection of financial information and hacking into government data networks. But neither the agency nor its Senate overseers will say
Read More »New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours at a time
truther February 7, 2014 2Shooter and victim were just a pair of pixels, dark specks on a gray streetscape. Hair color, bullet wounds, even the weapon were not visible in the series of pictures taken from an airplane
Read More »Obama faces backlash on executive power
truther February 3, 2014 1For a man who prides himself on winding down two wars, President Barack Obama certainly has started up a lot of new ones. There’s the war on coal. The war on gun owners. Even the
Read More »Rise Of The Insect Drones
truther February 1, 2014 1Nature spent millions of years perfecting flapping-wing flight. Now engineers can reproduce it with machines. Five years ago, Richard Guiler and Tom Vaneck were sitting at a bar a few blocks from their office, trying
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