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Knowing How the Global Internet Works – And How It Can Crash
We 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
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More Torture Pics: Torture by U.S. continues under Obama administration
We 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
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How the FBI Goes After Activists
Tom 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
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CIA Torture and the Threat of Dictatorship
Only 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
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Social media: Weapon of PsyWar & you’re the target
For 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
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Middle School Assignment: Second Amendment Requires Gun Registration
A 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
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Gates Foundation Lobbies for Feds to Collect Data on College Graduates’ Lives
A 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
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The outrageous and criminal cover-up by Obama and the CIA
Imagine 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
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Sen. Feinstein Suddenly Discovers Surveillance can be Bad…if She’s being Spied on
Being 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
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Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Case On ‘No-Knock’ Police Raids
Cops 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
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Obama knew CIA secretly monitored intelligence committee, senator claims
White 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”
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Yes, There Are Paid Government Trolls On Social Media, Blogs, Forums And Websites
Do 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
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California Police Unveil Armored Surveillance Vehicle
“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
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Dragonfly: World’s Smallest Autonomous Drone Takes Flight
The 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
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NY State Hires Bill Gates Firm to Collect Data on Children
New 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
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White House: No more information about drone killings will be released to public
White 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
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CIA confirms agency obliged to follow federal surveillance law
The 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
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New surveillance technology can track everyone in an area for several hours at a time
Shooter 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
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Obama faces backlash on executive power
For 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
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Rise Of The Insect Drones
Nature 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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